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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	justice_n	king_n	law_n	4,449	5	4.8812	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87872	The martyrdome of King Charles, or His conformity with Christ in his sufferings. In a sermon on I Cor. 2.8. / preached at Bredah, before his Maiesty of Great Britaine, and the Princesse of Orange. By the Bishop of Downe. June 3. 13. 1649.	Leslie, Henry, 1580-1661.	1649 (1649)	Wing L1164; Thomason E569_10; ESTC R22162	31,059	32

us be zealous to advance the Kingdom of our glorious martyr in the person of his Sonne Let the same spirit inflame us which came upon Amasa 1 Chr. 22.11 Then the spirit came upon Amasa and he said thine are we O David and on thy side thou sonne of Jesse peace peace be unto thee and to thine helpers for thy God helpeth thee Indeed God is the Guardian of Kings hath a speciall care of their preservation because they are his Deputies and Vicegerents on Earth by whom he procureth the safety of his people And therefore he hath been often seen to stretch out his naked arme for their defence And his arm now is not shortned nor his affection changed and therefore in his own good time when he hath chastized us for our sins he will certainly Sir look upon the justice of Your cause he will bruise your Enemies with a rod of Iron he will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel for Your cause is Gods own cause And as it is Gods cause so it is the cause of all Kings they are deeply concerned in it and ought to pursue those bloudy Paracides who now invade your Throne tanquam hostes humani generis as the common Enemies of mankind and violaters of the law of nature who have dissolved the bonds of humane society and overthrowne the order of God and nature ANd now to draw to a conclusion I will reflect a little upon my Text. The Apostle tels us Iam. 3.17 that the ignorance of the wisdom of God led the Jews to the committing of that horrible murther For if they had known it they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory I may say so much of the murtherers of our Soveraigne they were ignorant of the wisdom of God because utterly destitute of the true Religion for the true Religion is the wisdom of God The wisdome that is from above which as St. James sayes is first pure then peaceable c. The true Religion is said to be pure because as Lactantius observes it allows of nothing which in it self is evill or known to be evill by the light of nature and so it alloweth in no way of any Rebellion against Princes The true Religion delivered unto us in Scripture and ●●●●ed in the true ancient and Catholick Church doth teach us to honour and obey the King as Gods Minister set over us and ●hat the injuries of Kings though never so great are to be indured by their Subjects who have no othe● remedy and are to use no other Arms against their King be he never so wicked but prayers and tears that they are to pray for him unto God who hath the hearts of King in his hand and can turn them when he thinks fit That in no case they are to resi●● the King by force nor take upon them to judge him bec●a●e he hath no Superior here on Earth but is reserved to Gods tribunall to whom only he oweth an account of his actions As for that doctrine of opposing deposing and killing of Kings it was first brocht in the Court of Rome a thousand yeers after Christ to maintain the Popes faction against the Emperor and other Princes and hath been since hotly defended by the Jesuits and others of the Popes parasites and what they have spued out of their mouth the Puritanes have licked up borrowing all their arguments and indeed have gone so far beyond their Masters in all treasonable doctrins and practice that in comparison of them even the Jesuits now may be accounted loyall Subjects But that is not the wisdom of God But the wisdom of this world that come to nought Vers 6. James 3.15 That wisdome descendeth not from above but is earthly sensual axd divellish The Church of England did abhor that doctrine of resistance and in the point of subjection as in other things followed the true ancient Catholick Church That Religion onely among all Christian Religions doth promise safety and security to Kings submitting them neither to Pope Parliament Presbytery nor People but unto God only by whom and from whom they raigne In the profession and maintenance of that Religion which your glorious Father seal'd with his bloud God will yet establish your Throne and make you to possesse the Gates of your enemies which Almighty God grant c. FINIS