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A07198	Two sermons, preached at the Kings court, this Ianuary, 1620 Concerning Davids adultery, and his politick practices. By Francis Mason, Archdeacon of Norfolk, and Chaplain to his Maiesty in ordinary.	Mason, Francis, 1566?-1621.	1621 (1621)	STC 17600; ESTC S112434	36,020	128

and sluggish others are all in motion leaping and dancing Some being wounded by it are made dumpish and silent others never cease prating and babbling And is not this the plaine picture of drunkennes It is a lamentable case to cōsider how many in this kingdome are daily bitten by this Tarantula And is there no charme for the stinging of this serpent Alexander ab Alexandro writeth that the Tarantula is cured with musick and that he himselfe sawe the experience of it But what straines of musicke shall wee use to cure this drunken Tarantula Sound we the trumpet of the Lawe or tune wee the sweet timbrell of the Gospel they will not hearken unto the Charmer charme hee never so wisely What then remayneth but that they be charmed by the severity of wholsome lawes And yet I cannot say that there is any defect of lawes but rather a defect in the execution Many good and godly lawes haue been made in this kingdome against drunkenness and yet this sinne every where aboundeth O that this high and honourable Court of Parliament now to be assembled could yet in their godly wisdom devise some further course for the utter extinguishing of this Tarantula Surely it would redownd much to the glory of God to the honor of this kingdome to the good of this Church and Common-weale But to returne to Vrias hee dranke the royall wine and was made drunk though not as our Tarentati which lie tumbling in the streets blaspheming God and all good men but drunk in some degree yet not so as to bee deprived of his senses he still remembers the danger of the Hoast of Israel and will not goe home unto his wife Wherefore they could not impute the childe to him nor make a cloake for their iniquitie they have no colour to cast that colour So David was cleane disappointed of his first policie His second policie was to kill Vrias and to marry his wife that so the childe might seeme to bee gotten in marriage What to kill him had he not received wrong enough already that his wife was defiled but alas poore man must hee lose his life also It is as I tell you the matter is determined Vrias must die to save their credit there is no remedie And here let us consider what the best man is if God withdrawe his grace and leave him to himselfe Hee is like to an iron ball which a man standing upon the top of an hill le ts goe out of his hand and beholde it runneth downe headlong and the further the faster till it come in Profundum even to the bottom of the valley Even so if God let us goe out of his hands and leave us to our selves we run headlong from sinne to sinne even till wee come in Profundū that is into the depth of all iniquitie As heere wee see in David who to his former sinnes addeth the horrible sinne of murther by killing Vrias who now was the onely man did stand in their way And hath not this alwayes beene a practice among Politicians If a man stand in their way and hinder their profit or pleasure or preferment either they will lay a snare for him as the Nobles of Darius for Daniel to cast him into the Lions den or if they cannot so entrap him they will have one device or other to cut him off as David did Vrias and rather then faile they will giue him a figge and so make him away That these things should be done among Matchiavilians I would not marvaile but that holy David should doe it to holy Vrias this is a matter that deserves to be lamented with many teares But how shall it be done David is now growne a Politician hee will take him away so cunningly that there shall not appear so much as the least suspicion of murther And how so Forsooth hee will write to Iaob the Generall of the Campe to place Vrias in the forefront of the hottest battell and suddenly to retire from him O what a dishonor was this that Israel should flee before their enemies What an encouragement was this to the vncircumcised and what a discouragement to the people of God Yet at this time David will have it so to the end that Vrias beeing left in the danger might be smitten and die by the sword of the children of Ammon Here was notorious treachery and poore Vrias like Bellerophon in the fable did carry the letters of his owne death This was cunning indeed but have patience a while and you shall see that there is a God which seeth all things and will not suffer sinne unpunished What would Ioab yeeld to such an act yes hee did never stick at it so potent are the commands of Princes If Saul command to kill the holy Priests of the Lord Doeg will be his instrument to do it If Iezabel command to suborne false witnesses and to condemne the innocent the Nobles and Elders of Iezrael will be her instruments to put it in practice O happy therefore and thrice happy we whose King delighteth in the lawe of the Lord and meditateth therein day and night Pray we that the God of Iacob will for ever so direct him that all his commandements may alwaies be correspondent to the commandements of the most High For there is no question but if Princes should command even that which is simply evill a great number would be ready to be bad instruments to perform it And heere let us marke what manner of men they are which use to bee chosen instruments of iniquity First those that hate a man for his religion and such an one was Doeg the Edomite against the Priests of the Lord. Secondly those that hunt after the favor of great ones and such were the Nobles and Elders of Iezrael desirous to curry favour with Iezabel Thirdly those that are guilty of some notorious crime such an one was Ioab who long before this was obnoxious to the sentence of death for killing of Abner So now his life stood at the Kings pleasure and therefore David knew hee had him at command Wherefore let all men labour to carry themselves in innocencie with a good conscience in the feare of God If iniquity be in thy hand put it farre from thee and let no wickednesse dwell in thy tabernacle then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot then shalt thou bee stedfast and shalt not feare for hee that walketh uprightly walketh surely Such a man may bee bolde as a Lion and refuse to be made an evill instrument But here you see how Davids wicked invention Ioabs cruell execution brought good Vrias to his grave in a bloody coffin Neither Vrias alone was taken away by this treachery but the Text saith plainly that There fell some of the people of the servants of David such of them no doubt as were most couragious and valiant Ioabs commission extended no further then to the smiting killing of

