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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.
London: printed by Matthew Simmons, 1650
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AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 16 › Verse 4
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It was more then once in the power of Davids hand, to hurt, yea to slay Saul, and he was strongly moved by some of his great Officers to do it, yet he strongly refused to do it, or to suffer it to be done, because it would have been sin in him to do it, himself being a private person, and the way ⟨p. 233⟩in which he had any opportunity to do it, being only a private way, when Saul was in the Cave, covering his feet (1 Sam. 24.3.) or in a Trench fast asleep (1 Sam. 26.7.) and therefore (though he had strengthened himself against Saul with an Army, and was ready (upon his provocation) to stretch forth his hand against him in Battle, yet) he saith, Who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords anointed, and be guiltless? David was not stopped from hurting Saul, by a rebuke from God, but by the rule and dictate of his own conscience. The thing might have been easily done, but because it could not be innocently done, therefore David could not do it.
It was more then once in the power of Davids hand, to hurt, yea to slay Saul, and he was strongly moved by some of his great Officers to doe it, yet he strongly refused to doe it, or to suffer it to be done, because it would have been sin in him to doe it, himselfe being a private person, and the way ⟨p. 233⟩in which he had any opportunity to doe it, being onely a private way, when Saul was in the Cave, covering his feet (1 Sam. 24.3.) or in a Trench fast asleepe (1 Sam. 26.7.) and therefore (though he had strengthened himselfe against Saul with an Army, and was ready (upon his provocation) to stretch forth his hand against him in Battell, yet) he saith, Who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords annoynted, and be guiltlesse? David was not stopt from hurting Saul, by a rebuke from God, but by the rule and dictate of his owne conscience. The thing might have been easily done, but because it could not be innocently done, therefore David could not doe it.