❧
The
Coronation
of
Dauid
.
1
HOw
great
broyles
at
this
day
are
raysed
in
these
parts
of
Christendome
agaynst
the
Ghospell
of
Iesus
Christ
,
Ruffin
.
lib.
1.
cap.
37.
Socr.
lib.
3.
cap.
20.
&
Sozom.
lib.
5.
cap.
2.
And
so
may
we
read
in
auncient
tyme
,
as
of
many
others
,
so
namely
of
Cyril
the
Bishop
of
Ierusalem
,
that
when
the
like
occasion
was
offered
vnto
him
,
he
also
tooke
the
self
same
course
.
The
like
occasion
that
was
offered
vnto
him
,
was
a
great
fear
that
many
of
the
people
of
God
in
those
parts
conceaued
,
that
Christian
religion
hauing
alredy
bene
receaued
and
planted
there
by
publike
authoritie
,
should
after
giue
place
to
Iudaisme
agayn
.
For
Iulian
the
Emperour
,
himself
professing
the
faith
at
the
first
,
and
finding
the
same
alredy
established
by
publike
authoritie
(
fourty
yeres
before
that
he
came
to
the
Crown
,
by
Constantine
the
great
and
Constantius
his
sonne
)
and
hauing
a
secret
intent
with
him
to
set
vp
heathnish
idolatrie
agayn
,
among
other
practises
that
he
vsed
to
crosse
the
faith
of
Christ
,
and
those
that
did
professe
it
,
so
much
as
he
could
,
gaue
libertie
,
comfort
,
and
ayd
vnto
the
Iewes
to
build
vp
the
Temple
at
Ierusalem
agayn
,
and
there
to
sacrifice
,
and
obserue
the
law
as
before
they
were
wont
.
Whereupon
great
multitudes
of
the
Iewes
assembled
themselues
together
out
of
al
quarters
;
set
in
hand
with
their
busines
in
great
confidence
;
prepared
things
needful
for
the
building
in
great
pentie
,
had
(
in
a
brauerie
)
many
of
their
working
instruments
of
siluer
,
euen
to
their
baskets
,
spades
,
and
mattokes
;
before
hand
threatned
the
Christians
there
,
how
néere
they
would
sit
vnto
them
ere
long
:
and
in
al
things
had
held
such
a
course
therein
for
the
time
,
as
that
it
seemed
vnto
many
,
that
the
faith
of
Christ
should
be
abolished
there
,
and
Iudaism
set
vp
agayn
.
But
Cyril
the
Bishop
,
perceauing
what
offence
this
might
breed
vnto
many
,
and
that
diuers
were
not
a
litle
dismayed
thereat
(
and
therfore
much
weakened
in
the
faith
thereby
)
calling
to
mind
what
things
Daniel
and
Christ
himself
before
had
spoken
of
the
vtter
ouerthrow
of
that
Temple
and
citie
,
did
resolutely
set
down
vnto
the
faithful
,
euen
when
the
matter
was
at
the
highest
,
and
their
new
building
in
greatest
likelihood
to
go
forward
,
that
yet
notwithstanding
it
should
not
prosper
,
but
go
back
agayn
,
and
come
to
no
proofe
in
the
end
.
And
so
it
came
to
passe
immediatly
after
.
For
the
lime
and
the
sand
they
had
gotten
together
in
great
heapes
,
was
with
mightie
winds
so
blown
away
,
that
they
knew
not
where
to
finde
it
:
the
old
foundation
,
when
they
had
taken
the
rubble
from
it
,
and
now
were
redy
(
the
next
day
after
)
to
haue
begun
their
new
building
theron
,
was
in
the
night
by
a
straunge
and
mightie
earthquake
so
clene
turned
vp
and
shaken
in
péeces
,
that
there
was
not
left
one
stone
vpon
an
other
,
that
was
not
shaken
out
of
his
place
:
&
as
for
the
timber
and
stone
which
they
had
prouided
(
and
that
in
great
quantitie
)
and
their
instruments
or
tooles
wherewithal
they
should
haue
wrought
,
(
and
many
of
the
people
themselues
)
they
were
destroyed
by
fier
,
such
as
the
Lord
in
extraordinarie
maner
cast
vpon
them
.
As
therefore
Cyril
at
that
time
was
able
,
out
of
the
Scriptures
to
minister
sound
comfort
to
the
people
of
God
,
agaynst
that
discomfortable
case
of
theirs
;
and
,
as
he
was
able
,
accordingly
did
it
:
so
the
godly
in
these
dayes
also
haue
(
in
great
plenty
)
wherewithal
to
comfort
those
that
are
weake
,
and
that
in
their
weaknes
doubt
very
much
whereunto
these
broyles
may
grow
.
For
now
also
these
Iewes
of
ours
haue
obteyned
the
comfort
and
ayd
of
certeyn
Iulians
,
that
they
hope
ere
long
to
banish
the
Ghospel
,
and
to
set
vp
Poperie
agayne
:
they
haue
also
contriued
,
and
complotted
their
matters
so
,
that
nothing
they
hope
,
shal
frustrate
their
vayn
presumption
therin
.
But
he
that
dwelleth
in
the
heauens
doth
laugh
them
to
scorne
:
the
Lord
will
haue
them
in
derision
.
Let
the
Lords
watchmen
but
looke
about
them
,
and
they
shal
be
able
to
finde
(
and
that
in
very
plentifull
measure
)
wherwithal
soundly
to
comfort
,
and
fully
to
establish
the
hearts
of
those
,
that
in
their
weakenesse
so
readilie
feare
,
that
when
tyrants
begin
to
threaten
,
and
make
preparation
to
do
some
mischief
,
then
is
the
Gospell
not
like
to
escape
it
,
and
the
power
of
darknesse
(
that
of
late
ouerwhelmed
the
face
of
the
earth
)
like
to
preuayle
agaynst
vs
agayne
.
To
the
which
end
,
as
I
wish
those
that
can
rightly
do
it
,
diligently
to
beate
out
this
poynt
of
doctrine
to
the
people
of
God
:
so
my self
also
haue
thought
good
to
take
in
hand
some
such
argument
at
this
present
,
and
among
so
many
places
of
Scripture
that
yéeld
for
this
matter
most
singular
comfort
,
to
deliuer
some
one
to
the
instruction
and
comfort
of
those
,
that
in
these
dayes
of
ours
do
in
such
sort
need
to
be
called
vpon
.
For
which
cause
I
haue
made
choyce
of
that
part
of
the
storie
of
David
,
wherein
we
haue
set
foorth
vnto
vs
,
how
,
being
ordeyned
to
be
King
ouer
Israel
,
he
was
kept
backe
,
and
notably
exercised
for
a
time
,
and
yet
notwithstanding
fully
possessed
thereof
in
the
end
.
For
seeing
that
David
was
a
figure
of
Christ
,
and
such
as
was
the
estate
of
Christ
here
on
the
earth
,
such
also
must
be
the
state
of
the
Gospell
whensoeuer
the
same
is
sent
vnto
vs
:
therefore
must
it
needes
follow
,
that
as
in
that
part
of
Davids
historie
,
wee
may
see
a
liuely
description
of
those
matters
in
Christ
,
both
how
he
was
kept
backe
for
the
time
,
and
how
in
the
end
he
was
aduaunced
;
so
may
we
likewise
therein
behold
the
estate
of
the
Gospell
in
these
our
dayes
,
for
both
those
matters
:
that
is
,
how
great
resistance
for
a
time
it
findeth
among
vs
;
and
how
notwithstanding
it
is
most
sure
to
preuayle
in
the
end
.
The
text
therefore
being
so
pregnant
,
and
so
effectuall
to
such
a
purpose
,
that
I
likewise
may
the
better
finde
out
(
in
some
good
measure
)
whatsoeuer
doth
belong
therunto
,
I
humbly
beseech
that
sonne
of
David
,
our
Lord
and
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
,
to
vouchsafe
me
that
mercie
,
that
I
may
so
do
it
,
as
may
soundly
tend
,
both
to
the
aduancement
of
his
eternall
and
only
trueth
,
and
to
the
comfort
of
all
those
that
vnfeignedly
loue
and
embrace
the
same
.
2
And
so
being
purposed
(
by
the
goodnes
,
and
grace
of
God
)
in
such
sort
to
vnfold
that
part
of
the
storie
of
David
,
[
a
](A17239-e11230-b)
a
Gen.
49.8
,
10.
that
the
chiefe
gouernment
should
be
in
the
tribe
of
Judah
.
Whereas
therfore
Ishai
the
father
of
David
was
of
the
tribe
of
Judah
which
had
the
promis
,
it
is
so
much
the
more
likely
that
some
one
might
be
taken
thence
,
vnto
whome
the
Kingdome
should
be
established
:
then
of
the
family
of
Kish
the
father
of
Saul
,
being
of
the
tribe
of
Benjamin
,
vnto
whome
no
such
promis
was
made
.
Insomuch
that
whereas
it
had
pleased
God
,
now
for
a
time
to
call
Saul
vnto
the
kingdom
,
it
may
séeme
that
it
was
no
more
,
but
to
make
a
readier
way
vnto
the
other
that
was
to
stand
:
and
therewithal
to
set
downe
a
patterne
vnto
all
Princes
that
were
to
follow
.
A
readier
way
might
be
made
thereby
vnto
the
other
that
was
to
stand
,
both
for
that
thereby
they
should
now
be
inured
to
some
obedience
:
and
for
that
they
were
woont
to
obey
,
not
only
a
meane
man
by
parentage
,
and
of
the
least
tribe
among
them
all
:
but
also
in
such
hard
cases
somtimes
,
as
wilful
regiment
is
wont
to
yeeld
.
A
patterne
likewise
may
therein
be
left
to
all
Princes
whatsoeuer
,
to
take
good
heed
to
their
maner
of
gouernment
,
when
as
they
may
see
,
with
what
seueritie
the
Lord
did
punish
those
two
faults
in
the
first
King
of
Israel
,
in
whom
there
were
many
good
things
otherwise
found
:
that
so
they
may
the
better
vnderstand
,
that
although
God
doth
put
vp
many
greater
matters
at
their
hands
since
for
a
time
;
yet
may
they
before
hand
see
,
how
they
are
like
to
be
dealt
withall
,
when
the
day
of
vengeance
shall
come
,
vnlesse
they
prouide
for
it
before
.
Those
other
things
which
to
that
present
time
apperteined
,
are
two
,
his
outward
annointing
,
and
the
inward
grace
that
was
giuen
withall
.
[
b
](A17239-e11340-b)
b
16.1.5.13
.
priuatly
done
,
in
the
house
of
Ishai
(
or
at
the
most
,
but
only
in
that
one
towne
,
which
was
but
little
in
respect
of
the
whole
people
)
and
yet
notwithstanding
a
sufficient
testimonie
vnto
himselfe
,
and
to
those
that
knewe
it
:
and
that
both
his
father
[
c
](A17239-e11360-b)
c
16.10.11
.
left
out
him
,
in
that
account
,
and
Samuel
the
Prophet
also
[
d
](A17239-e11380-b)
d
16.6
.
could
well
haue
setled
his
choice
in
one
of
the
other
.
The
inward
grace
that
was
giuen
withall
,
was
the
[
e
](A17239-e11390-b)
e
16.13
.
Spirit
of
the
Lord
which
then
came
vpon
him
,
and
wherewith
,
from
that
day
forward
,
he
was
endewed
.
How
effectually
God
did
commend
him
to
others
,
may
likewise
appeare
,
[
f
](A17239-e11450-b)
f
16.23
.
by
his
instrument
he
sometimes
eased
the
Kings
mind
,
when
by
the
euill
spirit
of
the
Lord
,
he
was
vexed
with
his
melancholy
passions
.
That
which
respected
the
whole
hoast
of
Israel
generally
,
was
the
slaughter
of
Goliath
.
Concerning
which
,
to
the
end
that
the
benefit
,
that
it
pleased
God
to
worke
forth
of
David
in
that
action
,
vnto
them
all
generally
,
may
better
appeare
,
it
shal
be
good
,
more
specially
to
consider
,
both
how
sore
an
enemie
that
Goliath
was
vnto
them
:
and
how
notably
David
deliuered
them
from
him
.
How
sore
an
enemie
he
was
vnto
them
,
may
soone
appeare
,
whether
we
consider
,
what
terror
might
iustly
proceede
from
him
to
the
children
of
Israel
:
or
whether
we
regard
the
great
feare
that
they
had
of
him
.
The
terror
that
might
iustly
proceede
from
him
to
them-wards
,
doth
partly
arise
out
of
the
consideration
of
himselfe
alone
:
but
chiefly
of
him
and
his
companie
together
.
He
alone
was
not
only
of
[
g
](A17239-e11530-b)
g
17.4
.
extraordinarie
stature
,
and
strength
(
farre
excéeding
the
ordinarie
proportion
of
others
)
and
[
h
](A17239-e11540-b)
h
17.5.7
.
furnished
with
armour
,
and
weapon
accordingly
:
but
also
,
both
a
naturall
enemie
to
the
people
of
God
,
and
to
their
religion
;
and
so
confident
in
himselfe
and
his
companie
,
that
he
[
i
](A17239-e11550-b)
i
17.10.45
.
defied
the
hoast
of
Israel
,
and
God
himselfe
.
His
companie
also
might
well
be
terrible
to
the
people
of
Israel
,
both
because
that
they
also
were
naturall
enemies
,
both
to
themselues
,
and
to
the
truth
that
they
professed
:
and
sometimes
before
had
the
children
of
Israel
in
strong
subiection
.
The
children
of
Israel
were
so
afraid
of
him
,
that
[
k
](A17239-e11600-b)
k
17.11.24
.
they
did
not
only
feare
to
encounter
him
:
but
also
shrank
aside
at
his
presence
for
verie
feare
.
How
notably
David
deliuered
the
people
from
these
their
enemies
,
may
likewise
appeare
,
not
only
in
that
which
he
did
,
but
also
in
the
maner
of
doing
it
.
That
which
he
did
,
was
,
that
he
destroyed
[
l
](A17239-e11620-b)
l
17.49.51
.
that
outgrowne
monster
Goliath
:
and
therewithall
stroke
such
a
terror
into
the
hearts
of
all
the
other
Philistims
,
that
forthwith
[
m
](A17239-e11650-b)
m
17.51
.
they
turned
their
backs
,
and
fled
.
His
maner
of
doing
the
same
was
notable
,
both
for
vndertaking
the
attempt
at
the
first
,
and
afterward
in
the
performance
of
it
.
In
his
vndertaking
of
it
at
the
first
,
we
are
to
consider
,
how
strong
temptation
he
had
against
it
:
and
whereby
notwithstanding
he
conceiued
vndoubted
hope
to
preuaile
.
The
temptation
that
he
had
so
strong
against
it
,
was
partly
in
Eliab
his
eldest
brother
,
and
partly
in
Saul
the
King
himselfe
.
In
his
brother
Eliab
he
found
[
n
](A17239-e11690-b)
n
17.28
.
himselfe
reuiled
and
disdained
in
plentifull
measure
,
only
for
that
he
did
so
much
as
talke
of
the
matter
:
in
Saul
likewise
[
o
](A17239-e11710-b)
o
17.33
.
his
attempt
condemned
,
as
altogether
impossible
,
for
him
to
bring
to
any
good
proofe
.
The
thing
whereby
he
strengthned
himself
against
these
temptations
was
an
inuincible
faith
[
p
](A17239-e11720-b)
p
17.34.37
.
vpon
the
experience
of
Gods
goodnes
towards
him
,
in
two
such
like
attempts
before
.
In
his
performance
of
it
we
sée
likewise
,
that
he
notably
behaued
himselfe
both
in
his
preparation
towards
it
:
and
in
the
execution
it selfe
,
when
he
came
vnto
it
.
In
his
preparation
we
see
,
that
he
[
q
](A17239-e11730-b)
q
17.39
.
refused
Sauls
armour
,
and
all
the
ordinarie
furniture
of
war
,
and
tooke
vnto
him
but
only
his
[
r
](A17239-e11750-b)
r
17.40
.
Sling
,
and
a
fewe
stones
for
the
same
.
