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city_n	holy_a	jerusalem_n	temple_n	4,467	4	7.9697	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15494	A loyal subiects looking-glasse, or A good subiects direction necessary and requisite for euery good Christian, liuing within any ciuill regiment or politique state, to view, behold, and examine himselfe in, that he may the better frame the course of his life, according to the true grounds of the duties of an honest and obedient subiect to his king, and to arme himselfe against all future syren songs, and alluring intisements of subtill, disloyall, dissembling, and vnnaturall conspirators, traitors, and rebels. Collected for the most part out of both olde and later writers, whose names are in the next page set downe. Wherevnto are brieflie added sixe speciall causes of vndutifull subiects disloyaltie. By William Willymat.	Willymat, William, d. 1615.	1604 (1604)	STC 25761; ESTC S120179	57,436	78

things most vnhonorable yea worthy of death Exo. 21.17 Exo. 22.18 Prou. 20.17 How honour is to be giuen to magistrates in talking with them And as honour is to be giuen and exhibited to higher powers and states in talking of them so is it also in talking to and with them as in giuing them their honorable right and iust titles thereby in speach to declare a due and worthy reuerence and estimation of them when any talke is had with or before them 1. Pet. 3.6 Mark 10.17 1. Sam. 14.15 In letting them speak before vs. Iob. 32.6.7.17 in keeping a reuerent silence in courts and iudgment places in their presence vntill we be bidden speake and then not to be sawsie or malapert in words before them The third kind of honour due vnto superiours Act. 24.10 The third thing way or meanes by which superiours are to be honored may appeare in the subiects behauiour and gesture in their presence as in bowing the knees to them Mark 10.17 Gen. 18.2 In standing by them when they sit downe Gen. 18.8 Exo. 18.13 In giuing them the chiefe feats 1. King 2.19 Luk. 14.7.8.9 In reuerent rising vp before them as they passe by Leu. 19.32 In meeting them as they come towards vs. The fourth kind of honour due vnto superiours Gen. 18.2 1. King 2.19 Fourthly they are to be honored inwardly in the very secret mind and affection that is their subiects are to thinke honorably louingly and reuerently of them from their very hearts acknowledging them to be the deputies and ministers of God prouided and sent of God for their weale and the rather to moue subiects more willingly and readily to yeeld them their due honour they must learne know and consider that whosoeuer honoureth the deputie is counted thereby to honour him that appointed the deputy and whosoeuer despiseth him whom God hath sent despiseth therin God the sender and whosoeuer perswadeth himselfe that externall honouring of his Prince is sufficient Eccl. 10.20 though inwardly in his heart he foster harbour a contemptuous malicious and rebellious thought that man is altogether deceiued in such his conceite for that subiects conscience that is guilty of dishonorable and quarrelsome thoughts against his supreme head and gouernour though he keepe it neuer so secret is wreacked and such a one is giuen ouer vnto other vncōscionable faults Epist Iud. 8 as S. Iude witnesseth That they are filthy persons that despise gouernment And therfore as subiects do feare to be deliuered vp into a reprobate mind The beginning of all conspiracies treasons c. arise from the heart that first faileth in honouring the highest povvers and tender the works of godlines in themselues let them tenderly keepe the houourable reuerence of their Prince in their minds inward affections and in the reines of their consciences for the neglect and smal regarde and care hereof hath bin the very fountaine and well-spring of all conspiracies treasons and open rebellions to the ruine and vtter confusion of thousands And thus farre concerning the third thing due vnto Caesar CHAP. IIII. Concerning prayer the fourth duty of a loyall subiect AS euery faithfull and loyall subiect is to giue vnto Caesar obedience feare honor as here before in this present treatise you haue hard it plainly laide downe prooued so likewise for a fourth duty are all true harted subiects boūd taught and commaunded by God in his blessed and sacred word to pray and call vpon him for the prosperous estate good successe and long continuance of kings 1. Tim. 2.1.2 Iere. 29.7 Baru● 1.11 princes and all such as are set in authority that the societie and companie of mankinde may liue quietly and peaceably vnder them considering how burthensome crownes scepters how hard the welding of them is and how difficult a matter it is to discharge them well whether it be in respect of themselues or of their subiects They must be prayed for that they may haue Gods fauour and his needfull protection from all wicked treacherous and rebellious assaults both of forreine enemies and home-borne desperate male-contented dissembling hypocritish corner-creeping conspiratours they must be prayed for vnto the Almightie that he would direct guide and lead them in such wayes as are most acceptable to himselfe that he would preserue them from all euill What things especially are to be prayed for in the behalfe of kings princes c. they must be prayed for that they may haue the honour and feare of God before their eyes as the only marke to aime at in all their proceedings and purposes and that they may be endued from aboue with the gifts of knowledge prudence Iustice temperance fortitude vpright seueritie discreet clemencie and an earnest zeale of Gods glorie Gods truth and of the welfare of their poore subiects committed to their charge They are to be prayed for that like as God hath deliuered and put his sword into their hands so he would take their hearts into his hands Things to be begged by praver in the behalfe of kings princes c. and so temper and guide them that they may vse his sword according to his owne will and pleasure for the cherishing and praise of their wel-doing subiects but to take vengeance on them that do euill and finally that they may set before their eyes meditate and consider well of the good and imitable examples of good godly and vertuous Kings Princes Iudges and gouernours as of Dauid Ezechias Iosias Moses and such other like vnto these commended in holy scriptures whose paths they may tread whose famous godly and zealous actes they may follow Thus in old time God commaunded the Iewes to pray for the life of Nabuchodonazer and for the prosperitie of Babilon as in Ierem. 29.7 And in Baruch 1.11 Pray saith he for the life of Nabuchodonazer king of Babilon for the life of Baltazar his sonne that their dayes may be on earth as the dayes of heauen c. Thus many yeares afterward did S. Paul exhort 1. Tim. 2.1.2.3 that supplications prayers intercessions and giuing of thankes be made for all men for Kings and for all that are in authoritie that wee may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all godlinesse and honestie for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Sauiour And who was that King Nabuchodorazer What a kinde of king Nabuchodonazer vvas for vvhō God cōmanded prayer to be made that the Prophet so exhorted the people to pray so for him and his sonne Baltasar It was euen such a one as had with sword and fire ouer-runne their whole land burned their countrie their townes and cities yea euen Hierusalem it selfe wherein was the holy temple of the Lord that they trusted so much vnto such a one as had slaine their king their nobles their parents children kins folkes and friends and had carryed them away captiues to Babylon he was an Heathen king a