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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	lord_n	psal_n	11,426	5	7.3571	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95803	Novemb. 18. 1642. The unlimited prerogative of kings subverted. Or a short treatise grounded upon scripture and reason, to prove that kings ought as well as others to bee accountable for their actions. By a well wisher to the church of God, his King and countrey. And dedicated to all such as love the truth.	Well wisher to the Church of God, his King and countrey.	1642 (1642)	Wing U84; Thomason E127_32; ESTC R16462	22,383	17

The unlimited PREROGATIVE OF KINGS subverted Or a Short Treatise grounded upon Scripture and Reason to prove that Kings ought as well as others to bee accountable for their Actions MATTHEW 22.21 Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods By a well wisher to the Church of God His King and Countrey And dedicated to all such as love the Truth THere will be times saith the Apostle wherein men will not indure sound doctrine 2 Tim. 1.3 but will give heed to seduceing spirits and doctrines of devils 1 Tim. 4.1 And certainly if ever these times shall come to be fullfilled now they are when as Court Parasites and ambitious flatterers Divines as well as others whose chiefest Policy now it is to have mens persons in admiration for advantage sake Iude 16. and to please those by whom they may be dignified or rewarded care not what falsities they speak nor what untruths they doe maintain and which is worst of all are not asham'd to father their lies even upon the very Scriptures of truth themselves wresting the same as S. Peter saith 2 Pet. 3.16 through their willingly wilfull Ignorance to their own destruction Among which this is none of the least which they say That Kings are not responsall to any save God for their actions And for this they bring the saying of the Preacher Eccles 8.4 where he saith thus Where the word of a King is there is power and who may say unto him what doest thou Which words if they be throughly scan'd and examined you shall find they yeeld no such construction but rather the contrary For in the 2d verse before going the Wise man gives us this charge to keep the Kings Commandement I suppose if they understand themselvs they will not say that by vertue therof we are bound to do whatsoever the King injoynes us whether it be right or wrong but that it hath respect to those things that are either agreeable or at least not contrary to the Commandement of God and the reason therof is given in the words following in regard of the Oath of God Now there are none I think will say if Kings come lawfully in with the choice and consent of their People as all lawfull Kings doe that his Oath hath only respect unto the People as if it did bind only on their part but also on the part of the King who Sweares to rule and govern them according to the Laws of God and of the Land and upon this condition they Sweare Obedience unto him This we may see sufficiently proved by the Covenant of David made with his people 1 Chron. 11.1 where it is said All the Elders of Israel came to the King to Hebron and David made a Covenant with them in Hebron before the Lord and then it followes they anointed him King over Israel And then again wee see this proved by the mutuall Oath between Ioash and his people 2 Chron. 23.11 where it is said they brought out the Kings Son and put upon him the Crown and gave him the Testimonie that is to say they made him enter into this Covenant to keep the Law of God and to Govern them according thereunto and then it followes they made him King and Iehojada and his Sons anointed him and said God save the King And so again in the 16. v. of the same chapter By this you see here was an Oath aswell on the Kings part as on the peoples and thus the people are bound to keep the Kings commandement when he walks according to this rule And such is the Oath of the Kings of England when they come to their Crowns and Kingdomes Then he saith further in the 3d verse Be not hastie to g●e out of his sight stand not in an evill thing for he doth whatsoever he pleaseth I hope there are none that dare be so Sacrilegiously bold as from these words to attribute unto Kings an Almighty power as the words seem to import which is an Attribute only proper unto God to be Almighty as the Psalmist shews Psal 115.3 Our God is in the heavens he hath done whatsoever he pleased And Psal 135.6 Whatsoever the Lord pleased that did he in heaven and in earth c. This were in an high measure to rob God of his glory and to give that to the creature that is only due to the Creatour Yet I know no reason why they may not say from these words The King doth whatsoever he pleaseth that Kings have an Almighty power as well as to say from the other words who may say unto him what dost thou that therfore Kings are accountable to none save God for their actions For you see how the words follow one another and what may be said of Kings in one respect may be said of them in the other But we may if we will at least take notice that these words are brought in as having relation to good or evill and that this is a phrase applyed unto Kings only to shew that their Power is great and of a large extent For the good of those that doe well and for the punishment of those that doe evill and that in respect thereof we should have an awfull and reverentiall regard of them for so the words run Stand not in an evill thing for he doth whatsoever he pleaseth Then for the words following which are quoted by those that stand for the unlimited Prerogative they have respect also to the same And so it is most true That where the word of a King is there is power If speaking as a King should performing the Office of a King having respect to his Oath and Covenant between God and his people in commanding those things that are good and punishing those things that are evill then indeed who may say unto him what dost thou no man may call him to Question for asmuch as God the King of Kings hath put this power into his hands And what is that indeed that makes Kings many times so slighted and so little feared of their people but this that they take no care at all to govern them according to their Laws and what is it on the other side that addes majestie and magnificence unto them but this that they make the Laws of God and of the Land the rules of Magistracie and government Herein consists the power of Kings which the Wise m●n here so much speaks of But now that this place is not so to be understood as the Royalists of our times for their own ends would have it that Kings are n●t accountable unto men for their actions may easilie appeare by comparing this place with that in Dan. 4 35. where Nebucadnezzar after that he was restored again to his sences and to his Kingdom makes this acknowledgement concerning the power of God Who may say unto him what dost thou Implying thus much that howsoever Kings may be great and their power may reach very farre as he