In
the
execution
it selfe
we
plainly
see
,
that
first
he
did
notably
[
s
](A17239-e11760-b)
s
17.45.47
.
rebuke
the
insolencie
and
pride
of
that
mighty
Giant
,
and
then
though
he
had
no
other
weapon
but
only
his
Sling
,
yet
did
he
[
t
](A17239-e11770-b)
t
17.48
.
hasten
with
maruelous
courage
to
encounter
with
him
.
[
u
](A17239-e11810-b)
u
16.21
.
loue
him
verie
well
,
&
gaue
therewithall
good
tokens
of
it
:
one
,
that
he
[
x
](A17239-e11820-b)
x
16.21
.
made
him
his
harnes-bearer
,
the
other
,
that
he
[
y
](A17239-e11830-b)
y
16.22
.
sent
to
his
father
to
haue
him
still
(
though
[
z
](A17239-e11840-b)
z
17.15.55
.
as
it
seemeth
,
David
taried
not
long
there
.
)
In
his
latter
that
redounded
to
all
,
we
find
that
God
procured
him
fauour
,
both
with
certaine
speciall
persons
,
and
with
the
whole
multitude
also
.
Those
speciall
persons
were
,
Saul
himselfe
,
and
two
of
his
children
.
In
Saul
we
find
,
that
[
a
](A17239-e11880-b)
a
18.2
.
now
he
would
suffer
him
to
returne
no
more
vnto
his
father
:
and
that
[
b
](A17239-e11890-b)
b
18.5
.
both
he
vsed
him
in
diuers
of
his
affaires
,
and
set
him
ouer
his
men
of
war
.
Those
two
children
of
Saul
,
in
whose
hearts
God
had
wrought
forth
a
fauour
to
Dauid
,
were
Jonathan
his
son
,
and
Michal
his
daughter
.
In
Jonathan
was
wrought
a
verie
singular
and
rare
good
will
:
insomuch
that
he
is
[
c
](A17239-e11950-b)
c
18.1.3
.
said
,
not
only
to
loue
David
as
his
owne
soule
,
but
also
to
haue
expressed
the
same
by
notable
tokens
.
One
was
,
that
he
[
d
](A17239-e11970-b)
d
18.3
.
made
a
couenant
with
him
;
and
that
of
loue
:
the
other
,
that
he
[
e
](A17239-e11980-b)
e
18.4
.
tooke
from
his
owne
bodie
,
and
bestowed
on
him
,
both
abiliments
of
honour
,
and
furniture
to
the
field
likewise
.
In
Michal
likewise
was
wrought
such
good
will
,
that
both
at
the
first
she
[
f
](A17239-e12000-b)
f
18.20
.
loued
him
,
as
one
whom
she
would
be
glad
to
make
her
husband
(
that
so
wheras
Saul
[
g
](A17239-e12020-b)
g
17.25
.
before
had
promised
to
giue
one
of
his
daughters
in
mariage
to
him
that
should
slay
Goliath
,
now
he
might
the
better
performe
it
,
and
David
might
thereby
haue
a
readier
way
to
that
whereunto
God
had
called
him
a
little
before
)
and
[
h
](A17239-e12050-b)
h
19.11.12
.
after
saued
his
life
likewise
.
In
the
multitude
we
also
finde
,
not
only
that
they
thought
very
well
of
him
for
this
his
victorie
:
but
also
that
they
did
the
like
of
his
other
behauiour
besides
,
in
such
things
as
were
now
at
the
first
commended
vnto
him
.
For
this
is
his
victorie
[
i
](A17239-e12060-b)
i
18.6.7
.
they
do
not
only
welcome
him
home
in
very
good
manner
,
out
of
all
their
cities
,
and
with
their
instrustuments
of
musick
:
but
also
[
k
](A17239-e12070-b)
k
18.7
.
rightly
apportion
the
commendation
thereof
,
yeelding
to
Saul
,
the
ordinary
power
,
the
prayse
of
one
thousand
;
but
vnto
David
,
or
to
the
extraordinary
goodnes
of
God
,
no
lesse
than
ten
thousand
.
And
as
for
his
other
behauiour
likewise
,
in
all
such
things
wherein
it
pleased
Saul
to
imploy
him
,
[
l
](A17239-e12110-b)
l
18.5
.
it
is
also
recorded
,
that
he
was
accepted
,
or
highly
ēstéemed
in
the
sight
of
all
the
people
:
and
,
that
is
more
,
euen
in
the
sight
of
Sauls
seruants
also
.
3
Whether
the
Lord
haue
in
like
sort
dealt
in
these
dayes
of
ours
,
is
now
to
bee
seene
:
that
is
,
4
To
find
out
now
in
what
sort
it
pleased
God
to
bring
him
to
the
kingdome
,
[
a
](A17239-e12770-b)
a
16.14
.
was
sent
vnto
him
,
and
[
b
](A17239-e12780-b)
b
16.15.18.10.19.9
.
oft
did
vexe
him
:
but
also
for
that
we
may
sée
likewise
,
that
[
c
](A17239-e12790-b)
c
18.8.9.20.31
.
it
gréeued
him
much
to
part
with
the
Kingdome
.
And
then
lesse
marueile
,
if
he
were
so
far
out
of
temper
,
and
consequently
so
rageous
withall
,
when
as
he
did
so
impatiently
take
so
great
a
losse
:
and
sometimes
also
was
extraordinarily
vexed
by
that
euill
spirit
,
that
from
the
Lord
was
sent
vnto
him
.
The
towardnes
or
likelihood
that
David
was
in
,
to
come
to
the
Kingdom
,
was
first
in
that
sentence
of
God
,
that
now
it
should
be
giuen
to
another
:
then
for
that
David
was
likeliest
to
be
that
other
that
God
did
speake
of
.
For
the
text
doth
not
shew
,
that
he
knew
as
yet
of
Davids
annointing
:
and
,
because
that
he
neuer
said
any
thing
to
Samuel
about
it
,
nor
otherwise
maketh
any
mention
of
it
,
it
is
the
most
likely
,
that
he
did
not
knowe
of
it
.
Yet
thus
much
he
knew
,
that
[
d
](A17239-e12840-b)
d
13.14.15.23.26.28
.
Samuel
had
told
him
twise
alreadie
,
that
the
Lord
had
cast
him
away
,
and
now
prouided
himselfe
of
another
:
and
he
might
well
see
,
that
David
was
likeliest
to
be
that
other
,
both
for
that
[
e
](A17239-e12870-b)
e
17.34.36.38.51
.
God
had
wrought
such
things
by
him
,
and
for
the
[
f
](A17239-e12880-b)
f
18.7
.
fauour
that
now
he
had
gotten
.
Concerning
the
maner
of
this
his
first
persecution
,
first
he
sought
by
secret
meanes
,
[
g
](A17239-e12920-b)
g
18.10
.
as
he
was
in
one
of
his
fits
,
as
David
was
playing
on
his
instrument
to
mitigate
his
passions
,
euen
on
the
morrow
after
that
they
came
home
from
the
slaughter
of
Goliath
,
and
the
Philistims
:
[
h
](A17239-e12960-b)
h
18.11
.
twise
together
he
had
in
his
mind
,
for
to
haue
executed
this
mischeuous
purpose
.
A
wonderfull
thing
that
he
should
be
so
minded
,
though
he
had
bin
so
minded
but
once
:
not
only
in
respect
of
the
fact
it selfe
,
but
also
in
respect
of
diuers
circumstances
thereunto
apperteining
.
The
fact
it selfe
must
néedes
haue
bin
wilfull
murther
:
then
the
which
there
néeded
no
greater
,
both
to
haue
conuinced
him
of
great
iniquitie
before
men
,
and
vtterly
to
haue
cast
himselfe
away
before
God
.
The
circumstances
that
are
,
do
chiefly
appertaine
vnto
their
persons
,
but
partly
also
vnto
the
time
.
The
persons
are
two
:
Saul
,
and
David
.
Saul
being
the
King
,
and
so
consequently
being
ordeined
to
be
the
mainteiner
of
equitie
,
and
a
buckler
and
shield
vnto
the
oppressed
,
ought
not
to
haue
made
such
a
fault
himselfe
:
besides
that
at
that
time
,
being
in
one
of
his
fits
,
and
sensibly
féeling
the
hand
of
God
vpon
him
for
his
former
sinnes
,
he
should
rather
haue
vsed
it
to
his
further
amendment
,
then
so
to
take
the
aduantage
of
it
,
to
a
further
mischiefe
.
David
was
not
only
innocent
,
but
also
had
(
in
that
verie
matter
for
the
which
he
should
haue
bin
destroied
)
deserued
marueilous
well
,
both
of
all
generally
,
for
that
he
had
giuen
so
great
an
ouerthrowe
vnto
the
common
enimie
of
all
,
and
especially
of
Saul
,
because
they
were
,
by
reason
of
the
person
that
he
susteined
,
enemies
to
none
so
much
as
to
him
.
The
time
when
he
would
haue
done
this
mischiefe
,
was
the
verie
next
day
after
that
they
were
welcomed
home
from
the
victorie
,
the
people
reioicing
and
singing
vnto
them
,
that
Saul
had
slaine
his
thousand
,
and
David
his
ten
thousand
:
as
vnseasonable
a
time
for
such
a
purpose
,
as
could
be
deuised
,
because
that
as
yet
the
benefit
that
he
had
receiued
was
so
fresh
,
that
it
ought
so
to
haue
filled
all
the
powers
of
his
mind
with
all
thankefull
remembrance
,
as
that
there
might
haue
bin
no
corner
at
all
in
his
heart
,
wherein
so
much
as
a
little
spark
of
so
great
vnthankfulnes
might
find
any
place
.
In
that
he
had
this
purpose
twise
,
it
doth
both
argue
his
vnthankfulnes
and
ill
dealing
to
be
so
much
the
greater
:
and
might
be
withall
a
warning
to
David
not
to
thinke
,
that
because
Saul
had
once
failed
,
when
first
he
attempted
to
do
him
that
mischiefe
,
he
would
neuer
for
shame
attempt
it
againe
.
When
this
way
failed
,
he
then
thought
good
,
that
it
should
be
done
by
the
Philistims
:
his
hand
now
should
not
be
vpon
him
.
And
that
by
the
Philistims
it
might
better
be
done
,
he
[
i
](A17239-e13080-b)
i
18.13
.
both
gaue
him
the
charge
of
a
thousand
men
,
and
would
needes
[
k
](A17239-e13090-b)
k
18.17.21
.
set
him
foorth
one
of
his
daughters
in
mariage
also
.
In
giuing
him
charge
ouer
such
a
band
of
souldiers
,
he
would
seeme
,
not
only
to
put
him
in
trust
,
but
also
to
seeke
his
preferment
and
honour
:
and
yet
(
in
truth
)
he
sought
nothing
else
but
his
ouerthrow
,
hoping
that
by
that
occasion
,
more
boldly
encountering
with
the
enemie
,
one
time
or
other
he
should
be
ouerthrowne
.
In
setting
him
forth
one
of
his
daughters
in
mariage
,
and
in
such
sort
as
he
did
,
(
both
[
l
](A17239-e13100-b)
l
18.22.25
.
earnestly
labouring
it
by
such
meanes
as
he
vsed
,
and
[
m
](A17239-e13110-b)
m
18.25
.
requiring
of
him
no
other
dowry
,
but
an
hundreth
foreskins
of
the
Philistims
)
although
(
in
truth
)
he
sought
[
n
](A17239-e13130-b)
n
18.17.21.25
.
nothing
else
in
this
also
,
but
only
his
ouerthrow
:
yet
herein
did
he
séeke
it
more
cunningly
(
and
therefore
to
David
so
much
more
dangerously
)
for
that
hereby
he
would
seeme
,
both
to
beare
a
speciall
fauour
to
David
,
and
,
in
the
ouerthrow
of
the
enemy
,
chiefly
to
respect
the
cause
of
religion
.
The
former
of
them
is
plaine
inough
in
it selfe
.
The
latter
also
doth
plainly
appeare
,
for
that
he
doth
not
require
their
heads
,
or
other
parts
,
but
only
their
foreskins
:
which
(
in
those
dayes
)
was
a
speciall
difference
betwixt
the
people
of
God
,
and
the
heathen
.
When
he
had
made
some
triall
of
those
secret
practises
,
[
o
](A17239-e13180-b)
o
18.27.28
.
that
they
were
meanes
to
make
David
both
much
stronger
,
and
more
renouned
then
he
was
before
)
being
able
now
to
stay
no
longer
,
he
[
p
](A17239-e13200-b)
p
18.29.19.1
.
brake
forth
into
open
persecution
,
and
gaue
speciall
charge
both
vnto
Jonathan
,
and
to
all
his
seruants
,
one
way
or
other
to
make
him
away
:
wherein
it
seemeth
,
that
he
vsed
Ionathan
,
as
one
of
whome
he
might
be
assured
:
the
others
for
the
spedier
dispatch
of
the
matter
.
It
might
séeme
that
he
might
make
sure
of
Ionathan
,
both
because
he
was
his
sonne
,
and
especially
because
that
the
cause
was
his
,
so
néere
as
it
was
.
For
being
the
Kings
sonne
,
and
next
to
the
Crowne
by
lineall
descent
,
it
was
likely
in
reason
,
that
he
would
haue
bin
as
readie
as
Saul
,
to
haue
taken
David
out
of
the
way
.
And
his
other
seruants
being
many
,
it
was
likely
also
,
that
séeing
he
gaue
the
charge
to
them
all
,
it
must
needs
be
quickly
dispatcht
:
either
for
emulation
among
themselues
;
who
should
first
gratifie
the
King
therein
,
or
for
that
some
one
or
other
among
so
manie
was
like
to
be
found
,
that
would
attempt
any
mischiefe
whatsoeuer
,
hauing
once
the
Kings
commandement
for
it
.
Howbeit
,
Ionathan
héereupon
so
[
q
](A17239-e13270-b)
q
19.4.5
.
laboured
the
King
(
after
that
[
r
](A17239-e13280-b)
r
19.2.3
.
first
he
had
warned
David
to
keepe
himselfe
close
)
that
he
wrought
a
reconciliation
betwixt
them
:
and
so
this
first
persecution
ceassed
.
5
In
which
poynt
if
we
come
to
our selues
,
[
a.
](A17239-e13430-b)
a.
Ier.
23.1.8
.
Eze.
34.1.24
.
Nah.
3.17.19
.
Zec
11.8.15.17
.
Math.
15.13
.
2.
Cor.
10.5
.
&c.
doth
plainly
witnesse
(
more
often
then
twise
)
that
it
must
be
remooued
,
and
a
better
brought
in
,
in
the
place
thereof
.
And
that
it
is
the
kingdome
of
Christ
,
whereunto
those
others
are
to
giue
place
,
and
which
is
to
succeede
in
their
roumes
,
is
in
like
sort
playnlie
set
downe
[
b.
](A17239-e13440-b)
b.
Isay
.
9.5.6
.
Dan.
2.44.45
.
in
many
places
,
or
rather
throughout
the
whole
course
of
the
Scripture
,
from
the
beginning
vnto
the
ending
:
besides
that
in
these
dayes
of
ours
,
not
only
such
great
things
are
done
thereby
;
but
it
hath
gotten
great
fauour
also
.
That
such
great
things
are
done
thereby
,
as
before
were
done
by
David
,
may
sufficiently
appeare
in
that
which
is
before
set
downe
:
and
that
it
hath
gotten
such
fauour
with
many
,
is
playnlie
seene
in
these
dayes
of
ours
,
when
as
many
Princes
and
States
haue
wholly
yeelded
to
the
obedience
of
it
,
and
not
a
fewe
among
those
also
that
are
most
agaynst
it
.
Neither
is
it
materiall
in
this
case
of
ours
,
that
the
annoynting
of
this
our
David
hath
not
been
in
so
publike
manner
,
as
flesh
and
bloud
would
conceiue
had
been
most
conuenient
.
Men
may
not
looke
to
beare
such
a
sway
in
the
matters
of
God
.