of adultery When a couple are married or betrothed they make a solemn promise or vow one to another in the name of the al-seeing God Now the adulterer besides all his other offēces he transgresseth the covenant of his God Besides this he wrongs his owne wife with whom hee is linked in wedlocks golden band his wife I say whom hee should love as his owne soule O how he wrongs her in that hee prefers a strumpet before her Againe the adulterer wrongeth the husband of the woman which he defileth who if it come to his knowledge is thereby inraged his iealousie burnes like fire and he wil not spare in the day of vengeance And this undoubtedly is a marvailous wrōg For first he is robd of the love of his wife an inestimable iewell 2. His estate by this meanes may be translated to another mans childe and is it then any marvaile if States and Common-wealths have been severe in punishing of adultery I wil only touch this point briefly because the time passeth away In the Leviticall Law the adulterer and the adulteresse were both put to death I confesse that the Iudicials of Moses were moulded upon the Iewish Common-wealth and doe not simply binde Christians yet there is a perpetuall equity to be observed to wit that sinne be so punished that men may feare to offend This was practised of the Gentiles even by the light of nature for the Arabians did punish adulterie with loss of life as witnesseth Strabo Among the heathen Romans Lex Iulia was renowned and terrified many Others though they made it not Capitall yet they layd heavie punishment upon it and filled the faces of adulterers with shame and infamie Some write that the Egyptians did vse to cut off the womans nose and beate the man with battes almost to death Zaleuchus king of the Locrenses made a lawe that adulterers should lose both their eyes In later ages the Church of Rome hath beene too much indulgent unto this sinne and thereby gotten mynes of silver and gold Yea the Pope hath been so shamelesse as to take a tribute of Courtizans this was Daemon meridianus the Divell raigning at noone day This was not onely a sinne in the State but the sinne of the State because it had approbation by publike authoritie With vs though this sin too much abound yet it is punishable by our lawes and hath no coūtenance from authority And therefore though it be a sinne in our State it is not the sinne of our State Yet it were to bee wished that those grave and iudicious Sages and Senators of the kingdom which heare mee this day would in their godly wisedome consider whether it were not fit that the corporall punishment of adulterers should be augmented among us that men may stand in awe and sinne not And when good lawes are enacted let them not be like spiders webs where great flies breake through and little flies are entangled Let it not be said among us as it was sometime amongst the Romans Vbi nunc lex Iulia Dormis How great regard is to be had of the execution of wholesome lawes we may see in Zaleuchus who having made the lawe before mentioned That adulteterers should lose both their eyes it came to passe that his owne son committed adultery What was heere to be done should hee execute the law and put out his eyes Alas it was his owne on-only sonne and by this meanes the people should have had a blinde King Should hee not execute it Who then would regard his lawes when he himselfe did first breake them Therfore he tooke a middle course Because the lawe required the putting out of two eyes therefore he put out one of his sonnes eyes for hee had offended and another of his owne that his people might see how much he abhorred the sinne of adultery and withall how much he respected the execution of lawes But howsoever man doe neglect the execution of iustice against adulterers the God of heaven will find them out The children of Israel committed fornication and there fell in one day foure and twenty thousand Reuben the sonne of Iacob ascended into his fathers bed and thereby hee lost three prerogatives belonging to the first borne The first was the office of the Priesthood which was given to the sons of Aaron which were of the tribe of Levi. The second was the soveraignty which was translated to Iuda The third was the double portion which befell unto Ioseph Concerning all these it was said to Reuben thou wast unstable as water thou shalt not excell I knowe there is great difference between incest and adultery neither dare I enter into Gods secret iudgements yet thus much is certain that as incest so likewise adultery is a fire that consumeth to destruction and will root out all a mans increase And therefore if a man would have a blessed seed let him keepe his body vndefiled Ioseph refused to staine his vessell and the Lord so blessed him in his mariage that his two sons Ephraim and Manasses were reckoned among the tribes of Israel yea Israel did blesse in them and say God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasses On the contrary if men shall defile another mans bed it shall be the iust iudgement of God if they finde a crosse in their owne mariage bed and if their owne wives and daughters be defiled Yea if they shall bee hardned in this filthiness let them take heed lest this fire so burne to destruction that it roote out all their increase and cause their houses to decay and their lands to be translated to another name And yet I would exhort all men that they would refrain this sinne not so much for feare of punishment as for conscience sake Not your soules onely but your bodies also were created according to Gods image and therfore defile them not Not your soules onely but your bodies also are bought with a price even with the precious blood of Iesus Christ and therefore defile them not Not your soules onely but your bodies also are temples of the holy Ghost and therefore defile them not but so preserve these vessels of grace in this world that they may bee vessels of glory in the world to come Which the Lord grant c. The end of the first Sermon THE SECOND SERMON upon the former Text preached at Theobalds before the Kings Maiesty upon Sunday the 21. of Ianuary 1620. WHen of late I entred upon the explication of this Text in a Princely presence I proposed 3 things in David to be considered his sinne his repentance and his absolution The sinne of David reproved by Nathan and here confessed and lamented by himselfe was first of all that great and grievous sinne of adultery and secondly those other enormous sinnes wherwith hee entangled himselfe while he went about to hide and conceale his adultery To shew the haynousnesse of his adultery I unfoulded