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death_n	bring_v	life_n	power_n	4,886	5	4.6142	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53951	David and the Amalekite upon the death of Saul a sermon preached on Jan. 30, 1682, being the anniversary of the martyrdom of King Charles I of blessed memory / by Edward Pelling ...	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.	1683 (1683)	Wing P1077; ESTC R683	18,608	35

alone because this Power Authority Majesty Image and Character is given him by the Lord only therefore he is called The Lord 's Anointed that is a Person made so Sacred by God by the Communication of his own Authority that now he cannot be treated with rudeness or violence without Dishonouring God's own Majesty and striking at the Face of God himself To this purpose we are to observe what God said of King Cyrus an Heathen an Infidel a Foreigner no more related unto him than a Philistine or an Amalekite Prince yet all this notwithstanding he calls him his Anointed Is 45. Thus saith the Lord to his Anointed to Cyrus whose right hand I have holden or strengthned with Power v. 1. I have even called thee by thy name I have surnamed thee though thou hast not known me v. 4. This was Prophetically spoken for at this time Cyrus was not so much as Born And when he came to be King of Persia he was no more Anointed there than Nero was at Rome and yet as the Prophet calls the former God's Anointed so the Apostle calls the latter the Minister of God the Ordained of God and both Isaiah and St. Paul spake so upon these grounds because all Lawful Princes are endued with God's Power and Authority whereof the Material and Ceremonial Unction among the Jews was a Signification and Argument only Now do but compare all this with what is recorded of Saul whom David speaks of in my Text and styles him The Lord 's Anointed Not very long after he came to the Crown out of Timorousness and Infidelity he offered up Sacrifice himself in Samuels 1 Sam. 13. absence and therein he was an Vsurper of the Priestly Office Afterwards he spared the King of Amalek c. 15. and the best of the spoil contrary to what he was required to do and therein he was a Rebel against Gods Commands After this he sought the life of c. 18. David the best Subject that ever any Prince had and would have struck him to the wall with a Javelin and all this for David's good Service therein he was a Tyrant After this he unjustly Kills at once 85 of the Lord's Priests besides the Men and Women Children c. 22. and Sucklings that were in Nob and therein he was a Murderer After this he forsaketh the Lord for the Devil and consulteth a Witch at Endor and therein c. 28. he was an Apostate And after all this last of all as if he could not perish by any impurer hands than his own he rusheth on the point of his Sword endeavours c. 31. deavours and attempts his own final Destruction and therein he was a Self-Homicide Notwithstanding all these Sins he was the Lord's Anointed still and David own'd treated rever'd and in the end vindicated him as the Lord 's Anointed He distinguish't between the Sinner and the Prince He look't upon his Personal Crimes with one eye and upon his Holy Vnction with another And if the Scripture may be allowed to bear us out in any conclusion we have warrant enough to infer hence that the Worst of Kings supposing him to be a Lawful King hath a Divine and Indelible Character for the sake whereof he ought to be accounted and Honoured as the Lord 's Anointed and consequently as a Sacred and Dread Soveraign Nor will it avail us to consider how or by what means he came to his Soveraignty whether by Inheritance or otherwise A Lawful Prince is the Lord 's Anointed ever beholding to God alone for his Power and Authority Succession or Conquest or Election may be the Instrument to convey the Title but the Deed is Gods and the Soveraign Power is a Donative and Estate which the King holdeth in Fee of God and of God alone whether it be by Nature that the Man is brought forth or whether it be by the Sword that he cuts his way or whether it be by the Consent of Men that he is pitch't upon still these are but the means the ways and the methods of a Nation whereby a Prince is brought to the Throne 'T is God that gives him his Commission to Reign in it the Right of Governing the Authority he hath over his People the Power of Life and Death the Crown and Scepter the Regalities and Prerogatives of a King however he may diminish or give some of them away they are owing only to the Courtesie of Heaven In this case 't is necessary for us to distinguish between the Power it self and the Choice or Application of the Person to that Power Now the Power is God's by whom Kings Reign But under God there may be divers Subordinate Instrumental and Ministerial hands to give a man a Right to that Power Anciently and first of all Monarchical Soveraignty went by Lineal Descent and Proximity of Bloud and this was the Regular and best way But in after Ages the Wickedness of a few Nations altered this course and Monarchies came to be Elective And though a Prince be chosen by the Suffrages of the People yet this is but a Qualification of him to use that Power and to exercise that Authority which is given by the King of Kings Nay though they Anoint and Crown him yet in all this they are the only Masters of the Ceremonies to declare their Obligations to Obey and to Assist in the Prince's Investitures still the Authority whereby he acteth the Substantial and Essential Unction is from above They may put on his Robes and gird him with the Sword and place him in his Imperial Chair and cover his Head with a Royal Diadem but when he is in his Throne 't is by a Superior Authority that he strikes with his Sword and by a Divine Commission that he Commandeth Governeth and Ministreth Justice unto the People which he is set over And so Valentinian told his Soldiers when they had chosen him Emperor and asked him something which he did not like It was in your Power to chuse me to rule over you said he but since you have chosen me what you desire dependeth not upon yoru pleasure but mine Your business is as my Subjects to obey me and my business is as your Prince to order what you are to do Though Valentinian was taken from among the Souldiery yet his Power was not derived from the Camp but it was from God as King Soul 's was when he was fetch 't from among the Stuff 1 Sam. 10. Things are best understood when they are illustrated by familiar Instances Take then 1. an Instance in an Ecclesiastical matter Judas the Traitor being Dead the Eleven think of Substituting some other in his Room and by lot they Elected Matthias Act. 1. But Matthias was not their Delegate nor did he Act by their Commission or in their Name or by their Power but his Authority was from Christ as the rest of the Apostles was They indeed pitch't upon the Man but his Apostleship his Ministerial Character his Power