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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95803	Novemb. 18. 1642. The unlimited prerogative of kings subverted. Or a short treatise grounded upon scripture and reason, to prove that kings ought as well as others to bee accountable for their actions. By a well wisher to the church of God, his King and countrey. And dedicated to all such as love the truth.	Well wisher to the Church of God, his King and countrey.	1642 (1642)	Wing U84; Thomason E127_32; ESTC R16462	22,383	17

that Saul would come down to Keilah God answers him that he would Therupon the second time he asks him Whether the men of Keilah would deliver him and his men into the hand of Saul or no God answers him that he would deliver him up By this last it doth clearly appeare that if so be the Keilites would have bin true to David and have stood to him he would have maintained the Town against Saul and have defended himselfe in it otherwise why should David aske God the second time Whether the men of Keilah would deliver him up and his men into the hands of Saul or no he might have gone his way when that he heard Saul would come down without asking any more questions unlesse we will say that the second question which David propounded to aske of God was frivolous and vaine and so consequently the answer that God gave it which I suppose there are none will be so bold as to affirme This was the very case of Sir Iohn Hotham in Hull who for this very action His Majestie was pleased to Proclaime him Traytor Then againe it may be further said of David if he had not had a purpose to have resisted Saul in case of exigency and extremity what did he with 600. men about him he might have fled from Saul when he was coming towards him without such a train and guard of men attending him and so have saved himselfe without them Nay he might in all probability have escaped his hands better for had he not had so many with him he might have kept himselfe the more close and secret so that he could not have bin so easily discovered And besides this we read 1 Chron. 12.22 that There came to David to help him before Sauls death an hoast like the hoast of God and what was all this preparation and assistance for nothing One more example I will bring out of the Scriptures and that is of King Vzziah 2 Chron. 26 16. who incroached upon the Office of the Priests and would take upon him to offer Incense in the Temple of the Lord contrary to the expresse commandement of God whereupon it is said in the 17. verse that Azariah the Priest went in after him and with him fourescore Priests of the Lord that were valiant men and they withstood Vzziah the King and said unto him it pertaineth not to thee Vzziah to burn Incense unto the Lord but to the Priests the sons of Aaron that are consecrated to burn incense goe out of the Sanctuary for thou hast trespassed neither shall it be for thine honour from the Lord God Then Vzziah was wroth and had a Censour in his hand to burn Incense and while he was wroth with the Priests the Leprosie even rose upon his forehead before the Priests in the house of the Lord besides the Incense altar Then Azariah the chief Priest and all the Priests looking upon him and beholding that he was leprous in his forehead thrust him out from thence If this be not resistance I know not what is Besides all this the more to stoppe the mouthes of such ill affected persons in our times that will take upon them to make much more of Kings then ever God made or did intend there are examples even in the Primitive times among the Christians who have resisted their Kings in their sinfull and unlawfull actions As to instance in Lycinius the Emperour who had granted to the Christians to injoy their Religion yet afterwards turning persecutor they sent for Constantine the great to assist them against him and overthrew him And againe being persecuted by the King of Persia the Christians sent for Theodosius the Emperour to help them against him And I doubt not but if the Ecclesiasticall Histories of those times were searched there might more examples of this nature be found out But besides all this we have seen and known the like in our own times as lately in the Scots whom the King himselfe that now is acquitted when he came to a right understanding So the Protestants in France England all Queen Elizabeths dayes did help them In our dayes again in King Charles his own reigne we sent over a great Force in shew at least to help Rochel against the King of France So in High Iermanie the Princes there maintain their right against Charles the 5 and were helped by France and England In the Neather-Lands it is evident from the beginning Now shall we take upon us to condemn all these Churches for so doing Then for the second which is the principall point here in dispute Whether Kings in case they doe Tyrannize over their People Oppresse Spoile and Destroy their Subjects and doe other such like wicked and unnaturall actions may have Censure and Punishment inflicted upon them according to the nature of their severall Offences They say where is there any example or expresse command in Scripture for this Answ It is true there are no examples or Commands in Scripture for this particular case or at least not as I know of yet that matters not so long as we have a rule to walk by and Commands in generall that reach to all particulars And for this the like may very well be said as may for Parents murthering of their Children there is no direct Law set down either divine or humane for the punishment of such the thing is so detestable and contrary to very nature that it may be conceived that there would be none such found but if there be there are generall Laws in force for their censure and punishment as in case of Murther and by how much the nearer the relation is the greater being the bond and tye for procuring the peace and welfare of such and such parties so much the greater is the offence and so much the more liable are they to punishment So I say though there are no particular Laws set down for the correcting and punishing of such Kings and Princes as doe Oppresse Spoil and Destroy their People yet so much is included in those generall Laws both of God and Man and so much the more liable are they to Censure and punishment by how much they are Ordained to be greater instruments of the good and well being of their People then others are For this is the very nature and being of a King He is such a one as cares and provides for the Common vealth takes pleasure in the commodity and profit of His Subjects and in all his doings hath respect to the prosperity of those over whom He ruleth Now what those generall Laws are it is well known As for example This God hath said He that sheds mans blood by man shall his blood be shed Gen 9 6. And He that blasphemes the Name of the Lord shall surely be put to death Levit. 24 16. And again If thy brother the son of thy mother or thy son or thy daughter or the wife of thy bosome or thy friend which is as thine