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A83947	Englands alarm to vvar against the Beast: by command from heaven, and his Israels example upon earth, comming-in to rescue David, out of the hands of a cruell Lord, and a bloudy Edomite: upon the same ground from Scripture and reason, Israel had then, and Christians now, to resist the prince ruling in the aire, and with the kings of the earth. In 3. sections: wherein, I. The history of Sauls war against David is so related ... that it relates ... to the three last yeeres affaires ... II. And to the bloudy execution of the Edomite in this war against the Parliament in Ireland and Lngland [sic] ever since. III. Here is also excellent reason given, why the tribes came not in sooner ... Also, to confirme the hearts and hands of the godly in their warfare ...		1643 (1643)	Wing E2941; Thomason E56_15; ESTC R20696	26,569	31

a Comedy with a marriage but quickly there is a turning of the Scene proves a Tragedy and ends in blood David was envyed by Saul for two Reasons 1. Because he had wrought salvation for Israel slaying Goliah the Philistine with his owne Sword 2. And because the Kingdome must be established in Davids house and Saul knew it therefore he envied David and pursued him 1 Sam. 23. 17 to the death but because bloody intentions have no pleasant appearance Saul vailed them over with sugered words and lovely actions he causeth many love-tokens to passe betwixt himselfe and David as if he purposed not only to affiance his daughter to David but marry himselfe unto him too See the depths of Sathan that evill spirit who wrought so effectually upon Saul All his words and actions were as soft and smooth as Oyle and Butter but inwardly drawne swords to slay David therewith But the people remote from the Court I say remote from the Court for Israel in and about the Court knew very well that Saul hated David and would have nailed his head and the wall together twise and once he would have served his Son Jonathan so too for being a friend to David Therefore I say Israel remote from the Court were wholly taken with things in appearance and so judged of Saul and David and of their actions so as if one of the two were too blame David was he And these colourable pretences stood Saul in some stead to vaile the peoples eyes for some time and not long for wicked and malicious intentions will work-out and discover themselves as five will and light will they will not be hid Saul plots against the righteous layes a snate here and there a snare for Davids soul The Righteous God discovers all and breaks the snare which enrageth Saul yet more the evill Spirit taking advantage thereby And now Saul pursues David with open a●e and sword in hand up to Naioth in Ramah and from thence to Nob. There he enters his foot first into bloud and goes up to the knees therein quickly for he takes an Edomite to his side gives him a Commission useth him as his right hand presently he with other Edomites with him for we cannot imagine that one should do that ●xecution alone smites a City of Priests slayes men women and sucklings there and beast also Where I shall note That all this is done by the knowne Lawes of the Kingdome for the Edomite accuseth the Priest Saul gives the Priest leave to answer for himselfe then execution is done according to the knowne Law which Saul and the Edomite have enacted We shall enquire farther into these matters when I shall handle them in order why Saul takes the Edomite to his side gave him a Commission being a knowne adversary to Is ael whereof I shall give a better account anon And then though we are concluded That the Lord is righteous and His Judgements are as the great deepe yet I shall search into them and findeo●● reason enough to satisfie us why the Lord suffers the Edomite to make such a slaughter in Israels Land and His owne Kingdome To do execution according to their wills upon those who did their du●y by direction from Gods mouth We shall see reason for all this though God needs not give account of His matters yet we shall see so He is pleased to do And now Davids History proves Tragicall indeed The Priests are slaine and David is strucken-at thorow the priests sides he sees Sauls sword now and against whom it was pointed So away he flies and to Keilah he comes in all haste expecting relief there for he had done the inhabitants such a piece of service as was very notable would have engaged them to David for ever had they been honest men But Keilites cannot consider what David had done for them they ponder not the kindnesse of God towards them nor mans kindnesse neither And now David having a strong hold over his head is resolved therein to defend himselfe but the Keilites proved treacherous they after their manner will betray David and he is warned thereof for a mighty Councellour was with David wheresoever he went and away he went from Keilah to a mountaine in the wildernesse of Ziph● Saul pursues his way and bloudy intentions and after he goes for he sought David every day but it followes God 〈◊〉 2● 