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A20531	Anwick his meditations vpon Gods monarchie and the deuill his kingdome And of the knowledge that man in this life may obtaine of the almightie, eternal, and most glorious godhed: with other thinges not only worth the reading but also the marking and the retayning.	Anwick, I.	1587 (1587)	STC 694; ESTC S108317	93,450	132

of his owne laboure For afterwardes Absalon became a rebell and assayed to put his father from his royall dignity All which thinges were done by Gods forepointment to plague Dauid for his secrete adultery with Vrias Wife and murthering of him being his faythful seruant Therfore God by Satans seruice made his Sonne Ammon to rauish his Sister Thamar and his dearest beloued Sonne Absalon to kil his brother Amnon and after to rebell agaynst the King his Father made him f●●e to saue his lyfe abused his fathers Wyues and Concubynes and shamed not in all the peoples sight in the day tyme to shewe his going 2 Sā 16. 2● in to satisfy his beastly lust on them * thinking thereby the better to establish himselfe in the royall seate therein following the aduise of the chiefest and most honorable counseller that King Dauid had Achitophel by name whose counsell was esteemed with Dauid and Absalon as an oracle from God And that all these things were done by the seruice of satan 2 Sam. 12. 9 the text is playne * Wherefore hast thou dispised the commaundement of the Lord to doe euill in his sight Thou hast kylled Vryas and taken his Wife Therefore the Sworde shall neuer depart from thy house because thou hast dispised mee sayth the Lord behold I wil raise vp euill agaynst thee out of thyne owne honse I will giue thy Wiues to another that shall lye with them openly thou didst it secretly but I will doe the thing openly before all Israell And albeit there was neuer but one such Dauid yet by histories wee see that in euery age there hath bene infinite nombers of such villanyes the Father with the Daughter the Mother with the Sonne the Brother with the Sister haue committed horible factes and all by the suggestion of Satan by whom God according to his promise * punisheth the sinnes of the Exod. 20. 5. perentes vpon the children vnto the third and fourth gen●ration And that by such secrete and intrieate woorking that the greatest the wisest and b●st learned and who soeuer hath most experience shall not bee able to foresee and auoyde that which God hath once determined For al that hee hath purposed shall bee performed either in rewarding in his elect y● good workes which hee himselfe causeth them to woorke or else punishing in the reprobate the euill woorkes of the world the flesh and the Deuill For whatsoeuer God spake was immediatly extant or in ful A litle digression declaring how first God esta blished a suc cessiue cours in all his promises works and ordinances from the beginning which can neuer faile in performance Ephe. 4. 10. ●3 effect done as after the creation of all thinges by his woord which immediatly was done he promised that the seed of the woman should breake the head of the Serpent which in his purpose and knowledge was lykewyse done For Christ Iesus being the seed of the woman hath doth shall wreast forceably out of Satans power into whose captiuity all mankynde fell by the sinne of Adam * all such as he had fore-chosen and forepoynted from among the rest and the same purposed in himself before the foundations of the world were layed so that all the promises of God are in him yea and amen for euer That is to say Christ Iesus was then borne in respect of God his purpose the word being spoken for our ioy and comfort Hee did then preach the gospell for our instruction He did then woorke miracles for confirmation of our fayth Hee was then tormented on the Crosse suffered paynes equall to the torment of Hell and death of body and layed in graue for the sinnes of the world that is to say for the sinnes of his elect committed in the world He was then risen agayne for our iustification He was then ascended into heauen againe for our sanctification He was then comen againe to iudge the quicke and the dead for our ful redemption and glorification Al was thē done in Gods sight for with him is time past nor to come but onely the present tyme. * God spake and it was done hee Psalm 33. 9 commaunded and euery thing had his being Therefore all the promises of God are in him yea and amen foreuer Christ Iesus * is the Lambe slayne from the beginning in Reuel 13. 