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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	6,232	5	10.0779	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10501	Vivat Rex A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse on the day of his Maiesties happie inauguration, March 24⁰. 1614. And now newly published, by occasion of his late (no lesse happy) recovery. By John Rawlinson Dr of Divinity, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines in ordinary.	Rawlinson, John, 1576-1630.	1619 (1619)	STC 20777; ESTC S115693	31,914	48

together in one yoake Feare God Honor the King because if yee doe the one ye will doe the other If ye feare God who is Proto-rex the Supreme or Prime King then ye will honor his Pro-rex or vnder-king whom himselfe hath honored 2ly In the TRANSCENDENT POWER 2ly The excellencie of Kingly dignity shines in the transcendent power and praerogatiue of a King which is such that Plus potest rex quam vnli bonus rex A king in his absolute and vnlimited power is able to do more than a good King will doe It was therefore good advice which Agapetus gaue the Emperour Instinian Aga●et 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 You shall doe well saith he to impose vpon your selfe a necessity of keeping the lawes as hauing no superior here on earth that may compell you to keepe them You shall do the law great honor in keeping it and shall strike into your subiects a scare of transgressing it A King then though he be free from coaction to keepe the law yet must he voluntarily submit his will to the direction of the law the difference betweene a good King and a tyrant being but this that a King makes the law his will because he will 's that which the law will's But a tyrant makes his will a law because what he will 's he will haue to be law Therefore Antigonus King of Macedony Cael Rhod. l. 23. c. 14. when one of his Sycophants told him that in a King all things are iust and honest yea but saith he none but barbarous Kings are of that opinion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For mine owne part saith he I thinke onely those things honest that are honest indeed onely those things iust that are iust indeed And it was but a mocke that Anaxarchus gaue to King Alexander when seeing the po●ture of Iustice iet cheeke by iowle on the right side of Iupiter's image Plutarch ad punc indoct hee told him that Iupiter was not thereby bound to doe iustice but that the people were thereby bound to conceiue that whatsoeuer Iupiter did was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lawfull and iust For a good King wil be so farre from thinking it lawfull for him to breake the law that hee will be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a keeper of the law a keeper of it in both significations of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He will not only Serv●re but Observare not preserue it onely but obserue it too that is he will neither violate it himselfe nor yet suffer it to suffer violence of others and is therefore call'd by N●za●●zer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a liuing law by Xenophon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a seeing law by the Roman Orator Lex ●oquens a speaking law But suppose him to be the very worst that may be a tyrant one that will make the law an out-law yet shall it not be lawfull for any mortall man vindictiuely to meddle with him David though he were a King had therefore more right than any inferior person to take vengeance of King Saul who contrary to all law ae●uity religion had causlesly slaine the Priests of the Lord 1. Sam. 24. yet it 's said that his heart smote him because he had but cut of the lap of Saul's garment 1. Sam. 24.6 who was the annointed of the Lord. Marke that thou that boastest thy selfe to bee Peters Successor and herein indeed exceedest him that as Peter cut off Malchus his care Hieronym epist l. 3. ep 3. which by St Ierom's interpretation is a King So thou by thy diuelish agents instruments cutt'st off not only an eare or a lap of the garments of those Kings that will not stoope to thy lure but their crownes and their heads too Surely thou hadst never any such warrant from God who was so far from giuing any commission either to David or any other to put Saul though a wicked King to the sword as that he suffer'd Saul to fall vpon his own sword 1. Sam. 31.4 and so to be his owne executioner 1. Sam. 31. as i● no earthly hand had beene fit to execute Saul a King but his owne A faire example and warning-piece for Princes to teach them Sibi imperare to be Kings over themselues least God suffer them Sibi poeuas irrogare to be avenged of themselues It was the saying of that heathen Marcellus in Tacitus Tacit. l. 4. paulo post init that he would Bonos imperatores voto expetere qualescunque tole●are pray for Emperors if they were good but patiently endure them though they were never so bad It should seeme by him that heathen Rome was not then so heathenish as now it is For is it not now the doctrine of the Church of Rome and doe they not also countenance their doctrine by their practised that kings if they be bad are not Tolerandi to be tolerated with patience but emedis to●lendi to be rid out of the way by violence nay be they otherwise never so good if not good for their turne that they are no voto expetends to be desired of God by prayer but Glad●o impetends to be dispatched of men by the sword But was this either the doctrine or the practise of the Primitiue Church Surely no. Per. Martyr in Sarn 24. For when those more than tyrannica●l tyrants to ba●ba●ously persecuted and afflicted the Christians with most exquisite tortures torments yet neither Peter nor Paul nor any of the Apostles did once offer to arme or incense the people against them Nay they rather admonisht them to make their supplications vnto God for them and namely for Nero that bloudy persecutor whom therefore St Paul by an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 call's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lyon 2. Tim. 4. 2. Tim. 4.17 3 In the FAC● Gerson 3ly The excellēcy of Princely dignity shines in the very face and countenance of a King For there is Character tremendus in vultibus Regū An impression or character of dreadfull Maiestie stamp● in the very visage of a King The Lyon's looke is terrible to all the beasts of the Forrest And Nature hers●lfe saith that Chiefe Secretary of Nature hath made the Physiognomy of Princes to bee such Aris●ot as st●●ke'● an lawfull feare and reverence into as many as behold them euen as it is said of Moses Exod 34 Exod. 34.30 that after his conference with God the skin of h● face shone so bright that the people were afraid to come neare him 4ly And lastly the ex●ellēcy of Kingly dignity shines in the very appellations of 1 King that he is called a Head 4. In the APP●●ATIONS a Shepheard a Father a God I will but onely salute them in a word 1 First he is called a Head Esay 9 and 1 Sam. 15 1 HEAD Esa 9.14 1. Sam. 15.17 because as the Head is the Prince of the Naturall body so the Prince is the Head of the