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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
A53100	The common interest of king and people shewing the original, antiquity and excellency of monarchy, compared with aristocracy and democracy, and particularly of our English monarchy, and that absolute, papal and Presbyterian popular supremacy are utterly inconsistent with prerogative, property and liberty / by John Nalson.	Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.	1677 (1677)	Wing N92; ESTC R10092	110,919	290

doubt or difference as will appear from that place about Saul 11 Sam. 14.41 and Jonathan's eating the prohibited Hony where Saul said unto the Lord God of Israel Give a perfect Lot And therefore Solomon Prov. 16.33 tells us That the Lot is thrown into the Lap but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. AND though we find Samuel extremely displeased at their proposition we ought to attribute it to humane frailty he looking upon it as a rejection of himself from the Government Yet I do not find in that place that God was offended at it Or if from the words of Hosea I gave them a King in mine anger and took him away in my wrath Hos 13.11 it may be conjectured he was displeased with them Yet it was not because he did not approve the Government by a King but because they had rejected him to be King over them For they have not rejected thee 1 Sam. 8.7 〈◊〉 says God to Samuel who appeared discontented upon that humane jealousie but they have rejected me that I should not reign over them And upon their repeated instances to have a King like the Kings of the neighbouring Nations who should reign by succession that so in their distresses they might not be at a loss for a Captain to lead them and fight their Battels as at that time they were The Prophet tells them You have this day rejected your God 1 Sam. 10.19 who himself saved you out of all your adversities and tribulations And that therefore God was justly displeased with them was not for desiring such a form of Government as was not agreeable to his will since by owning himself their King he visible declares himself for Monarchy but it was for their Infidelity upon the approach of Nahash King of Ammon 1 Sam. 12. as is evident from the words of Samuel where he briefly recounts unto them that particular care and Providence which God had all along taken of them and their Fathers when in all their extremities he raised up eminent persons for their preservation and deliverance as Moses Aaron Jerubaal Bedan Jephthah and Samuel And that it was this Diffidence and not the Government at which God was displeased does most manifestly appear from that particular Order which God took about the succession of the Royal Government after it was once constituted by sending Samuel to anoint the son of Jesse to be by the most extraordinary methods of Providence which he made use of to preserve David from the hand of Saul and of all his enemies and at last in despight of their malice conducting him to the Throne of the promised Kingdom A preservation and establishment which was without a parallel till the most miraculous Protection and Restauration o● our most gracious Sovereign the present most August Monarch of Great Britain whom God long preserve with glory to sway the peaceful Scepter of the English Nation The extraordinary effects of Providence manifested to these two Illustrious Princes if they were throughly considered were enough for ever to stop the mouths of all such as are against Monarchy being such publick and signal Declarations of the kindness and favour of the Supreme Monarch of Heaven and Earth both to that Government and to these Persons that they must be more obdurate than Pharaoh and more inchanted than his Magicians if they do not confess that digitus Dei hîc here was the immediate finger of God And let them take care lest whilest they refuse to see the hand of his Providence he force them to feel the heavy hand of his Vengeance Shimei the son of Gera though a great example of the clemency of Princes yet went not to a bloudless grave but his cursing came upon his own head And Sheba the son of Bichri who blew the trumpet of Rebellion against his Sovereign by the wisdom of a Woman paid the forfeiture of his own for attempting against the Supreme Head and Governour 2. Sam. 20.22 FROM what has been said it appears evidently from the Testimony of all the oldest Records of Time amongst the Heathens and from the Sacred writings of Moses more credible and ancient than any of them That Monarchy was the Primitive Government of the World and most agreeable to the will of God who as S. Chrysostom well observes from the Creation Chrysost Hom. 34. in 1 Ep. ad Cor. c. 13. That God made one man not many to intimate unto us that he did design Monarchy not Democracy for the Government of the World And that his posterity were his subjects both by the Law of God and of Nature I cannot think any person will question who has not a desire to teach his own Children disobedience both to God and Man by breaking the first Commandment with promise and that God should by his Charter grant to Adam Dominion over all the inferior Creation Gen. 1.28 and renew it to Noah with more ample conditions cum potestate vitae necis over every living Creature and leave the most glorious part of it which was created in his own Image under the confusion of Anarchy or Parity Gen. 9.1 2 3. is both most absurd and unreasonable to believe Monarchy proved the most Excellent form of Government from the Vniversality of its Limits and Extent THUS have we seen the first particular wherein the Excellency of Monarchy consists viz. Antiquity Nor i● the Universality and Extent of its Limits less evident which is the second particular which shews the goodness of this way of Government and as before has been proved all the Ancient Records do with one consent give us an account of the Monarchical Government of all the inhabited Regions of the Earth The first Popular State at Athens Anno Mundi 3275. THE first Popular State we read of was at Athens after the expiration of the ten years Reign of Erixias which happened about the latter end of the Reign of Manasseh King of Judah and near the year of the World 3275 according to the computation of Chronologers And till that time the Earth knew no other power but Monarchy After that several other Cities of Greece as Sparta Corinth c. followed their examples and expelling their Kings erected in the room of them little Commonwealths but great Tyrannies And as Justin gives us an account of them they were in continual broils either amongst themselves about the Magistracy or with their Neighbours for precedency till the time of Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire to whose winged fortune all these little quarrelsom Republicks submitted and never after recovered that form of Government again and this happened about the year of the World 3630. THE Roman Commonwealth begun upon the Regifugium and therefore confesseth it self the younger Government commencing about the year of the World 3457 and for our modern Republicks the date of them is easily known And let any persons travel a● far as they can