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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
A07683	A demonstration of God in his workes Against all such as eyther in word or life deny there is a God. By George More Esquire.	More, George, Sir, 1553?-1632.; More, George, Esquire, attributed name.	1597 (1597)	STC 18071.5; ESTC S112856	95,106	174

Eripere vitam nemo non homini potest euery man may take away the life of any man sayed most vntruly and false and foolish is that opinion that who so is carelesse of his owne life is maister of another mans As if that desperate wretch which doth not regard to be killed had power to kill whom hee would It might be so if mens actions were framed of themselues and that by no other guide then by their own nature they were directed Then might a trayterous seruaunt or a disguised stranger approching neere the person take away the life of the greatest Emperour who beeing of innocencie without feare magnanimity without suspition could not but lye open to the wicked will of the vildest caitife in the world And then should not a good Ruler liue amongst sinfull and vngodlie men He seeking to correct their faults and to bridle their disordered desires and they to be voyd of punishment endeuouring to remoue him from amongst them But farre otherwise it is mens harts are not in their own hands neither are their hands directed after their owne wills God mooueth the one and carryeth the other and stayeth both the one and the other according to his pleasure Marius being declared an enemy to the people of Rome Appian de billis ciuilib lib. 1. and put out of the protection of Lawe so as any that would that could I should say might take his goods and his life impune safely without feare of punishment a French souldiour offering himselfe for the purpose was sent by the Magistrats of Minturna with a sword in his hand to kill hym in his bedde he to hide himselfe lying secretly in a poore house of that Citty But the French man comming to performe the deed when he saw him and heard him say Darest thou kill Marius hee ranne like a mad man out of the chamber and cryed out that to kill Marius was not in his power Calphurnius Crassus Dion Cass lib. 68. in vita Ner. conspyring with others the death of Nerua the true patterne of a good Emperour Nerua knowing their conspiracie placed thē at a publique shew next vnto him and not fearing danger being strengthened with a great mind and a cleere conscience deliuered swords ready drawn vnto them and asked them whether they vvere sharpe enough who hauing the swords in theyr hands wherewith they might haue killed him had not the courage to lift them vp against him Ehud Iudg 3. a man lame of his right hand killed Eglon King of Moab but it was the will of God it should bee so for he styrred vp Ehud for a sauiour to deliuer the Children of Israel out of the hands of the Moabits But Abishai going downe with Dauid by night to seeke Saul and finding him a sleep 1 Sam 26 and being minded to smite him with a speare to the earth so as he should not neede to smite him againe yet had not the power to touch him because hee was told by Dauid No man may lay his hand on the Lords annointed be guiltlesse whose hart was directed by the Spirit of God that no man could lay his hand on the Lords annointed and be guiltlesse VVherein diuers dyd appeare the will of GOD to be towards those wicked Kings in destroying the one and sauing the other but euer-more to be full of goodnes and full of power God euer good to his as hauing all power ouer the actions of man and vsing the same alwaies to the good of his chosen Eglon in his Court amongst his friends in his parlor amidst his greatest strength The wicked neuer in safetie by the left hand of a lame man lost his life he saw Ehud come but dyd not foresee nor could auoid the mischiefe hee brought with him On the other side The good in the midst of danger defended by the hand of God Saule a sleepe enclosed with his enemies was not suffered to fall into their hands but was in danger vvithout feare and in safetie without defence beeing then by the will of God ruling the hart of Dauid and leading the hande of Abishai strongly defended when in no sort hee could defend himselfe And both Eglon was killed to deliuer Israell from the seruitude of Moab Saule preserued to teach Israell obedience to the Lords annointed but reserued withall to be distressed of the Philistines and to fall vpon his owne sworde God vseth the wicked against the wicked for the good of his without good to themselues that thereby might appeare the exceeding goodnesse of God in vsing the hand of the wicked against the wicked for the safegard of his people whereby what good soeuer ariseth to thē no more turneth to such instruments therof then came to the builders of the Arke they being drowned in the displeasure of God when Noah alone with his thorough the worke of the others hands The goodnes of God towards Princes and Rulers continueth to the end 1 Reg. ca. 2. was saued aliue In other sort the Lord dealeth with good Princes and Rulers hee standeth by them while they liue and doth not forsake them when they die Dauid after that he had raigned many yeeres ouer Israell in Hebron Ierusalem and had established his soone Salomon in his throne beeing olde and striken in yeeres slept with his Fathers and was buried in the Cittie of Dauid 1. Reg. cap. 11. Salomon although his hart turned after other Gods and was not perfect with the Lorde his God as was the hart of Dauid his Father yet for Dauids sake he made him Prince and kept him safe in his kingdome all his life long so as hee raigned fortie yeeres ouer all Israell at the last slept with his Fathers 2. Chr. cha 17 18 19 20. and was buried in the Citty of Dauid Ichosophat walked in the first waies of his Father Dauid and sought the Lord God of his Father and walked in his commaundements and lifted vp his hart vnto the waies of the Lorde wherefore the Lord established the Kingdome in his hand and gaue him rest on euery side and hee raigned fiue and twenty yeeres in Ierusalem then slept with his Fathers 2. Chr. cap. 27. and was buried with them in the Cittie of Dauid So Iothan became mightie because he directed his way before the Lord his God and his lyfe ended hee slept with his Fathers and was buried in the Citty of Dauid 2. Reg. ca. 18 Hezekiah raigned many yeeres and had exceeding much honor and riches and prospered in all things he tooke in hand for he trusted in the Lord God of Israell so that af ter him was none like vnto him amongst all the kings of Iudah neither were there any such before him wherefore hee slept with his Fathers and was buried in the highest Sepulchre of the sonnes of Dauid 2 Chr. cap. 32. and all Iudah and the inhabitants of Ierusalem did him honour at his death Good

