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A53951 David and the Amalekite upon the death of Saul a sermon preached on Jan. 30, 1682, being the anniversary of the martyrdom of King Charles I of blessed memory / by Edward Pelling ... Pelling, Edward, d. 1718. 1683 (1683) Wing P1077; ESTC R683 18,608 35

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require that Sacred Bloud of us so as to make us smoak under that Wrath which is the vengeance of another life Vs especially who cannot Read nor so much as Think of that Dismal Tragedy without the deepest Sorrow Hatred and Abomination yet we have too great Reason to suspect that the Sin is not Forgotten in Heaven that there is no such Act of Oblivion There but that as we have Smarted for that Sin already so we may Smart still under those Plagues and Judgments which are the Discipline of this life We are to distinguish between a Sin and its Punishment The Sin may be forgiven and upon true Repentance is certainly forgiven so that it shall not Rise up in Judgment against the Sinner at the last day But seldom does the Cry of a Vocal Sin cease before God letteth loose some Temporal Judgments upon it either for the warning and Admonition of other Men or for the Correction and Reformation of the Sinners themselves or for the exercising of their Patience or for the like Holy and Gracious purposes The thing is clear from that Instance concerning David whom God visited with the Death of his Child and with other Sharp and Poynant Evils for the Wickedness acted upon Bathsheba and her Husband though the Sin it self was forgiven him The Lord hath put away thy Sin thou shalt not die said Nathan Howbeit because by this deed thou hast given great Occasion to the Enemies of the Lord to Blaspheme the Child that is born unto thee shall surely die 2 Sam. 12. Nor is it a just Ground for our Confidence and Security to consider that the Sin of this day was acted by a Few in comparison and that several years agoe too For the Sin of One Man and much rather of an Army may be so Odious and Abominable in Gods Account that by Occasion thereof he may visit the Iniquities of a whole Nation Let us go to Achan for an Instance Upon the Destruction of Jericho Achan found a Babylonish Garment a wedge of Gold and two hundred Sheckles of Silver and because He took of the Accursed thing the Anger of the Lord was kindled against the whole Body of the Children of Israel so that at the very next Battel they were all Routed by their Enemies Josh 7. 2. Again God is not wont to punish a Nation to the Full assoon as the Sin is committed but usually leaves a great part of the Burden many Talents of Judgment to fall down in after-times to put Men still in mind of that Guilt which otherwise they would bury in perpetual Oblivion Let us go for an Instance hereof to the Jews in the days of Moses At Shittim they joyn themselves to Baal-Peor and a Plague ensueth thereupon But though for Phinehas his Zeal the Plague was soon stayed and the Wrath of God was turned away from Israel for that time yet afterwards in the days of Joshua when the Israelites had been Possessed of the Holy Land Phinehas himself Remembred the Iniquity of Peor and told the People that they were not cleansed from that Iniquity unto that day Josh 22. 17. Now to draw down this Consideration to our selves if God be wont by way of Discipline to chastize Evil Men as a Governour even after he has taken away the Guilt of their Wickedness as a Judg if by Occasion of One crying Sin committed by a Few or perhaps by One only he doth sometimes bring Calamities upon a whole Nation and if this be often done some Considerable time some years after the Sin was acted Then truly we of all People living have most Reason to call to mind the Calamities we have groaned under and to Interpret Providence the Right way and not only to mistrust that God hath visited us hitherto but moreover to Fear that he will visit us still especially if we Repent not from the bottom of our Hearts for that Loud and Clamorous Sin of this day the Destruction of the Lords Anointed and a Man according to Gods own Heart too though he was Destroyed and Murder'd not by our own Hands but by the Hands of a Few Amalekites and that above Thirty years ago To come a little closer yet Of all the People of this Land You of this City are very deeply concern'd to lay your Hands upon your Breasts and your Mouths in the Dust and the Sin of this day to every one of your Hearts For though God be blessed we can truly say and Boast That this City nay this Kingdom was never more Happy than it is this day for that great Number we have here of Brave Heroick and Right Loyal Spirits witness their Generous and Successful when they were thought Desperate Adventures of Late to stop that Torrent of Wickedness which was coming in afresh upon us and God alone Knows how far it would have gone and how many it would have swept away had it not been stopt Yet all this notwithstanding it is necessary for you to Remember the days of old and the years that are past and not suffer the Horrid Sin of this day or the Judgments which God hath executed upon this City to slip out of your minds or to be past over lightly without a due Sense and Application thereof Now what if we should conceive that when this City was turned into a Flaming pile the righteous God came to purge it from the Bloud of his Anointed When the Jews of old were in any sharp afflictions the business of the Golden Calf usually came fresh into