Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	authority_n	king_n	supreme_a	1,568	5	8.4275	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29451	A brief examination and consideration of the unsound princples upon which the armies plea (lately committed to publick view) is grounded wherein the repentance of those army-men and the conversion of all other persons from the error of their ways who have (in what capacity so-ever) acted by the said principles is most earnestly desired and specially aimed at / by a friend to the truth.	Friend to the truth.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4590; ESTC R23811	20,801	36

A BRIEF EXAMINATION AND CONSIDERATION Of the unsound PRINCIPLES Upon which the Armies Plea Lately committed to publick view is grounded Wherein the Repentance of those Army-men and the Conversion of all other persons from the Error of their ways who have in what capacity soever acted by the said Principles is most earnestly desired and specially aimed at By a Friend to the Truth LONDON Printed for Humphery Tuckey at the black-spread-Eagle in Fleetstreet near Saint Dunstans-Church 1660. A brief Consideration of some Principles upon which the Armies late PLEA is grounded THat the principal End of publick Government next unto the glory of God is the protection and preservation of all good men in their peaceable and quiet living in all godliness and honesty If the end of Government be so limited only to the protection of good men who are known only to God and of such only as live in all godliness and honesty which very many do not this Government notwithstanding all ungodly dishonest and evil men may commit what outrages they will upon one another And whereas they that really and truly good may be had in abomination among men as that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God by this Government thus limited the good people of God whose life is hid with Christ in God may be liable to all the injuries and mischiefs which they that Saint themselves and contrary to the Apostles rule esteem themselves better than others and act their hypocrisie in the fairest colours of zeal and sanctimonie can put upon them That the Magistrates duty in all forms of Government whatsoever is to defend all good men from all injuries while they so live This limitation also exposeth all good men that are really and truly such to the greatest insecurity it being impossible for them to be assured that they shall be deemed such And it also opens a wide gate to injuries in some case to wit in case they to whom they are done do not so live But surely no good Government will permit injuries to be done to any person or persons whatsoever That the belief and perswasion of the former principle is a Light that hath shined into the minds and judgments of many sober and discreet men Yet perhaps even in this darknesse is put for light and light for darknesse For it is too probable that such a principal end of Government as shall serve only some mens turnes may exclude from protection by it even some of those discreet and sober men themselves and give them cause to confesse the darknesse of that light Otherwise he that is but deemed and taken or but suspected to be no good man or an evil doer in any kind may be torn in pieces by hypocritical Zealots or turned out of his whole estate without any legal trial or due processe of Law against him That the peoples safety is the chief Soveraignty Salus populi est suprema lex The peoples safety is the supreme Law is a good rule in a right sense that is when by the people is meant the whole Nation not a party only professing themselves to be good men And the meaning of it may be That all Laws in every Nation should be such as may serve to that end the general safety of that whole Nation in which universal the Prince and Peers are especially comprehended But if there be any Law already enacted in this Nation that is not more disproportionable to that end than those most ancient Laws and Customes are upon which the true Government thereof is founded under which that Supreme end hath been time out of mind obtained much more fully than since that was interrupted is such a Law if also back'd with promises Protestations Commands and Oaths by meer force to be run down before it be duly repeated by all that Authority that made it If this be asserted What assurance can the people of the Land ever have of life estate or liberty by any ancient present or future Law or Laws by what Authority soever established And whether the Law be convenient to that end or not who shall judge What they that have nothing to do with the Legislative Authority That Kings and all that are in Authority are Gods Ministers for his peoples good Very good Therefore Kings and all that have like authority in every Nation must needs have their civil power from God and that directly and immediatly there being no intermediate power between his which is the principal And the ministerial which is the Kings as there is no natural power between that of the Principal Cause and that of the Instrumental in any work of nature What then can any persons whatsoever have to do to question or controul that Supreme Person whom God hath thought fit to use as his own Minister What if such a Soveraign Prince be as ill a Governour as Nero was He was once such a Minister of God to whom as bad as he was the Apostle commands every soul that is all but such as have no souls nor consciences neither to be subject to and that even for conscience sake But the Christian Kings of this Nation have ever been Nursing Fathers to the Church not persecutors of it as that Tyrant was and are therefore upon that account much more true proper and immediate Ministers to Him that is the only Supreme Head of the Church than that Heathen was There is not therefore lesse obedience due to these but more Howsoever since they are the Ministers of God and as his Ministers entrusted of him they must needs have full power and authority from God to pursue that trust Therefore as the whole Nation cannot acquit the Supreme lawful Magistrate of the Trust nor vacate the act of God in committing to his trust a part of his own universal Government of the world no more can they lawfully resist or endeavour to suppresse or lessen that just and rightful power upon which the pursuance and effectual performance of the same trust dependeth It is therefore a false and groundlesse insinuation that because Kings are Gods Ministers for his peoples good Ergo the people of God that is the Independents Anabaptists and the Quakers may lawfully turn Him out of that office and out of the world too if they though private persons all do judge it conducing to publick that is to their own safety being conscious to themselves of their unrighteous practises so to do That Governours were made for the people and not the people for them What then Ergo the people may cast off their Governours and all known law and the only lawful Government also at their pleasure Non sequitur Christ as man was made for the people Ergo The people had a just power to deal by Him as they did This collection is more horrid but the other as false as this That they to wit Kings and Governours have no power and