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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02457	A sermon needfull for theese [sic] times wherein is shewed, the insolencies of Naash King of Ammon, against the men of Iabesh Gilead, and the succors of Saule, and his people sent for their reliefe. Preached at Paules Crosse the 14 of Feb. 1590. by R.H. fellow of the New Colledge in Oxford.	Hacket, Roger, 1559-1621.	1591 (1591)	STC 12589; ESTC S118991	25,030	54

had his forth in the kingdome of Fraunce and dukedome of Brittaine till hee come not with his owne forces onely as before but with the flower of Fraunce and of other nations nor from farre places of Spaine and Portugalle but from the neighbour havens and portes of Fraunce and put in not into one but into sundry places of your natiue countrie Now whether of these is better I shoulde saie worse I neede not speake and God graunt that you may never trie But why doth the loue of you drawe mee to reach after matters that are to high for me Since it is the glorie of the ruler to conceal his counsels and these thinges that are knowen are sufficient to mooue all well meaning English since it is for our Saul and rulers for to governe and for vs their people to obey since they say vnto vs as Iehu did to the messenger of Iehoram which asked Is it peace what hast thou to do with peace turn thee behinde me let vs turn behind and follow them and let the rich come with their riches and offer frankly that they may enioy the rest in quiet let the young and abled the gard of our countrie come w t their bodies and hasten to their glory that their friendes and kinsfolke may liue in safety let the leaders and captaines come with their troupes and redeeme their honours which some haue impeached let all sortes come al sortes helpe and all sortes pray wish wel to the captaines of Israell and the armies of our god And grudge not to spend on them your money which do not grudge for you to spend their bloud Refuse not to giue to David and his men some litle of your store least a Naballes misery finde a Naballes ende Paulus Iovius sheweth that whē the Florentins would haue made Pisa tributary to their city the women matrons did so loue their liberty that when money wanted they gaue their chaines and Iewelles to maintain the warres and so they procured both peace and liberty After Pisa was threatned by the Florentins againe and the maiestrates moved a levy for the warres the people thought al to much that then was given so that for want of money there were not sufficient levied for their defence when their danger through their sparing grewe and they were past recovery in the ende they offered poundes in steede of pence but al to late they lost their money countrie and themselues Looke to the ensample and lay it to youre selues It was saied that although good Iehosaphat did most seriously endevoure yet in his raigne the high places we are not taken away what was the reason yet the people had not prepared their mindes towardes the god of their forefathers Euen soe although our Iehoshaphat do labor and seeke her peoples good yet she must needes be frustrate of her desire except the people sette to their helping handes except the people set to their helping hartes Wherefore set to both your handes and hartes and let no man say vnto you as Abiathar did vnto the elders of Iudah why are you so slow to bring backe the king to bring in your levies since as of David the house of Israel saied it is he that hath saved vs from al our enemies so may we say which you know that by your levies they are in part mainteined which doe saue you from your enemies And thus much for this y t the people came now let vs cōsider what moved Saul to summon the people what made the people vpō Saules summons with that speede and readines for to come Both which are noted in the text for the spirite of the Lord came vpon Saul and then he was exceeding angry and againe the feare of the Lord came vpon the people and then they came forth even as one man It was not of himselfe it was the spirite of the Lord that made him angry and zealous for his peoples good It was not of themselues is was the feare of the LORDE that made the people with so great an army vppon so small a warning with that speede and value for to come For let there be never so great occasions offered to do good the neede be never so vrgent and the opportunity such that it must be ether now or never yet if the spirite of the Lord come not vppon Saul and vppon our rulers they will sitte still and sleepe they will not bee angry neither will they summon the people for to followe them Yea let Saul call and necessity vrge the Prince threaten and their duty commaunde the people to come forth and followe Saul yet except the feare of the Lord do fall vpon them they will step back and seeke delayes they will not come but as beares that are drawen vnto the stake So that as it was the spirite of the Lorde that made Bezaliel fit for the woorke of the materiall tabernacle nay that stirred vppe the hart of Cirus for the rebuilding againe of the temple destroied As it was a lying and evill spirite that mooved Ahab to battaile and caried Saul to his owne destruction so it was the good spirite of God that brought to nought the counsell of Achitophel and stirred vp Iepthah to the repulsing of Ammon O pray then that this spirite may fall vppon our rulers and this feare on oure people that the one may leade with counsell and the other followe with courage for the reliefe of Iabesh against Naash of Spaine For as Sampson whiles his locks were hanging not touched with razor with a iaw bone slew his thousand and bare away the gates of the city wherein hee was inclosed but having lost his lockes did leese his strength and became then weake as an other man even so as long as the spirite of the Lorde as the lockes of Sampson shal abide on our coūsel on our captaines so long they shal be able to counsel do for the best even able to do al thinges through the power of him which doth strengthen thē but if this spirit as the lockes of Sampson bee taken away there is no such strength in them as before So that if we seke what made Caleb to despise the forces of the Cananites whom they came to expel whō yet al Israell feared as the sons of Anack invincible Giantes even this he was of an other spirit but Caleb was of an other spirit Or what made David being but a child to offer the encounter to y e great Goliah even this he came not in the power of fleshe or strength of mans arme but in the power strength of the everliving god Or what made Ionathan with one young man to ventex on the garrison of the vncircumcised evē this that the spirit of the lord was vpō him and he knew that it was al one with the lord to overcom with few as with many Wherfore

