According as God had ordained Deut. 17,14. that when the Israelites shulde be in the land of Canáan, he wolde appoint them a King: so here in this first boke of Samuél is declared the state of this people under their first King Saúl, who not content with that ordre, which God had for a time appointed for the governement of his Church, demanded a King, to the intent thei might be as other nacions and in a greater assurance as thei thoght: not because thei might the better thereby serve God, as being under the safegarde of him, which did represent Jesus Christ the true deliverer: therefore he gave them a tyrant and an hypocrite to rule over them, that they might learne, that the persone of a King is not sufficient to defend them, except God by his power preserve and kepe them. And therefore he punisheth the ingratitude of his people and sendeth them continual warres bothe at home and abroad. And because Saúl, whome of nothing God had preferred to the honour of a King, did not acknowledge God’s mercie towarde him, but rather disobeied the worde of God and was not zealous of his glorie, he was by the voyce of God put downe from his state, and David the true figure of Messiáh placed in his steade, whose pacience, modestie, constancie, persecucion by open enemies, fained friends, and dissembling flatterers are left to the Church and to every member of the same, as a paterne and example to beholde their state and vocation.