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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	according_a	judge_n	law_n	2,498	5	5.0932	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89699	No interest beyond the principall or, The court camisado. By reduction of government to its primitive end and integrity, Rom. 13.4. The ruler is the minister of God to thee for good. Also, nevves from Scotland : or, the reasons examined of the warre threatned. May. 1. 1648. Imprimatur, Gilb. Mabbott.		1648 (1648)	Wing N1176; Thomason E437_25; ESTC R202984	12,774	16

stand by it specially in one man That King that makes conscience of his place and people will rather think his power too much then too little considering he must answer for no more then he hath and with Moses be content to depart of his spirit to lessen his charge for his own ease and their benefit and if he doe not then a little is too much for power without conscience is like a horse without a bridle ready to hurry the rider into ruine and over-run al that stands in his way Nor will a conscientious King purchase power over his people against their wills with the losse of their blood his greater care will be to use that well he hath and not to make his successors absolute that his Subjects may be slaves nor conquer whom he should protect he will as well remember that he is the father of his Country as of his next Heire who yet is but his successor and the Kingdoms Heire the Crown and Kingdome being an incorporate body for he cannot dis-inherit him though the people may and upon mis-government depose him as in case of adultery marryed people may divorce the knot that ties them together being broken asunder his care should be rather to leave rules to his Son to govern well then power to govern ill and himself to dye desired as good Josiah did rather then when he is dead to be stiled of happy memory because of his unhappy Reigne Would Kings be more Religious they would be lesse ambitious and see reason for it yea beleeve themselves as well in debt to their people as their people to them owing both mutuall love and duty striving rather to deserve obedience then to inforce it and entituling themselves to their peoples Allegiance rather by their administrations then commands themselves inviolably keeping the Oath of good Government that so they may not give their people the least coulour of liberty to breake the●e of dutifull Allegiance and knowing how dangerous a thing 〈…〉 a Printe is both in the sad consequence of ill example and the wosull effects of divine justice so frequently inflicted on the people either for or by occasion of the Princes sins What reason can be given why all other Governors and Magistrats are to rule for the publique good and onely Kings for their owne greatning No inferior authority hath a negative power to suspend justice or protection so farre as he is to administer it by his place the King himself can derive no such power to any and if he cannot derive it then he hath it not inherent in himself for the Soveraignes power is principally to impower others Magis and Minus make no essentiall difference Betwixt the King and a Constable there is difference of power in point of proportion but not in specie or kind it is of the same kinde and to the self-same end one hath not power for and the other against Or what reason can be showne why the King ought to have a negative arbitrary power is it because Kings are more infallible unerring then other men we have not found it so Or what good reason can be shown that de facto he hath it Hath any known law of the Land conferred it on him or is it meerly by usurpation hath he taken it because the people durst not deny it as former Kings have done Forrest-Lands then made the people undoe them by forrest-Laws why then prescription in wrong entitles no man to right especially Kings whose office is neither to do nor suffer to be done any wrong to the body whereof they are the head Or is it as some affirme because the King is supreame for say they seeing arbitrary power must be somewhere therfore it is fittest to be in the supreme Magistrate To this I Answer That arbitrary Legislative power is in the supreme Magistracy or Government not Governour the Parliament not the King for the people being a numerous dispersed multitude and so not fit alwayes to be together to see to the execution of their own Laws do therefore meet occasionally in an aggregate body for the consultive and creative part of Laws and constitutions that so they may be such as are most fit and doe best sute with the nature of the place and people and then leave them for the executive part principally to the care of the King with other ordained Ministers as being better executed by a few then a many and better consulted and made by a many then a few therfore hath he the honor of Sword Scepter and for that cause were good Kings in former times wont to goe their progresses as Judges doe their circuits not to make hunting-matches horse-races nor yet to give Laws but to inquire and countenance the execution of justice preservation of peace according to law punish the violators And as Kings so all other Governments and governors their Interest is neither contrary to nor diverse from the publick good their chief end is their cheif interest neither power priviledge nor liberty to consult debate or conclude belongs to any and to them least that are intrusted most but what hath proximity with is reductive to and acted for it therfore those Parliament-men whose principles and transactions vary from that pole they are the most destructive members to Parliament-interest that drive a Court designe with publick imployment for Prerogative and Priviledge run the same danger the apparent abuse of same brings all into question potius unus quam unitas better then throw out some rotten Apples then spoyle the whole hoard be not tenderer of your members then they are true to their trust if the Common wealth see some made examples the punishment of a few will preserve the reputation of the whole that the body is sound though some members be rotten God made not man for himself the interest of the creature is the service of his Creator and therefore our rise was our fall the raising of our interest was the ruine of us all He that being chosen and intrusted with arbitrary power wil therfore use it arbitrarily is Adams own child and after his likenesse If it be objected that the King pretends the publick interest in those things which by absolute power he claimes and entitles himself unto as the Militia and negative voyce that they are for the better protecting and rule of his people and the Royall party in Parliament forsooth urge Liberty of conscience for liberty of speech Cum Privilegio to betray their trust To these I Answer first Joyntly That it is an easie matter to put a bait upon a hook and no hard thing to catch Gudgins with it but for my part I will never trust him nor them by the By that erre in the main Secondly Severally And first for the Kings claim and pretences which the effects have proved barely to be such in reason he can neither desire it if he know himself to be but man nor his people