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Anwick his meditations vpon Gods monarchie and the deuill his kingdome And of the knowledge that man in this life may obtaine of the almightie, eternal, and most glorious godhed: with other thinges not only worth the reading but also the marking and the retayning.
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Anwick, I.
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of his owne laboure For afterwardes Absalon became a rebell and assayed to put his father from his royall dignity All which thinges were done by Gods forepointment to plague Dauid for his secrete adultery with Vrias Wife and murthering of him being his faythful seruant Therfore God by Satans seruice made his Sonne Ammon to rauish his Sister Thamar and his dearest beloued Sonne Absalon to kil his brother Amnon and after to rebell agaynst the King his Father made him fâ—â—e to saue his lyfe abused his fathers Wyues and Concubynes and shamed not in all the peoples sight in the day tyme to shewe his going 2 SaÌ„ 16. 2â— in to satisfy his beastly lust on them * thinking thereby the better to establish himselfe in the royall seate therein following the aduise of the chiefest and most honorable counseller that King Dauid had Achitophel by name whose counsell was esteemed with Dauid and Absalon as an oracle from God And that all these things were done by the seruice of satan 2 Sam. 12. 9 the text is playne * Wherefore hast thou dispised the commaundement of the Lord to doe euill in his sight Thou hast kylled Vryas and taken his Wife Therefore the Sworde shall neuer depart from thy house because thou hast dispised mee sayth the Lord behold I wil raise vp euill agaynst thee out of thyne owne honse I will giue thy Wiues to another that shall lye with them openly thou didst it secretly but I will doe the thing openly before all Israell And albeit there was neuer but one such Dauid yet by histories wee see that in euery age there hath bene infinite nombers of such villanyes the Father with the Daughter the Mother with the Sonne the Brother with the Sister haue committed horible factes and all by the suggestion of Satan by whom God according to his promise * punisheth the sinnes of the Exod. 20. 5. perentes vpon the children vnto the third and fourth genâ—ration And that by such secrete and intrieate woorking that the greatest the wisest and bâ—st learned and who soeuer hath most experience shall not bee able to foresee and auoyde that which God hath once determined For al that hee hath purposed shall bee performed either in rewarding in his elect yâ— good workes which hee himselfe causeth them to woorke or else punishing in the reprobate the euill woorkes of the world the flesh and the Deuill For whatsoeuer God spake was immediatly extant or in ful A litle digression declaring how first God esta blished a suc cessiue cours in all his promises works and ordinances from the beginning which can neuer faile in performance Ephe. 4. 10. â—3 effect done as after the creation of all thinges by his woord which immediatly was done he promised that the seed of the woman should breake the head of the Serpent which in his purpose and knowledge was lykewyse done For Christ Iesus being the seed of the woman hath doth shall wreast forceably out of Satans power into whose captiuity all mankynde fell by the sinne of Adam * all such as he had fore-chosen and forepoynted from among the rest and the same purposed in himself before the foundations of the world were layed so that all the promises of God are in him yea and amen for euer That is to say Christ Iesus was then borne in respect of God his purpose the word being spoken for our ioy and comfort Hee did then preach the gospell for our instruction He did then woorke miracles for confirmation of our fayth Hee was then tormented on the Crosse suffered paynes equall to the torment of Hell and death of body and layed in graue for the sinnes of the world that is to say for the sinnes of his elect committed in the world He was then risen agayne for our iustification He was then ascended into heauen againe for our sanctification He was then comen againe to iudge the quicke and the dead for our ful redemption and glorification Al was theÌ„ done in Gods sight for with him is time past nor to come but onely the present tyme. * God spake and it was done hee Psalm 33. 9 commaunded and euery thing had his being Therefore all the promises of God are in him yea and amen foreuer Christ Iesus * is the Lambe slayne from the beginning in Reuel 13. 