Moses and Aaron, Treatise · Chapter 10
CHAP. X.
9. David a type of Christ in 5. respects.
AS all the Kings of Israel were expresse types of Jesus Christ, the head of his Kingdome and of all the people of God, as they in their times were: So were there two of them that were more manifest figures of him than all the rest; I meane David and Solomon. Of both which we are to enquire wherein the resemblance consisteth. David Five things specified in which David was a type of Christ.was so speciall a type of Christ, as scarce is any thing noted of Christ, but some shadow of it might be observed in David.
I. For his person. David the son of Iesse: Christ the true rod out of the stock of Iesse, Isai. 11. 1. Both of obscure 1. 1. Person.and low parentage. Both out of dry and despicable roots. Both Kings. Both Kings of Israel. Both their Kingdomes raised out of humility. Both men after Gods own heart. Both Davids; for even this roote of Iesse was not onelyonly commonly called by the name of the sonne of David, but of the name of David himselfe, Ezech. 34. 24. My servant David shall be the Prince among them; which was long after David was dead Ieremiah 30. 9. They shall serve the Lord their God and David their King, whom I will raise up unto them. Hosea 3. 5. They shall seek the Lord their God, and David their King: that is, not the typicall King David dead long before, but the Messiah the true David, to whom onelyonly prayer and spirituall worship belongs.
II. For his vocation and calling. 1. Both called to be 2. 2. Calling.the head of nations. Psal. 18 43 thou hast made me the head of nations: which was not literally true of David, who was properly King of one little corner in Judea; but of Christ the true David, whose kingdome was from sea to sea, and to the worlds end. David of a shepherd of sheepe, was raised to be a shepherd of men, even of Gods people: So was Christ raised of God to be the chiefe shepherd of the stock, 1 Pet. 5. 4. And not of bodies, as David, but of soules, 1 Pet. 2. verse 25. 2. The time when. David was anointed foreignabout the thirtieth year of his life, 2 Sam. 5. 4. and Christ was baptized at thirty yeares, and invested into his Office▪ 3. The place where. David made choice of Jerusalem for his royall seat and Metropolis, being anointed of God to the Kingdome of Israel: So Christ, being anointed the everlasting King of all the Israel of God, made choice of Ierusalem there to rule and shew his power upon the Crosse, his Chariot of triumph, crowned with a crowne of thornes: and after in his glorious resurrection, and ascension, sending the Spirit and the Gospel. And as David added some of the borderers to the kingdome of Israel, as himselfe saith; strangers were subdued to him: So the true Psal. 18. 44.David adds to the Church the whole body of the Gentiles; and hath by the preaching of the Gospel (the sword of his mouth) subdued the world to himselfe. 4. The gifts fitting him to this function. As when David was anointed, the Spiof God came upon him, 1 Sam. 16. 13. and fitted him to the government of Gods people: So our true David Jesus Christ, anointed with oyl above all his fellowes, had the Spirit of God descending upon himin a visible shape, and by that anointing filled and furnished with the Spirit and all needfull graces for the administring of his Kingdome. 5. As David was preferred above all his brethren in four speciall graces: So Four graces wherein David and Christ excelled.was Jesus Christ above David himselfe. 1. In wisedome and prudence, 1 Sam. 16. 18. the servants of Saul observed David to be wise in matters, and the Lord was with him: and Ch. 18. verse 14, 15. when Saul saw that David was very wise, he was afraid of him. Our true David had all treasures of wisedome and knowledge; The Spirit of wisdome and understanding, the Spirit of Counsel rested upon him, Isai. 11. 2. who is therefore called the great Counseller, Isai. 9. 6. whose counsels are farre beyond Ahitophels; his were as the Oracles of God: Christs were so. And our true David gets beyond his type. David in many things (by his own confession) did very foolishly. Our true David never did any thing but the wisedome of God shined in it; with whom not onelyonly God was, but because he was God. 2. In fortitude and magnanimity Confilium, fine fortitudine & magnanimitate, inane.(without which counsell were bootlesse) by which he was able to encounter with a Lyon, a Beare, with Goliah, and all that rose up against him or his people. A man fitted for peace or warre, with counsell and strength. Whose description (in part) is contained in the forecited place, 1 Sam. 16. 18. strong, valiant, a man of warre, and wise in matters. A type of our true David, who for fortitude is the invincible Lion of the tribe of Judah; and not a valiant man onelyonly, but the strong God, Isai. 9. 6. the mighty God. See Tit. 2. 13. 3. In gifts of prophecy. He was able to sing divine Psalmes and hymnes to the praise of God; an holy pen-man of the Scripture. A type of Christ, the true Prophet of his Church, not a pen-man, but the Author of all the holy Scriptures. David a Prophet: Christ the Lord of all holy Prophets. 4. In gifts of true sanctification and holinesse; 4. Sanctification eminent in Christ three wayes.being a man after Gods own heart, commended for his uprightnesse in all matters, save that of Uriah. A type of Jesus Christ; who by the devils confession, was the holy One of God. 1. Himselfe being sanctified beyond all measure. 2. Being the sanctifier of his people; the author, meritour, and applier of all sanctifying graces to his members, of whom himselfe is head. 3. In his type were many foule spots…: In him no spot nor staine. Therefore the Church sings out his holinesse from toppe to toe, Cant. 5: 10. and concludes him wholly faire and delectable, verse 16.
