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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	queen_n	22,548	5	7.7438	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43548	The rebells catechism composed in an easy and familiar way to let them see the heinousness of their offence, the weakness of their strongest subterfuges, and to recal them to their duties both to God and man.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing H1731A; ESTC R23968	23,896	33

take up Arms against them under those pretences which is the rebellion of the hand 19. Quest What if the King be in the hands of Evil Counsellors may we not take up Arms to remove them from him Answ. Yes if the Earl of Essex may be Judg whose Father fell into Rebellion under that pretence a ut regnum ab impotenti quorundam dominatu liberaret as to free the Kingdom from some men who had got the Queen into their hands and consequently ingrossed unto themselves the principal managery of the Commonwealth But he had other aims than that as before was told you and so had they that went before him in the self same road When as Watt Tiler and Jack Straw and the residue of that Rascal Rabble had took up Arms against King Richard the second they made the Londoners believe who have been always apt to be deluded by the like pretences that when they had seized on the evil Counsellors b which abused the King and brought them to a legal trial then they would be quiet But under this pretence they broke open Prisons robbed Churches murdered the King's good Subjects and finally arrived to so high an impudence that Watt Tiler did not stick to say that within four days all the Laws of England should proceed from his mouth c And when Jack Cade had drawn the Kentish to Rebel against King Henry the sixth he gave it out that if he could get the King and Queen into his hands he would use them honourably d but if he could lay hands on any of the Traytors which were about them he would take care to see them punished for their misdemeanours But in good truth the end and aim of the Rebellion was to depose King Henry and the House of Lancaster in favour of the title of the Duke of York 20. Quest What if the King assaults a Subject or seek to take away his life may not the Subject in that case take up Arms against him Answ. Yes if e Paraeus may be Judg and some of the Genevian Doctors who have so determined But David's case which commonly is alledged in defence hereof if looked on with the eyes of judgment doth affirm the contrary For David though he had a guard of some friends and followers to save him from the hands of such wicked instruments as Saul in his unjust displeasure might have used against him yet he preserved himself from Saul not by resistance but by flight f by flitting up and down as the King removed and approached near him with his Armies For had he had a thought of War though Defensive meerly 't is probable he would have took the opportunities which were offered to him either of seizing on Sauls person when he had him all alone in the Cave of Engeddi g or suffering Abishai to smite him as he lay asleep in the Hill of Hachilah h or at the least in making sure of Abner and the Host of Saul who lay sleeping by him i But David was not so well tutored in the Art of Rebellion as to secure himself this way and wanted some of our new Masters to instruct him in it If from the practice of a pious and religious Iew we will look down upon the precept of a grave wise and learned Gentile we shall find this rule laid down in Aristotle k {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that if the Magistrate assault the person of a private Subject the Subject may not strike again nor lift hand against him Finally that you may perceive how much all sorts of men do oppose your Doctrines Calvin himself although no friend to Monarchy doth affirm thus much l qui privatus manum intulerit c. that any private person of what sort soever who shall lift up his hand against his Sovereign though a very Tyrant is for the same condemned by the voice of God 21. Quest Perhaps we may so far agree with you as to disable private persons from bearing Arms and lifting up their hands against Kings and Princes of their own authority But think you that inferiour Magistrates are not inabled by their Offices to protect the People and arm them if occasion be in their own defence Answ. 'T is true that some Divines of the Reformed Churches who either lived in popular States or had their breeding at Geneva or thought the Discipline by them defended could not be otherwise obtruded upon Christian Princes than by putting the Sword into the hands of the People have spared no pains to spread abroad this dangerous Doctrine in which they have not wanted followers in most parts of Christendom But S. Paul knew of no such matter when he commanded every soul to yield obedience and subjection to the higher powers and upon no occasion to resist those powers to which the Lord had made them subject So that although inferiour Magistrates may expect obedience from the hands of those over whom and for whose weal and governance they are advanced and placed by the Prince in chief yet God expects that they should yield obedience to the powers above them especially to the highest of all than which there is not any higher There is a golden Chain in Polities and every link thereof hath some relation and dependence upon that before so far forth as inferiour Magistrates do command the People according to that power and those instruments which is communicated to them by the supreme Prince the Subject is obliged to submit unto them without any manner of Resistance Men of no publick Office must obey the Constable the Constable is bound to speed such Warrants as the next Iustice of the Peace shall direct unto him the Iustices receive the exposition of the Law from the mouth of the Iudges the Iudges have no more Authority but what is given them by the King And thereupon it needs must follow that though the Iudges direct the Iustices and the Iustices command the Constables and the Constables may call the People to their aid if occasion be yet all must yield a free obedience without reluctancy or resistance to the King himself The reason is because as Kings or Supreme Magistrates are called Gods Ministers by S. Paul m so the inferiour or Subordinate Magistrates are called the Kings Ministers by S. Peter n Submit your selves to the King as unto the Supreme next to such Governours as are sent or authorized by him for the punishment of evil doers Besides there is no Inferior Matistrate of what sort soever but as he is a publick person in respect of those that are beneath him so is he but a private man in reference to the powers above him and therefore as a private person disabled utterly by your own rules from having any more authority to resist his Sovereign or bear defensive Arms against him as well as any other of the Common People The government of States may be compared most properly