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enemy_n	david_n	life_n	saul_n	1,175	5	9.4858	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14114	A silver watch-bell The sound wherof is able (by the grace of God) to win the most profane worldling, and carelesse liuer, if there be but the least sparke of grace remaining in him, to become a true Christian indeed, that in the end he may obtaine euerlasting saluation. Wherunto is annexed a treatise of the holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper.	Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1605 (1605)	STC 24421; ESTC S106042	114,862	276

complaint wée are accompted as shéepe to the slaughter As if they had sayd Wée are otherwise dealt with then the Fathers in the olde time were dealt withal vnto whom God séemed to beare great fauour when as hée enriched them fought for thē gaue them the victorie and with excellent names and titles made them famous and honourable we say they are nowe otherwise dealt with for wée are deliuered vnto the enemies as shéepe to be slaine as vnto whom they may doe what pleaseth them death hangeth all the day long ouer our heads and we are neuer in securitie but yet herein we are comforted that we are not in this perill as men that suffer for euill doing but For thy sake that is for Religion and godlinesse 22 Wherby also we are admonished that paines punishments and death make not Martirs but the cause For otherwise many suffer many grieuous things and yet are not martyrs nor confessors If punishments mke martyrs then the Papists at this day might truely boast of Martyrdome when for their traitrous deserts to their Prince and Countrey they are rightly executed And some Sectaries Scismatickes which would faine be reputed Confessors might then haue some iust colour to complaine of persecution when they are by Ecclesiastical censures iustly punished But these are such Martirs and Confessors of whom S. Augustine writing to Boniface de correctione Donatistatum and in many other places complaineth saying that in his time ther were Circumcellions a furious kind of men which if they could finde none that would kill them would often times breake their owne neckes headlong and would slay themselues These men sayth hée must not be counted martirs These are not shéep but Goates these are not led against their wils but runne headlong through ambition and proud conceit These Rammes follow not the example of Christ of whom it is written that when he was led like a sheepe vnto death yet did he not open his mouth for these open their mouthes too too wide vttering blasphemies against Magistrates These haue forgotten the sentence of the Apostle If I shall deliuer my body to bee burnt 1. Cor. 13. and haue no charitie it profiteth mee nothing Therefore Martyrs and confessors beside the goodnesse of the cause must be méeke patient and charitable 23 Wherefore wée hauing a good cause ought with patience and méekenesse be ready prepared when trial shal be to suffer persecution and tribulation after the example of the holy Martirs of olde time because the crosse alwayes followeth them which wil liue godly in Christ Iesus Then hee who hath promised vs that neither in fire water no nor yet in the shadowe of death hée wil bée from vs but wil bée our buckler defender and shield faithfully wil performe the same in such wise that no temptation shal so assayle vs but that he wil giue vs a ioyfull end and deliuerance 24 The holy Ghost hath caused many histories to bée kept in writing for vs that liue now in the latter age of the worlde to this end that we should not onely beholde in them the fiery raging of the world from the beginning against the people of God and how stoutly they withstood and ouercame by faithful patience the mallice thereof but also by reading of them wee should in our like troubles learne like patience receiue the same comfort and béeing throughly tryed conceiue a sure hope of the same victorie which they after many and sundry trials did win whereof we shal not be disappointed if we to the end striue lawfully If it be too hard and aboue your capacity to behold al the hystories examples propounded in the scriptures and the chronicles of Christs Church with such consideration that you may espye and behold in them the order of Gods working with his Church in al ages and if you doe not vnderstand in diligent perusing thē that the end and issue was euer ioyful and glorious victorie and deliuerance wherwith to comfort your selues in the middest of miseries take into your handes the comfortable historie of king Dauid marke his whole life from that time hée was taken from his Fathers shéepe vntil his death beholde in him your selues whensoeuer you shal be afflicted with any kinde of Crosse 25 After that the Lorde had found out Dauid a man after his owne mind and appointed him king ouer his people who labored worthily to deliuer defend Gods people from their enemies the Idolaters that dwelt neare about him he did not grant vnto him such quietnesse neither to his people but that he was in continual troubles and no smal dangers during the life of Saule and also after Saules death the Idolators and also Saules friendes séeking al the waies that might be to depose him from his kingdome 26 And not onely was hée thus vexed with his forraine enemies but also most grieuously of all other by those of his household who should haue béene his most deare friends his owne natural sonne Absolom his most priuie Counsailers 2. Sam. 15 the nobilitie of his realme the most part of his subiects Absalom pretending to his father Dauid a great holinesse as the maner of hipocrites is desired to haue leaue to goe into Hebron there to sacrifice for the performance of a vow which he had made in the time of his being in Siria but his meaning was to obtaine the kingdome from his Father and to stirre all Israel against him which hée brought to passe Dauid was banished and pursued vnto the death by his own sonne who wrought so much villany against his owne Father that he did not forbear in the despight of him to misuse his Fathers wiues in the sight of all the people How grieuous and dangerous this suddain change was to Dauid and to the godly people which were but a few in respect of the great number of the malicious Hipocrites which followed Absolom it appeareth plainly in the story you may easily consider 27 The best that was like to come of the matter was that while the kingdome of Israel was thus diuided Gods enemies the Pbilistines which had lien long in wait therfore should snatch vp from both the parties the kingdome of Israel and not only vtterly banish Gods true Religion from among the Israelites but also bring them their countrey and their posterity into most miserable bondage and thraldome and that to Gods enemies the most vile people and hated of all the world 28 Dauid in all these perlious dangers of his owne life losse of his kingdome and vtter destruction of Gods people did not discourage himselfe but vnderstanding all this to be the worke of Gods own hand acknowledging the true cause vnfaignedly did perswade himselfe that the Lorde after a time when his good will should bée would giue a comfortable end to all these stormes and bitter pangues His whole behauiour hee himselfe describeth in a Psalme which is left in writing for vs to learne thereafter how to behaue