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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	due_a	fear_v	tribute_n	3,178	5	10.8957	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46964	Remarks upon Dr. Sherlock's book, intituled, The case of the allegiance due to soveraign princes, stated and resolved, &c.	Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.	1690 (1690)	Wing J842; ESTC R220008	13,889	15

is a force and a force gives no right let the Doctor tell us to the world's end of All things being equally rightful with respect to God men that are under a force have a Right from Self-preservation which is a Law of Nature and consequently of God to rid themselves of that force it they can Conquests end when the Conquerors and Conquered come to mutual Pacts and Agreements which are the Laws by which they agree to rule and be ruled for the future Till such subsequent Pacts intervene the Conquered People shift for themselves as well as they can But where there is no pretence nor appearance of any Conquest where the Laws of a Nation which are the publick Agreement of all the nation for their mutual defence and security retain their force they cannot be good subjects who set up any other rule of conscience in matters of civil Right Property or power for that other rule is either agreeable with the Law and then we need it not or it is contrary to it and then they that advance it are enemies to the Constitution I know little difference betwixt assuming an authority to govern the State and setting up other rules then that of the Law to guide men's Consciences by in matters of Allegiance and Obedience to the civil Magistrates Our Saviour's argument relies wholly on possession of power whose Image pag. 21. and superscription hath it If such a possession as having the Coynage of Mony requires Allegiance the Doctor ought to have taken the Oaths when the new money came out If not then our Saviour's argument does not justifie him now We have no directions in Scripture about restoring a dispossessed Prince to his Throne again But if the dispossessed Prince retain a Legal right then we are pag. 22. directed to restore him Rom cap. 13. v. 7. Render unto all their dues tribute to whom tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour If the late King have a legal right to the Crown he has a legal right to the Excise the Customs and Hearth money c. And if he has a legal right to them they are due to him And if they are due to him we are commanded to render them to him And that the late King may yet have a legal right to the Crown the Doctor agrees The Providence of God removes Kings and sets up Kings but alters no legal Rights We are commanded to do as we would be done by and none of us would be deprived our selves of our own legal Rights If the late Kings have a legal Right yet then no English subjects can have a legal Right to oppose him unless a man can have a legal Right to an Estate and at the same time another have a legal Right to with-hold it from him which is to make the Law a contradiction to it self and yet these are necessary consequences of the Doctors Positions That one Prince is at present placed in the Throne and the other removed out of it does not divest the dispossessed Prince of his legal right and claim nor pag. 26. forbid him to endeavour to recover his Throne nor sobid those who are under no obligation to the Prince in possession to assist the dispossessed Prince to recover his legal Right A Legal and successive Right bars all other Humane Claims so that the dispossessed Prince has a just cause of War against the Prince in possession for the recovery of his Legal Right And they that are under no obligation to the Prince in possession are not forbid to assist him Who these are that are supposed to be under no obligation c. I know not I hope if the Prince in possession be throughly settled he has God's Authority and then all that are his Subjects are under some obligation to him or else God's Authority stands for nothing But if foreign Princes are meant by those who are under no obligation then at least the King of France has a just cause of War upon us to restore King James And then at whose Doors must the Blood lie that is spilt in the War If the late King have a legal Right he has a Right by our Laws and then in opposing his Title we fight against our own Laws and Government If the late King have a Legal Right to the Crown then a man must be very learned indeed to be of opinion that the obligation of our Oaths of Allegiance to him ceases It is not enough for the Doctor to say That it was necessary for him to reason upon the suspicion of unjust Usurpations and illegal Revolutions c. and that he was far from intending to reflect upon the present Government With Reverence be it spoken is a common laying with some when they are going to speak blasphemy His standing out so long the grounds of his present compliance his avowed Principles in his Book of Non-Resistance which he here justifies excepting in one punctilio shew undenyably that the Doctor acknowledges no other Right in Their Present Majesties but an Authority from God of his own inventing and that their only firm security because only satisfactory to the Consciences of their Subjects that of a Legal Right which indeed is God's Authority and we acknowledge no other in these matters is by this Writer as far as in him lyes quite blown up The duty of Subjects is to obey their Prince whilst in possession but Kings pag. 27. must take care to preserve their Crowns by good Government For if they notoriously violate their Subjects Rights c. it is too much to venture their lives and Fortunes to keep them in the Throne to oppress them But why should not Subjects be obliged in Conscience to defend such an injurious Prince He has a Legal Title Possesssion a Settlement he has God's Authority he is irresistible and has the Soveraign Power And is it no part of Soveraign Power to command the service of his Subjects No he is entituled only to a legal defence the Militia and the Posse Com. Thus when men are at pag. 30. a pinch they seek refuge where they can When their Doctrine of Non-resistance and a thousand other ascriptions to the power of the Prince turns upon them they shelter themselves under the Law of the Realm Which when things go as they would have them go they subject to the Prince's pleasure And to excuse their taking shelter under what they have so basely betrayed they tell us tho' they taught Non-Resistance they may practice Non-Assistance without forgoing that Doctrine So they may suffer the Lord 's Anointed the light of their Eyes and the breath of their Nostrils to be taken in the pits of wicked Men when he does not serve their turn and be good Loyalists good Church of England men good King's men for all that Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo This Doctrine of Obedience and Allegiance to the present powers is