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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	allegiance_n	law_n	oath_n	1,012	5	7.8657	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95627	A sermon preached at the primary visitation of the Most Reverend Father in God Michael Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh, primate and metropolitan of all Ireland, and lord high chancellor of the same. Held at Drogheda, August 20. 1679. / by Rich. Tenison ...	Tenison, Richard, 1640?-1705.; Boyle, Michael, 1609?-1702.	1679 (1679)	Wing T683; ESTC R184950	25,194	36

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Fortasse reum faciat Regem iniquitas imperandi innocentem verò militem ostendat Ordo serviendi The Magistrate may offend in commanding but not he who obeys the Principium actionis is in him and he must answer for it Thus should we behave our selves when what is commanded is only doubtful or indifferent we should have meekness of Judgment complying and condescending Spirits we should distrust and reject our private humours and fancies for the general quiet of the Kingdom and by our Conformity to the Rules imposed shew our Honour to the King and never resist them unless they be clearly against the revealed Law of God In such case only have we liberty to deny but even then we must refuse it with all humility and meekness patiently undergo Imprisonment or Death but never use any open resistance and thus have all Nations understood the Power and Prerogative of Princes for were there Decrees to be opposed with Force and Violence no Order or Government could be in the World And therefore the very Heathens advise Subjects to dye Tacit rather than lift up a hand against their King though he were Tyrannical and did exact unlawful things The Gods have given Princes Power to govern and nothing is left to the Subject but the Glory of Obedience let them be what they will we must obey without resistance Many are the Laws and most severe were the Punishments which they ordained to defend the Majesty and Grandeur of their Kings their Prefects and Officers if the Souldier broke the Stick with which the Centurion struck him he was put to death This Nature taught them and there is natural Allegiance due from every Subject to the Prince of the Country where he is born though that Prince did not make him swear he transgresses the Law of Nature if he denies Fealty to him and whether ever he is sworn or no he is bound to be true to his native Prince for the Fidelity of Subjects proceeds originally from the Law of Nature which is eternal and unalterable and not from the obligation of Oaths and he violates this Law who doth not pay all Honour and Subjection to that Prince in whose Country he his born and resides though he never took Oath of Allegiance or Supremacy But if my King require an Oath from me to assure him of my Fidelity I must take it and I am guilty of Perjury as well as Disloyalty if I ever swerve the least tittle from it He is the Head of the Society or Community of which I am a member to him before my Oath I owed homage by nature and no Power under Heaven can discharge me from that natural Allegiance which I owe him nor absolve me from the Oath I have taken without his consent Beside all which the Law of God has in many places enjoyned Obedience to Kings and there are not more positive and plainer Commands for any Duty than for Honour Maintenance and Obedience to Princes and we find no persons exempted from it but both Clergy and Laity are subject to it as I shall fully prove by Scripture and Antiquity and all who derogate from the Honour of their native Prince who lessen his Authority and deny his Supremacy act quite contrary to this Text and in so doing are neither good Christians nor good Subjects But they who walk exactly according to this Rule who honour the King and no way entrench upon his Prerogative but support it in its just height and exaltation they are the best Christians and the truest Subjects and consequently ought to receive all Countenance Incouragement and Protection from Princes and so I hast to the next thing 2. Who are the great Violaters of this Text and their unjust Pretences They who chiefly oppose the true Protestant Doctrine of Obedience to Secular Princes are the Papists and the Separatists in this they agree and their Principles are very destructive to Government quite contrary to the Practice of the Primitive Christians and the indispensable Rules of Scripture for the Law of God requireth all persons to obey their Kings if St. Peters words can have any influence on the Papists I need but name my Text which has no limitation in it but is directed to all men not imagining his Successors would have pretended the contrary but if they won't be concluded by him in this and other Texts let them hear what St. Paul says Ro. 13.1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher Powers if every soul must be subject the Pope and the Clergy are included and all are there commanded to obey under the dreadful penalty of Damnation But the Popes have since through Ambition and Avarice usurped a Power over Princes and the Jesuits the great Pillars of the Papal Throne have wrote much in defence of it though they can't but know that the Popes themselves observed this Rule for many hundreds of years and all the Bishops both of the East and West did exactly conform unto it L. 5. Orat in Aux Repugnare non novi dolere potero potero flere potero gemere lachrymae meae arma sunt c. says St. Amb. They claimed no Authority over them and made no resistance but with their Prayers and Tears Cum nefanda perpetimur ne verbo quidem reluctamur sed Deo remittimus ultionem Lact. l. 5. And Athanasius says Obedience to Magistrates was the universal Doctrine of the Church the antient Councils and Synods were called by the Emperours the Titles of their Acts are Sacra Synodus juxta religiosissimorum Christianissimor úmque Imperatorum nostrorum Praescriptum coacta Sacra Synodus juxta piissimorum nostrorum Imperatorum Decretum per Dei gratia m congregata Sometimes the Acts run Ex Jussu Ex Evocatione Ex Ordinatione Regum nostrorum c. They met by the Emperours Order Appointment and Writs 2 Cone Const as they acknowledge in their Letters to them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and their Acts were made Authentick by their Confirmation The Bishops humble Addresses to the Emperours for Establishing their Canons and Decres and their Ratifications and Orders for Obedience to them are frequently recorded and all the Clergy of Rome as well as other places observed their Edicts and no news then of the Popes Supremacy as is confess'd by the Bishops who met at Bononia to settle the Church in the time of Julius the Third which Power did all along both under the Law and the Gospel belong unto Princes If you look in the Old Testament you 'l find they had power over the Clergy from the first settlement of Government amongst Gods own People Aaron obeyed Moses who was King in Jesurum in the 2 Chr. 23.21 You see both Clergy and Laity entring into a Covenant of Allegiance to young King Joash and then did Kings punish spiritual persons as well as others Abiathar was removed from the high Priesthood by King Solomon and Josiah Jehoshophat and other Kings