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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	custom_n	king_n	tribute_n	1,660	5	11.1891	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58345	God's plea for Nineveh, or, London's precedent for mercy delivered in certain sermons within the city of London / by Thomas Reeve ...	Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672.	1657 (1657)	Wing R690; ESTC R14279	394,720	366

Greg. l. 4. c. 4. Claudius C. prohibuit peregrinae conditionis homines gentilia nomina assumere Romanorum Alex. ab Alex. l. 4. c. 10. Lex vetat peregrinum ne in murum af scendat Cic. l. 2. de Orat. Hotoman de verbis juris Plut. de Stoicorum pugnis Alexander ab Alexandro l. 4. c. 10. but of Munia grants or honorary concessions Peregrini the strangers couldlay no claim to them no such were to be contented only w th a passage through the City Claudius Caesar would not suffer them to use the names of Citizens Lully saith they could not go up the City walls Hotoman saith that they were not received into protection nor had the rights of mariage or making their Wils that true Citisens had Plutarch saith that Antipater durst not call Zeno and Cleanthes Citisens of Athens though they lived at Athens No though they had continued a long time in a City yet still they were peregrini quasi extra patriam Strangers because they were out of their Country and Boerius saith that in France they are styled Albini quasi Alibi nati allines as if they were born elswhere Alexander ab Alexandro doth report that the Thebanes Lacedemonians and Athenians did not admit any to the freedom of a Citisen unlesse they could derive an antient linage from the stock of some Citisen Suidas saith that there was an Office called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which had power to exterminate all Forreigners from the participation of those rights to cast them out of the City Sure I am that the lex Paphia in Rome was so strict Affirmans se passurum faciliùs allquid fisco detrahi quàm civitatis Romanae honorem vulgari Sucton and severe against the reception of persons unto the Titles of Citisens that Augustus Caesar when his Daughter Livia was a Petitioner for a Tributary Frenchman to be made free he out of respect to the Law would only exempt him from taxes but not make him a Citisen saying that he had rather his Exchequer should suffer then the dignity of the Citybe eclipsed This Freeman then that sees others onely walk upon the stones of the streets or gaze upon the magnificent shews or salute acquaintance or sleep in an hired lodging or pay penniworths for the costly Wares which the City doth afford but cannot lay claim to the least immunity when the Citisen himselfe doth rise up every morning with multiplicity of rights and hath priviledges meeting him in every corner and hath the City-liberties in all places attending upon him how can he but be eyed as one conspicuous yes he is the eminent Citizen even for his enfranchisement Seventhly A City is a place of honour because there are degrees of honour the Livery the golden Chain the Bench. St Paul that said he was a Citizen of no mean City Act. 21.29 doth infer that that City had high offices and places of authority in it for no mean City doth declare no mean Government and jurisdiction to belong to the City there were those that served the City Ezech. 48.18 as if the City commanded like a Master How was Jerusalem once great amongst the Nations and Princess amongst the Provinces Lamen 1.1 Hephzibah and Beulah how did they shine in principality and praefectures It is said That they shall be as a crown of Glory in the hand of the Lord yea as a royal Diadem Isai 62.3 And wherefore but that the Citizens there shall have a kind of Majestick power not onely goods but government not only meanes but magistracy not onely degrees of Estate but degrees of honour Citizens are ever upon the rising hand and coming to places of preferment elsewhere men may get ample fortunes and raise great Families but here is ornament and regiment dignity and domination promotion and presidency the City Vest and the City Sword to be expected Alexander ab Alexandrio saith that the City of Sparta had two Tribes for men to rise to honour by Alex. ab Alex. lib. 1. c. 17. which were called Aegida and Pitana the Athenians had three tribes which were called Godeontae Ergadae and Hoplitae as Plutarch saith Plut. in Solone Alex. ab Alex. l. 5. c. 18. Blondes l. 3. Romae triumphantis The City of Megara had sive tribes which were called Heraci Piraci Megarenses Traspodicei Cynosurei and as Blondus relateth the Romans had five and thirty tribes And is there any City that have not their severall Orders states and degrees whereby men are going up by steps to the top of preferment Yes a Citizen is a graduall creature that is ever footing it through all the motions of advancement and dignity In Rome except it were by origination or cooptation they first began at Manumission when the Master laying his hand upon the head of his servant and delivering him up to the Pretor he was registred for a freeman asterwards he was called ad pileum to the cap which was a token of his liberty then he was called to the white Garment the gold Ring and a new name and then he was called ad togam tunicam to the gown coat under it then to the curule Chair then to jus imaginis to have power to make Images and so having passed through severall effices of Aediles Quaestours Pre ors and Tribunes at last they became to be Senators and Consuls And is it not thus in every City yes from Freemen Liverymen Commoncouncilled at last they come to mount up to higher degrees of command and in fine to be chiefe Magistrates Now a Citizen that thus from creeping out of the nest doth after fly to the tops of Mountains and after that doth take an Eagles flight is he not to be highly esteemed yes this going from garment to garment from office to office from title to title till at last he doth become a Cities-Maximus doth shew a Citizen to be an illustrious person Eighthly A City is a place of honour in respect of large payments Tribute to whom tribute and custome to whom custome Rom. 13.7 Now in defraying tributes and customes who doth exceed the Citizen We find that Solomon which exceeded all the Kings of the earth in riches had much of his Royall revenue from the Merchants and the traffique of the spice Merchants 1 King 10.15 The adversaries of the Jews wrote to Artaxerxes that he should hinder the building of Jerusalem because the City would pay no toll tribute and custome Ezrah 4.12 They speak not of the Country but their chiefe spight is against the City as if the toll tribute and custome did come from the City principally and Artaxerxes seduced by that information returned a quick answer by all meanes to obstruct that design Give ye now commandment saith he to cause these men to cease and that this City be not builded for why should damage grow to the hurt of the King v. 22. as if his chiefe damage he thought would grow and accrew by the City