Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	lord_n	word_n	2,657	5	4.0729	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94767	Obedience perpetually due to kings, because the kingly power is inseparable from the one kings person. Delivered in a sermon to Mr. Peter Gunning's congregation in Exeter Chappel, near the Savoy, on the appointed Thanksgiving-day, June 28. 1660. By William Towers, Batchelor in Divinity, and curate at Upton near Northampton.	Towers, William, 1617?-1666.	1660 (1660)	Wing T1960; Thomason E1040_6; ESTC R207897	13,616	23

OBEDIENCE Perpetually due to KINGS Because the KINGLY POWER Is Inseperable from the ONE King's Person Delivered in a SERMON to Mr. PETER GVNNING'S Congregation in Exeter Chappel near the Savoy On the appointed Thanksgiving-day June 28. 1660. By WILLIAM TOWERS Batchelor in Divinity and Curate at Vpton near Northampton LONDON Printed by R. D. for Thomas Rooks and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Holy Lamb at the East end of S. Paul's 1660. TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY Most dreadly lov'd Sovereign I Am still upon the part of a Divine Adventurer when I thought I should have been secur'd at the Insuring Office by the Advantage of Leisure In this I have only told the Subjects of their Dutie and had not Time to inform them of the successe and Blessednesse of that Loyaltie which would have brib'd them into an obedience to your Sacred Majesty and a thankefulnesse at least a pardon for these Allegiant Instructions I have therefore onely told them of the former because in the pursuit of Businesse and flight of Time I was so suddenly engag'd upon the Vocal delivery of this immediately after the forming of it by a Night-pen that nothing but the zealous Vocalnesse could have held my eyes waking Ingag'd upon it by the irresistible Importunity of a Second Hammond Mr. T. Pierce so I call him for his Early and eminently Learned Love and Truth to God's King and Church for both of which and for one Reason more he is the Desire of our eyes because His Ripenesse having long since anticipated His Years He in some measure resembles that King whom during all His Exile he hath so Industriously honoured so wisely and beneficially to the King's Liege People to the very making of them Liege People to the King as if present amongst us since that Heathen Complement Caesaribus virtus contigit ante Diem hath been a Christian sober Character more of your Royal Father and of his Royal Son than of all the Princes in Europe before you Most Royal Sir Though most of your Pulpit-Subjects are abler yet every one of them my very Fathers too must pardon me that I am not able to yield to any in a zeal and Duty to my King to the very laying downe of my life at His Feet and for His Service no not to those to whom under my King I vehemently desire to swear a Canonical Obedience because then I must take two Oaths more those of Allegiance and Supremacy Adeo tenuis Animas ferit aemula Virtus Your Majesties most bounden Subject by all the Ties of Religion William Towers Psal 21. v. 1. former part The King shall joy in thy strength O Lord. ' T Is a Day of joy of joy in the Lord in the Lord for the King we have It and Them in the Text 'T is an Hebrew Text and as in such Books we must begin at the end at O Lord before we come to The King 't is He that hath help'd us to Him Without God it were above the strength of Man to obtain the wisdom of Man to execute an office of such difficulty such opposition Nihil difficilius quàm imp●rare when Hell and enmity trample down a Throne 't is hard to get up upon it quàm bene Imperare hard to rule well though there be a most towardly tractable and loyal people a persecuted David though strong enough to bend a bow of steel Psal 18.34 will not yet trust in his bow neither shall his Sword save him Psal 44.6 Both his own hands are two feeble the Sword in his Right and the Bow in his Left too weak both Gods hands are not too strong to them to both of them he flies Thou O God hast a mighty arm strong is thy hand and high is thy right hand Psal 89.13 not only the Hand and the Arm of God Immortalia mortaliser Lucr. mone notantes but both my hands in the Chaldee shall be ready for his help such a humane impassibility to recover did we lie and groan under that we are driven to finde out such a Mighty Text such a powerfull two-handed God to save us so well and gratefully on David's part and on ours too might that very God who was his strength be also his song Psal 118.14 so joyfull a song and so like the ever-beginning because endlesse eternity that this very day we do but continue to begin it What shall we do the place we are in requires Method that subject we handle does almost preclude it and yet are there not Pulpit as well as street-Raptures is there not sometimes a commendable Immethodicall stile as well as alwayes a lawfull Immethodicall extasie and yet as we have a long little time for pleasant dayes are short as December even then whilst they are long as June joy'd at all adventure without the leisure of strict consult ation without the discression of confining order for there is nothing which Philosophy treates of more unbounded and irregular more dilated and unphilosophicall than excesse of joy rather than quite faile make we some pretence to the usefulnesse of division and parts such a division as this such parts as these Be the division this O Lord the King the first General shall joy in thy strength the second Be the parts these In the first Generall humbly compare we in one word the late low state of our King with that of his Lord. In a second consider we that the Kingly Power is preferrable to every other species of D●mination In a third that a Kings power is inseparable from his Person In a fourth the reason of the former because a King is invested with Power from God In a fifth the use of all that it is therefore sin to oppose the Kingly power all this hinted to us out of the conjunction of these words O Lord the King In the second Generall take we notice of the miseryes we escape of the blessings we obtaine by having a King the King the true King Gods King the Anointed of the Lord over us the materiall cause of our joy and Thanksgiving And then posita causa sequitur effectus the cause preceding the effect must follow joy in the second The King shall joy c. O Lord the King I have elsewhere told others that 's the Grammar of the text A Jove principium sayes a Heathen and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Father we must begin and end with God the text does both the Lord is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the end in the position of the words and the begining in the construction The first part is that the King hath power in all lowlynesse in that very lownesse of the King conferring his with that of God O Lord the King It 's a question which St. Austin would not determine L. 12. De Civit 15. but doubt of whether God were Dominus ab aeterno Tertullian against Hermogenes affirms that God did