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A13538	Dauids learning, or The vvay to true happinesse in a commentarie vpon the 32. Psalme. Preached and now published by T.T. late fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge. To which is prefixed the table of method of the whole Psalme, and annexed an alphabeticall table of the chiefe matters in the commentarie.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1617 (1617)	STC 23827; ESTC S118153	314,670	466

barbarous and butcherly Saul was zealous in his religion and breathed out nothing but slaughter and threatning but all that while his religion was proportionall hee knew not Christ nor what hee did But the Romish religion goes beyond all other in crueltie and vnmercifulnesse and therefore of all other must be most hatefull to GOD. It was said long since that Antichrist the head of that Church must be an Appollyon a Destroyer and 2. Thes. 2. 3. the sonne of Perdition both actiuely and passiuely in himselfe and vnto many others He must be cloathed in scarlet a colour dyed in the blood of the Saints and a beast that must make warre against the witnesses of God The Church of God in the Old Testament indured most grieuous oppression and was vnmercifully handled in Egypt by Pharaoh in Canaan by the King of Syria Iudg. 3. 8. by Eglon King of the Moabites by Iabin King of the Canaanites by the Midianites Ammonites and Philistims and by Nebuchadnezzar in the Babylonish captiuitie But all this was nothing to that it suffered by Antiochus Epiphanes And yet this of Antiochus was but a type of Antichrists persecution his wicked rage was but a shadow to this Here is an vnmercifull Destroyer that killeth first the soules of men by poysoning their mindes with false and damnable doctrines Secondly the bodies of men with horrible and vnheard-of crueltie and tyrannie Here is a woman drunke with the blood of the Saints and of the Martyrs of Iesus Reu. 17. 6. What shall we thinke of that religion by whose edicts perswasions and approbations all the Christian blood almost hath bin shed vpon earth since the ten first Persecutions Who hath done this but the firebrands of Babylon What of that religion which committeth Kings and Emperours together making them Wolues and Tygers one to another and who doth this but Nebuchadnezzar the head of this Babylon What of that religion that blowes vp Massacres Rebellions Seditions Treasons in all Countreys This also doth the scarlet-whore of Babylon What of that Religion that sends out cut-throat villaines with Pardons to stab and poison Kings and Potentates of the earth yea to blow vp with one terrible blow three whole states and Kingdomes This also doth the mercifull holy Father at Romish Babylon Who hath kindled so many furnaces to burne the bodies of Gods Saints in all Christendome but that meeke sonne of perdition whose mercies are cruell What may wee thinke of the mercilesse inquisition in Spaine Or that horrible massacre of the Christians in France the like whereof was neuer seene in any Nation Here in our owne land what damnable plots and deuillish designements haue there beene against the persons of our Kings and Princes What shall I speake of the vnnaturalnesse of their cruelty amongst vs while they haue chased away all pitie and respect of silly persons who in regard of the impotencie of their mindes or their tender age might by all lawes of nature and Nations haue laid claime to mercie if the Ocean of heathenish I meane Popish crueltie had not broken all bounds and bankes What hurt could a Boy of eight yeeres old doe to their religion who yet for that was scourged to death in Bonners house What hurt could that babe do them that sprang out of the mothers wombe and was cast in againe because it was a yong Heretique and so baptized in the mothers flames and the owne blood What madnesse was it to apprehend a madde man one Collins who held his dogge ouer his head as the Priest did the hoast for which hee and his dogge were burnt for Heretiques a wofull meanes to bring a madde man into his wits With how little reason could they demaund a reason of the faith of a madde man one Cowbridge and make a madde mans words without vnderstanding a sentence of his owne death for which hee was burnt at Oxford but where furie hath madded men no argument can mooue them to pittie What religion is that the wrath of which sticketh not either to bury the quicke as Marion at Burges or to vnbury the dead as Wickliffs bones burnt one and fortie yeeres after his death Peter Martyrs wife at Oxford