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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	prince_n	war_n	3,016	5	6.3180	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56735	An answer to a printed letter to Dr. W.P. concerning non-resistance and other reasons for not taking the Oathes with some queries to the non-swearers in a postscript.	Payne, William, 1650-1696.	1690 (1690)	Wing P895; ESTC R1141	15,859	42

however take away the Act of Henry the Seventh about those who adhere to the King in Possession but what you add to it is very Considerable and the greatest though shortest thing in your whole Letter for as to the business of Non-Resistance I take that to be very impertinent to the Clergy's taking the Oaths and to concern only a very few others which is this So long as Allegiance is thus due to the Rightful King you would be very kind if you would shew those that are dissatisfied that they may transfer it to any other without Sin Now Sir in answer to this I must own that I know not how Allegiance can be due to two Kings at once to a King de jure and a King de facto no one can actually serve two such Masters but if our Law allow such a distinction which I am not at present to dispute then it must by requiring Allegiance to the King de facto discharge us at that time from the Allegiance due to the King de jure and transfer it to the other if there be such a Law and Constitution of the Kingdom for the sake of Publick Peace and the security of private Persons I would know what Law of God there is against it And then whether a Man may not without sin submit to it and take the benefit of it But I think Allegiance to a Rightful King ceases by his ceasing to be King and then it may be easily known know it comes to be transfer'd to another As to the 12 Carol. 2. c. 30. That neither the Peers of this Land nor the Commons nor both together in Parliament or out of Parliament nor the People Collectively or Representatively nor any other persons whatsoever have any Coercive power over the Persons of the Kings of this Realm This will be readily owned you know by me who do not think that our Government is such as that of the Lacedemonians under their Kings and Ephori and by all but those who are of the mind of the Judges of Charles the First had those who were chiefly concerned in the late revolution bin of another Opinion K. James had bin stopt from going either to France or to Ireland Our Peers and Commons in Parliament did not use any Coercive power over King James nor give any proper judicial Sentence against him to exclude him the Government as having any Superiority or Sovereignty over him but only declared the throne Vacant of him for many Reasons and that William and Mary were King and Queen of this Realm and this they did not as formal Judges but as Arbitrators made so by the necessity of the Circumstances we were then in and however you may dislike their award and Arbitrement for which they alone are answerable yet if as private Persons you may not submit to it you must break up the World and disband the Society of Mankind and necessarily run into a state of War and Confusion and we shall be hardly able to live under any Government whatsoever However you do not think I suppose that a Foreign Prince is tyed up and obliged by that Statute against making War upon a King of England when he supposes him to have done him an otherwise irreparable injury nor are the Nation hindered hereby from going over to the just side or bound to assist their Prince in an unjust Cause especially when they know it would have bin to their own certain Destruction Thus I think the Matter might be stated without touching upon any of those Statutes you mention or the Doctrine of Non-Resistance and Passive Obedience which lye far enough out of the way from hindering our taking the Oathes or coming into the Government though you think fit to throw them in as Rubs to keep you from both but you desire me not to shift of the matter to a Conquest which is neither owned by King nor People and yet may be true enough in point of Conscience though not insisted on in point of Prudence Nor to a Vacancy by a voluntary Desertion which is a falsity in matter of Fact and yet if it be well considered it will amount to as much as if he had bin brought to a Resignation under his hand and may as well satisfie any Mans Conscience for that might with as much reason be supposed to be as little Voluntary and not without a design of returning to his Government again if he could but this I dare assure you is true in matter of Fact that King James rather chose to go away than to tarry and call a Parliament and give thereby a reasonable Security to the Nation against Popery and Destruction and this was not only Voluntary but Deliberate too and upon the Advice of his Popish Counsellors and so far it was a Voluntary Desertion As to the Case of Non-Resistance what I have ever taught from the Press or the Pulpit in neither of which Chair I pretend to be Infallible or have in a solemn manner professed that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take up arms against the King or any Commissioned by him I did it as you hope and God is my Witness in the sincerity of my heart for the good of the World and Peace of Mankind as I thought it agreeable to the Law of God and the Law of the Land and I do not think that either this or any other Wise Government will think it a dangerous Opinion or oblige any Divine to Renounce or Recant it and if any unseen and extraordinary Case should ever happen to be an exception against it I am clearly of the mind 't is much better to let it alone to provide for it self when it comes then to mention it in a Sermon or Practical Discourse and fill Peoples Heads with a Nicety they may be too apt to abuse As to give you a plain Case if you were to Preach against Stealing and taking away another mans Goods without his consent and were showing the great Mischief and Unlawfulness of it in all Cases and how contrary it was both to the good of the World and to the Laws of God and of Man you would not I suppose think it Necessary or Prudent to acquaint your Auditory with that extraordinary Case of a Mans Stealing for the support of his Life when he must otherwise starve though you with Thomas Aquinas and other Divines thought it lawful to do so in such a Case of Necessity The Case of Non-Resistance however high it was carried in all the likely and practical Cases to stop most of the Holes at which Treason and Rebellion might be then apt to break out or at least through which Factious Spirits might as they pleased creep out of that ordinary Duty and Obedience they owed to the Government and have too many others to follow them and so embroil and disturb the World by disobeying and resisting as they thought fit so that if we would speak to any purpose it was