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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	david_n	hand_n	saul_n	2,591	5	9.7819	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65716	Three sermons preach'd at Salisbury the first, A.D. 1680, and again before the militia, at their going against the late Duke of Monmouth ... the second preach'd before the Right Reverend Father in God, Seth, Lord Bishop of Sarum, A.D. 1681 ... the third, preach'd A.D. 1683, at the election of the mayor ... / by Daniel Whitby.	Whitby, Daniel, 1638-1726.	1685 (1685)	Wing W1737; ESTC R28389	88,809	79

off the Skirt of Saul's Robe but his Heart smote him for it When Providence seemed twice to have delivered Saul into his Hands and Abishai offered to smite him to the Earth his Answer to Abishai was Destroy him not ch 26.9 for who can stretch forth his Hand against the Lord 's Anointed and be guiltless And lastly when the Amalakite did at Saul's own Request when he was mortally wounded and ready to be seiz'd by his Enemies stretch forth his Hand against him David revenged that Action by the Death of the Amalakite nor is he ever charged in Scripture with Murther or In justice for that Act so that no Provocations no Advantages no Colour or Pretence of Right from God or Failure on the part of Saul could prevail with him to one Rebellious Attempt against the Lord 's Anointed Now that which made it thus unlawful to rise up against him could only be that he received his Authority from God since then all other lawful Sovereigns are by St. Paul declared to be the Ordinance and Ministers of God it must be as unlawful in such Cases to rise up against them Object Now if to these things you oppose the Example of Jeroboam and the ten Tribes who openly revolted from Rehoboam who being Heir to Solomon was legally their King Answ I answer 1. That this Action of the ten Tribes is by God called a Rebellion for the People having said 1 Kings 12.19 What Portion have we in David neither have we Inheritance in the Son of Jesse and it follows So Israel rebelled against the House of David to this Day Now what the God of Truth doth style Rebellion that is the rising up against that Person to whom they owe Allegiance must certainly deserve that Character so that God by calling that which the ten Tribes did a Rebellion doth thereby declare that Rehoboam was still their lawful Sovereign for otherwise their renouncing of him and setting up another in his stead would not have been a Rebellion And therefore when God declares that this thing was from him we must thus understand it that it was permissively from him that he left Rehoboam thus to his own Pride he suffered Satan to encline him to hearken to the Counsel of his Young-men and to despise the sage Advice of the Elders and also to alienate the Hearts of Israel from him that so he might fulfil his Threatnings against Solomon for his Idolatry which he pronounced in these Words Forasmuch as this is done of thee and thou hast not kept my Covenant and my Statutes 1 Kings 11.11 12. which I have commanded thee I will surely rend the Kingdom from thee and will give it to thy Servant notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it but I will rend it out of thy Sons hand I will for this afflict the Seed of David v. 39. Now what is thus from God may yet be Sin in him or them unto an high degree who are the Executioners of his Punishments and do accomplish his Decrees as in the Instance of those Heathen Kings who vexed Israel tho God permitted them to do so for his Peoples Punishment for God delivered them up into the hands of the Spoilers that spoiled them Judg. 2.14 and sold them into the hands of their Enemies round about and yet he was resolved to punish all that oppressed them Jer. 30.20 2 Sam. 24. In the Case of David whom the Lord moved to say Go number Israel and Judah because his Wrath was kindled against Israel and yet he doth severely punish him on that Account and in the instance of our Saviour's Passion for the People of Israel and the Gentiles did only to him what God's Hand and Counsel determined before to be done Act. 4.28 and yet they suffer severely for it to this day If it be still objected That God by his Prophet Ahijah promised that he would rend the Kingdom out of the hands of Solomon 1 Kings 11.31 35. and give ten Tribes to Jeroboam and again that he would take the Kingdom out of his Sons hands and give it unto him 〈◊〉 37 38. even ten Tribes and said I will take thee and thou shalt reign according to all that thy Soul desireth and shalt be King over Israel and that this must of necessity be done during the Reign of one of the Posterity and Seed of David to whom the Government of these ten Tribes belonged by Right of Succession God having promised that to his Son he would give one Tribe 1 Kin. 11. ●● ●● that David his Servant might have a Light before him always in Jerusalem and again I will not take the whole Kingdom out of his hand And therefore that this could not be Rebellion in Jeroboam to take the Government of these ten Tribes upon him whilst there was still surviving any Heir of David and Solomon since otherwise he never could have had it and so God's Promise could not have been fulfilled And again for the same reason that it could not be Rebellion in the ten Tribes to quit the Government of Rehoboam and embrace that of Jeroboam because that Rehoboam was the Legal Heir of Solomon since God had promised that he should have a Legal Heir for ever and so they never could have submitted to Jeroboam without Rebellion and so God's Promise could not have been fulfill'd And lastly if it be objected that had this been Rebellion on the foresaid Account they must have been under a constant Obligation to revolt from Jeroboam and his Posterity to the House of David which yet God never calleth them to do nor condemneth them for not doing and then the Gift God promised and performed to Jeroboam must be a Gift he was obliged in Conscience not to receive because he could not do it without keeping another man's Subjects from that Allegiance they owed unto him and therefore being instrumental to their continual Sin I say if it be thus objected to confess ingeniously quo me vertam nescio I find it very difficult to avoid the strength of these Objections which make some rather chuse to say this Action tho very peccant upon various Accounts was yet not formally Rebellion because performed by a special Commission from God who gave to Jeroboam these ten Tribes and by so doing transferred their Duty of Allegiance from Rehoboam unto him which he might with good reason do seeing he is the King of Kings from whom all carthly Powers hold their Dominions Durante ejus beneplacito Dan. 4.17 who ruleth in the Kingdoms of Men and giveth them to whomsoever he will and seeing secondly he was the Judge and Governour of Rehoboam who had a Right to punish him and his Fore-fathers how and by whom and unto what Degree he pleased and therefore to the deprivation of all or of the greater part of his whole Kingdom if he pleased But then to argue That because this Great Sovereign may do it to