Tricoenivm Christi in nocte proditionis suæ The threefold svpper of Christ in the night that he vvas betrayed / explained by Edvvard Kellett.

PAR. 5.

FOr the Iebusities inhabited Hierusalem divers yeares, after David was King in Hebron, 2 Sam. 5.6. in which City of Hierusalem when David was once quietly setled, I am fully perswaded that the thought of nothing more than of fix∣ing that individuum vagum, that wandring Arke; and reducing those often fore-pro∣phecyed generall words (the place that God would choose) to the choosing of some such determined place, as God should particularly designe, and marke out: See 2 Sam. 7.1. &c. At that time God did thus farre proceede by the Propheticall mouth of Nathan, and revealed unto David, 2 Sam. 7.10. &c. that God would ap∣point a place, and Davids sonne should build an house for Gods Name; and Sa∣lomon by Name▪ 1 Chron. 22.9. Yet David rested not, but was very inquisitive, and most eager, to know the speciall place, that he might provide Materialls for the future building of it, Psal. 132.1. Lord remember David and all his afflictions, by which he meaneth not all the Troubles, and crosses, that David had, in all his life, but all his holy-afflicting cares, that he had about things Sacred, and the worship of God; or his unresting griefes, prayers, and almes, after he had made a vow, till God had declared, where the Temple should be. They enquired not at the Arke of God in the dayes of Saul, 1 Chr. 13.3. but there was an heare-say that Ierusa∣lem

was to be that place, saith Cajetan; and therefore so soone as ever David was made King by all the Tribes of Israel, the first thing that ever hee is recorded to have done, after he was thus chosen, was to recover Ierusalem from the Jebusites, 2 Sam. 5.3. and 6. verses. In the fixt Chapter, see his great care to bring the Arke into the City of David: yet when God had smitten Ʋzzah, David was afrayd of the Lord, and sayd, How shall the Arke of the Lord come to me? So he carried it aside into the house of Obed Edom; but when he discerned, that the Lord blessed Obed Edom, and all his houshould; then David went and brought up the Arke of God, from the house of Obed Edom, into the Citie of David with gladnesse; then David danced before the Lord, with all his might, and Michal dispised David in her heart. When it was thither brought, and set in the midst of the Tent which David had pitched for it, 1 Chro. 16.1. and the Arke of the Covenant of the Lord remained under Curtaines, 1 Chro. 17.1. David did not like those slacke, covetous ones, of whom God complaineth, Hag. 1.4. Is it time for you, O yee, to dwell in your sieled houses, and this house lye waste? But he sayd Loe I dwell in a house of Cedar, but the Arke of the Lord dwelleth within Curtaines, 2 Sam. 7.2 Whereupon he intended to build the Lord an house, but was forbid, 1 Chro. 17.4. Yet David rested not here, but having onely a promise, I will ordaine a place for my people, ver. 9. and desirous to know the parti∣cular place, now, as is most likely, did he make that binding vow and oath to the mighty God of Iacob; that he would not come into the Tabernacle of his (New∣builded) house, nor climbe up to his bed, nor sleepe, nor slumber, till he knew the Ʋbi or setled place of the Temple. If you aske why he named (Iacobs) God, rather than the God of Abraham? Cajetan saith, it was for the likenesse of the oath that Iacob made when he saw the Ladder reaching from earth to heaven, Gen. 28.21. The Lord shall be my God; and this stone which I have set for a Pillar, shall be Gods house; this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven, saith he, ver. 17. Cajetan addeth, that David beleeved the tradition of the Elders; that the Temple should be built in the place where Iacob saw the Ladder; but Cajetan; and the tra∣dition (if so it were) are both deceived: for Bethel, or Luz was not nigh the place of the temple, at Ierusalem, he should rather by this laft reason, have called on the God of Abraham, who sacrificed on mount Moriah, where certainely the Temple afterward stood. They are much awry, who thinke David made this oath and vow to finde out the Arke at Shilo, or Cariathiearim, or Abinadab's, or Obed Edom's house, or the threshing-floore of Araunah; Davids prayer was, saith the Margin in Vata∣blus, Ʋt Deus institutum suum de Templo perficiat, that God should once bee pleased to bring to passe what he had purposed concerning the Temple: all other places wheresoever the Arke had beene, were sufficiently, knowne to David before, and needed not to be sought for, or enquired after, anxiâ animi solicitudine, with such carking and caring, as David did now; in Tremellius his phrase: but to finde out the exact place, within which the Temple should be circumscribed, Hic labor, hoc opus est, this David so strugled for, that he might prepare things necessary for the Temple.