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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61858	David and Saul a sermon preached on the day of national thanksgiving for God's gracious deliverance of the King's Majesty from an assassination and the kingdom from a French invasion / by John Strype ...	Strype, John, 1643-1737.	1696 (1696)	Wing S6021; ESTC R900	9,047	30

Mr. Strype's SERMON Preached on the Day of the National Thanksgiving c. April 16. 1696. DAVID and SAUL A SERMON Preached on the Day of the National Thanksgiving For God's gracious Deliverance of The King's Majesty From an ASSASSINATION AND THE Kingdom from a French Invasion By John Strype M. A. Vicar of Low-Leyton in Essex LONDON Printed for B. Aylmer at the Three Pigeons in Cornhil 1696. TO MY Beloved Auditors of Leyton Hackney IT was not only the general good Acceptation you gave this Sermon when it was Preached that induced me to publish it that you might Read that which you heard with so much Satisfaction But chiefly that I might Contribute my small mite for the better informing the Minds of you and all others in the Justice and Happiness of our present Government under King WILLIAM and to shew what small Reason any Persons have to disturb that Settlement that by God's Providence is now established among us Which this plain Discourse was intended for The Fruit whereof will be to Convince all of the horrible Impiety of those Miscreants that Combined themselves together to Assassinate the King 's Sacred Person and by Force and Violence to change the present easie and good Government and thereby to make us heartily sensible of God's merciful Prevention of those Mischiefs and duly thankful to him for the same And lastly to Unite us all together as one Man in the Defence of our King and Laws Your Servant in the Ministry John Strype PSAL. cxix 78. Let the Proud be ashamed For they dealt perversly with me without a Cause But I will Meditate in thy Precepts DAVID tho he were a good Man and a good King A Man after God's own Heart and a King of God's own setting up yet he met with a World of Dangers Sorrows and Afflictions He had Enemies thick and threefold about him But out of all their Hands God delivered him Insomuch that how desperately soever their Minds were bent against him tho they thirsted after his Blood and Contrived and Combined together many a time to shed it Yet never could their Plots take effect Trouble enough indeed they put him to But in spight of their Malice and all their open Opposition and secret Conspiracy he swayed the Scepter of Israel many a year Got many glorious Victories Protected his Subjects in their Laws Liberties and Religion Enlarged his Dominions grew Greater and Greater and after all his Wars before his Death God gave him Peace on every side And he got a Name of one of the Mightiest and most prosperous Monarchs that ever sat upon the Throne of Israel In Commemoration of these Mercies of God to him for David's practise was to attribute all his Successes and Deliverances to God and not to himself he did use to pen Psalms and compose Poems upon that Argument to assist his own Meditations and Thanksgivings and that they might never be forgotten he ordered the Levites and those that were over the Musick of the Temple that these Psalms and Poems should be used there in their Sacred Assemblies and Services And in this CXIX Psalm there be abundance of Expressions whereby the holy King sets forth these Matters making frequent mention of his Enemies and of the Afflictions he suffered by their means and his earnest Prayers and good Resolutions which he made with respect thereunto And this he is doing in the Text. Let the Proud that is the Wicked for that Word in the Hebrew Language is but another Phrase to express a Wicked Man by be ashamed for they dealt perversly with me without a Cause But I will Meditate in thy Precepts For the taking more distinct Cognizance of these Words and of King David's Condition as to his Enemies shewed by them we may observe three things lying before us I. David's Enemies The Proud that dealt perversly with him without Cause II. David's Prayer against them Let them be ashamed III. David's Resolution and Practise with respect to his Enemies But I will Meditate in thy Precepts I. David's Enemies Which are here described to be Proud or Evil Men who dealt with him perversly and that without Cause And who were these Enemies of David but the Friends of Saul As God had set up Saul to Reign over Israel so for his Mis-government and Disobedience the same God that exalted him deposed him I have rejected Saul from reigning over Israel And accordingly God took from him that Spirit or Gift that he gave him whereby he was enabled to Govern the Kingdom that God had advanced him to The Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul And that Spirit of Government that God took from Saul came upon David to qualifie him for that Kingly Office that God had laid upon him The Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward That is from the day that Samuel the Prophet by God's special Order anointed him for King in Saul's stead But notwithstanding all this Saul however deposed rejected by God and put by his Kingdom and David by God's own Appointment constituted King in his room yet had many that stuck to him and even before David assumed the Kingdom laid all the wait they could for him to take him to kill him to destroy him as you read at large in the first Book of Samuel Striving thereby even to disappoint God's own Purpose and to keep Saul in his Throne whom God had dethroned and to keep David out whom God had put in But he that chose him preserved him and at length brought him through all his Adversities to the Kingdom And Saul perished in Battel And when David was placed in the Throne these old Friends of Saul still continued their Enmity against him They combine together and set up Ishbosheth Saul's Son and made him King And by their Influence a great part of the Nation followed him And hence ensued continual Wars between the House of David and the House of Saul And so two Parties were set up and the whole Land of Israel brought into a miserable State of Civil War by the feditious and unquiet Practices of these Malecontents And their rancorous Hearts they shewed not only in making open War against King David and disturbing the Peace of the Kingdom but likewise in their more secret Machinations Plottings and Consultings to do him mischief This is that which David seems here in the Text chiefly to regard when he saith They dealt perversly with him Which one of the Latin Translations of the Bible reads They consulted against me They entred into Consultations to Compass some Designs of Mischief upon me And another Latin Bible reads They frame Destructions for me Or Contrived them by using certain crafty methods and taking certain fitting Seasons the more surely to effect their bloody purposes They plotted together to Assassinate him to use our modern Phrase For these Words of the Text seem to hold forth that Sense that their Plots and Conspiracies

