Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

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
A59595	Eikōn basilikē, or, The princes royal being the sum of a sermon preached in the minister of York on the Lords-Day morning (in the Assize week) March 24, 1650 ... / by John Shavve.	Shawe, John, 1608-1672.	1650 (1650)	Wing S3028; ESTC R30139	32,715	47

their Kingdom is not of this world 1 Cor. 2. 6 8. True it is that godly men as David c. may be temporall Princes but not Quatenus godly men and Christs seed And we had need to clear this for great temporall Monarchs are very fearfull of any claime to their Kingdomes or medling with their Titles Our Chronicles mention one Burdet a Merchant of London dwelling at the sign of the Crown in Cheapside in the dayes of our King Edward the fourth Anno 1483. who jestingly said to his Son that he would leave him heire to the Crown meaning the sign of the Crowne where he lived for which he was apprehended and within four hours hanged drawne and quartered for so saying Kings love not that men should Pulcheria the vertuous and discreet sister of Theodosius the second seeing her brother the Emperor to signe many writings without reading them caused a writing drawn and tendered wherein he consigned into her hands his wife Eudoxia formerly before Baptisme call'd Athenais a poor woman daughter of Leontig who seeking at the Court for Justice in a private cause took the Emperors affections was baptized and married him Eudoxia said it was too great a game to jest and play upon Diadems though the good Emperor much reformed by it jest with their Crowns how fearfully startled was Herod when he heard tell of some Wisemen asking for one that was borne King of the Jewes Mat. 2. 1 2 3 indeed worse afraid then hurt the Saints are not by vertue of their birth from Christ temporall but spirituall Kings though carnall men mens slander is very common that Gods people rebell and aime only to be temporall Kings Nehem. 6. 6 7. But know that it 's far better to be a spirituall Prince with God then meerly a temporall Prince over men Which will appear 1. Because the greatest Kings on earth have usually more crosses on earth then externall comforts there is a great vanity in the chiefest person and places on earth Psal 62. 9. The world hath now stood above 5000. years and the greater half of this time was spent ere the Jewes had any setled King at last about the year of the world 3761 God gave them a King Saul by name and there were but three Kings that governed and ruled over all the twelve Tribes viz. Saul David and Solomon and one of these viz. Saul came to a violent death slew himselfe though perhaps the Amalekite helped to dispatch him * If so then Saul who had been cruell to David 〈…〉 cruell to him self and he that spared the Amalekites and never prospered after is at last slain by an Amalckite 1 Sam. 15. 14 23. See Lightf●●● on that place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is onely used it 2 Sam. 1. 9. and signifies both 〈…〉 tremor vel argustre when his coat of male somewhat hidered his own spear from making that speedy end which he desired as the words in the Hebrew may be read 2 Sam. 1. 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 After these three Kings deaths the twelve Tribes were divided into two Kingdoms two Tribes clave to Rehoboam Solomons Son and H●●● and made up the Kingdom of Judah and ten Tribes to J●●oboam Solomons Servant and made up the Kingdom of Israel Now after this division which began about the year of the world 2969. untill the captivity of Babylon and destruction of Jerusalem by Ne●ucha●●●zzar there were but twenty Kings of Judah and of there eight suffered a violent death and of Israel before their lasting captivity 2 King 17. 6. there were but nineteen Kings whereof not one feared God among them all and of these nine died a violent death besides others imprisoned cruelly used c. In England since the coming in of the Norman William which is usually stiled the Conquest there hath been five and twenty Princes of whom nine came to a violent death and many more of those 109. Kings of Scotland I say it for this ●ad to shew what crosses and calamities do oft times attend great persons and places which cause their troubles to exceed their comforts which made Solomon complain of the vanity of vanities in all conditions Eccl. 1. before him his Father David say that he had seen an end of all perfection Psalm 19. 96. Nay see how somtimes Gods heavy hand goes out against a whole great Family or ●ine thus we find Ahab and Jezabel guilty of blood of godly Nabathe blood see what became of all that race ●nd line Ahab was shot to death by a man that shot at ●venture and timed not at him more then any other 1 King 22. 34. as he went up against Ramoth-Gilcad but it was purposely levelled fore-told and directed by God against Ahab 1 King 21. 19. as Elijah had told the King ere he went up thither so also Micaiah 1 King 22. 28. and Jezabel who was wife mother and daughter to a King even she was slain 2 King 29. 33. King Ahaziah son to Ahab never recovered of h●s fall through the Lettice 2 King 1. 2 16 17. then Ahabs other son Jehoram was King of Israel 2 King 3. 1. he goes against Ramoth-Gilead and takes it which his father Ahab could not do and having received some wounds in that service he leaves Jehu one of his Captains Commander in chief over his Army ●t Ramoth-Gilead and goes himself to be cured at Jezreel presently Jehu by Gods appointment 2 King 9. 1 2 3 7 8. c. drawes all the Army against King Jehoram his King his Master and his Master Ahabs son and slew him 2 King 9. 24 25. and that the blood of Naboth which Ahab had a hand in was a maine cause of all this appears because it 's expressed that in the same place where Naboths blood was shed both Ahabs and Iehorams blood was spilt 1 King 21. 19. and 2 King 9. 25 26. and so of Iezabel 2 King 9. 36 37. Athaliab the daughter of Ahab was married to Jehoram King of Judah 2 King 8. 16. 17 18. she was slaine 2 King 11. 16. her husbands bowells fell out 2 Chron. 21 18 19. none prospered that medled with that Line their elder sons were slain or carried captive by the Philistins and Arabians 2 Chron. 21. 17. and 22. 1. Ahaziah King Ahabs grandchild and some think he married againe into that stock 2 Kings 8. 27. he joyned with Jehoram in that war and after to visit him 2 King 8. 28 29. he was slaine 2 King 9. 27. and 42. of Ahaziahs brethren or kindred of Ahabs stock were slaine 2 King 10. 14. and seventy more of Ahabs sons and grand-children by severall wives were slaine 2 King 10. 1 7. so as none remained of that line and family 1 King 21. 21. see the like of Baasha another King of Israel his line 1 King 16. 11. Who hath not read the continued succession of calamities that attended Mary Queen of Scotland mother to the late King James 〈◊〉 her cradle to