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A67322 God's revenge against the enemies of the church written by T.W. Wall, Thomas. 1658 (1658) Wing W483; ESTC R40679 15,909 54

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GOD'S REVENGE AGAINST The Enemies OF THE CHURCH Written by T. W. LONDON Printed in the Year 1658. 1 Sam. 15. 1 2 3. And Samuel said unto Saul The Lord sent me to anoint thee to be King over his people over Israel Now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts I remember what Amaleck did to Israel how he laid wait for him in the way when he came out of Aegypt Now go and smite Amaleck and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not but slay both man and woman Infant and suckling Oxen and Sheep Camels and Asses TIme was when Amaleck would have destroyed Israel Time is now in my Text when Israel shall destroy Amaleck Go and smite Amaleck and all that they have God will revenge the injuries that are done unto his Saints Anger may sleep but it cannot die Though it be four hundred year after God will call the wicked to account Their posterity shall be heirs of their curse as well as of their lands Whom God hath destined to destruction he will raise up Instruments to effect his own Decrees Whom God employs he will enable them to that piece of service about which he sets them When God does for man he expects that man should do for God The power he gives us he intends we should employ in his service If God gives Saul the dignity of a King 't is fit that Saul should yeild him the duty of a servant And Samuel said unto Saul God sent me to anoint thee c. Now therefore hearken thou to the voice c. These words may be generally dichotomized into two parts 1. A commemoration of what God hath done for Saul made him King And Samuel said unto Saul God sent me to anoint thee to be King over his people over Israel 2. A Declaration of what God would have Saul do for him in these words Now therefore hearken thou unto the voice c. In the commemoration we observe two things 1. By whose ministration Saul was made King by Samuel saith the Text And Samuel said unto Saul God sent me Secondly After what manner he was enstated in that office by being Anointed thereunto God sent me to anoint thee to be King c. In the Declaration of what God would have Saul do for him we observe three things 1. The form of the Injunction in these words Now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the Lord. 2. The ground of this Injunction the remembrance of an injury I remember what Amaleck did to Israel when he came up from Aegypt c. 3. The Commission granted in it Go and smite Amaleck c. The handling of the Text will discover the several branches of each particular I begin with the first general a Commemoration of what God had done for Saul made him King and therein by whose ministration he was so made by Samuel's And Samuel said God sent me God sent me It was not so for Saul was sent to Samuel and not Samuel to Saul so we find it 1 Sam. 9. 16. I answer Sending does not always imply a local motion but somtimes a mental direction God's Prophets are no less said to be sent when they directed their Prophesies to a place then when they brought them It is the delivery of their message rather then their personal moving that speaks them sent I am sent to thee with heavie Tydings saith the Prophet Ahijah to the wife of Jeroboam coming to him though the good old man moved neither from his house nor seat so we read 1 Kings 14. 6. So is Samuel here said to be sent to anoint Saul not so much in reference to any external motion as to that prophetique instinct whereby he was commanded to anoint Saul when he came unto him But Saul in coming to Samuel to receive his Royal Unction Expositors upon my Text say was a Type of wicked and ambitious men seeking after the outward honour and dignity of the world From whence no●e They that are least worthy of honour are commonly most desirous of it and seek after that honour which the more deserving accepts not of without being sought unto Never had pride so much worth as true worth has humility There is no dignities so high which ambition makes not the mark of its own merit no advancement so mean which humility thinks not to over-ballance its desert Every one thinks himself worthy of that honour whereunto he aspires yea therefore aspires to it because he thinks himself worthy of it Lucifer could not be chief among the Angels but he will also be as high as God himself Ero ut Altissimus I will be like the most High Isa 14. 13. Behold O Lucifer thousands of Angels minister unto him and ten thousand stand before him While all the rest are standing Lucifer must needs be sitting I will sit in the Mount of the Congregation Isa 14 14. O Lucifer If thou hadst any priority of order thou hadst none of Nature if thou hadst higher endowments then thy fellows yet but the same identity of Being If thou wer● chief in the service of God yet not exempted from it For Are they not all made ●inistring Spirits so saith St Paul Heb. 1. 14. O proud and ambitious spirit Hadst thou rather be without God then under him Hadst thou rather be chief in hell then not as chief in heaven Know then that thou shalt be tumbled into hell Isa 14. 15. And he that would sit in a Throne by himself Judge of his own Angels excellency shall stand before men to be judged for his Divels contumacy so saith St Paul Know ye not that we shall judge the Angels 1 Cor. 6. 3. But let me draw down your thoughts from heaven to earth None of Gideons sons so much affected Soveraigne Power over Israel as Abi●●lech not younger then his brethren so much in years as in worth The name of Judge was enough for his valiant father nothing but the Title of King would suit with his ambition Judg. 9. 2. None before him usurped Soveraign power over Israel none that came after him was less worthy of it He was illegitimate in his birth but execrable in his actions The blood of seventy of his Brethren must seal the Crown faster to his head Absolon too thought he had had as much worth as beauty his Father's crown would better befit his head which yet had more hair then wit There is no wit against the counsel of God who had design'd Israels crown for a wiser head so we read 2 Sam. 7. 13. But what say we next to the Scribes and Pharisees of whom our Saviour says That they love to sit in the chief places in the Synagogues Mat. 23. 6. If their sitting there did become their gravity sure I am their love to fit there did betray their vanity These are those ambitious affections which are figured in Saul in coming though