Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	1,226	5	9.8585	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66831	Loyalty amongst rebels the true royalist, or, Hushay the Archite, a happy counsellour in King David's greatest danger / written by Edward Wolley ...	Wolley, Edward, 1603-1684.	1662 (1662)	Wing W3266; ESTC R31822	59,179	224

valour subdued Babylon and delivered the City to his own Master and Lord for which signal service Darius was wont to say familiarly that he did owe so much true honour and respect to his dear Zophyrus that he would rather have received him from Babylon without any blemish or mutilation then to have twenty Cities such as Babylon subdued to his imperial Scepter Menelaus Agamemnon and Vlisses had great service effected by the fidelity ingenuity and courage of Sinon † Virgil 2. Aeneidos who like a stout daring and subtil Greek insinuated and insnared the Trojans to their ruine and so effected a happy successe attended with much honour and renown to the Greeks in their long siege to Troy Marcus Antonius was a true faithful and loyal friend to Caesar and when he could do him no longer service in the Imperours life being slain by the conspirators he took his royal Robe stained with blood stabbed cut and mangled and making his funeral Orations to the people fill'd their eyes with tears their souls with sorrow and by degrees drew them to vindicative resolutions to revenge Caesars death Plutarch ' in vita Bruti which caused Cymber and Brutus and the chief conspirators to fly for fear of popular insurrection fury against the Traitors the light of these Pagan Heathen examples is not so dim but that it may serve to guide this present age into the paths of virtue resolutions of loyalty nay it may serve as a help to detect and discover the falshood treachery cowardise and ignoble disloyalty of many whom neither the laws of God nor of the Land have been strong enough to oblige them to the duty and Allegiance they owe and ought ever to pay to their Soveraign But these and all other morall examples of this kind come infinitely short of that transcendent worth that appeared so glorious in this noble Israelite for their grounds were at best but Honour Emulation or Interest and though founded on the basis of virtue friendship or fortitude yet their chiefest Actions and endeavours were accompnied with vain-glory and arrogancy if not tainte and stained with revenge proud ambition or sordid avarice But Hushai was led to his duty by the light of grace by the gratitude of a noble mind by the laws of God which commandeth * Psal 105. Touchnott mine Anointed because as the wiseman e Wis 6.3 Data est à Domino potestas regibus virtus ab altissimo assureth power is given to Kings from the Lord and Soveraignty from the Highest St. Paul therefore writing to the Roman Christians directs in the Apostolical Canon f Rom. 13.1 Rom. 13.4 Non tantum summo magistratui sed infimis quibusvis magistratus potestate fuugentibus debetur obedientia Theod. Beza Annota Let every Soul be subject to the higher powers And this is backt with many reasons because Kings receive their sword from God because they are his ministers because they are impowered to protect and punish and from this principle and fountain of evangelical truth it Naturally flows and follows that Kings in their persons and in their lawful heirs and successours and in all their just rights and commands are to be observed and obeyed Hence it is that Iews and Christians Greeks and Barbarians all persons of all sorts are commanded to render to every man what is due whether it be Tribute fear or honour and that duty is to be performed not only for wrath but for conscience sake non propter iram sed propter conscientiam Rom. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 13.2 The rule seemes positive and infallible that whosoever resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation St. Peter was as highly concern'd in this point with the Iews as St. Paul with the Gentiles and therefore they are directed and taught to submit themselves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake 1 Pet. 2.13 p. 17. whether it be to King as supream or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by him this command is redoubled again by the same Apostle Fear God honour the King So then the duty of loyalty and allegiance to Princes is not only grounded on legal but evangelical principles and hath not only Prophetical but Apostolical foundations to warrant and support this truth and as the primitive and best Christians both in their active and passive obedience gave testimony of this truth even to Heathen and Pagan Princes and Emperours so Christ who is the way the truth and the life preached this doctrine and commanded to give unto Caesar what was Caesars to God what was Gods This day spring from an high probably did influence and enlighten Hushai the Archites noble and loyal Soul who seasonably and succesfully encountred the greatest danger disappointed the deepest policy and dissolved and dispersed the most unnatural Treason that the age had hatched or produced wherein King David lived and it is a just obligation that lyeth strictly on the resolution and affections of all subjects to the utmost of their reason and power to imitate if not exceed the great worth and virtue of this noble Archite in their duty and devoirs towards their Soveraign who being a Christian Monarch of a lawful Royal line for the succession of many hundred years may expect and require most justly the most exact performance of loyalty and true Allegiance and that not only because prescription custom reason laws but sacred oaths which are the highest bonds and call God himself to witnesse oblige and conjure the subjects to their fidelity and duty and this was performed punctually and compleatly by Hushai to King David who being one of the sons of Iesse was the first of his family who sate on the throne and succeeded with as much conflict as honour his unhappy predecessor Saul yet this noble person though the Monarchy was but a later foundation translated from the house of Saul to the house of David yet he did neither boggle nor startle though Absalon by his flattery of reformation insnared and infatuated the popular multitudes pretending justice when he traiterously invaded the person of the King and the prerogatives of the Crown yet none of these circumstances nor that the head-piece and politician Achitophel was in the conspiracy could deter Hushai from his duty but that he would adventure his life fortune and all that was dear to him in the Kings cause and so just a necessity he resolved that his courage his wisdome and his fidelity could never be more serviceable and therefore this loyal subject is more active and diligent to preserve King Davids rights and to immortallize his own honour in this unfortunate juncture of extremities many thousands loyal subjects of his Majesties three Kingdomes had Hushaies resolutions and affections in the late barbarous and unnatural wars some royalists by virtue of their Soveraignes commission raised troops