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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86428	The holy lives of God's prophets. By J.H.	Hoddesdon, John, fl. 1650.	1653 (1653)	Wing H2294; Thomason E1493_1; ESTC R208521	77,735	134

such an evill act he was hindred by a villaine who had slaine a man whom when he found lying naked upon the ground he tarried there to bury him lest he should be eaten up of wild Beasts and that he knew that very same night that David committed that foul Act and that therefore he went back with sorrow to Gabath and that as soone as ever David had killed Vriah the Husband of Bershebah God sent him to him to reprove him And this is that which Epiphanius writeth concerning Nathan Now will I tell what is writ of him in the Scriptures S. 2. King David had taken order that the ark of God should be brought with exceeding Pompe and reverence all sorts of Musicall instruments being made use of and 3000 chosen men made to attend it first to the House of Obed-Edom because of the sudden death of Vzza who had touched it 2 Sam. 6 and after to his own house when he perceived that al things went well with Obed-Edom for the Arkes sake A little while after he conceiving it unsit for him to dwell in houses of Cedar and the Arke in skins viz. in the Tabernacle he asked Nathan his advise and told him the thing Nathan at the first who yet knew not Gods intent thought that he might doe what he was resolved as touching that matter The night following God commanded him to go to David and tel him that he should not build the House which he had in his thoughts but his sonne whose Throne he would establish after his decease which when Nathan had told him he sorbare the worke which he had resolued to doe and gave God hoarty thanks as he was bound for his especiall favour towards him Sect. 3. A second time God sent him to David in a case altogether differing from this for when he having committed adultery with Bersheba had ordered that Vrias her Husband should be slaine in the battell God did by Nathan tell him in this Parable the hainousnesse of his crime so home that he not understanding the drift of it condemned himselfe before he was aware Nathan at Gods bidding told him that there were two men in one City whereof he that was rich and had store of Sheep and Oxen had taken from a poor man a Sheep which was all he had and had set it before a stranger to eat and that he was come to him to know what judgement he would have to be passed upon him David being moved with anger towards him who as he thought had done this said he deserved to die and be made to restore four-fold Nathan affirmed him to be the man because he had taken * Bersheba * Bathshebah whom he had defiled to Wife and had killed Vrias her Husband and that therefore evill should never depart from his House And he foretold all those evils and adversities which befell him shortly after Then at the last David confessed that he had grievously sinned against the Lord which Repentance of his God knowing to be true he bad Nathan tell him that for that reason his sin was put away and that he should not die but the child which should be borne to him because the enemies being moved by this his wickednesse did speak evill of God and dishonour him which when Nathan had spoken he went home and all those things which he had foretold fell out accordingly Sect. 4. David was very aged insomuch as when he was covered with cloaths he could get no heate 1 Kin. 1. Adonijah his sonne by Haggith who by this concluded that his Father could not live long had unknown to him seised on the Kingdome nor did his Father blamed him when he knew it yet Nathan would not side with him and therefore he perswaded Bathsheba Solomons Mother that if she would take order for her or her Sonnes safety she should goe to the King and put him in minde that it was Adonijah who whilst he was alive and whether he would or no had usurped the Kingdome whereas he had sworne that Solomon should succeed him and he promised her that he would come in the interim and helpe her out with what she had begun to say she being first let in acquainted the King with matters to that purpose when withall newes is brought to the King that Nathan is there he comming in doth aggravate the hainousnesse of the matter at large and giveth his judgement that Solomon should rather be preferred as he had heard him say Which when it liked the King againe he gave order to Nathan and Zadock the Priest and other three that they should set Solomon upon his Mule and bring him to Gihon and that there Zadock should him with oyle which thing was done as fast as could be every man shouting God save the King And these things are all that I have found concerning his life now he dyed very ancient and was buried in Gabath his owne Country as Epiphanius writeth Gad the Prophet CHAP. IIII. Section 1. THE Prophet Gad had bestowed upon him and discharged the Office of a Prophet at the same time almost that Nathan Although I finde that God sent him to David once before Nathan for when David slying from Sauls sight to avoid present death was come to Achish King of the Gothites and he lied neglected him seeing he counterfeited himselfe mad to preserve himselfe And eseiping thence into the Camp of Adullam was chosen the Commander over five hundred men that were indebted and going thence into Maspha which was under the Authority and power of the King of Moab had intreated the King that he would suffer his Father and Mother to abide with him till he knew what God would doe for him which when he had obtained he might remaine in the hold This Prophet God his opinion was that he ought to goe thence and come into that part of Judea which at the dividing fell to Judah and his posterity whose advise and command or Gods rather he obeyed and betook himselfe into the Forrest of Haveth Sect. 2. Another time God sent him to David David had given order that Ioab the Captaine of the Hoste should number all his Subjects that could beare Armes in which when he found he had offended God by putting him upon this service both acknowledged that he had done amisse and besought God that he would remove his sin when he was got up very timely God sent the Prophet Gad who as it is written did use to prophesie of all things to David that he might offer the choise of three things either of seven yeares famine in his own Dominion or to fly before his enemies who should pursue him for three mōths together or at least the Pestilēce for three daies in his Kingdome which when he had told him he desired him to make answer which of those three he would rather have that he might beare word back againe to him that had sent him when he had made choise of the Pestilence saying that he had

