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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	custom_n	render_v	tribute_n	3,126	5	11.2636	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01880	How superior powers oght to be obeyd of their subiects and wherin they may lawfully by Gods Worde be disobeyed and resisted. Wherin also is declared the cause of all this present miserie in England, and the onely way to remedy the same. By Christopher Goodman.	Goodman, Christopher, 1520?-1603.	1558 (1558)	STC 12020; ESTC S103263	98,447	240

the Apostle of Christe but also the same is by good and stronge reasons confirmed In answering to this obiection I will not longe holde you in rēdring the cause which as we may probably gether mouid the Apostle to write this to the Romains cōcerning obedience to their superiours but in few wordes touche so muche as seemeth necessarie It may apeare very credible which some Godlie and learned do wryte that amōgest the Romayns after they had receaued the Gospel there were many vnder that name which woulde be deliuered from all subiection thinking the office of Magistrates nomore necessarie to them that professed Christe as do this day the Anabaptists and Libertins Others who had bene once freed from tribute and custome paying to strange Magistrates woulde therat take an occasion by preaching of the Gospell to paye no more tribute to their superiours Such were diuers of the Iewes who coūted it for abōdage And that kīde of secte was raysed vp euen in Christes dayes as appeareth whē the Pharisies sent their disciples with Herodes seruātes to knowe his iudgment whither it were lawful for them to paye tribute to Caesar or no. And in the Actes Gamaliel maketh mention of one Iudas Galilaeus which was autor of that secte and moued muche trouble amōgest the people sayng It was not lawful to paye tribute By these and suche like opinions the Apostle perceauing the office of Magistrates to come in to contempte and men to esteme it not lawful which God him self ordeyned in defence of his religion and Ciuile policie was moued to wryte as is before mencioned ▪ exhorting all men to esteme the office of Magistrates as Gods ordinance and to obeye them whom God had appoynted Rulers ouer them Then as the Apostle wryteth we confesse and so muche as he speaketh we graūte that is that all men are bownd ●o obey such Magistrates whome God ●athe ordeyned ouer vs lawfully according to his worde which rule in his feare according to their office as God hathe appoynted For thogh the Apostle saith There is no power but of God yet doth he not here meane anie other-powers but such as are orderly and lawfullie institute of God Ether els shulde he approue all tyranny and oppression which cometh to anie commonwelth by means of wicked and vngodlie Rulers which are to be called rightlie disorders and subuersions in comon welthes and not Gods ordinaunce For he neuer ordeyned anie lawes to approue but to reproue and punishe tyrantes idolaters papistes and oppressors Then when they are suche they are not Gods ordinaunce And in disobeying and resisting such we do not resiste Gods ordinaūce but Satā and our synne which is the cause of such Or els if we shall so conclude with the wordes of the Apostle that all powers what so euer they be must be obeyed and not resisted then must we confesse also that Satan and all his infernall powers are to be obeyed Why because they are powers and haue their powers also of God which cannot touche man any farther then God permitteth But S. Iames geuethe vs contrarie commandement saing Resiste the deuel and he will flee awaye from you And that the Apostle Paule dothe so restrayne his wordes to all lawfull powers we nede not to seke far of For in the self same Chap. after he dothe expounde his mynde that is what powers and Magistrates he meaneth Such saith he as if thou doest well thou nedeste not to feare but if thou doest euel And agayne wilt thou be out of feare of the power Do wel then and so shalt thou be praysed of the same For he is the minister of God for thy welthe But if thou doest euill feare for he beareth not the sworde for noght for he is the minister of God to take vengeance of them that do euill c. Whereby we may playnly vnderstāde that althoghe he saithe There is no power but of God yet he meaneth suche power as is his ordināce and lawfull whose office stādeth in these two poyntes to defēd the good and to punishe the euel not to be feared for wel doing but for euil to whom the sworde is geuen for that purpose And to such with the Apostle we graūt also that euery persone must be subiecte ād obedient for they are Gods ordinaunce And to disobey or resiste such is to disobey and resiste God him self And therfore do deserue iustlie to receaue Gods punishment which as the Apostle threatneth is damnation And this makethe nothing agaynst our former sentence but rather confirmeth the same approuīng no obedience but that which is lawful that is to say according to Gods appoyntment and ordinance as doth more euidētly appere in his wordes folowing partly in that he demaundeth obedience to such for conscience sake and not for feare of vengeance onely As thogh he would saye so farre is it from reason and Gods worde that any man shulde disobey or contemne the Magistrates ordeyned by God to punishe vice and mantayne vertue that he nedeth no other to reproue him of euil in so doing then his owne propre cōscience which will iustly examined teache him how Gods ordinance oght to be reuerenced especially seruing to the preseruation of the people in suppressing wickednesse and promoting Godlynesse For that cause he willeth after to paye their tribute not to euery man that will demande for vnlawful demandes may be lawfully denied but to whome tribute belongeth custome to whom custome feare to whom feare and honour to whom honour is due Obedience then he requireth of all mē tribute also custome feare and honor but vnder this condition of iustice and aequitie to render these dueties to them that haue iuste title thereūto And who are they but as I sayed before such as God hath appoynted to rule ouer vs in his feare for our profit and preseruation of the comon welthe To this also dothe the sayng of S. Peter wel agree thoghe it be broght in of the other partie to proue the contrary Submit your selues to euery ordinaūce of mā for the Lordes sake whither it be to kīge as to the chief or vnto Rulers as vnto them that are sent of him for the punishment of euel doers and the prayse of thē that do well Beholde how Peter here nether dissenteth from him self in his answere before to the Cōcile nor here disagreeth from Paule willīg obedience to kinges and inferior Rulers not to all but to such as are appoynted to punishe euill doers and prayse the contrary and to disobey such muste nedes be condemned for wicked and vngodlie rebelliō For suche there were as maye playnly appere by S. Peters wordes folowing whiche vnder the pretence of libertie woulde couer and cloke their malice And this the Apostle forbiddeth in all maner of subiectes and iustlye But you will saye the wordes of Peter folowing concerning the obedience of seruantes to Maisters dothe charge vs farther then with