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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
A85738	Royalty and loyalty or A short survey of the power of kings over their subjects: and the duty of subjects to their kings. Abstracted out of ancient and later writers, for the better composeing of these present distempers: and humbly presented to ye consideration of his Ma.tie. and both Howses of Parliament, for the more speedy effecting of a pacification / by Ro: Grosse dd: 1647	Grosse, Robert, D.D.	1647 (1647)	Wing G2078; Thomason E397_3; ESTC R201664	38,810	64

of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supreme or unto Governours that are sent by him And presently after Feare God Honour the King From which wholsome doctrine of Saint Paul the Prophet Jeremiah and Saint Peter you may see not onely the pernicious tenets and positions of those and all other Schismatically affected Reformadoes alias Renegadoes confuted but the truth of obedience due to the Civill Magistrate confirmed and that in obedience honour reverence tributes and other duties formerly mentioned to be by Subjects performed to their Princes comprehended and enjoyned But to what kind of Princes do the Apostles c Prophets in Scriptures enjoyne these duties to be performed That wil be a question wel worth the time to be resolved especially at this time when every one almost doth take the liberty to himself peremptorily to affirm that Subjects ought not to give obedience to their King if he doth not as they they would have him wil not be perswaded ruled by them For say they it would not bee grievous or irksom to us to yeeld obedience and that respective observance w● you have alleadged fro the Holy Scriptures unto good gracious Princes but it goes against our consciences to performe these duties to one King seeing hee swerves from the Holy Scriptures which are the word of God and wil not be ruled by his great Counsel but is seduced by Malignant Councellors to wicked and ungodly acts of tyrannie To this I answer That if our Gracious King which God forbid should degenerate so far from himself as to comit such outrages as they would suggest which blessed be God as hitherto he hath not nor is there likelyhood that he ever wil although if he were not so good and so gracious as he is he might soone by their rebellious carriage be invited to it yet they are bound in duty to performe obedience to him and not of as too many abuse 〈…〉 c misled do hand over headrise up in rebellion against him For if we consult the same Apostle and other places of the holy Scriptures we shall finde that the forementioned duties are not only to be performed to good and gracious Princes but even to wicked and Tyranicall even to those that are most cruel as were Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero For under all these the Apostles lived their Epistles coetanie to them directed for obedience to them Nor is it without good reason that such obedience should be given to them for they are of God as well as good Kings there is no power saith the Apostle but of God that is all power is from God onely For that negative Apostolicall Axiome is equipollent on all sides to an universall affirmative So Daniel telleth Nebuchadnezzer that the most high ruleth in the Kingdome of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will and setteth up over at the basest of men So Christ himselfe pronounceth of Pilate that wicked president of the Jews that he had no power over him were it not given him from above And therefore seeing their power is alike from God we must give the like obedience to them as to God It was the saying of him who sometimes was Nazianzens Worthie {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Subjects must submit themselves to good and gracious Princes as to God and they must submit to evil and ungodly Princes for God that is because God hath so commanded it Let us heare the Fathers a little farther in this point and we shall finde that they doe all unanimously give their votes unto it Tertullian if we addresse our selves to him resolves us in these words For as much therefore as concernes the honour of Kings and Emperours we have a sufficient prescript that we should be subject according to the Apostles precept in all obsequiousnesse to Magistrates Princes and higher powers But yet within the bounds and limits of Religion so far as we are separated from Idolatrie For therefore is that example of the three brethren excelling who otherwise obsequious to King Nabuchodonosor did most constantly refuse to give honour to his Image proving that it was Idolatry whatsoever was exalted above the measure of humane honour after the manner of Divine Majesty And so Daniel relying upon Darius forother things so long continued in his office as he was free from the danger of his Religion But rather then he would run that hazard he did no more feare the Kings Lyons then the others were afraid of the Kings Fornace Optatus Milevitanus speaking of Davids observance to King Saul hath these words David had the opportunity of victory in his hands he might have killed his adversaries unwitting of him and secure without much adoe and he might have changed without much bloud-shed or the conflict of many his tedious warfare into a sudden slaughter both his servants and opportunity did invite him to it Opportunity did spur him on to Victory Now he began to draw his sword and now his armed hand was ready to seize upon his adversaries throat But the remembrance of divine institutions did altogether withstand these intentions He contradicts not onely his servants but opportunity egging him on to victory As if he should have said thus unto them O victorie causelesly dost thou provoke me on O victorie thou dost in vaine invite me to triumph I would willingly overcome mine enemie but I must first observe the commands of God I will not saith he lay my hands on the Lords Anointed He did represse both his hand and his sword and whiles he did revere the oyle he saved his adversary and performing observance to him though his adversary he did vindicate him from slaughter Saint Augustine speaking of the same person speaks in this manner David well knowing that there was a Divine constitution in the office of Kings doth therefore still honour King Saul being in the same condition lest he should seeme to injure God who decreed honour to this Order For a King hath the image of God even as a Bishop the image of Christ So long therefore as he is in that condition he is to be honoured if not for himself yet for his order Whereupon the Apostle saith Be subject to the higher powers for there is no power but of God and the powers that be are ordained of God Hence it is that we doe honour an Infidel in authority although he be unworthy of it who performing Gods office in that order doth gratifie the Devil yet the power he hath doth require that we give honour to him c. And in another place but in that the Apostle saith Let every soule submit himselfe to the higher powers for there is no power but of God he doth rightly admonish that no man be puffed up with pride for that he is called by the Lord into liberty and made a Christian and that he doth not think there is no order to be