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A07198	Two sermons, preached at the Kings court, this Ianuary, 1620 Concerning Davids adultery, and his politick practices. By Francis Mason, Archdeacon of Norfolk, and Chaplain to his Maiesty in ordinary.	Mason, Francis, 1566?-1621.	1621 (1621)	STC 17600; ESTC S112434	36,020	128

these foure points 1. The quality of the person or what manner of man this David was which committed adultery 2. With whom 3. When. 4. How he was plunged into this gulfe of sinne The first point is the quality of the person Concerning which I may truly affirme that David was the most eminent and remarkable man that was then living upon the face of the earth for it was famously knowne both to Iewes and Gentiles that the God of heaven had been his continuall Buckler and Defence even from his youth up He had defended him from a raging Beare from a roaring Lion from a huge and terrible Giant from the fury of the Philistines from the cruell persecution of bloodthirsty Saul and in a word from a thousand dangers And as the Lord had compassed him about with gracious deliverances so he had crowned him with blessings upon blessings temporal spirituall ordinarie extraordinary First when he was a poore Shepheard following the Ewes the Lord sent Samuel to anoint him King over Israel Secondly the Lord gave him a glorious victory over Golias all Israel did see it and reioiced Thirdly the Lord gave him honour in the hearts of the people so that the women did sing in their dances Saul hath slaine his thousands David his ten thousands Fourthly the heart of Ionathan the Kings sonne was knit vnto him for he loved him even as his own soule Fiftly Michal the Kings daughter loved him so David became the Kings sonne in lawe And after the death of Saul and Ionathan the Lord advanced him to the royal throne the glittering Diademe was set upon his head he raigned over Iuda seven yeers and sixe moneths and then over all Israel even from Dan to Bersheba Besides all this the Lord gave him plenty of gold and silver and victory over all his enemies so that his victorious banner was displayed even from Ierusalem to the River Euphrates Moreover he was a Prophet of the Lord a type of Christ a Secretary of the holy Ghost in penning those sacred and mellifluous Psalms he was also the sweet Singer of Israel and a Composer of those melodious harmonies that were used in the Tabernacle of God hee was likewise one of the Patriarks for so Saint Peter stiles him and God had sworne unto him that he should be one of the Progenitors of Iesus Christ. Now for inward gifts and graces hee was a Child of God a member of Christ a Temple of the Holy Ghost a vessell of grace a sanctified Soul a sweet and well tuned Cymbal a heavenly Organ of angelicall sound in all his workes he prays'd the Lord with words of glory every Psalme breathing religion and devotion in so much that God himselfe gave him this testimony that hee was a man according to Gods owne heart O what eminencie of grace what sublimitie of honour what preheminence of prerogatiues was here and yet for all this David euen this David committed adulterie Now that we may make vse of this example first let vs obserue the frailty and infirmity of man Behold hee that was supposed to be strong as a Lyon and tall as a Cedar was not only incountred but also conquered with a temptation Wherefore in his frailety wee all may behold as in a glasse the plaine image of our owne imbecillity for if the Lyon be conquered what shall the little Lamb doe If the Cedars of Libanus be shaken what shall the tender plant doe Alas what are wee if God withdraw his grace Even the best man upon the face of the earth if he were left to himselfe should perish everlastingly Look upon Saint Peter ô what a confidence and hye conceit had he of himselfe and yet for all his boasting hee did not onely deny but also forsweare his Master Wherfore lay away all presumption let no arogancy proceed out of your mouth but let every man cōsider his own infirmity therby learn a holy and a gracious humility Secondly let us observe the danger wherin we stand for if David a man according to Gods owne heart were tempted what man upon the face of the earth can be free from temptation I confesse that all men are not tempted alike to the same sinne of adultery For as our Saviour sayth There are some Eunuches which were so borne from their mothers wombe but all men are tempted to one sinne or other Now where the banke is lowest there the water will over where the wall is weakest there the enemy will batter and where man is weakest there the divell will soonest assault him for our adversarie is like to a cunning fisherman he cōsiders the natures and inclinations of the fishes and accordingly baiteth his hooke If Iudas be covetous the divell will baite his hooke for him with thirtie pieces of siluer If Achan love pride in apparell the divell will angle for him with a goodly Babylonish garment If Absolon be ambitious the divell will seeke to catch