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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	henry_n	king_n	lewis_n	4,519	5	10.9213	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27494	Clavi trabales, or, Nailes fastned by some great masters of assemblyes confirming the Kings supremacy, the subjects duty, church government by bishops ... : unto which is added a sermon of regal power, and the novelty of the doctrine of resistance : also a preface by the right Reverend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of Lincolne / published by Nicholas Bernard ...	Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.	1661 (1661)	Wing B2007; ESTC R4475	99,985	198

of condition that may seem unequal unto any side and to refer unto his own sacred breast how fat he will be pleased to extend or abridge his Favours of whose Lenity in forbearing the executing of the Statute our Recusants have found such experience that they cannot expect a greater liberty by giving any thing that is demanded then now already they do freely enjoy As for the fear that this voluntary contribution may in time be made a matter of Necessity and imposed as a perpetual charge upon posterity it may easily be holpen with such a clause as we find added in the grant of an ayde made by the Popes Council An 11. H. 3. out of the Ecclesiastical Profits of this Land Quod non debet trahi in confuetudinem of which kinds of Grants many other Examples of later memory might be produced and as for the proportion of the sum which you thought to be so great in the former proposition it is my Lords desire that you should signifie unto him what you think you are well able to bear and what your selves will be content voluntarily to proffer To alledge as you have done that you are not able to bear so great a charge as was demanded may stand with some reason but to plead an unability to give any thing at all is neither agreeable to reason or duty You say you are ready to serve the King as your Ancestors did heretofore with your bodys and lives as if the supply of the Kings wants with monys were a thing unknown to our Fore-fathers But if you will search the Pipe-Rolls you shall finde the names of those who contributed to King Henry the third for a matter that did less concern the Subjects of this Kingdom then the help that is now demanded namely for the marrying of his Sister to the Emperor In the Records of the same King kept in England we finde his Letters Patents directed hither into Ireland for levying of money to help to pay his debts unto Lewis the Son of the King of France In the Rolls of Gasconie we finde the like Letter directed by King Edward the Second unto the Gentlemen and Merchants of Ireland of whose names there is a List there set down to give him ayd in his Expedition into Aquitain and for defence of his Land which is now the thing in question We finde an Ordinance likewise made in the time of Edward the Third for the personall taking of them that lived in England and held Lands and Tenements in Ireland Nay in this Case you must give me leave as a Divine to tell you plainly that to supply the King with means for the necessary defence of your Country is not a thing left to your own discretion either to doe or not to doe but a matter of duty which in conscience you stand bound to perform The Apostle Rom. 13. having affirmed that we must be subject to the higher powers not only for wrath but for Conscience sake adds this as a reason to confirm it for for this cause you pay Tribute also as if the denying of such payment could not stand with conscionable Subjection thereupon he inferrres this conclusion Render therefore unto all their due tribute to whom tribute custome to whom custome is due Agreeable to that known lesson which he had learned of our Saviour Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesars and unto God the things which are Gods Where you may observe that as to with-hold from God the things which are Gods man is said to be a Robber of God whereof he himself thus complaineth in case of subtracting of Tythes Oblations So to deny a supply to Caesar of such means as are necessary for the support of his Kingdom can be accounted no less then a Robbing of him of that which is his due which I wish you seriously to ponder and to think better of yielding somthing to this present Necessity that we may not return from you an undutifull answer which may justly be displeasing to his Majesty ROM 13. 2. Whosoever resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation THe former Chapter may be called the Apostles Ethicks this his Politicks in the former he had taught them their dutys one to another in this towards the Magistrate And for this subject De officio subditorum both St. Peter and this our Apostle are very often and copious upon not only in this Epistle but in divers others inculcating it as his last words to Timothy and Titus chargeing them to teach it to the generation succeeding 1 Tim. 2. 1. 3. 1. And a some Expositors conceive one Cause to be the Rumor then falsly raised upon the Apostles as if they had been Seditious Innovators of the Roman Laws and the Kingdom of Christ preached by them tended to the absolving Subjects from their obedience to any other Whose mouths he here stops in shewing that the laws of Christ were not induced for the overturning the Civil but confirming not abolishing but establishing and making them the more sacred Abhorring those tumultuous spirits who under pretext of Religion and Christian liberty run into Rebellion as if there could be no perfect service of Christ nisi excusso terrenae potestatis jugo without casting off the yoak of earthly power In the text it self he exhorts to a Loyall subjection from these two principall Arguments First from the Originall of Regall Power ordained of God Secondly the Penalty of resisting it threatned as from God himself They shall receive to themselves damnation Every word in the Text hath its Emphosis Whosoever See how he commands a subjection without exception as in the former verse Let every Soul Omnis Anima si Apostolus sis si Evangelista si Prepheta sive quisquis tandem fueris as S. Chrysostom upon the place Resisteth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which implies how all preparative Ordering of forces Risings to that end as the Syriack renders it qui insurgit are condemned as a violation of Gods Ordinance not only an actuall resistance by open force in the field commonly called Rebellion like that of Absolom against David Jeroboam against Rehoboam but all secret undermining of a Prince by fraud and falsehood tending to it The Power 'T is observable the Apostle rather mentions the power then the person armed with it to teach us we should not so much mind the worth of the person as the authority it self he bears We acknowledge that sacred Apothegme of the Apostle Acts 5. 29. 't is better to obey God then man but both may be at once obeyed God actively and the Magistrate passively as the Apostles themselves then did The Ordinance of God As if Rebellion were Giant-like a waging of war with God himself as St. Chrysostome hath it which fully checks that proud conceit of some viz. that being made heirs of God they are no longer to be made