1 Samuel 22

David himself was fain to flee for his life from Saul's unjust cruelty, and therefore went and dwelt amongst the Philistines, 1 Samuel 27:1-2. And, 1 Samuel 22:2 there came to David such as were in trouble, and in debt, and these were with him in all his travel, and persecutions…

Or the sins of the Elect were like so many companies or regiments of men, any one of which they could never have overcome, but when Christ came to satisfy divine justice for them, all the companies and regiments of sins (so to speak) rendezvoused and brought into one formidable…

Believe it, Sirs, this, though the matter you report be never so true, is nothing else but slander; because it is done to no good end, but only to feed your own malice; and, like flies, to lie sucking the galled backs and sores of others. And therefore we find that Doeg, though…

Surely the Apostle did speak it with a holy boasting (1 John 1:3): Our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus — as if he had said, we do not walk with the pedants of the world; we are of the blood royal of Heaven; we live above other men; our fellowship is with th…

Josephus reports of Herodias, wife to Herod the Tetrarch, who when the Emperor had deprived her husband of his Tetrarchy, and banished him, annexing his Tetrarchy to Agrippa his kingdom, understanding that Herodias was Agrippa's sister, the Emperor gave her her husbands substanc…

Sensible you were, and oughtest to be; but no reason to hang down the head through discouragement, much less to forsake Sion in her distress, for fear of being ruined with her. What David spoke to Abiathar, 1 Samuel 22:23. that may Sion speak to all her Sons and Daughters in all…

A like proof may be brought for this as was for the former: for we know that a wife is not bound to greater subjection to her husband than a son is to a father: but a son may in the case proposed forbear to do that which his father requires and commands him to do: instance the a…

The third direction is, that masters use what means they can to provoke and stir up their servants to be diligent and faithful: as in the first place, exhortation, admonition, persuasion, promises of reward, with other like fair means. Such were the means which Saul used to make…

David, after all his experiences, was surprised with these kinds of thoughts (1 Samuel 27:1): I shall one day perish by the hand of Saul. He had a particular promise and assurance of the kingdom, and had seen much of God's care over him, and yet after all this David doubts of th…

Take heed of being partners in others' sins when they are committed, as co-helpers and concauses of their production. You may partake of other men's sins, first, as instruments to execute others' sinful designs or commands, as Doeg was in executing the priests (1 Samuel 22), or…

Can the world give such privileges as these? As Saul said (1 Samuel 22:7), will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields, and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands? Can the world do that for you, as God does for his children?

Lawyers their Clients? or Generals discourage those who fall off from the enemy, and come to their side? surely no. When David was in the field, 'tis said, 1 Samuel 22:2. Every one that was in distress, in debt, or in discontent gathered themselves to him, and he became a Captai…

And the greater his distresses were, the more fervent were his Affections in all his Adresses to God. And he was never in greater than when he escaped out of the Cave at Adullam, and went thence to Mizpheh of Moab, to get shelter for his Parents, 1 Sam. 22.13. Then was he in the…