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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	custom_n	fear_v	tribute_n	4,452	5	11.2078	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29535	Seasonable reflections on a late pamphlet entituled A history of passive obedience since the Reformation wherein the true notion of passive obedience is settled and secured from the malicious interpretations of ill-designing men.	Bainbrigg, Thomas, 1636-1703.	1690 (1690)	Wing B474; ESTC R10695	44,461	69

to God when they suffered neither We must suffer when we are called to suffer but we are not bound to call to God to send sufferings upon us We must take up the Cross when it lies in our way but we are not bound to go out of our way to find one and when we do take it up we must remember to follow Christ who took it up when his hour was come before that he oft withdrew and preserved himself from imminent dangers And at the very last he ceased not to pray to his Father that the Cup might pass from him We are not to bring upon our selves needless sufferings because we are always bound to pray to God that he would not lead us into temptations but that he would deliver us from evil And we are alwayes bound to believe that God is both able and willing to deliver us and that too at such times when we know not any particular means by which deliverance should come to us 1 Cor. 10. 13. 2 Pet. 2. 9. Dan. 3. 17 18. We may and must suffer sometimes if it be the Will of God and we may escape if God will find out the way and then we must accept of the deliverance and we may as well please when we so escape as when we suffer It is not the Suffering but the Cause that makes the Martyr If we suffer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Matth. 10. 18. to give testimony to the World of our sincere faith in the Christian Doctrine we may hope to be accepted If we suffer for Righteousness sake we have a promise to be happy If we suffer for being true just or honest we may commit our Souls to God as to a faithful Creator we do well and are satisfied in our own Consciences that we do so not because we suffer but because we persevere in doing our Duties to the end Now if Men will call this Passive Obedience they may for here is Obedience and here is Suffering many advices and exhortations seem to move for this and it is certainly worthy of the best thoughts of the Divines to teach it to persuade the People to be ready upon occasion to practise it it is in it self excellent praise-worthy as the Apostle says a Duty which God and right Reason requires of us our blessed Lord and his Apostles both taught and practised it All the Primitive Christians who had the glory of being Martyrs and Confessors acted from an intire submission to it All sorts of Men see their Obligation for it which Heathens derive from a sense they have of Probity Christians from Faithfulness Simplicity and Sincerity Kings as well as Subjects are bound to the practice when ever it can become their Duty that is when ever their unhappy circumstances are such that they must either suffer or do something which they account extreamly base wicked or unjust This the glorious Martyr King Charles the First owned to be a truth and sealed it with the last drop of his Bloud The Duty is laid upon all the Interests of mankind require that it should for without the observance of this Rule all would be base and slavish and degenerate there would be nothing of Vertue or Praise or Honour amongst Men. But to leave this there is another sense of Passive Obedience as it is used to signifie a peculiar Duty of Subjects towards their own Prince it is a Duty which Princes do not owe to Princes nor private Persons to private Persons for though they may suffer and die each by the means of the other yet the sufferer is under no such Duty as can be called Passive Obedience upon which account the Duty meant by the word in this sense is quite a different thing from what it was in the former It comes in as a subsidiary Duty to supply the place of another which in certain cases we cannot do It is that which Princes take instead of Obedience and as it comes from Subjects it is sometimes called Loyalty and sometimes Submission and sometimes Obedience but with such a distinctive mark before it Passive Obedience which speaks it not to be that which is ordinarily meant by the Name but a very different Thing sometimes it is explained as if it were no more than Non-resistance and sometimes as if it were a more excellent Duty But however it is named or explained certainly there is a great Duty owing from Subjects to Princes and that not onely to the good but to the bad not onely when they rule according to Law and require nothing but what is just and right but when they go beyond Law and Reason and command some things which are against Conscience and Religion then they may be obeyed in all things else though they can't be obey'd in such particular points though the Prince does not thereby lose his right nor is the Subject less subject in all things wherein he ought to be so The Command of God is that we are to be subject to the Higher Powers and a like Command is that we are to profess Christ before men If the Prince will command us to deny him we we cannot obey in that point But yet we may be subject in all things else we may live peaceably and quietly at home if we be permitted to do so we may give the Prince all those dues which St. Paul reckons up Rom. 13. that is Tribute Custom Fear Honour We may love him and trust him too as long as he will be a Friend but if he will be an Enemy we must love him though we cannot trust him We cannot indeed do any thing that is base and wicked to gratifie his humor his rage or fury yet we may and should fight for him against all Enemies forein and domestick to preserve his Person and secure the good of our Country when it is not beyond all doubt that he employs us as Instruments of Injustice and Wickedness Thus the Christians did under Julian They served him against the Persians and they would have served him in any executions of Right and Justice But they would not have condemned the innocent or cut the throats of the good nor yet have done any thing toward the subversion of Christian Religion though Julian himself had commanded them But where they cannot fight for they are not to fight against though they cannot assist yet they are not presently to oppose Papinian the Lawyer would rather die than make a plausible Speech to defend a bad action of his Prince but yet as long as he had lived he might have held his tongue and said nothing against it It is a Duty to cover the nakedness of a Father and of a Prince many things may be ill done and many should be born and suffered patiently many should be allowed upon the considerations of humane frailty passion and indiscretion what may be ill done may be repented of and so ought to be pardoned and forgotten Subjects pardon one another and oft beg the King's