1● delivered him not into his hands The Keilites would have done it so would the Ziphites too these would have delivered up David into Sauls hands yea but God would not do it and His is the overruling Hand These adversaries shall but shew themselves so shew their teeth unto David discover their treacherous hearts against him that is all they shall do more they would do but they cannot Therefore Psal 54. David makes a Psalme of praise to his God for that deliverance Here a great question will be proposed anon I do but give the heads here why the Tribes came-not-in all this while now they saw what was done to Nob what was offered to be done to Keilah and saw the sword was pointed directly to Davids throat why yet the Tribes came-not-in Some will Answer Conscience withheld them had they come-in to help David they had resisted their King I shall cleare the contrary in the third Section for it is the chiefe purpose thereof Other conceits there are I will passe them over in this place This is certaine Things were not ripe yet nor yet Gods time Davids straits must be yet greater then they were at Nob or when he was at Keilah and and there must be farther discoveries yet of Gods right hand with David and of his adversaries against him whereof towards the close of the Work Saul pursues David still thorow all the Thousands of Judah d 1 Sam. 23. 23. malice will draw bloud but it cannot yet will pursue to the death he and his men have cooped-up David and his men for they have compassed David round about Then God wrought wonderfully for David as His Name is and His Manner and the Earth must help David A Drossie earthy people shall help David shall work for his deliverance though enemies to him And though Saul has David as a prey in his hand yet the Lord sets up a Rock of separation betwixt David and Saul David is almost under Sauls nose within the reach of his speare and yet saul cannot reach him O wonderfull It is so indeed therefore 1 Sam. 23. 28. they called the place Sela-Hammahlekoth e as at this day 〈◊〉 takes no notice of this no not of Davids Rock in his way he 〈◊〉 David still and he pops-into a Cave all alone where David and all ●● m●n were the man shall run strange adventures that 〈◊〉 David and may escape once and again but beware the third 〈…〉 he that pursues David may fall into the Philistines hands a●on as Saul did Note againe how various and changeable

it was by the Devils motion that David had no more time then to b 1 Sam. 18. 10. slip away and avoid the place so the javeline was smote into the wall And though this was twice yet this was knowne in the Court onely perhaps to some dwellers hard by It is as true also and as cleare every whit in the sacred Text but the people inquire not into that not what is written not they That an evill Spirit from God c 1 Sam. 18. 10. came upon Saul and that is reported twice too And this evill Spirit was so active in Saul That whereas he might have rested and slept quietly in his owne house he runs about tanquam ostro percitus from place to place for he must run whom the Devill drives and is restlesse in the pursuit of Davids soule so as Saul might say and others also and all say truly and the people might beleeve it too That Saul did not go away from his Court but was d●i●●n away he was indeed for an evill Spirit did drive him which is clearly written But I say the people observe none of that No● could they heare what good Jonathan spake of David unto Saul his fa●●er Davids works have been to-thee-ward very good he did so and so and so ● ronght a great salvation for all Israel wherefore then wilt thou si● against innocent blood to slay David without a cause d 〈…〉 ● 4. 5. The people A●l Isr●el remote from the Court heard none of all this they heard what a salvation David had wrought and they might think as Jonathan did judging his fathers spirit by his owne that Saul seeing that salvation did rejoyce thou sawest it and didst rejoyce Verse 5. said Jonathan so the people might think too and that David was in all the blame and Saul in none at all That David had done some great matter against Saul because Saul did so persecute him so the people may think and the people might very well be so deluded for Saul did cover his malice with faire words as a potsheard may be covered with silver drosse e ●● 26. 23 go and tell David from me said Saul The King hath delight in thee and all his servants love thee f 1 Sam. 18. 22. Nor could there be greater shews nor more lively expressions then were in Saul towards David nor were his shews greater then were the reality of his actions as the people must understand them We do accouut Acts of meere Right and Justice to be Acts of most transcendent Grace and so we can flatter but indeed the Acts of Saul towards David could seeme no otherwise then Acts of most transcendent Grace and that was the account that David himselfe made of them he was sued unto twice to be the Kings Son-in-law and David was exceedingly taken with it seemeth it to you a light thing to be a Verse 23. Kings Son in-Law seeing that I am but a pore man and lightly esteemed It made David quite forget that unkingly act of throwing the javelin at him And the people must needs be taken as much with it also seeing a poore shepherd matched to a Kings Daughter for the people could not tell what Saul had said in his heart I will give him Verse 21. her that she may be a snare unto him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him Note it by the way That this very snare wherewith Saul intended to catch David took Saul himselfe as we may read 1 Sam. 31. 