8 euery age in this present age and shall be slayne in euery age yet to come of this corrupt world in his members his elect * his litle flocke to whom the wicked worldlinges haue Luk. 12. 32. euer done presently doe and euer shall doe alwayes wrong and violence And the poore little flocke are alotted to suffer it during this wretched lyfe The multitude are slowe to beleeue the promises of God therefore if holy scripture confirmed by Christ Iesus his bitter passions and wonderfull miracles bee not sufficient witnesse if the holy Prophets Apostles and infinite nomber of Martirs wil not cause people to beleeue the promises of God and obay the almighty Monarch Then heare what women Gen. 3. 16. can say and truly affirme by daily experience * God promised Eua for punishment of her infidelity pryde and disobedience that in payne and with sorrow shee and consequently by nature her posterity should bring forth her children This promise hath bene found true from the beginning shall continew to the ending as all Women of this present age bringing foorth Children must needes confesse And I dare say they will affirme the same But the woord of God needes no witnesse to all true beleeuers And they that cannot beleue let them doe as holy Scripture teacheth Aske of God the Father in the name of Christ Iesus and it shal be giuen thē it is his promise that can neuer fayle in performance THE FVLFILLING OF GODS threatninges in afflicting King Dauid and his posterity CAP. 8. AND to the ende wee may the better Psalm 146. assure our selues that * the Lord keepeth his promise for euer both in rewarding of Vertue and punishing of vice Let vs marke well howe God proceedeth in prosecuting his punishmentes vpon Dauid and his posteritye God gaue vnto Salomon the King such excellency of wisedome ritches and glory as neuer King of any Nation was comparable vnto him And notwithstanding those heroicall giftes hee towardes his ende when by course of naturall lyfe hee should haue bene best hee so beastly neglected the feare of Cod that hee became a monster in Idolatrie in Adultery and Fornication and hauing those could not bee free from any other vice and so became an vglye and most mishapen ymage of God so by his filthines hee turned al his worldly glory into shame And wheras for Dauids euil dealing God promised his Swoord should neuer departe from his house Now for Salomons beastlines God reciteth his promise saying * I will for this affliet the seede of Dauid 1 Re. 11. 39 12. 15. Reuel 5. 5. 1 Tim. 6. 14 15. Reue.

would therefore prayse magnify and extoll by fayth good woordes and deedes the almighty maiesty of this incomprehencible Monarch of Heauen and Earth and tell foorth the woonders that hee doth and hath done among the children of men And let those whose sinnes God doth couer from the knowledge of men ●● very thankfull for it for it is a sure t●ken of Gods grace ●o leade thē to repentance And let those which ●t pleaseth God to preserue from doing such beastlines as i● others are manifested to the world Let th●se I say especially giue humble thanke in the name of Christ Iesus because it is a singuler token of grace and election For let all men assure themselues of this that they which no● and take least euill should doe and take as much as they which doe and take most euil yf God * did not set his holy Angels about them and steard his holy Spirite into them to preserue them ●oth from dooing and taking euill The conclusion hereof is that ●od is all in all and consequently doth all in all otherwise hee cannot bee almighty Col. 3. 11. Ephes 1. 23 1 Co. 15. 28 which almightines in God no man will d●●ye being in his right wittes vnlesse an Atheist which beleeues no God at all And the same God is a Spirite which by the ministery of his Spirite k●epeth whom to please him from great offences and hee pardonneth whom it pleaseth him of all their offences On the contrary part the fowle Spirite Satan and his Angels do not onely entice and prouoke folkes to sinne but are also Gods instrumentes call the● 〈…〉 men if you will for they haue the same off●ce to punish folkes for sinne As when King Daiud by Satans enticeme●●e had commited Example of Gods iustice on Dauid 2 Sam. 12. 