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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	david_n	death_n	saul_n	1,009	5	9.4042	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55555	A treatise of the antiquity, authority, vses and jurisdiction of the ancient Courts of Leet, or view of franck-pledge and of subordination of government derived from the institution of Moses, the first legislator and the first imitation of him in this island of Great Britaine, by King Alfred and continued ever since : together with additions and alterations of the moderne lawes and statutes inquirable at those courts, untill this present yeare, 1641 : with a large explication of the old oath of allegeance annexed.	Powell, Robert, fl. 1636-1652.	1641 (1641)	Wing P3066; ESTC R40659	102,251	241

every private person The end of all warre should be peace bellum geritur ut pax acquir atur 1 It is just cause of warre when publike negotiation and commerce is interrupted or disturbed and for recoverie of things wrongfully and by force taken fiom us by forraigne enemies 2 Or if any shall goe about to usurp upon the Kings right of dominion in any of his kingdoms It is just cause of warre After that David by Gods direction went up to Hebron and was anointed king over the house of Iudah upon the death of Saul he maintained a long warre against Ishbosheth the sonne of Saul for usurping the kingdome of Israel 2 Sam. 2. The revenge of an injurie or disgrace dispitefully done either to a Prince or to his Embassadors is likewise a good cause of warre when Naash the king of the children of Ammon dyed and Hanun his sonne succeeded in his stead David sent messengers to comfort him upon the death of his father their entertainment was not suitable to their errand Hanun by the advice of his Princes tooke Davids servants and shaved them and cut off their garments in the midst a natibus us●● ad pedes and so sent them away For this great disgrace and abuse the text faith grandem contumeliam sustinuerunt David did justly wage battell against the king of the Ammonites Chro. 1.19 He did the like against Sheba the sonne of Bochri a man of Belial for blowing a Trumpet and solliciting the men of Israel to revolt from David to him Samuell 2. chapter 20. ●●●y other particulars might be here instanced Next how farre the preeminence of a king as to life and member is to be consid●red Life and member considerable by the common and statute lawes specially by the common and Stature lawes of this kingdome by the common and positive lawes of England The subjects are bound by their legeance to go with the king and by the Commandement of the king in his wars aswell within the Realme as without and this doth copiously appeare by severall statutes which seeme to bee but declarative of the common law as 1 Ed. 3. cap. 7. which mentions the conveyance of souldiers into Scotland Gasconie or elsewhere 18. Hen. 6. cap. 19. which maketh it felonie If any Souldier retained to serve the King in his wars doth not goe with or doe depart from his Captaine without licence the preamble of the Statute tels us that the Souldier so doing did as much as in them was decay the honour and reverence of the king And by the Statute of 7. Hen. 7. cap. 1. Forasmuch as the offence of departing or not going did stretch to the hurt and jeopardie of the king the nobles of the Realme and all the Common weale thereof therefore he or they so offending should not injoy the benefit of Clergie By the Statute 11. Hen. 7. cap. 1. It is expressed that the subjects of this Realme are by reason of their allegeance bound to serve the Prince from the time being in his wars for the defence of him and the land against every rebellion power and might reard against him either within the land or without and this statute together with some others were adjudged Trin. 43. Eliza. to be perpetuall acts and not transitorie for the kings time only wherein they were made As peace is the true end of warre so peace must be preserved that warre may be avoided In the times of peace there must bee preparations for warre by causing musters and martiall meetings to be assembled at times convenient And therein the Lievtenants their Deputies of each severall Countie with Muster-masters and other subalterne officers have a speciall interest of imployment and therefore provision was made 4. 5. P. M. for the better ordering of Musters Captaines and souldiers In the time of peace the common and municipall law of this kingdome provides for suppressing of all rebellions insurrections and rietous assemblies To which end the king commits the custodie of each countie to an officer very ancient with us called a Sheriffe who for the service of the king and peace of the countrey hath power to raise the power of his countie And every subject is bound to attend him as the kings deputie in causes of publike service warranted by the lawes and this officer is to dwell in his proper person within his Baylywicke that he may the more readily attend the kings service The second point is terrene honour Terrene honour what it is and herein I must walke warily passibus aquis First must be determined what is meant by terrene honour Some would have it to be the outward worship and ceremoniall honour that wee can doe in this world to the king next to the service of God If that were only intended by these words it were but a shadow in regard of substance for in devoting our life and blood is comprehended the highest pitch and streyne of honour that might be Our Saviour Christ his words Matth. 6.25 Is not life more worth than meate and the body than raiment will fully satisfie us that the life of man is above all worldly riches and honours and therefore something else must be conceived out of these words more than a shadow or ceremonie By the first commandement of the second table in the subdivision of the persons to whom honor is due there is in the opinion of many Divines a kind of particular honor or esteem to be ascribed to a man who is more wealthy than his neighbour in regard of the talent of terrene riches wherewith God hath endowed him and thereby enabled him to supply the King and the common weal by rendring his respective dues and duties unto them in a larger proportion than other persons who are inferiour in their worldly meanes Dat census honores Then sithence all riches wealth and substance are called terrene quiae terris terrenis accrescant because they proceed and have their being out of earth and earthly things and are the causes of particular honour and esteem and of distinguishing the degrees of men as husbandmen Yeomen Gentlemen Esquires and the like and also of cradesmen both of Merchandize and manufacture according to the customes of this Kingdome It will follow by good consequence that as the King is to bee honoured and obeyed with life and member so with earthly substance according to the demension thereof and the degree of each mans earthly honour Saint Paul in the generall cleares this point of prerogative jure divino Romans 13. Omnis anima potestatibus sublimieribus subdita sit c. Let every soule bee subject to the higher power For there is no power but of God verse 2. whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God And the Apostle pursues it with Ideo necessitate subditi estote c. verse 5. Wherefore yee must needes bee subject not only for wrath but also for conscience sake Verse 6. For this cause pay