The
Gospell
is
not
therefore
to
be
refused
by
any
,
because
they
were
not
made
priuie
vnto
the
inauguration
of
it
,
nor
called
vnto
it
.
God
that
is
free
,
and
in
nothing
to
hang
vpon
any
,
is
in
such
case
especially
to
shewe
it
,
and
euer
to
vse
his
freedome
therein
.
6
As
touching
the
latter
of
those
persecutions
that
against
David
were
raised
by
Saul
,
[
a
](A17239-e13810-b)
a
19.8
.
the
warre
began
again
with
the
Philistims
,
and
that
David
,
going
foorth
against
them
,
put
them
to
flight
,
and
slewe
them
with
a
great
slaughter
.
For
Saul
must
needes
perceiue
thereby
,
that
as
that
victory
was
honourable
vnto
him
:
so
must
it
make
him
the
stronger
also
.
That
the
returne
of
the
euill
spirite
of
the
Lord
vnto
him
againe
,
was
an
other
part
of
the
occasion
also
,
may
likewise
appeare
,
for
that
it
followeth
immediatly
after
,
(
and
before
that
any
thing
is
noted
of
the
maner
of
this
persecution
)
[
b
](A17239-e13850-b)
b
19.9
.
that
the
euil
spirit
of
the
Lord
was
vpon
him
,
at
such
time
,
as
when
he
first
began
this
persecution
.
[
c
](A17239-e13900-b)
c
19.9.10
.
David
was
playing
on
his
instrument
,
something
to
ease
him
of
those
his
passions
:
at
which
time
Saul
was
secretly
determined
with
himselfe
,
with
his
Iaueling
that
he
had
in
his
hande
,
suddenly
to
haue
stroken
him
vnto
the
wall
;
and
came
so
neere
to
the
effecting
of
his
purpose
,
that
he
stroke
at
him
,
&
smote
his
speare
into
the
wall
where
David
sate
.
Somewhat
further
of
he
did
it
,
immediatly
after
,
when
as
David
hereupon
did
flee
,
to
saue
himself
:
and
that
he
did
first
by
certaine
messengers
,
and
then
by
himself
.
By
messengers
he
pursued
him
twise
:
[
d
](A17239-e13950-b)
d
19.11.17
.
first
to
his
own
house
,
whether
he
had
escaped
at
that
present
;
and
then
soone
after
[
e
](A17239-e13960-b)
e
19.18.21
.
to
Naioth
in
Ramah
,
whither
he
fledde
,
after
that
he
was
fayne
to
leaue
his
own
house
to
saue
his
life
.
In
the
former
of
these
his
pursuites
of
David
,
by
his
messengers
,
he
doth
plainly
shew
himselfe
to
be
egerly
bent
to
haue
his
life
,
both
by
his
dealing
with
those
his
messengers
,
so
long
as
he
stoode
in
hope
to
obtayne
the
pray
hee
desired
:
and
by
his
dealing
with
Michal
his
daughter
,
Davids
wife
,
after
that
he
saw
he
was
escaped
.
That
dealing
of
his
with
those
his
messengers
,
that
conuinceth
him
to
bee
greedily
bent
to
haue
his
life
,
resteth
in
two
principall
points
:
first
that
[
f
](A17239-e14020-b)
f
19.11
.
he
gaue
them
charge
to
kill
him
,
when
as
he
knew
not
how
he
himselfe
might
be
able
to
reache
him
;
then
,
when
they
brought
him
word
that
hee
was
in
his
bed
sicke
,
that
[
g
](A17239-e14030-b)
g
19.15
.
he
sent
them
againe
to
see
him
,
and
to
bring
him
away
bed
and
all
,
that
he
might
slay
him
.
His
dealing
with
Michal
resteth
likewise
in
these
two
pointes
:
that
[
h
](A17239-e14050-b)
h
19.17
.
hee
rebuketh
her
for
sending
him
away
,
and
counteth
himselfe
mocked
therin
.
And
yet
,
both
she
was
his
owne
daughter
:
and
now
also
giuen
by
himselfe
in
mariage
to
David
.
Of
which
two
considerations
,
as
the
former
of
them
might
well
haue
pacified
him
(
in
such
a
case
as
this
)
euen
onely
for
that
she
was
his
daughter
:
so
the
other
ought
to
haue
made
him
ashamed
also
,
that
he
should
so
much
as
looke
for
,
that
she
,
being
his
wife
now
,
shoulde
haue
bene
so
trecherous
vnto
her
husband
.
In
the
latter
of
his
pursuits
of
David
when
he
heard
that
he
was
at
Naioth
in
Ramah
,
in
one
point
he
doth
better
cloake
that
greedinesse
of
his
to
haue
his
blood
;
but
in
another
he
bewrayeth
himselfe
playnly
again
.
He
cloaketh
his
greedinesse
somewhat
better
,
in
that
nowe
[
i
](A17239-e14100-b)
i
19.20
.
hee
giueth
no
further
charge
(
that
we
read
off
)
but
only
to
take
him
,
and
to
bring
him
vnto
him
:
which
,
it
may
be
,
was
for
the
reuerence
he
bare
vnto
Samuel
[
k
](A17239-e14120-b)
k
19.18
.
with
whom
David
soiourned
now
.
That
other
point
,
wherein
notwithstanding
hee
plainly
declared
,
how
greedily
he
was
bent
to
haue
him
,
is
,
for
that
hee
sent
[
l
](A17239-e14140-b)
l
19.20.22
.
so
often
for
him
,
(
by
three
seuerall
companies
)
:
&
that
,
[
m
](A17239-e14150-b)
m
19.20
.
when
as
he
vnderstood
in
how
wonderful
maner
the
first
sort
of
them
were
defeated
,
and
strongly
eluded
(
and
yet
in
very
gracious
manner
)
by
the
mightie
power
of
God
.
By
himself
hee
manned
foorth
this
his
pursuit
,
when
as
he
saw
that
his
messengers
had
not
done
,
as
he
would
haue
them
:
For
then
[
n
](A17239-e14160-b)
n
19
22.
he
went
himselfe
also
:
loath
to
leese
so
goodly
a
pray
,
when
now
hee
did
so
certainly
know
where
to
haue
him
.
A
straunge
,
and
yet
a
pitifull
sight
,
to
see
the
King
himselfe
,
that
should
be
a
defence
vnto
the
oppressed
,
so
greedily
to
followe
vpon
innocent
bloode
:
and
of
such
a
one
too
,
as
both
had
deserued
well
before
,
and
whome
he
might
so
playnly
see
,
to
be
by
the
mighty
hand
of
God
defended
now
.
When
so
[
o
](A17239-e14170-b)
o
19.23.24
he
was
,
in
his
owne
person
,
in
like
sort
defeated
(
as
all
his
three
companies
of
catchpoles
were
before
)
then
he
ceased
for
a
time
from
that
pursuit
,
and
awaited
when
David
,
by
the
oportunitie
of
a
speciall
time
,
should
vnwittingly
come
into
his
handes
of
his
owne
accord
.
Which
speciall
time
was
the
[
p
](A17239-e14190-b)
p
20.5.18
.
new
moone
,
or
the
beginning
of
the
moneth
next
approching
:
and
the
opportunity
which
that
time
brought
with
it
,
was
,
for
that
at
such
times
[
q
](A17239-e14200-b)
q
20.6
.
they
held
of
custom
solemne
feasts
vnto
the
Lorde
,
and
David
at
such
times
[
r
](A17239-e14220-b)
r
20.5.18
.
was
to
sit
at
meate
with
the
king
.
That
Saul
did
secretely
awayte
this
opportunity
,
the
text
it selfe
doth
not
directly
say
:
but
yet
may
it
bee
gathered
that
so
hee
did
,
both
because
that
[
s
](A17239-e14240-b)
s
20.5.7
.
David
conceiued
that
doubt
of
him
,
and
[
t
](A17239-e14260-b)
t
20.5
.
thereupon
absented
himselfe
to
preuent
the
perill
,
and
for
that
Saul
[
u
](A17239-e14280-b)
u
20.30.31.33
.
was
so
very
angry
that
hee
was
not
there
,
and
[
x
](A17239-e14290-b)
x
20.31
.
therewithall
commaunded
Ionathan
forthwith
to
send
for
him
thither
,
that
he
might
slay
him
.
That
all
this
while
hitherto
Saul
in
this
sort
pursued
David
but
in
secrete
maner
,
sauing
onely
that
he
did
impart
his
meaning
to
those
whom
he
vsed
to
that
purpose
(
so
needes
he
must
,
or
at
least
a
good
part
of
it
)
may
hereby
appeare
,
both
for
that
[
y
](A17239-e14330-b)
y
20.2.9
.
Ionathan
was
so
ignoraunt
of
it
,
and
thereupon
would
needes
assure
David
that
his
father
had
no
such
purpose
:
and
for
that
David
himselfe
[
z
](A17239-e14370-b)
z
20.5.6
.
did
not
as
yet
openly
shunne
him
,
but
absented
himselfe
vnder
colour
of
other
businesse
.
[
a
](A17239-e14450-b)
a
20.30
.
he
fowly
reuiled
Ionathan
his
sonne
:
and
besides
that
[
b
](A17239-e14470-b)
b
20.33
.
cast
his
speare
at
him
to
haue
slayne
him
.
A
little
after
it
did
more
fully
appeare
,
both
in
a
certain
speeche
of
his
to
his
seruants
:
&
in
his
cruelty
against
certain
others
.
In
that
speech
of
his
to
his
seruants
,
hee
layeth
greeuous
things
to
the
charge
,
partly
of
them
al
that
were
present
:
but
especially
of
David
,
and
Ionathan
also
,
who
then
was
absent
.
Vnto
the
charge
of
his
seruaunts
hee
layeth
,
that
[
c
](A17239-e14500-b)
c
20.8
.
they
also
,
and
they
all
had
conspired
against
him
(
because
they
tolde
him
not
,
[
d
](A17239-e14540-b)
d
20.7
.
that
by
all
likelihoode
they
were
wonne
thereunto
by
some
great
promises
of
David
,
both
of
commodities
,
and
of
preferments
.
Vnto
the
charge
of
Dauid
and
Ionathan
he
layeth
[
e
](A17239-e14580-b)
e
20.8
.
that
the
one
had
conspired
against
him
,
[
f
](A17239-e14600-b)
f
22.18
.
slew
so
many
priests
of
the
Lorde
,
euen
fourescore
and
fiue
:
(
which
his
[
*
](A17239-e14610-b)
*
22.17
.
owne
men
abhorred
so
much
,
that
he
could
not
get
them
to
be
executioners
of
his
bloody
commaundement
)
and
[
g
](A17239-e14620-b)
g
22.19
.
destroyed
besides
both
men
,
women
,
and
children
,
Oxen
,
Asses
,
and
Sheepe
,
and
the
whole
city
of
Nob
where
those
Priestes
had
their
aboade
.
The
occasion
was
small
,
because
the
fault
(
if
any
there
were
)
was
but
in
[
h
](A17239-e14640-b)
h
22.9.10
.
one
man
,
Ahimelech
only
,
and
that
none
other
,
but
that
(
[
i
](A17239-e14660-b)
i
22
14.15
.
not
knowing
then
,
but
that
David
was
in
high
fauour
with
Saul
)
[
k
](A17239-e14690-b)
k
22.10
.
he
both
asked
counsell
for
him
of
the
Lord
,
and
did
a
little
relieue
him
with
some
victuals
,
and
with
a
sworde
,
such
as
David
had
good
right
vnto
,
hauing
wonne
it
of
Goliath
before
in
the
field
:
and
all
this
,
[
l
](A17239-e14720-b)
l
22.9.22
.
but
vpon
the
accusation
onely
of
one
euill
person
,
[
m
](A17239-e14780-b)
m
23.1
.
Keilah
,
[
n
](A17239-e14800-b)
n
Ios.
15.22
.
in
the
tribe
of
Iudah
,
whether
[
o
](A17239-e14820-b)
o
23.5
.
David
went
to
fight
against
the
Philistims
that
came
against
it
,
&
spoyled
theraboutes
:
whom
when
David
had
ouerthrowne
,
he
remained
with
the
citizens
of
Keilah
for
a
certaine
season
.
But
when
[
p
](A17239-e14870-b)
p
23.7.8
.
Saul
came
against
him
,
hoping
now
that
he
had
him
sure
,
[
q
](A17239-e14890-b)
q
23.12.13
.
David
vnderstanding
that
the
lords
of
Keilah
would
not
stand
fast
vnto
him
,
got
him
thence
,
and
so
defeated
Saul
in
that
his
enterprise
.
How
hee
followed
on
him
in
the
fields
,
we
haue
the
same
first
set
downe
generally
:
then
certaine
of
those
his
pursuits
more
specially
.
Concerning
the
former
,
there
is
no
more
set
downe
but
this
,
[
r
](A17239-e14930-b)
r
23.14
that
he
sought
him
euery
day
.
Concerning
the
other
,
there
are
set
downe
three
speciall
pursuites
:
one
of
them
broken
of
,
by
the
comming
in
of
the
Philistims
:
the
other
two
by
the
kindnes
&
faithfull
caling
of
David
himselfe
.
That
which
was
broken
of
by
the
comming
of
the
Philistims
,
did
hassard
David
very
sore
:
partly
for
that
the
Ziphims
(
who
,
[
s
](A17239-e14990-b)
s
1.
Par.
2.42
.
as
it
seemeth
,
were
of
that
Ziph
that
was
sonne
to
Caleb
,
and
then
were
they
of
one
tribe
with
David
)
[
t
](A17239-e15030-b)
t
23.19.20
.
vndertooke
to
betray
him
:
and
for
that
[
u
](A17239-e15040-b)
u
23.26
.
Saul
,
hauing
got
that
aduantage
,
did
so
hotly
pursue
him
,
that
being
for
a
time
but
on
the
one
side
of
the
hill
,
while
they
were
on
the
other
,
at
the
length
hee
had
compassed
them
in
(
but
,
as
it
seemeth
vnwitting
to
him
)
on
euery
side
.
But
then
on
the
sudden
[
x
](A17239-e15060-b)
x
23.27
.
he
was
fayne
to
breake
off
,
because
he
had
word
,
that
the
Philistims
had
entred
already
.
Of
those
others
that
were
broken
of
by
the
kindnesse
and
faythfull
dealing
of
David
himselfe
,
the
former
of
them
was
in
Engedi
:
the
other
in
Ziph.
In
the
wildernes
of
Engedi
it
was
that
he
pursued
David
so
hotly
(
euen
[
y
](A17239-e15130-b)
y
24.2
.
among
the
tops
of
the
rocks
,
where
no
body
els
but
only
wild
goats
were
wont
to
bee
)
that
in
the
ende
[
z
](A17239-e15140-b)
z
24.45
12.
he
fell
into
Davids
hands
,
entering
into
a
caue
where
David
was
:
and
there
finding
that
David
had
spared
him
when
hee
was
in
his
handes
,
thereupon
[
a
](A17239-e15180-b)
a
24.22
.
he
left
of
pursuing
him
for
that
present
.
But
hauing
as
yet
his
wonted
blood-thirstinesse
remaining
in
him
(
though
[
b
](A17239-e15190-b)
b
24.16.22
.
it
were
for
a
time
somewhat
flaked
,
by
that
great
and
singular
fauour
that
he
found
at
the
hands
of
David
on
his
part
altogether
as
much
vnlooked
for
,
as
vndeserued
)
hee
doth
no
sooner
get
opportunitie
,
but
foorthwith
he
returneth
vnto
his
olde
bias
againe
.
Heere
therefore
it
is
good
to
consider
,
not
onely
how
he
came
in
with
this
his
other
pursuite
:
but
also
howe
fayre
likelihoods
he
had
giuen
,
that
hee
would
neuer
haue
done
it
againe
.
He
came
foorth
with
his
other
pursuit
,
by
occasion
of
the
Ziphims
,
[
c
](A17239-e15220-b)
c
26.1
.
who
nowe
againe
came
and
tolde
him
where
David
was
:
whereupon
[
d
](A17239-e15240-b)
d
26.2
.
he
came
foorth
again
with
3000
chosen
men
to
set
vpon
him
.
