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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88381	Enchiridion judicum, or, Jehosaphats charge to his judges, opened, in a sermon before the Right Honourable, the judges, and the right worshipful, the sheriffe of the county palatine of Lancast. Together with Catastrophe magnatum, or, King Davids lamentation, at Prince Abners incineration. In a sermon meditated on the fall, and preached at the funeral of the Right Worshipful John Atherton of Atherton Esq; high-sheriffe of the county palatine of Lanc. / By John Livesey minister of the Gospel at Atherton.	Livesey, John.	1657 (1657)	Wing L2594E; Thomason E1582_2; ESTC R208948	163,446	337

out of which wound it is said his guts came as Julians did Sine caede vulnere pauci Descendunt Reges Fourthly What was the cause or what might bee the occasion of this Prince or great mans Fall in Israel It was Jobs suspition may it admit so faire a construction that Abner would prove an Ambodexter Abner had revolted from Ishbosheth because hee had questioned him for the familiar usage of one of Sauls Concubines wee may not conceal the truth Abner was deeply guilty if of no more of a treacherous inconstancy If Ishbosheth had no true title to the Crown Abner sinned in maintaining it if hee had Abner sinned in forsaking it Tostatus saith that hee knew the Kingdome did not de jure belong to Ishbosheth but to David Suppose his former undertaking was evil yet to desert him eo modo hoc ex injusto furore as Tostatus to withdraw his professed allegiance upon a private revenge was to take a lewd leave of an evil action In a word Joab thinks it is no trusting a Turn-coat Or it was pretended revenge for the blood of his Brother Asahel verse 27. Joab was Ish dammim a man of bloods Tostatus disputes the question whether Joab sinned in slaying Abner Vide Tosta● in loc hee concludes positively Hee killed the man without a just cause hee killed the man without a just call hee had no authority to do it non erat Judex ad infligendum illi mortem hee slew him modo in honesto and hee broke the peace granted him by the King The pride of Joabs heart put him upon this horrid and hellish fact Mallem hic primus esse quam Romae secundus Caesar de oppidulo quodam dum Alpes transiret Hee was afraid least Abner by this important service should grow too great in the Kings favour It was cursed pride that put Zimri on to murther Elah his Lord and Master It was pride that made Athaliah to destroy all the seed Royal of the house of Judah It was pride that put Herod on to seek the blood of Jesus and it was pride in which Joab dipt his dagger wherewith Abner is slain Nebuchadnezzars pride ushered in the destruction of the Assyrian Monarchy Cyrus his pride made way for the overthrow of the Babylonian Monarchy Alexanders pride was the cause of the Annihilation of the Persian Monarchy The Roman Commanders by their pride occasioned the subversion of the Grecian Monarchy as it is by some observed It was pride that put the Pharisees on to persecute Christ and it was pride in Joab that curtaild Abners daies Joab would have none so deep in the Kings books as himself no corrivall with him in honours and preferments Joab suspected his reputation would bee blasted his fame eclipsed his service lesse regarded If Abners design bee now accomplished This Magnum Nihil of Honour hee is so tender and jealous of that hee is resolved Abner shall die Nec quemquam jam ferre potest Caesarve priorem Pompeiusve parem Fifthly What was the fruit or the sequel of this Prince and Great mans Fall I shall hint briefly 1 Davids vindication of his own innocency vers 28. I and my Kingdome are guiltless before the Lord q. d. I am not to bee accused of nor charged with this bloody fact It is lawful for the most humble man to vindicate and plead his own innocency when hee sees others may suspect him It is lawful for a man to do himself open right when others do him open wrong David might say as once Augustin did Mihi sufficit conscientia mea bona vobis vero necessaria est fama mea Sometimes the subjects go mad and Kings are sent to Bedlam Though that bee mostly true Delirant reges c. David will have the fault laid at Joabs door and therefore Apologizeth for himself as well hee might 2 Davids fearful Imprecation verse 28. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue or that is a Leper c. All sore and heavy Judgements the Issue makes the body to pine away the Leprosy makes the body loathsome both make it unclean so that it must not come into the Congregation the Gout or Palsey make a living man as if hee were dead To Fall by the sword of an enemy a sad Judgement 2 Sam. 24. and so to bee starved to death for want of bread Tostatus disputes the question An peccavit David maledicendo Joab hee answers negatively and saith licet maledicere quando ille qui maledicit est Judex imponit maledictionem in partem paenae The Rabbines are too rash who say that David was too much carried on with violent passions in this direful dreadful imprecation upon Joab and all his Fathers house and therefore say all these evils fell upon some of his own posterity and race Rehoboam had an issue Uzziah was a Leper Asa was pained in his feet Josiah fell by the sword c. It is granted cursing men are commonly cursed men but David was not here moved by humane passion but by a Prophetick spirit 3 The Declaration of Joabs cowardice and Abners valour Died Abner as a fool died hee died not as a fool nor as a felon nor as a fugitive No hee was suddenly and treacherously surprized Had Joab and Abner tryed it out in open field and fight Abner no doubt had given evident discoveries of his dexterity and activity of the couragiousnesse of his heart and noblenesse of his spirit 4 Abners honourable Interment or Incineration vers 32. They buried Abner in Hebron loco revera honorifico saith P. Martyr R. Solomon thinks Adam and Eve Abraham and Sarah Vide Cartwright electa Targumico Rabbinica in Gen. 23.2 Pe●er in Gen. 23. p. 663. Isaac and Rebecca Jacob and Lea were buried there Adricomius Pererius Borcardus and others write much of it It was the principal royal City belonging to Judah hereabouts was that great entertainment made the covert of a Tree was the dining room the ground the Table Abraham the Caterer Sarah the Cook Veal and welcome the cheer Angels in the shape of men Christ in the notion of an Angel the guests Adrichom ● Theatrum Terrae Sanctae p. 49. fig. 145 Aug. de Cur. ger pro mortuis A comely burial is an office of humanity a duty of charity a great blessing it is so promised and prized in sacred writ the want thereof as a curse is threatned Jer. 22.19 Tully calls Clodius his body infoelix cadaver because it was cast out unburied Abners was not so Never man was killed more cowardly and interred more honourably 5 King Davids and all Israels bitter lamentation vers 31. They lift up their voices and wept The sweet singer in Israel is now chief mourner in Israel To honour Prince Abner forgetting his royal soveraignty and Kingly dignity David himself doth follow the Beere it is disputed by Interpreters whether Davids tears were real or hypocritical faigned and