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enemy_n	david_n	great_a	saul_n	1,241	5	9.2078	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59937	Oukoumenē melloōsa, the world to come, Heb. 2, 5, or, The doctrine of the Kingdom of God and his Christ to come on earth ... tendred in the mean-time out of faith in his own soul and love towards all men ... / by W.S. ...	Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?	1671 (1671)	Wing S3407; ESTC R30641	36,208	42

a manner saving onely not faithless nor hopeless but for outward appearance of means very poor and mean He after had men but such as could in appearance yield him little comfort afford him little relief we hear not of their Money nor Arms yea it appears they were men in debt and in decayed conditions how should they live They fled to him in a Wilderness where should they have Arms And had they had them what skill were they like to have to use them Wha interest could such have in men that were considerable saving su●● as might cause them to pursue them for their debts or for leaving their Masters service as Saul affirmed which must make Dav d's first estate appear to be the be ●nning of a very pitiful Principality So when the usurping god of this present world and that most tyrannous Prince of the power of the Air was by Christ to be thrown down from his Regency after his so long and mani●old rebellion against his Creator and Gods anointed King which he had decreed mangre all the vain opposition of Mon and Devils should sit upon h s holy Hill of Sion Psal 2. vet he comes into the world in the form of a Servant was born of a Mother a Virgin but in a present mean condition though inwardly glorious in holiness and grace though lineally descended from the Loyns of King David yet that was a thing little then observed or regarded by most at that time a Carpenter being her Husband and the reputed Father of Christ our Saviour as little acknowledged 't is probable to be the Son of God Therefore Christ being in our weak nature in such a low condition the world was uncapable of discerning or conceiving how he should be able to overcome that old Beelzebub the Prince of the Devils with all his Principalities and powers of spiritual wickednesses in high places 3. When the envy and malice of Saul was grown so great against David that by force or fraud by policy or treachery or by any means possible to rid David out of his way by his Daughter by his Servants by the Philistines his Javelins his Son Jonathan or by Doeg and other bad Instruments of Saul's Court or whoever was David's Enemy was thereupon to be owned as Saul's Friend Yet God ever preserved David from all his attempts by strange and unlikely ways and means as the sacred Story therein declares So as soon as Christ appears in the World Satan from a Divine Oracle of Christs birth at Bethlehem the City of David tempts Herod upon that ac●ount to seek to take away his life then as was noted stirs up many slightings of his Person Parentage Kindred and Countrey then when he appeared more publick sets upon him in hunger to tempt God from ambition of a world to worship the Devil c. But still Christ overcame that strong man armed being stronger than he when he appeared the weakest 4. As David by such weak and unlikely instruments overcame or frustrated Saul assaults So Christ by poor Fishermen subdued the World to the obedience of the Gospel thereby making them Fishers of men and himself to be owned as the Saviour of mankind by those they were sent unto conquering and to conquer in the first Seal Rev. 6. and so through the following Seals till Constantines coming about anno 320 all that time where n Michael sought with his Angels against the Dragon and his Angels who prevailed not Rev. 12 7 8. when those poor persecuted Christians then converted to the fa●th●● Christ ●hat are stor●ed to be strongly then encouraged by the Doctrine of reigning with Christ the thousand years suffered with such unshaken saith and constant patience and gloriously overcame that most devillish cruelty and tyranny of their bloody Persecutors in the Ten first Paganish Persecutions till the Dragon was cast out of his Heaven to the Earth Since which time he could not by such persecuting turn Christians into Pagans he hath attempted by iving his Seat Power and Authority to the Beast to Paganize Christianity it self and under many devised pretexts of Piety and Devotion by means of his said Substitute in his seat and authority to act in detestable hypocr sie in such horrid wickednesses against God and man that cannot appear in their true colours without some Vail of Hypocrisie cast over them Whence it was anciently observed since that time Sub nomine Christi militant contra Christum and after when in a more intense degree tha was apparent complaint thereof was made not without just cause In nomine Domini incipit omne malum which how manifold it is and by what cunning Contrivance with paganish Cruelty carried on would require a large volumn but even fitly to set down in what large volum●s it is already done And yet Christ by his poor Saints sufferings and his despised Sackcloth-Witnesses prophesying hath and doth and will overcome more and more both Dragon and B●●st and false ●rophet also by whom the other was revived after his former deadly wound unto their last destruction come and both are sent unto their own p●a●● when Christ will most eminently make his Foes his Footstool and the Kingom of the Stone be changed into the Kingdom of the Mountain in the next partial Type with this of David to be now considered And that is in Solomon David's natural Seed derived immediately from his Loyns as promised to David named by God owned by him in a gracious manner appearing to him twice making him large offers giving him unparallel'd Gifts of Wisdom and Knowledge eminent Grace transcendent worldly Glory Dignity Riches and Revenues on the face of the earth admired far and near most famous for building the most glorious Temple or House of God and other Houses and in writing excellent Books of holy Scripture and many other Books But that he was but a Type of David's blessed Seed to come in the Kingdom of the Mountain may appear by his so sad declining for a time towards his elder years yet a●ter through grace returned But that he was his Type his Name denotes his Office his Works his Wisdom his Peace his Glory Wealth and Dignity his Religion his executing of Judgment his Peoples Peace Plenty Security under him c. whilst he walke● wisely and stood upright do abundantly declare And in regard we are to consider the great Char●er of David and Solomon's Kingdom in the next place we shall here adde no more but come to our next foundation VII Seventhly Which is the seventh as being confirmed both to David and Solomon by a Divine Charter very eminently illustrated 2 Sam. 7.8 to the end in that most gracious Message that God sent by Nathan upon occasion of David's secret intent and purpose to build God an House for which he made great provision which though it was not in particular accepted for some reasons afterwards specif●●d in the sequel yet God so approved of his pious affections of love ●o his