But
David
[
e
](A17239-e15260-b)
e
26.7
.
priuily
comming
into
his
campe
,
when
he
,
and
his
company
were
fast
a
sleep
,
[
f
](A17239-e15270-b)
f
26.12
.
tooke
thence
such
tokens
with
him
,
as
whereby
he
was
able
to
shew
,
that
hee
had
the
king
in
his
handes
,
to
haue
done
with
him
whatsoeuer
hee
woulde
.
Which
when
the
king
perceiued
[
g
](A17239-e15280-b)
g
26.21.25
he
was
now
againe
for
the
time
so
mooued
with
it
,
that
presently
hee
brake
of
this
his
pursuit
,
and
so
returned
home
againe
.
The
likelihoodes
that
Saul
had
giuen
,
that
he
would
neuer
haue
offered
to
David
so
hard
measure
againe
,
were
,
[
h
](A17239-e15310-b)
h
24.22
.
that
he
did
acknowledge
his
fault
in
pursuing
of
him
,
and
besought
his
fauour
vnto
his
seede
:
and
these
with
teares
.
That
speciall
circumstaunce
that
dependeth
heereon
,
and
somewhat
better
helpeth
forward
to
shewe
howe
egerly
he
was
set
vpon
David
,
was
,
that
so
much
hee
followed
on
him
,
when
as
it
had
bene
a
great
deale
meeter
to
haue
deale
with
the
Philistims
the
common
enimie
,
because
that
they
,
[
i
](A17239-e15340-b)
i
23.1
.
both
came
vnto
Keilah
,
and
fought
against
it
,
and
[
k
](A17239-e15360-b)
k
23.27.28
afterward
againe
came
into
the
land
,
during
the
time
of
this
his
pursuing
of
innocent
David
.
The
litle
helpe
that
in
this
persecution
God
did
giue
him
,
[
l
](A17239-e15390-b)
l
22.1.2
.
fower
hundred
came
vnto
him
while
he
was
at
Adullam
,
and
other
two
hundred
mo
a
while
after
.
For
we
haue
mention
of
sixe
hundred
in
all
,
[
m
](A17239-e15410-b)
m
23.13
.
both
when
he
departed
from
Keilah
:
and
[
n
](A17239-e15430-b)
n
30.10
.
when
he
went
against
the
Amalekites
that
had
spoyled
Ziklag
.
The
first
fower
hundred
[
o
](A17239-e15460-b)
o
22.1.2
.
were
,
some
of
his
kindred
:
the
residue
such
as
were
in
debt
or
timber
.
Of
the
other
,
there
is
no
speciall
thing
reported
:
not
so
much
as
the
time
when
they
came
vnto
him
.
Sauing
that
,
séeing
they
are
found
with
David
when
he
departed
from
Keilah
,
and
we
haue
no
mention
of
them
before
,
it
may
seeme
that
they
came
vnto
him
while
he
was
there
.
And
likely
inough
,
that
seeing
that
David
was
knowne
to
be
of
great
valour
,
that
such
as
were
disposed
to
giue
themselues
to
such
aduenture
,
would
easily
vpon
such
occasion
resort
vnto
him
.
7
All
which
things
if
in
these
dayes
we
shall
apply
to
our selues
,
and
lay
them
to
such
doings
,
as
our
eies
haue
often
seene
,
Great
is
Diana
of
the
Ephesians
.
No
maruell
then
if
in
their
furie
,
they
rush
together
into
the
common
Hall
,
if
they
catch
,
and
hurrie
with
them
Gaius
and
Aristarchus
,
Pauls
companions
:
if
some
of
them
draw
forth
Alexander
,
out
of
the
multitude
,
and
others
thrust
him
forward
as
fast
,
that
getting
him
forth
,
they
may
there
dispatch
him
as
they
list
:
if
it
be
a
sufficient
cause
for
them
all
to
stop
their
eares
,
to
whatsoeuer
he
were
able
to
say
for
his
defence
,
only
for
that
he
was
a
Iew
:
and
,
if
hauing
no
cause
at
all
of
any
concourse
,
much
lesse
of
such
a
tumultuous
vprore
,
yet
notwithstanding
a
shout
almost
for
two
howers
among
them
doth
rise
,
crying
,
Great
is
Diana
of
the
Ephesians
.
And
when
once
they
are
set
on
such
a
gog
,
it
is
not
then
to
say
,
in
how
eager
maner
they
are
like
to
follow
on
the
seruants
of
God
:
nor
how
outrageous
crueltie
they
are
like
to
practise
against
all
such
,
as
on
the
behalfe
of
the
Gospell
of
Christ
shall
stand
in
their
way
.
And
yet
notwithstanding
if
we
come
to
the
maner
of
such
dealing
of
theirs
,
[
a
](A17239-e16100-b)
a
27.1.2
.
when
he
was
afrayd
to
tarie
in
Iudea
,
and
thereupon
fled
vnto
Achish
(
one
of
the
Princes
of
the
Philistims
)
the
Lord
neuerthelesse
gaue
him
safetie
there
also
:
when
as
notwithstanding
David
[
b
](A17239-e16150-b)
b
27.8.9.11
so
behaued
himselfe
there
,
that
it
was
great
marueile
that
he
brought
not
himselfe
into
greater
daunger
there
,
then
he
was
in
before
in
Iurie
:
as
after
we
shall
haue
more
conuenient
place
to
declare
.
The
perill
that
his
good
name
was
in
,
was
,
for
that
being
now
among
the
enemies
of
Saul
,
and
being
[
c
](A17239-e16180-b)
c
28.2
.
readie
to
go
to
the
field
with
them
agaynst
him
,
the
Lord
neuerthelesse
[
d.
](A17239-e16190-b)
d.
28.2.11
.
so
prouided
,
that
he
should
not
bee
in
the
field
that
day
that
Saul
should
bee
ouerthrowne
:
whereas
otherwise
,
either
himself
might
haue
been
some
cause
of
his
ouerthrowe
:
or
els
at
least
he
had
been
more
open
to
that
reproach
.
That
speciall
helpe
that
it
pleased
God
to
bestowe
vpon
him
,
and
which
made
so
much
to
his
purpose
at
that
present
,
consisted
in
two
principall
poynts
:
wherof
the
former
was
[
e
](A17239-e16210-b)
e
30.20
.
a
great
bootie
or
pray
,
which
(
by
occasion
that
then
fell
out
)
he
got
from
certeyne
of
the
Amalekites
:
the
other
was
a
greater
power
of
men
that
at
that
time
also
drew
vnto
him
.
With
his
bootie
he
[
f
](A17239-e16230-b)
f
30.26.31
.
remembred
his
friends
in
Iury
,
where
he
and
his
men
were
wont
to
haunt
:
to
the
number
of
thirteene
cities
by
name
,
and
to
certeyne
others
besides
:
a
very
good
preparatiue
to
make
his
friends
faster
vnto
him
,
now
that
he
was
(
very
soone
after
)
to
stand
in
neede
of
their
helpe
for
the
kingdome
.
That
greater
power
of
men
that
came
vnto
him
[
*
](A17239-e16250-b)
*
1.
Chro.
12.1.22
.
were
diuers
of
the
tribes
of
Benjamin
,
Gad
,
Iudah
,
&
Manasses
:
all
actiue
,
valiant
,
and
expert
men
,
and
meet
for
the
warres
.
Who
are
sayd
to
haue
resorted
to
him
[
*
](A17239-e16280-b)
*
Ib.
1.20
.
at
Ziklag
:
but
because
there
is
no
mention
but
only
of
his
former
sixe
hundred
at
his
returne
from
the
Amalekites
,
therefore
it
is
likely
that
they
came
not
vnto
him
,
till
he
was
returned
thether
agayne
,
and
that
the
same
was
shortly
after
that
Saul
receiued
the
ouerthrow
.
At
which
time
comming
as
they
did
,
they
came
very
fitly
for
Davids
purpose
,
now
that
he
was
to
enter
the
possession
of
some
part
of
the
Kingdome
.
Those
others
that
might
bee
some
hinderance
vnto
him
,
[
g
](A17239-e16390-b)
g
28.5.15
.
in
this
great
daunger
approching
,
and
when
he
was
so
heartily
afrayd
thereof
,
and
he
in
this
his
distresse
[
h
](A17239-e16400-b)
h
28.6
.
sought
vnto
him
,
neuerthelesse
the
Lord
gaue
him
[
i
](A17239-e16410-b)
i
Ibid.
no
answer
at
all
:
neither
immediatly
,
by
dreames
;
nor
by
the
ministerie
of
others
,
either
ordinarie
as
by
Urim
,
or
extraordinarie
as
by
any
Prophet
.
And
good
reason
it
was
,
that
he
which
[
k
](A17239-e16430-b)
k
13.8.13.15.9
.
twise
before
had
made
so
light
account
of
the
word
of
the
Lord
;
and
now
at
this
present
did
so
hotely
persecute
David
,
directly
agaynst
[
l
](A17239-e16450-b)
l
●●
21.
his
owne
knowledge
of
the
ordinance
of
God
leaning
to
David
;
and
that
in
so
cruell
and
rageous
manner
,
as
that
for
his
sake
,
and
otherwise
for
no
cause
at
all
,
[
m
](A17239-e16470-b)
m
22.18
.
he
slew
so
many
Priestes
of
the
Lord
,
should
at
no
hand
finde
any
answer
at
the
mouth
of
the
Lord
in
this
his
distresse
,
or
whensoeuer
he
most
should
neede
,
or
faynest
would
.
The
Lord
so
estraunging
him self
vnto
him
,
he
did
not
humble
himself
before
his
face
,
nor
so
much
the
more
earnestly
seeke
his
fauour
:
but
presently
turned
aside
to
such
as
gaue
themselues
to
ill
artes
,
and
such
as
for
that
cause
himself
had
[
n
](A17239-e16480-b)
n
28.3
9.
before
destroyed
so
farre
as
he
could
.
And
the
answer
that
so
he
receiued
was
altogether
euill
:
[
o
](A17239-e16490-b)
o
28.15.19
.
that
the
Lord
was
his
enimie
,
for
that
he
did
not
execute
his
fierce
wrath
vpon
the
Amalekites
:
and
that
now
the
Lord
would
deliuer
him
and
his
,
both
his
sonnes
and
his
people
into
the
hands
of
the
Philistims
.
Which
heauie
sentence
was
notwithstanding
[
p
](A17239-e16520-b)
p
28.19
.
the
next
day
after
[
q
](A17239-e16530-b)
q
31
1
7.
fully
performed
.
Ionathan
,
[
r
](A17239-e16550-b)
r
23.17.18
.
it
seemeth
(
of
himself
)
would
neuer
haue
molested
David
for
the
kingdome
:
but
fully
would
haue
contented
himself
,
to
haue
been
as
a
friend
neere
about
him
.
But
yet
were
it
likely
,
that
those
that
were
of
Saules
faction
would
haue
laboured
,
for
to
haue
set
him
vp
agaynst
David
:
or
,
if
he
would
not
,
then
some
other
of
his
brethren
:
as
notwithstanding
[
s
](A17239-e16590-b)
s
2.8.9
.
Ishbosheth
was
shortly
after
set
vp
agaynst
him
.
So
that
this
way
,
though
not
of
himself
,
yet
by
the
solicitation
of
others
,
it
was
likely
enough
that
Ionathan
also
might
haue
been
sinne
hinderance
vnto
him
.
As
for
Abinadab
and
Malchishua
,
his
other
sonnes
,
[
t
](A17239-e16640-b)
t
31.2
.
that
together
with
Ionathan
at
that
field
were
slaine
,
they
were
more
likely
to
haue
been
an
hinderance
to
David
,
because
that
as
they
were
the
sonnes
of
Saul
,
so
do
we
reade
of
no
such
fauour
that
they
bare
vnto
David
that
were
like
to
stay
them
from
encombring
of
him
in
that
action
.
Those
of
the
armie
that
in
that
quarell
or
controuersie
held
with
Saul
,
and
with
him
were
there
ouerthrowne
,
would
no
doubt
,
if
they
had
liued
,
haue
wrought
what
comber
they
could
vnto
David
about
the
kingdome
:
as
afterward
also
those
that
remayned
[
u
](A17239-e16710-b)
u
2.8.9
.
readily
did
,
and
therewithall
shewed
what
might
be
feared
in
the
others
.
That
it
pleased
God
therefore
to
take
away
those
,
we
may
see
that
thereby
he
made
a
readier
way
vnto
David
to
come
to
the
kingdome
.
To
finde
out
how
he
brought
him
to
the
fruition
of
it
,
it
is
to
be
noted
,
[
x
](A17239-e16770-b)
x
2.1
.
to
seeke
vnto
him
for
his
direction
,
(
both
whether
it
was
his
pleasure
that
now
he
should
enter
vnto
his
kingdome
,
and
where
he
should
begin
the
same
)
and
withall
[
y
](A17239-e16780-b)
y
2.1
.
he
gaue
him
direct
and
plaine
answer
to
both
those
questions
(
willing
him
now
to
enter
into
it
,
and
telling
him
likewise
where
to
begin
it
)
and
wrought
in
him
[
z
](A17239-e16790-b)
z
2.2.3
.
to
do
accordingly
.
In
the
whole
tribe
of
Iudah
likewise
he
so
wrought
,
that
of
their
owne
accord
they
[
*
](A17239-e16810-b)
*
2.4
.
came
and
made
him
their
King
:
at
which
time
David
was
now
agayne
by
them
thereunto
annoynted
.
To
finde
out
how
he
brought
him
to
all
the
rest
,
Afterward
he
brought
him
unto
the
whole
.
Divers
wayes
exercising
him
for
a
season
.
wee
are
to
consider
,
that
here
agayne
wee
haue
noted
vnto
vs
,
first
how
it
pleased
God
to
exercise
him
for
a
time
:
and
then
how
it
pleased
him
in
the
end
to
bring
him
vnto
it
.
As
touching
that
exercise
of
his
in
the
meane
season
,
it
resteth
in
two
principall
poynts
:
one
,
the
substance
or
nature
of
it
:
the
other
,
the
time
of
the
continuance
.
The
substance
or
nature
of
it
is
such
,
as
hath
two
principall
poynts
of
hardnesse
:
the
one
,
that
he
was
wrongfully
kept
from
the
greatest
part
of
his
kingdome
:
the
other
,
that
when
opportunitie
was
offered
,
as
David
tooke
it
,
to
come
to
his
full
right
therein
,
although
he
was
readie
for
to
haue
taken
the
benefite
of
such
opportunitie
,
yet
he
found
that
it
came
to
no
proofe
in
the
end
.
He
was
wrongfully
kept
from
the
greatest
part
of
his
kingdome
,
because
that
[
a
](A17239-e16870-b)
a
2.8.9
.
Ishbosheth
was
set
vp
by
Abner
,
directly
contrary
to
the
ordinance
of
God
:
and
because
that
[
b
](A17239-e16900-b)
b
2.10
.
but
one
tribe
only
claue
vnto
David
,
and
all
the
others
were
drawne
vnto
Ishbosheth
the
sonne
of
Saul
,
and
yet
no
better
then
a
plaine
vsurper
now
.
The
opportunities
that
David
was
so
ready
for
to
haue
taken
,
to
haue
come
to
his
right
thereby
,
but
yet
came
to
no
proofe
in
the
end
,
were
two
:
whereof
the
one
was
but
only
for
a
part
of
that
which
yet
stood
foorth
agaynst
him
:
the
other
seemed
to
offer
the
whole
.
That
which
was
but
only
for
some
part
of
it
,
was
,
[
c
](A17239-e16950-b)
c
2.4
.
that
the
inhabitants
of
Iabesh-Gilead
hauing
buried
Saul
,
[
d
](A17239-e16980-b)
d
2.5.7
.
David
thereupon
taking
occasion
to
send
vnto
them
,
to
giue
them
thankes
for
it
,
and
to
assure
them
of
a
good
turne
at
his
hands
,
if
it
came
in
his
way
,
did
withall
somewhat
inuite
them
to
take
him
for
their
King
,
as
the
tribe
of
Iudah
had
done
alreadie
.
