Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	day_n	king_n	lord_n	14,831	5	3.9145	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36466	Rex meus est deus, or, A sermon preached at the common place in Christs-church in the city of Norwich by G.D. ...	G. D. (George Downham)	1643 (1643)	Wing D2061; ESTC R209871	32,251	33

to inflict vpon them This was that which God by the mouth of Samuel told the Israelites before hand 1. Sam. 8 After he had admonished them what heauy what open injustice they should endure vnder some of their kings he concludeth yee shal cry out in that day because of your King the Lord will not hear you as if he had sa●d ye shall gr●●an vnder your burden but you shall haue no power either to shrink from it or shake it off I but the people of England are not like the children of Isra●l they for their disobedience were made slaues unto their Gouernours but we are a free nation I have Lawes to be ruled by let the King say what he will God be thanked that we can tell now what is lawfull and what not It was not so from the beginning for in the first Heroicall ages it is evident the people were not governed by any positive Law but their Kings did both judge and command by their word by their will by their absolute power without either restraint or direction but only of the law of nature but because it grew both trublesome and tedious for all the people to receave their right from one man as Iethro advised Moses therfore were laws invented and officers appointed to execute the same under the supreame Magistrate I but our Kings are bound to observe the Lawes as well as we They take an Oath at their Coronation to do nothing thereunto repugnant if they doe They shall finde that there is law for Them as well as for others which is as if in direct terms they should say thus much Sir Kings whilest our heads were under your girdles we were content to be obedient to your commands because we had no way to helpe it but now we have gotten the winde of you and made you sweare that you will not transgresse the lawes established we tell you plainly the case is altered you hold your crownes meerely at our courtesie and are indeed no other then Lievtenants Generall we have the power upon your m●sdemeanour to keepe you up or to put you downe Prophane men Is Christian Religion become a meere polecy doth the word of God change and vary with the times are Gods ordinances alterable according to the wilfulnesse of the Giddy multitude was it death in former times to disobey the ruler of the people and may he now with Acteon be chased nay worried by his owne hounds May the Lords Lievtenant the Lords Annoynted be kept in or easte out of state at the pleasure of his subjects Is he become of worse condition then the Lord of a Mannour then a parish Priest then a poore School-master who cannot be thrust out by any under their charge O my soule come not thou into such secrets But what if the king do at his coronation take an oath that he will be are himselfe regardfull of the accomplishment of the lawes established doth he in so doing condit●●● restraine himselfe or his authority should he not be King if he did not take that oath Surely yes onely it is his gracious pleasure to make an honourable promise that he wi●l endeavour to discharge his duty which promise he it bound to performe by the lawes of conscience and state yet if hee doe not his person onely is hereby affected not his authority the one is tyed and bound in honour the other is in force though performances faile The promise of the Prince is free and voluntary hee need not have made it except he had would yet being made his duty in performing it is necessary duty I call it onely in respect of God before whom he sware but to us it was a princely exce●●ency and an act of grace But is not the King then subject to the law as well as others ●rifler to the directive part of the law he is but not to the coactive part of it as thou wouldst have it as the law is the rule of justice and the line by which both Prince and people must be guided so is the Prince subject thereunto but as it is an instrument which the Prince useth in ruling of the people so is the King free and not subject to it I come now to unburden your overwearied patience with a briefe conclusion by way of application to these present times If a bad Prince must be honoured submitted to and obeyed out of conscience then how much note a good one with all readines If it be wicked and bloody tyrants due how much more is it required from all men to godly and pious Princes under whose peaceable and religious Governement the gospell of Christ is cherished learning advanced factious spirits supprested wholesome lawes enacted the bond of unity maintained and our very goods and lives preserved It was a passionate and pathetical speech that Saint Ambrose h●d u●on the death of Gratian and Val●●tin●an two famous Emperours Percussa eras ô ecclesia in uná maxi●●●um amitteres Gratianum p●aebuisti alteram maxillam cum Va●entini●●● creptus est 〈◊〉 ●taque non in unâ sed in utrâque maxi●●● lacrimae tibi sunt Thou wert smitten ô poore Church on the one cheeke when thou lostest Gratian thou turnedst the other cheeke when Valentini●● died justly therefore hast thou teares not on one but on both thy cheeks I may say ●t truely of this Chu●ch of England she had a blow on the one cheek when famous Elizabeth died the suffered on the other checke when good king James was taken from us and just cause had we to have wept with both eyes had not these wounds bin healed by the comming of our most gracious Soveraigne King Charles for whom let us give God thankes and think our selves as happy in him as any nation in the world is in their Prince indeed hee is set as a sparkling gemme in the ring of this round world not to be paraleld by any or all the princes of the earth for his piety and uprightnesse towards God for his temperance and sobriety in himselfe for his mercy and clemency to his people Prolong ô God the Kings life and his years as many generations give him ô Lord the desire of his heart and deny him not the requests of his lips prevent him with the blessings of goodnesse and set a crown of pure gold upon his head ●ebuke the company of speare-men the multitude of the bulls with the calves of the People till every one Submit himself with PIECES of SILVER Scatter thou the people that delight in warre But let the soule of our Lord be bound up in the bundle of life let his glory be great in thy salvation honour and majesty do 〈◊〉 lay upon him give him everlasting felicity and make him glad with the joy of thy countenance as for his enemi●● cloath them with shame but upon himselfe let his crowne flourish