euerlasting saluation VVho beeing inwardly touched with religious loue feare of God their Creator and their Sauiour are ledde and strengthened by his spirit to rule and bring into order the most subtile cruell and forcible beasts of the world Lust Seneca Thiest That whereby Thiestes deceiued his brother and defiled his bed That Anger Plutarch in vita Alex. which stirred Alexander to murther his deerely beloued Clytus That which draue Heliogabalus to hide himselfe there where hee dyed a most contemptible death Feare Aelius Lam. That which soone kylled Diodorus the Logitian Griefe Dioge Laert. because soone enough he could not answere the questions of Stilpo That which suddainly tooke away the breath and the life of Dionisius of Sicilie Ioy. Fulgos. when hee was in his best health Hope Maxi. Tirius And that which forcibly carryed Alcibiades from Licaeum to the Bar from the Bar to the Sea from the Sea into Sicilie out of Sicilie to the Lacedemonians from the Lacedemonians to the Persians from the Persians to Samos from Samos to Athens from Athens to Helespont and so tossed him vp and downe from one part of the world to another VVhich being lodged in our breasts The danger of vnruly affections are still at hand make suddaine and dangerous assaults and are not to be resisted but when by the good Spirit of God they be subdued Not onely the Heathen men before named infinite others which might be remembred haue felt the sting and the strength of those mischieuous mighty enemies but euen the chyldren of God and the best of the best beloued of them being left to the course of nature and counsell of flesh and blood haue been by thē vanquished and led captiue away The force of affections Not the sinceritie of Dauid nor the wisedome of Salomon nor the strength of Sampson was able to withstand the poison Math 26 Acts Apo. the craft and the force of them The Apostles themselues before the cōming of the holy Ghost being ouercommed thereby denied their maister and forsooke him The spirit of God only able in some measure to conquer affections but after beeing strengthened with that spirit they spake with confidence before Princes and Tyrants It is that spirit alone which is able to conquer those enemies and to make them serue as friends to the good of men whereby being ruled brought into order The good of affections well ordered one becommeth the roote of amitie concord another the whetstone of fortitude a third the watch of safetie a fourth the ground of patience a fifth the mother of repentance a sixt the preseruation of bodilie health and quietnes of minde which so had and held honourable is the condition of man his lyfe is pleasing to God and full of comfort to himselfe So as inestimable is that goodnes whereby such happinesse is obtained and right happy are they which by that especiall testimony may be assured that especially they are beloued of the Almightie who is the true author and free giuer of all goodnes whatsoeuer All the children of god not in one degree of happines vpon earth But as all the children of God are greatly blessed in that gouernment ouer thēselues whereby they leade a godly and contented life vppon earth yet are they not all in one degree of happines neither doe they receiue one measure of his goodnes therein The Princes of the earth the speciall images of God Good princes specially endued with the good Spirit of God they which represent his person and his office and are therefore said to bee Gods in the worlde are most endued when they are indued therewith and not without cause for that they are not onely to haue care of themselues but of many thousands committed to their charge whose affections being vnrulie are by them as their owne to be gouerned but not being theyr owne that gouernment with much the greater power wisedome is to be performed VVherein impossible it were but that the mightiest and the vvisest should faile were they not continually assisted by the spirit of that God who being not onely full of power and wisedome but perfect power and absolute wisedome it selfe can neuer faile in performance of whatsoeuer he wil haue brought to passe Thereby it is VVhereby Common weales doe flourish and are maintained that Common-wealths are maintayned and doe flourish that good men are defended from the wicked that Princes and Rulers are established and set fast in theyr kingdoms being guarded with the loue of good subiects and from the mallice of wicked persons preserued For although the good example of the King bee a lawe to good men and law is the curbe of the wicked and the bridle whereby to restraine their wilful practises vngodly attempts yet were not the best by the inward working of God made inclinable to followe that which is good the worser sort secretly touched and troubled in conscience or frighted and dismaied in minde by the power which GOD hath and exerciseth ouer theyr harts examples would not suffise to draw the one nor law to hold back the other which as a weake nette layde open to be seene easily they would by subtiltie auoyde or violence breake through Therefore wee see it falleth out 2 Kings 19 that when God will Senacharib a king is killed of Adramaleke and Seleuster and Viriathas an Emperour Eutrop. 4. is murthered of his owne guard the harts and hands God the onely ruler of mens harts disposer of their actiōs of sonnes and of seruaunts are stirred vp and strengthened against parents and maysters though Kings and Emperours without feare of law or feeling of nature And againe of his goodnes towards the good such as hee fauoureth and is carefull to preserue he keepeth downe the harts and holdeth fast the hands of wicked men that they haue no power ouer theyr own will Absolon aspyring to the kingdome ariseth 2. Reg. cha 15.16.17.18 and taketh counsell with Ahitophell against Dauid the sonne against the Father the seruaunt against the Maister Absolon young and lustie hath the harts of the men of Israell turned after him and the counsell of Ahitophell is as the Oracle of God VVherefore Dauid flieth and forsaketh Ierusalem But God beeing mindfull of his seruant Dauid to deliuer him out of the hands and from the treason of his enemies Ahitophell his counsaile is turned into foolishnes hee hangeth himselfe the people of Israel are slaine before the seruaunts of Dauid of very few infinite in number Absolon caught of an Oake is taken vp killed betweene heauen and earth and Dauid is restored and remaineth King VVee neede not looke farre of nor farre backe to finde examples of the goodnes of GOD in the defence of good Princes and of the weaknes of their estate which are destitute of his helpe the one sort standing safe inuinciblie protected the other as naked of defence