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cause_n	great_a	know_v	see_v	5,670	5	3.0830	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78586	The true lavv of free monarchy, or The reciprocall and mutuall duty betvvixt a free king and his naturall subjects. By a well affected subject of the kingdome of Scotland.; True lawe of free monarchies	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2; Wing J145; Thomason E238_23; ESTC R6414	20,111	16

THE TRVE LAVV OF FREE MONARCHY OR THE RECIPROCALL and mutuall duty betvvixt a free KING and His natural Subjects By a well affected subject of the Kingdome of SCOTLAND LONDON Printed and are to be sold by T. P. in Queens-head-Alley in Pater noster-row 1642. An Advertisement to the Reader ACcept I pray you my deare Countrey-men as thankfully this Pamphlet that I offer unto you as lovingly it is written for your weale I would be loath both to be faschious and fectlesse And therefore if it be not sententious at least it is short It may be ye misse many thing that ye look for in it But for excuse thereof consider rightly that I only lay down herein the true grounds to teach you the right way without wasting time upon refuting the adversaries And yet I trust if ye will take narrow tent ye shall find most of their great guns payed home again either with contrary conclusions or tacite objections suppose in a dairned forme and indirectly For my intention is to instruct and not irritat if I may eschew it The profit I would wish you to make of it is as wel so to frame all your actions according to these grounds as may confirme you in the course of honest and obedient subjects to your King in all times comming as also when ye shall fall in purpose with any that shall praise or excuse the by-past rebellions that break forth either in this Countrey or in any other ye shall herewith be armed against their Siren songs laying their particular examples to the square of these grounds Whereby ye shall soundly keep the course of righteous Iudgement discerning wisely of every action only according to the quality thereof and not according to your prejudged conceits of the committers So shall ye by reaping profit to your selves turne my paine into pleasure But least the whole Pamphlet run out at the gaping mouth of this Preface if it were any more enlarged I end with committing you to God and me to your charitable censures C. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The true Law of free Monarchies Or the reciprocke and mutuall duty betwixt a free King and his naturall Subjects AS there is not a thing so necessary to be known by the people of any Land next the knowledge of their God as the right knowledge of their alleageance according to the forme of Government established among them especially in a Monarchy which forme of Government as resembling the Divinity approcheth nearest to perfection as all the learned and wise men from the beginning have agreed upon Vnity being the perfection of all things So hath the ignorance and which is worse the seduced opinion of the multitude blinded by them who think themselves able to teach and instruct the ignorants procured the wrack and and overthrow of sundry flourishing Common-wealths and heaped heavy calamities threatning utter destruction upon others And the smiling successe that unlawfull rebellions have oftentimes had against Princes in ages past such hath been the misery and iniquity of the time hath by way of practise strengthned many in their error albeit there cannot be a more deceivable argument then to judge by the justnesse of the cause by the event thereof as hereafter shall be proved more at length And among others no Common-wealth that ever hath been since the beginning hath had greater need of the true knowledge of this ground then this our so long disordered and distracted Common-wealth hath the misknowledge hereof being the only spring from whence have flowed so many endlesse calamities miseries and confusions as is better felt by many than the cause thereof well known and deeply considered The natural zeale therfore that I beare to this my native Country with the great pity I have to see the so-long disturbance therof for lack of the true knowledg of this ground as I have said before hath compelled me at last to break silence to discharge my conscience to you my deare Countrymen herein that knowing the ground from whence these your many endles troubles have proceeded as well as ye have already too-long tasted the bitter fruits thereof ye may by knowledge and eschewing of the cause escape and divert the lamentable effects that ever necessarily follow thereupon I have chosen then only to set down in this short Treatise the true grounds of the mutuall duty and allegeance betwixt a free and absolute Monarche and his people not to trouble your patience with answering the contrary propositions which some hath not been ashamed to set down in writ to the poysoning of infinite number of simple soules and their own perpetuall and well deserved infamy For by answering them I could not have eschewed whiles to pick and bite well saltly their persons which would rather have bred contentiousnesse among the readers as they had liked or misliked then sound instruction of the truth Which I protest to him that is the searcher of all hearts is the only mark that I shoot at herein First then I will set down the true grounds whereupon I am to build out of the Scriptures since Monarchy is the true pattern of Divinity as I have already said next from the fundamentall Laws of our own Kingdome which nearest must concerne us thirdly from the Law of nature by divers similitudes drawn out of the same and will conclude sinne by answering the most waighty and appearing incommodities that can be objected The Princes duty to his subjects is so clearly set down in many places of the Scriptures and so openly confessed by all the good Princes according to their oath in their Coronation as not needing to belong therein I shall as shortly as I can run through it Kings are called Gods by the Propheticall King David Psal 82.6 because they sit upon God his throne in the earth and have the count of their administration to give unto him Their office is To minister justice and judgement to the people as the same David saith Psal 101. 2 King 18. 2 Chro 29. 2 Kin 22. 23.2.34 35. Psal 72 1 King 3. Rom. 13. 1 Sam. 8. Ier 29. To advance the good and punish the evill as he likewise saith To establish good laws to his people and procure obedience to the same as divers good Kings of Judah did To procure the peace of the people as the same David saith To decide all controversies that can arise among them as Salomon did To be the Minister of God for the weale of them that do well and as the Minister of God to take vengeance upon them that do evill as S. Paul saith And finally As a good Pastor to go out and in before his people as is said in the first of Samuel That through the Princes prosperity the peoples peace may be procured as Jeremy saith And therefore in the Coronation of our own Kings as well as of every Christian Monarch they give their oath first to maintain the Religion presently professed within their Countrey