III. David was a type of Christ in his warres. First in 3. Warres. Followers.respect of his followers, secondly of his enemies, thirdly of his victories. 1. His followers. David had a traine. 1. Of poore men, and received such to him as were in debt, 1 Sam. 22. 2. The Sonne of David had a poor train; and not receiveth onelyonly, but calleth all unto him that are heavy laden with the burthen of sinnes, called debts, promising he will ease them. 2. Afterwards David had his thirty seaven Worthies, that Valiantly fought his battels, 2 Sam. 23. and by their strength carried wonderfull victories: So had the Sonne of David his twelve Apostles, and seventy two disciples, who as worthy and stout Champions, fought the Lords spirituall battels, and mightily subdued the world under the government of Jesus Christ, in whose place are succeeded Pastors and Teachers to the end. 2. His enemies. 1. Open Enemies: openand manifest, not onelyonly Goliah that defied all Israel, but Saul that casts a speare at him, that hunts him as a Partridge, that sends out for him to bring him to death, and the house of Saul, Shimei rayling on him, and cursing him with an horrible curse, besides Amalekites, Philistims, &c. So our Lord Jesus had open hostility against the great Goliah of hell, and encountered him hand to hand, and conquers him in the wildernesse. But Herod hunts his life every where, the Pharisees revile him for a deceiver and Demoniack, send out for him to take away his life, and the people of the Jews pursuing him with all open hatred and hostility even to the death, and all the wicked tyrants and enemies so many Amalekites and Philistima. 2. Secret and underhand enemies, that and secret.should have been loyall and loving to him, even his own people that flattered him with their mouths, but imagined mischief against him, Ps. 41. 9. Such as Doeg, Achitophel. Nay he which eat bread with him at his table, his familiar that went up to the house of God with him. And more than all this, he that came out of his own loynes, his own son Absalom; besides the sonnes of his Father, 1 Sam. 17. 28. So our true David had not onelyonly his own Jewes; and brethren hating him with an horrible hatred, and calling his bloud upon themselves; but his own Disciple that had been so familiar with him, that went to the house of God often with him, that knew all his haunts and waies, betraying him, and delivering him to be crucified. And thus Christ himselfe expounds that in Psalm. 41. 9. of himselfe and Judas, Euk. 22. 21. And therefore Interpretors expound such exectations, as Psal. 59, 13. Consume them that they be no more, not so much litterally against Saul and other enemies of David; as against the Jewes and enemies of Christ shadowed by them; and so conceive them as they be Propheticall predictions of Jerusalem and the Jewes forty yeares▪ after Christs ascension, and o… the present wrath upon the hardned Jewes, whose hatred against Christ liveth at this day▪ as the cu…se liveth on them▪ 3. His deliverances and victories, with many of which the Victories.Lord honoured him. As 1. Saul layes wait every where to take him, and pursues him from place to place; but Davids feet were made like Hinds feet in expedition to avoid his enemy whether Saul or Absalom; who chased him as hunters the silly hare, and he escapes them all though narrowly and strangely. Christ Jesus was often sought after and layd for by his enemies, no kind of snare was undevised to take him in his talke, in his doctrine, in his life and conversation; no meanes unattempted to take his person, but he escaped their hands strangely. Sometimes he went through the middest of them all, who having strong purpose, yet had no power to take him, till the time was come that he delivered himselfe. 2. Saul having wearied himself in pursuit of David, sent messengers to take him three severall times, 1 Sam. 19, 20. but they among a company of Prophets began to prophecy, the spirit of the Lord comming upon them, and they went without him. So the Pharisees sent messengers to apprehend Christ and bring him before them; but comming to him (as Sauls messengers to David) & hearing his gracious words, had no power to take him; but went away preaching and proclalming (as they prophecying) never man spake like this man, Joh. 7. 46. 3. In the comparison between Saul and David (David having ssaine Goliah) was sung: Saul hath slaine his thousand, but David his ten thousand, 1. Sam 18. 10. But there is no comparison between the victories of David and the Son of this David, who hath slaine the great Goliah the Devill, who defied all the host of Israel; and not destroyed the devill onelyonly, but overcame death, hell, the grave, and chased before him all the armies of sinnes, and bands of temptations which come out against the Israel of God. 4. In that noble victory David cuts off Goliahs head with his own sword: So in the wildernesse the devill, the great Goliah, used Scripture against Christ, and Christ overthrowes him and cuts off his head by the fame sword of the Spirit, the word of God. And now daily he convinceth the wicked enemies by the testimony of their owne conscience, Rom. 2. 15. He needeth no other sword or weapon against them than their own.
