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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	angel_n	creature_n	heaven_n	6,467	5	5.4379	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89699	No interest beyond the principall or, The court camisado. By reduction of government to its primitive end and integrity, Rom. 13.4. The ruler is the minister of God to thee for good. Also, nevves from Scotland : or, the reasons examined of the warre threatned. May. 1. 1648. Imprimatur, Gilb. Mabbott.		1648 (1648)	Wing N1176; Thomason E437_25; ESTC R202984	12,774	16

expectation to be delivered and shal we be so vaine specially when a price is new put into our hands as willingly to take up that yoake which the creature though senselesse and irrationall unwillingly beares in hope of being infranchised of it at the last accounting even annihilation better then subordination to the inordinate will of falne mankinde Old errours are so much cryed up under new lights as that old truths will scarce be believed against custome in errour Kings they will not but tell you it s against their interest not to be arbitrary and the people they dare not believe it if the Princes doe not though neither to ' ne nor to ' ther but must needs grant that ab initio non fuit sic its consonant neither to the nature nor the end of government and consequently not of Sovereignty which onely so farre is sovereigne as it is preservative Therefore the Law sayes of al men the King can doe no wrong hath lesse power to doe wrong because greater obligation to doe right then any man else nay he is so far from having power to doe wrong that he is neither to doe it nor suffer it to be done by any inferiour powers but to see that justice and protection according to Law be administred to all by the Ministers thereof whereof hee 's the chiefe But the nature of man even in innocency though not by it lusteth after an exorbitant superiority for when God had made him Lord over all but the forbidden fruit hee thought himselfe no King over the creature whilst the Creator limited his power though but in one and therefore he resolves either to win the horse or lose the saddle gaine that or lose all So Kings bee their power never so great to doe yet except they may also have power to undoe negative as well as positive power to deny as well as to grant and undoe as well as doe they are unsatisfied and sticke not in effect to affirme that except you grant them Tyranny you oppose Monarchy Wherein yet they doe themselves no right nor those that flatter them into such principles for when people see they cannot grant safe and lawfull premises but with hazzard of sophistical and prevaricate conclusions to bee inferred thereupon it makes them fearefull to grant any thing lest they lose all an Inch given makes an Ell taken As if commissions c. for honour-sake goe in the Kings name then the Court consequence is they are the act not his Laws then the next result is they are ad placitum and not quamdiu bene se gesserint Prerogative is so procreant that no wombe is barren to the third or fourth generation but every inference is productive of another So let him have the honour to confirme and assert Laws then the next remove is you must allow him the use of his reason and the next to that therefore a negative as well as an affirmative voice grant-freewill and falling from Grace will follow Suppose him the fountaine of honour then he retorts I may conferre it on whom I please and for what cause for vice as well as vertue I may make George Villiers and his vertuous mother Duke and Countesse of Buckingham and court-minions Privy-councellours nay aliens of the Scotch Nation whose native state interest by vicinity is against ours Peers and Parliamentmen in England Therefore lay the foundation upon the rocke not in the sands make out that position in plain English That the King can do no wrong nor the Crown neither by declaring that neither legally nor illegally by abused law or power above law it neither is nor ought to be in their power to do so and provide accordingly let legall and regall be but one and the same as in sound so in a safe and sound sence univocall tearmes and soveraignty made soveraigne by preferring the Coronation Oath with a right understanding Magna Charta purged of superstition and the Petition of Right well back'd with Propositions to be principall flowers of the Crowne before it be worne againe in England and that by a penall law for if it be lawfull for a private man or particular subject to implead his Prince by law upon a particular wrong much more for the State or people in generall to implead him by armes or proceed against him in case of a generall wrong when theirs neither Law nor Judge but salus popoli to determine betwixt them And therefore Trajan both wisely and worthily when hee delivered the sword to the Pretor bid him use it for him whilst he ruled well and against him when ill Let Kings have as much honour freedome and safety in the way of righteousnes as becomes men of their place the contrary whereof is dishonour slavery and danger both to Prince and people Let the people know that his name is of no more use in commissions and statutes then his Image and superscription upon coyn the one arguing no more propriety or title in him then the other the honour of both his is that for publik advantage not disadvantage he can no more suspend the one then the other or destitute his people either of laws or their lawful execution then of money and trade Gospel timeshould make our Kings better Christians then to desire such Catholike authority when they see heare and read the evill effects that doe and cannot but attend it both to him that is in authority by way of temptation and those that are under authority by way of ruine and destruction Giants of old those men-monsters begotten of Gods displeasure inordinate concupiscence what effects had their exorbitancy of strength but to make them men of exorbitant minds proud cruel rebellious toward God and tyrannous over men A reasonable size best befits a reasonable man too much power of any kind makes a man a monster and hazzards him to do monstrous things Nimrod was the first we read of that by invasion and oppression of publique right and liberty affected a Babell Kingdome Government beyond rule and to be absolute on earth as God is in heaven therefore was he call'd The mighty hunter before the Lord Gen. 10. 8 9 10. And every one after him that hunted inordinatly after power as he did was proverbially called as he was another Nimrod or as wee now say Nimrod the second Nimrod the third the mighty hunter c. deriving both his name and stile as the brand of his presumption and unlawfull ambition or usurpation The account that Kings are to make for the talents that are lawfully conferred upon them is great enough and need not be increased by the talents themselves unlawfully usurped Abused power makes men on earth the most unlike to God in heaven of any thing therfore unlimitted authority is uncompatible to a creature and able to make a man a devill Angels in heaven as well as Adam in paradise fell by free-will and freewill power and how then think we can Common-wealths