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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61858	David and Saul a sermon preached on the day of national thanksgiving for God's gracious deliverance of the King's Majesty from an assassination and the kingdom from a French invasion / by John Strype ...	Strype, John, 1643-1737.	1696 (1696)	Wing S6021; ESTC R900	9,047	30

were to take away his Life And in this meaning did the old Translators of our Psalms take it when they read it They go wickedly about to destroy me Wickedly indeed to Compass the death of an innocent Man nay of a King and one of so publick a Capacity that many Thousands namely as many as were his Subjects must feel the blow especially being so good and pious a Prince as David was It added then unto their Crime that they dealt thus perversly with him without any Cause For what good Cause can you assign Oh ye Enemies of David why ye have dealt thus perversly with him Why ye thus Conspire and Plot against his Peace his Honour and his Life Is he an Usurper whom God brought to the Crown He who is the great Disposer of Kingdoms was not David advanced by his peculiar Appointment and wonderful Providence preserved to sit on the Throne of Israel And did not the People know that it was he whom God had established to be King over Israel And did they not all joyfully accept him for their King Or since he came to Rule what Mis-government what Oppression hath he been guilty of Hath he infringed the Peoples antient Rites and Liberties Hath he vexed or spoiled them Hath he turned Idolater himself or encouraged and commanded Israel to forsake the God of their Fathers and to bow down to Baal and the Gods that were round about them Nay Hath he not set up the true Worship of God discouraged Idolatry and given Himself a good Example of Godliness unto his People Hath he not fought the Peoples Battels and Defended Israel from the Philistins the Moabites and the Ammonites those Idolatrous Nations that bordered upon them and mortally hated them Surely then none of these things could David's Enemies lay to his Charge as Crimes or Neglects of Government For what Cause then was it that they are thus Confederate against him Did they pretend the Restoration of Ishbosheth to sit upon his Fathers Throne But did not God Depose Saul And did not God appoint David to be anointed King over Israel in his stead And did not Samuel God's own Prophet Anoint him Or may not God dispose of States and Kingdoms Doth not he set up Kings and cast them down according to that of Daniel He changeth the Times and the Seasons He removeth Kings and setteth up Kings Doth not the most high God rule in the Kingdoms of Men and appoint over them whomsoever he will Yea that was the Doctrine God himself taught a King that was loth to acknowledge it In a Word Are not all earthly Princes God's Substitutes and Deputies And may he not change them if he pleaseth especially when he seeth they do not execute that high Charge which he Committed to them in that Justice and Equity and Moderation and Care of the Peoples good that Government the Ordinance of God is on purpose Constituted for And therefore O ye Malecontents ye have no such Reason to be angry with David tho he possesseth Saul's Throne Nor ought ye to endeavour his Son's Restoration seeing it is the Lord 's Doing and brought about by his Hand and Providence If ye say Ishbosheth is wronged and your Endeavours of taking away David the present King is to do Justice to him who ought by Right of Succession to possess the Throne Then I say Will ye fight against God Are you Wiser are you Stronger than He And besides what Right have you of your selves to take this Authority to your selves Who put the Sword into your Hands Who gave you the Privilege to call Kings and Princes to Account Did God Take heed that you be not like the false Prophets that ran when God had not sent them And Moreover for the doing pretended Right to one will ye do Wrong to many Thousands even to a whole Nation Shall Ishbosheth be restored tho the whole Kingdom perish for it Surely if there be no other way to do Justice to Ishbosheth than to do Injustice to many Thousands beside you ought to leave Justice to God and to Commit to him Ishbosheth's Cause which you think so good But to Murther an Innocent King to involve a Nation in Blood to bring in all the Miseries the Devastations and the Confusions of a Civil War among a People that be in Peace and Quiet and live easie under David's Government this ye can never justifie but must needs be guilty of most horrible Impiety and draw God's as well as the King 's heavy Displeasure upon you Ye can never have God's Approbation nor bear out your selves by any good or tolerable Cause for your dealing thus perversly with him And thus they dealt perversly with David without Cause as you have seen And so we have considered David's Enemies and their Pretences We proceed next to the second particular observable in the Text Viz. II. David's Prayer against these his Enemies for his own Safety Let them be ashamed That is let them be disappointed O my God overthrow their unjust Purposes against me David's constant Course in all his Distresses was Application to God taking him to be his best Refuge He knew his Cause was just and good and therefore he did with the more Assurance address himself to God to take his part against his Enemies He was well aware how malicious they were and how diligent to Work his ruine And tho he could not always understand what they were contriving against him yet he knew God saw all well enough And that he was able to prevent their more curiously spun mischiefs however secretly they carried them and however true they were to one another And therefore he put his Trust in God and fled unto him to be his Protector and by his Power and Wisdom to countermine all their Devices to demolish all their well-laid Designs which possibly they themselves were extraordinary sure must take effect being founded as they thought on such true Maxims of humane Policy I say he leaves the Wise God to deal with these worldly wise Men as knowing that they were not with all their Subtilty a Match able to Cope with him He was careful of keeping himself in God's Way and of doing his Duty in all good Conscience And then he committed his Cause to God and beseeched him to confound his Enemies Let the Proud be ashamed He was not wanting by the best means he could to Defend himself by Force and Preparations to resist any Assault or Invasion on him or his Kingdom But when he had done this he relyed not thereupon He was not confident in an Arm of Flesh but put his Trust only in the living God the Lord of Hosts whom he knew and had often experience of it was wont to put to shame wicked and bloody minded and unpeaceable Men and to rescue the Poor and the Needy out of most imminent Hazards and Dangers that he might thereby get to himself Praise and Renown and Glory before the Face of