8 euery age in this present age and shall be slayne in euery age yet to come of this corrupt world in his members his elect * his litle flocke to whom the wicked worldlinges haue Luk. 12. 32. euer done presently doe and euer shall doe alwayes wrong and violence And the poore little flocke are alotted to suffer it during this wretched lyfe The multitude are slowe to beleeue the promises of God therefore if holy scripture confirmed by Christ Iesus his bitter passions and wonderfull miracles bee not sufficient witnesse if the holy Prophets Apostles and infinite nomber of Martirs wil not cause people to beleeue the promises of God and obay the almighty Monarch Then heare what women Gen. 3. 16. can say and truly affirme by daily experience * God promised Eua for punishment of her infidelity pryde and disobedience that in payne and with sorrow shee and consequently by nature her posterity should bring forth her children This promise hath bene found true from the beginning shall continew to the ending as all Women of this present age bringing foorth Children must needes confesse And I dare say they will affirme the same But the woord of God needes no witnesse to all true beleeuers And they that cannot beleue let them doe as holy Scripture teacheth Aske of God the Father in the name of Christ Iesus and it shal be giuen theÌ„ it is his promise that can neuer fayle in performance THE FVLFILLING OF GODS threatninges in afflicting King Dauid and his posterity CAP. 8. AND to the ende wee may the better Psalm 146. assure our selues that * the Lord keepeth his promise for euer both in rewarding of Vertue and punishing of vice Let vs marke well howe God proceedeth in prosecuting his punishmentes vpon Dauid and his posteritye God gaue vnto Salomon the King such excellency of wisedome ritches and glory as neuer King of any Nation was comparable vnto him And notwithstanding those heroicall giftes hee towardes his ende when by course of naturall lyfe hee should haue bene best hee so beastly neglected the feare of Cod that hee became a monster in Idolatrie in Adultery and Fornication and hauing those could not bee free from any other vice and so became an vglye and most mishapen ymage of God so by his filthines hee turned al his worldly glory into shame And wheras for Dauids euil dealing God promised his Swoord should neuer departe from his house Now for Salomons beastlines God reciteth his promise saying * I will for this affliet the seede of Dauid 1 Re. 11. 39 12. 15. Reuel 5. 5. 1 Tim. 6. 14 15. Reue.
17. 14 19. 16 1 Re. 11. 14 31. but not for euer * for Christ Iesus the Lyon of the trybe of Iehudah shall come and sitte one the spirituall seat of his father Dauid for euer * for hee is Lord of Lordes and King of Kinges euerlasting So that the seed of Dauid was afflicted vntil Christ Iesus by his death tryumphed ouer all his enemies * For God raysed aduersaries agaynst Salomon and threatned to rente his kingdome in peeces which he performed as it is written in the twelft Chapter and al to punish his beastly lyfe But for king Dauids sake God did not rent the kingdome whyle Salomon liued But hee beeing dead and Roboham his Sonne begynning to raigne al Israel came to Sechem to make him king as it were to the coronation And then and there the people hauing chosen them a Captayne and secretly conspired before hand that if the king would not grauÌ„t their necessary request by way of humble petition to make lighter the heauy burthens which Salomon his Father by impostes and taxes had layd vpon them That then they would be quite out his gouernment and reuolt cleane from him Which conspiracy was hidden from king Roboham who in asking counsell to answere the people refused the good those the euill And who was Gods instrument to cause him so to doe euen Satan that olde subtle Serpent that so slâ—ely deceaued Adam Noy Aron Dauid Salomon and all the people of the World from age to age no one hath escaped his clutches but his pestilent enticementes haue made them erre except that only one Christ Iesus the Sonne of the liuing God who was forepoynted promised to breake the Serpentes head So this Serpent Satan woorking in the mynde of King Roboham and his young counsellers caused him to refuse the aduyce of the Counsellers to his Father that gaue him good and sober counsell to rule with lenity and vpright iustice And followed the euil counsell of the young men with whom hee had bene â—rayned vp to rule with rigor and tyranny Whereupon hee answeared the people thus * Whereas â— Reg. 12. 