him with the hope of a kingdome Thus hee observeth all and accordingly he tempteth all and therefore looke for temptation whosoever thou art Alas my brother thou carriest sinfull flesh and bloud about thee and dost thou thinke thou shalt not be tempted The world is full of alluring provocations and doest thou think thou shalt not be tempted The divell goeth about like a roaring Lion seeking whom hee may devoure and dost thou think thou shalt not be tempted Wee have an enemy sayth Saint Hierome Cui nomina mille mille nocendi artes atque ego infoelix victorem me putabo dum capior He hath a thousand names and a thousand subtill devices to intrap and intangle the soules of men and I poore wretch shall I thinke my selfe a Conquerour even then when I am taken captive Beleeve me beleeve me haec tranquillitas tempestas est this calme will proove a storme for even then thou art tempted when thou thinkest thou art not tempted nay therefore thou art tempted because thou thinkest thy selfe free from temptation Our blessed Saviour when he taught his disciples to say Forgive vs our trespasses hee taught them likewise to say And leade vs not into temptation thereby teaching us that even those children of God whose trespasses are forgiven are still notwithstanding subiect to temptation Wherefore my sonne when thou entrest into the service of God prepare thy selfe for temptation Thirdly seeing wee are all so weake and yet walke in such danger what is then to bee done That we may learne of the Apostle Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall But how shall we take heed that we may learne of our blessed Saviour when he sayth Watch and Pray If the watch be neglected but one night the Citie may bee taken David had kept watch and ward over his senses all his life time and now neglecting it but one Evening he is not onely incountred but carried

away captive to the lawe of sinne Wherefore wee had all neede to vse vigilancy and circumspection Watch therefore and pray that ye fall not into temptation The Spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weake And because it is weake therefore neglect no good means that the Lord hath appointed And when thou hast done all that thou canst put no confidence in thy selfe but rely upon thy God saying O knit my heart unto thee that I may feare thy name And thus much of the first point viz. the quality of the person which committed adultery now I come to the second that is the partie with whom The understanding wherof wil helpe vs to to discerne the nature and quality of the sin For if both parties be single it is single fornication but if both or one of them be either maried or contracted in verbis de praesenti it is adulterie Wherby also it appears that there are sundry degrees in adulterie but when a married man pollutes a married woman that is adultery in the highest degree Now with whom did David commit this folly was it with a single woman No but with one Bathsheba an other mans wife Then it was more then single fornication it was adulterie But was not David himself also a married man Yes vndoubtedly Then both parties were maried and therefore it was adultery in the highest degree Yea and peradventure he had moe wives then one Verie true he had many wives when he dwelt at Hebron and yet hee tooke him more when hee came to Ierusalem And had hee so ample a remedy against concupiscence and yet would transgresse Gods holy ordinance to eate of the forbidden tree Had hee so many wives of his owne and yet would defile the one onely wife of an other man O most horrible and execrable adulterie and that in the verie height of the highest degree But whose wife was she She was the wife of one Vrias by Nation a Hittite and stranger from the cōmon-wealth of Israel but by grace a Proselyte and an imbracer of the true Religion indeed a very holy and devout man He was by profession a Souldier a valiant Captaine and reckoned among the Worthies of David But where was he now he was in the field at the siege of Rabba of the Ammonites fighting for the glory of God for the Arke of the Covenant for the honour of his Prince and for the good of his Countrey And would such a man as David offer such a wrong to such a man at such a time ô what a blemish scandall was this for the Church of God ô tell it not in Gath and publish it not in the streets of Askelon lest the Daughters of the Philistines reioice and the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph And thus much of the second point But to come to the third point When did he thus forget himself and transgresse the Commandemēt of the most High To which I answere that the day and yeere are not recorded in holy Scripture neither can they be precisely collected out of the same It seemeth that the Holy Ghost did passe them over of purpose that they might be covered with eternall darkness and everlastingly buried in the lake of oblivion Wherfore let not that yeare bee measured with the motion of the sunne let not that be numbred among the dayes