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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47366	A sermon preached before the Kings Most Excellent Majesty at Oxford by H.K., D.D.	Killigrew, Henry, 1613-1700.; King, Henry, 1592-1669.	1643 (1643)	Wing K445; Wing K503_CANCELLED; ESTC R18028	11,120	24

in Court rose up early and stood hard by the entring in of the gate and reached forth his hand to every suiter of account and by slander flattery and faire promises he stole away the hearts of the people and at the length he brast forth into actuall rebellion against his naturall father Ioab likewise when he had escaped without punishment for stabbing of Abner he was thereby emboldned to proceed forward to the murdering of Amasa and this done without controlement he presumed to aid aspiring Adonijah to the prejudice of Salomon who was to succeed in the Kingdome by the appointment of his father David yet living Secondly Princes have beene sometimes overawed by the Peeres of the Realme or otherwise for fear of the tumult in the State they durst not either shew kindnesse and give entertainment to good men whom they loved or to execute mighty malefactours as in duty they should have done Of the first sort we have an example in Achish the King of Gath who confessed that David pleased him as an Angel of God but therewithall he told him that he must be packing out of his company because the Princes of the Philistines did not favour him Of the second sort we have an example in David who though he spake did much in detestation of Ioabs murdering of Abner yet he durst not put him to death for it as it may be collected by these words of his I am this day weake and newly anointed King and these men the sonnes of Zeruiah be too hard for me the Lord reward the doer of evill according to his wickednesse But this falleth out well and rightly that whom David spared in policie those Saloman executed in judgement as railing Shim●● and bloody Ioab Here let me stand a little upon Davids promise to sing mercy and judgement and consider whether hee performed the same alwaies or not I will put the case in the example of lame Mephibosheth the sonne of his old and deare friend Ionathan to whom I confesse he did kindly shew mercy for his fathers sake by restoring unto him all the fields of his Grandfather Saul and licensing him to eat bread at his owne Table continually but when he came to the point of judgement I finde him defective For when David fled before the face of Absalon Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth meeteth him with a large present of his Masters goods and presenting the same unto him he frameth sycophantly a most false accusation of treason against his Master as though he had said this day shall the house of Israel restore me the Kingdome of my father Whereupon rashly without leaving the one eare for the defendant he gave sentence condemning the innocent in favour of the plaintiffe being a calumniator saying to Ziba behold thine are all that pertained unto Mephibosheth and when as Mephibosheth afterward met David returning after the overthrow of Absolon fully cleared himself of the haynous crime of treason wherewith he had beene falsely charged then David giveth sentence in this wise Thou and Ziba divide the lands Herein David did evill in taking his land from him before hee knew the cause but much worse that knowing the truth he did not restore them And here we may observe that in the case of justice our {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is more upright then our {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} our contemplation is sounder then our practice Or to speake to the capacity of the meanest hearer a man may more easily penne the cause of Justice in his private study then rightly practice it in publicke upon the Bench For in solitary meditation a man may without difficulty abandon all rashnesse and partiall affection but in judiciall place abroad respect of persons and other corruptions doe easily enter into our mindes and hearts by the Ministery of our eies and ears Now the way to prevent this mischiefe is to doe that sincerely which David promiseth here to doe namely to sing unto the Lord that is to shew mercie and practise Iudgement to the glory of God whereunto all things ought to be referred according to Saint Pauls direction whether ye eat or drinke or whatsoever ye doe do all to the glory of God Insomuch as almes must be given in charity without the sound of a trumpet and prayer must bee made of devotion without publicke ostentation And to descend from the generall doctrine to the particular instruction which I have in hand miserable was the case of that wretched