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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
A45692	The doctrine of passive obedience and jure divino disproved and obedience to the present government, proved from Scripture, law, and reason. Written for the satisfaction of all those who are dissatisfyed at the present government: by a lay-man of the Church of England.	Harrison, T. (Thomas), fl. 1683-1711.	1689 (1689)	Wing H917A; ESTC R215651	4,772	2

Protection and Obedience appear to be Co-relative so the Law has appointed reciprocal Oaths to be taken for the better enforcing the performance of these respective Duties that is the Coronation Oath on the King's part and the Oath of Allegiance on the Subjects which is an Agreement or Covenant between King and People all Agreements are Covenants but much more that which hath the Obligation of an Oath to bind it I Ask whether it is not as reasonable a King Conspiring the ruine and destruction of his People by breaking his Oath or Contract and destroying the very Foundation of Government and in Lieu thereof bringing in Popery and Slavery as the late King James did he should forfeit and lose the Right of Governing as that the People Conspiring against him should suffer Death I ask whether the Authority which is inherent in our Kings be Boundless and Absolute or Limited and Determined so that the Acts which they do or Command to be done without that Compass and Bounds be not only sinful in themselves but Invalid and not Authoritative to others The word Loyal comes from the French word La Loy which is to be Legal or True to the Laws of the Land and on the contrary he that obeys the Commands of his Prince contrary to the Laws of the Land is so far from being Loyal that he is an Illegal Person and a Betrayer of the known Laws of his Countrey Passive Obedience is Popery Established by Law when ever the Prince shall please and by Consequence Slavery whereas the Subjects of England never were Slaves in any Particular nor ever would be in the darkest Times of Popery I ask where was the Doctrine of Passive Obedience when Queen Elizabeth assisted the Hollanders against their Lawful Soveraign the King of Spain and when she assisted the Protestants of France at a vast Charge in the Reigns of Charles the Ninth and Henry the Third and in King Charles the First 's Reign the Expedition of Rochel was carried on by King and Parliament and Cordially agreed to by the Fathers of our Church and yet the Protestants of France could never pretend to any such Priviledges as England can justly Claim The late King James's Life has been but one continued and form'd Conspiracy against our Religion Laws Rights and Priviledges and what can be expected from such a Prince who is a Romanist and has Violated his Oath before God and Man and endeavours to Reestablish himself with the Sword by the assistance of one of the greatest Tyrants that ever the World produced It cannot be proved that Monarchy was Originally Instituted by God Almighty or that we are Commanded to obey Kings Exclusively to all other Government I ask where was there such a thing as a King for the first Sixteen hundred years and upwards which is to the Deluge or for several hundered years after it the first King at least the first mentioned in ●oly Writ is Nimrod of the Posterity of Cham who began his Kingdom in the second Century after the Flood whose Kingdom was founded by Force and Violence so that the very foundation of Monarchy seems to be laid from this Person which makes but little for Jure Divino If Kings are by Divine appointment is it not Rational to believe that God would have Commanded all the World to have been Governed by Kings or at least the Christian World ●●d have given them a particular Law to Govern by If Monarchy be Jure Divino then all other Government is Sinful Allegiance is due to him from whom we receive Protection this is allowed on by all the World else why do men after having Sworn Allegiance to their Native Prince and going into another Countrey swear Allegiance to the Prince thereof ●llegiance is due to a King in Possession who is called a King De facto and Treason may be committed against him as well as against a King by regular descent and yet by the Law Treason cannot be committed against the rightful Heir who is called a King de Jure who is out of Possession of the Crown and all Judicial and Political Acts done by a King de Facto are as Valid and Obligatory as if they had been done by a Rightful King in actual Possession of the Throne whereas on the contrary all such Acts done by a King de Jure who is not in Possession of the Crown are totally void in like manner the Law prefers the Peace and Order of the Polity before the particular Rights of the King himself and the great end of the Regal Authority and of the Law it self is the Quiet and Prosperity of the Commonwealth 'T is an acknowledged Aphorism that the safety of the People is the Supream Law and therefore to be preferred before Titles to Succession The Succession of the Crown of England is not by Divine Right but by Political Institution and all the Prerogatives and Authorities of the Crown belong to the Successor de Facto and not to the Heir de Jure or Ex ordine being out of Possession and that Allegiance is due in such case to the former and not to the latter All the Proofs that are brought out of the Gospel for Obedience to Princes do confirm this Maxim of our Law for neither our Saviour or his Apostles bid Christians enquire into the Right and Title of the Roman Emperours but obey them under what Government it was their lot to fall for few of them could pretend a legal Title to the Crown I Challenge all the Passive Obedience and Jure Divino Men in England nay in the whole World to answer these Assertions and Propositions and prove the Doctrine of Passive Obedience and Jure Divino by Scripture Law or Reason when these are proved I dare be bold to affirm the Nation will send for the late King James and submit to his Yoke and lay down their Neck● upon the Block and stand to the mercy of the French and Irish Dragoons to Cut their Throats I Conjure all the Dissatisfied Persons in their Majesties Dominions to be satisfied with these Assertions and Propositions or to ans●er them and shew sound reason for their Dissent from the present Government for a wilful Schism in the State is a Sin and he that Endeavours to sow Dissentions amongst the People and to draw their Majesties Subjects from their true Allegiance is guilty of a double Sin. And because it may be Objected in answering these Propositions they must be forc'd to Write against the Government I do promise if they send a short but direct Answer to Mr. Randal Taylor 's to Print it with a Reply annext to it Licensed May 7. 1689. J. Fraser LONDON Printed for Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1689.