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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90364	Vox verè Anglorum: or Englands loud cry for their King. Written by a hearty well-willer to the Common-weale, and the flourishing of our nations.	Peirce, Edmund, Sir, d. 1667.	1659 (1659)	Wing P1066; Thomason E763_3; ESTC R207084	20,483	15

sworn to the Heir in express words as well as to the Ancestor And is not that Heir in the instant of his Ancestors expiration by our Laws immediately and unquestionably King and so the acknowledged upon oath supream Head and Governor c. Nor is this more neither then what their duty before obliged them to had they not sworn it being his Native and Leige People and Subjects And God himself by so many clear and iterated precepts in his sacred word most strictly calling on them and enjoyning the effect of it The Government of our Nation Monarchy being the sole Government appointed by God and Kings and Kingdomes his alone institution and planting as is clear by the whole current of Scripture from Adam even till the Primitive Church after Christ And Republiques States and such like a meer depraved institution of man for corrupt and sinister ends This Nation ever since its first being even for thousands of years owning Monarchy for its Government in all Ages and Vicissitudes and so was it alwayes owned and esteemed throughout the world and our Monarchs of such high Honour and Repute abroad as often made Umpires in the great and publique affairs of Christendome and this title and soveraignty most clearly descended to and vested in this Prince whose Ancestors indulgence and favours had rendred it the best of Governments to the people as was any where extant in the world yet clearly an undoubted Monarchy still and so ever exercised by the Soveraigns deemed styled and acknowledged by our forefathers in all times and by all our Laws Judges and Lawyers both ancient and modern and never so unhappy as to suffer the least of question in that particular till c. Nor is this title so much to be drawn from the Conquest of William the Norman Duke neither as most generally is mistakenly alleadged as from Edgar Atheling the then apparent and right Heir of the Crown from whom a descent of title to this Prince is as manifestly deducible as from that William which all men conversant in true History cannot but know And therefore all those silly and most absurd distinctions of the Soveraigns coordinate estate here amongst us his virtual and personal presence in the sense used The singulis major sed universis minor His forfeiture for breach of trust and a world of such trash publickly vented and plausibly scribled on when time was only to maze the poor people and lead them from their duty and obedience will be found a very pittiful plea at the great Tribunal for their so horrid a Perjury and Rebellion Let this be seriously thought on by some Grandees now in power and with all the blood and treasure thereupon spilt and spent and the distracting terrors and rending confusions thereby raised and sent raging into all our parts foreseen indeed by all sober and loyal persons and vigorously opposed till treachery prevayled and in what a torn tottering and disjoynted condition our Government hath ever since remained And the poor people of all sorts how perpetually affrighted terrified and picked even to the very bones And if new and contrary Oaths Engagements and Covenants by what name or title soever called for store of them there hath been indeed and all kept alike if these or any of these be objected There is no Orthodox Divine but will tell them this truth I am sure true Divinity it self will that they being all unlawfully compacted they are ipso facto voyd and so far from binding the conscience that like the vow made by the Conspirators against St. Paul they ought to be repented of and detested as the grand crime for which these direful confusions have befallen us there not being or in possibility to be any oath lawful against the first nor can any subsequent act or engagement made though by all the people in general be of force to quit or absolve from that first lawful oath or from our native duty and alleigeance which we are bound to although the oath were never taken And to teach otherwise as too many have done for their own wicked and corrupt ends is as high a blasphemy against God and his Sacred Word as almost can possibly be committed and that Caitiffe who ever he be who for sinister purposes dares yet continue to insinuate the contrary let him tremble to think of that horror and confusion which will one day seize him for advancing so desperate cursed and diabolical a Doctrine May hearty and timely repentance rather be his punishment and in testimony thereof joyn with all good people in this their now loud general voyce Let the Heir of the Crown c. Let the sad and most deplorable condition of the once flourishing Church of these Nations have its share likewise in our consideration She who hath thus long laid widdowed in dust and ruine bedewing her lean cheeks and tearing her comely hair her once full paps streaming with solid sustenance and now shrivelled up into an empty dry parched skin and hiding her once lovely head in corners and clossets as trembling at the attempt nay force offered to her pure chastity and fearful to breath in the ayre of those wild and dismal doctrines every where now vented and prevalent amongst the several Sects and Factions of the times who have no setled rules but rather professe the contrary and that every Ignis fatuus which they call new light must be their rule and guide Let this sad case be thought upon with more then seriousness and the horrid and dismal things which must needs be hence produced amongst all conditions of men if timely remedy be not applied The late deplorable State of Germany and by whom and what sort of people that tragedy was begun and continued which was so long there in action and brought forth such cruel and unheard of slaughters and desolations should me thinks be a warning and example to us and tell us the danger of some parties especially if the sword be put into their hands as publick report saies is now the next intended design zeal being an excellent guide where it sees the way it goes in but a most dangerous companion in the dark But perhaps the decree is gone out and we are this way destined for utter destruction Besides what regrets animosities emulations boylings for revenge by persons of seeming fiery and high flaming zeal supplanting and tripping up one another in their various greedy and ambitious designs are almost every where conspicuous And which cannot but at one time or another break out into most dangerous and bloudy conflicts to the hazard of enflaming all the frequent noyse also and rumors of new plots firings and conspiracies be they real or pretended yet the very terrour and apprehension of them is to some quiet people a kind of agonish deadnesse before death it self and destruction cometh Nor is there the least hope of amending this but an assurance rather that it will have a never ending continuance unless