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enemy_n	david_n	good_a	saul_n	976	5	9.2797	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05463	The complaint of England Wherein it is clearely prooued that the practises of traitrous papists against the state of this realme, and the person of her Maiestie, are in diuinitie vnlawfull, odious in nature, and ridiculous in pollicie. In the which they are reprooued of wilfull blindnes, in that they see not the filthines of the Romish gouernment: and conuinced of desperate madnesse, in that they feare not the mischiefe of Spanish inuasion: the former whereof is exemplified by the Popes practises both here in England, and abroad in other countries: the later by the Spaniards outrages, in his exactions raised vpon Naples, and his tyrannies executed in the Indies. Lastly the necessitie, equitie, and benefits of the late proceeding in iustice are set downe; with a friendly warning to seditious papists for their amendment; and an effectuall consolation to faithfull subiectes for their incouragement. Seene and allowed.	[Lightfoot, William].	1587 (1587)	STC 15595; ESTC S108556	45,440	70

superstition then might you haue shaped out some shadow of reason pretended argument of probability for the opposing of your selues and the deposing of her who had sought to forment you with such hellish miseries yet were the foundatiō too too weak for to build either open rebellion Psalme 10 5. or secret conspiracy therupon Are ye not expresly forbidden to touch the Lords annointed and can it then be warranted vnto you to lay violent hands and griping pawes vpon her I warrant you it is a leaden warrant for the basenes and brasen for the impudencie trie it when you list at the touchstone you shall finde it not currant but counterfeite and they will in fine proue them selues Calues that hope to sucke anie comforte or confidence out of such a Bull. Know ye not that he who dwelleth in heauen Psalme 2. laugheth them to scorne that furiously rage or so much as take counsell together against him and his annointed and annexeth to his derision burning wrath and sore displeasure bruising them with a rod of yron and breaking them in péeces like a potters vessel Suppose ye that the quarrel of the Lords annointed concerneth him not or toucheth him not to the verie quicke will not he thinke ye redresse the wrong and take the cause into his owne handes haue ye liued so long and learned so litle or doe ye know this perfectly and yet practise the contrarie purposely O blind as Béetles if ye sée not this O faithles as Atheists if ye belieue not this O foolish as Idiots if ye beware it not Would it not be accounted I will not say a point of ridiculous follie but an euident proofe of extréeme madnesse in the highest degrée if a séely person enféebled by long sicknesse should in the beldem rage and franticke bitternesse of his maladie presume to encounter a valiant champion and to wrest the weapon out of his handes And can it in common estimation be thought lesse then detestable impietie that men long languishing in a consumption of reason but abounding with a contagious humor of innouation forlorn in hope fallen from grace and reprobate in sense shall in the fit agonie of their brainsicke disease reare vp ladders to scale the Monarchie combining them selues by force to seaze vpon the awfull scepter and with tooth and naile to bite and scratch after the crowne on their Princes head What is it to wage battaile They that resist a lawful Prince make war against the liuing God and maintaine wars with God if this be not This is to verifie the fable of the giants who are saide to haue rampired bulwarkes and mounted their engins threatning to dislodge Iupiter of his throne It is manifest that Dauid the chosen seruant of God 1. Sam. 24. notwithstanding that Saule causelesse pursued him and like an enraged Tigre gréedily hasting after his pray so hunted after his soule yet at such time as Saule at vnwares entred into the caue where Dauid with his seruants were couertly hidden albeit Dauid was by his men of war animated and by incessant importunitie vrged to laie hold vpon present occasion and so to preuent future peril who in most vehemēt maner inforced their purpose saying See the daie is come whereof the Lord said vnto thee Behold I will deliuer thine enimie into thine hand and thou shalt doe with him as it shall seeme good to thee This example of Dauid ought to be throughlie waighed and trueite followed yet neither the ruthfull consideration of his perplexed estate nor the peremptorie threats of his sworne enimie nor the effectuall obtestations of his approued souldiours could any iote preuaile with him for the accomplishment of an action so hainous and accursed But he was touched in his hart because he had touched and cut off the lap of his Lords garment And thereupon discouering himselfe hee inclined his face to the earth and bowed himselfe before Saule manifessing his innocencie Saule astonished at the matter