two yeeres after his death burnt for an Heretique at Cambridge Mr. Bucer Phagius cited out of their graues to appeare foure yeeres after their buriall which when the silly ashes could not doe they were digged out and burnt on the market-hill because they did not answere and satisfie such articles as were laid against them Richard Hun apparantly hanged by them in the prison was also burnt after his death Iohn Tooly being dead and buried was cited to appeare before Bonner by a day appointed at which time limited and expired he was excommunicate and straite charge giuen that no man should eate or drinke with him or if any met him they should not bid him God speed or if he came to Church in time of diuine seruice he must be thrust out after that this excommunication wrought nothing vpon the dead man hee was condemned and committed to the secular power and so the poore dead man was the second time by the Sheriffs executed Is this cruell religion of God Did Christ or any of his Apostles bring in the trueth by fire or sword No it is falsehood that must stand by power and humane policie When the two Disciples asked Christ if they should call for fire from heauen against the Cities that receiued thē not No saith Christ Ye know not what spirit ye are of But let Antichrists Disciples aske him as Faux Winter did Garnet Shall we call for fire from hell against those Kingdomes which will not receive vs Hee saith Yea because hee knowes what spirit they bee of resolute but infortunate Gentlemen begin to dig vnder the Parliament-house and when all the house is set to make lawes against the Catholikes giue them a terrible blow and they shall neuer know who hurt them O but what speake you this against the Religion of the Church of Rome this is the fault of men not of their doctrine Nay but it ariseth out of the grounds of their doctrine which is ful of cruelty and bloudinesse Iesuitisme is the Rebels Catechisme I will set downe their doctrine in certaine positions which are eminent in their Authors at this day First the Pope ought to driue Woolues and bad leaders heretique Kings that is Protestants àgrege dominio not only excommunicate but also driue them from their Kingdomes This is Bellarmines position defended by the Pope himselfe Secondly not onely manifest but also secret and suspected heretiques so Symancha Thirdly not onely themselues but all their fauourers also and children So Creswell Fourthly quibuscunque modis by any meanes saith Sanders vi or dolo as Iudith put downe Holofernes and Iehu Athaliah Reinolds and Boucherius or by a knife or dagger as Henrie the third and fourth Kings of France were murthered or by Dag Dagger or poyson as

but his onely armour by which hee defended himselfe was the Word of God and he makes the Lord his shield by trusting in his Word Exod. 14. 13. When Moses and the Israclites were compassed with Sea Mountaines and Enemies how were they hid and couered with the promise onely Stand still feare not and behold the saluation of the Lord. Iudg. 7. 2. Gedeon appointed with three hundred men to goe against the Midianites and Amalekites who lay in the valley like Grashoppers for multitude and their Camels without number as the sands of the Sea saith the Text What could hee expect but to be eaten vp presently but hauing a word that God would deliuer him he was as safe as any of those whom he had sent from the warre God being his shield he was secure When Athaliah had put to death all the seede of Ahaziah onely Ioash his sonne escaped and was hid in the house of the Lord sixe yeres GOD had a chamber of prouidence to keepe him safe when there wanted no meanes nor diligence in Athaliah to finde him But whence was this safetie euen from the Word and promise of the Lord 2. Chron. 23. 3. Behold the Kings Sonne must raigne as the Lord hath said of the sonnes of DAVID that hee should neuer want a man to sit vpon his Throne after him According to that Psal. 91. 4. His faithfulnesse and trueth shall bee thy shield and buckler Secondly God hides his children by his protection which is the accomplishment of his Word this protection of God is called his wings which is a borrowed speech from Birds which by their wings keepe their yong ones both from iniury of weather and from the rauenous Hawkes and birds of prey that looke as the Hen gathers her chicken vnder her wings so the Lord wil couer his owne vnder his wing that is vnder his protection as Psal. 91. 