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kingdom_n	king_n	lord_n	saul_n	2,383	5	9.7328	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14367	The ouerthrow of the iustification of workes and of the vain doctrin of the merits of men with the true affection of the iustification of faith and of the good workes that procead or come of the same, and in what respect our good workes are crouned or rewarded of God settte foorth dialoge wise by John Veron	Véron, John, d. 1563.	1561 (1561)	STC 24685; ESTC S112540	57,442	173

for it Who I praye you readinge this historye will not be affrayed too serue God otherwise than he doth appoynte in his worde In the second boke of Samuell 2. Samu. 6. it is written that when Dauid wold bring the Arke to Ierusalem hee caused it to be put vpon a new cart whiche doubtlesse was most gorgeouslye trymmed and drawen with the goodlyest and fayrest cattell that coulde be gotten Dauid and and the house of Israell playinge before the Lord on all instrumentes made of fyre and on harpes and on psalteries and on tymberelles ▪ and on cornetts and on cimballes But nowe marke the ende when they came to Nachons threshinge floore Vzzah smitten of the Lord. Vzzah did put his hande too the Arke of God and helde it For the oxen dyd shake it And the Lorde was very wroth with vzzah and God smote him in the same place for his faut and there he dyed by the Arke of God Let Dauid expounde this matter him selfe In the first boke of the chronicles 1. Para. 13. these be his wordes which he spake vnto the Leuites because ye were not there at the fyrst the Lord our God made a breache or rent among vs. For we soughte him not after due order This was the due order The order that God had apoynted touching the Arke that shuld haue bene obserued and kept The Lorde God hath appoynted that the Arke should haue bene caryed vpon the shoulders of the Leuites But what did Dauid For a realtye and to declare his greate zeale that he bare to Gods religyon wold haue it to be caried vpon a goodlye chariot or waggon nothinge beinge omitted or lefte of that belonged to such glorious solēnity as ye haue learned before Yet ye see how God did accepte it As for Vzzah no man can denye but that he dyd of a good intente put foorth his hand to haue stayed the Arke Saul standeth in defence of his disobedience least it shoulde through the stronglinge of the cattell haue fallen doune in to the myre Who woulde not iudge that thys was wel done And yet was he smitten of the Lorde that hee dyed before the Arke Wherby we learn what daunger it is too folowe good intentes or to doo anye thinge in good seruyce without hys expresse worde ALBION These are very terrible and dreadfull examples God graunte that wee maye haue the grace alwaies to remember them PHI. The historye of Saull who was the first kinge of the Israelites is yet more terrible God had geuen him a cōmaundement that he should smite Amaleke and destroye all that pertayned vntoo them and haue no compassion on them but slaye both man and woman both infante and suckeling bothe oxe and shepe bothe camell and asse The historye of● Saul But Saul and the people spared the best of the shepe and of the oxen for to sacrifice them vnto the Lorde and destroyed all the rest This did they of a good intente in so muche that Saul stode in defense of the deede sayinge I haue obeid the voyce of the Lord haue destroyed the Amalechites but the people toke of the spoyle shepe and oxen and the chiefest of the things which should haue ben destroyed for to offer thē vnto the Lord. Vnto whō the prophet Samuel answered Hath the Lord as great pleasyr in burnt offerings sacrifice as whē the voice of the lord is obeid Behold to obey is better than sacrifice and too harkene is better than the fatte of rammes But rebellion is as the synne of witchcrafte and disobedience is as the wickednes of ydolatry Therfore because thou hast cast awaye the worde of the Lorde the Lorde hath also cast thee awaye from beinge king Because then that Saul dyd rather folowe his good intent than the commaundemente and worde of the Lorde therefore his kingedome was not onelye rente from him and geuen to his neighboure that was better than he but also the spirit of the Lorde departed frome him 1. Samu. 16 and an euyll spiritte sente of the Lorde vexed hym ALBION Are these the frutes of our good intents From hencefoorth God wylling I wyll endeuoure my selfe to harken vntoo the voyce of the Lorde to obey hys commaundementes and too serue him as he wil be serued For besydes those terrible and dreadeful historyes I remember the sayynge of Christ where he sayeth They worship me in vayne teachinge the doctrines Mat. 15. and precepts of men Wherby it is made moste manifest and playne that the religion worshippinge and seruice of God whiche is errected and set vp after the phancies and dreams of mennes headdes is both vayne and abhominable before the maiesty of God DYDIMVS Syth that the good woorkes of the popecacholikes do rather deserue the name of synne and of detestable abhomynation before God than of good works as it hath ben by you sufficientlye proued alreadye I woulde fayne hear which be the true good workes Which be the true good workes that God doth requyre of vs. that are required of the faithfull PHI. The true good workes are voyde of all superstition they are alligated or bounde neyther to place nor to the personnes nor to tyme. For they are as certayne frutes of our whole life testifying of the goodnesse of oure hart and expressinge the nature of our heauenly father whiche not onely of the faythfull but of the very infidelles are reckenned and taken for good workes and minister occasion vnto them to glorifye our father whyche is in heauen The works of fayth working through charity and loue are good works For God doeth worke them in vs and by vs. Them doth our sauiour Iesus Christ set oute in the .xxv. chapiter of Mathewe Why the good workes of mercy are most chieflye set foorth vnto vs. sayinge I was a hungerd and ye gaue me meate I was a thyrst and ye gaue me drincke I was naked and ye clothed me I was harborlesse and ye harboured me I was sicke and in prison and ye visited me The holye apostell likewyse in the .v. and .vi. chapter of the Epistel to the Galatians doth sufficiently teache vs what be the good workes that God doth require of vs But what should I aleadge one text or two syth that the whole scriptures doe euery where exhorte vs styll vnto good workes Which be the good workes that God hath prepared for vs too walke in What those good workes be Paule doeth declare in the seconde to the Ephesyans when he sayth We are the worke manshyp of God created in Christ Iesu vnto those good works that God hathe prepared for vs for to walke in Yf onye nowe should aske what be those good woorkes that he hathe prepared for vs for to walke in I woulde aunswer that all those woorkes that God doethe bydde and commaunde vs in hys holye and sacred worde are those good woorkes that he hathe prepared for vs for to walke in And those I saye ought onelye