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177 Thus perished King Saul, falling upon his sword on Mount Gilboa, too cowardly to bear a revenue of fortune in the World & thus fell Indas, when he hanged himself, that he might go to his own place for which by his dreadful crimes he had fitted himself.

 From this charge of the guilt of self murder we must exempt that ancient soldier & servant of God, Sampson. This case was peculiar. His cruel enemies & enemies of God had him in their hands. They had put out his eyes & mocked him in his inijuries. He prayed for death & God answered his prayer. From the circumstances of his death, it appears that the hand of God directed him & that by his dying by his hands he should be freed from the cruel death, which no doubt the profane philistines, were then about to inflict on him, & by his death,, do more valiently by destroy.g great numbers of those whom God had doomed to destruction, than he had done in his life. & by this death prevent the triumph.g of Demon! ? of God ? one of his ?   he is ranked by the Apostle among the wortheis? who died in faith & his small unclear words death by his own hands must have been the ordering of heaven.  God wrought a miracle to make his death glorious & useful small unclear words of Absalom.
  In the same light also are we to understand Abraham; offering his son Isaac in sacrifice to God. Abraham did it in Obedience to God, ahoss? will none may resist. As Abraham's faith & Obedience were most marvellous, no less so was the faith &