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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86428	The holy lives of God's prophets. By J.H.	Hoddesdon, John, fl. 1650.	1653 (1653)	Wing H2294; Thomason E1493_1; ESTC R208521	77,735	134

desired that forasmuch as he was grown ancient and his sonnes did not walke in his waies hee would grant and appoint them a King whom they might make use on for a Judge that saying displeased Samuell and therefore he thought it best to advise with God God bade him doe as they had desirod for that they had not rejected and cast off Samuell but himselfe that he might not rule over them And he showed him Saul the sonne of Kish whom he should annoint and ordaine King 1 Sam. 10. when he had found him because he was taller then any man by the shoulders he bad all the people see how that none was like him whom God had chosen and when they had cried God save their new King verse 24. after he had told them the Law of the Kingdome and writ it and laid it up in the Tabernacle he blessed the people After this by recitall of Gods benefits which they and their fathers had alwayes neglected he made knowne to them what a grievous sin they had committed when they asked a King Which that they might the better understand there were thunder-claps heard raine poured downe at his request as he had told them aforehand it should come to passe at which so strange and usuall a matter being much affrighted they speake to him that he would beseech God that they might not dy forasmuch as they confessed they had grievously sinned in asking a King Samuell exhorted them at large to be of good courage and not to fear 1 Sam 12.3 for that they indeed had sinned exceedingly yet ought not to forsake God but serve him with all care earnestnes of Spirit scorning and neglecting the worship of strange Gods who seeing they were vaine and unprofitable could not be able to deliver from evill For thus it should come to passe that God would not forsake them for his great name seeing especially he had made it good with an oath that he would make them his people but it they should goe on to sin that both they and their King should perish Sect. 7. Saul being King had offered Sacrifices shortly after contrary to Gods command because Samuell came not within the 7 days 1 Sam. 13. in which time he had said that he would come and the Jewes slipt away for feare of the huge company of Philistines that came to battell when as Samuell coming in the mean while rebuked him sharply and foretold that the end of his Kingdome was at hand and that in his stead there should succeed a man that should be pleasing to God ver 13. A second time as Gods Propher he told Saul of the end or downfall of his Kingdome for the very same cause 1 Sam. 13. The Amalekites had made resistance to the Jews as they came out of Aegypt whose wrongs when God had purposed to revenge by Saul he sent Samuel to him to charge him that he should raise a mighty Army and utterly destroy Amaleck and all things that belonged to them But he spated King Agag when he was taken and reserved the Heards and the Flocks and all the things that were of any value Hereupon God told Samuel that he was displeased and that he repented that he had made Saul King who set light by his Commandements 1 Sam. 15. Upon these words of God and the thing which Saul had committed Samuel took such griefe that he spent the rest of the night in crying and praying and carely in the morning he hasted by long journeys to Saul whom when he had soundly chid having reckoned up Gods benefits towards him because he had not againe observed God and he on the contrary maintained that he had obeyed him and the people only had reserved the richest of the spoile that they might offer it to God he said that God did not desire sacrifices but willed rather that men should obey and keep his Commandements for obedience is better than sacrifice Therefore he should know and perswade himselfe thus much that he had rejected God and that he also was rejected by God from being King When Saul confessed that he had sinned against God and him for feare of the people and entreated him that he would also beare with his fault and go back with him to worship God and Samuel said he would not do so because God had despised him that he should not now be King over Israel he caught hold on the skirts of his mantle as he was going away with such a force as that it rent by which passage as by a token aforehand Samuel told him that God had rent away his Kingdom and given it to one better than he when againe he confessed that he had sinned and entreated Samuel that he would do him honour in the sight of the Princes and of his people and that he would returne with him that he might worship God he followed him and cut in peeces King Agag who was a corpulent man with these words As thy sword hath made mothers childlesse so shall thy mother be childlesse amongst women Sect. 8. After that Samuel went to his house in Ramath neither did he from that day forward see Saul whose chance and misfortune neverthelesse he was sorry for 1 Sam. 16. God rebuked him when he sorrowed and asked how long he would mourne for him whom he had put from his Kingdome And therefore he should fill a horne with oyle that he might send him to Jesse the Bethlehemite whose Son he had chosen King when he asked how he could go but he should be quickly killed by Saul when he knew it he shewed a way and a meanes how he might easily avoid his fury Thus at the last being very consident he went diligently and dutifully to execute what God had commanded him and he annointed David King whom God had manifested and shewed to him Sect. 9. Samuel after all these famous and holy performances dyed in a good old age at his own house in Ramath 1 Sam 25. which when the Jews knew of they all met and mourned for him and buried him there if we follow the Scries of those things which are written in the first booke of the Kings he will seeme to have dyed before Sauls death and the beginning of Davids Raigne or his taking upon him the Government and Kingly Office but if we respect those things which are written in the first booko of the Chronicles how that David and Samuel the Seer that is the Prophet chose two hundred and twelve Porters which are there reckoned a thing which doth not seem to ha have been done whilst Saul was living he did not die till after Sauls death Nathan the Prophet CHAP. III. Section 1 NAthan was Prophet when David was King of the kindred of Thot as Epiphanius saith who who also writeth that he was a man of Gabath and that he knew beforehand that grievous sin which David was to commit with Bersheba and that as he came a long journey to keep the King from