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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	david_n	lord_n	saul_n	2,776	5	9.6848	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59803	The case of the allegiance due to soveraign powers further consider'd, and defended with a more particular respect to the doctrine of non-resistance and passive-obedience : together with a seasonable perswasive to our New Dissenters / by Will. Sherlock ...	Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1691 (1691)	Wing S3277; ESTC R13361	22,670	34

was so far from taking away his Life that his Heart smote him for cutting off the Skirt of his Garment And we ought to observe the Reason David gives why he durst not hurt Saul Because he was the Lord's Anointed which is the very Reason the Apostle gives in the 13. Rom. 12. Because the Powers are ordained of God and he that resisteth the Power resisteth the ordinance of God For to be anointed of God signifies no more than that he was made King by God Thus Josephus expounds beinganointed by God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one who had the Kingdom bestowed on him by God and in another place One who was ordained by God For it seems by this Phrase he looked upon the external Ceremony of Anointing to be like Imposition of Hands which in other cases consecrated Persons to peculiar Offices For this external Unction was only a visible sign of God's designation of them to such an Office and when that was plain they were as much God's Anointed without this visible Unction as with it Cyrus is called God's Anointed though he never was anointed by any Prophet but only designed for his Kingdom by Prophecy 45. Isa. 1. And we never read in Scripture that any Kings had this external Unction who succeeded in the Kingdom by right of Inheritance unless the Title and Succession were doubtful and yet they were the Lord 's Anointed too that is were placed in the Throne by him So that this is an eternal Reason against resisting Soveraign Princes that they are set up by God and invested with his Authority and therefore their Persons and Authority are sacred But yet there are some men who from the example of David think they can prove the lawfulness of a defensive though not an offensive War For David when he fled from Saul made himself Captain of four hundred men 1 Sam. 22.2 which number soon encreased to six hundred 1 Sam. 23.13 and still every day encreased by new additions 1 Chron. 12.1 Now why should he entertain these men but to defend himself against the Forces of Saul that is to make a defensive War whenever he was assaulted by him 1. In answer to this I obs●rve That David invited none of these men after him but they came Voluntiers after a beloved Captain and General which shews how formidable he could have made himself when such numbers resorted to him of their own accord 2. When he had them he never used them for any Hostile Acts against Saul or any of his Forces he never stood his ground when he heard Saul was coming but alwaies fled and his Men with him Men who were never used to flee and were very ready to have served him against Saul himself would he have permitted them And I suppose they will not call this a Defensive War to flie before an Enemy and to hide themselves in Caves and Mountains and yet this was the only Defensive War which David made with all his Men about him Nay all that he would make according to his professed Principles That it was not lawful to stretch out his hand against the Lord 's Anointed And when these men are pursued as David was by an inraged and jealous Prince we will not charge them with Rebellion though they flie before him by thousands in company 3. Yet there was sufficient reason why David should entertain these men who voluntarily resorted to him though he never intended to use them against Saul for some of them served for Spies to observe Saul's motions that he might not be surprized by him but have timely notice to make his escape And the very presence of such a number of men about him without any hostile act preserved him from being seized on by some officious persons who otherwise might have delivered him into Saul's hands And he being anointed by Samuel to be King after Saul's death this was the first Step to his Kingdom to have such a Retinue of valiant Men about him which made his advancement to the Throne more easie and discouraged any opposition which might otherwise been made against him as we see it proved in the event and have reason to believe that it was thus ordered by God for that very end It is certain that Gad the Prophet and Abiathar the Priest who was the only man who escaped the fury of Saul when he destroyed the Priests of the Lord were in David's Retinue and that David enterprized nothing without first asking Counsel of God But he who had anointed him to be King now draws Forces after him which after Saul's death should facilitate his advancement to the Kingdom 2 dly It is objected further That David intended to have stayed in Keilah and to have fortified it against Saul had not he been informed That the Men of the City would have saved themselves by delivering him up to Saul 1 Sam. 23. Now to maintain any strong Hold against a Prince is an act of War though it be but a defensive War And I grant it is so but deny that there is any Appearance that David ever intended any such thing David and his Men by God's appointment and direction had fought with the Phil●●tins and smote them with a great slaughter and saved Keilah from them and as it is probable did intend to have stayed some time in Keilah But David had heard that Saul intended to come against Keilah to destroy the City and take him and enquires of the Lord about it and receives an answer That Saul would come against the City He enquires again whethe● the Men of Keilah would deliver him up to Saul and was an●wered That they would And upon this he and his Men leave Keilah and betake themselves to the strong Holds in the Wilderness But now it is likely That if David had had any design to have fortified Keilah against Saul he would have been afraid of the Men of the City He had six hundred Men with him in Keilah a victorious Army which had lately destroyed the Philistines who oppressed them and therefore could easily have kept the Men of Keilah too in awe if he had pleased and have put it out of their power to deliver him to Saul But all that David designed was to have stayed there as long as he could and when Saul had drawn nigh to have removed to some other place But when he understood the Treacherous Inclinations of the Men of Keilah and being resolved against all acts of Hostility he hastened his remove before Saul drew near So that these men must find some other Example than that of David to countenance their Rebellion against their Prince for David never rebelled never fought against Saul but when he had a very potent Army with him he and his Men alwaies fled and ●●d themselves in the Wilderness and places of difficult access The Sum is this God from the very beginning set up such a Supreme and Soveraign Power in the Jewish Nation as could not as ought