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' forbid (faith he ) co that, for which they alledged dixit Domsinses,
Sermon Oe ofthe Gown1E8. :
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thus fare; ‘fince he fele ic'at his heart, his going but thus farre 3 though nothing fo farte, a3 his men
would have had him, And fo much for percuffio cordis, Davids contrition.
“All this while we go but upon collegtion feel but by his pulfe, how his heart beateth, Will ye
~ have an ore tenus, a full and flat confeffion from him, hear him diftin€lly {peak his mind to this very
point, of laying hands on Saul ; and give you the true reafon, why he didit not ; why, neither they,
nor any fhould ever do it ? That followes now in the third verfe. a °
-* But firft, lerme tell you, this cat of Davids was not well taken, of either fide: David (we fee)
* thought not well of it: No more did Ais men, - He; that he haddone fo much : They, that: he had
Ver 7. °
2. :
Davids’ confef~
fron.
What Davids
men thought £ <
done no more. Evidently to bz gathered , that his m:n when they fawhe hadno more ef their “
motion than fo, that he came back with his kwfein one hand,anda /xip of Sauls mantle in the others,
and his kyife had noblood onit ; and that he had done as muchas he would do, and no more was
tobe looked fot at his hands’ ( for, he looked like one heart-Strickew » that if it had been now to
do, would not have done that, neither: ) they fellinto a rage, a mutinie, a plain rifing 5 as refolved,
“1 he would not, they would : if icwere not good im his eyes, in theirs it was, - [t wasnot an end of
a4 mantle fhould ferve their turn ; they would make him fure for ever going his way + as knowing, 1f
~he went away, he would ‘prove worfe than ever, as (indeed) fo he did.’ So, when David was down
his men were up. : . ,
Here now, is there afecond danger towards Sau/, fom Davids men, a multitude ready to rife
and run uponhim. | Plain : for, it is faid in the next verle exprefly , David fuffered thens no: to rife,
Which could not be faid properly, unlefle they were on rifiag. - But, an infurreftion there was to-
ward , and at Saz/ they would have been , had not David interpofed, and oppofed himfelf , with
thefe words which now follow, and with thole words overcome them, and flayed them , that they did
Not 7i/¢. - . ‘
. So that, the words we now cometo, ferve for two purpofes s Not fo much foran Apologie for
himfelf, that he did it not (though, thac they do too: )-as for adijfwafive , or-retentive to them 5
and in them, to us, and co all, that none fhould ever attempt it. You fav even now , how evil his
_ Beart brooked its’ you fhall hear (now) his mouth utterly renounce it, ever to hold that for good,
that feemed goodin their eyes. . .
Firft, a flac denial icis, But, thatis not fo much :.the manner of ic, is all. Icis not foberly
* and coldly, No, Iwill not do this thing. No: butic is with very much vehemency, as the man=
ner of men is, when they {peak in great paffion. If ye markir, it 1s weth fhort curnes: Go p fers
bid: What, do this? Tomy liege Lord? To Go v’s anointed 2 lay my hands on him, and he Go v’s
anointed? A pawfe, at evety word, asif he were half out of breath, asif his heart did beat /till,
Weigh them alittle : YOOINWN. There isnot, in the Hebrew ; there is notin any Tongue, fo
earneft, fo paffionate an abnegation, abjuration, abrenunciation, as ic: Itwasthe word they ufed
when they rent their cloathes at blafphemy. We turn ir, as our congue will bear, as the poverty
*. of it will fufferus. To turn itto the quick, theré is more init, than can in any one phrafe be ex-
preffed. So, not being able codoitin one ; the Interpreters have affaid to do itin moe than one,
Every one, as their own Idjonze will beft bear. The Lord keep me from doing shis thing ( faith ours. )
So, itis of the nature of a prayer againftic. Mideuds, Oscupcnit, Away with it, By ne meanes 5
Or Miyivorzo (faith the Greck:) never lecme, let any, never leritbe done. So, it is an utter
deteftation: | -4b/it mihi & Domino (faith the Latine) Never let me come where God hath todo, Ac~
carfed be Tof God; allevil come tome, if ever Ido as-you would have me, © So, itis a bitcer exe-
cration. Icbearsall, Under one; itis botha hearty deprecation or prayer againft it, a deep detefPation,
anda fearfull execration, if evet he be brought to doit to lay hands ox Sawl, Thefe three wil
amount to an oath of Allegiance at leaft, . : ,
~ Youwill fay, here is paffion indeed ; buritis reafon,andnot paffion, mult carry things when
‘all is done. Nay, here is rea(on too, and reafon upon reafox, couched in thefe words, why not to
doit. Domino meo, firtt 5. Tohis liege Lord, or Soveraigne: Notto him, Then, if that will not
hold, Chriffo Domini, tothe Lords anointed, notto him: That will. For , two he alledges 5 Do-
mino, and Chriffo Domini 5 The fitttis from the earthearthly ; Deming meo , his earthly Lord. The
fecond, Chriffo Demini ; Dimini,is the Lord from heaven, The fitt he ftands not on: this fe-
cond, that he'flands on, that, he icerates once andagain , fets up his reft upon that : as indeed,
when we have ftudied all thar ever we can; we fhall never be able, to find a more forcible.” It can’
never be anfwered,- if we care either for heaven or earth , Chriffus or Dominus, Christ ot God 5
any thing ac all, It cannot be ; the Lord of heaven fhould ever endure ( where his hard hath been,
to ansiat ) any hand thould be, to violate, to do any violence to that party. Do but fee how he ur.
ters it: Lay hands 0x him? andhe Go p’s ancinted ?- and fo breaks off, asif he held it for a foul
indignity, for a groffe ablurdity in reafon,once to queftion it. So, for laying hands but on his wz2nt/e,-
- Davids heart checked him: But, for laying hands on his perfou, that is palt cor penitentis, Ieis vox
clamantis, that, wh yavorre, Abft ; farrebe it from me 3. never that, never, ay
Will ye now obferve how, in this {peech, he, returns upon them and their three motives ? God
To their Go’p. faid, he fayes,
Go p forbid 8 anfwers Dominus dixit with Dominns interdixip. Of which Ged'faid, No, 20,
2 : Ge
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Sauls {econd |
danger :
Davids mens
commotion.
Davids diffwas
fivetothem,
The reafon of
it
I Doviina meo,
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