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A15400	An harmonie vpon the first booke of Samuel wherein according to the methode obserued in Hexapla vpon Genesis, and Exodus, but more compendiously abridged, these speciall things are obserued vpon euery chapter: the diuers readings compared, doubtfull questions explaned, places of Scripture reconciled, controuersies briefly touched, and morall collections applied. Wherein aboue foure hundred theologicall questions are handled, with great breuitie and much varietie, by the former author of Hexapla on Genesis.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1607 (1607)	STC 25678; ESTC S120031	271,285	362

cheife shepheard and that he will not become his disciple whose example he neglecteth to imitate Thus it appeareth by the Scripture and by the practise of the Church what necessitie is laid vpon preaching and what curse hangeth ouer them that are negligent in the Lords worke that euery Lords day the spirituall Manna of Gods word should raine downe vpon the people It pitieth my heart therefore that some men should so much forget themselues as to call them Sabbatarians which require this dutie at the Pastours hands to sanctifie the Lords day continually with the preaching of the word of God and further are not afraid to call these positions and the like as that the Lords day must necessarily be kept now of all Christians that it is not lawfull to vse the seauenth day to any other ende but to the holy and sanctified ende to the which the Lord appointed it that we be restrained vpon the Sabbath day from worke both hand and foote as the Iewes were that the Church hath no authoritie to set vp any day like to the Sabbath day these and the like conclusions one is not ashamed to call Sabbatarian errors and impieties more then either Iewish or Popish superstition a new Idol noisome doctrines tending to schisme and sedition yea hereticall assertions Let such an one take heede how he raile vpon Gods ordinance and institution which can not be too much honoured and howsoeuer he may turne his penne in his heat against his brethren let him not oppose himselfe against the sacred institution of God in the Sabbath as he hopeth one day to enioy the euerlasting Sabboth CHAP. XIII 1. Quest. v. 1. How Saul is saide to haue beene one yeere in his kingdome 1. WHereas the words in the originall are Saul the sonne of a yeare in his raigne some doe read thus Saul was the sonne of a yeare when he began to raigne Lat. that is innocent as a child of a yeare old as the Chald. Pellican but this interpretation seemeth to be coact and forced because mention is made of two yeares that he raigned in the next words he should be there expounded also to haue beene as one of two yeere old neither is it true that Saul was or could be so innocent as a child of a yeere old 2. Wherefore others doe referre it vnto the time from his vnction and inauguration that a yeare was expired Vatab. Genevens Osiand but that can not be for as yet the seuen daies were not expired which Samuel set vnto Saul to stay for him in Gilgal v. 8. 3. Some finding this doubt to be very difficult doe thinke that in this place it was expressed how old Saul was when he began to raigne and how long he raigned but that in continuance of time the place was corrupted and changed but giue this libertie thus to answer proposed doubts by imagining the text to be corrupt and it will greatly empaire the credit and authoritie of the Canonicall and authenticall Scriptures 4. Therefore the best solution is that Saul was now in his first yeare while these things were done mentioned in the two former chapters and in this Chimchi Iun. and though in the originall it is said onely the sonne of a yeare neither one nor first is added yet by the correspondencie of the number of two yeares afterward expressed here that word one or first may be well supplied 2. Quest. v. 1. How Saul is said to haue raigned two yeares ouer Israel 1. Some vnderstand it that he raigned but two yeares in all ouer Israel Osiand but the many warres which Saul had with the Philistims and other enemies c. 14.47 and the long persecution of Dauid and the time of Dauids abode in Ziklag which was a yeare and foure moneths c. 27.7 doe make euident proofe that Saul was king aboue two yeares Iosephus also writeth that Saul raigned while Samuel liued 18. yeares and after his death 20. yeares c. 15. lib. 6. de antiqu And S. Paul giueth to Saul and Samuel together 40. yeares Act. 13.21 All this sheweth that Saul raigned more then two yeares 2. Some other expound it thus that Saul raigned two yeares before he tooke vpon him the state of a king Genevens but raigned without any pompe as the Romane Dictatours not yet hauing any garrison or guard of souldiers Pellican but this can not hang together seeing it is said before he had beene a yeare king or was in the first yeare of his kingdome as he raigned the first yeare so he raigned the second if he tooke not vpon him the state of a king for two yeares how it is said he had beene king one yeare beside this busines expressed in this and the next chapter in the choosing of three thousand men and encountring with the Philistims sheweth that he tooke vpon him to be king as likewise in the 11. chap. when he sent a peremptorie message ouer all Israel that they should come forth after Saul Samuel 3. Therefore the meaning is that he raigned two yeares that is lawfully before the Lord reiected him which was vpon his returne from Amalek when he had disobeied the commandement of God c. 15. and immediatly after the Lord commanded Samuel to anoint Dauid king and then the spirit of God departed from Saul so in right he raigned but two yeares then he vsurped the kingdome afterward Vatab. Borr. as it is said c. 14.47 he held the kingdome ouer Israel that is by violence and tyrannie 3. Quest. v. 2. Of Sauls age when he began to raigne Although it be no where expressely set downe how olde Saul was when he began to raigne yet it may be coniectured that he was of good yeares seeing in the first yeare of his raigne he had a sonne namely Ionathan that was able to take vpon him a charge of souldiers as this verse sheweth that a thousand of the garrison which Saul had chosen out were with Ionathan in Gibeah and in the next chapter Ionathan with his armor bearer slew twentie men of the Philistims this sheweth that Ionathan could not be much lesse then twentie yeare old and Saul his father fourtie or thereabout Pellican 4. Quest. v. 3. Of the place where Ionathan smote the garrison of the Philistims 1. Some read Ionathan smote the garrison of the Philistims which was in the hill namely at Kiriathiearim where the Arke was Vatab. Genevens Some thinke it was an hill in the confines and borders of Israel where the Philistims had a garrison Osiand 2. But it is rather taken here for a proper name Ghebah which is the same v. 2. called Gibeah sometime it is named Gibeah of Beniamin v. 15. sometime Gebah of Beniamin v. 16. sic Ar. Pag. Chal. Pellican Iun. Iosephus also saith that this garrison of the Philistims held a castle neare vnto Gabah where Ionathan did discomfite them See before c. 10. quest 5. 5. Quest. v. 5. Of the number of the Philistims that gathered them to battell