IV. David was a type of Christ in his kingdome: first in respect of the entrance, secondly of the administration, 4. Kingdome. Entrance.thirdly of the continuance or eternity. 1. David entered not without strong opposition, much contempt and disdaine: so our David. For of both it was verified, the stone which the Psal. 118. 22.builders refused, is become the chiefe stone of the corner. No man was more despised of Sauls Courtiers than David, who was thought farre enough from the Kingdome: So no man so much despised and rejected of the Scribes, Pharisees, chiefe Priests and People, as Christ. Barrabas an honest man to him: and yet was mightily and unexpectedly invested into his kingdome by his glorious rising from the dead. 2. In Administration.his administration. David will judge uprightly, and sing mercy and judgement; he will endure no hatefull person in his presence. But our David is the just and righteous Judge of all the world; and most sincerely dispenseth mercy to the penitent sinner, but seedes the impenitent with judgement. 3. In the continuance or eternity. God promised mercy Eternity.to David and his seed forever, which promises are not to Ps. 132. 12.be extended to his carnall succession, for the princely dignity is taken from them. Their glory was eclipsed in the captivity, and where be now any of Davids race according to the flesh? But the everlasting seed of David is to be meant. 1. Christ himselfe, in whom his kingdome is perpetuated. 2. The true Israel as well of Gentiles as of Jewes by faith ingrafted into the Messiah, in respect of whom shall be no end of his Kingdome. Thus in all those speeches wherein David professeth he will praise the Lord among the Gentiles. David must be taken as a type of Christ, who by his Psal. 18. 49.Spirit set forth the praise and true worship of God among the Nations to the end of the world. And so Paul, Rom. 15 9. interprets it of the calling of the Gentiles. For David could not do this litterally and in person, among whom he never dwelt nor came, but onelyonly in him whose type he was.
V. David was a type of Christ in respect of Christ his 5. Office Propheticall and Priestly. 1.prophesticall and Priestly office. 1. David by his sweet musick allayes Sauls madnesse, 1 Sam. 16. 23 Christ by the sweet voyce of the Gospel stills the evill spirits which molest and vexe men, and gives them peace and quietnesse in mind and conscience. And in the dayes of his flesh, how he sought to cure and allay the spirituall madnesse of the wicked Scribes and Pharisees against him, is plaine in the story. 2. David brings back the Arke to his right place, 2 Sam. 6. So did Christ, the truth of Gods Law obscured by the false glosses of Scribes and Pharisees; and reduced the true sence Matth. 5. & 6. & 7.and meaning of it. And freed his Church (signified by the Arke) from the spirituall thraldome and captivity of the Law. 3. David buildes an Altar in the grounds of a stranger, 2 Sam. 24. 24. namely, Araunah the Jebusite: The true David builds up a Church among the Gentiles, and sets up Gods worship among them that were strangers from the Covenant. 4. David offers a sacrifice, and the Lord accepts it, sending fire from heaven to consume it, 2 Sam 24. 25. Christ offers the most acceptable sacrifice that ever was, in which both Davids and all ours must be accepted; and in which alone the Lord smels a savour of rest.
