The honour of Christ vindicated: or, a hue and cry after the bully, who assaulted Jacob in his solitude.
- Date:
- 1732
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The honour of Christ vindicated: or, a hue and cry after the bully, who assaulted Jacob in his solitude. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![that is one, who interpofes between Party and Party, to make an end of their Diffe¬ rences. The fecond Example we have is in the War between King David and Ish - bo- s h et h, when, by Confent of the two Ge¬ nerals, twelve young Men were appointed on both Sides, as their Reprefentatives, to de¬ cide the Quarrel. And Abner /aid to J o a b, let the young Men now arife, and piny * before us, 2 Sam. ii. 14. ’Tis very true, that the Victory of David’s Champions was follow’d by the Slaughter of about three hundred and fixty Benjamites ; but it was Abner’s Fault, who did not keep ftri&ly to the Rules of that fort of War : And J o- a b [aid, as God liveth, had thou not fpoken [of Hoftilities] in the Mornings the People had gone up every one from following his Brother, V. 27. The Opinion of thefe People, no doubt, was, that God Almighty, by an extra¬ ordinary Providence, did always give the Vic¬ tory to the just Caufe; fo thofe, who were overcome, had nothing elfe to do, but to fubmit patiently, except they were fo impi¬ ous as to make War againfl Heaven. * The U7 in the Word, which is here tranflated, to play, being read with the Point Jamin, fignifies alfo contundere, €omminuere, likely a Military Term to denote Fighting to the ittmoft, and without Mercy; and reducing the Adverfary, as it were, into Dujh This](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30545353_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
