Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	arm_n	king_n	lord_n	1,170	5	3.6006	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30054	Some seasonable considerations for the good people of Connecticut	Bulkeley, Gershom, 1636-1713.	1694 (1694)	Wing B5401A; ESTC R224014	26,221	63

put his Name upon him Psal 82. So the Duties of the second TÃ ble are like to the Duties of the first Duty to Parents is called Piety 1 Tim. 5. 4. for its likeness to it and evidence of it And as Peter du Moulin says very well Then will the Power of Kings and Magistrates be sound and safe and I may add then and not before will Religion too be sound and safe when Obedience due to Princes shall be thought to be a part of piety and when the Pastors of the Church shall train up the people by the Word of God to perform Obedience to them And so on the other hand the Sins against the second Table Ã re like to the sins against the first Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft 4ly That the moral Law is not abolished by Christ Do we then make void the Law says Paul nay we establish the Law Verily the fifth Command Obedience to Parents and Princes c. is not abolished but established by the Gospel The true Church is no Rebellious City nor an Enemy unto Kings A Godly Rebel is a Solicism a prodigious Monster that true Religion never brought forth 5ly lastly My Principles teach me That as God is absolute Lord and Soveraign the King of Kings and is to be obeyed absolutely and without reserve so the King is next to God Supream upon Earth chief Governor in all his Dominions 1 Chron. 29. 22. and to be obeyed in subordination not in Opposition to God Inferior Governors sent by the King and deriving their Authority from him are to be obeyed according to the measure of their Authority in subordination not in opposition to the King We are not to ask Inferior Governors whether we shall obey the King or not The Son is not to ask his Mother much less his Brethren and Sisters or Servants of the House whether or no he shall obey his Father No there is the Law of Nature and express Command of God for it Children Obey your Parents in the Lord for this is Right Ephes 6. 1. so 't is in this case 1 Pet. 2. 13 14. Be subject to the King as Supream for so is the Will of God c. And the Fathers Authority is paramount to that of the Mother So is the Authority of the King to that of inferiour Rulers see Josh 1. 16 17 18. Joshua was now made chief Governour by God Moses his Successor who was King in Jesurun and there you see how straitly they bind themselves to Obedience to him see Ã lso Ezra 7. 26. I think these points are Orthodox and may pass for a Touch-stone whereby to give a true Judgment of our Profession If therefore our Religion be over-grown to that pass that it teaches us to deny Kings and Magistrates to be of God untill we can King it our selves or to deny and absolve our selves from Obedience to them unless they be of our mind or will humor us In a word if it either be or do teach or tolleraÌ„te Rebellion it is certain it cannot be true it is high time to renounce it and get a better Such Religion is a scandal to the Gospel We shall make the World believe we have our Religion to seek It is good for us to read Rom. 2. vers 17. to 26. If therefore we desire to credit our Religion and adorn the Gospel which we profess let us consider and return to our Obedience get good Principles and put them into practice Let us look upon our Allegiance not as an Arbitrary thing that we may pay it or we may let it alone or take our time for it c. bÃ¹t let us look upon it as a matter of Necessity We must needs be subject If others will not be Loyal yet we must and if this make us Vile then we must be more Vile If for this we be Rogues that will Vndo the Country then we must be Rogues still But possibly all this will easily be avoided It grows too common an Opinion That the King hath nothing to do with us Ã nd if that be true I must confess I am beside the Text. Therefore in the next place 2 dly Consider That of our own accord without any Command so to do we have long since proclaimed their Majesties to be our King and Queen The words of which Proclamation do declare their Majesties to be King and Queen of England France and Ireland with all the Dominions and Territories thereto belonging who are accordingly so to be owned deemed and taken by all the People of the aforesaid ReÃ lms and Dominions who are from hence forward bound to acknowledge and pay to them all Faith and true AllegianÃ§Ã© c. We have accordingly in our Addresses to their Majesties declared That we resumed our Government till further Order and professed our selves to be their Majesties most humble and dutiful Subjects begged such Directions from their Majesties as to their Princely Wisdom should seem meet Very forward and zealous we have pretended our selves to be for the Service and Interest of King William and Queen Mary But to what end is all this Did we not hereby engage Obedience to their Majesties as our King and Queen but what Truth and Reality is there in it for now their Majesties exert their Authority issue their Commissions and give us their Directions they will not be received nor obeyed as if their Majesties had nothing to do with us indeed Thus in words we profess to acknowledge their Majesties but in our works we deny them What is this but to mock their Majesties and bely our selves Our Actions will signifie more of our Hearts than our Words For shÃ me let us make haste to pay our Allegiance It is a manifest thing that this and the other Homâ—â—culus hath a thousand times more Authority Respect and Obedience in Connecticut than their Majesties have If a Man come in their Majesties Name and with their Commission he will not be received by us but if a man come in his own Name without their Majesties Authority and Commission him we will receive This is not the behaviour of good Subjects Have we not given our Hands or do we repent of so doing Let us deal well and truly with their Majesties Have we a King or no King or why halt we between two Opinions If their Majesties be our King and Queen then let us follow and obey them but if this Ã nd t'other man be indeed Kings then let us follow them Let us not flatter and mock and call their Majesties King and Queen and pretend they are Our Dread Soveraigns our Soveraign Lord and Lady and We their most Humble and Obedient Subjects and make use of their Names to serve our own purposes and in the mean time refuse to yeild them any Obedience scorn their Commissions maligne contemn and abuse their Ministers This is papable Hypocrisie Why call ye me Lord Lord and do not the things which I say Luke 6. 46. If I be Ã Father

