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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	due_n	fear_n	tribute_n	1,274	5	10.2822	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70803	A decad of caveats to the people of England of general use in all times, but most seasonable in these, as having a tendency to the satisfying such as are not content with the present government as it is by law establish'd, an aptitude to the setling the minds of such as are but seekers and erraticks in religion an aim at the uniting of our Protestant-dissenters in church and state : whereby the worst of all conspiracies lately rais'd against both, may be the greatest blessing, which could have happen'd to either of them : to which is added an appendix in order to the conviction of those three enemies to the deity, the atheist, the infidel and the setter up of science to the prejudice of religion / by Thomas Pierce ...	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1679 (1679)	Wing P2176; Wing P2196; ESTC R18054	221,635	492

Governours That human Laws where e're the matter of them is lawfull are the Laws of God too And that for this cogent irresistible reason which I have several times urged and think I can never urge it enough because commanded by that Authority which God has commanded us to obey § 7. Shall I exemplifie and illustrate what I say by plain Scripture on either side God forbids us by Moses to worship Idols And He bids us by S. Peter submit our selves to every Ordinance of man Again He bids us by S. Paul Obey them that have the Rule over us Now is not God's Law as binding in what he bids as in what he forbids his peculiar People I know the former binds Semper and the later ad Semper But when they Both bind they cannot but bind with an Aequality Or is not his peremptory Command as obliging under the Gospel as it was under the Law Is not the Message of God as good when dispatch'd to us Christians by S. Peter and S. Paul and by Christ himself as when sent unto the Jews by a single Moses Is not God the same Jehova to Them and Vs and his Word as authentick in these last Times as in the First Why then do not Christians make it a matter of as much Conscience to obey the Laws of Men whom God has commanded them to obey as not to worship a graven Image which God has commanded them not to worship That Each is equally God's Command was never deny'd by any Christian nor ever can be And is not His Command that we do a Good thing as valid as his Command that we abstain from what is evil Yea 't is as much a Christian's Duty to obey his lawfull Governours and by consequence their Laws Ecclesiastical and Civil as it is not to worship a graven Image The first is as conducible to our Salvation as the second And Damnation is as much threatened to the Breach of the one as the other Precept § 8. Now in my slender judgement and such as it is 't is the best I have there can be no likelier way whereby to win over our weak and dissenting Brethren from the ways of Separation they have espous'd than that of labouring to convince them by all good means from the Pulpit and from the Pew and in the privacy of the Closet by publick Preaching and Catechizing and private Conferences especially which we shall find to be ever the most effectual that saving the Dignity and Priority of the first and great Commandment as the Ground and Foundation of all the rest our Obedience to our Governours and human Laws in force amongst us is as really an essential or Fundamental of Christianity and of as absolute Necessity to our Salvation as the Belief of one God or any other that can be nam'd It being as rigidly commanded by God in Scripture under the very same Promises of Reward if we obey and under the very same Threats of endless Punishment if we rebel 'T is not enough that This Doctrine be like the Homily of the Church against Rebellion which is commanded by Law and Canon to be read once a year in every Parish nor is it enough that it be preached up of course upon the Thirtieth of January and the Fifth of November But 't is of absolute necessity to be riveted and ingrain'd first of all into the Heads and after That into the Hearts of People committed to our charge that they must needs be Subject that is Obedient to human Magistrates and Laws not onely for fear of the Magistrates Wrath or for hope of worldly Profit no nor onely for fear of Hell or for hope of Heaven but as S. Paul goes on to tell us for Conscience sake I say for Conscience towards God and for Conscience towards our selves because 't is part of the Law of Nature and simply Good in it self not consequentially as every positive Law is but antecedently obliging and without any the least relation to God's particular written Law so often repeated in the Scriptures though This does make our Disobedience to be the more unexcusable and the Person disobeying fit for the greater Condemnation I know the Custom of Disobedience and the great Numbers of the Refractary and their Impunity thereupon and the seemingly-good morals of some Dissenters and their giving out themselves for the Godly Party These five Fallacies put together have bred an opinion in many weak and unwary Christians that they need not be subject to the Higher Powers upon Earth though S. Paul says they Need Rom. 13. 5. That the Powers spoken of are not the Ordinance of God though S. Paul says they are v. 1 2. That they may not submit to every Ordinance of Man though S. Peter says they must 1 Pet. 2. 13. And so they imagin that it consists with a Godly life to slight the Authority of their Governours and scorn their Laws unless when their Governours and their Laws are to protect Them and Theirs both in their Livelihoods and their Lives from fraud and violence in which one case they will readily submit to every Ordinance of man though not for the Lord's sake as S. Peter would have it yet for their own In a word they think it lawfull to live in Schism if not in Sacrilege still in Sacrilege where they are able and so to tear in pieces not the Seamless Coat onely but the Body of Christ crucified in a mystical sense § 9. To frame an Amulet in proportion to the Contagion of this Disease wherewith a world of easie Souls of catching Complexions have been infected I humbly conceive it may be made of these Six Ingredients First that no Form of Godliness can be other than Pharisaical which is not attended with common Honesty Next that none can be truly honest who do not render to All their Dues Tribute to whom Tribute is due Custom to whom Custom Fear to whom Fear Honour to whom Honour Rom. 13. 7. Thirdly that nothing can be more due from any one to any other than from the Subject to the Soveraign and all in Authority under Him To wit the Tribute of Obedience as well as Money the active Custom of Conformity as well as passive Subjection to Laws in force and as well to Those Laws which tend to the publick Peace and Safety as those others which maintain us in the private injoyment of our Estates The Fear of offending as well as of suffering for our Offences lastly the Honour of inward Reverence as well as of outward Complaisance Not as Men-pleasers but as the Servants of Christ Fourthly that a Dishonest man is ipso facto and eo ipso an ungodly man and Disobedience to the Fifth Precept as bad as Rebellion against the seventh or the eighth or rather worse And so a Common Nonconformist to Laws establish'd is to speak within compass as Scandalous in his life as a Common Drunkard Fifthly that such a Subject as will no longer allow the