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A44364	The spirit of the martyrs revived in a brief compendious collection of the most remarkable passages and living testimonies of the true church, seed of God, and faithful martyrs in all ages: contained in several ecclesiastical histories & chronological accounts of the succession of the true church from the creation, the times of the fathers, patriarchs, prophets, Christ and the Apostles.	Hookes, Ellis, d. 1681.	1664 (1664)	Wing H2663A; ESTC R224173	399,190	375

before and he was buried with his Fathers after he had been the avenger of the Israelites twenty years The Israelites being grievously oppressed by the Philistines year of the world 2908 Sampson being dead Samuel was raised up of the Lord to be a Prophet unto them who by his faithfulness was found a true Prophet Samuel the Prophet is raised up and by his word he was known to be faithful in Vision he exhorted them to turn unto the Lord with all their hearts and to put away their strange Gods and to prepare their hearts unto the Lord and to serve him only and then he would deliver them out of the hands of the Philistines Then the Children of Israel did put away their Gods His care to turn the People from Idolatty and served the Lord only and the Philistines came no more to envade the borders of the Israelites because they saw the Hand of the Lord was against them all the dayes of Samuel till Saul came to be King under whom they returned again and grievously oppressed Israel Samuel taking his Sons to help to Judge the People they walked not in the way of their Father and Samnel being now grown old took to him his two Sons to be his Assistants to Judge the People and his Sons walked not in his wayes but turned aside after lucre and took Bribes and perverted Judgment wherefore the Israelites were offended and desired Samuel that they might have a King to Rule them as other Nations had this displeased Samuel and he prayed unto the Lord At which the people being offended desire they might have a King and the Lord said Hearken unto the People for they have not rejected thee but they have rejected me that I should not reign over them Whereupon God gave them a King in his Wrath to wit Saul and now began the Israelites trouble again for the Amorites besiege them Saul being given for a King he reigned but a short time and Saul reigned but a short time until he was put from the Kingdom by the Philistines and the Israelites were again grievously enthroaled by them Jesse the Ephrathite in his old age had his youngest Son David born at Bethlehem year 2919 which was afterwards therefore called the City of David thirty years before he succeeded Saul in the Kingdom God having now rejected Saul year 2941 and debarred his Race and Family from succeeding in the Kingdom sent Samuel after his long mourning for Saul to Bethlehem there to anoint David to be King forty years before the Rebellion of Absolom who being a lovely keeper of a lovely Flock was called from keeping his Fathers Sheep and prefered before his Elder Brethren and being anointed in their presence he incurred their envy no lest then Joseph did of his Brethren David is anointed King and at last was set over the Tribe of Juda at the same age that Joseph was made Ruler over all Egypt mean while from the very day of his anointing the Spirit of God came upon him to wit the Spirit of Courage and Wisdom in both which respects even whilst Saul lived he was made Captain over Israel and withal grew a great Warrior to Fight the Lords Battel and besides was a Prophet and made the sweet Singer of Israel as one who by his divine Psalms should teach and instruct the People of God Davids Combate with the Phili●●ine The Armies of the Israelites and Philistines being ready to Battel Caliah of Gath the Philistine their great Champion defied the Armies of Israel wherefore David being stirred in his Zeal said who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defie the Armies of the living God but Eliab Davids eldest Bother hearing him was offended and askt him with whom he had left the Sheep in the Wilderness and told him he knew his Pride and naughtiness of his heart and saith he thou art come down that thou mayst see the Battel David said what I have now down is there not a Cause Saul being acquainted with Davids words sent for him and David told Saul he would fight the Philistine Saul replyed Thou art not able to fight him he is a man of War and thou art but a Youth David tells him whilst he was keeping his Fathers Sheep he had killed a Lyon and a Bear and that this uncircumcised Philistine who had defied the Armies of the living God should be as one of them then Saul bid him go and said the Lord be with thee and armed him with his Armour which David put off again and took only his Staff and five smooth Stones out of the Brook and put them in his Shepherds bag and with his Sling in his hand he drew neer to the Philistine The Philistine defied his coming so meanly armed David said Thou comest with Sword Spear and Shield I come in the Name of the Lord of Host and all thy Assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with Sword and Spear for the Battel is the Lords And David slew the Philistine with a Stone and a Sling and Saul taking notice of David's Valour enquired whose Son the Stripling David was and David brought the Philistines Head to Saul which he had cut off with the Philistines own Sword having first slain him with a Stone he Sling at him and David told Saul whose Son he was and after this David went out whithersoever Saul sent him and behaved himself wisely The cause of Sauls anger against David And David returning from the Slaughter of the Philistine because it was said Saul hath Slain his thousands and David his ten thousands Saul was very wroth with David from that day forwards and an evil Spirit entered Saul and the Lord departed from him and he was affraid of David David well beloved of the People because he saw the Lord was with him and David behaved himself wisely and all Israel and Juda loved him but especially Jonathan the Son of Saul who made a Covenant with David because he loved him as his own Soul and David fearing he might at last fall into Sauls hands fled for Saul became Davids Enemy continually And now David being fled and the Armies of the Philistines invading the Land Saul fell into a fear sought counsel from the Lord Sauls Evil course in going to the Witch of Endor and what the effects thereof proved to him but receiving no answer from him neither by Dream nor by Urim nor by Prophets he went to Endor by night to consult with a Witch where by Vision he saw Samuel who told Saul God shall deliver Israel together with thy self into the hands of the Philistines for the Lord hath rent the Kingdom out of thine hand and given it to thy Neighbour even to David because thou obeyed not the Voice of the Lord nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalcek The Host of Israel being routed the Sons of Saul were all slain and Saul killed himself when David heard it