3. It is ominous and a point of desperate folly to lay a snare for David But this snare was contrived in the Court and that which was said was said in the heart whose language the people cannot understand till it be made legible by the hand So much as was in sight was an act of most transcendent Grace True indeed it is and it is legible that Saul spake to Jonathan his son bad 1 Sam. 19 1. councell to a young Prince therefore an Almighty hand staied Jonathan upright conversing with such a Father and amongst such Councellours and to all his servants as we heard That they should kill David But this was not legible to the people it was a secret from the Court where David had a good friend Jonathan who will tell him all he heares and what his fathers bloody intents are that so he might prevent them Saul goes on sends Messengers to Davids house to watch 1 Sam. 19. 11. him and to slay him in the morning but his wife makes an ill-favoured shift to save her husband and tells a lie to boote So David escaped Psalm 59. at that time and makes a Psalme of Thankesgiving to the LORD after his manner so many deliverances so many Psalmes to call to remembrance Then to Ramah he runnes and Saul sent Messengers as fast after him and then came himselfe thither we shall read more of that in due place And now that Saul is at Ramah David flies from thence and comes to Jonathan he and David are made sure together and fast one to the other Marke it by the way Saul had his Scout to spie as you shall heare anon The LORD provided for David too he had a Spie at Court a fast friend there close at Sauls elbow Be thou as David was upright with the LORD thou shalt have a Jonathan a true friend at Court that is certaine I proceed The Father observes great signes and tokens of their love so his anger kindled against Jonathan and reproacheth him shamefully it grieved Saul that 1 Sam. 20. 30 31. David liveth upon the ground that is the expression commands Jonathan to fetch him unto his Father for he shall surely die Jonathan will see reason for what he does he will not run out of the Court gates to fetch David to his Father because his Father said David shall die Jonathan was a good man notwithstanding the bloody words his ear dranke in from his Fathers mouth continually and his conversing daily with bloody Courtiers God He onely keeps the heart upright and from pollution even there where Satans throne is there Jonathan was a good man and an obedient Son notwithstanding Object Nay but he was not you may say for his Father a King commands and Jonathan a son disobeyes Ans It is seemingly so indeed and as we use to say That he is an obedient servant who obeyes his Lord never examining what is the command and charge nor how unjust as the Kings Attourney did obey commanded by his Master to accuse the six Members sitting in Parliament of high Treason This was an obedient servant say we but what says the Lord our great Master in heaven I think the Judgement Deut. 19. 19 20 21. from the LORD is That this wicked servant shal be drawn first and hanged after For ye shall do unto this evill servant as he had thought to have done unto his brother This was

mat●●rs are in the c●●ying-on of Davids Wars Saul had David in a coop ●●e other day now David has Saul at the same advantage It was so 〈…〉 will be so in Davids wars ever more Then Saul had the advantage now David Down and up Vp ●nd down But the advantage i● shall on Davids-side whether he rise or fall for he is instructed To make advantage of his falls Saul cannot of his risings Either he shall not see his advantage or shall make no advantage thereof at all David shall see his advantages and make use of them for glorious ends and towards Saul to cleare his innocencie as the noone day For now it shall appeare to all Israel and to Saul himselfe That David is a man after Gods owne heart and will shew him the kindnesse of the Lord And that Saul is mis-informed and all his Courtiers are liers all Now Saul and David are come to a Parley and David is heard to speake for himselfe he can speak with such evidence of Truth that the quarrell had now ended for the evill Spirit in Saul seemes to be quite silenced for a short time and Saul himselfe so fully convinced concerning Davids uprightnesse as that he seems to ● Sam. 24. 16. melt into tears nay it is so indeed he wept heartily but that the evill Spirit moves in Saul againe and the Ziphites a mischievous generation ● Sam. 26. and enemies to Peace did egge-on and drive Saul to pursue David againe see what he Devill will do and these Ziphites as evill as he and as like him as the children are like the father these hurry Saul-onward and after David he runs for the Devill drives him having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him A marvellous ● Sam. 24. 