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death_n	die_v	hand_n	life_n	6,519	5	4.2931	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77009	The states stability a sermon / preached in Exon before the deputy-lieutenants, captaines, and other militarie officers and souldiers of the county of Devon. By John Bond ...	Bond, John, 1612-1676.	1643 (1643)	Wing B3575A; ESTC R172820	17,545	37

the question or had taken up Armes against them or had supplicated against it they would have said It is the King oh we come in the name of the King we have it under his hand and seale They had it by a wyle an invention that turned it another way then the King intended but after when he saw it he was willing to recall his hand and seale but they pressed him thou hast signed a decree c. Therefore you shall find that afterward He set his heart to deliver Daniel and to revoke his owne decree upon better information and to recall that that he had not onely spoken but had given it under his hand and seale but the men were too hard for him in counsell I speake this mainly because there are those that if they can though upon mis-information get but the word or the hand or person of the King to confirme and signe what they doe it must be accounted rebellion and treason and what not for men to labour better to informe the Prince and to undeceive him when we see it is common in Scripture that Princes have given more thankes to them that have undeceived them and delivered them from their owne hands and seales that they have beene ptevailed upon to give upon mis-information then ever they did to them that obtained them at their hands Therefore in verse 9. King Darius sealed the writing but in verse 14. He was displeased with himselfe and set his heart upon Daniel to deliver him That is the second First the danger of seducing by flattery secondly of evill Counsell The third is the danger and mischiefe of force and violence The taking away of the wicked from before the King is a meanes to establish his Throne in Righteousnesse because of the violence and the force that a King is in danger of when the wicked are about the Throne his person is in danger to be mastered by their force and power and strength 2 Sam. 3.38 See it in David Malignants may be too hard for a King by force and violence as well as by flattery and Counsell The King said to his servants Know ye not that a Prince and a great man is fallen in Israel I this day am weake though annointed King and these men the sonnes of Zerviah are too hard for me This was the case Joab had killyd Abner trecherously David was King Joab was the Generall of his Army and his kins-man David was Unkle to Joab and his brother they were his nephewes Joab had slaine Abner basely it was a murther and a trecherous murther and David was King and should have done justice and he had protested it yet these were too hard for him not in point of seducing by flattery or of evill Counsell but by force and violence David could not make his party good against Joab because he was Governour of the Army and he was afraid that Joab might make more force then he and so he mastered the King and kept him from doing of justice though he were a just King and had vowed to doe justice and blood called upon him Yet these sonnes of Zerviah for there were three of them but one was slaine these grand Cavaleeres when they had gotten the sword in their hand though their pretence were to help David yet afterward they over-mastered him and would kill and slay and David could not check them for it The like may be said of the great ones about King Zedekiah that example though it be large is pertinent Jer. 37. he was a friend to Jeremiah but the Princes bore him downe and would have the blood of Ieremiah he had great ones about him so long as they would have what they listed contrary to the King and mastered him ver 21. Then Zedekiah commanded to put Ieremiah into the court of the prison Here the King favours the Prophet according to his request he frees him out of the greatest straite he was in Yet after the power of the Nobles turned the streame as we find Ier. 38.4 read ver 1. what the Princes were Shephariah the sonne of Mattan and Gedaliah the son of Pashur and Iucal the son of c. foure of the Kings great favourites about him they said we beseech thee let this man be put to death for thus he weakneth the hands of the men of warre that remaine in this City and the hands of all the people in speaking such words unto them for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people but the hurt Then Zedekiah the King said behold he is in your hands c. Yet before he had done him good and favoured him and intended to favour him but they forced the King by violence they did over-master him and over-beare him and made him goe contrary to his mind and intention And afterward when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian a good Courtier had informed the King that Ieremiah was innocent as we read ver 8.9 Ebedmelech went forth out of the Kings house and spake to the King saying My Lord the King these men have done evill in all that they have done to Ieremiah the Prophet whom they have cast into the dungeon and he is like to die for hunger in that place where he is Then the King was of another mind and in ver 10. he commanded him to take thirty men to take Ieremiah out of the dungeon before he died And Ebedmelech tooke the men with him and went into the house of the King under the Treasury c. Then in ver 14. Zedekiah the King sent and tooke Jeremiah into the third entry of the house of the Lord into a secret place for the Princes about him were too hard for him and he durst not be knowne to his Courtiers that he had any correspondency with Ieremiah See how lamentably a King may be captivated by the wicked that are about the Throne Ier. 38.14 Zedekiah sent and tooke Ieremiah into the third entry of the house of the Lord and said I will aske thee a thing hide nothing from me Then Ieremiah said unto Zedekiah if I declare it unto thee wilt thou not surely put me to death And if I give thee counsell wilt thou not hearken unto me So the King sware secretly to Jeremiah saying as the Lord liveth that made us these souls I will not put thee to death neither will I give thee into the hands of these men that seeke thy life Then said Ieremiah thus saith the Lord he gives him counsell In ver 24. saith Zedekiah let no man know these words and thou shalt not die and if the Princes heare that I have talked with thee and they come unto thee and say unto thee Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the King hide it not from us and we will not put thee to death also what the King said unto thee Then thou shalt say unto them I presented my supplication before the King that he would not cause me to returne to Ionathans