wee are moved to choler desire of revenge to look that the cause be weighty and not a trifle of some importance and not a goord that it bee true and not phansied iust and not supposed and then that wee keepe our selues within mean and measure But here is more in this ensample in that Saul is a king no private person and is angry not for himselfe or for his own wrōges but for the iniury done to Iabesh and contumely intēded against his whole natiō for as this was spokē to the praise of David that the zeale of the lords house had even eatē him so was this also vnto his glory that his zeale was kindled and anger inflamed for the outrage of Ammondone to his legated their armies gathred for his peoples hurt Wherefore although it be said lette not the son go downe vpon your wrath yet this is spoken of vniust and private iniuries not iust and publike of others not of kings and princes which haue the charge and guidāce of publike weales For their wrath must not go out nor anger be abated til they haue wrought the deliveraunce of their people haue taken vengeāce on the enemies of their god So that as Ioshua praied son stay thou stil in Gibeon and thou moone in the valley of Aialon vntill the people haue avenged thēselues vppō their enemies so ought we to pray that his son of anger would stand on our mountaines this moone of revenge vpon our valleies til they haue avenged thēselues vpō their enemies and brought deliverance vnto their people For the son of anger must not only shine but stay shining vpon our mountaines they must not only be angry but as Saul in this place be exceeding angry Whē Elisha was sick Ioash the king of Israel cāe down vnto him when he saw him sicke vnto death then he wept criyng O my father my father the horsmen of Israel and the chariots therof And Elisha bad him take a bow and arrowes he tooke and shot and after he said againe to the king take the arrowes and finite the ground and he smote the ground thrise and so ceased Then the man of god was angry with him and saide why dost thou ceasse Thou shouldest haue smitten fiue or sixe times so shouldest thou haue smitten Arā til thou hadst consumed him even so must we pray y t our Ioash would take the arrowes of deliveraunce into her handes would smite the ground that is her enemies not once or twise but sixe times evē til she hath smitten and consumed them For as a litle water sprinkled on the coales doth not quench the heat or put out the fier but makes it to burne with greater flame soe smal succours sent for reliefe and resistance sprinkled on their flaming mindes doth not quench their rage and revenging fury but maketh them to burne with greater flames and with greater force to seeke revenge Wherefore it is to be wished that our rulers be not only angry but exceeding angry as here is Saul That they strike the groūd not only three times but six times that they not onely sprinkle but powre downe the water of resistance vpon their fury and that they never put of this worthy affection till they haue avenged the people of their wronges brought an happy peace to the good of prince and people and the farther glory of this their countrey Thus much for the affection of Saul now followeth his summons where first wee are to consider what he did secondly what hee spake concerning the deed he tooke a yoak of oxen for they were his owne he hewed them in peeces for he was angry and hee sent them through al the coastes of Israell least any should say they did not know with this proclamation whosoever cōmeth not foorth after Saul and after Samuel so shall his oxen be served For he thought that if the case of their brethren which were besieged nor their owne estate which stood nexte to daunger yet the commaunde of himselfe which was their soveraign and the spoile of their cattaile sampled in his owne shoulde driue them from their houses and make thē with speed to come and follow him And because thinges spoken doe not so much affect as thinges that are seene thinges reported as which moue the eies not only this is barely denounced but the oxen are hewen the peeces are sent they see that done to others which they heare if they come not is threatned shal be done to theirs To the like effect when the Lord purposed to bring Iudah and the realmes adioyning vnto the obedience of Nabuchadnazar king of Babel he caused Ieremy to make bandes yoakes to wear them vpon his neck and to send them to the princes neare adioyning And when Hannaniah the Prophet broke the woodden yoake which Ieremy wore about his necke and prophesied deliveraunce vnto the people the lord in steede of a woodden gaue him an iron yoake which could not bee broken therby to shew that their captivity was most sure When the lord by Ezechiel did foretel the destructiō of the people he caused Ezechiel to shaue his hair to devide it into three parts to burne one third in the midst of the city the other to cut hackle in peeces the third to scatter in the wind Thereby shewing that the one part should be wasted w t hot fiery disseases that other by y e sword of the enimy that the third should be led into captiuity Evē so the renting of Samuels garmēt did shew the rēting away of the kingdō frō the house of Saul And Zidkaiah with hi● irō hornes would haue shewed that Ahab shoulde haue so pushed the Syrians til he had subdued conquered thē Thus in the scriptures not onely the message is barely delivered but the better to imprint settle it in the hearers heartes vnder visible signes and shadowes is sometime represented vnto their eies that which the eare doth heare and they would haue to be beleeved of the heart Thus much for the signe in the summons now let vs hearken to the words Whosoever followeth not after Saul and after Samuel so shall his oxen be served He doeth not say whosoever goeth not before Saul but whosoever followeth not after An happy people if they knew their happines for there are many as sheepe scattered without a shepheard w c haue none to follow for their people their coūtries good They need not say as the elders of Gilead did vnto Iepthah Cōe be our captaine that we may fight Or awake Christ which sleepeth when the shyp is endaungered with helpe maister or else we perish But although Alcibiades ruler of Athens be but as a penthouse whom no man cares for in faire wether but al runne vnder in time of reine although the wicked men say of Saul howe shal he saue