Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	earth_n	heaven_n	new_a	5,460	4	7.3880	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91892	The peoples plea: fully vindicating the povver and proceedings of the Parliament. Occasioned by a defence of the covenant. /	Robinson, John, prebendary of Westminster.	1646 (1646)	Wing R1697; Thomason E328_3; ESTC R200667	15,619	24

great trust and to controule his actions in case they swerve or decline from the bias of the publike good and here is the Physick I speak of 3 Which controuling if it be withstood and find strong lets and opposition they may lawfully take up Armes without and against the Kings will upon occasion Fourthly and lastly in case there should fall a difference between the King and his Parliament upon or concerning the Premisses it is the safest way for a subject both in conscience and common wisdome to adhere unto the Parliament I know you may doubt of and question all these four particulars according to those principles of Divinity and State which a great faction of your shire and some other places have ignorantly followed I will therefore endeavour to make them all good and clear severally thus That the King is intrusted by the Realme with his Authoritie doth appeare partly because from thence he hath his power partly because he cannot receive his Authoritie or Power from anie other and lastly because the Kingdome hath received a Superiour Authoritie to examine and controule his proceedings The first reason is The King hath his Power from the Kingdome and therefore his Authoritie I must crave leave to distinguish these termes which commonly are confounded and obscure this whole businesse Authoritie then is a right or lawfulnesse to command and to challenge obedience such as all Governours and Magistrates have more or lesse But Power is a lawfull ability to force obedience if upon challenge and command it be denyed These are two different things because they may bee and are many times separated One may have a just and lawfull right to command that wants compulsive meanes for coertion Others may have great strength to force commonly called power that are destitute of authority to command and power is that which in all Governments bears the greatest sway and therefore in the Scripture Rom. 13. and elswhere it is taken concretively for the Governours and Magistrates themselves which have power at command to force obedience unto their commands Now there is no doubt but the King hath full authority to command according to law all such as by law are subject into him But if upon his commands obedience be denyed whence I pray hath he a lawfull ability to force it whence hath he power to make his authority good but from the people of himself he cannot have it being but one man not having the strength of anie more whereas this ability doth require the strength of many Vis unita fortior vis om●ium unita fortissi●… many hands are abler then one but the hands of all ablest of all To keep a strong guard for this purpose especially of strangers Aristotle and all that write of Politie will tell you that it is the propertie of Tyrants nor is such ability P●test●s but Vis violence not power because unlawfull And to keep an Army on foot continually under other pretences thereby to affright and force his subjects is little better Therefore the Kings power must needs come from his owne peoples hands and strength and from the same people must needs come his authoritie therefore If any other should give him authoritie that were not able to make it good by power it were given him but in vaine nor were the people bound to make that good which themselves give not Whence he hath his power then from thence he must needs receive his authority also even from the Kingdome Nor indeed can hee receive it from any other I heare some speak and preach and write also but see no proofe that Kings have their authoritie and power immediately from God And sure if they could fetch downe fire from Heaven as Elias did or strike men dead with the breath of their mouths as S. Peter did for disobedience I should grant their power descended immediately from Heaven But wee neither see nor heare of any such miracles wrought by Kings No power then immediately from God and therefore no authoritie otherwise than all other Magistrates have For as by Gods wisdom Kings do raigne and Princes decree justice Prov. 8. 15. Even so by the same do the Nobles rule and all the Judges of the earth ver 16. And Rom. 13. 1. There is no Power but of God that is as it is expounded in the same place not only ordained but ordred by God secundùm sub supra in severall ranks higher lower Kings then have their power from God no more than inferior Governours Caesar * Ioh. 19. 11. no more than Pilate So far as God approveth of and hath ordained all Societies of mankind and Governments and Governours both high and low so far all authoritie and all power that is employed in discharging and maintaining the same is in generall from God but immediately from the People executing the Ordinance of God And therefore S. Peter Eph. 2. 13. sayes plainly thus Everie Governour both high and low supreme and subordinate is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an humane ordination or creature Now then to answer as the Doctor does that this is taken subjectively in regard of the power it selfe which is from God causally and placed in man as the subject or els to be understood of the qualifications and severall waies of executing that power in severall termes of Government These may seem rather shifts then solutions or expositions the former being strained against the former meaning of the words the latter such as it is not likely S. Peter ever dreamt of being both against the straine of Interpreters For were it so that God immediately gave unto Kings their ruling power First no other forme of Government were lawfull so that Aristocracies and Democracies being humane inventions as Dr. Feanne * Consc satiffied Sect 3. sayes would have no warrant from God for their proceedings and for want of such divine authoritie and power as many ●elons as they executed so many murthers they committed and as many fines or mulcts as they levied so many robberies Mee thinks our neighbours the States of Holland the Swissers Grisons and free Cities of Germany should not rolish well this new doctrine Secondly if Royall Authoritie came altogether from Heaven it should by right be the verie same upon all the earth But we find it far otherwise no two States in the world allowing their Princes the verie same authoritie in all points In some things perhaps the Spanyard hath more than the English in some others the English more than he the French more than both the Dane Swede Polander and Scottish lesse than any of them The Turk Chinoys and other such absolute Princes more than all these Yet all Kings Do some I pray take lesse authoritie than God allowes them or do others take more How may it be knowne how far Gods allowance goes No Scripture doth resolve it And I presume there came no Angell from Heaven to order it These limitations and qualifications of power Dr. Fearne