• 86z. Ofthe CoN sP IRA c IE Sermon 7 • --------------------------------------------- 1: . s· s!.ulwasnowintheCavt. Whati>Avidsmenwouidhaveliadhimdoet·os I ' ,.he firlltltliE h d · h · ( d J 4~' "";" £"' yen w at"'..s.goo m u eyes agoo manner.Y terme; but even whatpleafed 1,,,,,.;.,. 4 • h~m,) What IS chac1 Whatmeanttheyby 1t~ The meaning is, they would ;u~, have h1m layh•ndsup~n Saul. Plame byD1vtdsarifwe~e: What~ lay hands on himt Go 0 .fcrbtd. More platne yet, byDailtasrep~rtoFytoSaNl (theeleventhrer{e.) ,Andfome bade 11~e ktllt~ee, Lo,thereye~ave It tn piame Engli{h. . To mak.e this motion[eemegoodmhu ey~s, they ufe here a perillous motive; or rather .three m?DC• • !»umcum t(lttm,the~onve ofenmity or deadly /eud. •Emdi– u vemt, no~ IS the nme.come; themot.lveof •ppo~t~nity. l And de quo dixit Domi. ntu, themor.ve of G o o s word, of domg 1t byDt'Utnitie. · I lnimicum t1~ .,, I~imicum tuu!" : that isthle ground oLilL (a motive well befeeming them that make1t; even1itf'or.a So~ldms mouth:) he 1syourenemy, he would kill you; what fhould~oudoebutktll.hlm ~ fho~ld not wekill them ~hat.would kill us~ This goes ,~m:ntmtheCampe,thiSISbomlm 111 oct~lu, agood monon mtheir eyes. Now,if this hold forgood,if an enemy be to be flaine; It isfure,SdulwasDa' vids enemie : Go o Himfel_fe c~lls him fo,I11imicum tuum : they beGods own words,' one that 1 (even as Davtdfa1th htmfelfe) kunttd for kis (oule (Verfo 1 z.) And even at this very iniiant had him in ~,llfc,and was foeager on it,as up the rockes he w~nt after him, anm•g the wildgoates (ver. 3.) and_followed him fo hard, hewas faine to take a. cave (here.) In wh1c~ c~ve, :vhat takmg he was in, ye ll!ay read in the LVll. P[•l. (made, when he ~ed mto ti~JSCA:'e), even at tMt{e_rere Mei De HI, mifereremei: One miferere, would not ferve h1m; magreateragomeoffearc:.-. For, if Sa~tlhadbut knowen it, Davidhad·n~vf!rgone his way thence,as Saul did his. it is well knowen, Saulfought his life. That was not all :there was afurther matter thanfo. Will you heare it from Saalhimfelfe ~ Looke to thezr. ver. I kngw (faithSaul) thou jbaltbt King after me. Ye•,fl>aU! then was it inimicum t11um (indeed) in another fcnfe ; then was Sa~tls life, anenemy ts"Davids riflng. Davidfiands in his owne light, if he doe it not. Doe it then, and belides the alfurance of your life, thecrcnvne is yours. Thefe two layd together,any would wonder,what eyes DAvidhad,that thisfeemednorgq1d in his eyes. And,this for inimic11m tuum, ·i 13ut, many anenemie(capes with his life, becaur'ewe me~t not with anEmdies; ~ettJitt ..,.; 1 • a fit time and place to doe it in. Veri!y, opportunity it fdfe is a fhrewd motive. The common faying is, occ4fiofacitfimm : that which one was farre from, would never have imagined, there will come fo faire an offer,Juch a faire (hoote (as they fay) as will make a man doe that, which but for fuch an occalion, he would never once. have thought on. Wee are all to pray to Go o to take from us rhc opp~rtu~ity of fi~ning : So fraile we are, iris no fooner offered, but we are ready to embrace lt (Gel. helpeus.) What fay they then~ Why Ecce here is :ttime, and here isa.cave, as fi1 a place as can be for Cuch a motion. Such an 1pportsmity, as ifyou take lt. Mt, you fhall not meet with againe, all your lifelong. ~o have your mmie lig~t mto yo~dr hands in atlArkecave, where you may d1fpatcb h1m, and no body the wtfer who d~ it or how it was done. Well then, wiCdome is feene in no one thing more, than1° t~king opporrunity. Goe to,fhew yo11r felfe awifeman: you know,what you hai'C to doe. · F ' ·~"""'""· Nay, it is not onely E~ce dies, but Ecce trad4m; and there, isan Ecce. o.r' there is muchintradam ,· he1s evc:n de!J.veml, evc:ntakm,an.d ~ut mtoygur hands.. 11I . - ·- .r • \VCJg
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