Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	king_n	law_n	subject_n	3,285	5	6.8288	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60055	A short answer to a malicious pamphlet called, A reply written by John Gadbury, the King of England's juggler, and astrologer in ordinary to the Pope, to help on the work.	Partridge, John, 1644-1715.	1680 (1680)	Wing S3559; ESTC R39538	24,418	26

you Jack I doubt you are out in your Topick in this point as well as in your Head of the Church But I perceive by your pious Opinion that the Grand Seignior will make as good a Head of the Church as any of them all and then too I am sure you will be on the Government side if possible you can you are so good a Christian Page 8. Since James the Second took the Coronation Oath c. Here the Fellow mounts the high Rope again and tells us that it is true The King did take the Coronation Oath but it was by his own free choice and might have chused whether he would or not But let me tell him that this is a gross Lye for it is not Condescension and Choice in the King to take it but an Indispensible duty neither are the Subjects obliged to take the Oath of Allegiance till he hath taken that For as he swears to preserve them in their Rights and Priviledges so they swear to stand by him in the Execution of the Laws so that the Oath of Allegiance and the Coronation Oath are Reciprocal and Equally binding And the King is defective in divers points of his Duty and Power till that is performed and done And let me tell you Mr. Jack the Subjects have a Right as well as the King and both by the same Law. And if the King refuseth to be a King by Law there is neither reason nor necessity for them to swear Obedience for the Obedience due to him as King by Law doth also oblige him by the same Law to protect them in their Lives Liberties and Estates So that it is unreasonable that the Law should force the Subjects to swear to obey and maintain a Prince in his Right and not compel him to give them assurance by Oath that they shall enjoy theirs also And if it were otherwise it would shew great weakness in the Legislators of England to bind the one and leave the others to his Will when the Government of both is by Compact But I perceive my Friend John builds his opinion on Filmore such another sorry Sycophantizing Fellow as himself who hath many flourishes and words and but very little Law and less Reason and Honesty However he and Jack together would form a most admirable sort of Government for a Kingdom or Nation to be governed by Dragoons and converted by Booted Apostles Thus you may see what a special Englishman our Friend is and a hopeful Casuist that can guard and defend their tottering Cause with nothing but Lyes Page 9. Since Judge Street 00000000000 Tresilian How now Jack What are you turned Advocate for Westminster-Hall are those Benches supply'd with such Ignorant Fellows that they must make use of a Scribler to defend them with Arguments of downright Impudence This is a fine Credit for your Law and your King. Well Jack you tell us of a Riddle and that you have been the Oedipus to unfold it And you say the eleven Cyphers with Tresilian at the end of them shews that eleven of the twelve Judges must be hanged Why really Jack you are in the right for that is the meaning of it and it doth not only shew the merit and fate of the Villains but it is also a piece of Prophecy that will shortly be accomplished But pray observe When the Fellow hath unfolded the Riddle and told them that hanging is their due lest they should faint under the Consideration of their destiny and think themselves into their Graves and cozen Tyburn He licks them up with some Oyl of Fool and calls them Loyal Judges and Reverend Sages and then perks up with a strain of his accustomed Impudence and asketh what they have done Done ye Slave What have they not done to make themselves compleat Traytors in all kind of Villany and Treason that lyeth within the Sphere of their power and action First They have by their Suffrage given the King a power Superior to Law for which Crime Tresilian was hanged For it is one thing to connive at the Non-execution of the Laws and another to take away their Obligatory Force one thing to supercede a Law wherein his own benefit is concerned and another to dispence with Laws made for the Safety and Security of the Kingdom Religion and Subjects and this they have done in giving their Opinions that the King may dispence with all Law as he sees good You may remember Jack that when Richard the Second had pick'd a pack of Judges for his purpose suppose such as these or not quite so bad and those were Tresilian Belknappe Holt Fulthorp De Burgh Lockton and others the Duke of Ireland the King's Creature with the rest of his Consorts formed the then design into ten Queries under the power of which being granted they intended to manage and carry on their cursed Plot and on the 25. of August in the eleventh year of the King in Nottingham Castle the said ten Queries were propounded to the foresaid Judges to which they all consented and when they had signed and sealed according as they were desired Belknappe broke out into this Expression and said Now I want nothing but a Ship a nimble Horse or an Halter to bring me to the death I deserve for my Treason against the Nobles of the Land. Which ten Queries and the thirty four Articles of Treason which they were after charged with you may find Printed in the Life of Richard the Second which are too long here to insert And when you have considered both their Crimes you will say that the Judges under James the Second have outdone those of Richard the Second and yet this Man asketh what they have done Secondly They have used their utmost endeavour to bring in Popery they have not only connived at the base Actions used to encourage the Popish Party in their present damnable designs to overthrow the Government and alter Religion but have also given advice and direction for the doing of it and visibly shewed their Endeavour by encouraging base and unjust Prosecutions Fining Hanging c. all those that have stood in the way of it And when any such Cause came to be tryed where the Defendant was looked on as an Enemy to the Government as they usually call all those that they are minded to ruin they never used to consult Rastal Pulton or Keble c. in the true Law that did relate to the merit of the Cause But took their direction from the Lord Kings-will Sir John doe-it and Sir William ' Tis-well all of them great Lawyers at White-hall And is not the Defendant or Prisoner in a fine Condition in such a Case as this But that which leaves them without excuse is that they know the Laws which are made and still in force against Popery against all those that are reconciled to the Church of Rome and those that do but assist in any thing that concerns the promotion of the See of Rome in England Thirdly