of the yeare in that evening let no starre shine wherein such a shining starre was eclipsed and let that night for ever remaine in darkness wherein was committed such a worke of darknes Notwithstanding though wee cannot define the time in particular yet we may describe it in generall by three circumstances For David incurred this sinne in his declining age during the time of the warres with the Ammonites he him selfe then lying at home in Ierusalem in plenty and prosperity idleness ease First it happened in his declining age for David was thirty years old when hee began to raigne and he raigned in Hebron seaven yeares and six moneths and then hee raigned in Ierusalē After which time first hee wonne the fort of Sion expelled the Iebusites Secōdly he overcame the Philistines in three sundry battells Thirdly hee smote the Moabites and measured them with lines Fourthly hee spoyled the children both of Ammon and Amalec Fitftly hee fought a great battell with Hadadezer King of Zobah in Armenia vpon the river Euphrates and he tooke from him a thousand Chariots seaven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succor Hadadezer David slew of them two twenty thousand and put garrisons in Syria Damascena Sixtly hee vanquished Idumaea and put garrisons in Edom. Seaventhly the King of Ammon assisted with thirtie three thousand Syrians made warre against Israel but Ioab forced them into their Citie After a while they issue out againe and Hadadezer brought foorth the Syrians beyond the river Euphrates which David hearing assembled all Israel and went to battell and subdued the Syrians who became his servants and after that time assisted the Ammonites no more The next spring following David sent out Ioab and all Israel with him against the Ammonites And in the mean while he lying at home in Ierusalem defiled himselfe with fleshly lusts Now so many great and sundry battels and some of them so farre distant with divers passages of peace between them must needs require a long time and many yeares which being added to the former thirtie seaven yeares and six moneths I may safely say that David was then in his declining age And yet he was not now exceeding olde For he lived in all but seaventie yeares and it is evident that this happened before the birth of Salomon who is reckoned the fourth sonne that Bathsheba bore to David But whether the holy Ghost in that place use the order of nature or some other order I will not determine Moreover in what yeare of Davids raigne Salomon was borne or how olde he was when David died and hee began to raigne is not revealed in holy Scripture and therefore upon this wee can ground no certaintie Some coniecture vpon the premises that David was now forty six yeares olde some that hee was fortie eight others imagine that he was above fifty But what the holy Ghost hath concealed that I will not take upon me curiously to define and therefore I content my selfe with this generalitie that David was now in his declining age O what a shamefull thing was this that hee which had bridled his affections in the flower and flame of his youth should thus staine his honor in his riper years For though no age be priviledged to sin yet incōtinencie in a decaying age is most intolerable Euen a young man so soon as he is born hath one foot in the grave but a decaying man is ready to put in the other foote also There was a riddle propounded by the Theban

of adultery When a couple are married or betrothed they make a solemn promise or vow one to another in the name of the al-seeing God Now the adulterer besides all his other offēces he transgresseth the covenant of his God Besides this he wrongs his owne wife with whom hee is linked in wedlocks golden band his wife I say whom hee should love as his owne soule O how he wrongs her in that hee prefers a strumpet before her Againe the adulterer wrongeth the husband of the woman which he defileth who if it come to his knowledge is thereby inraged his iealousie burnes like fire and he wil not spare in the day of vengeance And this undoubtedly is a marvailous wrōg For first he is robd of the love of his wife an inestimable iewell 2. His estate by this meanes may be translated to another mans childe and is it then any marvaile if States and Common-wealths have been severe in punishing of adultery I wil only touch this point briefly because the time passeth away In the Leviticall Law the adulterer and the adulteresse were both put to death I confesse that the Iudicials of Moses were moulded upon the Iewish Common-wealth and doe not simply binde Christians yet there is a perpetuall equity to be observed to wit that sinne be so punished that men may feare to offend This was practised of the Gentiles even by the light of nature for the Arabians did punish adulterie with loss of life as witnesseth Strabo Among the heathen Romans Lex Iulia was renowned and terrified many Others though they made it not Capitall yet they layd heavie punishment upon it and filled the faces of adulterers