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1Sa_23:27 But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.
Ver. 27. But there came a messenger, &c.] Here was Deus ex machina, God appearing as out of an engine: where human help failed, divine came in. God sent from heaven and saved his poor servant "from the reproach of him that would have swallowed him up, Selah." {Psa_57:3} So he took off Sennacherib; {2Ki_19:8-9} and Julian, by the Parthian war; and Charles V from persecuting the Protestants, by the Turks breaking into Hungary; those dogs licked Lazarus’s sores. So one Justice Gilford, in Queen Mary’s days, going up the stairs to Mrs Roberts’s chamber, to compel her, willed she, nilled she, to go to Mass, was suddenly taken with his old disease the gout, and so tormented that he swore he would never trouble her anymore. {a}
{a} Act, and Mon., 1880.