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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	5,115	5	10.1244	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38780	The voice of the people for a king shewing the only way for the future settlement and peace of England, humbly presented to His Excellency the Lord General Monck / by Arise Evans.	Evans, Arise, b. 1607.; Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670.	1659 (1659)	Wing E3474; ESTC R27971	16,994	34

THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE FOR A KING SHEWING The only way for the Future Settlement and Peace of England Humbly Presented to his Excellency the LORD General Monck By ARISE EVANS When there was no King in Israel every one did what was right in his own eyes Judg. 17. 6. LONDON Printed for the Author 1659. TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE LORD GENERAL GEORGE MONCKE MY LORD I shall not wrap my self in a cloud of high Eloquence or be able to show your merits I hope you are he that God hath raised to make England again happy yea more happy then ever it was which now is in a sad condition under many miseries her once glorious Church and Kingdome that shined in prosperity in the sight of all the world troden under foot Parliaments-priviledges violated the peoples Liberties detained their goods being spent through long paying Excise Assesments and such new devises to pole them which never was known in England before trading utterly gone the one part of the Nation being imployed to destroy and eat up the other and of late no visible Authority and men kept under and kill'd for offering to shew their agrievances and yet no visible hope of redemption but of that which under God appears in you Many have promised well and God gaue them golden opportunities to make themselves and the Nation glorious but their self-ends deceived them and they fell into contempt because their minds was not fixed on just things to the glory of God and good of the whole Nation For the Nation now are not ignorant as they were in the beginning of these times before they fell like Adam but having tasted of such a fruit as shewed them their nakedness they are become wise knowing wherein their happiness lies ond are ready to say with Israel 1 Sam. 8. 19. notwithstanding all the perswasions of self-interest against it nay but there shall be a KING over us and to speak of Samuel's Case self-interest is such a thing that not only Samuel was blinded by it but the Angels also that fell for might not Samuel have seen that God promised Abraham that Kings should come out of him and to Jacob that Kings should come out of him also Gen. 17. 6. Gen. 35. 11. and that Moses had said that Israel might have a King Deuter 17. 14. and how the people did what was right in their own eyes slighting the law of God because there was no King in Israel to minister Justice Judg. 17. 6. and that they did then as bad as the Sodamites Judg. ●9 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27. I say might not Samuel have known these things I sure but it made against his interests for he was for a Government by Judges therein lay his and his sons interest but Israel will have a King for all Samuels pleading against it and the Lord perswades Samuel to barken to the people in it so that the Lord is also for a King and a King they have for all that Samuel could do and they lived more happy under their Kings and served God more truely then ever they did under their Judges Saul cloathed them in Scarlet and put Gold upon their apparel and David did more but Solomon made silver at plenty as stones Gideon the best of there judges got gold from them and made an Idol of it and the people left the Lord and iwent a Whoring after it Iudg. 8. 27. But King Asa upon the repetition of the judges evill times by Oded the Prophet and his comparing it to the time present Israel then was fallen from God I say Asa tooke courage from Odeds words and put down the Idols and he gathered Judah and Benjamin and most of Israel came to him and agreed with King Asa that whosoever would not seek the Lord and serve him he should be put to death 2 Chron. 15. now I say it appeareth by this that Kingship is best for the Nations Souls and Bodies therefore God and the People will have a King let Samuel do what he can he shall not be able to binder it Samuel a glorious Prophet saith to the people that a King was not Good for them and useth many arguments to perswade them against Kingship and in the conclusion saith your King will so oppresse you that you shall cry out in that day because of your King and the Lord will not bear you in that day what a strong motive is this from a Prophet yet the people will say nay but there shall be a King over us 1 Sam 8. 18 19. what is the reason they are so wilful it is because they knew that Samuel said all this for his own ends that his Children might have the preheminence over them and they knew that his sons were sinful Judges taking bribes and perverted judgement 1 Sam. 8. 1. 2 3. therefore they would not trust them with their warlike affairs for they had smarted of late days in the like case When the wicked Sons of Eli did rule which lost their own lives and the Ark of God and thirty thousand men in the field 1 Sam. 2. 12 22. 1 Sam. 5. And now they must go to war for Nahash King of the Amonites came against them and would not receive them to be his servants except they would suffer him to thrust out the right eye of every one of them lay it for a reproach upon all Israel 1 Sam 11. 1 2. and Samuel was old his Sons were wicked they must needs have a King to lead them out against this proud Nahash and you see King Saul under God ordered it so that Nahash lost the day and Saul was Victour but yet after this Samuel was displeased with the people and bids them tell him wherein he had wronged them and tells them a story of the excellency of their former Judges and that they had highly sinned in asking a King and threatneth them to the purpose but for all that they were for King-ship saying to Samuel who is he that saith Saul shall not reign bring him forth that we may put him to death 1 Sam. 11 12. 1 Sam. 12. then seeing that Samuel is angry with Saul that be could not please him at all and whatsoever Saul did he found fault with it and he laid snares for him about the sacrifice though indeed it seems Samuel was in the fault for he came not according to his promise yet he came as soon as Saul had sacrificed and then he tells him that he had broke the Commandement and that God would have another to be King 1 Sam. 13. after that Samuel send Saul against Amalek and commanded him to do such a thing that Saul could not do and then he Pronounceth judgement against Saul and came no more at him 1 Sam. 15. but went and anointed David to be King of Israel 1 Sam. 16. and after Samuel died his Ghost rose from the Earth to discourage Saul by telling him of his death and of his