SennonJ· of the GowR 1 u~ Some thinkeit moved hhn, till he came to ~he very pulh; and then Godftrlicke ~~~!;!n~hlli4 hisheart;and his heart fhuckc htm, and fo hts mmde changed. Others. t~mke, that mOlion, irflirredhirn not awhir(forthe blow came afrerall was done.) Yet,as 1flt had mo~ ved him, he moved upon it. Somewhat to fattsfie them,he would feeme to do fome4 what So up he rofeand towardSaul he made, t.1S::1, as fofdy and asfecretly as he couiL~nd o/henhe came at hirri,cl<;>fe_behind him,ou~ went his knife;asifhe meant 10 ufeir. (!fir men,I dare fay, hoped, tof?me otheren_d;) Sray here. And h_crha_t had {eencDavidthus, in this wife,commmg clqfebe~mde the K~ngs ba<keWit~hts bifedrawne in his hand, ~ould he not have taken h1rn for Rav~Utac ? What dtffe· rence ~ I promtfe you, rhts was not _bmum mocu!ts, no very good _light. f'.nd then knowing, Saul was his mortal! enem1e, and even now at this very 1niiant time come forth to feeke his life, and feeing them thus in a blinde cavi, and David hard at his backe with a1Mkedbife, would he not have givenSat<l for dead, paft (for ever) ahi# f!iamfwn i' . . , . . Well : when all carr\e to all. Firft, it feemed notgo6din Davids eyes,to ufe fpeare or fword, but his knife. Why, aknife will doe mifchiefe enough. z. TheQ, to goecoworkewithit, notpunc1im, butc.ejim, not with thepoint, but with theedgi onely;thruftnot, cut onely. Yet that will hurt coo. 3· But mt, what~ Neither flefh nor skin, not them : Nay,not hislhirt or doublet, his mantle onely, and but)! peeceofit•. 4· And, it wasnogre~tp:ecenei:her, he_ cut no skirt : It was fo fmall, it , wasnOt: mJifed. Sards fellowes fp1ed 1t not, nll Davtdcame after them,calledt~ them,' helditupand fheweditthem: and then they looked well, and faw apeece was gone, but not before•.ThewordpJ~,.-1•f•~'"• ala, fignifieth awing: and thofe (we know) arebut Additi~nals;no part oftheentiregarmenr:tbe garment is whole without them•. So, it was not in the whole cloth neither;he cut. Hisknife he drew, but drew no bl911d with it; went not to SaNlhimfelfe,his perfon, but to his mantle ; tooke but an edge ofthat and awayhegoes: and fo may SAHI goe his way, for any hurt, Davidhath donehim. And this (lo) is all,came ofthe motion; ahd more than this,foemednot guod inDavids eyes. _What,and is it but this~ This and no more~ No more but aforedofhis mantle, eHi• ttnfurt and IS that all ? All, yea : and too much ofthat too. For, now it followes,ln the fe- ofit. · condverfe, when David rejleEleduponwhat he had done, how., thishe haddone,fi'i'- medt~hu eyes. It feemed good'to them to do but rhus much,or rather thus little,and after It was done, itfeem<dnotgoodrohim; not this little he had done neither; butit evenfeemedgoodro him, to repent when he had done it, as little as it was, or as it feemerb to us eo be. Repent r Yea; that hehaddolu no more. Nay, that he baddonetkwd much; had c11t his mastle, had cur at all. That which any would thinke was hi"h" ly to be commended in him, he went no further;youfhall fee him doe pe~ance fo~ ir; astfhe hadgone too farre, asifhe lhould not have gone fo farre as that. . Will ye fee Daviddoepenance indeed fo: it~ Pena~ce Ifiy, in all the parrs, the ScheolemenmakeofJt. 1 Contrzttocordu, mthts verfe: Ius heart fmit-him for it. •con– ftfzooru, mthe next; The Lordlceepermfrom doing more, this was too much. l Satis" fac1to operis, in the!aft verfe,in making amends, by not fuffering his men torife, but, converung them fr0m fo linfull a purpofe.. And bdides, in leaving behind him ad perpet11am m memortam,amonument ofal tlus,a P(•lme,cn:I'O that is,agolden P(alt~e (fobc cals lt)~he LVII. Pfalme, made as the infcriprion fhewcs atthis his being in t~e.ca'Ve. Oflt, and there,borh in word and deed: offaying deft~oy himmt,whicl) is t ent!eoft~ePf•lme. Tho~gh yet get Saul intt cave, yetdejlr.oyhimnot. Other [ftmesthelc?eofthe fame mlc; but the LVII,that is the fir!l: ofthemaU,pur!ilofey et upon thts occafion, and at this time anc! place. , G ggg r. For
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