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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91718	A revindication of Psalme 105. 15. Touch not mine anointed, &c. from some false glosses, now and heretofore obtruded upon it by Anabaptists: proving that this divine inhibition chiefly concerns subjects: who let them be never so Gods servants, yet are they not Gods anointed as well as kings. Being a reply to a late seditious pamphlet, called A vindication, &c.		1643 (1643)	Wing R1202; Thomason E245_28; ESTC R3804	12,963	16

A REVINDICATION OF PSALME 105.15 Touch not mine Anointed c. From some false glosses now and heretofore obtruded upon it by Anabaptists Proving That this Divine inhibition chiefly concerns Subjects who let them be never so Gods servants yet are they not Gods Anointed as well as Kings Being a Reply to a late seditious Pamphlet called A VINDICATION c. JUDE vers 19. These be they who separate themselves sensuall having not the Spirit Vers 16. These are murmurers complainers walking after their own lusts and their mouth speaketh great swelling words having mens persons in admiration because of advantage Vers 8. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh despise dominion and speak evil of dignities Printed by ROGER DANIEL Printer to the Vniversitie of Cambridge Anno Dom. 1643. WHy A vindication of Psalme 105.15 Touch not mine Anointed c. As if the man would perversely intimate to these misunderstanding times that there were no other Text of Scripture to that self-same sense and scope from which he would pretend to vindicate this And so this vindicated the Truth it self must quite fall to the ground Else wherefore keeps he such a whittling about one slender arrow as he takes it when the quiver is full of strong shafts and such as flie mainly at the mark Thinks he the whole hedge must needs lie along because the thief tugs hard to steal one stake out of it This house like the house founded upon a rock is built upon surer pillars then to totter though one prop be wrencht away No no I can assure him the musters are complete and the cause will be stoutly maintained against him though he would labour never so to invegle one single man away from it But this is not all to deprave a Truth which is factious heresie but there 's as ill as that to strike at the person whom that truth concerns which is villanous treachery For why would he not have Kings here meant to be Gods anointed because such are absolutely inhibited here to be toucht So then he would therefore invalide the truth of the thing that so he might give licence to the injury of the fact Princes for him might have been here also understood Gods Anointed but that it is here so plainly inhibited to touch them How to touch them with a very malignant touch For so the ancients in their translation expound tangere by malignari We see then who are simply the Malignants even those that dare offer to touch the Lords Anointed Now seeing he excepts against a single man in this royall army or rather will needs insimulate him to deny his colours we will set him aside a while and have at him with double and trebble forces from another wing At him No. I hold it more honourable to retreat at first onset rather then offer to skirmish with a seditious Pamphletter against whom all victory is but losse and shame Wherefore waving him for he is prepossest I earnestly wish all Subjects that are Christian and godly to be well instructed in those words 1. Sam. 24.6 10 12. of their right meaning of their true use Which done throughly then themselves may be pleased to call in the man and ask him If here be not a conscience fully convinced of a divine inhibition when he saies The Lord forbid A phrase both here and in many other places of Scripture noting not onely an inhibition but a conscience convicted of that inhibition and not onely a conviction but a resolution not to practise against it and not onely not to practise against it himself but not so much as yield or suffer others so to do Ask him again whether those words of stretching forth the hand against the Lords Anointed be to be interpreted and applied not to Kings but onely to subjects and as subjects surely the mans own ignorance is not so much as that his malice dares now be peremptory neither his malice so much as to presume he may here also obtrude upon others ignorance If he have either knowledge or conscience he cannot but confesse here 's a Divine inhibition given to subjects not to Kings who are in a peculiar manner the Lords Anointed and not they Let all true Subjects learn what David sayes again 1. Sam. 26.9 10 11. Who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords anointed He demands Who in the universall and indefinite to note that no man ought to do such an act of what place or power of what condition or concernment soever He sayes and be guiltlesse to note there 's no humane cause or command can sufficiently warrant hereunto much lesse can Jealousies suspicions supposalls excuses pretenses which also have a guilt of their own besides that of the fact they would induce unto In the 10. verse he leaves the Lords anointed in every thing to the Judgement of the Lord himself noting that Kings are punishable for their offences not to men much lesse their own Subjects but are to be referred here in to God alone Lastly he sayes The Lord forbid or the Lord keep me from noting it to be a work of restraining grace not to stretch forth the hand against the Lords anointed The Fanatticks out of their Enthusiasmes do ill then to incite men hereunto by making it a motion of the Spirit But good Subjects heed moreover the 2. Sam. 1 14 16. See here a just example of one that did but pretend to practise contrarie to this awfull truth The Amalekite had not once touched the Lords Anointed to such a fact For 't is evident in this Chapter as also 1. Sam. 31. and 1. Chron. 10. that King Saul dyed by his own act yet certainly the vile wretch had a will to such a deed and that made him boast as if he had done it Now to boast and lie and dissemble and pretend in businesse of so high a nature and concerning so mighty a personage as that of a King was of it self worthy of severest punishment And David by this example of Justice lets us understand that it is Capitall but to intend or pretend violence to the Person of a Prince the Lords Anointed Yea the villain presuming others conscience to be as corrupt as his own belyes himself in expectation of reward So there be many nowadayes that mischeivously belie themselves to have had hands in such and such perilous and unwarrantable facts as indeed they durst hardly approch in presumption to please men and be applauded But this Caitiff was taken at his own word and abhorred for it and so ought all such to be served that dare but falsely boast to have been actours in foul mischief amongst men of honest conscience Yea as this Amalekite did belie himself into a Treason and worthily suffered for it so has this Pamphleter in this lie of his little lesse then treasonably and therefore ought to suffer in the censure of God and good men Besides this Amalekite why were Rechab and Baanah 2. Sam. 4.10 11