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B13857 Contemplations vpon the historie of the old Testament. The seuenth volume. In two bookes. By Ios. Hall D.D.; Contemplations upon the principall passages of the Holy Storie. Vol. 7 Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. 1623 (1623) STC 12658.5; ESTC S103672 123,026 533

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Contemplations VPON THE HISTORIE of the old TESTAMENT THE SEVENTH VOLVME In two Bookes By IOS HALL D. D. LONDON Printed by J. H●●land for Nath. Butter 1623. Contemplations VPON THE OLD TESTAMENT The 18th Booke Wherein are Rehoboam Ieroboam The seduced Prophet Ieroboams Wife Asa Elijah with the Sareptan Elijah with the Baalites Elijah running before Ahab flying from Iezebel TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE IAMES LORD HAYE Baron of Saley Viscount Doncaster Earle of Carlile one of the Lords of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie COVNSELL Right Honourable I Cannot but thus gratulate to you your happy returne from your many and noble imployments which haue made you some yeeres a stranger at home and so renowned abroad that all the better parts of Europe know and honour your name no lesse than if you had beene borne theirs Neither is any of them so sauage as not to say when they heare mention of your worth that Vertue is a thousand Escuchions If now your short breathing-time may allow your Lordship the freedome of quiet holy thoughts cast your eyes vpon Israel and Iudah vpon the Kings and Prophets of both in such beneficiall varietie as prophane historie shall promise in vaine Your Lordship shall see Rehoboam following Salomon in nothing but his seat and his fall as much more wilfull than his father as lesse wise all head no heart losing those ten Tribes with a churlish breath whom he would and might not recouer with bloud Ieroboam as crafty as wicked plotting a reuolt creating a Religion to his state marring Israelites to make subiects branded in his name smitten in his hand in his loynes You shall see a faithfull messenger of God after miraculous proofe of his courage fidelity power good nature paying deare for a little circumstance of credulous disobedience The lion is sent to call for his bloud as the price of his forbidden harbour You shall see the blinde Prophet descrying the disguise of a Queene the iudgement of the King the remouall of a Prince too good for Ieroboams heire You shall see the right stock of Royall succession flourishing in Asa whiles that true heire of Dauid though not without some blemishes of infirmity inherits a perfect heart purges his kingdome of Sodomy of Idolatry not balking sinne euen where he honoured nature You shall see the wonder of Prophets Elijah opening and shutting heauen as his priuate chest catored-for by the Rauens nor lesse miraculously catoring for the Sareptan contesting with Ahab confronting the Baalites speaking both fire and water from heauen in one euening meekely lacquaying his Soueraigne weakely flying from Iezabel fed supernaturally by Angels hid in the rocke of Horeb confirmed by those dreadfull apparitions that had confounded some other casting his mantle vpon his homely successor and by the touch of that garment turning him from a plough-man to a Prophet But what doe I withhold your Lordship in the bare heads of this insuing discourse In all these your piercing eies shall easily see beyond mine make my thoughts but a station for a further discouery Your Lordships obseruation hath studied men more than bookes heere it shall study God more than men That of bookes hath made you full that of men iudicious this of God shall make you holy and happy Hitherto shall euer tend the wishes and indeuours of Your Lordships humbly deuoted in all faithfull obseruance IOS HALL Contemplations REHOBOAM WHo would not but haue looked that seuen hundred wiues and three hundred concubines should haue furnished Salomons Palace with choise of heires and haue peopled Israel with royall issue and now behold Salomon hath by all these but one Sonne and him by an Ammonitesse Many a poore man hath an house-full of children by one wife whiles this great King hath but one sonne by many house-fulls of wiues Fertility is not from the meanes but from the author It was for Salomon that Dauid sung of old Lo children are an heritage of the Lord and the fruit of the wombe is his reward How oft doth God deny this heritage of heires where he giues the largest heritage of lands and giues most of these liuing possessions where he giues least of the dead that his blessings may bee acknowledged free vnto both entayled vpon neither As the greatest persons cannot giue themselues children so the wisest cannot giue their children wisdome Was it not of Rehoboam that Salomon said I hated all my labour which I had taken vnder the Sunne because I should leaue it vnto the man that shall bee after mee and who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a foole Yet shall he rule ouer all my labour wherein I haue laboured and shewed my selfe wise vnder the Sunne All Israel found that Salomons wit was not propagated Many a foole hath had a wiser sonne than this wisest father Amongst many sonnes it is no newes to finde some one defectiue Salomon hath but one sonne and he no miracle of wisdome God giues purposely so eminent an instance to teach men to looke vp to heauen both for heires and graces Salomon was both the King of Israel and the father of Rehoboam when hee was scarce out of his childhood Rehoboam enters into the kingdome at a ripe age yet Salomon was the man and Rehoboam the childe Age is no iust measure of wisdome There are beardlesse sages and gray-headed children Not the ancient are wise but the wise is ancient Israel wanted not many thousands that were wiser than Rehoboam Yet because they knew him to be the sonne of Salomon no man makes question of his gouernment In the case of succession into Kingdomes we may not looke into the qualities of the person but into the right So secure is Salomon of the peoples fidelity to Dauids seed that he followes not his fathers example in setting his sonne by him in his owne throne here was no danger of a riuality to inforce it no eminency in the sonne to merit it It sufficeth him to know that no bond can bee surer than the naturall allegeance of subiects I doe not finde that the following Kings stood vpon the confirmation of their people but as those that knew the way to their throne ascended those steps without aid As yet the soueraignty of Dauids house was greene and vnsetled Israel therefore doth not now come to attend Rehoboam but Rehoboam goes vp to meet Israel They come not to his Ierusalem but he goes to their Shechem To Shechem were all Israel come to make him King If loyalty drew them together why not rather to Ierusalem there the maiestie of his fathers Temple the magnificence of his palace the verie stones in those walles besides the strength of his guard had pleaded strongly for their subiection Shechem had beene many waies fatall was euery way incommodious It is an infinite helpe or disaduantage that arises from circumstances The very place puts Israel in minde of a rebellion There Abimelech had raised vp his treacherous vsurpation ouer and against