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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87263	The doctrine of the Church of England, established by Parliament against disobedience and wilfull rebellion. Published by G. I. for satisfaction to his parishoners of Watton in the county of Hartford.	Ingoldsby, William, d. 1645.	1642 (1642)	Wing I188; Thomason E130_30; ESTC R14126	37,574	49

Almighty God commanded to be slaine according to the Iustice of God against his sworne enemy and although Saul of a devotion meant to sacrifice such things as he spared of the Amalekites to the honour and service of God yet Saul was reproved for his wrong mercy and devotion and was told that obedience would more have pleased him then such lenity which sinnefull humanity saith holy Chrysostome is more cruell before God then any murther or shedding of bloud when it is commanded of God But yet how evill soever Saul the King was and out of Gods favour yet was he obeyed of his subject David the very best of all subjects and the most valiant in the service of his Prince and Countrey in the warres the most obedient and loving in peace and alwayes most true and faithfull to his Soveraigne and Lord and farthest off from all manner of rebellion For which his most painefull true and faithfull service King Saul yet rewarded him not onely with great unkindnesse but also sought his destruction and death by all meanes possible so that David was faine to save his life not by rebellion nor any resistance but by slight and hiding himselfe from the Kings sight Which notwithstanding when King Saul upon a time came alone into the Cave where David was so that David might easily have slaine him yet would he neither hurt him himselfe neither suffer any of his men to lay hands upon him Another time also David entring by night with one Abisai a valiant and feirce man into the Tent where King Saul did lie asleepe where also he might yet more easily have slain him yet would he neither hurt him himselfe nor suffer Abisai who was willing and ready to slay King Saul once to touch him Thus did David deale with Saul his Prince notwithstanding that King Saul continually sought his death and destruction It shall not be amisse unto these deeds of David to adde his words and to shew you what he spake unto such as encouraged him to take his opportunity 1 King 24.7 and advantage to slay King Saul as his mortall enemy when he might The Lord keepe mee saith David from doing that thing 1 King 26.9 and from laying hands upon my Lord Gods annointed For who can lay his hand upon the Lords aunointed and be guiltlesse As truly as the Lord liveth except that the Lord doe smite him or his day shall come to dye or that he goe downe to the warre and be slaine in battell the Lord bee mercifull unto mee that I lay not my hand upon the Lords annointed These be Davids words spoken at sundry times to divers of his servants provoking him to slay King Saul when opportunity served him thereunto Neither is it to bee omitted and left out how when an Amalekite had slaine King Saul even at Sauls owne bidding and commandement 1 King 24. for he would live no longer now for that hee had lost the field against his enemies the Philistines the said Amalekite making great hast to bring first word and newes thereof unto David as joyous unto him for the death of his mortall enemy bringing withall the Crowne that was upon King Sauls head and the bracelet that was about his arme both as a proofe of the truth of his newes and also as fit and pleasant presents unto David 2 King 1.12 being by God appointed to be King Saul his Successour in the Kingdome Yet was that faithfull and godly David so farre from rejoycing at these newes that he rent his cloathes wept mourned and fasted and so far off from thankes giving to the messenger either for his deed in killing the King though his deadly enemy 2 King 1.4 or for his message and newes or for his presents that hee brought that hee said unto him How happened it that thou wast not afraid to lay hands upon the Lords annoynted to kill him whereupon immediately he commanded one of his servants to kill the messenger and said Thy bloud be upon thine owne head for thine own mouth hath witnessed against thy selfe in confessing that thou hast slaine the Lords annoynted This example dearely beloved is notable and the circumstances thereof are well to bee considered for the better instruction of all subjects in their bounden duty of obedience and perpetuall fearing of them from attempting of any rebellion or hurt against their Prince On the one part David was not onely a good and true subject but also such a subject as both in peace and war had served 1 King 8.18 and saved his Princes honour and life and delivered his Countrey and Countreymen from great danger of Infidels forraigne and most cruell enemies horribly invading the King and his Countrey for which David was in singular favour withall the people so that hee might have had great numbers of them at his commandement 1 King 16. if he would have attempted any thing Besides this David was no common or absolute subject but heir apparent to the Crowne and Kingdome by God appointed to raigne after Saul which as it encreased the favour of the people that knew it towards David so did it make Davids cause and case much differing from the case of common and absolute subjects And which is most of all David was highly and singularly in the favour of God 2 King 15.11 On the contrary part King Saul was out of Gods favour for that cause which is before rehearsed he as it were Gods enemy 1 King 18.10 and therefore like in warre and peace to be hurtfull and pernicious unto the Common-wealth and that was knowne to many of his subjects for that he was openly rebuked of Samuel for his disobedience unto God which might make the people lesse to esteeme him King Saul was also unto David a mortall and deadly enemy 1 King 15. and 22. and 26. though without Davids deserving who by his faithfull painefull profitable yea most necessary service had well deserved as of his Countrey so of his Prince But King Saul far otherwise the more was his unkindnesse hatred and cruelty towards such a good subject both odious and detestable Yet would David neither himselfe slay nor hurt such an enemy for that he was his Prince and Lord nor would suster any other to kill hurt or lay hand upon him when hee might have beene slaine without any stirre tumult or danger of any mans life Now let David answer to such demands The Demand as men desirous of rebellion doe use to make Shall not we especially being so good men as we are rise and rebell against a Prince hated of God and Gods enemy and therefore not like to prosper either in warre or peace but to bee hurtfull and pernicious to the Common-wealth The Answer No saith good and godly David Gods and such a Kings faithfull subject and so convicting such subjects as attempt any rebellion against such a King The Demand to bee neither good subjects nor

