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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	2,955	5	9.9011	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62275	A sermon preached at Reading, Feb. 25, 1672, at the assizes there holden for the county of Berks, before the Right Honourable Sir Edward Turner, Knight ... and Sir Edward Thurland, Knight ... by Joseph Sayer ...	Sayer, Joseph, 1630 or 31-1693.	1673 (1673)	Wing S797; ESTC R7938	19,707	42

2 Sam. 19.27 My Lord the King is as an Angel of God And 't is very observable that he spake this at a time and in a case wherein the King had done him little right and lately before had done him very great injury But whatsoever the Kings dealing was towards him yet he speaks not but with great reverence and respect to the King 'T was far from him to speak any thing to the Kings dishonour to upbraid him with inconsiderateness with injustice or with oppression though he had evident cause for it if there could be any cause for a Subject to treat his Prince with any irreverence 2. When we talk of them it must be to their honour speaking of all the good that is in them and of the good that is done by them Thus did David by King Saul who was his enemy and who without any cause sought to take away his life even then and so all the while he lived it was David's stile to call him The Anointed of the Lord. 1 Sam. 24 6 10.26.9 11.16.23 When he was dead he did likewise nay he mourned for him and lamented him in these words Ye Daughters of Jerusalem weep over Saul 2 Sam. 1.14 16 24. who cloathed you with Scarlet and other delights and put ornaments of gold upon your apparel After the same manner did King David's Subjects speak of him even after he had made himself in famous by most horrible sins and them miserable by Gods Judgments on those sins yet even then they past by all the evils he had done and they suffered and remembred only the good they had received by him 2 Sam. 19.9 2 Sam. 19.9 The King saved us out of the hands of our Enemies and delivered us out of the hands of the Philistims In which words also 't is observable that though they had done their parts every way towards the obtaining those Victories and Deliverances yet they ascribe them not to themselves but unto him 2 Sam. 18.3 In the Chapter immediately before they shewed what a value they had for their King they declared that he was worth ten thousand of themselves 2 Sam. 21.17 and again they call'd him the Light of Israel But though they shewed this esteem of David who notwithstanding his faults was in the main a very excellent Prince yet perhaps they thought and spake of others as they deserved Nay they spake of the very worst of their Kings not without honour and reverence Was there a worse than Zedekiah who filled up the measure of Judahs iniquity and whom God liked so ill that he thought fit to have no more of that Linage Yet even him the Church called the Breath of her Nostrils Lam. 4.30 and lamented that he was fallen into the Pits of her Enemies They were concerned as if their Life had depended on his as in truth it did Not the life of individual persons but the life of a People or Nation and the well-being of all persons in it doth depend on that of their King Though their King be none of the best yet better have such than have none at all If there were no King men would live as if there were no God every man that has strength would be a King yea and more than a King he would be a Tyrant over his weaker Neighbour and is it not better to be subject to the lusts of one Tyrant than to the lusts of a thousand Better stand in awe of one man than be afraid of every man A severe and cruel Governour though he do some particular wrongs yet he serves for the protection of his Kingdom in general Some few of his Subjects may perhaps suffer by his cruelty but the generality of the people are defended by his Power are defended from the Invasion of foreign Enemies and from those greater cruelties which if it were not for him they would one exercise over another 'T is a very true and a very excellent expression which I find used by a person of great Learning and Authority That the little Finger of Licentiousness is heavier than the Loins of the severest Laws and strictest Government 3. A Third part or branch of this Duty is to honour them in our Actions By Yielding them all due Reverence By Rendring them their due Maintenance By Affording them our best Assistance 1. We are to honour those in Authority by yielding them all due Reverence They are Civil Gods and are therefore to be worshipt with a Civil Worship It is said of Davids Subjects that they bowed down their heads 1 Chron. 29.30 and worshipped the Lord and the King God with a Divine Worship the King with a Humane Worship They bear rule over our body and must therefore have the Worship of our body When Ahimaaz came before David he fell down to the earth upon his face before the King 2 Sam. 18.28 14.33 2 Sam. 18.28 Yea his own Son Absalom did as much 2 Sam. 14.33 David did the like before Saul 1 Sam. 28.4 1 Sam 28 4. Such honour must be given where 't is due and 't is due to those that are in Gods stead to do Justice among the Children of Men. 2. We are to honour those in Authority by rendring them their due Maintenance We are to honour God with our substance Prov. 3.9 and in like manner we are to honour those that are in stead of God Tribute must be given where 't is due Rom. 13.7 as in Rom. 13 7. and 't is due to the King as the Lord Jesus in his Gospel has taught us both by his Doctrine and Example for he himself paid Tribute to Caesar and rather than not do it Matth. 17. he wrought a Miracle to do it that he might convince the World of the absolute necessity of it And observing the Tribute-money on which Caesars Image and Superscription was he thus answered those that tempted him Matth. 22.17 21. and proposed this Question to him Is it lawful to give Tribute to Caesar or not Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are Gods And here 't is very observable that our Saviour does not say in the case 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not give but render What we part with to the use of our Prince is not to be lookt on as the peoples alms but as the Princes just due 't is not a meer gratuity but a debt He has a right and title to it and as such we ought to part with it and not only part with it as such but be cheerful in our parting with it not pay it as we would another mans debt but as an honest man would pay his own debt when he has made great profit by the money that was lent him i. e. pay it with as great a willingness as he had shewed in borrowing it And this difference is observed not only by the curious