13 my Father did burtheÌ„ you with an heauy yoke I wil make it heauier my father did chasten you with rods but I will correct you with scourges Here let vs consider what spirite wrought in the King and his counsell to cause him make this â—â—uell answere it was not the Spirite of meeknes which is of God it was the Spirite of prâ—de which is of the Deuil Vpon which dispiteful answeare The twelue trybes reuolted quite from him with the like dispitful woords * what portion haue wee with Dauid or inheritance with the sonne 1 Reg. 12. 16 11. 29. 12. 15. of Isha * Ieroboam being their Captayne who became king of those ten Tribes and was called king of Israel and Roboham king of Iehuda Thus the Lord performed his promise in renting his kingdome as well for the sinnes of Roboham as of his father and grandfather Then king Roboham began to make warre agaynst his rebels purposâ—â—g to conquere them agayne by force The lykelihood of his enterprise therein haue bene to haue lost yâ— rest for he had but 2 agaynst 10. But God had forepoynted it otherwise that one should sit on Dauids seate vntil the comming of Messias And to that ende * hee sent his Prophet to 1 Reg. 12. 12. warne him all his people not to deale that way but returne euery man to his owne house sayeth God for the thing is done by me Marke it wel it was Gods woorke who worketh all in all and yet in him no euil at all Satan and his Angels are Gods instrumentes doing their naturall office when where and vpon whom it pleased him to forepoint before the World began to bring each thing to his forepoynted end for the accomplishmeÌ„t of his eternal purpose so wrought they in king Roboham and in those whose counsell hee followed and also in Ieroboham and the ten Trybes to rebell agaynst their Prince For who puts euill conceiptes in peoples myndes who prouokes them to performe the euill conceaued who perswades Princes and their Counsellers to â—â—fuse the good and choose the euill who I say but Satan that olde enemy For he put into the hart of Iehudas to betray his mayster Iohn 13. 3. Christ Iesus Euen so whatsoeuer hath is or shall bee 〈◊〉 Gods forepoyntment it is of necessâ—ty also that hee forepoint the meanes the matter and the maner to bring each thing to â—â— forepoynted 〈◊〉 * for if the Sparrâ—â— fall not Mat. 10. 29 Luk. 11. 6. 7 Act. 27. 34. on the ground without his will neither is one of them forgotten with God if the hayres of the heads of Gods elect are nombred neyther can an hayre fal from their hâ—aâ—s without his will thâ—se beyng as small thinges as may bee deuised And yet not forgotten with God then how can these great thinges bee without his will and appoyntment Vnlesse some madde man would say that perhaps some thing done vnknowen or vnwares to God which were to diminish his almightines but all thinges are possible with God and of him euery thing hath being mouing power disposition of woorking be it good or euill in respect of maÌ„ for in regard that al that is commeth from God all is good euen that which euill spirites worke towardes mankinde for as much as they worke not otherwise then God hath forepoynted for the accomplishment of his eternall purpose Therefore whatsoeuer God doth by the working of spirites good or ill is euery way good and no degree to be tearmed euill For although he commaund man not to kil man yet may God destroy millions of millions without checke of any and geue lyfe againe at his pleasure But why he doth this or that or what hee meaneth by these or those his secrete workes ther ought no questions bee made further then is limitted by holy Scriptures but with all humble obedience let vs submit our selues to his blessed will reuealed in his word and with all reuerence let vs honor the secrets of his will vnreuealed And here withall let vs liue in all dutiful obedience to his holy law for otherwise we hope for mercy in vayne And yet I say * that by the workes of the Law no flesh Gal. 2. 16. shall bee iustifyed The iustice of God which hee executeth by the ministery of Satan and his angels as good as holy as much to be praised and magnifyed as his sweete mercy in Christ Iesus in God they are equall Therefore it pleased God in the secret counsell of his own will for his eternall purpose decreed before the world was to forepoint matter whereon to bestowe iustice and mercye And all to magnify his holy name and shew foorth his owne glory Yet is it not lawfull for Emperours Kings and Princes ouer nations to seeke their own glory for as they are commaunded in generall to seeke set foorth