I. As the Spirit of God came on David after his anoynting, Use. 1. Enter upon no office without assistance of the Spirit.1 Sam. 16. 13. So did it on our true David after his baptizing: to fit them to their waighty offices. Learne 1. That he that is not fitted and furnished with gifts of the spirit in some measure, and attempteth any office in the Church or common-wealth, is not called by God; whose wisedome will not send a blind man for a Seer, nor a dumb man on his message or errand. Would a man know whether he have received of this spirit for his office? A note is, when God A note of it.stirres up his will in that office to performe all the desire of God. Isai. 44. 28. he saith to Cyrus: Thou art my Shepheard, thou shalt performe all my desire. The Magistrate is a shepheard; he must do in judgement what God himselfe would do in repressing vice, and cherishing religion, else the spirit (who is not contrary to himselfe) leads him not. The Minister is a shepheard; he must speake nothing but what God would speak for the incouraging of grace, and disgrace of sinne and sinners. God speakes peace to his people, and feeds the impenitent with judgenent, and he that in his ministery doth speak sweetly to wicked men, and broacheth ā vessell of gall and wormewood for godly men to drink, is not sent by God on that errand: he crosseth the spirit which he pretendeth. 2. Art thou a private Christian, see that the same spirit rest on thee, and that thou hast received of the same anointing. For 1. he that hath not the spirit, is none of Christs: and 2. w…t is it to us that the spirit rest Rom. 8. 9.and light upon Christ, if he should determine all his fruits and graces upon him? But in that the sweete oyntment and Balsame poured upon the head of our high Priest runnes down to the skirt of his garment, that is, to the lowest member of his Church, Psal. 133. 2. hence are we sweetly and admirably refreshed. Findest thou emptinesse or want of grace? fly to this fullnesse, but observe the diverse manner. To the head is given the spirit in all fullnesse: to us members, of that fulnesse, Joh. 1. 16. To him beyond all measure: to us according to measure.
II. That Jesus Christ is the right and undoubted King of Use. 2. Christ the true King of the Church. And nine waies more excellent than David. 1. Originall.his Church, of whom David was but a shadow. And it will be worth our labour to enquire how farre the truth exceeds the type. 1. For originall, Davids kingdome and all other Kings and kingdomes are mediately from men, either from some meane family, as Jshais, or some greater house in some corner of the earth: But the kingdome of Christ is immediately and unchangeably from heaven. Dan. 2. 44. the God of heaven shall raise up a kingdome, that is immediately; for mediately all kingdomes, Kings, and power is from him.
2. In respect of unction. All they are anoynted, 1. by 2. Unction.men, 2. with materiall oyle. 3. to be temporary Saviours. 4. from temporary dangers. But Christs anointing was by the Spirit of God with more divine and excellent oyle above all his fellowes, Psal. 45. 7. that he might be a spirituall and and eternall Saviour; a Jesus saving his people from their sinnes, and such spirituall evils as pertaine to the life to come. 3. Their titles are stately and glorious. David as an Angell 3. Titles.of God, as the woman of Tekoah said, so Caesar Augustus; Charles the great, Constantine and Alexander the great, to set out their glory. But all these are nothing to the true and undoubted title of Jesus Christ: who is King of Kings, and Rex regum,Lord of Lords Rev. 19. 16. And if this were too little he hath & Dominus dominantiumanother, for he is God and man in one Person: our Emmanuel, a stile too high for Pope or Potentate, for men or Angels, Isai. 7. 14. 4. Their Scepters are of metal, gold or silver, 4. Scepters.which they hold in their hands, and by them they save or slay innocent or nocent: But his Scepter is but verball, which he holds in his mouth, the word and breath of his mouth Rev. 19. 15.more pure than the gold of Ophir, more potent than all the Scepters of all Kings put together: By this he slayes the wicked. Hos. 6. 5. I slew them with the word of my mouth. 2 Thes. 2. 8. He shall slay that wicked man of sinne with the breath of his mouth. Other Kings by their Scepters can kill men, but cannot make them alive againe when they have done: but Christ by his word can quicken and make alive dead soules and bodies. They by theirs can be dreadfull to men: Christ by his drives back devils, diseases, death, and all adversary power. 5. In port and state. 