But
[
e
](A17239-e17010-b)
e
2.8.9
.
Abner
,
belike
fearing
that
the
same
ambassage
of
David
was
like
enough
to
take
effect
,
if
it
were
not
in
time
preuented
,
forth-with
speedeth
himself
to
those
parts
,
&
there
setteth
vp
Ishbosheth
to
be
their
King
,
and
to
rule
not
only
ouer
those
two
tribes
and
an
halfe
beyond
Iorden
,
but
also
ouer
all
the
rest
:
and
so
was
David
herein
preuented
.
That
which
seemed
to
offer
the
whole
,
was
when
Abner
[
f
](A17239-e17080-b)
f
3.8
.
being
grieued
with
Ishbosheth
his
Lord
and
Soueraigne
(
vnto
whom
he
had
plight
his
alleageance
)
for
that
he
was
by
him
iustly
reproued
for
a
fault
that
he
made
(
and
yet
,
it
may
be
,
ouer-slenderly
esteemed
also
)
[
g
](A17239-e17100-b)
g
3.12.20
.
came
vnto
David
for
to
bring
the
whole
kingdome
vnto
him
:
being
false
vnto
him
,
whom
he
had
set
vp
a
little
before
.
Neuerthelesse
David
[
h
](A17239-e17130-b)
h
3.20.21
.
was
content
,
so
to
haue
receiued
it
,
if
so
it
had
falne
out
.
But
God
that
had
determined
of
a
more
orderly
course
for
David
to
come
vnto
it
,
gaue
no
successe
to
that
inordinate
way
.
For
Abner
[
i
](A17239-e17160-b)
i
3.26.27
.
was
slaine
before
he
could
returne
to
do
it
:
and
so
was
David
in
that
also
defeared
.
The
time
of
continuance
[
k
](A17239-e17180-b)
k
2.11
.
was
somewhat
better
then
seauen
yeares
:
during
which
time
[
l
](A17239-e17190-b)
l
3.1
.
the
house
of
Saul
and
the
house
of
David
were
at
variance
about
the
Kingdome
,
and
euer
among
tried
their
quarell
by
the
sword
.
[
m
](A17239-e17240-b)
m
3.1
.
that
the
kingdom
of
Iudah
euer
increased
:
and
the
house
of
Saul
waxed
weaker
,
and
weaker
.
That
which
concerned
David
more
specially
,
was
that
he
[
n
](A17239-e17280-b)
n
3.28.39
.
made
it
so
well
knowne
,
how
cleere
he
was
from
the
bloud
of
Abner
,
and
that
many
of
the
contrary
part
[
o
](A17239-e17300-b)
o
5.2
.
did
know
that
it
was
David
(
and
none
other
)
that
was
thereunto
appointed
of
God
.
He
put
him
in
possession
of
it
,
by
taking
away
Ishbosheth
that
had
set
vp
himselfe
against
him
:
and
putting
into
the
harts
of
the
people
now
to
yeeld
their
obedience
vnto
him
.
Ishbosheth
was
taken
away
[
p
](A17239-e17340-b)
p
4.2.5.8
.
by
two
of
his
owne
Captaines
,
(
without
the
consent
,
or
knowledge
of
David
)
and
,
on
their
parts
,
in
verie
ill
and
treacherous
maner
:
for
the
which
David
[
q
](A17239-e17370-b)
q
4.9.12
.
put
them
to
death
,
so
soone
as
they
brought
that
tidings
vnto
him
.
Which
being
done
,
then
whole
Israel
[
r
](A17239-e17390-b)
r
4.1
.
being
first
striken
with
a
great
feare
,
as
vpon
the
death
of
Abner
before
,
so
now
vpon
the
death
of
Ishbosheth
also
,
[
s
](A17239-e17420-b)
s
5.1.3
.
no
all
come
in
(
to
the
number
of
[
t
](A17239-e17430-b)
t
1.
Chro.
12.23.40
.
aboue
three
hundred
forty
and
fiue
thousand
,
and
those
also
[
u
](A17239-e17440-b)
u
Ib.
38.
with
consent
of
the
rest
)
and
making
a
couenant
with
him
,
do
annoint
him
King
ouer
all
:
and
so
is
David
entered
now
into
the
possession
of
the
whole
.
9
If
now
againe
we
returne
to
our selues
,
there
may
we
find
that
in
these
daies
also
God
hath
such
a
worke
in
hand
among
vs
.
10
But
so
beeing
come
to
good
opportunity
to
treat
of
the
hope
that
we
may
conceiue
of
this
matter
,
that
is
,
[
a
](A17239-e18050-b)
a
19
18.
Samuel
hee
came
when
Saul
had
mist
of
him
[
b
](A17239-e18080-b)
b
19.10
.
himselfe
,
and
thereupon
presently
[
c
](A17239-e18090-b)
c
19
11.
sent
vnto
his
house
to
ouertake
him
there
,
and
to
dispatch
him
.
Whereupon
being
driuen
to
saue
himselfe
by
flight
,
he
tooke
his
course
to
Samuel
the
Prophet
,
there
(
belike
)
in
this
distresse
to
seeke
some
comfort
in
the
Lorde
.
Shortly
after
vnderstanding
more
fully
by
the
helpe
of
Ionathan
,
that
Saul
was
fully
bent
to
destroy
him
,
being
then
occasioned
again
to
saue
him selfe
by
flight
,
[
d
](A17239-e18130-b)
d
22.1
.
he
came
to
Ahimelech
the
Priest
:
belike
to
worship
the
Lorde
there
,
and
to
see
what
comfort
so
he
might
finde
,
in
this
his
perillous
and
troublesome
case
.
And
as
thus
he
began
,
when
persecution
was
first
raised
against
him
,
so
held
he
on
,
in
al
the
course
of
his
dealings
besides
.
For
wheras
Abiathar
one
of
the
Priests
and
sonne
to
Ahimelech
,
escaping
that
great
&
cruell
slaughter
that
Saul
did
make
of
al
the
whole
company
of
the
Priests
at
Nob
,
for
his
safetie
and
succour
came
vnto
David
,
althoughe
it
were
a
dangerous
matter
for
him
,
to
giue
any
entertainment
vnto
him
:
beeing
so
far
in
displeasure
himselfe
as
he
was
:
yet
[
e
](A17239-e18210-b)
e
22
23.
did
he
not
only
receiue
him
,
but
(
such
loue
bare
he
to
the
Priests
of
the
Lorde
)
he
willed
him
also
to
be
of
good
comfort
,
and
told
him
plainly
,
the
with
him
he
should
not
miscary
so
far
as
he
should
be
able
to
help
.
[
f
](A17239-e18260-b)
f
23.2
.
he
asked
counsell
of
the
Lord
whether
he
should
goe
against
them
,
or
not
.
At
which
time
although
the
Lord
bad
him
go
,
yet
because
that
his
company
made
further
question
[
g
](A17239-e18270-b)
g
23.4
.
he
asked
the
Lord
of
the
same
point
agayne
,
and
agayne
receiued
the
same
aunswere
of
him
.
So
likewise
during
the
time
that
he
was
at
Keilah
,
after
that
hee
had
deliuered
them
from
their
enimies
,
hearing
that
Saul
was
determined
to
come
against
him
,
and
then
wisely
premeditating
with
himselfe
in
what
daunger
he
was
like
to
bee
,
if
the
Lords
of
Keilah
would
not
stand
fast
vnto
him
,
although
in
reason
he
might
haue
presumed
,
that
after
so
good
deserts
of
his
:
hee
needed
not
to
doubt
of
any
of
them
,
especially
so
very
soone
after
:
yet
knowing
how
easily
he
might
be
deceiued
,
if
he
should
rest
ouermuch
in
men
,
there
againe
[
h
](A17239-e18310-b)
h
23.10.12
.
he
sought
to
the
Lord
,
to
know
in
deede
,
whether
Saul
would
come
thither
,
and
if
he
came
,
whether
the
Lordes
of
Keilah
would
deliuer
him
and
his
men
into
his
hands
.
Whereunto
the
Lord
aunswered
,
both
that
Saul
would
come
in
deede
:
and
that
the
Lordes
of
Keilah
,
notwithstanding
his
former
deserts
,
would
deliuer
him
,
if
there
he
taried
,
into
his
handes
.
In
like
manner
,
when
at
his
returne
he
found
Ziklag
spoiled
,
and
his
souldiers
in
their
impatience
were
about
to
haue
stoned
him
[
*
](A17239-e18370-b)
*
30.6.8
.
he
in
this
distresse
pluckt
vp
his
heart
,
and
again
asked
counsell
of
the
Lord
,
whether
hee
shoulde
followe
on
those
that
had
done
it
:
and
whether
that
voyage
shoulde
bee
prosperous
vnto
him
.
And
so
,
receiuing
aunswere
to
his
desire
,
hee
set
in
hande
with
the
voyage
,
and
not
onely
recouered
all
they
had
lost
:
but
also
gained
much
more
vnto
it
.
Afterwarde
againe
when
worde
was
brought
him
,
that
Saul
and
his
sonnes
were
slayne
in
the
fielde
,
so
that
nowe
the
kingdome
was
deuolued
vnto
him
,
and
the
time
came
that
he
was
to
enter
into
the
possession
of
it
(
in
which
case
there
are
not
many
,
of
the
moste
godly
that
these
dayes
)
haue
that
would
awayt
any
playner
or
further
calling
yet
would
he
in
no
wise
take
that
course
,
or
be
so
bolde
as
to
step
one
foote
towardes
it
,
vntill
the
time
that
he
had
[
i
](A17239-e18390-b)
i
2.
Sam.
2.1
.
first
inquired
of
the
Lord
:
both
whether
it
was
his
pleasure
,
that
now
he
shoulde
make
any
entrie
into
the
kingdome
,
and
in
what
city
he
shoulde
begin
.
But
being
aunswered
in
both
these
pointes
,
he
them
foorthwith
addressed
himselfe
to
doe
accordingly
.
It
may
be
also
that
when
hee
was
with
Ahimelech
,
hee
did
there
likewise
,
by
the
ministery
of
Ahimelech
,
aske
counsell
of
the
Lord
:
both
because
that
[
*
](A17239-e18420-b)
*
22.10
.
Doeg
doth
so
charge
Ahimelech
and
because
that
[
*
](A17239-e18450-b)
*
22.15
.
Ahimelech
doth
net
deny
it
.
But
otherwise
wee
haue
no
mention
in
the
Text
it selfe
,
that
so
hee
did
.
And
yet
notwithstanding
Ahimelechs
aunswere
doth
wel
import
,
that
at
other
times
before
he
had
done
it
:
&
so
consequently
,
that
it
was
an
vsuall
exercise
with
David
,
so
to
doe
.
Neither
did
hee
onely
thus
religiously
hang
on
the
Lorde
himselfe
,
[
k
](A17239-e18500-b)
k
22.5
.
when
the
Prophet
Gad
,
but
one
of
the
seruauntes
of
the
Lorde
came
vnto
him
,
willing
him
not
to
abide
in
the
holde
(
which
for
a
time
he
had
taken
in
the
land
of
Moab
for
his
owne
safety
,
and
with
the
Kinges
good
licence
therein
first
obteined
)
but
to
returne
into
Iury
againe
,
him
also
in
this
point
hee
redily
obeyed
.
And
yet
was
it
,
but
such
as
wee
terme
a
matter
of
state
,
and
in
reason
,
full
of
daunger
,
and
so
consequently
no
good
aduice
:
neither
doth
the
text
declare
,
that
it
was
the
worde
of
the
Lorde
,
but
onely
that
the
Prophet
did
will
him
so
to
doe
.
[
l
](A17239-e18550-b)
l
26.19
.
he
specialy
complained
of
the
want
therof
vnto
Saul
,
as
the
greatest
,
and
most
grieuous
part
of
al
his
troubles
:
as
[
m
](A17239-e18570-b)
m
Psal.
84.3
.
elswhere
also
he
doeth
very
grieuousslye
complaine
of
that
matter
,
not
vnto
Saul
(
who
might
thinke
it
to
be
nothing
els
but
of
ostentation
)
but
to
God
himself
apart
from
men
,
that
in
that
point
his
estate
was
so
miserable
,
that
the
estate
of
the
birds
of
the
ayre
,
[
n
](A17239-e18630-b)
n
18.11.19.10
.
euer
he
tooke
diligent
heed
vnto
Saul
,
that
he
did
him
no
displeasure
on
the
suddayne
:
and
that
[
o
](A17239-e18650-b)
o
18.14.30
.
wisely
he
behaued
him selfe
in
all
his
wayes
.
Then
also
,
not
despising
the
helpe
of
others
,
such
as
it
pleased
God
to
offer
vnto
him
,
we
finde
likewise
that
[
p
](A17239-e18660-b)
p
22.2
.
he
tooke
such
aydes
as
came
vnto
him
of
their
owne
accord
,
though
otherwise
many
of
them
were
so
infamous
and
base
,
as
many
(
of
a
nice
kind
of
holines
)
would
haue
disdayned
:
and
both
[
q
](A17239-e18670-b)
q
20.5.8
.
vsed
the
help
of
Ionathan
his
friende
,
and
[
r
](A17239-e18690-b)
r
23.18
.
renued
his
bond
of
amity
with
him
.
But
as
touching
any
euill
practise
against
any
of
those
his
enimies
,
first
as
touching
Saul
,
we
finde
that
he
spared
him
[
s
](A17239-e18710-b)
s
24.3.7.26.7.11
.
twice
,
when
as
not
onely
himselfe
might
haue
done
it
very
easily
,
without
any
danger
to
his
owne
person
,
or
shedding
any
mans
bloud
besides
,
but
also
,
if
hee
woulde
but
haue
suffered
them
,
others
woulde
haue
done
it
for
him
:
and
that
,
when
as
without
his
knowledge
one
had
destroyed
him
in
the
fielde
,
and
brought
him
word
of
it
,
hee
[
t
](A17239-e18720-b)
t
2.
Sam.
1.2.16
.
both
auenged
the
death
of
the
one
with
the
death
of
the
other
:
and
besides
that
[
u
](A17239-e18730-b)
u
Ibid.
17.27
.
mourned
heartily
for
him
.
As
for
the
others
,
he
likewise
both
[
x
](A17239-e18740-b)
x
3.31.35
.
mourned
for
Abner
,
and
[
y
](A17239-e18760-b)
y
4.9.12
.
auenged
Ishbosheths
death
that
hough
these
had
hitherto
kept
a
great
part
of
his
kingdome
from
him
,
and
nowe
that
these
were
taken
away
,
hee
mght
well
perceiue
,
that
it
must
needes
presently
come
all
to
his
handes
.
Those
others
besides
,
with
whome
David
is
founde
heere
to
haue
dealt
so
well
,
are
partly
straungers
,
or
those
that
were
further
of
from
him
:
and
partly
his
friendes
,
or
those
that
were
neerer
vnto
him
:
[
z
](A17239-e18830-b)
z
23.3
.
hee
was
in
distresse
himselfe
,
and
it
was
daungerous
for
him
to
bee
acknowen
where
hee
was
:
yet
[
a
](A17239-e18840-b)
a
23.5
.
both
readily
hee
came
to
their
helpe
,
and
valiantly
deliuered
them
also
.
With
those
others
of
the
countrie
among
whome
hee
soiourned
,
howe
hee
dealt
,
[
b
](A17239-e18870-b)
b
25.7.15.21
.
hee
did
not
suffer
his
souldiers
to
pray
vpon
him
,
or
to
take
any
thing
from
him
(
thought
[
c
](A17239-e18880-b)
c
25.2.3
.
he
were
but
a
churle
,
and
very
wealthy
)
but
moreouer
[
d
](A17239-e18890-b)
d
25.16
.
was
a
wall
or
defence
vnto
him
and
to
all
that
hee
had
,
both
day
and
night
against
any
that
would
.
So
that
if
this
were
his
manner
of
dealing
with
others
also
by
whome
hee
soiourned
,
no
doubt
it
was
maruellous
good
.