2. thing That thousand chosen men of Israel with him And yet I shall make it no marvell at all anon for if a King will fall desperately upon his owne sword there is another will do as desperately as the King does fall upon it too It is no marvell at all That Saul 1 Sam. 31. 5. 6. hath three thousand chosen men with him But this is the wonder That after such a conviction as we read before he should yet with such a company seek David to slay him But that is no wonder neither The evill Spirit is with him and the Ziphites his Councellours These will drive-on Saul furiously but David shall see whereto they drive for he has his b 1 Sam. 26. 4. spies abroad and they tell David where Saul is and thither he goes as bold as a Lion for his Cause was good and though it was stormy without yet alwayes cleare within he came to the place where Saul had pitched beheld it well and there went downe he with two more even to Sauls Campe by night and there they found Saul asleepe and all his people round about him sleeping too God would have it so Then said Abishai to David Let me smite thine enemy once one blow shall do the deed there shall not need a second to destroy him No sayes David and observe what he sayes The Lord forbid that I should stretch forth my hand against the Lords Anointed suffering thee to take away Sauls head but take away his speare c. and so they did then gat them away and no man awaked for a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon th●m The Lord will finde out a way to cleare Davids innocencie as the noone day David was no sooner gon but he calls out to Abner Captaine of Sauls guard reproves his negligence above many bids him behold the speare c. which stuck so neare his Masters pillow his Masters Verse 16. head was in the same danger and Abner asleep the while When Saul heard that for it could be no mans voice but Davids his heart seemes and in his owne apprehension to close with David now Observe what Saul sayes and what David replyes for now they are Vers 21. as their last Conference Matters are fairly debated and concluded betwixt them even with a blessing from Sauls mouth Then Saul Vers 25. returned to his place But Saul was resolutely bent to oppose Gods decree touching the setting of the Crowne upon Davids head therefore Suspectum semper invisum que domi●anti b●s qui pr●xim ●s des●inar●tur Iac. H●● 1. lib. 1. cap. 7. he envied David and the evill Spirit wrought effectually upon that advantage so as David did not trust Saul nor regarded his words for indeed bloudy thoughts lodged within him s●ill nor was he sui juris but of the possession of himselfe quite The Keilites had a part in him the Ziphites also and the evill Spirit divided Saul betwixt them they have him in their power and drive him as they will and so David will trust none of them all Nay they prevailed so That David distrusted God a little and so away David runs to Gath and when Saul heard that he sought no more after him sayes the Text c 1 Sam. 27. 4. intimating no lesse then this That Saul would have pursued him still but that he was out of Sauls reach About this very time the Tribes came-in when all was cleare before them touching Sauls implacablenesse and stubborne resolution touching Davids uprightnesse the treachery of Davids friends then the Tribes came-in after they saw all faire wayes had beene used to incline Saul to hold him back from shedding bloud after they had prayed and fasted too for this I must make good also Then the Tribes came-in with shield and buckler as we read And so we have a briefe relation of Davids Story and Sauls persecution which will relate clearly and fully anon the History of our time I shall not do as the wise Judges did in a 〈…〉 Case wherein it was hard and dangerous to give righteous Judgement They bad the Parties come and appeare before them a hundred ● years after I cannot do so now As I shall relate an ancient History so I must declare how it relates to these present times for in setting downe Davids Story and Sauls persecution of him I must needs set downe the story of these dayes fully and wholy for no Chronicle in the world gives us the like story so paralell with the Churches story now and affaires of these dayes For example A King the chiefe Actor then a King the chiefe Actor now Persecuting David then persecuting his owne subjects now All under colourable pretences then the same pretences and shewes now The delivering up of the sword into Davids hand was the pretence and no more of the quarrell then the same pretence now Saul takes an Edomite to his side and gives reason for so doing then The King takes Edomites for they say of our Jerusalem as aforesaid into his bosome and gives the same reason for so doing now The Edomite informeth against the faithfull servants of the Lord then so they do now but