their Minds and on every turn they mistrusted that God afflicted them for the iniquity of their Fathers in making a Golden Calf The story of it you have at large in Exod. 32. the People would have some Representation to go before them instead of Moses their proper Captain and Leader they prevailed with Aaron to consent and concurr with them and they contributed their Riches their Gold and their Ear-rings to carry on the Work of the day and at last out came a Calf a little Similitude of the Great Idol which was Worshipped in the House of Bondage whence they had now been delivered so that though they had escaped out of Egypt yet they espoused the Egyptian Religion To Accomodate this story a little We must acknowledg that God had marvellously delivered us too out of Our House of Bondage changing only the names Rome for Egypt we had a Moses too set over us Meek and Good and one that was Learned in all the Wisdom of the Egyptians But the People were Sick to have an Idol of their own makeing in the room of their Moses and some that waited at the Altar had a Stomach that way too and the Zealots of this City would not fail of their utmost help but brought their Riches into Guild-Hall their Money Plate and Rings and even their Thimbles and Bodkins and what came of this at last Why truly out came a Calf a Golden Calf a Dainty thing that had cost great Sums but yielded no Milk a Religion like that Idol which we had been Delivered from full of Superstition and Jesuitism in the belly of it and differing no more from Popery than a Calf differeth from an Ox. And why should we not think now that when God visited us with his Judgments he did not remember Peoples Ingratitude to him and his Anointed Or why should we not Fear that he will remember us again and that with more Sore and more Dreadful Judgments if People persist in their Ingratitude still For this is a Sin of no ordinary rate but one of the First Magnitude the Kings Authority being a Donative of Heaven and a Ray of Gods Majesty and his Power to Govern and Punish being given by Gods own Warranty the Sin of Rebellion must necessarily be of a Da●●●●g Nature and of a Clamorous Tongue however forme whose Consciences are Armour-proof against all Arguments from Scripture and Antiquity have begun again to speak of the Lawfulness of Resistance as if their hands were already laid upon the Hilts of their Swords Take heed therefore you especially of this Great City that ye join not in the Confederacies of Korah lest ye utterly Perish in his gainsaying Is the Iniquity of Peor and the Sin of the Golden Calf too little for us Are not the Judgments which we have groaned under heavy enough yet but do we sollicite God to add more Talents to the weight still Assure your selves that if People Repeat their Sins God will not fail to Repeat and Double his Blows and he hath more Judgments in Treasure besides the Plague and the Fire and the Posterity that cometh after us will as we our selves have done see the Follies and smart greatly for the Impieties of their Fathers for as Ezra said upon the Return out of Captivity After all that is come upon us for our Evil deeds and for our Great trespass seeing that God hath punished us less than our iniquities deserve and hath given us a Deliverance a miraculous deliverance out of our Thraldom should we again break his Commandments and join with the People of these abominations would not God be Angry with us till he had Consumed us so that there should be no Remnant nor Escaping For the preventing of the worst of Evils it is our great Concernment and ought to be our great Care and 't will be found to be our best Interest when all is done to lay aside all Unnatural Animosities and Heart-burnings which Evil Men make use of to Distract this Kingdom and to tear all our Establishments in Church and State into pieces and to be filled with the True and Primitive Spirit of Christianity to be Meek and Gentle and of Humble Minds to Act according to that Wisdom which is Pure and Peaceable to Study to be Quiet to endeavour by all possible means to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace to be Tractable and Honest in Heart to be subject to the Higher Powers and that not for fear of the Laws only but readily and ingenuously and for Conscience-sake to Fear God to Honour the King and to Love the Brother-hood to be in perfect Charity and Vnity among our selves as becometh Brethren and so in all manner of well-doing to commit our selves to God to whom be Glory Dominion and Praise Amen FINIS
and that the Amalekite was a Liar as to that particular Nor doth this opinion want its Reasons For in the last Chapter of the First Book of Samuel where the manner of Sauls Death is related no mention is made of the Amalekite but the Text saith that Saul took a Sword and fell upon it v. 4. On the other side Josephus and some more tell us that Saul had not the Onely hand in the case but that the Amalekite was the Principal actor Nor doth this opinion want its Reasons neither For the Amalekites were as much Enemies to Israel as the Philistines were and this Amalekite was on Mount Gilboa when Saul fell and he did not only post away to David as a Messenger of the Fact but persisted in the story as an Agent that had been concern'd in it and persisted to the end too without owning his Folly or excusing his Lye which probably he would have done when he saw that a Sentence of Death against himself was the Onely Welcome and Reward that he was to receive Now for the