the History of the two thousand five hundred fifty two years and a half and the Children of Israel mourned for Moses as they had done for Aaron thirty dayes in the Land of Moab The Lord was with Ioshua And now Joshua succeeding Moses the Lord Promised Joshua to be with him and to Assist him and the Lord was with him until he had Conquered all the Enemies of the Israelites and now when God was about to give the Israelites rest round about them so that they might dwell there securely it was requisite also that a place should be appointed which himself should chuse to place his Name there wherefore coming together at Shilo they there fixed the Tabernacle of the Congregation after the whole Land was subdued unto them Now Shilo both by the signification of the Name and also by the situation of the place seemeth to be the same with Salem both which words signifieth Peace or Rest Joshua built the City of Timnah-Sera in Mount Ephraim year of the world 2561 in which he dwelt many years after God had given rest to Israel and having lived a hundred and ten Years he there died and was buried After the decease of Joshua and the Elders who out lived him year of the world 2591 the Wonders which God had wrote for the Children of Israel Joshua being dead the Israelites began to backslide from the time of their first bringing out of Egypt began to be forgotten by the Young men every man now doing what seemed good in his own Eyes all those disorders were committed which are reported in the five last Chapters of the Book of Judges to wit the Idolatry of Micah and the Children of Dan and the War of the Benjaminites and the cause thereof and there succeeded a Generation of men which forgot God And Idolarty crept in and mingled themselves with the Canaanites by marriage and worshipped their Idols and God hereby was provoked to Wrath and gave them up to Cushan King of Mesapotania They were brought into Bondage which first calamity of theirs held them eighty years until Othoniel Son-in-law to Joshua being stirred up by God as a Judge and Avenger of his People defeated Cushan Delivered by Othoniel and delivered the Israelites out of their Bondage and the Land had rest forty years after the rest which Joshua procured them After the decease of Othoniel year of the world 2661 the Israelites falling again to sin against God Brought into Bondage again were again given over into the hands of Eglon King of Moab who joyning with the Ammonites and Amalekites overthrew the Israelites and took Jerico and this second Oppression of theirs continued for the space of eighteen years Instrumentally delivered by Ehud Then the Lord raised up Ehud to be an Avenger of his People who slew Eglon and ten thousand of the Valiant men of Moah and then the Land of Israel had rest forty years But when Ehud was dead they returned to their old Sin They return again to sin and are brought into Bondage wherefore they were brought again into Thraldom for twenty years until Jabins Army was routed and Sisera Captain of his Army was killed by Jael the Wife of Heber in her own Tent with a Nail struck into the Temples of his Head whereupon Debora Are delivered again a Prophetess who at that time judged Israel made a Song thereof for a memorial of that Victory and the Land rested forty years The Israelites sinning again and doing evil in the sight of the Lord year of the world 2752 the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years They sin again the Israelites falling into this fourth Thraldom cryed unto the Lord for help A Prophet sent of God to reprove them and the Lord sent a Prophet unto them who reproved them and shewed them what great things the Lord had done for them and encouraged them that they should not fear the Gods of the Amorites and the Lord raised up Gideon Gideon raised up to deliver them again being stirred up by an Angel sent from God to deliver them and first by Command from God he overturned the Altar of Baal and burnt his Grove and now the Midianites and Amorites pitching their Camp against him the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon and out of thirty two thousand men he chose only three hundred according to Gods Commandment to fight against them By a small number which he chose and why That so the Victory of Salvation might appear to be of the Arm of the Lord that Israel might not Vaunt themselves against him After he had obtained the Victory when the Israelites offered to settle the Kingdom on his Posterity he refused it saying The Lord shall rule over you but receiving their Golden Earings he made thereof an Ephad whereof they afterward took an occasion to fall into Idolatry but the Midianites being vanquished the Land had rest forty years They fall into Idolatry again So soon as Gideon was dead the Israelites falling back to Idolatry worshipped Baal-Berith for their God and Abimelech the Son of Gideon begotten upon a Concubine purpossing to get unto himself the Kingdom which his Father had refused slew seventy of his Brethren all upon one Stone when Abimelech had goten the Kingdom and had reigned three years Gaal a man of Sichem conspired against him which being discovered to Abimelech the City of Sichem was utterly Destroyed and the Inhabitants put to the Sword and from thence Abimelech going to besiege Thebez was knocked on the head with a piece of a Milstone cast upon him by a Woman and then killed out-right by his own Armour-Bearer Now the Israelites forsaking again the true God and falling to Worship the Gods of several Nations year 2799 were given up into the hands of the Philistines Were delivered into Bondage Sampson the Nazarite was born at Zora who avenged the Israelites twenty years in the time of the Philistines who slew a thousand of of them at one time with the Jawbone of an Ass in which place called Lehi from that Jawbone God at the prayer of Sampson clave an hollow place that was in the Jaw and there came water there-out Sampson avenged their cause and when he had drunk he was revived wherefore he called the name thereof En●hackore that is The Fountain of him which called upon God Sampson betrayed by Dalila with what followed Sampson being betrayed by Dalila and spoiled of the Hair of his Nazariteship is delivered to the Philistines who plucking out his Eyes carried him away Prisoner to Gaza and put him there in Prison fast bound in Chains where his strength renewing again he pulled down the Temple of the great Dagon killing the Princes of the Philistines with a very great multitude of People which were therein more men being killed at the fall thereof with himself for Company then he had slain in all his life