Judge who did right to the poore widow nor for feare of God or reverence to man but only to avoid her clamor and importunity And no better was the case of the Philistins in the booke of the Judges who when as the Timnite gave his daughter being Sampsons wife to another man they regarded not to punish this unjust and adulterous act But when as Sampson in revenge of this wrong had with three hundred Foxes turned taile to taile having firebrands fastened thereto set on fire and burned up the rickes and the standing corne with the Vineyards and Olives of the Philistins then they came up in troopes and burnt the Timnite and his daughter with fire Thus the wicked punish not vice for love of Justice but to be revenged in respect of former losse and for feare of future danger which else might come unto them Again to thee O Lord will I sing that is howsoever by the chaunting of this ditty of mercy judgement I shall seem to howle in the eares of the ungodly yet my song to thee O Lord shall be thought very melodious Whereby we are taught this generall doctrine that in doing of our duty in our severall vocations this ought to be our comfort that our words and workes are pleasing unto God howsoever they be displeasing to the world of wicked men So though Noe was scorned by the men of his time for preparing the Arke and urging repentance to prevent the perill of the Deluge to come yet is he by the providence of God ad perpetuam rei memoriam Chronicled for a Preacher of righteousnesse And though David for dancing before the Arke being girded with a linnen Ephod was by his wife Michal despised in her heart yet was he had is most high reputation by the maids of honour attending upon Michal Yea David will yet bee more vile then thus and he will be low in his owne sight knowing that all shall bee acceptable in heaven which is here on earth done before the Lord that is for no worldly affection but only for the zeale which wee beare to Gods glory Isai and the children which God gave unto him were as signes and wonders in Israel yet their reward was with the Lord If Iohn come neither eating nor drinking they say he hath a divel And if the Sonne of man come eating and drinking they say behold a glutton and a drinker of wine a friend of publicans and Sinners But yet wisdome is justified of her children If Festus be judge of Pauls speeches then Paul is beside himselfe much learning doth make him mad Howbeit Paul is not mad O noble Festus but he speaketh the words of truth and sobernesse The Apostles were made a gazing-stock unto the world and to the Angels and to men they were counted as the filth of he world and the off-scowring of all things howbeit ●hey passed very little to bee judged of mans judgement knowing that they were unto God the sweet savour of Christ in them that are saved and in them which perish to the one the savour of death unto ●eath and to the other the favour of life unto life Thus the sweet singer of Israel promiseth to sing he divine ditty of Mercy and Iudgement to the Lord of Lords even God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost to whom three Persons and one everliving God be all honour and glory both now and for evermore Amen FINIS Jam. 5. 13 Psal. 137. 1. 2. 3. 4 Deut. 6. 5. 2. Sam. 6. 14. Psal. 110. 3. Psal. 69. 9. Mat. 11. 12. Act. 17. 16. Act. 14. 14 Exod. 32 15. unto the ●1 2 Cor. 9. 7 Jer. 48. 1● Rom. 12. 14. Tit. 2. 14. Apoc. 3. 16. Psal. 50. 15. Psal. 51. 15. Psal. 22. 20. 21. 22. Luk. 17. 15. 16. Hab. 1. 15 16. Hos. 2. 5. to the 11. Psal. 17. 7 Psal. 5. 7. Gen. 32. 10. Lam. 3. 22 2. Sam. 7. 14. 15. Psal. 89. 1. 1. Sam. 31. 3. 4 Psal 7. 1. 15. 16. Psal. 52. 15. Psal 18. 40. 42. J●d 5. 31. Ex. 9 16. Hab. 2. 14 Isa. 26. 9. Rom. 13. 3. 1 Pet. 2. 14 Pro. 20. 28 Psal. 85. 10. Pro. 16. 14 15 19. 12. 2 Sam. 9. 1. 3. Psal. 102 1. Isa. 58. 7. Eccles. 35. 19. Prov. 16 12. Isa. 32. 17. Prov. 22. 15. Pro. 29. 15 Pro. 20 30 Pro. 13 14 1 Sam. 2. 12. 22. 23. 24. 1 Reg. 1. 6 Deut. 13. 11. and 17. 13. and 21. 21. Prov. 10. Numb. 16 37. 38. c 1. Cor. 5. 6 Eccles. 8. 11. Psal. 101. 8. Deut. 17. 12. ●2 22. Josh. 7. 1. 5 2 Sam. 21. 1. 6. 14. Prov. 20. 26. Deut. 22. 6 Deut. 21. 22. 23. Amos 1. 3 13. Jam. 2. 13 Luke 13. 1 Pro. 12. 10 Numb. 33 55. 2. Reg. 13. 14. to the 20. 1 Sam. 15 22. 23. 1 Reg 20. 42. 2 Chio. 15. 16. 2 Sam. 15. 2 Sam. 3 27. Ibid. 20. 9 10. 1 Reg 1. 7 1 Sam. 29 6. 9. 10. 2 Sam. 3. 36. 1 Reg. 2. 5. 6. 8. 9. 31. 44 45. 46. 2 Sam. 9. 1. 3. 7. 2 Sam. 16. 1 2 3 4. 2 Sam 19. 29. 1 Cor. 10. 31. Mat. 6. 1. to the 7. Luke 18. 4. 5. Judg. 15. 1 to the 7. 2 Pet. 2. 5. 2 Sam. 6. 14. 16. 20. 21. 22. Isa 8. 18. VV●s 5. 15. Mat. 51. 18. 19. Act. 26. 24. 25. 1 Cor. 5. 9. 13. Ibid. v. 3. 2 Cor. 4. 15. 16. 2 Sam. 23.