1. Their banners 5. State.and ensigns exprese their noble acts, and the honourable exployts of them and their progenitors, which are glorious in the eyes of men: Christs banner for his kingdome of grace is his Crosse, or rather the Gospel, a doctrine of the Crosse, to the world foolishnesse or basenesse; but in his kingdome of glory, the signe of the sonne of man, that is, such glory and power as agrees to none else. 2. Their servants and attendants must be rich, stately, noble, and the sonnes of great Princes must be nearest to attend them: Christ Jesus (in contempt of what the world admireth) will have his servants poor, meek, lowly; not such losty Lords as so farre excell the Emperour in worldly glory as the Sunne the Moone, the Popes ridiculous claime; and yet they be Sonnes of God, heires of heaven, brethren of Christ, and of the royalest bloud that ever was. 3. When they ride in progresse, they shew their state, pompe, and worldly glory. Great Alexander gets upon his Bucephalus: Pompey triumphs upon an Elephant: Anthony rides upon Lyons, Aurelianus upon Harts and Bucks. Christ (had his kingdome been of this world) could have imitated them. But while he was in the world (to shew that his kingdome had no similitude nor correspondency with the Pomps of earthly kingnomes) in his progresse he gets on an asse, and in'stead of a saddle of state, he had poore mens clothes spread under him. But when he shall shew his glory, he shall ride upon the Clouds, as on an horse, with such attendants and majesty as all the Potentates on earth were never capable of, nor shall be able to behold. 6. In amplitude and absolutenesse. They will 6. Absolutenesse.be free Monarchs and Commanders, their will and every word of theirs must be a Law: but never was any kingdome absolutely Monarchicall but Christs, all earthly kings ever held in fee of him. By me Kings raigne. Prov. 8. 15. Never any other included all kingdomes of the world in it, and under it, but this. Never any to whom all Princes were subject but this. Never was there any of them which shall not be broken to pieces by this little stone, if it stand in opposition against him, Dan. 2. 45. 7. In dispensing justice. 1. They 7. Iustice. Ex allegatis & probatis.must judge by evidence and proofe, by the sight of their eyes, and hearing of their eares, but he shall not do so, Isai. 11. 3. For he shall try and discerne the reynes and secrets of all hearts, and shall judge things as they be, not as they seem. David judged according to the hearing of his eare, rashly against Mephibosheth: Christ shall not do so. 2. They can pronounce their subjects just and innocent: but he can make them innocent and just, communicating his own righteousnesse to them, which no Prince can do. 1 Cor. 1. 30. He is 8. Meanes of upholding it.made to us righteousnesse. 8. In meanes of upholding and maintaining. 1. They must winne holds as David Sions fort, and enlarge themselves by force of armes, dint of sword, multitude of souldiers: But Christ sends but twelve unarmed poor men, who wonne and subdued the whole world with the word onelyonly in their mouthes, such a word as was the greatest enemy to the world, and corrupt fashions of it. This is the weapon mighty under God to cast down holds. 2. They, 2 Cor. 10. 4.if they want men, money, munition, must despaire of attaining or retaining their rights: But Christs kingdome (being neither set up nor held up by military power) shall be upheld by the invisible and secret power of the spirit. If all worldly power be against it, never despaire, it thrives best in opposition. 9. In things to be attained. In them the best things 9. Things to be attained. Rom. 14. 17are honour, pleasure, externall prosperity, and this for a time: But Christs Kingdome stands not in meat or drink, but in righteousnesse, peace of conscience, joy in the holy Ghost, in grace here, and glory hereafter. The wealth of Christs subjects is to be rich in grace, rich in good works, his honour to be of the stock and lineage of Christ, his pleasure a patient and painfull expectation of the pleasures at Gods right hand. And these being eternall, the kingdome of Christ must needs be eternall: now this being the glory of the kingdome of Christ, we have need of faith to discerne it, and a great measure of humility before we can resolve to become subjects of it. The theefe on the Crosse asking Christ Quid regium vides? videsne coronam aliam quam spineam, sceptrum aliud quam cl…vos, aliam purpuram quam sanguinem, alium thro…um quam crucem alios ministros quam carnifices?to remember him in his kingdome, Augustine askes him: What Royalty doest thou see? Seest thou any other crown than that of thornes, any other Scepter than Iron nayles, any other purpl than bloud, any other Throne than a wooden Crosse, any other guard than executioners.? Was there now so great faith in Israel? Let our faith touch the top of this Scepter, let us submit our selves to his word for the present, and cast our eye beyond the present upon his second comming, when we shall see him ride upon a white horse, not upon garments but upon the Clouds in power and great glory; entring, not Jerusalem, but the stage of the whole world; to render unto every man (even Kings) according as they have done in the flesh good or evill.
