2 1 4 Of Eletlion. ----~----------------- ~ 1. I~ his being pteferved and brought unto th~ingdom: What a multiBoOK IV.. tude, and vanety of Hazards, Dangers, Difirell'e~ did he run through ? ~ 'twere mfimte to reckon up all, much more to enlarge on each; and as !\range Deliverances had he: He fums up all, Pjal. I 8. from Saul, mzd aft other e– tumies; asinthetitleof that.Pja/m. Aforehis flight from Court, in the fir!! Chapter of Samtul; and then after his flight, from other enemies belides SauL; as from 'Doeg that informed Saul; from the King of the Phzltjlints , whofe ChampionGoliahhe had killed: And the Courtiers informed the King 'twns he of whom that triumph for it, was made, I Sam. 21.1 I. Andthe fer: vants of Aehifhjaidunto him, u not thu David the King of the L and? 'Did they not (mg o1tt to another of him in Vantes, faying , Saul bath jlain hw thottfmz ds, andDavid hu te11 thoufands? WhicR is as much in effed:, as if they had fa id, This is he that killedGotiah: Then from the people alro, that ever and anon ran and told Sau.t where he was quart€red, 1 Sam. 26. 1, and when fame among them would, to gratifie Sattl, have given him up, yea from his own Party, that followed him at Ziglag, 1 Sam. 30. 1. who fpeak of !toning him, Ver[. 1. But above all from Saut, from whom he was in jeoperdy every Moment ~ and had been fo oft in danger, and fo often had efcaped, that his carnal reafon concluded atlength, I foatlone day ptrifb6y the hand of Saut, I Sam.27. 1. The Pitcher will be broken at lafi; and thefe all were purpofely deligned by God, who would have it fo, whereof this is one fufficient evidence : For when he had got into a fafe Hold, with his Father and.Mother with him, and \j'ith the favour of the King of Moa6, in whofe Dominion he was, he was commanded out of it by God , and his Prophet Ga_d, fent on purpofe for that End , bidding him come into the Land of Judah , yea and confined him to that Territory, where he was in Saut's Power and Dominion perfed:ly : Ged would have it thus; and him to be within the Power of this Lion, who hun– ted him as a Flea, and a Partridge : As if he had been too fafe, and would have been too quiet and fecure in Moab, for God to fhew forth his Grace to– wards him: But God would have him in continual danger, to enad: his Grace in Deliverances of him; yet have I Jet my Ki11g, C§c. Pfal. 2, 6, Then after he was King: x. Abfolom: The Cottjpiracy ( 'tis faid) wtU f/rong, and the Peoplt tncrtaf– td COIIItltUrtlJy withAb{olom, 2 JrJm. 20. 2. 2 . Then Sht6a : 2 Sam, 20, 2. Every Ma11 of Ifrael went up from afttr David, a11djotlowtdSheba: 'Twas as great a defed:ion (of the Ten whole Tribes fheere) for the time prefent, as that fatal one from Rtho/;oam after– wards: But God brought in the Tide again to 'D.•vfd• ~· ThenatlafiAdonijahwasmadeKing, againfi'Zlavid's mind, and a. gainfi his Promife, and Gods alfo; which was for S•lomon : And a/J the KingdomWtU for it' andagain(l David in it ' I Kings 2 . I r. Yet God deli– vered 'Davidout of this, and all his difiretTes; there was none he was not dc;– livercdoutof: And why? Forallthefe dangers, and tile deliverances were part of Gods fure Covenant, as the pawns, and pledges of it: and fo were one and the fame time forelaid , even from Eternity; and there was no di– ftrefs deligned then, but there was alfo a deliverance out of itfctrefet; and fo all was ordered , and made fure. ll. In theperfonal prefervation of him unto Salvation: What are the dan– gers, and hazards about that, but fins ; and if ever any Man put free Orace to it, in that nfped:, 'twas David : I may fay of it, he d1d make bold to try whethenhe fure Mercies of .Vavidwould liold, or no 1 Hold tackling, or no: Heput them to it: Yet all was ordered, and his reducements out af them therewith ; and not barely to bring him off within the compafs of the Rules of Salvation, but with an addition of a Glorious ilfue, and advantage ; yea, and of Triumphs unto Free-grace. His eminent lins were his Murther , and Adultery , and Numbering the People, I
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