ofthe GowRus. ;j;hlm any hurt; good to fpare him. Pepercit tibi ocultu mew ( 11 Ver{e.) There is Dt~vidseye. · . . . . · 2 Hishandnot able to fhrre, n1t mtttere manu•». m Chrijlum Domini, ro layany hlndsonhim. onefit manu; me4fuper te,hetwtce cncs (I3·'4·) Let not my handbee ~~o!lthte. There, is Davids hand. . . . . 3 His heart (mote him(we fee)for puttmg but h1s knife mto the edge ofSauls man. tie; There is Davids heart. · 4 Hismoflth: from that we hcare 'I:!OX clamantu,Abjit mihi a Domim,witho-reat vehemency ofpaflion. There is Davidr INOIIth. b 5 So fayes David: and will ye heare how he fings ~ Heare it upon his Harpe ~ how his hwt andharpeagree; heare him fay it and fing it both~ Ye may: For, to keepeforever this day in memory, he made a PfalmeofSu11ls being in thecave here, andofhis fcaping out of it: Andgives it this title, deflroy not; no notinthecave: de– jlroynot. By this meanes to fing into his mens mindes; their duty in this point. And notinto theirs alone, but into the hearts and .nindes ofall pofkriry; not ro give their wayesro deftroy Kings: No, though they have them in a cave, as thefe hads,m/, Even there, to fing deflroy him not. Neperdas, in thecave is worthall. So have you Davidat full: ifany beofhisfide,rhus to fec,and fay, and fing,and thinke, and doe. --·Sic iUe oculos,fie oraferebat. Ifyou would know, what hisheart beleeveth touching this point, percu.fit eum cor ; that, gave him a fhrewd checke, for butajhredrakenoffSauts cloake: he beleeves, he did not well in it. Ifwhat his mouth confeffeth, vfbjit mihi facm mnh•nc. Abjit, faith his mout/1; nefit, G1irh his hand; Ne fiat, faith his heart; neperda, faith his harpe. All keep time, all found one way; this way, all. . . , , , . · Itfeemednotgoodin his eyes to qoe it: that, is the Text: Nor, to his hand, let lwt that bee uponhim: Norrohismot~th, hefpititoutwithant.Abjit. Norto his heart; leaft of all rothat,t.hat for a leffe matter, for but drawinghu knife, though without minde ofdrawing a drop ofblot1d,fell on bearing, and call: him into a car– di•ck paflion. And any, who thinking but a thought that way, ifhis he•rt fmtte not, him, let him (mite it hardly. El[e is he not according to D.avids; and fo, J!Ot to Go o's heart. Thus have our eares heard of aKingdelivered in the Te~t. And the like, may i I!: , our eyes fee, ofa King delivered.on this day. Sicut ar~divivms,fic &vidim11s, is the The Em of Pfalme '•but Plus vidirmu quam audivimtts, may it truly be [aid ofthis day of ours. ~~ 0~' ~·Y. I report me to you, ifit may not: ifthere be not agreater Ecce; nay, many greater -- '" -'-' Eccesonthisday, than on that. Many wayes (I know) rheballance is even. Kings, both : in danger, and dan– ger ofEcce tradam, both. Both; in acave (for, all caves arc not under ground; fome above Jiaires .) And, ofaknife, or worfer than aknife, both. And ofa tumultuous rtfing, both: and yet both preferved from both. Thus far, even. But then, in other poinrs,they are not: No, nor even in rbefe. For, weigh themwell, andSa11/ will be found (as Balthat:-ar was) Tekel, mimu habens: too light in the ballance. And thiso( ours to over-weigh,roweighhim andall his downe, many wayes. ·. D>n.;.y, . To reflect a little on this. I have faid a great deale; I have (aid nothing, ifno– thmgbefaid ofthis. It is the life ofall. If, of the twaine, theEcce dies ofthis day, be the greater, ifmore Ecces upon it: Themore ofthem, the morebeholds, the more beholden are we ro Go o: the more marvellous His mercies have bcene.ro us, rh~ more plenteous our thankes be to Him for them. The Em dies, is as theEcce diei. Ever, the mo're remarkeable the day, the more the things arefo, that happen upon ir. The Ecce diei is ofrwo forrs : 'Beet tr4dar~, •Ecce abiit Rex. Tradam, the deliverie into tlie danger: :Abiit, the delwery bm , And, ever this we hold, the worfe the Tradam (that is, the danger;) the betterthe . Gggg t Abu!.
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