III. David was called and anoynted to be King, but between Use. 3. How God brings his servants to honour.that and the installing, or enjoying of his kingdome he had many troubles, doubts, and feares that made him stagger, and say: I shall surely one day fall by the hand of Saul: So was the true David Jesus Christ annoynted with the fulnesse of the Spirit, and called to be King of his Church, but before his installation into his Kingdome, many afflictions, persecutions, feares, yea, death it self overtooke him for our sakes, Isai. 5. 3. Wherein he said, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? So must it be with us, who must be content to suffer before we can raigne; to be crowned first with thornes as Christ was, and stand with Christ on Mount Golgotha, before we come to Mount Olivet, see Act. Ut per augusta ad augustum, per spinas ad rosas, per motum ad quietem, per procellas ad portum, per virtutem ad gloriam, per arma ad triumphum, per bella ad pacem, per erucem ad caelum contendamus. Use. 4. Church ever pestered with homebred enemies.14. 22. It is so ordained by God, that we should make our way through a straite to state, through thornes to Roses, through troubles to rest, through stormes to the haven, through vertue to glory, through conquest to triumph, through warre to peace, through the Crosse to Heaven. And this processe God the father strictly observed with his beloved Sonne, as was necessary, Luk. 24. 26. Phil. 2. 8, 9. he was humbled, therefore God exalted him. And this is the Lords honour, to honour his servants raised from the dunghill; that they may know the way to glory lies by humility.
IV. It was ever the lot of the Church to have in it secret and inbred enemies, as David and Christ had; even such as eat bread at his table, and dipped in the dish; and these have alwayes proved more mischievous than open and forraigne enemies. The Church ever had hypocrites and false brethren, Satans spies; who professing the same Christ and religion, eating bread at the same table of the Lord, and making shew of friendship in the communion of Saints, joyning in the hearing of the word and prayer, yet watcht the haunts of Gods servants to spy their weaknesse, and where they ly open to advantage. Every one sees they advantage not themselves, but by all meanes undermine the Gospell and professors; so as the silly dove of Christ can find no rest for the soale of her foot. And never was the Church so wounded as in the house of her friends, Cant. 1. 5. The sonnes of my mother were angry against me. This being the estate of the Church, to be hunted as the silly hare from one Mush to another, and no where safe, it must make us 1. more wary. 2. desire our rest. 3. love that promise, Come with me from Lebanon, &c. Cant 4. 8.
V. Comfort the Church. That Jesus Christ is the true David. 1. We have a strong deliverer and deliverance. 5. Comfort to the Church in 3. things.David pulled the sheep out of the Lyons mouth, and the Lamb out of the paw of the Beare, 1 Sam. 17. Christ the true David hath delivered his chosen flock out of the power of Satan, death, and damnation. 1 Cor. 15. 27. 2. Be contented to be rejected of all sorts of men: not enemies onelyonly but of brethren. So was David, so Christ, and the servant is not better than the Master. It was ever the lot of truth to be rejected of the builders, as was David, as was Christ: few nobles, few wise: nay many great Rabbies (professing the key of knowledge) were greatest enemies to the truth as the truth is in Christ, that is, to the sincere profession and practise of Christianity. Nay the basest sort made mouthes and scorned them both: And are there not now such as would scorne out the truth of grace were it possible? 3. Though Christ the chiefe corner stone may be refused, he cannot be removed. David must be King against all the hearts of his enemies. So Christ shall keep his place and headship against the gates of hell: he is a king everlasting in his Church, and of his kingdome shall be no end. He is a King ever present in his Church, Matth. 28. 20. and needs no Vicar, nor hath put it off to his pretended Vicar, who claimes to be King of Priests and Princes. He is a King present in his Church, not as Baal among his worshippers either a sleep, or in his journey, or otherwise taken up, but ever intent for the safety of the Church, watching ever to overturne the open power and private pollicy plotted and planted against his kingdome. Let us with faith and hope ever lift our eyes up to his banner, and stand close to our victorious Captaine. For as Souldiers loosing the sight of their Ensigne are in extreame hazard of confusion: so we, if we suffer Christ to slippe out of our eyes and hearts, hazard the losse of our salvation.