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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	king_n	lord_n	privy_a	3,082	5	10.8865	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47050	The grand case of subjection to the higher powers in matters of religion resolved to which is added an appendix to a late book intituled A plea for liberty of conscience, wherein the kings supream power in ecclesiastical matters is asserted ... / by James Jones, a Protestant-dissenter, and now a prisoner in Woodstreet-compter for nonconformity.	Jones, James, fl. 1683-1684.	1684 (1684)	Wing J956A; ESTC R36209	11,281	12

or Laws that such who were then in Authority had made or should make concerning Religious Matters so as to OBEY and CONFORM thereunto because then Christians must have lest the Worship of God according to the Gospel and have Conformed to the Worship of the Jews when among them and to the Worship of the Gentiles when among the Gentiles But by Submitting to every Ordinance of Man I do humbly conceive is meant a submitting to the several Orders and Degrees of Power and Dignity among Men considered in Authority viz. First to the King as the supream and chief in Authority and Secondly To such Governers as are sent or Comissionated by the King to be in places of Authority for the well managment of Affairs in his Kingdom in the Right distribution of Justice So as to punish the Evil Doers and to incourage them that do Well in all matters that should come before them between Man and Man So that we may Read and Understand the Words of the Holy Apostle thus Respecting the several Degrees of Persons in Authority in England Let the King be submitted to as the Supream Governour and let his Privy Councel and the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper the Lord Chief Justice with the other Judges the Secretaries of State and Attorney General and also Justices of Peace be all submitted unto as unto Governours who are put into Authority by the King who is Supream in the Government So as each Party may have that Honour that Respect and Reverence as is due unto them suitable to that Dignity that the King hath Confered upon them and this is according to the Exhortation of the Apostle Paul Rom. 13.7 Render therefore unto all their dues viz. Tribute Custom Fear and Honour And these Duties of the Saints must be suitable to and Correspondent with their Christian Love to each other in maintaining their Gospel Fellow-ship as a Brother-Hood and the true Fear of God as it is plainly Declared in the former discourse of the Apostle Peter in 1 Pet. 2.17 Honour all Men Love the Brother-Hood Fear God Honour the King In which Words of the Apostle he taught the Servants of God in that Day that while they were zealous in and for the matters of Christianity they should also make Conscience of the matters of Humanity in a right behaving of themselves towards all Men and especially towards those that were in Authority that so they might Practice according to the Doctrine of Christ Luke 20.25 Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesars and unto God the things which be Gods And this kind of Subjection to the Higher Powers hath been the Profession Principle and Practice of the true Servants of God in all Ages in times past And it is now the Profession Principle and Practice of the PROTESTANT-DISSENTERS in General in all parts of this Kingdom and they have given great Demonstration of this thing even when they have been divers times loaded with many Miseries in being Prosecuted by Penal Laws only for matters of Religion And even now at this time and above a Year past they have been and still are Prosecuted divers ways viz. By the Statute of the 23 of Elizabeth many have been indicted thereupon for not coming to Common Prayer The penalty whereof is Twenty Pounds a Month and many have been Prosecuted by the Conventicle-Act and so Suffered the loss of their Goods or else have been forced to Pay the several sums of Money levied upon them because they would not suffer a greater damage by the loss of their Goods And many have been Prosecuted as Rioters for being at Protestant Peaceable Meetings and have been Fined at the pleasure of some in Authority and so have been forced to Pay such Fines or else go to Prison And many have been Prosecuted by the ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS to Excommunication and so cast into Goals by the Writ de Excommunicato Capiendo only for not frequenting Common Prayer and for not receiving the Sacrament in their Parish Church And in this way of Prosecution Doctor PINFOLD of Doctors Commons in London hath done more harm to the Protestant-Dissenters then any one of the Ecclesiastical Doctors in England having forced into the Prison called Woodstreet-Compter above Thirty Persons in less then thirteen Months time and now at the time of the writting hereof Two and twenty Honest Cittizens are in the said Prison and several of them have been very sick but God in his Mercy hath recovered them and many because they cannot under-go such hardship as to be shut up in Prison from their Families and Trades have purchased their Liberty at a Dear Rate in giving great Sums of Money to Doctor PINFOLD to take off the Excommunications and so allow a few Months from hurrying them into Prison But if they do not Conform in the time Allotted them then they are Prosecuted again so as to be sent to Prison or else brought to a new Composition And besides all this many have been sent to the New Prison being Protestant-Dissenters taken at Protestant Meetings Four and Twenty have been there at one time several weeks but some are discharged and since that some more have been committed And many have been committed to Newgate one of which viz. Mr. Francis Bampfield a Nonconformist Minister dyed in that Prison on the 16th of February last and Mr. Zacharias Ralphson another Nonconformist Minister imprisoned there died the 20th of March following Mr. Bampfield was taken from his Meeting where he was doing his Lords Work and being brought before a Magistrate had the Oath of Allegiance tendred to him for Refusal whereof he was first committed to Prison and afterwards Premunired Mr. Ralphson was taken from his own House and committed to Prison upon the Five-mile Act and afterwards fined one hundred Marks for Publishing a Book Intituled An Apology for Gods Worship and Worshippers Both these Ministers were men of great Learning Famous for true Godliness and faithful Labourers in the Lords Vineyard But now they rest from their Labours and their Works follow them Now let this be soberly Considered that the before-mentioned Prosecutions have been against and have fallen upon his Majesties Protestant and Peaceable Subjects who do make Conscience and exercise a daily care to give such a Subjection to the Higher Powers as the Word of God doth Require And as such Prosecutions for matters of Religion are without any Precept from Christ so they are contrary to the Royal Promise of the King For the full evidencing whereof let the following Discourse be candidly Considered AN APPENDIX To a late Paper called A PLEA for LIBERTY of CONSCIENCE WHEREIN The Kings Supream Power in Ecclesiastical Matters is Further Asserted FOrasmuch as I have lately Published a small Book Intituled A Plea for Liberty of Conscience Grounded upon the Holy Word of God and the Royal Word of the King I have since met with some Objections against the said Plea as it is Grounded upon the Kings Royal