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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	2,575	5	9.7545	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42917	Ben horim filius heröum = the son of nobles : set forth in a sermon preached at St Mary's in Cambridge before the university, on Thursday the 24th of May, 1660 : being the day of solemn thanksgiving for the deliverance and settlement of our nation / by Will. Godman ...	Godman, William, b. 1625.	1660 (1660)	Wing G941; ESTC R14547	24,781	48

to introduce distraction and confusion For the people have a power by their Representatives to consent or dissent in the making of Laws but when they are enacted there is a Power over them that can command their obedience These particulars I have only pointed at as not thinking it very suitable either to this occasion or my profession to enlarge upon them I shall rather desire you to consider what God himself hath declared concerning REGAL Government both in the Old Testament and the New and then you may discern that there is nothing more clear than that he approves of the power and authority of KINGS and nothing more certain than that 't is his will and pleasure they should be obeyed When he brought his people out of Aegypt he appointed Moses to be their Leader and Governour who had the power of a KING though not the name and title and yet the Scripture on one place gives him that also Moses commanded us a law even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob and he was King in Jeshurun Deut. 33.4 5. After him succeeded Joshua in the same Authority After his time Israel was governed by Judges extraordinarily called and appointed by God for the space of about three hundred years During which time by reason of the often intervals of Government much sin and many mischiefs grew up in that unsetled State Jud. 17.6 In the 17 of Judges we read of Idolatry set up by Micah and his mother 18.1 In the 18 of Violence and Rapine In the 19 of Adultery and Murder committed in one act 19.1 In the two last Chapters of a publick and insolent Defence of that wicked act and the destruction of almost all the Tribe of Benjamin And the Holy Ghost thus expresses the reason of all this In those days there was no King in Israel but every man did that which was right in his own eyes 22.25 but that which was neither right in it self nor in the sight of God I shall leave you to judge how much of this may be applyed to our Israel since we have been destitute of the presence and authority of a KING After that time although God was displeased with the peoples importunity in requiring a KING yet it clearly appears he had designed that government for them For having rejected Saul he gives this testimony of David I have found David my servant Psal 89.20 with my holy oil have I anointed him And elsewhere promises to establish his Throne and to confirm it to his posterity Again he had promised by the mouth of Jacob Gen. 49. That the Scepter should not depart from Judah And before his time he had said to Abraham Kings shall come out of thee Gen. 17.6 Lastly Moses had long before Saul's time drawn up the KING'S Charter as you may see Deut. 17.14 and so onward Next to this I shall reminde you of some few of the many clear expressions of Scripture that concern this matter If you will search out the foundation of this power you may finde it Prov. 8.15 By me Kings reign and Princes decree justice Would you have the duty it self Take it in these words Prov. 24.21 My son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change Doe you enquire into the danger of disobedience 'T is thus represented Eccles 8.2 3 4. I counsel thee to keep the King's commandment and that in regard of the oath of God Be not hasty to goe out of his sight stand not in an evil thing for he doth whatsoever pleaseth him Where the word of a King is there is power and who may say unto him What dost thou Beside these Doctrinal expressions the Scripture affords us several examples of reverence and obedience among God's own people The first shall be that of Bathsheba whose vertue and piety there is little reason to question since no crime of hers is recorded but what is more expresly charged upon David himself She bowed with her face to the earth and did reverence to the King and said Let my Lord King David live for ever 1 Kings 1.31 In like manner did Nathan the Prophet who certainly was no flatterer when he was come in before the King he bowed himself before the King with his face to the ground 1 Kings 1.23 The like did Araunah 2 Sam. 24.20 But especially David's reverence to Saul is remarkable though God had rejected Saul and appointed David to be his successour When he had him in his power who sought his life yet he slew him not but onely cut off the skirt of his Robe And yet afterwards his heart smote him because he had cut off Saul 's skirt And he said unto his men The Lord forbid that I should doe this thing unto my master the Lord 's anointed to stretch forth mine hand against him seeing he is the anointed of the Lord 1 Sam. 24.5 6. After these I shall produce but one Example more and that 's equivalent to many being of a great multitude 'T is in 1 Chron. 29.20 And all the congregation bowed down their heads and worshipped the Lord and the King In the New Testament we know to whom that of S. Paul referres Let every soul be subject to the higher powers c. The Romans were then the miserable subjects of the worst of men as well as of Princes which is enough to cut off all pretence of resistance for ever But S. Peter more expresly describes the persons of those in authority Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake whether it be to the King as supreme or unto Governours as unto those that are sent by him And again Fear God honour the King Let this be sufficient to shew that Kingly power is ordained of God that it is appointed for the good of those that are subject to it And therefore we are obliged as we regard both our duty and our happiness to render obedience to it and so farre to esteem it the blessing of God as to magnify it and preferre it before other forms of Government as most resembling divine power and carrying the most lively impress of divine approbation as being that which God recommended to his own people and to which they willingly submitted when they were in a setled and most flourishing estate under which our ancestours have lived happily for many Ages and by which our Israel hath been always governed ever since it was a Nation Whence we may confidently conclude that what by the appointment of God is sacred and venerable hath the assurance of his blessing And thus much of the first But this is not all that is required to make a Land blessed The King whom Solomon here describes must be the son of Nobles 'T is in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the son of White ones or as some alluding to the word translate it Filius Heroum the son of Heroes Now that