Solution of this doubt there seem to be some grounds for a Third opinion yet which will make the whole story to Agree viz. that Saul and this Amalekite did Both of them jointly Concurr in the carrying of this Sad Tragedy on For that Saul fell upon his Sword and so gave himself his Deaths-wound is clear That his Armour-bearer might look upon him as Dead though indeed he was not may be Probable That being incumbered with his Arms and So some understand that place agreeable to what we find in the Margin of our Bibles v. 9. Inclusus teneor vestibus Armis ut gladius in quem rui non potuerit me perdere Coat of Mail he did not dispatch himself Fully is not incredible And then 't is likely enough both that Saul did beg a Bloudy Kindness of the Amalekite for fear of falling alive into the hands of the Philistines and that this Amalekite did readily gratify him in hopes of a Richer booty than the price of the Crown and the Bracelet came to But it is not much material whether this Amalekite was Really Guilty or had a mind only to Father the action We will now as David did take his own Word for it and Suppose him to have spoken Truth For none can be better believed then he that confesseth against Himself Every man will be sure to make the best of his own story and though an Evidence may Swear away other mens Lives he will be tender of his own and beware of being his own Accuser though he deposeth to a Lye We will not therefore contrast the Credit of his own Testimony but acquiesce in what he said and look upon him as a Criminal and proceed to 2. The second thing which is most pertinent to the business of this day Davids deep Resentment of this Amalekites relation it was a Dreadful story a most Horrible and Fearful thing in the account of this good man How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lord 's Anointed Had it not been a Sin of a most Horrid nature and a clamorous voice He who was so near the Throne would at least have forgiven the man that did so readily help him to the actual possession of it especially being an Heir that had waited with so much Suffering and been provoked by Saul with so many Indignities But King-Killing is a Crime that is Odious and Abominable in the eyes even of those that fare well by the Regicide To which purpose the Learned Grotius has rightly observed out of one of the Roman Tacit. Hist lib. 1. Histories that when the Emperor Galba was Murder'd Vitellius though Humanly speaking he had reason enough to be glad of the Fact having thereby got the power into his hands yet out of a due sense he had of the Horridness of the Villany he commanded those Traitors who had served his turn to be slain all of them when they had the confidence to Address for a Reward An instance not much unlike King David's dealing with this Amalekite when he brought Saul's Bloud upon his own head because he had stretched forth his hand to destroy the Lord 's Anointed Those Words the Lord 's Anointed denote the great nay the Sole thing which we find here and in other places to have made such a deep and continual Impression upon David's Spirit So that when he had cut off the skirt of Saul's robe his Heart Smote him When he was tempted to Kill him in the Cave he abhorr'd the very thoughts of it when Abishai would have destroyed him at one blow as he was asleep David with-held him with a strong hand When Abner was so careless of his Masters safety as to let him fall into David's power David reprehended him And at last when this Amalekite had smote him him who had so long hunted after David's Soul He presently smote the Amalekite all this was grounded upon this Great and Weighty consideration that Saul was the Lord's Anointed A King is said to be the Lord 's Anointed in a Two-fold respect 1. In respect of that outward Ceremonial Unction whereby for Sate-sake he is by the Priest separated from the People or rather Declared Notified and Acknowledg'd to be a Sacred person Now this is not the great thing considerable because it is but a Rite and Form that is not absolutely necessary For many Princes at this day are not thus Anointed at all I know not whether this Unction was ever used to Pagan Kings who yet were Gods Ministers and had Gods Authority as well as others it was a long time before it came to be used even in the Christian World anciently and originally it was a rite peculiar to the Jews alone and among them it was not used constantly neither but when the Succession was broken or a dispute arose about a Successors Title commonly one of a Family was Anointed for all his Posterity and Issue and even then the man was not made King because he was Anointed but he was Anointed because he was King Though there be neither Horn nor Cruse of Oyl in the case yet he is Gods Anointed nevertheless and that upon an Higher and more Noble account viz 2. In respect of that inward and essential Unction which he receives at the very first minute of his Kingship and by which he is Sanctified and set apart and above all others in that very Article of time and which from that day forward is inseparable from his Person Now this Unction consisteth in that Supreme Power which is given unto him in that Sacred Authority which is vested in him in that inviolable Majesty which is inseparable from him in that Divine Image and Impress whereby he bears a different and singular Character and becomes Hallowed And because he receives all this at the hands of God alone because he oweth all this neither to Priest nor People but to God