and déepely rauished with the contemplation of such vndeserued fauor and inexpected curtesie lift vp his voice and wept saying vnto Dauid Thou art more righteous then I for I haue wrought thee euil and thou hast rendered me good for who shall find his enimie and let him depart free And afterwarde as appeareth in thesequel of the historie when Saules power fighting against the Philistines was discomfited and himselfe despairing of victorie and wearie of life fell vpon the point of his sword at such time as a young man of the Amalekites thinking to deliuer an acceptable message and hoping he should haue reaped a gladsome welcome for reporting such ioyfull tidings tolde vnto Dauid that he at the intreatie and instant request of Saule had dispatched him of his life the enioying whereof was irkesome and full of anguish vnto him and more lest he should haue omitted anie thing that hee thought might gratifie Dauid or worke his singuler contentment he presented him with the crowne that he had taken from Saules head thereby both confirming the truth of his spéeches and also after a sort installing Dauid in possession of the same yet was he so farre from reioycing either in that his aduersaries death had finished his troubles and assured him of his life with securitie or that none other could forestall him in obtaining the kingdom that he rent his clothes wept fasted vntill euening and then said to the messenger 2. Sam. 1. How wast thou not affraid to put forth thine hand to destroie the annointed of the Lord Thy bloud be vpon thine owne head for thine owne mouth hath testified against thee And therewith commanded one of his seruants to fall vpon him who smote him that hee dyed This one example if the volume of Gods booke which is the testament of his trueth and the storehouse of his promises did not afforde any greater plentie might alone suffice for the deciding of a question so néedlesse and so vngodlie This alone might serue for the suppressing of such hatefull conspiracies as the gracelesse broodes of mongrell monsters I meane English Italianates doe ingender and hatch within their diuelish conceites This yea this being authentike vndoubted and entangled with no scruple might alone serue for a most exquisite president whereto ye ought to conforme your thoughtes and whereby ye ought to confirme that reuerend opinion which all men are to carrie of lawfull Princes being Gods deputies In the which sithence there are diuers occurrents well worthie the obseruation it will not be impertinent slightly to glaunce at and briefly to comprise the resemblances and differences which shew themselues in this fact of Dauid and this faction of yours that for so much as the nature of contraries is best tryed by matching and comparing the one with the other therefore by how much the fact of Dauid shall appeare more iust and righteous by so much will your faction be proued more odious and damnable Saule because he disobeyed the commandement of

the Lorde vttered by the mouth of the Prophet Samuel was forsaken of God Gods holy spirite departed from him and an euil spirite tooke possession of him Dauid was by Samuel annointed king in his steade Yet would he not presume to dispossesse Saule of his kingdom but endured grieuous calamities which by the malice of Saule were inflicted vpon him He was distressed in the townes with doubt of trecheries vexed in the wildernesse with the scourge of penurie reproched by the churle Nabal with the infamous title of runnagate constrained in king Achis Court to counterfeit madnesse sustaining a burthen of miseries heauier then Aetna and almost ouerwhelmed with an Ocean of perplexities Yet did hée with all méekenesse and patience attend the Lordes leasure The application of the former example wholie relying vpon his promises which he knew should be performed at such time as God in his secrete counsell and foreknowledge had determined But you like wretches and of all other most wretched because wilfullie wretched liuing in a land wherein the heauens droppe downe fatnesse where honie distilleth from the stonie rocke a lande not much inferiour to the lande of Canaan a land much resembling the happinesse of Paradise as one of your owne complices lately confessed liuing vnder the regiment of a vertuous Princesse and renowmed Soueraigne a Princesse euerie waye superior to Saule and cannot by her greatest enemies be impeached with any crime common to her with Saule howbeit it was feared that Agag the Amalekite Because Saul spared Agag God reiected Saul the professed aduersarie of Gods people should haue béene spared but thanked be God her louing subiectes to their generall reioycing are now disburdened of that feare A Princesse whose sunbright honor dazeleth the eies of forraine Monarches whose zealous inclination like an inestimable Diamond enchased vpon a péereles Iewell bewtifieth all other vertues that attend vpon her person whose affectionate loue to her subiectes is wonderfull passing the loue of Dauid