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yet who knowes, but he might have lighted into the hand of some Noble Personage, that (in honour) would have spared the Royal Blood, and thought it more generous, to take a King Captive, then (in cold Blood) to have murdered him, when he was not capable of resistance? Or if it had been the Lot of a Mercenary Souldier to have lighted upon him, might he not have endeavoured the Preservation of such a Noble Prisoner in hope of a Ransom? Nay, had this Amalekite been sure, that all the Philistines were so barbarous, that never an one of them, would have saved the Kings Life, out of hatred to his Religion, as well as Person; yet (had he consulted either the honour of his Soveraign dying, or the safety of his Soul after death) it had been far better for him to have left him to their Swords, t•en to perform his Request with his own. For had an Uncircumcised Philistine for his Religions sake, slain him, his death had been his Infelicity, but not his guilt: Nay, those hands that slew him upon that account, had advanced him to the honour of Martyrdom; whereas, to die precariously, by the hands of a Subject, whom his own pusillanimous intreaty had prevailed with, to take away his life, rendred him a cowardly self-murderer (by Proxie) and lost him not his Life only, |
yet who knows, but he might have lighted into the hand of Some Noble Personage, that (in honour) would have spared the Royal Blood, and Thought it more generous, to take a King Captive, then (in cold Blood) to have murdered him, when he was not capable of resistance? Or if it had been the Lot of a Mercenary Soldier to have lighted upon him, might he not have endeavoured the Preservation of such a Noble Prisoner in hope of a Ransom? Nay, had this Amalekite been sure, that all the philistines were so barbarous, that never an one of them, would have saved the Kings Life, out of hatred to his Religion, as well as Person; yet (had he consulted either the honour of his Sovereign dying, or the safety of his Soul After death) it had been Far better for him to have left him to their Swords, t•en to perform his Request with his own. For had an Uncircumcised Philistine for his Religions sake, slave him, his death had been his Infelicity, but not his guilt: Nay, those hands that slew him upon that account, had advanced him to the honour of Martyrdom; whereas, to die precariously, by the hands of a Subject, whom his own pusillanimous entreaty had prevailed with, to take away his life, rendered him a cowardly self-murderer (by Proxy) and lost him not his Life only, |
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