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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	king_n	write_v	year_n	5,160	5	4.8919	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A24062	A supply of considerable things, in behalf of the government, omitted in all the late arguings written to Sir J.A.	J. A.	1682 (1682)	Wing A15; ESTC R9870	4,890	7

divine-positive one of which number the Sacraments are it is still unalterable by Subjects nay it may further be said that a Right meerly humane in its Original convey'd over to another is confirmed to the Possessor and his Heirs by a natural-divine Right this is evident from the eighth Commandement forbidding Stealth tho' the ownership came from the act of another Man in its first Creation yet the preservation of it is from the Law of God and the Right is as strong in behalf of Successive Monarchy against the reseizure of the People tho' they cou'd fancy themselves the first Donors and Founders of it as any Title they have to their proper Goods and Chattels ay but say they the case is different for all Government is given by the Subjects with a tacit condition that it shall be manag'd to their best advantage and upon failure it may therefore be reassum'd a tacit condition indeed that was never heard of till the World and Government were so many thousand years old but to give them one exception to their general rule it will not hold good in the Government of a Family And Lycurgus who was no Fool wished some Common-wealth-Statists to make experiment first in their own Houses of that Popular Model which they were contriving for the Spartan Nation how wou'd it think you vex the little Western Grandee if his Wise Son and his own Servants shou'd attempt to Depose him from the management of his Household and Estate by reason of his Male-Administration of both since his Head has been so full of Revenge and Association Another mistake remains more pernicious to the Government than all the rest which I have not seen fully set to rights by any who have argued for the Defendant it is this that the Kingship of England is Elective There are indeed several such like Passages in our old Chronicles written for the most part by Church-men who how they came to speak so I will anon afford you the grounds but that chusing does imply a Power of refusing is against the Principle of the Men of Malmsbury and of Geneva too who make up the far greatest number of Adversaries to our cause for with them Election is necessary so that a man cannot chuse but he must chuse and if the same sort of choice beyond which they claim none as to the things of God will suffice them as to the King we shou'd soon be agreed in the present Affair Suitable to this the Civilians say a man chuses when he wishes or when he is not constrain'd Thus the Israelites chose a King by desiring one before that Saul was appointed by Authority from God and in congratulatory Joy when he was anointed the People shouting God save the King and in assisting him against those that said shall Saul Reign over us and this is as much as can be affirm'd of any Election of our Kings in a peaceable and orderly Coronation this will manifestly appear to you both from the common old form us'd in the Church of Rome when Kings were Crown'd as likewise from a Parliament-Roll clear and full to the purpose the old form is to be seen in the Ordo Romanus antiquus a Book written and us'd above 900 Years ago the particular Office is Entitled The Order for Blessing of a King when he is new rais'd by the Clergy and People to the Kingdom In the fourth Prayer these Words follow Look down upon this thy Servant whom with suppliant Devotion we have chosen to be our King upon these Passages at the Coronation it was that the Church-men-Chroniclers so frequently us'd the Phrase of chusing a King but if the rest of the same Office be taken along to explain these words you will see that in our common way of speaking about choice our Kings have no more been chosen by the Subjects than Saul was by the Israelites for in the first and second Prayers it is said that God hath exalted him to the heighth of the Kingdom Among the Questions propounded by the Metropolitan one is Wilt thou Govern and defend the Kingdom given thee of God according to the justice of thy Fathers then the Bishop turns to the People will you be subject to this Prince and Governor and Establish his Kingdom with firm faithfulness and obey his Commands according to the Apostles Words Let every Soul be subject to the higher Powers to the King as Supream then follows the fourth Prayer in which upon their promising to this demand they are said to chuse him King for there is nothing else in this Office in which the People bear a part so that having laid these Proceedings impartially before you I need not industriously shew that the Kingship is from God through a Succession and that the Election of the People is no more than a good liking and Profession of their Allegiance That his Title is from God by Succession appears further out of the Words after Coronation Stand and hold henceforth the place which hitherto thou hast held by Paternal Succession bequeath'd to thee upon Hereditary Right by the Authority of Almighty God So far as to this Office with which the Parliament-Roll wherein Richard the third is said to be chosen King does mightily agree he had as bad a Title as ever wanted a Parliament or an Army to assist it either by their interest or strength and when his counterfeiting was laid aside he appear'd as bad as his Title or as any Usurper who was ever help'd by either yet the Parliament had that regard to the Rights of the Crown that they rather chuse to be his Heralds to derive the Succession though very untowardly down to his Person than to be his Promoters by bestowing a Crown like Popes out of a Plenitude of Power the Record is long but it 's well it may so commonly be met with in Speed's Chronicle the considerable things in the main Roll serve to explain the Election of Richard mention'd in the beginning to mean no more than what the word signifies in the late cited Office their Words are We have chosen you in all that in us is Afterwards follows a Recognition of his Right without their choice The Right and Title which the King has to the Crown is grounded upon the Laws of God and of Nature and also upon the ancient Laws and laudable Customs of this said Realm they then proceed to say why seeing the Title is so grounded they act any thing concerning it the Reason given is That the Court of Parliament is of such Authority and the People of this Land of such a Nature and Disposition as experience teacheth that Manifestation and Declaration of any truth or right made by a Parliament maketh above all other things most faith and certain I have now done what I undertook and within the assigned Bounds remaining according to the duty of the Younger to the Elder your most Faithful and May 9. 82. Affectionate Servant J. A. FINIS