Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	custom_n	owe_v	tribute_n	1,483	5	11.3355	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64277	The vindication of a late pamphlet (entituled 0bedience and submission to the present government demonstrated from Bp. Overal's Convocation-book) from the false glosses and illusive interpretations of a pretended answer / by the author of the first pamphlet.	Taylor, Zachary, 1653-1705.	1691 (1691)	Wing T602; ESTC R37878	32,401	41

whose gracious Doing they not only supposed but so proved it to be that the Answerer it seems was not stiff enough to deny it And then for His Majesty no Obligation of a Subject was upon him but if he suspected himself to be wronged and there was violent and unsatisfied Suspicion of Wrong in the Highest Nature both to himself and the whole Kingdom countenanced abetted and designed to be established nothing could restrain him from seeking his Right but a Tame complying Willfulness to sit down content with his own Loss and the Kingdoms Ruin All that could be pretended to the contrary is the Unseasonableness of seeking his Right for as David they may say He should have waited till the Lord should smite the King or his day should come to dye or that he should descend into Battle and perish As for the last his late Majesty is resolved to provide against that but to this I reply that his then Majesties Counsels had so ordered the Affairs that they had made it absolutely necessary for his present Majesty then to seek his Right or never in that the Parliament that was to be called would doubtless by the indirect means that were used have been such as would have acknowledged and confirmed the Impostor and so Excluded their present Majesties from the Crown Add to this his late Majesties Willful Recess and tell me then If Providence did not proceed in such a manner as to make a clear passage to Submission and so a justifiable ground to act upon Thus far I see no Guilt then for what the Answerer seems to insist on those Active Spirits that had an hand in the Revolution by deferting the late King James I excused them so far that he takes no notice of it and therefore I again Repeat it and say that his Cause in their Conscience being Bad they neither could nor ought actually to assist him An Equity of the Cause being necessary to the Justification of a War I now should have done but for full satisfaction in the case there is one thing I ought not to pass by The Answerer would make you believe that bare Possession is that Authority or Divine Right that the Author all along speaks of and so an Usurper my be possessed of it an Athaliah or Antiochus or a Cromwell Now the Author thinks that there are certain Indices and Notes whereby the Possession that he speaks of and the Authority that is insisted on may easily be discerned and distinguished For the Convocation supposes a Thorough Settlement before they Appropriate Obedience to the New Government So that Possession in General cannot challenge the Allegiance but yet the Authority they speak of may for want of which Authority both Athaliah and Antiochus though they had got Possession were Rightly opposed Now what these Notes are besides what is delivered in the Pamphlet from the Convocation's Notion of a Thorough Settlement will easily appear For they requiring the Power and Protection or Favourable Dealing of a Prince and Consent of the People to compleat a Settlement in Opposition to these 1. Usurped Possession seldom or never suffers the State to enjoy its Rights Quiet and Protection so that it is in vain if it weee possible to yield Obedience Violence Plunder and Oppression do generally attend Usurped Possession Law and Justice are stifled and Arbitrariness rules in all things Those who do not comply are not permitted to sit down in Peace and enjoy the Common Benefit of Protection but are Harass'd Proscribed Persecuted and Undone There is no Connivance or Favour but Power and Wilfulness manageth all Things so that it is scarce possible for them to yield a Due and Full Obedience For besides that Honour Reverence and Homage which though owing to the Supreme Power a Ruin'd and Oppressed Subject can be hardly conceived to Give The very Oppression it self disables them from paying Customs Taxes and Tributes which are other Branches of this Allegiance so that the Service of a Liege Subject can scarce be given an Usurper on the contrary where it is Authority that is advanced there the Good of Community is intended no Violence Arbitrariness and Injustice practised but Law hath its course and every unsuspected Man his Liberty and Right This is the very case of Antiochus Epiphanes and Athaliah Of the first the Convocation-book expresseth it And of the last it is to be supposed that she continued to Rule as she entred with the utmost Cruelty and Violence nay and the very Reason of her Sons Wickedness for which he was punished by God is imputed to her Instigation in that she is said to be his Counsellour to do Wickedly And of her as well as of Antiochus the Jews would have eased themselves sooner had they but had power for the Scriptures gives this as the reason of her Usurpation that the House of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the Kingdom When therefore Jehoiada had strengthned himself with the Levites and Officers he dethroned the Usurper and exalted Joash to the Crown Secondly A Usurpation never meets with a quiet and peaceable Submission of the People I mean of the great Body of them for no Revolution can expect them all There are always powerful Confederacies and Designs against it and 't is only an Interested Party that Supports it You shall meet not only with private Murmurings but loud open and what is worst of all most just and true Complaints So that Mens Spirits are kept on such a Ferment that they may be over-awed but cannot be won to a Willing Submission But where it is Gods Gracious Doings you shall observe such a Chearful Compliance a ready Homage and Acclamations so Universal that such a Voice of the People can scarce be otherwise Interpreted than the Voice of God I desire the Answerer to Scan over the Differences betwixt Gods Permissive and his Positive Providence for if I be not grosly deceived from the Principles that I have laid down and the Interest the People have in Consenting to the Form of Government he may if he please discern the Difference betwixt 42 and 88. In Usurpations besides the Violence committed at the grasping at a Crown which for the future hardens all Good Mens Hearts against it the Subject not enjoying Protection under it as never any but an Interested Party do cannot be thought to be so fond of Chains as to Kiss and Court them by paying their Obedience under them nor do they ever generally own it by submitting Chearfully and Thankfully unto it Whereas when there is a Revolution upon an Appeal to God for Justice and Equity the Prince treats his People with such Tenderness Care and Circumspection as becomes one that being advanced by thinks himself accountable to God for the Trust he hath committed to him And on the other hand the People deport themselves with those returns of Chearfulness and Thanks in their Submission as are befitting a People delivered from Wrong Tyranny and Slavery And by