Ionathan and yet was their loue passing the loue of women who tempereth iustice with mercie extending mercie without partialitie and executing iustice without rigor yet you through aboundance and prosperitie are become wanton and insolent Fulnesse is the mother of forgetfulnes and wealth nurseth wantonnes through her too much grace and fauour ye are growne obdurate and rebellious indeuouring to supplant her who studieth to support you deuising her ouerthrowe whose welfare is the surest ankerhold to defend you from shipwracke Saule was reiected of God yet durst not Dauid annoye him your dread soueraigne being legitimate heire and rightfull successor was both established by God and allowed by men and is at this daie by his singular prouidence so miraculouslye preserued that your wicked imaginations had ere this béen her destruction and with her had manie thousandes perished and with them your selues howsoeuer you perswade your selues had not he ouerspread her with the resplendisant beames of his fatherly protection But you will saie shée was excommunicated by Pius Quintus more truly might he be termed Impius this obiection though it might verie well haue béene answered with silence béeing so weake lame and out of ioynt as it is yet hath it béene so throughly canuased and so plainelie confuted alreadie that it hath good cause as much to be ashamed of the patrones and defenders thereof as they haue iust reason had they anie reason at all to bee ashamed of it Onely of Pope Pius the thunderer of that excommunication and of his equalles the Popes I meane for of equalitie otherwise the Papacie is by all meanes impatient and can no more tolerate a compéere then the firmament can conteine two Sunnes as one of their owne side full learnedly squared out the comparison thus much will I saie Cui plus licet quàm par est plus vult quàm licet Hee that maie doo more then is méete wil doo more then he maie But to procéede did not opportunitie of reuenge with vnfolded armes present her selfe to Dauid at such time as Saule vnaccompanied entered into the caue where Dauid with his assistants were assembled Saule had often serued him with a crooked measure In reuenging no man may be his owne car●er might hee not now haue measured to him by the same list Saule had saluted him with manie crosse curtesies had he not now libertie to paie him home in his own coine and to returne vsurie besides the due debt Had hee not abilitie to doo this Naie had hee not reason if hee should haue reasoned with humane reason No doubt Dauid managed a dangerous conflict and like a Captaine most valiant gaue the repulse to assaults most violent wherein loyall duetie contended with lawlesse necessitie and fleshlie infirmitie combated with diuine ordinaunce Desire of a kingdome hauing a course to compasse it with such facilitie is a plausible Rhetorician cunning to perswade for Si ius Violandum est regni causa Violandum est if the limittes of lawe maie bee infringed then for a kingdomes cause maie they bee infringed but assurance of life beeing enuironed with manifest hazard of death is a mightie Orator able to conuince But as hee gaines a double conquest that in conquest can conquere him selfe so shall hee bee recompensed with treble punishment that is by anie carnall perswasions entised whether of benemous hatred or honourable aduancement or anie other thing whatsoeuer to accept of worldly benefite and to neglect heauenlie prescription If wee shall censure of the matter onlie according to ordinarie estimation without question the honour Dauid purchased by vanquishing the Heathenish Golias was not halfe so glorious as that hee deserued by subduing his owne thoughtes in refraining to proffer violence to an annointed king Which execrable offence if he had committed it had excéeded both the adulterous abusing of Barsabe and the wrongfull murthering of Vrias so much as a villanie practised against a Prince surpasseth an iniurie inferred to a priuate man I thinke it not requisite too much to insist vpon euerie particular circumstance of the comparison but I would wishe you to weigh this with your selues Dauid for feare withdrew himselfe from Saules presence some of you of malicious intent estrange your selues The practises of Iesuites S●●●tnarie pr●●●s cursetting ouer like fugitiues into other nations and there plant your selues in those Seminaries whose Gardener is Antichrist whose seedes are errors whose fruites are treasons Where when you haue perfectly learned your lesson to transforme Christian religion into prophane policie and to change policie into trecherie then like plantes of such a soile like pupilles of such a Tutor like Scollers of ripe wittes yet not so ripe as rotten yee turne ouer a new leafe and from contemplation ye fall to practise wherein ye so behaue your selues that as hee was reputed amongst the barbarous Scythians the brauest Gentleman that had committed the moste bloodie slaughters so is hée amongst you estéemed the notablest Catholicke that can