That
circumstaunce
of
likelihood
that
I
doe
meane
,
is
,
that
when
he
got
that
bootie
from
the
Amalekites
[
e
](A17239-e18910-b)
e
30.26.31
hee
did
so
friendly
remember
many
of
his
friendes
,
and
about
thirteene
Cities
by
name
,
where
hee
,
and
his
men
in
time
of
their
distresse
were
wont
to
haunt
.
For
seeing
that
David
shewed
such
friendship
to
them
be
like
they
shewed
,
when
he
was
among
them
,
friendship
to
him
.
But
it
is
not
likely
,
that
they
woulde
shewe
him
any
such
friendship
if
hee
had
liued
on
the
spoyle
among
them
.
Whereas
on
the
other
side
if
hee
dealt
with
them
,
as
hee
did
with
Nabal
,
and
when
hee
had
neede
,
made
his
moane
vnto
them
to
obteine
such
helpe
at
their
handes
,
as
hee
might
with
their
fauour
:
then
was
there
no
reason
,
but
that
,
if
there
were
any
good
nature
in
them
,
they
must
needs
both
help
him
for
the
time
so
well
as
they
coulde
,
and
euer
after
also
bee
friendly
vnto
him
.
Those
that
were
more
neare
vnto
him
,
were
his
souldiers
:
and
those
his
friends
that
nowe
wee
speake
of
.
His
souldiers
[
f
](A17239-e18940-b)
f
30.22
15.
hee
did
not
defraude
of
a
liberall
portion
of
the
pray
they
had
taken
,
[
g
](A17239-e18960-b)
g
33
10.21.24
.
wearinesse
taried
behinde
,
and
thereupon
were
left
to
keepe
their
stuffe
,
hee
woulde
not
suffer
them
to
bee
defrauded
of
any
part
of
their
portion
neither
.
Of
his
friendes
also
wee
see
,
that
hee
reteined
so
thankfull
remembraunce
,
that
so
soone
as
God
sent
him
wherewithall
to
remember
them
,
[
h
](A17239-e18980-b)
h
30.26.31
he
by
and
by
sent
a
remembraunce
vnto
them
:
and
seeing
that
hee
sent
to
so
many
,
and
the
text
it selfe
doth
playnely
say
,
that
hee
sent
vnto
all
places
whether
hee
and
his
men
were
wont
to
resort
,
it
seemeth
that
hee
coulde
not
content
him selfe
to
remember
some
fewe
of
them
,
11
Howe
to
apply
the
same
in
these
dayes
of
ours
vnto
our selues
,
is
nowe
to
bee
seene
:
and
first
as
touching
his
deuotion
towardes
God
:
12
That
which
may
séeme
to
go
against
that
hope
of
ours
that
expecteth
a
further
accomplishment
of
these
things
to
vs
,
Abraham
,
Izhak
,
and
Iaakob
had
but
the
promises
made
:
but
their
posteritie
,
in
proces
of
time
,
had
the
accomplishment
of
all
those
promises
.
The
people
that
came
out
of
Aegypt
perished
in
the
wildernes
:
but
those
which
followed
came
into
the
land
of
promis
.
Moses
could
but
sée
it
from
the
top
of
a
mountaine
,
a
far
off
:
but
to
Joshua
was
it
giuen
to
enter
in
,
to
make
a
conquest
of
it
,
and
to
diuide
it
vnto
the
people
.
For
a
time
they
had
in
a
maner
but
a
popular
state
:
but
afterward
they
grew
to
a
Kingdome
.
At
the
first
they
had
but
the
Law
:
but
afterward
had
they
the
Prophets
also
.
Christ
was
for
a
time
but
verie
obscurely
propounded
vnto
them
,
by
those
figures
and
shadowes
of
the
Law
:
but
afterwards
,
by
the
preaching
of
the
Prophets
,
a
great
deale
more
plainly
opened
vnto
them
.
The
glorie
of
the
first
Temple
was
verie
great
,
but
could
not
in
any
wise
compare
with
the
latter
.
The
Kingdome
of
Christ
was
much
aduanced
among
the
Iewes
,
by
his
own
preaching
and
works
,
while
he
was
on
the
earth
among
them
:
but
nothing
like
to
that
which
afterward
folowed
,
by
the
ministerie
of
the
Apostles
,
when
himself
was
taken
vp
from
among
them
.
Should
we
therefore
hereupon
prefer
,
before
Abraham
,
Izhak
,
&
Iaakob
,
that
imbased
posteritie
of
theirs
that
after
followed
,
Ioshua
,
before
Moses
,
and
the
Disciples
of
Christ
,
before
Christ
himselfe
?
Or
should
a
popular
estate
,
be
preferred
before
a
Kingdome
:
the
former
Temple
,
before
the
latter
:
the
ceremonies
and
shadows
of
the
Law
,
before
the
plainnes
&
truth
of
the
Gospel
?
Yet
so
must
it
be
,
if
God
should
haue
bestowed
those
greater
blessings
according
to
the
dignitie
of
the
persons
:
or
if
he
held
not
a
set
course
to
make
his
goodnes
more
apparantly
knowne
to
those
that
follow
after
,
then
vnto
those
that
went
before
.
13
But
now
more
specially
to
examin
what
is
the
difference
that
is
betwixt
vs
,
we
are
to
consider
,
[
a
](A17239-e19700-b)
a
21.4.6
.
the
Shew-bread
:
and
that
he
did
take
back
again
the
[
b
](A17239-e19710-b)
b
21.87.9
.
sword
of
Goliath
to
his
owne
priuate
vse
.
For
the
Shew-bread
,
it
may
seeme
,
that
he
is
in
some
measure
[
c
](A17239-e19730-b)
c
Mat.
12.3.4
.
Mar.
2.25.26
.
Luc.
6.3.4
.
excused
by
Christ
.
And
yet
because
it
is
by
the
Law
plainly
[
d
](A17239-e19740-b)
d
Lev.
24.9
.
Exo.
29.33
.
set
downe
,
that
only
the
Priest
might
eate
thereof
,
and
Christ
himselfe
in
the
places
alleadged
doth
so
acknowledge
:
it
cannot
be
auoided
,
but
that
néedes
it
must
be
,
either
a
breach
of
the
law
of
God
,
or
that
Davids
face
therein
was
extraordinarie
.
If
it
were
a
breach
of
the
law
of
God
,
then
do
not
those
words
of
Christ
tend
to
excuse
him
:
but
only
to
put
them
in
mind
,
how
themselues
might
he
able
to
find
,
how
great
their
malice
was
towards
Christ
and
his
Disciples
,
that
could
so
easily
put
vp
that
in
David
,
and
so
hardly
exact
this
of
them
.
As
when
the
[
e
](A17239-e19770-b)
e
Ioh.
8.3.7
.
adulteresse
was
brought
vnto
him
,
and
he
willed
that
whosoeuer
he
were
among
them
that
was
without
sin
,
he
should
cast
the
first
stone
at
her
:
he
did
not
therby
excuse
her
lewdnes
,
or
made
no
reckoning
of
the
Law
,
of
God
,
but
himselfe
not
medling
to
be
her
iudge
,
rebuked
them
also
that
they
were
so
prying
into
other
folks
sinnes
,
and
so
forgetfull
of
then
owne
.
But
his
fact
might
verie
well
be
extraordinarie
also
,
and
so
no
breach
of
the
law
of
God
,
nor
to
be
reckoned
among
his
infirmities
,
if
we
could
any
way
be
certaine
that
so
it
were
:
such
as
that
[
f
](A17239-e19790-b)
f
Nomb.
25.7.8
.
knowne
fact
of
Phinehas
is
most
commonly
taken
to
be
:
and
such
as
was
that
fact
of
Christ
himselfe
(
as
he
came
in
the
forme
of
a
seruant
)
when
he
[
g
](A17239-e19810-b)
g
Ioh.
2.14.17
Math.
21.12.13
.
scourged
the
buiers
and
sellers
out
of
the
Temple
.
For
so
it
pleaseth
God
sometimes
so
thoroughly
to
seize
vp
to
holie
vses
,
and
so
fully
to
possesse
the
children
of
God
,
that
in
their
zeale
they
are
caried
beyond
the
bounds
that
the
Law
prescribeth
:
and
yet
in
no
wise
to
the
impeachment
or
derogation
of
the
Law
prescribed
to
all
.
In
which
sense
whether
David
,
in
that
want
of
other
victuals
did
it
,
or
not
:
yet
do
those
words
of
our
Sauiour
teach
,
that
the
same
fact
[
h
](A17239-e19830-b)
h
Math.
12.2
.
which
the
Pharises
misliked
in
the
Disciples
might
be
of
that
kind
,
for
ought
that
they
did
knowe
to
the
contrarie
,
and
that
such
an
other
they
had
long
before
in
David
himselfe
.
And
seeing
that
David
was
a
man
subiect
to
infirmitie
as
others
were
,
and
seeing
that
it
is
not
vnlikely
,
but
that
these
words
of
Christ
may
rather
shewe
,
in
what
sense
David
might
haue
done
it
well
,
then
precisely
in
what
sense
it
was
done
in
deede
:
therefore
it
remayneth
that
this
also
might
come
of
his
infirmitie
,
and
so
be
gathered
to
that
account
.
[
i
](A17239-e19880-b)
i
Pet.
Mar
in
1.
Sam.
21.9
.
may
well
be
,
that
he
had
consecrated
it
to
the
Lord
,
to
the
honour
and
prayse
of
God
.
If
so
he
had
,
then
was
there
[
k
](A17239-e19890-b)
k
Leui.
27.28
.
a
law
,
that
nothing
altogether
separate
vnto
the
Lord
,
might
agayne
be
taken
to
common
vse
.
So
that
it
may
be
,
that
in
this
also
he
did
offend
,
vnlesse
he
were
holpen
by
the
self
same
warrant
,
that
we
may
suppose
he
was
in
the
other
.
But
because
that
that
doth
not
so
appeare
,
and
otherwise
the
law
was
directly
agaynst
it
,
wee
cannot
well
hold
him
excused
herein
,
vnlesse
wee
had
some
further
warrant
:
although
notwithstanding
we
do
not
denie
,
but
that
it
may
be
,
that
in
this
also
he
was
excusable
.
The
two
latter
are
,
that
he
[
l
](A17239-e19900-b)
l
22.2
.
enterteyned
such
a
band
of
infamous
persons
for
his
defence
:
and
that
,
[
m
](A17239-e19930-b)
m
24.21.22
.
he
was
content
to
sweare
,
not
to
destroy
his
seede
after
him
.
In
both
which
although
it
may
be
,
that
some
gouerned
himself
in
them
both
,
as
that
in
them
also
he
was
vnreprouable
:
yet
is
it
not
to
be
denied
,
but
that
the
case
might
also
be
such
,
as
that
he
might
haue
offended
therein
.
In
the
former
of
them
,
for
that
he
enterteyned
forces
now
,
especially
so
infamous
as
many
of
them
were
:
in
the
latter
,
for
that
he
could
not
be
ignorant
,
but
that
the
Lord
had
cast
away
Saul
,
&
raysed
him
to
gouerne
in
his
place
;
and
so
consequently
was
in
likelihood
to
bee
called
to
such
actions
,
as
were
likely
to
accord
but
ill
with
the
oath
he
had
taken
.
That
which
belonged
vnto
the
time
of
Ishbosheth
the
sonne
of
Saul
,
[
n
](A17239-e20010-b)
n
3.20
.
did
he
accept
of
him
,
and
enterteyned
him
with
solemne
feasting
.
Wherein
although
it
might
bee
,
he
did
no
more
,
but
that
which
he
might
in
all
poynts
iustifie
(
the
place
it self
being
his
owne
,
and
for
that
the
meanes
wherby
Abner
would
seeme
vnto
him
to
go
about
to
bring
it
to
passe
,
might
also
bee
good
:
)
yet
because
that
the
other
also
might
be
,
and
is
as
likely
,
therefore
in
this
also
,
it
may
seeme
vnto
vs
,
that
his
doing
therein
might
proceede
of
infirmitie
.
[
o
](A17239-e20040-b)
o
25.41.43
.
his
Poligamy
,
in
that
he
had
so
many
wiues
:
first
,
with
Michall
the
daughter
of
Saul
,
Ahinoam
also
;
and
,
when
Saul
had
bestowed
his
daughter
in
these
his
troubles
vpon
an
other
(
it
may
be
,
not
only
for
hatred
of
him
in
his
principall
quarell
,
but
also
for
that
David
held
not
himselfe
contented
with
her
,
but
tooke
vnto
him
an
other
besides
)
Abigail
also
,
the
widowe
of
Nabal
,
but
a
little
before
deceased
.
In
which
,
although
he
did
manifestly
corrupt
the
first
institution
of
that
holy
ordinance
(
as
[
p
](A17239-e20110-b)
p
Math.
19.4.6
.
Mar.
10.5.11.9
.
Christ
himself
did
afterward
more
fully
teach
vs
)
and
hauing
one
alreadie
,
could
not
take
an
other
vnto
her
,
but
that
needs
he
must
do
a
manifest
wrong
vnto
the
former
(
as
the
[
q
](A17239-e20120-b)
q
1.
Cor.
7.3.5
.
Apostle
also
did
in
like
sort
afterward
witnesse
:
)
yet
because
that
it
was
in
those
dayes
ouer
common
a
fault
with
many
of
the
Fathers
,
and
so
little
either
forbidden
by
the
lawe
,
or
rebuked
by
the
Prophets
,
that
most
men
hold
it
as
tollerated
of
God
himself
vnto
that
people
(
for
the
time
)
in
other
respects
,
therefore
haue
I
placed
it
here
among
those
his
infirmities
,
that
in
some
sense
might
be
excused
:
whereas
otherwise
if
we
should
seperate
it
from
that
people
,
and
from
that
time
,
it
were
in
no
wise
to
be
allowed
so
easie
a
censure
.
Those
others
that
are
so
apparantly
euill
,
as
that
in
no
wise
they
may
bee
defended
,
[
r
](A17239-e20150-b)
r
20.5.6
.
both
directeth
Ionathan
how
to
excuse
him
by
an
vntrueth
:
and
[
s
](A17239-e20170-b)
s
21.2
.
himself
also
maketh
an
vntrue
report
of
his
comming
to
Ahimelech
the
Priest
in
such
sort
as
he
did
.
Abroad
there
were
two
.
First
flying
to
Achis
,
one
of
the
Kings
of
the
Philistims
(
to
escape
the
present
daunger
that
he
was
in
)
there
also
espying
himself
to
bee
in
daunger
[
t
](A17239-e20210-b)
t
21.10.15
.
he
fell
to
dissemble
,
and
in
very
dishonorable
manner
for
such
an
one
as
he
was
)
fayned
himselfe
to
bee
out
of
his
wits
:
and
shortly
after
[
*
](A17239-e20220-b)
*
22.3.5
.
flying
to
the
King
of
Moab
,
there
to
leaue
his
father
and
mother
till
he
sawe
what
the
Lord
would
do
with
him
,
by
the
Prophet
Gad
he
was
forbidden
there
to
abide
,
and
willed
to
returne
into
Iudea
again
;
and
so
found
that
course
of
his
to
be
wrong
likewise
.
[
u
](A17239-e20310-b)
u
25.22.34
.
he
thought
forthwith
to
haue
destroyed
him
,
and
all
his
,
with
the
edge
of
the
sword
:
whereas
notwithstanding
there
was
one
of
that
familie
,
whom
shortly
after
he
tooke
to
himself
,
vnto
the
neerest
friendship
that
could
be
.
[
x
](A17239-e20340-b)
x
27.1.2
.
with
deliberate
aduise
:
and
then
must
it
needes
be
so
much
the
worse
,
both
because
he
fled
to
that
idolatrous
Prince
,
a
naturall
enemie
to
the
people
of
God
:
and
for
that
he
did
it
vpon
distrust
of
the
prouidence
of
God
to
be
safe
at
home
.
