Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	harden_v	let_v	pharaoh_n	4,715	5	11.0616	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27454	The original of kingly and ecclesiastical government by T.B. ...	Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.	1681 (1681)	Wing B1513A; Wing B196; ESTC R37045	57,729	118

their Cities their Jerusalem their Temple and carried the residue who were left alive Captives with him to Babylon And now behold then Nebuchadonozers good subjects will you hear what advice the Prophet Daniel gives them for all this Baruch 1.11 Pray you for the life of Nebuchadonozer King of Babylon and for the life of Balthazer his son that their days may be upon earth as the days of Heaven and the Lord will give us strength what to do to wage War against him and lighten our eyes what with new Revelations how they may be reveng'd O no that we may live under the shadow of Nebuchadonozer King of Babylon and under the shadow of Balthazer his son and that we may serve them many days and find favour in their sight truly shewing that a King is Alkum Prov. 30.31 one against whom there is no rising up that is not upon any pretences whatsoever there can be no pretences whatsoever more fair and specious then those of defending the Church and redressing the Common-wealth For the first if Religion be any thing pushed at think you that Rebellion will keep it up or that it ever stood in need of such hands when God refused to have his Temple built by David because he was a fighter of the Lords Battels think you that he will have his Church defended by fighters against the Lords Anointed to defend Religion by Rebellion were to defend it by means condemned by the same Religion we would desend an● to reform or redress the Common-wealth by Insurrection and Rebellion were to rectifie an errour with the greatest of all mischiefs no government worse than a Civil War and the wor●● Go●ernour is always better than the best Rebellion Rebellion is as the sin of witchcr●ft and stubborness is as Idolatry and how perilous a thing it is for the Feet to judge the Head the subjects to chose wha● government and Governours they will have to condemn what and whom they please to make what pretences and surmises they have a mind to this Kingdom by woful experience hath had sad resentments Imbecillities and weaknesses in Princes are on arguments for the chastisements deposing or murdering of Kings for then giddy heads will never want matter or pretences to cloak their Rebellion Shall Moses because Pharaoh was an oppressour of Gods people and had hardned his heart and would not let the Israelites depart therefore inflict punishments upon Pharaoh or so much as depart without his leave Though Moses could inflict punishments upon the whole Land yet his Commission never went so far as to touch Pharaoh in the least degree though swarms of Flies came into the house of Pharaoh and Frogs entred into the Kings chamber yet we read not that they seized on Pharaohs person there were Lice in all their Quarters saith the Psalmist and there became Lice in man and beast upon the smiting on the dust but none were smitten of the person of the King Boyls and blains were upon all the Egyptians and upon the Magicians so sore as they could not ●●and in the presence of Pharaoh but they were not on Pharaoh that he could not stand himself Pharaoh his eldest son may die but Vivat Rex Pharaoh must not b● touch'd Did bsalom do well to conspire again●● his Father though he defiled Vriahs bed and cloaked adultery with murther should the Priest Peers Prophets or People offer to depose Solomon because he had brought strange Wives into the Land and as strange Religion into the Church shall Elias entice Ahabs subjects to Rebellion because he suffered Jezabel to put Naboth to death and killed the Lords Prophets shall Peter take vengeance upon Herod because he put him in prison beheaded John the Baptist and killed James shall Reuben be no Patriarch because he was unstable as water shall Simeon and Levi lose their Patriarchal dignity because they were brethren in iniquity and instruments of cruelty because in their anger they slew a man and in their self-will digged down a wall shall Judah be depose● from his rule and government for making a bargain with an Harlot upon the high way shall Issachar not be numbred amongst the other twelve because he was none of the wisest no reason they were Patriarchs as well as the rest which was the immediate government before Kings and indeed were princes themselves Princeps Dei es inter nos Gen. 28.6 Thou art a mighty Prince amongst us and thus much shall suffice and I hope sufficient to shew that no faults or pretences whatsoever can make it lawful to depose or so much as to touch the Lords Annointed CHAP. VII What is meant by touching the Lords Annointed or stretching forth the hand against the Lords Anointed NOt dare to touch the Lords Annointed is an awfull reverence and a supposed difference to be kept between every subject and his Soveraign esp●cially in point of violence A Mother doubting the discretion of her Children and being to leave some curious looking glass in a place doth not comand her Children they should not break it but that they should not touch it knowing full well that if they have the liberty to meddle with it in the least degree they make break it before they are aware and destroy it when they think least of any such matter So God is very chary of his King wherein he beholds the representatio● of himself and ●nowing him to be but brittle and though the most refined Earth yet bu● glass he commands his people that they should not touch his Anointed knowing that if they were permitted but to tamper with him in the least degree their rude hands may break it in pieces when they do but think to set it right A touch is but of one man though but with one of his fingers yet this must not be Nolite tangere it is not said ne tangere wherein only the act of touching is forbidden but Nolite tangere whereby the will is also prohibited how wary should we be in touching when the Lord is so cautious in his prohibition Now stretching forth the hand may signifie a combination of many into one confederacy the hand being a part of the body composed of five members one and all but this must not be a most unhappy instrument is that hand that turns it self into the bowels of its own body if the head break out by chance the hands must not presently be in the head clawing with invenomed nails the corruption there lest that itching desire turn into smart in the end lest when the peaceable day springing from on high shall happily visit you that now sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death we then see our bloody hands and this once happy kingdom the only pillow whereon peace had laid her head streamed like the Egyptian River all with blood In a word by touching the Lords Anointed or by stretching forth the hands against him is meant any kind of violence that is used against sacred Majesty