Samuel's encounter with Saul. I Sam. chap. 15 from ver. 13 to ver. 30.…Samuels encounter with Saul. I Sam. chap. 15 from ver. 13 to ver. 30.…

Wherefore to omit other testimonies and examples that might be alleged for proof of this point, let us only insist a little upon that example, which is set before us in this present text of Scripture, wherein we have (as it were) a Monomachy, or single combat betwixt the Prophet Samuel, and Saul a King, whom he himself (by the commandment of God) had anointed.

Wherefore to omit other testimonies and examples that might be alledged for proofe of this point, let vs only insist a little vpon that example, which is set before vs in this present text of Scripture, wherin we haue (as it were) a Monomachie, or single combat betwixt the Prophet Samuel, and Saul a King, whom hee himselfe (by the commandement of God) had anoynted.

Now, whereas unreasonable and evil men are of two sorts, some fierce and cruel, as Dogs & Lyons, that will turn again, & rent such as reprove them, as the Sodomites,¹ and Jeroboam: ²others, subtle and crafty, as Serpents and Foxes, full of shifts and fair pretences. Samuel in this place, hath to deal with the latter. For he hath to deal with Saul, who having (for the time) laid aside his Lyon-like disposition, wherewith ⟨image 6⟩he roared against his eldest son Jonathan, ³doth now fall (like his father, the first Adam) to sly and shameless shifting,⁴ with Samuel the faithful servant of God.

Now, whereas vnreasonable and euill men are of two sorts, some fierce and cruell, as Dogs & Lyons, that will turne again, & rent such as reproue them, as the Sodomites,¹