In
his
demeanour
while
he
was
there
we
find
,
that
he
did
not
only
[
y
](A17239-e20350-b)
y
27.8.9.11
deale
very
ill
with
certeyne
of
the
people
of
those
quarters
(
the
Geshurites
,
Girzites
,
and
Amalekites
)
destroying
man
,
woman
,
and
child
,
leauing
none
to
complayne
of
his
doings
;
and
,
the
better
to
couer
his
doings
from
Achish
his
friend
,
[
z
](A17239-e20390-b)
z
27.10
.
deepely
dissembled
the
same
vnto
him
:
but
also
that
[
a
](A17239-e20400-b)
a
28.2
.
&
29.8
.
he
was
content
and
readie
,
to
go
to
the
field
vnder
Achish
,
agaynst
the
Israelites
his
owne
countrimen
and
the
people
of
GOD
,
[
a
](A17239-e20540-b)
a
13.6
.
that
at
that
time
the
people
were
in
great
distresse
.
Those
other
vndoubted
tokens
thereof
are
two
:
one
,
how
the
people
at
that
time
demeaned
themselues
:
the
other
,
what
want
there
was
of
such
warlike
furniture
as
was
conuenient
.
The
peoples
demeanour
at
that
time
was
,
that
they
had
not
the
heart
to
looke
their
enemie
in
the
face
,
but
that
some
of
them
[
b
](A17239-e20550-b)
b
13.6
.
hid
themselues
in
caues
,
and
in
holes
,
and
in
rockes
,
and
in
towers
,
and
in
pits
on
that
side
of
Iordan
that
was
next
to
the
Philistims
:
some
others
agayne
did
leaue
that
part
of
the
countrie
,
and
[
c
](A17239-e20580-b)
c
13.7
.
went
ouer
Iordan
vnto
the
land
of
Gad
and
Gilead
,
so
to
bee
farther
from
the
daunger
of
them
.
The
want
that
they
had
of
such
warlike
furniture
as
was
conuenient
,
was
very
great
:
both
for
that
the
Philistims
did
not
suffer
any
[
d
](A17239-e20630-b)
d
13.19
.
Smith
or
Cutler
to
dwell
among
them
,
by
whom
they
might
haue
had
some
weapons
made
(
no
[
e
](A17239-e20640-b)
e
13.20.21
.
not
so
much
as
for
their
instruments
of
husbandrie
,
but
either
must
carie
them
to
the
Philistims
to
bee
mended
or
sharpened
there
,
or
els
might
not
haue
but
only
the
helpe
of
the
file
at
home
)
and
for
that
among
all
the
people
that
followed
Saul
to
withstand
the
enemie
(
which
also
were
but
very
fewe
,
but
only
about
[
f
](A17239-e20670-b)
f
13.15
.
sixe
hundred
in
all
,
when
the
others
were
gone
that
[
g
](A17239-e20680-b)
g
13.8.11
.
gat
themselues
away
for
feare
)
there
[
h
](A17239-e20690-b)
h
13.22
.
was
not
so
much
,
as
either
a
sword
,
or
a
speare
found
,
but
only
with
the
King
him self
,
and
his
sonne
.
That
the
people
to
whom
they
were
subiect
were
idolatrous
,
and
directly
contrary
to
them
in
religion
,
[
i
](A17239-e20730-b)
i
Iud.
16.23
Dagon
,
being
as
the
learned
do
note
,
[
k
](A17239-e20760-b)
k
5.4
.
head
and
hands
;
and
saith
that
the
residue
that
remayned
(
as
Tremelius
translateth
)
representeth
a
[
l
](A17239-e20780-b)
l
Ibid.
fish
.
Their
blasphemous
dealing
agaynst
the
true
and
liuing
Lord
,
doth
not
only
appeare
in
their
deliuering
vp
of
the
Arke
of
the
Lord
[
m
](A17239-e20790-b)
m
5.2
.
into
the
Temple
of
their
Idoll
Dagon
,
as
though
that
their
Idoll
had
been
the
better
,
and
that
by
his
power
they
had
then
preuayled
agaynst
the
God
of
Israel
:
but
also
in
that
ⁿ
David
doth
charge
that
great
monsterous
beast
,
their
champion
Goliath
,
for
to
haue
rayled
on
the
God
of
the
host
of
Israel
.
And
though
he
were
but
one
man
,
yet
seeing
he
was
their
common
champion
,
and
came
foorth
in
the
name
of
them
all
,
they
may
all
by
good
right
be
charged
therewith
.
And
then
,
when
themselues
are
not
only
so
corrupt
in
the
highest
matter
of
all
,
euen
in
religion
,
but
also
so
contrarie
vnto
the
Trueth
,
and
so
blasphemous
to
GOD
himself
,
it
could
not
bee
otherwise
,
but
that
in
these
things
the
common
wealth
of
Israel
must
needes
be
in
hard
and
pitifull
case
,
that
was
in
such
thraldome
vnto
so
ill
a
people
as
these
.
[
o
](A17239-e20890-b)
o
11.1.13
.
Iabesh
Gilead
,
one
of
the
the
Cities
beyond
Iorden
,
which
Nahash
the
King
of
the
Ammonites
had
strongly
besieged
,
and
when
the
Citizens
sued
for
peace
,
he
would
in
no
wise
graunt
it
vnto
them
,
but
vpon
a
very
cruell
and
dishonorable
condition
:
which
was
,
that
he
might
thrust
out
the
right
eye
of
euery
one
of
them
,
and
so
bring
a
perpetuall
reproach
vpon
them
,
and
vpon
the
whole
nation
withall
.
Wherevpon
the
spirit
of
the
Lord
comming
vpon
Saule
,
he
sent
foorth
his
messengers
to
commaund
the
people
forth-with
to
followe
;
he
quickly
got
a
great
number
together
;
made
haste
to
Iabesh
;
raysed
the
siege
;
and
gaue
a
notable
ouerthrowe
to
the
enemie
.
Insomuch
that
whereas
before
certeyne
euill
persons
made
light
account
of
him
,
which
also
was
easily
put
vp
of
the
rest
,
now
were
the
people
generally
so
farre
in
loue
with
this
their
new
King
,
that
had
not
Saul
himself
stayed
them
,
needes
would
they
haue
had
those
ill
persons
to
haue
been
sought
out
,
and
for
that
their
former
contempt
to
be
put
to
death
now
.
That
which
afterward
he
did
on
behalfe
of
them
all
,
was
some
part
of
it
of
his
owne
accord
:
and
some
part
agayne
,
by
the
direct
commandement
of
God
.
Of
his
owne
accord
both
he
did
somewhat
at
the
first
entrie
into
his
kingdome
:
and
afterward
he
proceeded
somewhat
further
also
.
At
his
first
entrie
into
his
kingdom
both
[
p
](A17239-e20970-b)
p
13.2
.
he
chose
out
3000.
men
to
haue
in
a
readinesse
vpon
all
occasions
(
two
thousand
to
attend
vpon
himselfe
,
and
the
other
thousand
on
Ionathan
his
sonne
:
)
and
[
q
](A17239-e20990-b)
q
13.5
.
when
the
Philistims
now
began
to
inuade
them
agayne
,
he
did
not
only
[
r
](A17239-e21010-b)
r
13.35.16
.
addresse
himselfe
to
giue
them
battaile
:
but
also
when
as
[
s
](A17239-e21020-b)
s
14.1.15
.
by
other
meanes
they
were
discomfited
,
he
[
t
](A17239-e21030-b)
t
14.20
.
followed
vpon
them
and
gaue
vnto
them
a
great
ouerthrow
.
That
which
somewhat
after
he
did
,
was
in
effect
no
more
but
this
,
that
he
did
his
endeuour
(
in
some
measure
)
to
deliuer
his
countrie
from
their
enemies
.
Which
thing
is
deliuered
vnto
vs
by
two
speciall
poynts
:
one
,
how
he
esteemed
of
such
as
were
meet
for
the
warres
:
the
other
,
in
what
sort
he
dealt
with
the
enemie
.
Concerning
the
former
,
[
u
](A17239-e21040-b)
u
14
52.
it
is
sayd
that
he
made
much
of
them
.
Concerning
the
latter
,
it
is
sayd
first
generally
,
that
[
x
](A17239-e21050-b)
x
14.47
.
not
only
he
did
still
warre
vpon
them
on
euery
side
(
and
that
[
y
](A17239-e21060-b)
y
14.52
.
right
sore
agaynst
the
Philistims
)
but
also
that
he
[
z
](A17239-e21080-b)
z
14.4
.
euer
put
them
all
to
the
worse
,
and
did
[
a
](A17239-e21090-b)
a
14.48
.
much
rid
his
people
out
of
the
hands
of
those
that
spoyled
them
.
More
specially
there
are
numbred
among
them
,
not
only
those
of
whom
we
haue
some
storie
set
downe
,
as
the
Ammonites
,
Philistims
,
and
the
Amalekites
:
but
others
also
of
whom
we
haue
no
further
storie
,
as
the
Moabites
,
Idumeans
,
and
the
Kings
of
Zoba
.
That
which
he
did
by
the
speciall
commaundement
of
God
,
was
his
expedition
[
b
](A17239-e21140-b)
b
15.1.9
.
agaynst
the
Amalekites
,
at
such
time
as
God
was
disposed
to
be
auenged
on
them
for
an
old
iniurie
,
that
almost
400.
yeres
before
they
had
done
to
the
children
of
Israel
,
as
in
the
Wildernesse
they
were
passing
on
to
the
land
of
promise
.
In
which
expedition
although
he
did
not
execute
the
iudgment
of
God
agaynst
them
,
so
strictly
and
fully
as
he
was
commaunded
to
do
:
yet
[
c
](A17239-e21170-b)
c
15.7.8
.
made
he
a
great
destruction
of
the
enemie
:
and
besides
that
,
[
d
](A17239-e21180-b)
d
15.6
.
had
a
speciall
care
of
the
Kenites
,
certeyne
auncient
friends
of
the
children
of
Israel
to
get
them
out
of
the
way
,
[
e
](A17239-e21230-b)
e
13.9
.
he
awayted
not
the
comming
of
Samuel
:
the
other
,
in
that
[
f
](A17239-e21250-b)
f
15.9
.
he
did
not
execute
the
sentence
of
GOD
agaynst
the
Amalekites
,
with
that
seueritie
that
was
appoynted
.
In
both
which
notwithstanding
we
may
see
that
he
grewe
so
néere
to
his
full
duetie
in
those
two
poynts
,
that
a
reasonable
man
would
thinke
,
he
had
done
very
well
;
and
yet
in
trueth
he
came
very
short
of
that
which
he
ought
to
haue
done
in
deede
.
For
as
touching
the
former
of
them
,
that
is
,
the
awayting
of
Samuels
comming
,
the
storie
is
this
,
that
Samuel
promised
to
come
thether
vnto
him
;
[
g
](A17239-e21290-b)
g
10.8
.
both
to
instruct
further
what
he
should
do
,
and
[
h
](A17239-e21300-b)
h
11.14
.
to
renew
or
establish
the
kingdome
vnto
him
,
with
the
generall
consent
of
all
before
the
Lord
:
and
therefore
willed
him
there
to
abide
till
he
came
vnto
him
,
[
i
](A17239-e21310-b)
i
10.8
.
naming
in
deed
but
seauen
dayes
,
(
after
the
manner
of
their
kinde
of
speach
)
but
yet
not
meaning
any
determinate
number
,
but
that
if
he
thought
he
taried
somewhat
long
,
yet
not
to
be
wearie
for
so
small
a
matter
.
This
platforme
being
layd
forth
vnto
him
,
now
are
wee
to
see
how
néere
it
is
that
he
seemeth
to
come
vnto
it
:
and
how
farre
in
trueth
he
commeth
short
of
it
.
He
may
seeme
to
come
néere
vnto
it
,
both
in
that
he
taried
so
long
as
he
did
:
and
in
that
he
had
so
good
cause
as
he
had
,
then
to
breake
vp
.
He
taried
[
k
](A17239-e21320-b)
k
13.8
.
vntill
the
seauenth
day
:
and
,
as
it
seemeth
,
vntil
the
time
of
the
euening
sacrifice
of
that
day
:
it
may
be
also
,
that
he
taried
fully
the
seauen
dayes
outright
:
and
so
consequently
,
altogether
so
long
,
as
the
Prophet
(
in
strict
letter
)
required
of
him
.
The
cause
that
himself
alleadgeth
,
why
he
was
so
bolde
as
to
breake
vp
then
,
was
[
l
](A17239-e21330-b)
l
13.11.12
.
for
that
the
people
began
to
steale
away
apace
:
and
seeing
that
the
enemies
lay
so
neere
as
they
did
,
he
thought
he
might
seene
bee
driuen
to
encounter
with
them
:
and
that
he
would
bee
loath
to
do
,
before
he
had
sacrificed
vnto
the
Lord
.
But
it
may
bee
further
,
that
seeing
he
was
[
m
](A17239-e21340-b)
m
10.6.9.10
.
&
11.6
.
before
endued
,
in
some
good
measure
,
with
the
Spirit
of
God
,
and
his
kingdome
so
much
established
as
[
n
](A17239-e21350-b)
n
11.12
.
before
it
was
(
both
by
his
victorie
against
the
Ammonites
,
and
for
that
the
people
there
,
vpon
that
occasion
accepted
of
him
)
he
was
now
perswaded
,
that
neither
he
needed
any
further
instruction
of
the
Prophet
,
nor
any
further
inauguration
by
his
ministerie
before
the
Lord
:
especially
at
such
a
time
,
when
as
those
other
considerations
(
in
reason
)
required
such
hast
as
they
did
.
Short
he
came
[
o
](A17239-e21370-b)
o
13.13.14
.
for
that
he
awayted
not
that
further
instruction
,
and
that
further
renewing
or
establishing
of
the
kingdome
to
him
before
the
Lord
:
notwithstanding
that
the
Prophet
taried
so
long
as
he
did
:
and
notwithstanding
those
reasons
he
had
so
much
to
hasten
.
Now
as
touching
the
latter
of
them
(
wherein
his
doings
do
lye
more
open
,
than
in
the
other
)
he
might
seeme
to
haue
gon
very
néere
to
the
Lords
commaundement
,
for
that
he
[
p
](A17239-e21380-b)
p
15.8.9.10
.
destroyed
so
much
as
he
did
:
and
for
that
the
residue
that
they
did
not
destroy
,
yet
[
q
](A17239-e21390-b)
q
15.15
.
brought
they
away
,
and
to
[
r
](A17239-e21400-b)
r
15.15
.
offer
in
sacrifice
vnto
the
Lord
.
But
yet
was
he
short
,
[
s
](A17239-e21410-b)
s
15.18.19.22.23
.
for
that
vpon
his
owne
reason
,
and
the
liking
of
those
that
were
with
him
,
he
did
not
execute
the
sentence
of
God
to
the
vttermost
poynt
that
was
commanded
:
and
withall
turned
vnto
the
pray
,
or
greedily
sought
some
aduantage
therby
.
[
a
](A17239-e21510-b)
a
Math.
24.29
Luk.
21.25.26
.
2.
Tim.
3.1.5
.
Apo.
8.13.9.1.5
.
the
text
it selfe
doth
likewise
fore-shew
in
many
places
,
that
such
should
be
those
daies
of
vengeance
procéeding
from
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
that
now
we
speake
of
:
but
also
both
the
histories
do
so
plentifully
witnes
the
same
,
and
the
experience
of
those
daies
hath
made
so
sensible
demonstration
thereof
vnto
vs
,
that
no
body
now
can
be
either
altogether
ignorant
,
or
but
so
much
as
doubtfull
of
it
.
So
likewise
where
were
there
any
then
to
be
found
,
that
durst
looke
those
enimies
of
ours
in
the
face
?
or
rather
who
did
not
,
either
hide
themselues
in
the
most
secret
places
that
they
could
thinke
of
:
or
else
abandoning
their
owne
countries
,
and
houses
,
got
them
farther
off
out
of
danger
?
for
such
hath
bin
the
power
of
those
our
Philistims
of
the
Church
of
Rome
for
certain
ages
,
that
it
was
past
the
power
of
Princes
(
and
much
rather
of
meaner
estates
)
to
deale
with
them
,
after
that
by
their
slacknes
before
,
they
had
now
got
the
bridle
into
their
téeth
.
