Sermon). life. But Coronam depofuit?cak.e away his Crowne, andthen vit•m nonp~:#it, he will ratkelife . he wtllnot thmke nworch theltfktng. If hewould .coke tt It would not b~givm him': He, that takes away his crowne, will have his life.not longafter. Fond imaaine otherwife : and it IS the poorefr comfort andconcetpt, that ever was . to tollth;m rheircroivnerhey mufr pm with, but be of good cheere, their lives fhail be ~.v;d, th~t they {hall. No ;vivu (!;: regnltf,rake regnat and take vivu too; both,or neith~r here. · . . . , This is the.cro_.Vne. And this crowne;n Davidwas ap~.wttJtPt, ~leere : a po{ttit • Thlterol\>ltt • without anypelllt. For when h~ followed. huewesgreatnmhyoung, !mledreamt he •.Pr~v••i!li_iq ofany mw~e. It nevercamemto hts lzps, lt never emered toto hts heart; hu (oule (as f;(;i~s . 1 , , himfelte [atth) w.u weaned from any fle.-h m•tters, from fo much as once phancymg Pfat. 13 ,.,,; them: Thecr01vnewas in hima meereprevention. · · . Nay two crownes (we reade) hecamero. Firfl:S•t~lscrowm; thct..Amalekiu And his ficond br 1 ught him t~at, and hubrit.-elets. Tofhew,itwasapr.eveniftiJ?~erely:Notfo ~~:'.~.,0• muchas anIfr•dite, brought it. That was was feeon,fidt. Some.chtmcyeares after, , we finde he came c~ anorhercruwne; rheKingof 4mrnonscrGwne,atche·winningof oSam.u.Jo; Jlahba : amorem-fie rrowne,jinergold, riches j!Gnes in it, rhan his firfr. That was fet · ontoo. This here in cheVerfe, wasrhe fccond (fay all rhelnterprecers: ) and this, a pu.venifli likewile. If you will but remember what cafe h1= frood in,to God·ward,at the comming of this fecond crowne(it was prcfemly upon themateerof Vri.u and Bathfabe)you will fay,h~ was rather in cafe of Miferere mei ~cm,thanofought elfe: pr,t 1 ,..; that Crownedhim then, znrnerCfe analovmg landnelfe. Ac rillS fccondcrowne, It was Ff•l. &o i·i; vmiampetiit,and nothing elfe• . ,. , . · And at his firfr c;owne,it was vitampetiit,and noth:ng elfe. All he asktthen,was his lift; it foilowes ltraight neJ'{t verfe. And fure,cirne was, in the dayes ofhis Predecdfot; when, partly by Sauls owne jealqufie; but much more,by the wicked{uggifiions of Doeg,and fuch like, he needed to alike it. There was often (to ufe his owne words)bucaftep, betweene him and Jeath. He asked /ift,then ;andfo that might have , s:un. 10; 3; bceneatfured hiin,would have frrained his prayer no further. We mull:thinke, when he was couped up, one while in fuch aCave i another in fuch ~Wood; puc to flyefor his life, toMoab, toGatb (l wore nor whirher:) in dan– ger !!ill ro bee made away, by one trelcherie or another: when, hee receivedevery 1 houre t~efenten&t of de•th, in h!mfclfe; all hisminderanuponvitampetiitthcn_ ; •Cor,.i.~: then, thts crowne, or the goldof It, orthe finenetfe of theallay, nevertroubled hts head, ye may befure : lifehe asked rhen,:ind more heat/cednor, and well had bcene him, if he might have had bucfecuritie of that; I fay,fecurltieof hislife,andlec the Irown~goe. Behold then, theblelfedgoodnejfeof G ci ~,thatgavehim both. Both, that hee l The"'"'"' . asked, life (we come ro ic, by and by) and the Cr.owne,and another miJVNt too belides, r" onby Gud, thathel!fktdnot. Satisfied him, inthat: preventedhim, inchis: Nay,preventedhim, inboth; as ye !hall fee ftraighr; . Bur, yer I paU:etoth~c : hereis apoinrorrwo about trownes, I thinke good not to. paff'e. ' . f~e firft ts, agamll: ufurpers of c&ecrowne, 'l{ernine ponente, nift fe ipfo ; God not f~ttmgtt on, none {ttttngtt on, bucthemfelves :That, not ip(e ftbi, fed Dem ipft; Nor tpfe p1(mt foper cap11t futtm, but Dem {t1per cAptit ipftru. • The fecond,is againI!: Vfurpers of a power, to cakeoffthac, they neverfeton (defonendi, 1~~~d non pofteit) ~dthereby intruding upon, Ttlpofui~i. _ I· Firfr (r~e crowne) he raught no~ ac_ic,caught it not,and claptiton him[elfe :ic Theimp•P•( was brought btm,he came orderly tott; !t was Jet on, not by himfelfe, bur by ano- Go.Jooncly. ther. And, that orher,was the right Setter,Ttt pofuijli,G 0 0 • Who will never[et it on.awrong; ~eve:, but on the right head, if it be of His (etting: and if it be not of ~Is fettmg, .tt. wtll never profper, never flouri{h (beCure.) Tua Jlomme, here too,: :le Cr~nmt IStn Go o's hand, l.iith Efay; and BM htind (ets it on Davids, fets iron Efa.t•.J• I thetr heads, that lawfully weare it. It made the Emperours to !tampethcir coyne, With an hand comaiing our of the clouds, holdingacrowne and ptitting it o~ thm
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