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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72932	Caesars dialogue or A familiar communication containing the first institution of a subiect, in allegiance to his soueraigne	Nisbet, E.	1601 (1601)	STC 18432.5; ESTC S113170	56,805	127

instructed Father For this heare Salomon Keeping of the heart Prou. 4.23 kéepe thy heart with all diligence And first of all since as except the Lord kéepeth the Citie ps 127.1 the Kéeper watcheth it in vaine so vnlesse the Lorde kéepeth the Cittie of thy heart thou kéepest it in vaine As the Priests with hands lift vp to Heauen besought him that was euer the defendour of their Nation for the Temple 2. Mac. 14.34 36. with lift vp hands and bowed knées For keeping thy heart pray to God beséech the preseruer of thy soule O moste holy Lord keepe this house of my heart euer vndefiled which lately was clensed praying to God to kéepe it Libertine-like be not thou then secure If Lucifer in Heauen if Adam in Paradice presume not if Iudas in the Schoole of Christ fell what place can there bee for carnall securitie Blessed is the man sayth the wisedome of Salomon prou 28.14 But vse diligence that feareth alway But sayth Salomon kéepe thy heart kéepe thy heart with diligence kéepe thy heart with all diligence with diligence within least there arise corruption from within thy heart with diligence without least from without there come corruption into thy heart within Within least corruption arise within for euen as in a wéeded Garden there will spring vp newe wéedes so euen in the puryfied heart since there is still sinne dwelling Rom. 7.20 Rom. 6.12 Because of sin dwelling 2. Sam. 3.1 Gal. 5.17 though not sin raigning as there was a long time warre betwéene the house of Saule and the house of Dauid so there will be a longe time striuing betwéen the flesh and the spirite Ouid. The poets aduice as the Poet aduiseth stop the beginning for as it was said of Babell so of the flesh whose lusts cherished will be our Babell our Confusion may it most fitly be sayd psal 137.9 Blessed shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy young ones against the stones Exod. 12.29 31. When the first born of Pharaoh was slaine Israell was deliuered when the first temptation is cut off we are freed kéepe thy heart with diligence from without And without because of the Diuell tempting Eph. 2.2 for as Abner strenthened the house of Saule so the Prince of darknesse that ruleth in the ayre euen the spirite that nowe worketh in the Children of disobedience strengthneth the flesh against the spirit the affections against reason he being the first Rebell dayly inciteth to Rebellion But resist him saith Saint Iames and he shall fly from thee Whome if we resist hee will flie Iames. 4.7 From whom seducers to sedition bee sent If any Rabshakeh such be your seditious Libellers lewd Inuentors of fained sightes and prodigious apparitions and others of like braine be sent out by this spirituall Senacherib to drawe either you from Alleagiance to Hezechiah or Hezechiah from confidence in the Lord since they that are such serue not the Lord Iesus Christ Rom. 16.18 Whom they serue and what they do Rom. 16.17 Howe but their owne bellies and with faire spéech and flattering deceaue the harts of the simple I beséech all Subiects that they would marke such and auoid them nay since such serue not the Lord Iesus Christ who commaunded vs to giue to Caesar those thinges that are Caesars Math. 22.21 who submitted himselfe to Caesars Lieuetenant Iohn 19.11 but neglect his example and transgresse his Commandement and not his alone but resist the ordinance of his father Rom. 13.2 I charge thee my sonne though thy hand bee not presently vpon them as it was commaunded against them that sought to seduce to Idolatrie Deut. 13.6 yet though it bee a Prophet that giueth a signe or a wonder the Sonne of thy mother They are to be or thine owne Sonne or thy Daughter or thy Wife that lyeth in thy bosome or thy friende who is as thine owne soule entice thee secretly thou shalt not consent vnto him nor heare him neither shal thine eye pitty him shew mercy nor kéep him secret Nulla est excusatio peccati Cicero in his ●aelius si amici causa peccaueris It is no excuse of thy offence that for thy friendes sake thou diddest offend But not to speake so hard in this crime as in that discouer him or her