Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	king_n	lord_n	4,716	5	3.8323	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92823	A second part of the religious demurrer; by another hand. Or, an answer to a tract called The lawfullnesse of obeying the present government. / By a lover of truth and peace.	Lover of truth and peace.; Ward, Nathaniel, 1578-1652.	1649 (1649)	Wing S2314; Thomason E530_31; ESTC R203433	11,345	8

consider whether they that took that Oath are not bound to resist that force if they have any power and to help to settle the Heir or if they want power yet not to submit willingly to that force in opposition to that right and in violation of that Oath Though the Covenant speaks not of the Allegiance to Heirs and Successors yet the Protestation refers unto it in terminis And that we suppose binds us to endeavour the succession of the Heir Else how could the Lady Iane be a Traitor against Qu Mary whose claim of the Crown an tecedent to the others enjoyment could only be a crime because it prejudiced the Heir in hindering as much as in her was the succession Nor could any thing be Treason which is only derogatory to the succession And if such as at any time have power debar a rightfull Heir they must not be punished afterward when the other is stronger because the strength of the former made it no crime at the time when it was done However the many obligations to Monarchy as well as to the partia●●●● Monarch are obligatory though there were a doubt concerning the person We cannot close with such a party we think but we become accessaries post sacsum to what perhaps it is impossible at present to be helped At last he puts a quaerie While the Son is in the same posture with the Father how comes this Oath to plead for disobedience in regard of the Son that was asleep and silent in regard of the Father The answer is 1. The Son is not altogether in the same posture with the Father for the Father was in Arms against a lawfull and coordinate Authority of the Kingdom but the Son now is claiming his own right as Heir to the Crown hath a good cause so far and a just claim opposing not the same power as some think but unlawfull Martiall usurpation over his own personall rights and over the three Estates the sundamentall Authority of this Kingdom the King Lords and Commons 2. The Father himself was under those pretended crimes for which he was put to death then and before the Covenant was taken to preserve his person and the King the Law 〈◊〉 never dies 3. Disobedience was not pleaded to his Authoritative will but his personall will and so the objection was neither silent nor asleep in regard of the Father but all things being acted is the name of the King and Parliament his Title was both acknowledged and asserted which is now otherwise when in regard both of the Son and of Monarchy it self it is disclaimed 4 If the Son were in any crime equall with the Father yet the right or Title to the Crown upon his Father dea●● doth quit him from all stain by the Laws of the Land Therefore obedience may be due to him and the Oath may stand up to plead for disobedience to usurped power in regard of the Son which was asleep and silent in regard of the father For a conclusion of all If men were as sensible of duty as they are of danger and more af●●●● to sin than to suffer I am very confideut that such weak shifts as large consciences can finde 〈◊〉 help them swallow a Cammell who heretosoth strained at a gnat and such consulting with 〈◊〉 and bloud would have no place with them I shall only make two requests One that the Auth●●● of the Tract would consider seriously whether the maintaining and abetting those that 〈◊〉 with the fist of wickednesse be the way to peace The Other That the Lord would guide all L●●●● of truth and peace into the way of peace which is Righteousnesse and that be would grant 〈◊〉 all the people of the Land faithfullnesse to their Oathes and Covenants and sincerity and uprightnesse of heart that they may have no fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darknesse but rather reprove them FINIS EPHESIANS 5.11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darknesse but rather reprove them 1 TIMOTHY 5.22 Neither be partaker of other mens sinnes