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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	david_n	lord_n	saul_n	9,635	5	10.3237	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87515	Obedience active and passive due to the supream povver, by the word of God, reason, and the consent of divers moderne and orthodox divines; written not out of faction, but conscience, and with desire to informe the ignorant, and undeceive the seduced: by W.J. a welwiller to peace and truth.	W. J., welwiller to peace and truth.	1643 (1643)	Wing J52; Thomason E90_19; ESTC R19937	23,430	31

that after this life he may attaine everlasting joy and felicity Thirdly We must feare him as S. Paul wills us Rom. 13.7 Give Feare to whom feare is due and as Salomon Councells us Pro. 24.21 saying My Sonne feare thou the Lord and the King and that with a feare of love least any hurt come to him and a feare of awe least we offend and disobey him Salomon joynes them together because he that is a true servant of God and feareth him will be a true subject to the King and feare him also For it is but one and the same Religious feare which first honoureth God and then the King And as Time Deum makes a good Christian so Time Regem a good Subject and the better Christian the better Subject And to speake Truth it is God that causeth this Feare in Subjects towards their King for as S. Anselme speaketh very rightly Nunquam potest fieri nisi operatione Dei ut tot homines vni servirent quem considerant vnius esse cum ipsis fragilitatis naturae Sed quia Deus inspirat Subditis timorem obediendi voluntatem contingit ita Fourthly we must not murmur against him For Exod. 16.8 and Num. 16.11 They that murmur against their Governours are said to murmur against the Lord because they murmur against his ordinance and against his Ministers for they judge not for men but for the Lord 2 Chron. 19.6 and Pro 8.15 by me Princes decree Iustice saith God and therefore what Christ saith in another case Luk. 10.16 may not unfitly be applied to them He that despiseth you despiseth me for as the Apostles were the Messengers of Christ so Kings are the Lieutenants of God Fiftly We must not touch him with a virulent Tongue like them in Ieremy Ier. 18.18 who said Come let us smite him with the Tongue that is We must not speake evill of him no though we receive wrong from him by S. Paule's example Acts 23.5 towards Ananias for so soone as he knew him to be the high Priest he corrects himselfe with a Scriptum est out of Exod. 22.28 Thou shalt not speake evill of the Ruler of my people Sixtly We must not accuse him for where the word of a King is there is power and who may say to him what dost thou saith Salomon Eccles 8.4 and Elihu in Iob Is it fit to say to a King Thou art wicked Or to Princes yee are ungodly Iob. 34.18 And therefore we should be so farre from judging amisse of his actions That we should rather excuse what is done amisse by him then accuse him for it and withall to suppose him so free in himselfe from doing any Act of Injustice that we should be ready to answer him as did both that wise woman of Tekoah 2 Sam 14 17 and also Mephibosheth 2 Sam. 19.27 My Lord the King is as an Angell of God to discerne both good and bad doe therefore what is good in thine eyes Wherefore though his actions may seem blame-worthy yet we must not suppose them such and much lesse accuse him for them and so Plantus though an Heathen could tell us That Indigna digna habenda sunt Rex quae facit Seventhly We must not curse him for God hath prohibited it Exod. 22.28 Thou shalt not curse the Ruler of my people and Salomon gives us this lesson by way of causion Eccles 10.20 Curse not the King no not in thy thought for a bird of the ayre shall cary the voyce and that which hath winges shall tell the matter to teach us That though Kinge and Governors have infirmities and vices which being men they are equally subject too with others and so perchance may often do evill yet we ought not to revile them or curse them therefore Yea though thou mayst know the King to doe evill and the land to suffer evill by his doing yea though thou mayst know it by thine owne suffering of evil from him yet let not so much as thine hearts thought curse him as Doctor Iermyne in his Comments on that booke of Ecclesiastes hath observed upon that text from S. Cyprian Eighthly We must not touch him violently nor lift up our hands against him God hath inhibited it 1 Chro 16.22 and Psal 10● 15 Saying Touch not mine annoynted to wit so as to doe him harme or kill him for as David saith to Abishai 1 Sam. 26.9 who can stretch forth his hands against the Lords annoynted and be guiltlesse and therfore forbeare to destroy him And we know how Davids heart smote him when as he onely did but cut off the skirt from King Sauls garment 1 Sam. 24.5 though he kild him not For on whom Gods hand hath beene to annoynt them he cannot endure any others hand should be to violate them For there is such neere alliance as it were betweene God and them Christ and them and the Holy Ghost and them as that they are not to be harmed the least way if either God or Christ or the Holy Ghost can keepe us from it For Kings participat with the name of God Psal 82.6 I have said yee are Gods and with the name of Christ for they are called Christi Domini The Lords Annoynted frequently in Scripture and if they be annoynted it is with the Holy Ghost and power from above Acts 10. ●● as that learned and reverend Bishop Andrewes in his Second Sermon of the conspiracy of the Gowries So in that they be annoynted with oyle not tooke from the Marchants warehouse or the Apothecaryes shop but from the Sanctuary it shewes us That Sacred is the office whereunto they are designed Sacred the power wherwith they are endued Sacred the persons wherto it is applied therfore at no hand to be touched either virulently with the Tongue or violently with the hand Ninthly We should not desert him in his troubles and necessity but adhere to him and endure the extremity of Fortune with him and even then answer him as Davids Servants said to him when David was to flee with them from Absolom 1 Sam. 15 15. Behold thy servants are ready to doe whatsoever my Lord the King shall appoint and likewise with Ittai the Gittite to say and doe as he did then to King David at verse the 21. As the Lord liveth and as my Lord the King liveth Surely in what place my Lord the King shall be whether in life or death even there also will thy Servant be Tenthly In time of warre if he goe forth to battaile and there expose himselfe to danger for the animation and incouragement of his Hoast then because he is worth ten thousand of us as the people said of King David 2 Sam. 18.3 We must therefore be sure that we be ready to rescue him and to venture our life for his deliverance as wee read Abishai one of Davids Generalls valiant men did to succour David from the hands of Isbbi-benob the Philistim Gyant 2 Sam. 21 17. And then withall out of a feare