Divine Majesty and Zeal for his Glory and Worship that thereupon he made to David the most blessed return of Love and Riches of Goodness to him and his House with the longest Entail w●th it and surest security of it that ever was made to any meer mortal man We may here observe first the said Message of God from vers 8. to 17. concerning Gods sure mercies to David in respect of his Kingdom People and House Secondly We may note David's improvement of each part of the Divine Message by Faith Prayer and thankful Acknowledgment from vers 17. to the end First In Gods Message vers 8. He directs the Prophet Nathan to make to David a rehearsal of mercies past namely How he exalted him from a low estate even from the Sheep-coat from following the Sheep to an excellent Dignity not onely to be a Ruler in ordinary way but that which added much to his exaltation and honour was he let him over his own People even over Israel chosen out of the whole World for his own Inheritance This special trust God committed to David to whom great Priviledges did belong and for whom great things formerly had been done by God upon whom his Name was called Secondly Vers 9. He minds him how he had been with him in a special manner in a way of grace to wit to be for him and against his Enemies and so effectually as to cut them all off in his own sight and that thereupon he had made him a great Name as the great Men that are upon the Earth Thirdly Vers 10. He sets down as in a Parenthesis a most wonderful mercy promised to his said People long after to take place and to be in fulfi●ling to the end of the world saying I will appoint a place not what he had done before or unto that time as afterwards is explained for my people Israel and I will plant them but how First that they may dwell in a place of their own for formerly they drove out others though but as Gods Instruments yet with many failings and then by their sins they forfeited their own interest therein Secondly He declares they should move no more which settlement then must needs be yet to come the same with Ezek. 37. and many other promises Thirdly The Children of wickedness should not in that Land which he promiseth afflict them any more which hath not hitherto been fulfilled formerly such Children of wickedness which in their d●sobedience to God they spared were in judgment made Thorns in their Sides and pricks in their Eyes to chastise them and other sone of wickedness by reason of their many provocations greatly from time to time before and till David's time afflicted them as before time in Egypt and in the Wilderness as the end of vers 10. seems to intend as before time And vers 11. in the beginning of it he adds another distinct time of the prevailing of such Sons of Wickedness over them And saith he as since the time that I commanded Judges to be over my people And that he might the better take notice of his own so good different state at present and from whence it came he shews to him again that he himself had caused him to rest from all his Enemies And in the end of vers 11. he appoints Nathan to deliver a further Message of wonderful grace concerning David's own House saying Also the Lord tells thee there was his insallible security that he will make thee a sure House which must needs be a sure House when God both tells him so and tells him he will make it so Greater certainty could not be Therefore rightly is this stiled The sure Mercies of David Vers 12. concerns Gods promise to be fulfilled after David's death concerning his Son Solomon as is applied by Solomon himself 1 Kings 2.24 The Lord saith he hath made me an House as he promised which promise follows in this 12th verse I will set up thy Seed after thee which shall proceed out of thy own bowels and I will establish his Kingdom which must be his immediate Seed Besides he was designed by God to build that House for Go● is Name which David purposed till God now declared his pleasure therein to him to the contrary which was accordingly executed as Solomon acknowledged as was noted before And vers 13. latter part God addes a wonderful mercy That Solomon the Type of Christ whose Kingdom in his days should be a Type of Christs Kingdom should build that House that should prefigure the Body of Christ till he came in the flesh and fulfilled all that was signified in and by that House and Priesthood exercise● therein whereby it seems to be signified That that House which he built and the Services to be upheld in it should typifie to his People his glorious Person and work of Redemption to be wrought by him for them where the Ark of Gods gracious Presence with his People was at that time preserved Which Temple though afterwards it should be destroyed for their great sins and provocations and the Ark of Gods gracious presence be taken away from among them yet the Temple should afterward by the wonderful power and grace of God be again re-built as Isaiah fore-told and was as we rea● in Ezra and Nehemiah accordingly fulfilled by the former denoting the death of Christ bodily which he suffered for his Peoples sins and by the latter that divinely powerful and glorious Resurrection of Christ from that death of the Body Which said second Temple by the divine work of God upon the spirit of Cyrus being so rebuilt should so continue onely after repaired and adorned by Herod thenceforward many hundred years until all things were sully accomplished by him who was before so long time and many ways before-typ●fied by it at the death of whose b●dy the Vail of that Temple actually was rent from top to bottom wherewith Moses vailed Gospel of Ceremonial Worship ceased and upon whose Resurrection and A●cention the Gospel of the Son of Mans Kingdom was speedily and powerfully and evidently preached by the commissionated Embassadors of Christ through the whole world when also the Kingdom of the Stone fore-told in Daniel d●d begin o● the spiritual Throne and Kingdom of Christ was se● up and hath and is and will be powerfully upheld while Christ in the Gospel rideth o'n conquering and to conquer as he began under the ●●st Seal till he eminently when he ceaseth to sit at his Fathers Right hand in Heaven Psal 110.1 shall make his foes his footstool and thenceforward gloriously and powerfully on David's and Solomon's Throne as here promised in the Kingdom of the Mountain to the worlds end and la Judgment Dan. 2 35. And so the great King of the New Jerusalem will undoubtedly succeed lineally from them both in whom the House and Throne of the Kingdoms of both shall be established for ever as in Psal 45. is largely illustrated with many excellencies belonging