were to take away his Life And in this meaning did the old Translators of our Psalms take it when they read it They go wickedly about to destroy me Wickedly indeed to Compass the death of an innocent Man nay of a King and one of so publick a Capacity that many Thousands namely as many as were his Subjects must feel the blow especially being so good and pious a Prince as David was It added then unto their Crime that they dealt thus perversly with him without any Cause For what good Cause can you assign Oh ye Enemies of David why ye have dealt thus perversly with him Why ye thus Conspire and Plot against his Peace his Honour and his Life Is he an Usurper whom God brought to the Crown He who is the great Disposer of Kingdoms was not David advanced by his peculiar Appointment and wonderful Providence preserved to sit on the Throne of Israel And did not the People know that it was he whom God had established to be King over Israel And did they not all joyfully accept him for their King Or since he came to Rule what Mis-government what Oppression hath he been guilty of Hath he infringed the Peoples antient Rites and Liberties Hath he vexed or spoiled them Hath he turned Idolater himself or encouraged and commanded Israel to forsake the God of their Fathers and to bow down to Baal and the Gods that were round about them Nay Hath he not set up the true Worship of God discouraged Idolatry and given Himself a good Example of Godliness unto his People Hath he not fought the Peoples Battels and Defended Israel from the Philistins the Moabites and the Ammonites those Idolatrous Nations that bordered upon them and mortally hated them Surely then none of these things could David's Enemies lay to his Charge as Crimes or Neglects of Government For what Cause then was it that they are thus Confederate against him Did they pretend the Restoration of Ishbosheth to sit upon his Fathers Throne But did not God Depose Saul And did not God appoint David to be anointed King over Israel in his stead And did not Samuel God's own Prophet Anoint him Or may not God dispose of States and Kingdoms Doth not he set up Kings and cast them down according to that of Daniel He changeth the Times and the Seasons He removeth Kings and setteth up Kings Doth not the most high God rule in the Kingdoms of Men and appoint over them whomsoever he will Yea that was the Doctrine God himself taught a King that was loth to acknowledge it In a Word Are not all earthly Princes God's Substitutes and Deputies And may he not change them if he pleaseth especially when he seeth they do not execute that high Charge which he Committed to them in that Justice and Equity and Moderation and Care of the Peoples good that Government the Ordinance of God is on purpose Constituted for And therefore O ye Malecontents ye have no such Reason to be angry with David tho he possesseth Saul's Throne Nor ought ye to endeavour his Son's Restoration seeing it is the Lord 's Doing and brought about by his Hand and Providence If ye say Ishbosheth is wronged and your Endeavours of taking away David the present King is to do Justice to him who ought by Right of Succession to possess the Throne Then I say Will ye fight against God Are you Wiser are you Stronger than He And besides what Right have you of your selves to take this Authority to your selves Who put the Sword into your Hands Who gave you the Privilege to call Kings and Princes to Account Did God Take heed that you be not like the false Prophets that ran when God had not sent them And Moreover for the doing pretended Right to one will ye do Wrong to many Thousands even to a whole Nation Shall Ishbosheth be restored tho the whole Kingdom perish for it Surely if there be no other way to do Justice to Ishbosheth than to do Injustice to many Thousands beside you ought to leave Justice to God and to Commit to him Ishbosheth's Cause which you think so good But to Murther an Innocent King to involve a Nation in Blood to bring in all the Miseries the Devastations and the Confusions of a Civil War among a People that be in Peace and Quiet and live easie under David's Government this ye can never justifie but must needs be guilty of most horrible Impiety and draw God's as well as the King 's heavy Displeasure upon you Ye can never have God's Approbation nor bear out your selves by any good or tolerable Cause for your dealing thus perversly with him And thus they dealt perversly with David without Cause as you have seen And so we have considered David's Enemies and their Pretences We proceed next to the second particular observable in the Text Viz. II. David's Prayer against these his Enemies for his own Safety Let them be ashamed That is let them be disappointed O my God overthrow their unjust Purposes against me David's constant Course in all his Distresses was Application to God taking him to be his best Refuge He knew his Cause was just and good and therefore he did with the more Assurance address himself to God to take his part against his Enemies He was well aware how malicious they were and how diligent to Work his ruine And tho he could not always understand what they were contriving against him yet he knew God saw all well enough And that he was able to prevent their more curiously spun mischiefs however secretly they carried them and however true they were to one another And therefore he put his Trust in God and fled unto him to be his Protector and by his Power and Wisdom to countermine all their Devices to demolish all their well-laid Designs which possibly they themselves were extraordinary sure must take effect being founded as they thought on such true Maxims of humane Policy I say he leaves the Wise God to deal with these worldly wise Men as knowing that they were not with all their Subtilty a Match able to Cope with him He was careful of keeping himself in God's Way and of doing his Duty in all good Conscience And then he committed his Cause to God and beseeched him to confound his Enemies Let the Proud be ashamed He was not wanting by the best means he could to Defend himself by Force and Preparations to resist any Assault or Invasion on him or his Kingdom But when he had done this he relyed not thereupon He was not confident in an Arm of Flesh but put his Trust only in the living God the Lord of Hosts whom he knew and had often experience of it was wont to put to shame wicked and bloody minded and unpeaceable Men and to rescue the Poor and the Needy out of most imminent Hazards and Dangers that he might thereby get to himself Praise and Renown and Glory before the Face of