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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	heir_n	power_n	successor_n	3,459	5	9.2559	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35517	A discourse shewing that kings have their being and authority from God that therefore good kings when dead are lamented, that all while living are to be obeyed, and that treason and rebellion are punishable both in this and the next world : preached the Sunday following the news of the death of ... Charles the Second / by John Curtois ...	Curtois, John, 1650 or 51-1719.	1685 (1685)	Wing C7700; ESTC R17308	19,772	38

Lord loved Israel for ever therefore made he thee King to doe Judgment and Justice The Romans in their Lex Julia adjudged the same punishment to Treason as to Sacrilege Vlpian l. 7. De Off. Procons in l. 1. ff ad Leg. Jul. maj as looking upon an injury done to their Prince to be an injury also to Gods Hist Hea. Gods l. 3. p. 187. whose place of power upon Earth the Prince supplied The Kings of Egypt had Asps usually represented upon their Crowns to express the Holyness of their persons whom none ought to dishonour or injure without a signal punishment as being the most Sacred Images and Lieutenants of God upon Earth So firmly did the better sort of Heathens who believed an invisible over-ruling Being believe likewise the power of Kings to be derived from it Now it does not invalidate this Truth 1. That some Princes exercise their power Tyrannically and Rule wickedly oppressing and murthering their Subjects For the power is nevertheless of God though it be abused and perverted by men As it is in the case of Episcopacy the spiritual power by which the Bishops govern the Church must be acknowledged to be received from Christ though the Bishop of Rome Tyrannize in the exercise of it So it is in the case of Kingship and Regality God must be own'd to have conveyed and consigned over the Temporal Power to all Princes though the Grand Seigniour of the Turks and others play the Tyrants within their Dominions And yet we may not here conceive God to be Authour of the wickedness as of the Power for it is the Power onely not the abuse of it that is from God The latter proceeds from the Prince's evil heart alone God maketh him a Prince and he through the corruption of his Nature and the malitious Temptation of the Devil finds out many inventions to doe wickedly The Kingly Power as other good and perfect Gifts do descendeth from God although they may be all some time or other abus'd by evil instruments and to evil ends and purposes Our Saviour intimated this in granting Pilate's power to be from Heaven by whom he knew he should be sentenced to dye as a Malefactour St. Paul did the same speaking the Text in the days of Claudius or Nero two of the worst of men and the greatest Tyrants that ever were Neither 2. doth it invalidate this Truth that some Princes come to this Power by Conquest some by Election and others by Inheritance For these are but several ways and means of Conveyance and Investiture they are but as Conduit Pipes to carry the Water from the Fountain to separate places Still the Power is deriv'd from God to the Prince by which soever of these means he be invested with it 1. Although he fight for it and by the Sword maketh his way to the Throne yet when he is placed there he sitteth as God's Vicegerent having no Superintendent but God The People are all subjected to him by right of Conquest Or say it be 2. By Election by the Votes and Consent of the People that he is seated on the Throne yet being once there he becomes their Sovereign Lord Ruling by a Power Superiour to theirs For the Power is God's not the Peoples They are onely God's instruments in conferring the Regalia's and when the Ceremony is over have no more to doe but to obey And if it hold true in Conquer'd and Elective Kingdoms then how much rather 3. Deut. 21.15 In all those Nations where the Crowns are Hereditary the way which God appointed in Israel before their settlement in Canaan and after it did so signally bless in a numerous Succession of Heirs In all Hereditary Kingdoms the people have nothing to doe but upon the Death of their King immediately to obey the next Heir Apparent and humbly to recognize him for their Sovereign Their Approbation or Consent here is of no signification for he is born to Reign over them and whether they will or no doth rightfully inherit that Power which God hath entailed upon his Family And to speak something here particularly of our own Nation thus it is thanks be to God in the Kingdom of England And we have reason to thank God for it because we are hereby free from many mischiefs which unavoidably attend the change of Kings upon Conquests or Popular Elections Here God hath for many Ages past by wonderfull Providences made known the Family that is to Govern us so certainly and so apparently that none but he that desires to be a Rebel to God and the King will ever dispute the Title Whence it is become a Maxime in our Law that the King never dieth And that nothing is to be assented to in Parliament which tendeth to the disinherison of the Crown Hence also we find it ever subscribed to those Ensigns of Royalty which descend perpetually with the Crown Dieu Et Mon Droit God and my Right So in all publick Edicts we find this inserted Dei Gratiâ Rex By the Grace of God King of England And upon Twelve several Festival days in the year our King offereth upon the Altar a sum of Gold to God in signum specialis Dominii as a publick Acknowledgement That by his Grace alone he is King And this every man of us solemnly assenteth to that taketh the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy In the Oath of Allegiance we promise to bear Faith and True Allegiance to his Majesty his Heirs and Successours In the Oath of Supremacy we first utterly testifie and declare that the King's Highness is the onely Supreme Governour in this Realm And do therefore promise that we will bear Faith and True Allegiance to the King's Highness his Heirs and Lawfull Successours and will to our power assist and defend all Jurisdictions Privileges Preheminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the King's Highness his Heirs and Successours or united and annext to the Imperial Crown of this Realm So that by the way we may wonder at the great impiety of our late pretending Patriots who with so much heat and boidness Voted the Exclusion of the Rightfull Heir in plam contradiction not onely to their Natural Allegiance but also to their Promises and Declarations solemnly made by these Oaths They ought I think to seek God and the King's Pardon or a publick Repentance And when they are so ingenuous and not before we may in Charity hope that they will be better Christians and better Subjects for the future But to convince you more fully that our King by the unalterable Right of Inheritance Succeeding to the Crown Raigneth by God and him onely let us a little distinctly consider that there is neither person or thing within his Dominions but what are subject to him as by the ordinance of God and right reason so likewise by our own publick concessions The People are all so and so are the Laws The People of this Nation whether singly or Representatively considered are subject