good men But say they shall we not rise and rebell against so unkinde a Prince nothing considering or regarding our true faithfull and painefull service or the safegard of our posteritie No saith good David The Answer whom no such unkindnesse could cause to forsake his due obedience to his Soveraigne Shall we not say they The Demand rise and rebell against our knowne mortall and deadly enemie that seeketh our lives No saith godly David who had learned the lesson The Answer that our Saviour afterwards plainely taught that we should doe no hurt to our fellow subjects though they hate us and our enemies muchlesse unto our Prince though he were our enemie The Demand Shall we not assemble an Armie of such good fellowes as we are and by hazzarding of our lives and the lives of such as shall withstand us and withall hazzarding the whole estate of our Countrey remove so naughty a Prince No saith godly David The Answer for I when I might without assembling force or number of men without tumult or hazzard of any mans life or shedding of any drop of blood have delivered my selfe and my Countrey of an evill Prince yet would I not doe it Are not they say some lusty The Demand and couragious Captaines valiant men of stomacke and good mens bodies that doe venture by force to kill and depose their King being a naughtie Prince and their mortall enemie The Answer They may be as lusty and couragious as they list yet saith godly David they can be no good nor godly men that so doe for I not onely rebuked but commanded him to be slaine as a wicked man which slew King Saul mine enemie Though he being wearie of his life for the losse of the victorie against his enemies desired that man to slay him What shall we doe then to an evill The Demand to an unkinde Prince an enemie to us hated of God hurtfull to the Common-wealth c The Answer Lay no violent hand upon him saith good David but let him live untill God appoint and worke his end either by naturall death or in warie by lawfull enemies not by trayterous subjects Thus would godly David make answere and Saint Paul as ye have heard before willeth us also to pray for such a Prince if King David would make these answeres as by his deedes and words recorded in the holy Scriptures Indeede he doth make unto all such demands concerning Rebelling against evill Princes unkinde Princes cruell Princes Princes that be to their good subjects mortall enemies Princes that are out of Gods favour and so hurtfull or like to be hurtfull to the Common-wealth what answer thinke you would he make to those that demand whether they being naughty and unkind subjects may not to the great hazzard of the life of many thousands An unnaturall and wicked question and the utter danger of the state of the Common-wealth and the whole Realme Assemble a sort of Rebells either to depose to put in feare or to destroy their naturall and loving Prince enemie to none good to all even to them the worst of all other the maintainer of perpetuall peace quietnes and securitie most beneficiall to the Common-wealth most necessary for the safegard of the whole Realme What answer would David make to their demand whether they may not attempt cruelly and unnaturally to destroy so peaceable and mercifull a Prince What I say would David so reverently speaking of Saul and so patiently suffering so evill a King what would he answer and say to such demands What would he say nay what would he doe to such high attempters who so said and did as you before have heard unto him that slew the King his Master though a most wicked Prince If he punished with death as a wicked doer such a man with what reproaches of words would he revile such yea with what torments of most shamefull deaths would he destroy such hell hounds rather then evill men such Rebells I meane as I last spake of For if they who so disobey an evill and unkinde Prince be most unlike to David that good subject what be they who most unnaturally doe Rebell against a most naturall loving and kinde Prince And if David being so good a subject that he obeyed so evill a King was worthy of a subject to be made a King himselfe what be they who are so evill subjects that they will rebell against their gratious Prince worthy of Surely no mortall man can expresse with words nor conceive in mind the horrible and most dreadfull damnation that such be worthy of who disdaining to be the quiet and happie subjects of their good Prince are most worthy to be the miserable captives and vile slaves of that infernall Tyrant Sathan with him to suffer eternall slavery and torments This one example of the good subject David out of the old Testament may suffice and for the notablenesse of it serve for all In the New Testament the excellent example of the blessed Virgin Mary Luke 2.1 the Mother of our Saviour Christ doth at the first offer it selse when Proclamation or commandement was sent into Jury from Augustus the Emperour of Rome that the people there should repaire unto their owne Cities and dwelling places there to be taxed neither did the blessed Virgin though both highly in Gods favour and also being of the Royall blood of the Ancient naturall Kings of Iury disdaine to obey the commandement of an heathen and forraigne Prince when God had placed such a one over them neither did she all eadge for an excuse that she was great with childe and most neere her time of deliverance neither grudged she at the length and tedious journey from Nazareth to Bethelem from whence and whither she must goe to be taxed neither repined she at the sharpenesse of the dead time of winter being the latter end of December an unfit time to travell in specially a long journey for a woman being in her case but all excuses set apart she obeyed and came to the appointed place where at her comming she found suchgreat resort and throng of people that finding no place in any Inne Luke 2.7 she was faine after a long painefull and tedious journey to take up her lodging in a stable where also she was delivered of her blessed childe and this also declareth how neere her time she tooke that journey This obedience of this most Noble and most Vertuous Lady to a forraigne and Pagan Prince doth well teach us who in comparison of her are most base and vile what ready obedience we doe owe to our naturall and most gracious Soveraigne howbeit in this cause the obedience of the whole Jewish Nation being otherwise a stubborne people unto the Commandement of the same forraigne heathen Prince Luke 23. doth prove that such Christians as doe not most readily obey their naturall and gracious soveraigne are farre worse then the stubborne Iewes