Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	david_n	jonathan_n	saul_n	1,059	5	10.1589	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25435	Angliæ decus & tutamen, or, The glory and safety of this nation under our present King and Queen plainly demonstrating, that it is not only the duty, but the interest of all Jacobites and disaffected persons to act for, and submit to, this government.		1691 (1691)	Wing A3181; ESTC R9554	40,230	66

altogether in as good and possibly in a much better Condition in the hands of those to whom the profuse Life of the last Proprietor brought them than in his hands who made such a disposition and the Public Laws have not established so exact Rules for hindring the Alienation of Lands Possessions and Moveables as they have settled for preventing of the Ruin of the State and the dissolution of Societies If Houses Trees Horses and Oxen had reasonable Souls God without doubt had ordained Laws of Right to limit the possession of the Proprietors Thus because private Persons have a full right to do with their possessions as they please and to govern them according as it seems good to them yet Public Persons cannot govern States and Societies according to their own Caprice without any right left to their Subjects and Members to oppose and hinder the devastation thereof and in some respects even the Children of a House and the presumptive Heirs of a Private Person have a right to hinder the wasting of the Possessions that belong to the Family It is very well known that the Laws have allowed Means to Heirs for the prevention of their own impendent Ruin that they may not be barr'd of their right to that Estate which ought to revert to them With far better reason may Princes Heirs of Crowns and of Kingdoms have a Right to hinder the Ruin and Devastation of those Countries which they are to possess one day Besides there is a difference betwixt Public Possessions and those of Private Persons The Law and one's Birth give the latter without any reservation but it is God and the People who bestow Public Possessions and Sovereignities and with this reservation that the Welfare and the Safety of the State and of the People is the Soveraign end of Governments and the Supreme Law God I say and the People confer Sovereign Power and bestow it on whom they please without being obliged always to have regard to the Laws of Succession David invests himself with the two Crowns of the People of Israel during the Life of the Children of Saul who was their true and lawful King and which is more the Children of Jonathan his incomparable Friend The Laws of Friendship and of such a Friendship as that was betwixt Jonathan and David are at least as inviolable amongst honest Men as the Relations of Son-in-Law and Father-in-Law Yet David without any scruple went up to Hebron and made himself be Crown'd King of Judah and not content with this seven Years after he treats with Abner General of the Army of the People of Israel to draw them from their Allegiance to Ishbosheth the Son of Saul their lawful King by Birth by Succession and by Possession to oblige him to put the Ten Tribes upon Revolting from their Obedience to their lawful Sovereign If a People in prejudice of an eldest Son would establish Cadets upon the Throne in the opinion of some By assed Persons Hell it self could not afford Colours black enough to Paint the Rebellion Enterprise and Attempt of that People yet we may see how the People of Judah and Israel set Solomon on the Throne in prejudice of I do not know how many Elder Brothers of Solomon all of them Men capable of government It may be objected that God who is the disposer of Crowns does bestow them on whom he pleases it was he who gave the Crown to David and to Solomon in prejudice of the true Heirs he could do it I find the answer very good for the Objector it is also for me and it amounts to what I have said viz. that God and the People are the Lords of Crowns to give them to whom they please God as the Sovereign Lord the People as the Lords of their Possessions under God God as the Lord of all Crowns in general every People as the Lords of their own Crown in particular thus we find innumerable instances in History of People who in their Families make one to Inherit in prejudice of another who prefer a Cadet to the Eldest Son and oftentimes the Son to the Father because the safety of the People and the welfare of the Society does so require The People go further they transfer the Sovereign Power from one House to another The Jews leave the Royal Family of David and take that of the Maccabees The French renounce that of the Morivingians to take that of Charles Martell and at last forsook that of Charles Martell who had Male Issue to set on the Throne a third Race which Reigns at this day There is no State of which History is not full of such Examples it will only wast time to set them down And such an Action is the only Foundation of the right by which the Crown of France is held Examples of this nature have the force of Laws for the constant and perpetual Custom as well of the People of God as of other Nations does make it manifest to us that it is the Peoples right and without enumerating Examples good sense and right reason make a Law and clearly declare that since Societies do make Kings for their own preservation they have a right to transfer the Power of the Government to him who is Judged the most capable to preserve the Society and Common-Wealth If these two Truths be joyned together First that Kings are not Lords of reasonable Souls as private Men are Lords of their Lands and of their Cattle Secondly that God and the People may of right bestow Crowns on whom they please a third Position will result from both viz. that the People as well as the Church is always a Minor that Kingdoms are Pupils that Kings are properly their Guardians and that consequently in the same manner as it is permitted to presumptive Heirs of the Possessions of a Pupil to hinder the disorders and prevent the wasting of the Estate which belongs to him or may belong to him for the time to come so the presumptive Heirs of a Crown not only can but ought by the Laws of Religion of Piety and of conscience to hinder disorders to preserve the Society which is going to ruin and repress the violences of him who having in his hand the Sovereign Power uses it to the destruction of the public though the lawful Heir of a Crown should have no other interest but his own he ought to be allowed to maintain and preserve it much more and with better reason when he has in his view the interest of Religion and of the Kingdom and there is no relation either of Son in-Law or of Father or of Son but ought to yeild to so inviolable an Obligation for we must love God and the Common-wealth more then Father and Mother besides this is not so much to love superiors as to abandon to them a Kingdom or a Church for the common ruin and destruction thereof It is to suffer them to take a full career to Hell and Death it is