16 NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



cious man living (and reigning) in sin all the 

 days of his life, his life may be taken for a living 

 death. 



Arn. I'll comply with any thing except cen- 

 soriousness ; for that end trumpet not Solo- 

 mon's praise too loud, least the eccho resounding, 

 ecchoes ostentation. On the other hand, not to 

 hope an indemnity for Saul, we straiten God's 

 mercy, which is infinitely boundless. So let's 

 leave it to the Judg of all the world ; for if the 

 world be left to determine this case, she'll de- 

 nounce a false judgment, because of her partial- 

 ity. Nay, she may be suspected uncharitable 

 too ; and such are we, if children of the world, 

 because subject to err by the rule of instability. 

 Theoph. You bear hard upon me, yet I'm 

 loth to give up the cause ; there's little or no 

 difference in the length of our weapons ; but 

 this I'll say, so drop the argument. Solomon 

 was an oracle of wisdom and learning, and the 

 blazing star that shin'd in Jerusalem. And 

 Saul was a king, and the first king in Israel ; 

 but then he was that king God gave in his 

 wrath, which was soon after removed, for David 

 stood in Saul's way. 



Arn. So did Uriah in his, when inamoured 

 on his wife. 



Theoph. But David was a prophet, and a 

 man of God ; and Saul was censured for his im- 



