Geneva [1587], THE BIBLE: THAT IS, THE HOLY SCRIPTVRES CONTEINED IN THE OLDE AND NEWE TESTAMENT. TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance (Imprinted... by Christopher Barker [etc.], LONDON) [word count] [B07000].
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THE ARGVMENT.
According as God had ordeined, Deut.17.14, that when the Israelites should be in the land of Canaan,
he would appoint them a King: so here in this first booke of Samuel is declared the state of this
people vnder their first King Saul, who not content with that order, which God had for a time appointed
for the gouernment of his Church, demaunded a King, to the intent they might be as other nations and in
a greater a&esset;urance as they thought: not because they might the better thereby serue God, as being vnder the
safegard of him, which did represent Iesus Chrius the true deliuerer: therefore he gaue them a tyrant and
an hypocrite to rule ouer them, that they might learne, that the person of a King is not sufficient to defend
them, except God by his power preserue and keepe them. And therefore he punisheth the ingratitude of his
people, and sendeth them continuall warres both at home and abroad. And because Saul, whom of nothing
God had preferred to the honour of a King, did not acknowledge Gods mercie toward him, but rather disobeyed
the worde of God and was not zealous of his glory, he was by the voyce of God put downe from his estate,
and Dauid the true figure of Messiah placed in his stead, whose patience, modestie, constancie, persecution
by open enemies, fained friends, and di&esset;embling flatterers, are left to the Church and to euery
member of the same, as a paterne and example to beholde their state and vocation.
Geneva [1587], THE BIBLE: THAT IS, THE HOLY SCRIPTVRES CONTEINED IN THE OLDE AND NEWE TESTAMENT. TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance (Imprinted... by Christopher Barker [etc.], LONDON) [word count] [B07000].
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