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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	england_n	king_n	supremacy_n	3,160	5	10.3449	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50955	The tenure of kings and magistrates proving that it is lawfull, and hath been held so through all ages, for any who have the power, to call to account a tyrant, or wicked king, and after due conviction, to depose and put the author, J.M.	Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1649 (1649)	Wing M2181; ESTC R21202	25,266	46

lawfull But this I doubt not to affirme that the Presbyterians who now so much condemn deposing were the men themselves that deposd the King and cannot with all thir shifting and relapsing wash off the guiltiness from thir owne hands For they themselves by these thir late doings have made it guiltiness and turnd thir owne warrantable actions into Rebellion There is nothing that so actually makes a King of England as righful possession and Supremacy in all causes both civil and Ecclesiastical and nothing that so actually makes a Subject of England as those two Oaths of Allegeance and Supremacy observd without equivocating or any mental reservation Out of doubt then when the King shall command things already constituted in Church or State obedience is the true essence of a subject either to doe if it be lawful or if he hold the thing unlawful to submit to that penaltie which the Law imposes so long as he intends to remaine a subject Therefore when the people or any part of them shall rise against the King and his autority executing the Law in any thing establishd civil or Ecclesiastical I doe nor say it is rebellion if the thing commanded though establishd be unlawfull and that they sought first all due means of redress and no man is furder bound to Law but I say it is an absolute renouncing both of Supremacy and Allegeance which in one word is an actual and total deposing of the King and the setting up of another supreme autority over them And whether the Presbyterians have not don all this and much more they will not put mee I suppose to reck'n up a seven yeares story fresh in the memory of all men Have they not utterly broke the Oath of Allegeance rejecting the Kings command and autority sent them from any part of the Kingdom whether in things lawful or unlawful Have they not abjur'd the Oath of Supremacy by setting up the Parlament without the King supreme to all thir obedience and though thir Vow and Covnant bound them in general to the Parlament yet somtimes adhering to the lesser part of Lords and Commons that remaind faithful as they terme it and eev'n of them one while to the Commons without the Lords another while to the Lords without the Commons Have they not still declar'd thir meaning whatever their Oath were to hold them onely for supreme whom they found at any time most yeilding to what they petitiond Both these Oaths which were the straitest bond of an English subject in reference to the King being thus broke and made voide it follows undeniably that the King from that time was by them in fact absolutely deposd and they no longer in reality to be thought his subjects notwithstanding thir fine clause in the Covnant to preserve his person Crown and dignitie set there by som dodging Casuist with more craft then sinceritie to mitigate the matter in case of ill success and not tak'n I suppose by any honest man but as a condition subordinate to every the least particle that might more concern Religion liberty or the public peace To prove it yet more plainly that they are the men who have deposd the King I thus argue We know that King and Subject are relatives and relatives have no longer being then in the relation the relatiō between King and Subject can be no other then regal autority and subjection Hence I inferr past their defending that if the Subject who is one relative takes away the relation of force he takes away also the other relative but the Presbyterians who were one relative that is to say Subjects have for this sev'n years tak'n away the relation that is to say the Kings autoritie and thir subjection to it therfore the Presbyterians for these sev'n yeares have removd and extinguish the other relative that is to say the King or to speake more in brief have depos'd him not onely by depriving him the execution of his autoritie but by conferring it upon others If then thir Oathes of subjection brok'n new Supremacy obey'd new Oaths and Covnants tak'n notwitstanding frivolous evasions have in plaine tearmes unking'd the King much more then hath thir sev'n yeares Warr not depos'd him onely but outlawd him and defi'd him as an alien a rebell to Law and enemie to the State It must needs be cleare to any man not averse from reason that hostilitie and subjection are two direct and positive contraries and can no more in one subject stand together in respect of the same King then one person at the same time can be in two remote places Against whom therfore the Subject is in act of hostility we may be confident that to him he is in no subjection and in whom hostility takes place of subjection for they can by no meanes consist together to him the King can bee not onely no King but an enemie So that from hence wee shall not need dispute whether they have depos'd him or what they have defaulted towards him as no King but shew manifestly how much they have don toward the killing him Have they not levied all these Warrs against him whether offensive or defensive for defence in Warr equally offends and most prudently before hand and giv'n Commission to slay where they knew his person could not bee exempt from danger And if chance or flight had not sav'd him how oft'n had they killd him directing thir Artillery without blame or prohibition to the very place where they saw him stand Have they not converted his revenue to other uses and detain'd from him all meanes of livelyhood so that for them long since he might have perisht or have starv'd Have they not hunted and pursu'd him round about the Kingdom with sword and fire Have they not formerly deny'd to Treat with him and thir now recanting Ministers preach'd against him as a reprobate incurable an enemy to God and his Church markt for destruction and therfore not to bee treated with Have they not beseig'd him and to thir power forbid him Water and Fire save what they shot against him to the hazard of his life Yet while they thus assaulted and endangerd it with hostile deeds they swore in words to defend it with his Crown and dignity not in order as it seems now to a firm and lasting peace or to his repentance after all this blood but simply without regard without remorse or any comparable value of all the miseries and calamities sufferd by the poore people or to suffer hereafter through his obstinacy or impenitence No understanding man can bee ignorant that Covnants are ever made according to the present state of persons and of things and have ever the more general laws of nature and of reason included in them though not express'd If I make a voluntary Covnant as with a man to doe him good and hee prove afterward a monster to me I should conceave a disobligement If I covnant not to hurt an enemie in favor of him and