Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	david_n	samuel_n	saul_n	1,780	5	9.7755	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27494	Clavi trabales, or, Nailes fastned by some great masters of assemblyes confirming the Kings supremacy, the subjects duty, church government by bishops ... : unto which is added a sermon of regal power, and the novelty of the doctrine of resistance : also a preface by the right Reverend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of Lincolne / published by Nicholas Bernard ...	Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.	1661 (1661)	Wing B2007; ESTC R4475	99,985	198

hearts of the better if not the greatest part of the people and sometimes Saul was as from God himself given up into his hands And he was not altogether a private Subject but was heir of the Crown after him being already annointed to it and none could have a better pretence Saul was now seeking his life and injuriously persecuting him by force and fraud yet he would not lay his hands upon him what can be imagined to be the Cause but that it was against the doctrine then received Who knows not that Saul was become an absolute Tyrant which some think to be the sense of 1 Sam. 13. Saul reigned two yeers c. i. e. Quasi biennium tantum ut Rex reliquum temporis ut Tyrannus rejected by Samuel The Kingdome rent from him given to David yet ye never read of Samuel moving David to get possession by force of Armes he mourned for Saul but never stirred up any disturbance in the Kingdome against him but patiently expected Gods determination Optatus elegantly enlargeth himself thus upon it David had Saul his enemy in his hands might have securely slaine him without the blood of any others his servants and the opportunity moved him to it but the full remembrance of Gods commands to the contrary with-held him he drew back his hand and sword and whilest he reverenced the oyntment he spared his enemy and when he had compleated his loyalty revenged his death i. e. in the Amalekite We doe not say men are bound to doe whatever the Prince shall command against the Law of God and Nature but yet neither doe we say we may by force take up Armes against him he said well Scutum dandum est subditis non gladius The three children refused to obey the command of Nebuchadnezzar in worshipping his golden Image and Daniel Darius his Edict in praying for thirty dayes to none but to him as a new erected Numen but yet they resisted not when they were questioned and call●d to suffer for it Elias withdrew himself from Jezebell and Ahabs bloody fury yet ye doe not read him tampering with those many thousands hid in Samaria by any secret Machinations against him but were all patiently passive and committed themselves to God that judgeth righteously When Peter drew his Sword against the present power though under the best defensive pretence yet was bid to put it up with a check as if it had been upon a private quarrell qui accipit gladium gladio peribit Rossaeus a Romanist hath indeed published a Book De justa Reipublicae in Principem haereticum potestate not blushing to a averre the contrary to what we have asserted viz. That the Israelites did often make insurrections against their Kings even of the stock of David and with Gods approbation but instanceth in none to any purpose 'T is true as he saith Atheliah was deposed but 't was from her usurpation Hezekiah shook off the yoak of the King of Assyria to the service of whom he had no just obligation The Judges before Samuels time did the like in delivering themselves and the Israelites from their several servitudes Absolon was suppressed by the same way of Force he had most perfidiously and wickedly attempted his Fathers Crown but what are these instances to a lawful Prince or to such as are Subjects Some I find thus endeavoring to evade the Text by distinguishing between the Power and the Person as if this and the like were to be understood only de potestatein abstracto But certainly St. Peter applys it cleerly in co●creto to the Person of the King Regi quasi praecellenti Magistratibus ab eo missis as in the next Fear God honor the King Neither can that Speech of Davids be otherwise meant then of the Person of Saul God forbid that I should do this thing unto my Master the Lords annointed to stretch forth my hand against him seeing he is the annointed of the Lord 'T is not the Power that is annointed but the Person who by it is resigned to the Power Again 't is very probable that St. Paul writing to the Romans in this expression here of Powers conformed himself to their Stile Who as Berclaius observes out of Pliny Suetonius and Tertullian do very frequently take the Abstract for the Concrete i. e. the Power for the Person armed with it There is another argumentation still in the mouths of many viz. That Princes receive their power from the people and so may be abridged accordingly by them But first let such know from whence they had this even from the Jesuites or the like for many other Authors of the Church of Rome are against it Alphonsus de Castro de potestate Leg. Paen. lib. 1. and Vasques lib. 1. controvers cap. 47. averre it and call all power Tyrannical that comes not by the people It was that which Pope Zachariah suggested to the French for deposing of Childerick their King That the people who constituted him may as well depose him the Prince is obnoxious to the people by whom he possesseth that Honor. Unto which agrees that of Augustinus Triumphus de Anchona who by the Sea of Rome hath the Title of Beatus given him That th Pope may depose the Emperor who can deny it for he that constitutes can depose whose practice in story hath been accordingly Henry the Fourth the Emperor and Childerick the Third the French King were by Pope Gregory the Seventh the latter of which was deposed as the Historian saith non pro suis iniquitatibus sed quod inutilis esset tantae potestati as Carolus Crassus the Germans and Italians withdrew their obedience from him by the Papal approbation only ob segnitiem corporis ingeniique traditatem though otherwise a most pious devout and vertuous Prince according to which is the Argument and Application of Brllarmine Constituens est prius constituto subditi vero constituunt Reges● Principes sunt propter populum ergo populus est nobilior But secondly t is of no force in it self The Pastor is for the good of the Flock The master of the family is for the welfare of it forma est propter actionem is therefore actio nobilior formâ Again a servant voluntarily binds himself to a Master and after a manner constitutes him over him What can he at pleasure withdraw himself again Again these men consider not of the Oath of God taken of Subjects to their King which Solomon mentions Eccles. 8 2. I councel thee to keep the Kings commandements and that because of tht Oath of God They have likewise but little esteem of St. Pauls Judgement in the Text viz. that the powers are of God and ordained of God That they bear the sword of the Lord and are his ministers And indeed few Kings have originally come to their Crowns by the people but most frequently as one observes invitis subdi●is Belli jure si hoc