desired that forasmuch as he was grown ancient and his sonnes did not walke in his waies hee would grant and appoint them a King whom they might make use on for a Judge that saying displeased Samuell and therefore he thought it best to advise with God God bade him doe as they had desirod for that they had not rejected and cast off Samuell but himselfe that he might not rule over them And he showed him Saul the sonne of Kish whom he should annoint and ordaine King 1 Sam. 10. when he had found him because he was taller then any man by the shoulders he bad all the people see how that none was like him whom God had chosen and when they had cried God save their new King verse 24. after he had told them the Law of the Kingdome and writ it and laid it up in the Tabernacle he blessed the people After this by recitall of Gods benefits which they and their fathers had alwayes neglected he made knowne to them what a grievous sin they had committed when they asked a King Which that they might the better understand there were thunder-claps heard raine poured downe at his request as he had told them aforehand it should come to passe at which so strange and usuall a matter being much affrighted they speake to him that he would beseech God that they might not dy forasmuch as they confessed they had grievously sinned in asking a King Samuell exhorted them at large to be of good courage and not to fear 1 Sam 12.3 for that they indeed had sinned exceedingly yet ought not to forsake God but serve him with all care earnestnes of Spirit scorning and neglecting the worship of strange Gods who seeing they were vaine and unprofitable could not be able to deliver from evill For thus it should come to passe that God would not forsake them for his great name seeing especially he had made it good with an oath that he would make them his people but it they should goe on to sin that both they and their King should perish Sect. 7. Saul being King had offered Sacrifices shortly after contrary to Gods command because Samuell came not within the 7 days 1 Sam. 13. in which time he had said that he would come and the Jewes slipt away for feare of the huge company of Philistines that came to battell when as Samuell coming in the mean while rebuked him sharply and foretold that the end of his Kingdome was at hand and that in his stead there should succeed a man that should be pleasing to God ver 13. A second time as Gods Propher he told Saul of the end or downfall of his Kingdome for the very same cause 1 Sam. 13. The Amalekites had made resistance to the Jews as they came out of Aegypt whose wrongs when God had purposed to revenge by Saul he sent Samuel to him to charge him that he should raise a mighty Army and utterly destroy Amaleck and all things that belonged to them But he spated King Agag when he was taken and reserved the Heards and the Flocks and all the things that were of any value Hereupon God told Samuel that he was displeased and that he repented that he had made Saul King who set light by his Commandements 1 Sam. 15. Upon these words of God and the thing which Saul had committed Samuel took such griefe that he spent the rest of the night in crying and praying and carely in the morning he hasted by long journeys to Saul whom when he had soundly chid having reckoned up Gods benefits towards him because he had not againe observed God and he on the contrary maintained that he had obeyed him and the people only had reserved the richest of the spoile that they might offer it to God he said that God did not desire sacrifices but willed rather that men should obey and keep his Commandements for obedience is better than sacrifice Therefore he should know and perswade himselfe thus much that he had rejected God and that he also was rejected by God from being King When Saul confessed that he had sinned against God and him for feare of the people and entreated him that he would also beare with his fault and go back with him to worship God and Samuel said he would not do so because God had despised him that he should not now be King over Israel he caught hold on the skirts of his mantle as he was going away with such a force as that it rent by which passage as by a token aforehand Samuel told him that God had rent away his Kingdom and given it to one better than he when againe he confessed that he had sinned and entreated Samuel that he would do him honour in the sight of the Princes and of his people and that he would returne with him that he might worship God he followed him and cut in peeces King Agag who was a corpulent man with these words As thy sword hath made mothers childlesse so shall thy mother be childlesse amongst women Sect. 8. After that Samuel went to his house in Ramath neither did he from that day forward see Saul whose chance and misfortune neverthelesse he was sorry for 1 Sam. 16. God rebuked him when he sorrowed and asked how long he would mourne for him whom he had put from his Kingdome And therefore he should fill a horne with oyle that he might send him to Jesse the Bethlehemite whose Son he had chosen King when he asked how he could go but he should be quickly killed by Saul when he knew it he shewed a way and a meanes how he might easily avoid his fury Thus at the last being very consident he went diligently and dutifully to execute what God had commanded him and he annointed David King whom God had manifested and shewed to him Sect. 9. Samuel after all these famous and holy performances dyed in a good old age at his own house in Ramath 1 Sam 25. which when the Jews knew of they all met and mourned for him and buried him there if we follow the Scries of those things which are written in the first booke of the Kings he will seeme to have dyed before Sauls death and the beginning of Davids Raigne or his taking upon him the Government and Kingly Office but if we respect those things which are written in the first booko of the Chronicles how that David and Samuel the Seer that is the Prophet chose two hundred and twelve Porters which are there reckoned a thing which doth not seem to ha have been done whilst Saul was living he did not die till after Sauls death Nathan the Prophet CHAP. III. Section 1 NAthan was Prophet when David was King of the kindred of Thot as Epiphanius saith who who also writeth that he was a man of Gabath and that he knew beforehand that grievous sin which David was to commit with Bersheba and that as he came a long journey to keep the King from