Entertained and wherfore Against them we are to watch how neere how deere so euer to shew thy true loyaltie to Caesar thy religious dutie to thy countrey And as Ionathan in regard of the enemies commanded his men to watch Eph. 6.13 Arme. to be in armes ready to fight so kéepe thy soule diligently and bee armed for resistance And as Ioachim vpon the comming of Holofernes Iudith 4.6.7 wrote to the Bethulians to keepe the passages of the Mountaines for by them there was an entrie into Iudea so keepe the passages of thy sences Keepe our sences for by them there is an entrie into thy heart Wee resist an enemie rather without the gates than within the walles so Dauid that his heart might not fall into vanitie Psa 119.37 prayed to God to turne away his eyes that he might not behold vanitie Iob. 31.1 and to this ende did Iob make a couenant with his eyes 1. Cor. 15.33 If euill words written or spoken corrupt good manners with Dauid pray that God would turne away thy eyes and thy eares with Iob make a couenant with thy eyes and with thy eares that they looke not on that they heare not any kind of seditious Libelles trecherous pamphlets Prou. 24.21 Where we be to arme most or the smoothest wordes tending to Rebellion My sonne sayth Salomon meddle not with them that are seditious Arme most where thou art weakest for where thou art weakest there will they assault most Is Indian gold offered to make battery in an English heart How against couetousnes 1. Tim. 6.10 with both thy eares receiue that Oracle The loue of mony is the roote of all euill with both thy eyes beholde Iudas who for loue of money betrayed his Master Math. 27.5 Howe against ambition Iudg. 9.14 Art thou high minded doe the seditious say to thee as the trees did vnto the bramble Come thou and raigne ouer vs. Remember that God resisteth the proude 1. Pet. 5.5 Esa 14.12 How art thou fallen from heauen O Lucifer sonne of the morning Art thou wrathfull doe they enflame thée with reuenge remember the wrath of man doth not accomplish the righteousnesse of God Iames 1.20 How against wrath Rom. 12.19 Mihi vindicta auenge not your selues Vengeance is mine I will repay saith the Lord. Remember a fathers curse vpon his two sonnes that were brethren in euill Cursed bee their wrath Gen. 49.7 for it was fierce and their rage for it was cruell I will diuide them in Iacob and scatter them in Israel Remember that of Christ So likewise shall myne

Aduice to the yong yet fit for all Not Sauls wickednesse not Dauids deserts nor any other motiue could seduce Dauid to indaunger Saul Vpon my blessing let not thy heart euer hereafter entertaine such a thought nor thy eare heare much lesse thy tongue speake such a worde Yet for this time let thy selfe all with thy selfe learne of Dauid a man according to Gods owne heart To whom better might it be done then to Saule for who wickedder then Saule Saule wicked to God whose expresse commandement by turning to the pray he transgressed 1. Sam. 15.3.19.9 vers Not secret and hidden was his wickednes but open and apparant 1. Sam. 15.26.27.28 Samuel sharply reprooued him God reiected him and by a manifest signe shewed hee had reiected him 1. Sam. 16.14 an euill spirit sent of the Lord vexed him who might do it better then Dauid Dauid deserued well of the people and Countrey by slaying Goliah 1. Sam. 17.24.50.51 the Philistine the terrour of the whole Countrey deserued well of Saul 1. Sam. 19.5 not onely for this publike seruice to him and his Countrey but also for that other priuate 1. Sam. 16.23 in easing him of the euill spirite Who better then Dauid 1 Sam. 18.5 hee was accepted in the sight of Saules seruants all Iudah and Israel loued him 1. Sam. 18.7 the verie women honoured him with Tenne Thousand for Saules one Thousand Dauid no ordinarie subiect Dauid was set ouer the men of warre went in and out before the men of Israel and Iudah fought the Lords Battailes 1. Sam. 18.27 was the Kings sonne in law was annoynted King by Samuel 1. Sam. 16.12 at the commandement of God himselfe And how was Dauid prouoked not his wife alone taken awaye but his life sought not in woorde but in déede not by some flight blow to giue him a scarre but by a mortall wound to take away his life and this by no enemie but by his owne Soueraigne by his owne Father in law By his owne Soueraigne by his owne Father in lawe whome his owne hand saued from the open enemie eased from the