do not know That to levy War against the King is High-Treason both by the Common Statute Law or That an actual Rebellion or Insurrection is a levying of War against the King That a gathering of Force for the Removal of Counsellors altering of Laws or the like though with pretence of Reformation yet being without Warrant from the King is a levyiug of War against the King or that the holding of a Fort or Castle by force of Arms against the King and his Power is a levying of War against the King What Construction then do we think it will have if we shall be found to rise in Arms against the King's Lieutenant publishing his Commission and commanding Obedience to it and by Force and Arms to with-hold the Militia and all Forces by Sea and Land and all Forts and places of Strength in a whole Collony or Province from the King against his plain Commission published under the great SeÃ l Do we not know That an Ambassadour from a Ferreign Prince though an Enemy ought to have safe Conduct in all the King's Dominions and 't is against the Law of Nations to offer him any Violence or Indignity The Turks themselves would abominate that Or can we be ignorant of this That Disobedience and Contempt offered to the Kings Ministers redounds and is done to the King himself Is it not a sure Rule in Humane as well as Divine Things He that despises me despises him that sent me What face then will our Behaviour hÃ ve when it shall appear that our own Kings Lieutenant cannot come among us to execute their Majesties Command bÃ»t beside other vile Indignities Ã¹nfit to be named he is in danger of his very Life Such as assert their Allegiance and declare their Submission run the same hazard and others who are willing to serve their Majesties dÃ re not take Commissions for fear of being destroyed And by this means his Excellency Returns without effecting his Business and with as much Disgrace as we can well cast upon him Yea if any man advise or move another to take a Commission from their Majesties Lieutenant it is accounted a Wicked thing and he an henÃ¯ous Offender Will this be acceptable News to their Majesties Or will they not rather resent it as David did that Reproach of his Messengers by Hanun Verily a Contempt and Abuse from Subjects is a thousand times worse than from Aliens Some may imagine they hÃ ve found a neat way to defeat the Kings Commission They will not take Commissions from his Lieutenant themselves but will also deter others that they shall not dare to do it and think it a Project worthy to be gloryed in Truly we have many wayes made it evident enough what low thoughts we have of his Majesty But what do we think he is to be put off in this manner by our scurvey silly little Tricks or do we think that our Obedience is an Arbitrary thing and the King must be beholding to us for it or that he is made up all of Grace and hath nothing of Justice in him If so we do doubtless we shall find our selves mistaken and that he is like Christ whom he serves both a Lamb and a Lyon I believe he will decide the Controversie and make us know who is King before he hath done with us For how can it consist with his Crown and Dignity or with the safety of his Government to pass by such high handed and mischievous Offences without suitable Annimadversion We very much forget Solomon's Advice as if we had never read it I counsel thee says he to keep the Kings Commandment and that in regard of the Oath of God Be not hasty to go out of his sight Stand not in an evil thing for he doth whatsoever pleases him Where the Word of a King is there is Power and who may say to him what dost thou Whoso keeps the Commandment shall feel no evil thing Eccles 8. 2 3 4 5. Yea but the Kings Wrath is as the roaring of a Lyon and as Messengers of Death but his Favour is as the Dew upon the Grass Prov. 19. 12. There is Life in the one but Death in the other We forget also the Parable of the Citizens that hated their Lord and woÃ»ld not have him to reign over them Those mine Enemies says he that would not that I should reign over them bring them hither and slay them before me It is but a Comparison taken from things reasonable among men And how easie a thing is it for their Majesties more ways than one to make ns weary of our Rebellion What if their Majesties should hereupon fetch over whom they see cause to England and there proceed against them according to their Demerits Shall we not hereby ruin our selves and our Posterity Or what if they should declare us Rebels and put us out of their Protection and prohibit all their Subjects any Commerce with us For how can we expect that their Majesties should protect us who scorn to be governed and protected by them but by our Unruliness break their Measures in the very point of Protection Or if they should reduce us to our Obedience by Force and keep us under the awe of a strong Garrison and lay the Charge of it upon us Or if they should but lay a sore heavy Fine upon us If they should do any of these or the like what shall we do with our selves Verily we are in their Majesties hands and it is a new sort of Grace if they do nothing Let all good Subjects then consider and as they would deliver themselves from the common Guilt so let them distinguish themselves and make haste to yeild their due Obedience and as for the rest we may say Father forgive them they know not what they do But against all this divers things are objected let us consider them also 1 Objection The Militia is very well disposed of already King Charles the second of happy Memory did by his Charter for himself and his Successors grant it to us and our Successors in the Year 1662. Answ To this I answer divers things 1 st We overween our Charter in more things than one to the no little Prejudice both of King and Subjects Modesty might incline us to think that the King understands our Charter and how well the Militia was thereby disposed of at least as well as we do and he knows what is his own Right and our Right much better than we Their Majesties have given us no cause to suspect that they will take any thing from us that doth of right belong to us But to let other things pass let us here consider That the Charter never granted us a standing Militia but only a Lisence upon occasion of Invasion or the like to array men c. for our special Defence and safety in such case The Charter never gave us Power to raise and send men Ã broad for the Defence and Aid of others The King's Letter of the

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