1 Samuel 18

Had but one been adopted, all of us might have despaired, but he brings many sons to glory; this opens a door of hope to us. 6. That God should confer so great honor upon us in adopting us: David thought it no small honor, that he should be a king's son-in-law (1 Samuel 18:18).…

USE 3. Of Comfort: To such as can upon good grounds call God Father: there is more sweetness in this word Father than if we had ten thousand worlds. David thought it a great matter to be son-in-law to a king (1 Samuel 18:18). What is my father's family, that I should be son-in-l…

(8.) By having an intention to kill another; as Herod would, under a pretense of worshipping Christ, have killed him (Matthew 2:8, 13). So Saul, when he made David go as captain against the Philistines, designing thereby that the Philistines should have killed him (1 Samuel 18:1…

(1.) He has adopted you for his child. David thought it no small honor to be the king's son-in-law (1 Samuel 18:18): what an honor is it to derive your pedigree from heaven, to be born of God; why then are you troubled, and murmur at every slight cross? As Jonadab said to Amnon…

And that he is able to convey and suggest such spiritual thoughts and reasonings of what sort soever, appears many ways: as by injecting blasphemous thoughts against God such as do sometimes transcend the wit and capacity of the receiver of them. And is manifest likewise by Saul…

Alexander feigned himself to be son to Jupiter: every good Christian is high-born; he is born of God; and that is more than to come of princes, and be of the blood-royal. David thought it no small honor to be the king's son in law (1 Samuel 18:18). Oh what an infinite honor is i…

Two words express Christ's old, and eternal love to men, his delights was with the sons of men, as Christ was his Father's delight, from eternity; so was Christ feasting himself on the thoughts of love, delight, and free grace to men; sure not to Pharaoh, Judas, and all the race…

We owe it in some respects to all that fear God and must dispense the general acts of friendship to them (Acts 4:32): The multitude of them that believed, were of one heart and of one soul; and Christian love is called [in non-Latin alphabet], the bond of perfectness (Colossians…

And that we may touch a little on this by the way; The Foundation of this Trouble and distress of Saul lay in himself. For as I do grant that he was sometimes under an immediate Agitation of Body and Mind from the powerful Impressions of the Devil upon him, for under them it is…

Assimulation. (1) Adherence; Love in the Scripture is frequently expressed by this Effect; The Soul of one did cleave or was knit to another; as that of Jonathan to David, 1 Sam. 18. 1. So it produces a firm Adherence to Christ crucified, that makes a Soul to be in some sence al…

Saul knew what he did when he married his daughter to David. I will give him her (said Saul) that she may be a snare to him (1 Samuel 18:21). Political marriages are usually made for temptation, not for comfort: snares are tied fastest, with a false lover's knot.

Now meekness teaches us to consider this, and to allow accordingly, and so distances and strangeness, feuds and quarrels are happily prevented, and the beginnings of them crushed by a timely care. How necessary to true friendship it is to surrender our passions, and to subject t…

He who loves is well pleased with him whom he loves, and seeks also to please him, that they may mutually delight one in another. Were these three virtues well rooted in us, we would say, who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, etc. (1 Samu…

If a great man should match into our blood and line, what an honor and glory do we reckon it to us! (1 Samuel 18:23) Does it seem to you a light thing to be a king's son-in-law? Do we account this a small matter, to be related to kings, and princes, and potentates?

Perverseness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually, he sows discord (Proverbs 6:14). 3. Envy stirs up repining thoughts; it is a sin that feeds on the mind (1 Samuel 18:9). And Saul envied David from that day forward.

4. Understanding is necessary that we may judge aright of time and place, and manner of doing, that we may do not only things good but well, where to go, where to stand still; as it is said they sought of God a right way (Isaiah 8:21). And David behaved himself wisely in all tha…

Love is called [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], the bond of perfectness (Colossians 3:14): all things are bound together by a holy society, and preserved by it. There is in love a desire of union and fellowship with those whom we love (1 Samuel 18:1): Jonathan's soul was knit to the…

As a king creates dukes, marquesses, earls, and barons, so God installs his children into honor; he creates them noble persons, persons of renown. David thought it no small honor to be the king's son-in-law (1 Samuel 18:18): Who am I, that I should be son-in-law to the king? Wha…

It embalms his name. 1 Samuel 18:30. David's name was much set by; or as the Original carries it, it was precious.