euill spirite not by the bribed or enforced seruice of so base Cut-throat but by the violence of the Kings owne hand Not in a Fray in the field but by the throwing of a speare when he was playing on the Harpe to ease Saule of the euill spirit In perill he put him not once 1. Sam. 18.10.11 in perill he put him often his former seruice was forgot the mediation of a Sonne for a Sonne in lawe to a Father would not serue the slaughter of the innocent Priests would not satisfie his bloudie minde 1 Sam. 20.32 33. the time of absence though time deuoreth al things coulde not aswage his furie his furie being so great that Dauids sauing of his life 1. Sam. 24.5 7. when he had him in the Caue coulde not quench the flame of it but his bloud spared by Dauid he still persisteth to seeke the bloud of Dauid so that he liuing Dauid was still in daunger to die hee dead in all apparence Dauid was sure to raigne hee was againe closed into Dauids hand Dauid néede not touch him 1. Sam. 26.8 Abishai desires but leaue that hee might smite him snite him hee would but once to make him sure not any mans bloud but his alone néed be shed that this was done either in his presēce or by his consent 1 Sam. 26.7 who could make report since this was in the night and that it might séeme that God himselfe fauored him in this Action 1 Sam. 26.12 God sent a dead sleepe vppon them If then thou wilt know Dauids minde in this matter from his owne mouth heare his prohibition his resolution 1 Sam. 26.9 10 11. His prohibition his question and his prayer his prohibition Dauid will not onely not act it but hee will not permit it and therefore to Abishais offered seruice there is this charge returned Verse 9. Destroy him not Question if Abishai should take this for an ouer-sight His Question here is reason to satisfie him Who can lay his hand on the Lords annoynted Ibidem and bee guiltlesse No man so good no Prince so bad no cause so great that can dispence with violence offred to the Lords annoynted His resolution testified by an oath not by the mercie of God which the desperate feele not nor the Iustice of God which the Libertine feareth not nor the prouidence of God whervpon most wicked men relie not nor the Omni-presence of God which the offenders remember not but by the life of God which the heauens aboue vs setting forth his glorie Psa 19.1 the ayre about vs dayly infected and dayly purified the sea aside vs at his commaundement staying her proude waues the earth beneath vs Iob. 38.11 so huge a masse firmely fixed in the midst of the ayre our soules and our selues for wee are his generation doe proclaime Acts 17.28 by this life of God doth he testifie his resolution 1. Sam. 26.10 that where many thirst for reuenge Dauid will take no reuenge whereas many wicked children bee ●●●ks of the father for a little wealth Dauid woulde not the death of his father in lawe for the Crowne Many a man hath taken armes against his soueraigne for his owne safetie for his owne safetie Dauid will not assaile his Soueraigne but taking Gods prouidence for his shéeld vsing praier for armour saying in heart with Christ Shall I not drinke of the cup that my father hath giuen me faith the Lord shal smite him or his day shal come to dy or he shall discend into battaile perish His prayer the Lord knoweth ●●ine infirmities least iniurie mooue mee ambition puffe● mee his inflexibilitie driue mee my owne safetie drawes mee oportunitie intice t● mee fonde fréends incense me the Lord keepe me from laying mine hand vpon the Lordes annoynted Iohn 18.11 Sam. 26.10 His resolution 1. Sam. 26.11 His Inuocation 2 Sam. 1.10 Will yet any man doe its here ye heare what he said to Abishai hereafter sée what he did to the Amalekite though the Amalekite brought him the Crowne from Saule his head and the Braflet from his arme After he had not clapt his handes for ioy 2 Sam. 1.11.12 but rent his cloathes for greefe after hee had not reioiced and laughed but mourned and lamented after he had not feasted but fasted mindfull of that in the Psalme Psal 105.15 2. Sam. 1.14 Touch not mine annointed he saith How wast thou not afraid to put foorth thine hand to destroy the anoynted of the Lord To kill a priuate man it is death to kill a Prince it is more then death to kill a man is death because he is the Image of God Gen. 9.6 to kill a Prince though it be euen Saul it is more then death Psal 105.15.25 for hee is the