1 c. both adultry and 〈…〉 ther Nathan pronounced Gods iust sentence agaynst him that the swoord should neuer be frō his house A terrible sentence marke it wil it was not the plague of pestilence or other sicknes which commonly endure but for certayne W●●kes or Mo●thes c. but it was a most horrible most pestiferous and continuall plague of rape murther inc●stious whordome withdome 〈◊〉 and forraine warres during the rest of his lyfe And on his house after his death by succession vntill after the death of Christ Iesus euen to the vtter dissoluing of Dauids house in this world And who were Gods instrumentes to execute his i●st vengeance so long in continuance as aboue mxl yeares no one mortall creature could liue so long neither then nor now who then I say but Satan and his Angels woorking in his members the children of disobedience in whom * hee being Ephes 22. Prince ruling in the ayre worketh his will according as God hath forepointed and limitted him What mean● God vseth c. Now marke the meanes circumstances and instrumentes both bodily and ghostly which God vseth for performance of his promise for the due execution of his iudiciall sentence pronounced by Nathan the Prophet First hee giueth Anmon king Dauids Sonne into the power of Satan to bee led into temptation who stirred vp in him an horrible stinking lust of the flesh falsly called loue such loue as Horses haue to Mares and consequently each male beast to his kind This beastly lust was to rauish his Sister Thamar the daughter of his Father And Satan did so inflame him pricke him foreward and torment him with desire to accōplish this lust that very anguish for want therof made him sicke and pine away hee was in the deepe dungeon of Satans prison * holden captiue at his will 2 Tim. 2. 2. 2 Sam. 13. ● c. Then another of Satans impes one Ionadab a flattering ●awde such as seeke their gaine by such filthy practises aswel in Princes courtes as els where hee deuised a fyne hipocriticall meane to accomplish his filthy lust saying art not thou a Kinges sonne as though a Kinges sonne were lawles therewithall gaue him this pestilent counsel to fayne himselfe yet more sicke to the end hee might haue had some colour to craue of the king some meat dreast of his sisters hand to comfort him in his sicknes meaning nothing else but as all the wicked doe euen by false policy treason and tiranny to accomplish their couetous desires and filthy lustes as hee did in ra●ishing his sister ●h●mar And thus God bega●ne to plague Dauid according to hi● promise by the Prophet Nathan first by the death of the Childe gotten in adultery secondly by rauishing of his Daughter by his owne Sonne And it pleased God to call for these villanies and filthines which Satan wrought in Dauids children his own works And why euen because Satan doth nothing more or lesse thē God forepoynteth him * For God sayde I will stirre ● Sam. 12. 11 vpp euill agaynst thee euen out of thyne owne house I will take thy wiues and giue them to another to be abused behold God sayeth it is his owne dooing euen his iustice vppon Dauid Who being ouercome by the suggestions of Satan woorking in himselfe and others that fauoured Ammon through foolish affection of fatherly pity neglected to doe iustice on his vngratious sonne for committing so fylthy a fact in Israel the which notwithstanding God would not leaue vnpunished and that by an extraordinary meane because King Dauid neglected Gods ordinary iustice which he putteth into Princes handes to bee executed of them in righteousnes Marke the consequence Absalon king Dauids darling sonne voyd also of the feare of God and therefore captiue to Satan by Gods forepoyntment was by Satan mooued to reuenge the rauishing of his Sister Thamar vpon Ammon his vnhappy brother which wicked purpose hee performed by treason for at a pretended friendly Banquet hee caused him to bee cruelly slayne contrary to the right order of iustice which the kinge ought to haue done by order Thus wee may see how God punisheth sinne by sinne and men by their owne inuentions and abhominations As it is written * let men knowe that by such Sap. 11. 13. Luk. 6. 38. meanes as men offend by such lyke they are punished * And such measure as they meate to others the lyke they shall receiue agayne Then Absalon fearing iustice for his murtherous fact fled to saue his life as nature teacheth in daunger to seeke surcour to Talmay king of G●●hure his mothers father And being in exile Satan wrought still in him and in those that fauoured him by famed repentance to seeke reconciliation to the king his Father which thing was broughte to passe by Satans woorking in him in Ioab the Kinges chieftayne in warres in a woman and others appointed by Ioab for that purpose to bringe Absolon agayne from exile to bee a further plague vnto the Kinge his Father It is vnlike that Ioabs meaninge was so ill towardes the King And yet so was Gods purpose hee beeyng the instrument not knowing the sequell