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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	6,232	5	10.0779	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01852	Sermons on St Peter. By Robert Gomersall Bachelar in Divinitie	Gomersall, Robert, 1602-1646?	1634 (1634)	STC 11994; ESTC S103324	78,780	162

though against him chiefly yet against him onely thou hast not sinned Hast thou not sinned against Vr●jah in taking away first his wifes chastity and afterwards his owne life from him Hast thou not sinned against Bathshebah sinned against her whom thou so lovedst nay hast thou not sinned against her in such a love by which thou hast made her to be reckoned amongst the foolish women Hast thou not sinned against the Commonwealth by giving such a bad example against the Commonwealth I say unto which their Kings actions are the more prevalling statute Hast thou not sinned against the Church likewise against which thou hast opened the mouthes of the adversary who from thee will judge of all other Professors and say that lust and murder are the best fruits of thy Religion Nay hast thou not sinned against the Enemies of the Church likewise by making them to continue enemies still to hate the Church of which before these enormities of thine they might happily have desired to have been members Hast thou sinned against all these and yet darest thou say that in thy profoundest humiliation when thou wouldst be thought rather to weep than speake nay when thou pretendest such a griefe that thou wouldst be thought rather to bleed it out than weep darest thou then say that thou hast sinned onely against God yes he dareth say it and that with as much truth as confidence He hath sinned in all those respects which I have mētioned yet he may boldly say that he hath sinn'd only against the Lord he hath sinned only against the Lord as against him that can take notice of and punish him for his sin against whomsoever he hath offended besides it is all one as if he had not offended in respect of punishmēt they may dislike they cannot judge him they must still submit even to such a Superior But you will say that David was a King and therfore might be partial in his own case he might affirme that in no respect the subject might rise against his Prince not because he thought it true but because he found it to be convenient that he did not thinke it safe to divulge that mystery of State That notorious wickednesse subjected the Prince to his subjects who could be no longer supreme than vertuous Well suppose he was partiall in his owne cause shall we thinke that he was in Sauls likewise and yet even then wee see that upon no pretence whatsoever will he make an Inferiour of the Supreme And yet Saul was as bad as we can imagine a man that spared those whom God commanded him to kill and killed those which all the motives of Humanity and Religion would have perswaded him to spare Clementior in Dei hostes quàm in Dei sacerdotes saith one who exercised more clemency towards Gods enemies than Gods preists for he spared the best of their sheep and oxen 1. Sam. 15. 15. but these he utterly destroyed both men and women children and sucklings oxen and asses and sheep with the edge of the sword 1. Sam. 22. 19. and which might inflame David the more all this cruelty was exercised on them for his sake What shall I speake of his Tyranny against the Gibeonites against the league which God approved of of his perpetuall seeking of Davids life who though he was annointed King by Gods appointment yet he was kept so far from the Crowne that he had no great assurance of his Being and yet for all this for all Sauls badnesse in generall for all his particular hatred against him though he himselfe likewise was elected by God unto the Kingdome yet when he had him at advantage his heart smote him because he had smote but the garment of the King Dum timuit Deum non laesit inimicum saith Optatus It was Sauls oyle defended him and not his armour David could not in any respect lift up his hand against the annointed of the Lord nor not submit himselfe to him that was Supreme Against this nothing can be replyed but that David made conscience of what hee needed not that he was too just Sauls death had been an Execution not a murder and therefore Magister hìc non tenetur they will remember David and all his meekenes as the Sept. reade it Ps. 132. 1. They will remember but they will not imitate it And yet the Primitive Church would imitate it For 300. yeares they were under ungodly Emperors and yet for all that time they did submit S. Augustin hath a memorable passage concerning those Christians that served in the army of Iulian the Apostate When it came saith hee unto Christs cause then they onely knew him for Supreme who is in heaven c. but when he said Goe forth with the Army goe against such or such a Nation without any more adoe they presently obeyed Distinguebant Dominum aeternum à Domino temporali tamen subditi erant propter Dominum aeternum etiam Domino temporali They could well distinguish between their temporall and eternall Lord and yet they willingly submitted themselves to their temporall for their eternall Lord. But for this they have an evasion S. Paul injoyned and the Christians for so long a time performed obedience to the higher powers not because they were bound to it but because they had no strength to loose themselves from it this subjection was more out of weakenesse than out of Conscience or if it was out of conscience it was out of conscience onely of their weakenesse thus Aquinas and out of him Bellarmine with all the modern Jesuits Soe that in these mens opinion they did submit for wrath onely for feare of punishment could they once but have pleased themselves with their owne strength had they but consulted with their limbs and found that they were able to try such a mastery they then would have broke their bands asunder and cast away their cords from them when they could stand up they then upon no termes would have submitted But this very objection did Tertullian answer a thousand yeares before ever it was made Do you thinke saith he to the Heathen that if we would right our selves by warre we should want numbers or power As if the Moores or Marcomanni or Parthians people but of one Nation could be compared with those which fill the whole world We are strangers to you and yet we replenish all that is your Cities Ilands c. onely we have left you your Idolatrous Temples Cui bello non idonei non prompti fuissemus etiam impares copiis qui tam libenter trucidamur What war are not we fit for even though our numbers were smaller who count it nothing to be slaine Onely this hinders us that apudistam disciplinam magis occidi liceat quàm occidere that our profession thinketh it farre more lawfull to be killed than kill as long as you are supreme we can doe no other then submit Besides were it true that weakenesse onely caused the Christians to