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cause_n	court_n	king_n	parliament_n	2,759	5	6.7580	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06196	Vox clamantis. Mark 1. 3 A stil voice, to the three thrice-honourable estates of Parliament: and in them, to all the soules of this our nation, of what state or condition soeuer they be. By William Loe, Doctor of Diuinitie, and chaplaine to the Kings most excellent Maiestie.	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1621 (1621)	STC 16691; ESTC S108813	47,008	92

sacramentally which if they receaue worthily they goe on in the world breathing out breath fearefull to the very Deuill himselfe and to all the powers of darknesse as golden-mouthed Chrisostome vsed to speake vnto his Antiochians yea wherewith wee goe confidently on in the spirit of Dauid that albeit we walke through the valley of the shadow of death yet feare wee none ill for euery Christian in that case is as it were another Christ. So doth Saint Ambrose reade that place in the Galathians In a word the people are blessed by the State Ecclesiasticall through the ministration of the Word by which God remoueth all impediments that hinder the course of their Saluation For Christ thereby powreth on them Ezechiels pure water to purge their impurities pruneth off the wilde branches cutteth off all superfluities at last vtterly abolisheth the houres and powers of darkenesse drowneth Pharaoh in the red Sea of his bloud and beateth downe Satan vnder their feete Thus are they blessed on euery side by Moses by Aaron by the Pillar of a cloud of witnesses in spirituall affaires by the Pillar of fire in secular negotiations by the Church by the Court in their all so that I may conclude with the Psalmist Saluation belongeth onely to the Lord and his blessing is vpon his people both from the State politique and from the State Ecclesiasticall The vse of this concernes both the Kingdome in generall the Chamber of the Kingdome in particular and euery mans conscience indiuidually Doth not the people of this Land the house of England see and consider how God hath made our State his owne deare darling which the Iesuites and other emissaries of Rome spite at Hath not God chosen it as his Lilly among the flowers of the field as the Doue among the Fowles of Heauen as the Cedar among the Trees of the Forrest as his Iudea among the Nations and as his Syon amongst the mountains Is not this our Iland the house of preuailing Israel a Sanctuary for his Elect an Oracle for his Word and an habitation for himselfe Is not our Republique to Rome as Aegina to Athens not onely an eye-sore but an heart-sore The State-politique whereof doth right euery man both in iudgement and iustice The principall agent of Iustice vnder the King is called in the abstract the Chiefe-Iustice The King himselfe is the fountaine of all Iustice and doth delegate his power of administration vnto seuerall Iustices Itinerant who in their set circuits for the benefit and ease of the subiect doe expedite the lesser causes Yea the whole Land being diuided into Shires or Shares Hundreds Wapentakes and Tithings that euery man to the number of tenne may answere for each other and may be liable to Law if they doe any harme and also may receiue right to that number in euery particular place and Parish The inferiour Courts are erected for the good of the subiect in smaller causes and the Parliament in supreame causes is conueened wherein the King himselfe albeit he hath royall assent in all yet by Law Reason and Religion he is legally limited and concluded So that vncontrolled no wicked Nimrod can offend by strong hunting no cursed Macheuillian by damnable Statizing nor any griping Zacheus by forged cauillations Our Christian King hath so prouided that this his house of England may be indeed the house of preuailing Israel That God may generally be honoured hee hath ordained as the King of Babel in his Prouinces that all his subiects within the foure seas may truly worship the God of Israel That God may be pleased with our prayers and fastings he hath ordained a Lent as the King of Niniue a fast That God may be glorified with a Festiuity hee hath consecrated the fift of Nouember to his diuine worship in thankes-giuing for the States wonderfull deliuerance from the hellish Gun-pouder Treason as Queene Hester ordained the Feast of Purim for the Iewes deliuerance from wicked Hamans cruelty Hee hath set an order to things indifferent as did good King Ioas that there may be no confusion no schisme in his Land He hath restrayned foolish vaine and idle questions both priuate and publique with all fruitlesse opposition lest that carpet-Preachers should through a singular spirit broach the Lees of Anabaptisme Brownisme Vorstianisme and other fanaticall delusions and lest they should sow schismes heresies and seditious murmurings amongst his Christian subiects In a word our King hath taken course that the hand of violence may in no wise touch the bodies of his subiects to which purpose Coroners are appointed in all shires and corporate Townes to enquire by secret inquest vpon such as come to violent or vntimely deaths that the Kings Delegates may be certified how his Subiects come to their ends He hath also most Christianly prouided that your goods may be kept from rapine fraud and cousenage To which purpose are ordained Clerkes of Markets to looke to weights and measures and Iudges and Iustices for theeues robbers and all other oppressors And also for your reputation and good name he hath ordained that no black-mouthed Curre with a tongue enflamed by hell fire shall besmut the same but he is lyable to censure Is not therefore the blessing of God vpon the people from the state Politique Neither are the people lesse blessed by the state Ecclesiasticall Neuer more preaching Prelates in our Israel neuer more able Ministers ouer the Land applying themselues in euery case of conscience as godly Casuists vnto all the distressed in minde To which purpose some haue Moses Rod for miracles Aarons Belles for comfort Dauids Harpe for the howlings of hell Salomons Sword for decision of controuersies others haue Ieremies Hammer to breake the hard-hearted Esayes Trumpet to awaken the drowsie Peters Keyes to open the ioyes of Heauen to such as are weary of this life becomming the sons of solace to the tender conscience and the sonnes of thunder to a boysterous and big-boned Nimrod In a word becomming all to all that they may winne some Say then if the blessing of God be not also on the people from the state Ecclesiastique Descend wee from the state of the Kingdome to the Chamber of the Kingdome the great City of London What blessings hath not that City from the state Politique in their bodies goods and good name which if any man impeach hee is lyable to Law How are the soules and consciences of the Citizens blessed by that sacred Company of many able Preachers to whom God hath giuen the Word Insomuch that I may truly say that no City in the World on which the Sunne shineth hath more cause to magnifie God and to multiply their thankefulnesse Oh how many and how manifold are Gods blessings vpon that City Oh how many are the wayes that God hath reuealed for the saluation of chose Citizens Insomuch that a man may take vp the words which Saint Chrisostome vsed to his Antiochians Is it possible that a people fed with