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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	king_n	law_n	people_n	9,348	5	5.3251	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87829	Kollourion, or eye salve to anoint the eyes of the ministers of the Province of London; that they may see their error (at least) in opposing the present proceedings of the Parliament and Army, in the due execution of justice. / By a Minister of the Gospel.	Minister of the Gospel.	1649 (1649)	Wing K746; Thomason E542_16; ESTC R205970	5,189	9

Κολλȣριον OR EYE SALVE to anoint the Eyes of the Ministers of the PROVINCE OF LONDON THAT THEY MAY SEE Their Error at least in opposing the present Proceedings of the PARLIAMENT and ARMY in the due execution of JUSTICE By a Minister of the Gospel LONDON Printed by G. Dawson for Henry Cripps and are to be sold in Popes-head Alley 1649. An Eye Salve to anoint the Eyes of the Ministers of the Province of London that they may see their Errour at least in opposing the present proceedings of the Parliament and Army in the due execution of Justice Quaere I. WHether Kings that have the Government of Civil States and Kingdomes are not under the New Testament and times of the Gospel * In these our times we are to distinguish between the state of Kings in their first originall and between the State of settled Kings and Monarchs that doe at this time governe in civill Kingdomes King Iames Speeching Parliament cited by Mr. Burton in his Epistle Dedicatorie to King Charles in his seven Vials So again a little after Speaking of the Bishop that Preached before him saith he If I had been in his place c. I would have concluded as an Englishman c. putting a difference between the generall power of a King in Divinity and the settled and established State of this Crown and Kingdome id ibid. rather of a humane then Divine Constitution and Creation according to 1 Pet. 2.13 Submit your selves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to every ordinance of man or to every humane Creation for the Lord sake Whether it be to the King as supream c and therefore are not properly to be called and stiled as is the practise of Ministers in their prayers usually to doe the Anointed of the Lord. II. Whether those Kings that are so constituted when they degenerate from their Kingly authority with which they are invested by their people and turn down right * And therefore a King governing in a settled Kingdome leaves to be a King and degenerates into a Tyrant as soon as he leaves off to rule according to his Laws Therefore all Kings that are not Tyrants or Perjured wil be glad to bound themselves within the limits of their laws and they that perswade them the contrary are Vipers and Pests both against them and the Common-wealth id ut sup Tyrants Murtherers and destroyers of their Kingdomes may not safely and upon just grounds be called to an account and have the law executed upon them for so doing they being as subject to the laws by which they are to govern as their people over whom they are set and * Vid. Fox martyrolog edit ult vol. 2 p. 879 880. as Mr. Prinne cites it in his 1 part of the Papists disloyalty to their Soveraign whether in this case civil governours in a State are more exempt from Deposition then Ecclesiasticall in a Church III. Whether the King of England did not in an almost unparalled way excelling his Predecessours make himself guilty before God and good men and of those never enough to be abhorred abominations of Tyranny Murther and Oppression in his three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland and whether if the Commons of England whom it principally concerns should wink and connive at those aforesaid unparalelled abominations and neglect to execute righteous judgement according to the laws of God Nature Nations they should not bring the guilt of all these abominations committed by the said King upon their own heads and so become accessary to their own and the Kingdomes ruine yea King Vortiger anno D. 454. King Sigebert 756. K. Ofred 789 K. Ethelred 794. All before the Conquest with many others after quoted by Mr. Prinne ut sup the ruine and misery of their Posterity after them IV. Whether there be not infinite examples in Histories of the Peoples proceedings in wayes of bringing their Tyrannicall Princes to condigne punishment and setting up others in their steads V. Whether the Army under the Command of his Excellency the Lord Fairfax hath not been in a speciall manner instrumentall from heaven to bring down that proud * Gen. 10.9 Nimerod the KING that hunted after not onely the Estates but Liberties and precious lives of the best of his Subjects and brake through all the hedges and boundaryes of just laws both of God and Man that should have kept him within compasse and were acknowledged the friends of God and good men for so doing and many prayers and praises put up to heaven in the behalf of them VI. Whether the foresaid Army are not still to be look upon in the present Transactions they are upon as instruments in the hands of God though in an extraordinary way for the saving of the Kingdome so long as they proceed by the lawfull Authority of the Kingdome viz. the Parliament in bringing the grand Incendiaries of the Kingdome to condigne punishment VII Whether the God of Heaven who is * Revel 15.3 just and holy in all his wayes doth not according to his wounderfull workings beyond the shallow reach of humane capacities many times stirre up in an extraordinary manner private persons to execute his * Num. 25.7 just and righteous judgements on those that are his and his Peoples proud implacable adversaryes especially when ordinary wayes means fail and whether we are not rather to reverence and adore the glorious and wonderfull actings of God this way in order to the vindication of his own great Name and his peoples salvations as at this day in England then to quarrell and fall foule with the Instruments that he is pleased to make use of VIII Whether God hath not in his word commanded a speedie execution of Justice without respect of Persons * 2 Chr. 19.7 and been greatly displeased for the neglect of it and whether the Lords beholding such a neglect hath not provoked him to make bare his own arme and to act in a more extraordinary way and manner to the effecting and bringing to passe of such a great work as the execution of Justice and Judgment is IX Whether the Lord Generall and Councell of war in the Army have acted in this present businesse of bringing the King to justice and those have been in confederacy with him in the Parliament and Kingdom by themselves alone without the knowledge and approbation of the Kingdome and whether they have not been continually instigated by the honest and godly party as well Presbyterians as Independents by their petitions and supplications to enterprise this businesse looking on it as the next speediest meanes through the blood of Christ to turn away the * Num. 25.12 wrath of God from this Nation and to preserve it in a sound and better peace for the future And whether the godly party so petitioning the Lord Generall and Army hereunto and slighted in your letter are not without offence be it spoken men of as great integrity