Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	king_n	london_n	parliament_n	5,929	4	6.4949	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94112	A sudden essay or subitaneous conceit occasioned by the last clause in the second quære upon the armies late declaration / by a lover of truth, and a constant friend to the quiet and repose of his native countrey.		1647 (1647)	Wing S6142; Thomason 669.f.11[51]; ESTC R210575	2,152	1

A sudden Essay or subitaneous Conceit occasioned by the last Clause in the second Quaere upon the Armies late Declaration by a lover of Truth and a constant Friend to the quiet and repose of his native Countrey The Clause of that second is Whether their refusall to dis-band or to remove farther off from London or obey the Parliaments present just Commands upon what ever specious printed pretexts be not a very sad publique president likely to conjure up a spirit of Universall Disobedience to Parliaments Magistrates and superiours of all sorts throughout the Kingdome to its utter ruine if not timously prevented disliked opposed by all well-wishers to the weal and tranquility of Church and State MEthinks Sir you should have consulted with your fellow-Advocates for defensive Armes who will Authorize against the Oxonians and legitimate such an armed resistance of all destructive Commands from any superiours whatsoever without all feare of overthrowing government or obedience whom the Author of that seasonable advice to the City of London seemeth to follow confidently averring that neither Fathers Masters Kings nor Parliaments are to be obeyed if they command things unnaturall impious or unjust Nay that they are to be resisted whensoever they reach towards the ruine or bondage of those who trust them and that he who assisteth not to their suppression shall be guilty of siding with the murderous malefactours c. If you say he is a partiall Advocate for the Armies party then I must tell you by the pretty title in probability he is and hath been an able Proctour and studious Solicitor to the Parliament But because in favour of tyranny as some say you urge here the inconvenience of subverting all Authority and hint so heavily upon a sin which our surly adversaries the Royall Doctors do so sadly damne from Rom. 13. that they doe privately conceit and publikely proclaime how that many of the Parliament side must needs in trouble of spirit wish that very Text expunged Therefore for mine own and others satisfaction I onely crave unto some Quaeres upon that Text your punctuall resolution the onely Antidote to preserve from error and remove all doubt as touching the chiefest thing in debate 1. WHether it enjoyne subjection active and passive unto all manner of Magistrates though entring the office by fraud treason or tyrannous usurpation and exercising the same by acting arbitrarily and setting forth Edicts authorizing all injustice or onely unto such as lawfully enter the office and rightly exercise the same If you maintaine the former you avow the arrant flattery of Anaxarchus so much abominated by John Bodin If the latter you comply with Thrasimachus in Plato viz. That a Magistrate cannot erre as a Magistrate for in that he erreth he digresseth from the rule of his office in which exorbitancy neither person nor action can retaine any stamp of Power and Authority Let us therefore see how you can by any reason divine or humane regulate limit or circumscribe the Authority or Power of the Magistrate and not by the same rule make him resistable 2. How it may appeare from any part of Christs Testament that ever he intended to have any sort of persons especially in a meere Christian society under any pretext whatsoever in the exercise of injustice rapine murder or tyranny to be held sacred and inviolable 3. Seing that all along Pauls time the chiefe Magistrates as Histories manifest have spared onely the base and bad that they might have upon whom to exercise the burning ardour of Domination and raged onely against the good and worthy least there should be any that would or could resist them In what sense could the Apostle promise from the Magistrate praise and security to the pious upon their uprightnesse and well-doing 4. Doth Paul here authorize error falshood vice and iniquity most often possessing the chaire of Authority with power of definitive judgement over laws and persons and so to try sentence and punish truth vertue and innocency which are bound to submit without verball or reall opposition after the Apostolicall example of such as were enabled thereunto by the Spirit powred out according to promise Joel 2. And whether the sheepish sufferings of such as wanting the same Spirit will yet from humor or heat of proceeding against the violence of power or impression of danger imitate those supernaturall examples tend not to the great encouragement of tyrants whilst their constancy is interpreted folly and obstinacy and their patience and silence after such extraordnary patterns is mistaken for the weaknesse of an indefensible cause 5. Whether the Ordinance of our God who is goodnesse it selfe can ever tend to the trouble ruine or affliction of his own children when they are most obedient to his will 6. Whether the weaknesse of our condition onely doe absolutely require that Law-givers and Law-rulers must be held in undoubted admiration without which advantage no wit of man can ever secure order and government from subversion 7. Whether this Text doe not enjoyne more obedience to the Army in the upright prosecution of just and honest designes then was ever due to the Caesars in their vsurpation or is now to the Othoman family in the administration of the Empire or whether time and custome onely can legitimate violence and tyranny and canonize the same for an Ordinance of Christ 8. Whether you your selfe have not knowne this very Text of late yeares to have been irreligiously wrested rejected and taken up againe by all sorts of time-serving Zealots with a strange impudence and unheedinesse If you please to satisfie my scruple in these particulars I shall presently pay all humble obedience unto the Parliament and as freely reprove the Army without feare of their shot and powder Postscript The Corrector to the Reader THe Author of these Quaeres as himselfe said taking notice of the zealous digladiation now stirring between some aemulous Antagonists saw them effeminately chiding and by light skirmishing daily encreasing the difficulty But never kindly closing like brave spirits more covetous of truth then victory Therefore as an essaying prabationer made to submit unto common and lawfull resolution he published this subitane apprehension therein addressing himselfe unto the onely determining man of England hoping that for the Publike satisfaction he will briefly and rightly represent the sense of the rule so that we may all submit and stagger no longer in uncertainty