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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	king_n	samuel_n	saul_n	1,596	5	10.1155	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78586	The true lavv of free monarchy, or The reciprocall and mutuall duty betvvixt a free king and his naturall subjects. By a well affected subject of the kingdome of Scotland.; True lawe of free monarchies	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2; Wing J145; Thomason E238_23; ESTC R6414	20,111	16

more clearly appeare to be true by the practise oft proved in the same book we never read that ever the Prophets perswaded the people to rebell against the Prince how wicked soever hee was When Samuel by Gods command pronounced to the same King Saul 1 Sam. 15. that his Kingdom was rent from him and given to another which in effect was a degrading of him yet his next action following that was peaceably to turn home and with floods of tears to pray to God to have some compassion upon him And David notwithstanding he was inaugurate in that same degraded Kings room not only when he was cruelly persecuted for no offence but good service done unto him would not presume having him in his power skantly but with great reverence to touch the garment of the annoynted of the Lord and in his words blessed him 1 Sam 2.4 1 Sam ● but likewise when one came to him vanting himself untruly to have slain Saul he without forme of proces or tryall of his guilt caused only for guiltinesse of his tongue put him to sodain death And although there was never a more monstruous persecutor and tyrant than Achab was yet all the rebellion that Elias ever raised against him was to fly to the wildernesse where for fault of sustentation hee was fed with the Corbies And I think no man wil doubt but Samuel David and Elias had as great power to perswad the people if they had liked to have imployed their credit to uprores and rebellions against these wicked Kings as any of our seditious preachers in these dayes of whatsoever Religion either in this Countrey or in France had that busied themselves most to stir up rebellion under cloak of Religion This far the only love of verity I protest without hatred at their persons have moved me to be somewhat satyrique And if any will leane to the extraordinary examples of degrading or killing of Kings in the Scriptures therby to cloake the peoples rebellion as by the deed of Jehu and such like extraordinaries I answer besides that they want the like warrant that they had if extraordinary examples of the Scripture shal be drawn in dayly practise murder under traist as in the persons of Ahud and Iael theft as in the persons of the Israelites comming out of Aegipt lying to their parents to the hurt of their brother as in the person of Iacob shall all be counted as lawfull and allowable vertues as rebellion against Princes And to conclude the practise through the whole Scripture proveth the peoples obedience given to that sentence in the Law of God Thou shalt not raile upon the Iudges neither speak evell of the Ruler of thy people To end then the ground of my proposition taken out of the Scripture let two speciall and notable examples one under the law another under the Euangel Ie 27. conclude this part of my alled geance Vnder the law Ieremy threatneth the people of God with utter destruction for rebellion to Nabuchadnezzar the King of Babel who althogh he was an Idolatrous persecutor a forrain King a Tyrant usurper of their liberties yet in respect they had once received acknowledged him for their King Ier. 29. he not only commandeth them to obey him out even to pray for his prosperity adjoyning the reason to it because in his prosperity stood their peace And under the Euangell that King whom Paul bids the Romaines Obey and serve for conscience sake Ie. 13. was Nero that bloudy Tyrant an infamy to his age and a monster to the world being also an Idolatrous per●●cutor as the K. of Babel was If then Idolatry defection frō God tyranny over their people persecutiō of the Saints for their professiō sake hindred not the spirit of God to command his people under all highest paine to give them all due and hearty obedience for conscience sake giving to Caesar that which was Caesars and to God that which was Gods as Christ saith and that this practise throughout the booke of God agreeth with this law which he made in the erection of that Monarchie as is at length before deduced what shamelesse presumption is it to any Christian people now a dayes to claime to that unlawfull liberty which God refused to his own peculiar and chosen people Shortly then to take up in two or three sentences grounded upon all these arguments out of the Law of God the duty and alleageance of the people to their lawfull King their obedience I say ought to bee to him as to Gods Lievtenant in earth obeying his commands in all things except directly against God as the commands of Gods Minister acknowledging him a Judge set by God over them having power to judge them but to be judged onely by God whom to only he must give count of his judgment fearing him as then Judge loving him as their Father praying for him as their Protector for his continuance he be good for his amendment if he be wicked following and obeying his lawfull commands eschewing and flying his fury in his unlawfull without tesistance but by sons and eares to God according to that Sentence used in the Primitive Church in the time of the persecution Preces Lachrymae sunt arma Ecclesiae Now as for the describing the alleageance that the heges owe to their Native King out of the fundamentall and Civill Law especially of this Country as I promitted the ground must first be set down of the first manner of establishing the Laws and forme of government among us that the ground being first right layd we may thereafter build rightly thereupon Although it be true according to the affirmation of those that pride themselves to be the scourges of Tyrants that in the first beginning of Kings rising among Gentiles in the time of the first age divers common-wealths and societies of men choosed out one among themselves who for his vertues and valour being more eminent then the rest was chosen out by them and set up in that roome to maintaine the weakest in their right to throw downe oppressours and to foster and continue the society among men which could not otherwise but by vertue of that unity be well done yet these examples are nothing pertinent to us because our kingdom and diverse other Monarchies are not in that case but had their beginning in a far contrary fashion For as our Chronicles beare witnesse this and especially our part of it being scantly inhabited but by very few and they as barbarous and scant of civility as number there comes our King Fergus with a great number with him out of Ireland which was long inhabited before us and making himselfe master of the Country by his own friendship and force as well of the Ireland-men that came with him as of the Country-men that willingly fell to him he made himselfe King and Lord as well of the whole lands as of the whole inhabitants within the same Thereafter