with shame and infamie Some write that the Egyptians did vse to cut off the womans nose and beate the man with battes almost to death Zaleuchus king of the Locrenses made a lawe that adulterers should lose both their eyes In later ages the Church of Rome hath beene too much indulgent unto this sinne and thereby gotten mynes of silver and gold Yea the Pope hath been so shamelesse as to take a tribute of Courtizans this was Daemon meridianus the Divell raigning at noone day This was not onely a sinne in the State but the sinne of the State because it had approbation by publike authoritie With vs though this sin too much abound yet it is punishable by our lawes and hath no coūtenance from authority And therefore though it be a sinne in our State it is not the sinne of our State Yet it were to bee wished that those grave and iudicious Sages and Senators of the kingdom which heare mee this day would in their godly wisedome consider whether it were not fit that the corporall punishment of adulterers should be augmented among us that men may stand in awe and sinne not And when good lawes are enacted let them not be like spiders webs where great flies breake through and little flies are entangled Let it not be said among us as it was sometime amongst the Romans Vbi nunc lex Iulia Dormis How great regard is to be had of the execution of wholesome lawes we may see in Zaleuchus who having made the lawe before mentioned That adulteterers should lose both their eyes it came to passe that his owne son committed adultery What was heere to be done should hee execute the law and put out his eyes Alas it was his owne on-only sonne and by this meanes the people should have had a blinde King Should hee not execute it Who then would regard his lawes when he himselfe did first breake them Therfore he tooke a middle course Because the lawe required the putting out of two eyes therefore he put out one of his sonnes eyes for hee had offended and another of his owne that his people might see how much he abhorred the sinne of adultery and withall how much he respected the execution of lawes But howsoever man doe neglect the execution of iustice against adulterers the God of heaven will find them out The children of Israel committed fornication and there fell in one day foure and twenty thousand Reuben the sonne of Iacob ascended into his fathers bed and thereby hee lost three prerogatives belonging to the first borne The first was the office of the Priesthood which was given to the sons of Aaron which were of the tribe of Levi. The second was the soveraignty which was translated to Iuda The third was the double portion which befell unto Ioseph Concerning all these it was said to Reuben thou wast unstable as water thou shalt not excell I knowe there is great difference between incest and adultery neither dare I enter into Gods secret iudgements yet thus much is certain that as incest so likewise adultery is a fire that consumeth to destruction and will root out all a mans increase And therefore if a man would have a blessed seed let him keepe his body vndefiled Ioseph refused to staine his vessell and the Lord so blessed him in his mariage that his two sons Ephraim and Manasses were reckoned among the tribes of Israel yea Israel did blesse in them and say God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasses On the contrary if men shall defile another mans bed it shall be the iust iudgement of God if they finde a crosse in their owne mariage bed and if their owne wives and daughters be defiled Yea if they shall bee hardned in this filthiness let them take heed lest this fire so burne to destruction that it roote out all their increase and cause their houses to decay and their lands to be translated to another name And yet I would exhort all men that they would refrain this sinne not so much for feare of punishment as for conscience sake Not your soules onely but your bodies also were created according to Gods image and therfore defile them not Not your soules onely but your bodies also are bought with a price even with the precious blood of Iesus Christ and therefore defile them not Not your soules onely but your bodies also are temples of the holy Ghost and therefore defile them not but so preserve these vessels of grace in this world that they may bee vessels of glory in the world to come Which the Lord grant c. The end of the first Sermon THE SECOND SERMON upon the former Text preached at Theobalds before the Kings Maiesty upon Sunday the 21. of Ianuary 1620. WHen of late I entred upon the explication of this Text in a Princely presence I proposed 3 things in David to be considered his sinne his repentance and his absolution The sinne of David reproved by Nathan and here confessed and lamented by himselfe was first of all that great and grievous sinne of adultery and secondly those other enormous sinnes wherwith hee entangled himselfe while he went about to hide and conceale his adultery To shew the haynousnesse of his adultery I unfoulded