As
for
any
furniture
against
the
wars
,
who
knoweth
not
,
but
that
they
swept
all
as
cleane
from
vs
,
as
euer
the
Philistims
did
from
them
?
For
whereas
the
word
of
God
is
the
swoord
of
our
warfare
(
as
[
b
](A17239-e21550-b)
b
Math.
4.4.7.10
.
Christ
in
his
owne
person
hath
taught
vs
,
and
as
the
[
c
](A17239-e21560-b)
c
Ephes.
6.17
.
Apostle
likewise
doth
call
it
)
what
part
thereof
did
they
leaue
vnto
vs
in
our
mother-toong
,
or
in
such
sort
as
we
might
be
able
in
time
of
néede
to
attaine
thereunto
?
neither
the
old
Testament
,
nor
the
new
:
neither
the
Prophets
,
nor
the
Apostles
,
nor
Christ
himselfe
:
neither
the
preachings
,
nor
yet
the
writings
of
any
of
their
.
And
this
haue
they
done
in
so
greedie
and
watchfull
maner
,
that
as
among
the
children
of
Israel
only
King
Saul
,
and
Jonathan
his
sonne
were
found
to
haue
either
sword
or
speare
(
and
yet
being
but
sixe
hundred
in
all
,
it
had
bin
but
a
small
matter
,
if
so
many
had
had
weapons
ynow
thrée-fold
ouer
:
)
so
likewise
with
vs
,
though
in
that
corrupt
time
there
were
not
many
,
that
so
much
misliked
the
seruititude
they
were
in
,
that
they
could
be
content
to
take
part
with
their
Princes
,
against
those
other
Philistims
of
theirs
,
but
that
it
had
bin
as
small
a
matter
for
them
to
haue
had
weapons
ynow
:
yet
among
them
also
but
few
were
found
,
heere
and
there
one
with
some
rare
and
principall
man
,
and
otherwise
not
so
much
as
one
among
them
all
.
Neither
were
our
Philistims
content
to
spoile
vs
of
our
weapons
only
,
but
they
tooke
away
all
such
artificers
also
,
or
men
of
learning
,
as
were
able
to
make
any
mo
.
Insomuch
that
as
they
for
the
repairing
of
their
instruments
of
husbandrie
,
were
faine
to
séeke
vnto
the
Philistims
,
or
else
at
home
might
neuer
haue
but
the
vse
of
a
file
(
a
seely
,
and
a
busie
help
for
the
mattok
,
coulter
,
and
share
:
)
so
we
likewise
,
euen
for
the
artes
and
liberall
sciences
,
were
driuen
to
séeke
vnto
these
Philistims
of
ours
,
that
they
only
might
giue
the
heate
,
and
haue
the
hammering
of
all
those
matters
.
And
if
any
of
vs
thought
much
,
in
those
things
to
be
so
beholding
to
them
,
or
would
not
take
the
paines
to
seeke
so
far
,
they
had
laid
the
coast
so
sure
in
all
such
cases
,
that
what
we
were
loath
to
take
of
them
,
we
were
sure
but
hardly
to
find
any
where
else
.
And
as
a
man
may
easily
gesse
why
those
Philistims
allowed
the
Israelites
to
haue
no
weapons
,
nor
any
to
make
them
:
so
is
it
as
easie
in
these
daies
also
,
to
say
what
the
cause
is
why
ours
likewise
allow
not
the
people
to
haue
the
Scriptures
among
them
,
nor
any
to
shew
vs
what
they
require
,
or
to
leade
vs
into
the
knowledge
of
them
.
They
pretend
,
and
boldly
beare
the
peeple
in
hand
,
that
the
Scriptures
are
both
hard
,
and
dangerous
:
but
the
truth
is
,
they
would
keepe
vs
in
bondage
still
,
and
therefore
can
they
in
no
wise
allowe
vs
to
haue
our
weapons
.
They
are
hard
in
déede
for
them
to
answer
:
and
therefore
deale
they
so
hardly
with
them
.
They
know
that
to
their
estate
they
are
dangerous
and
therefore
make
they
so
great
danger
to
let
vs
haue
them
.
But
now
if
we
come
to
the
idolatrie
and
to
the
blasphemie
of
the
Philistims
,
there
will
it
most
plainly
appeare
,
that
in
both
those
points
these
our
Philistims
do
far
excéede
,
both
in
number
of
idols
,
and
in
multitude
of
blasphemies
also
.
And
then
being
so
idolatrous
as
they
are
,
and
so
blasphemous
vnto
the
true
and
liuing
God
,
looke
how
much
more
these
two
vices
are
found
in
them
,
so
much
more
miserable
must
out
estate
be
vnder
these
,
then
was
that
other
of
the
children
of
Israel
,
vnder
that
other
idolatrous
people
.
In
this
case
Christendome
stoode
,
vnder
that
late
power
of
darknes
that
ouerwhelmed
the
face
of
the
earth
:
and
wheresoeuer
that
power
of
darknes
doth
yet
remaine
,
in
the
whole
or
in
part
,
there
may
a
man
quickly
find
the
like
miserie
as
yet
remaining
,
so
far
as
will
serue
to
answer
the
other
in
due
proportion
.
[
d
](A17239-e21880-b)
d
10.1
.
annointed
by
the
Prophet
at
Ramah
,
[
e
](A17239-e21900-b)
e
10.17.24
.
chosen
by
lot
before
the
Lord
in
Mizpeh
,
[
f
](A17239-e21920-b)
f
11.12
.
and
with
speciall
ioy
and
fauour
acknowledged
and
accepted
of
the
people
at
Iabesh-Gilead
.
For
his
annointing
was
but
secret
,
[
g
](A17239-e21940-b)
g
9.27
.
none
other
being
priuie
thereto
,
but
the
Prophet
,
and
him-selfe
alone
:
but
yet
to
himward
[
h
](A17239-e21950-b)
h
10.2.10
.
notably
confirmed
by
signes
that
followed
:
but
election
at
Mizpeh
was
no
more
but
[
i
](A17239-e21970-b)
i
10.20.21
.
only
an
election
,
shewing
vnto
them
who
it
was
,
whome
the
Lord
would
haue
to
be
their
King
:
and
though
he
were
ackowledged
,
and
accepted
of
the
people
at
Iabesh-Gilead
,
yet
[
k
](A17239-e21990-b)
k
11.7.8.12
.
was
it
but
of
a
part
of
the
people
,
only
of
those
forces
that
were
gathered
together
against
the
Ammonites
(
and
yet
to
the
number
of
330090.
)
And
because
all
this
was
no
full
establishing
of
the
Kingdom
vnto
him
,
therefore
was
he
first
to
awaite
a
further
solemnitie
of
inauguration
in
some
general
assemblie
of
al
,
and
wherein
the
ministerie
of
the
Prophet
was
verie
conuenient
.
Many
of
ours
would
haue
thought
,
much
lesse
then
thus
much
to
be
sufficient
:
especially
when
as
so
vrgent
occasion
should
make
them
to
hasten
to
enter
into
it
,
without
so
perfect
inauguration
.
And
yet
Saul
as
it
seemeth
,
did
not
of
any
greedinesse
in
himselfe
,
so
hasten
his
entry
(
for
he
awayted
the
Prophet
seuen
dayes
,
as
before
is
declared
)
but
onely
for
that
hee
tooke
himself
to
bee
very
iustly
called
vnto
it
,
or
rather
by
strict
necessitie
strongly
vrged
.
And
as
for
instruction
not
many
of
vs
,
if
in
our
iudgement
our
title
were
good
,
and
so
readie
a
way
layde
open
vnto
vs
,
woulde
haue
thought
that
a
sufficient
cause
to
haue
awayted
the
Prophet
so
long
:
especially
if
our selues
before
had
receiued
the
spirite
of
prophecie
[
l
](A17239-e22030-b)
l
10.10
.
as
hee
had
done
,
and
if
wee
had
at
that
present
[
m
](A17239-e22040-b)
m
13.5
.
so
weighty
matters
in
hande
besides
.
For
it
is
the
manner
with
vs
,
eyther
altogether
to
shut
out
the
Prophet
,
from
all
our
aduices
and
councelles
in
such
matters
,
euen
of
contempt
or
inwarde
dislike
that
wee
haue
to
such
a
course
:
or
at
least
,
vnder
pretence
of
our
owne
sufficiencie
,
if
so
bee
that
wee
haue
any
measure
of
knowledge
:
or
else
vpon
euery
slight
and
easie
businesse
,
to
holde
our selues
as
iustly
hindred
.
As
for
the
other
,
that
is
,
[
n
](A17239-e22070-b)
n
15.3
.
commaunded
to
destroy
both
the
people
themselues
,
and
all
that
did
belong
vnto
them
,
both
man
,
and
woman
,
infant
,
and
suckling
,
Oxe
,
and
Sheepe
,
Camell
,
and
Asse
,
and
to
haue
no
compassion
of
them
,
and
all
this
,
for
no
cause
else
,
but
onely
for
that
[
o
](A17239-e22080-b)
o
15.2
.
certaine
auncesters
of
theirs
long
before
layde
wayte
for
the
Israelites
in
the
way
,
as
they
came
vp
from
Aegypt
,
and
skirmished
with
them
)
then
doe
wee
seeke
to
giue
it
the
slippe
so
much
as
we
can
,
and
euer
lightly
do
but
sliue
it
when
we
haue
any
such
thing
to
doe
.
The
circumstaunces
are
two
:
one
of
the
time
:
an
other
of
their
persons
.
As
for
the
time
,
it
was
almoste
400
yeares
ago
,
when
that
fault
was
made
that
nowe
was
punished
,
And
this
execution
was
to
bee
done
,
when
first
he
entred
into
his
kindgome
.
As
for
their
persons
,
the
time
it selfe
sufficiently
prooueth
,
that
they
were
not
the
offendors
themselues
:
but
their
posteritie
,
very
neare
to
the
tenth
generation
.
And
yet
notwithstanding
although
hee
spared
some
,
the
Text
it selfe
doth
beare
him
witnesse
,
that
,
those
excepted
,
[
p
](A17239-e22110-b)
p
15.8
.
hee
vtterly
destroyed
all
the
people
with
the
edge
of
the
sworde
:
and
himselfe
addeth
further
,
that
[
q
](A17239-e22120-b)
q
15.15
.
hee
destroyed
all
the
rest
.
Neither
doe
wee
reade
that
hee
spared
any
thing
,
for
any
benefite
to
himselfe
or
his
people
,
but
[
r
](A17239-e22130-b)
r
15.15.22
.
onely
to
offer
them
in
sacrifice
vnto
the
Lorde
:
though
Samuel
[
s
](A17239-e22150-b)
s
15.19
.
doth
tharge
him
,
that
in
that
case
also
hee
did
no
better
then
turne
to
the
pray
:
and
did
exceeding
wickedly
before
the
Lorde
.
16
And
so
haue
we
heard
,
Abraham
,
Ishmael
for
a
time
was
grieuous
to
Izhak
,
because
of
the
promise
:
but
his
mother
and
hee
were
for
the
same
cast
out
in
the
ende
.
In
the
wombe
of
Rebekah
,
Esau
stroue
against
Iaakob
his
brother
:
but
both
it
was
tolde
Rebekah
by
and
by
that
the
elder
shoulde
serue
the
yonger
,
and
afterwarde
it
was
brought
to
passe
in
deede
that
so
hee
did
.
Esau
hated
Iaakob
agayne
,
because
of
the
blessing
wherewith
Father
Iahak
had
blessed
him
:
and
although
him selfe
had
made
but
very
slender
account
of
it
,
yet
when
hee
sawe
that
his
brother
had
it
,
hee
fully
purposed
to
destroy
him
for
it
.
But
Iaakob
was
had
to
a
place
of
safetie
in
the
meane
season
,
while
his
brothers
wrath
was
asswaged
,
and
his
brother
himselfe
otherwise
placed
:
and
afterwarde
was
hee
brought
home
in
peace
with
abundance
of
riches
,
many
children
and
a
great
familie
,
vnto
the
quiet
and
peaceable
fruition
of
so
much
of
that
blessing
of
his
,
as
that
present
estate
of
his
was
capable
of
:
peaceably
soiourning
in
that
lande
of
promis
(
an
earnest
to
him
,
and
to
his
children
of
greater
mercies
intented
towards
them
)
whence
Esau
and
his
were
already
remooued
,
Ioseph
,
Abraham
,
Izhak
,
and
Iaakob
,
he
afterward
brought
in
their
children
into
it
,
(
as
many
in
number
as
their
fathers
were
that
were
excluded
,
and
somewhat
me
)
after
that
they
were
growne
vp
to
mans
state
,
and
had
for
a
time
born
the
punishment
of
their
fathers
sins
.
Towards
the
end
of
this
their
iourney
,
howe
did
the
Moabites
and
Midianites
together
(
when
they
sawe
the
children
of
Israel
to
bee
a
mightier
people
,
17
Wherein
if
(
yet
this
once
more
)
wee
come
in
our selues
,
what
letteth
,
Canaanites
,
Amorites
,
and
Midianites
,
cleane
beyond
all
expectation
:
so
,
what
letteth
,
but
that
the
Lord
hauing
alredie
begun
to
worke
so
mightily
for
vs
also
,
in
the
quarell
we
haue
in
hand
,
we
may
with
good
comfort
lift
vp
our
heads
,
and
confidently
looke
for
the
full
performance
of
it
at
his
good
pleasure
?
Iordan
with
vs
also
had
filled
the
brinks
,
and
séemed
at
the
first
vtterly
to
deny
all
passage
to
any
that
would
attempt
to
enter
:
in
earthly
power
they
were
so
strong
apart
by
themselues
,
and
in
this
quarell
so
knit
together
the
one
with
the
other
,
the
ecclesiasticall
and
ciuile
together
.
But
when
now
the
time
was
come
,
the
Priests
that
bare
the
Arke
of
the
Lord
,
could
no
sooner
by
the
commandement
of
Ioshua
step
into
the
riuer
,
and
but
profer
to
make
their
entrie
,
but
that
by
and
by
(
a
wonder
to
see
)
the
waters
parted
and
gaue
them
passage
on
dry
ground
.
Our
Iericho
also
was
verie
strongly
walled
about
.
But
are
not
the
walles
thereof
in
good
part
falne
alreadie
:
and
do
they
not
yet
daily
fall
more
and
more
,
at
least
wheresoeuer
the
Priests
do
sound
their
trumpets
,
and
the
people
,
according
thereto
,
lift
vp
their
voice
,
and
cry
them
downe
?
Many
Kings
and
Princes
there
are
that
haue
gathered
themselues
together
against
our
Ioshua
also
,
so
soone
as
euer
he
hath
made
his
entrie
:
and
though
it
were
in
so
wonderfull
maner
,
that
therein
only
they
may
plainly
perceiue
that
his
entrie
was
from
aboue
,
by
the
mightie
hand
of
God
,
yet
were
they
not
so
touched
therewith
,
but
that
still
they
would
bend
their
forces
against
him
so
much
as
they
could
.
But
what
haue
they
gained
thereby
?
Diuers
of
them
haue
sharply
felt
the
mightie
hand
of
God
against
them
:
and
what
letteth
,
but
that
we
may
looke
to
see
these
beginnings
,
at
the
length
to
be
brought
to
happy
endings
?
Certainly
our
Ioshua
is
to
preuaile
,
against
all
those
that
come
against
him
,
and
to
diuide
the
promised
land
to
the
children
of
Israel
.
Only
let
vs
take
héede
to
this
,
that
when
God
is
so
redie
as
to
bestow
these
mercies
on
vs
,
our selues
be
not
so
far
to
séeke
when
we
should
receiue
them
,
or
do
not
endeuour
in
such
sort
to
addresse
our selues
thereunto
,
as
our
own
good
,
and
the
nature
of
the
cause
doth
require
.
Let
there
be
no
want
in
vs
:
and
then
shall
we
vndoubtedly
sée
the
goodnes
of
God
in
the
land
of
the
liuing
.
For
he
is
faithfull
,
that
so
hath
promised
.
18
And
now
,
O
Lord
what
els
remayneth
,
The
exercise
that
David
vsed
,
more
specially
described
.