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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02528	Contemplations vpon the principall passages of the holy story. The fourth volume. By Ios. Hall; Contemplations upon the principall passages of the Holy Storie. Vol. 4	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1618 (1618)	STC 12656; ESTC S103669	103,611	500

a King and now all the people shout for ioy they haue their longing and applaud their owne happinesse and their Kings honor How easie is it for vs to mistake our owne estates to reioyce in that which we shall finde the iust cause of our humiliation The end of a thing is better then the beginning the safest way is to reserue our ioy till wee haue good proofe of the worthines and fitnes of the obiect What are we the better for hauing of a blessing if we know not how to vse it The office and obseruance of a King was vncowth to Israel Samuel therefore informes the people of their mutuall duties and writes them in a booke and laies it vp before the Lord otherwise nouelty might haue beene a warrant for their ignorance ignorance for neglect There are reciprocall respects of Princes and people which if they be not obserued gouernment languisheth into confusion these Samuel faithfully teacheth them Though he may not be their Iudge yet he will be their Prophet he will instruct if he may not rule yea he will instruct him that shall rule There is no King absolute but he that is the King of all gods Earthly Monarchs must walke by a rule which if they transgresse they shall be accountable to him that is higher then the highest who hath deputed them Not out of care of ciuilitie so much as conscience must euery Samuel labour to keepe euen termes betwixt Kings and subiects prescribing iust moderation to the one to the other obedience and loyalty which who euer indeuors to trouble is none of the freinds of God or his Church THE most and best applaud their new King some wicked ones despised him and said How shall he saue vs It was not the might of his parents the goodlinesse of his person the priuiledge of his lot the same of his prophesying the Panegyrick of Samuel that could sheeld him from contempt or winne him the hearts of all There was neuer yet any man to whom some tooke not exceptions It is not possible either to please or displease all men while some men are in loue with vice as deeply as others with vertue and some as ill dislike vertue if not for it selfe yet for contradiction They well saw Saul chose not himselfe they saw him worthy to haue bin chosen if the election should haue bin caried by voices and those voices by their eyes they saw him vnwilling to hold or yeeld when he was chosen yet they will enuie him What fault could they finde in him whom God had chosen His parentage was equall his person aboue them his inward parts more aboue them then the outward Male-contents will rather deuise then want causes of flying out and rather then faile the vniuersall approbation of others is ground enough of their dislike It is a vaine ambition of those that would be loued of all The spirit of God when he inioynes vs peace with all he adds if it be possible and fauour is more then peace A mans comfort must be in himselfe the conscience of deseruing well THE neighbouring Ammonites could not but haue heard of Gods fearefull vengeance vpon the Philistims and yet they will be taking vp the quarrell against Israel Nahash comes vp against Iabesh Gilead Nothing but grace can teach vs to make vse of others iudgements wicked men are not moued with ought that falls beside them they trust nothing but their owne smart What fearefull iudgements doth God execute euery day resolute sinners take no notice of them and are growne so peremptory as if God had neuer shewed dislike of their wayes THE Gileadites were not more base then Naash the Ammonite was cruell The Gileadites would buy their peace with seruilitie Nahash would sell them a seruile peace for their right eyes Iephtha the Gileadite did yet sticke in the stomach of Ammon and now they thinke their reuenge cannot bee too bloody It is a wonder that he which would offer so mercilesse a condition to Israel would yeeld to the motion of any delay Hee meant nothing but shame and death to the Israelites yet hee condiscends to a seuen dayes respite Perhaps his confidence made him thus carelesse Howsoeuer it was the restraint of God that gaue this breath to Israel and this opportunitie to Sauls courage and victory The enemies of Gods Church can not be so malicious as they would cannot approue themselues so malicious as they are God so holds them in sometimes that a stander-by would thinke them fauourable The newes of Gileads distresse had ●●oone filled and afflicted Israel ●●he people thinke of no remedy but their pity and teares Euills are easily greeued for not easily redressed Onely Saul is more stirred with indignation then sorrow That God which put into him a spirit of prophesie now puts into him a spirit of fortitude Hee was before appointed to the throne not setled in the throne hee followed the beasts in the field when hee should haue commanded men Now as one that would bee a King no lesse by merit then election he takes vpon him and performes the rescue of Gilead hee assembles Israel hee leads them he raiseth the siege breaks the troopes cuts the throats of the Ammonites When God hath any exploit to performe he raiseth vp the heart of some chosen instrument with heroicall motions for the atcheiuement When all hearts are cold and dead it is a signe of intended destruction THIS day hath made Saul a compleat King and now the thankfull Israelites begin to inquire after those discontented mutiners which had refused allegeance vnto so worthy a commander Bring those men that we may slay them This sedition had deserued death though Saul had bin foyled at Gilead but now his happy victory whets the people much more to a desire of this iust execution Saul to whom the iniurie was done hinders the reuenge There shall no man dye this day for to day the Lord hath saued Israel that his fortitude might not goe beyond his mercy How noble were these beginnings of Saul His prophesie shewed him miraculously wise his battle and victory no lesse valiant his pardon of his rebels as mercifull There was not more power shewed in ouercomming the Ammonites then in ouercomming himselfe and the impotent malice of these mutinous Israelites Now Israel sees they haue a King that can both shed blood and spare it that can shed the Ammonites blood and spare theirs His mercy wins those hearts whom his valour could not As in God so in his Deputies mercy and iustice should be inseparable wheresoeuer these two goe asunder gouernment followes them into distraction and ends in ruine If it had bin a wrong offred to Samuel the forbearance of the reuenge had not bin so cōmendable although vpon the day of so happy a deliuerance perhaps it had not bin seasonable A man hath reason to be most bold with himselfe It is no praise of mercy since it is a fault in iustice to remit an