4. He shall couer thee with his feathers and vnder his wings shalt thou trust And this wing of God is represented by the wings of the Cherubins extended ouer the Arke these are the wings of grace and mercie vnder which Dauid desireth to bee hid Psal. 17 8. It is also called Gods shield and buckler because as vnder a shield or buckler the bodie is hid and couered from the blowes and deadly thrusts of the enemie so the godly are hereby wholly protected from dangers This is a great comfort for Gods children who haue such a hiding place as that God himselfe vouchsafeth to prouide for their safetie who is stronger then all and most faithfull The Lord needs feare no tyrant to expose his children to their rage as Moses his parents who durst not hide him aboue three moneths And for his faithfulnesse he neuer failed them that runne vnder his wing Dauid calls him the saluation of all them that trust in him from such as resist his right hand A man without God is a bird without a nest and a beast hunted without a denne lyable to any danger that comes but great is the comfort of the godly who know whither to go to be hid both from the strife of tongues Iob 5. 21. and from the violence of tyrants Secondly we learne hence how to behaue our selues in troubles namely to hide our selues in heauen as the poore beasts doe hide themselues in earth May wee not hide our selues in earth by vsing the meanes of safetie Did not Dauid hide himselfe in Woods in Caues Holes and Rockes 1. Sam. 22. 1 5. and 23. 5 6. 14. Yes neither must we neglect any good meanes of our owne safety yet we must trust in none of them but in Gods blessing who must watch vs and hide vs or else all comes to nothing Well knew Dauid how little helpe there was in any thing to hide him vnles he had with the same Gods wing to couer him The strong Citie of Keilah could not hide or defend him and therefore the Lord warned him to come out of it himself became a shield brazen wall vnto him The vaste solitarie wildernes of Maon could not hide secure him there Saul and his Souldiers had compassed him onely the Lord hid him and turned his pursuers another way For this purpose the Lord often brings his children into the streits that they may runne vnder his wing for those who at no time else will seeke him will then seeke to him as Pharaoh himselfe He knowes it is with the godly as with a beast in the field which is safer in a storme then in the fayrest seasons the storme driues him to his den and the hunter to the clefts of the Rocke but that being blowne ouer he comes forth and is in danger of taking So the godly in trouble drawes into his secret place and so long as danger continues so long he cleaues to God but after danger he lyes open to Satan his owne corrupt lusts and other snares as we may see in Dauid himselfe who in the wildernes and his flight before Saul and Absalom lay not so open to temptation as in his Palace God often imprisons and streytens his that they may bee more warie in their enlargement But how may we make God our hiding place First by faith leaning vpon the promises For what good can all the promises of God do being not mingled tempred with faith Ps. 119. 49. Remember thy promise made vnto thy seruant wherein thou hast caused me to trust Habac. 2. 4. The vision shall come in the meane time the iust shall liue by faith which in times of danger fenceth and compasseth them with all the promises of God wheras vnbeliefe layes a man open to iudgements debarred Moses of Canaan and strucke Zacharie dumbe the greatest dishonour to God is not to relye on his Word and the Prince that beleeued not in the Word of the Lord was troden to death 2. King 7. 19 20. Secondly couer thy selfe vnder the wing of God by the practice of repentance for the way to escape iudgement is to iudge our selues Ezek. 9. 4. When Ierusalem was to be destroyed they that mourne and sigh for all the abominations thereof must bee first marked for deliuerance And can an enemie of God an impenitent sinner haue the face or any hope to goe to God for safetie and hiding Thirdly hide thy selfe with GOD by prayer and in extraordinarie danger by fasting which exerciseth both faith and repentance thus our Prophet often prayes the Lord to keepe him as the apple of his eye and to saue him vnder his wing 2. Chron. 20. 12. Iehoshaphat thus hid himselfe There is no strength in vs saith he to stand before this great multitude neither doe we know what to doe but our eyes are toward thee and being in this hold hee had strength enough from enemies who slew one another and had no vse of his owne Hezekiah likewise against Sennacherib had recourse to this hiding place hee put on