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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
A75749	A remonstrance, against presbitery. Exhibited by divers of the nobilitie, gentrie, ministers and inhabitants of the county palatine. of Chester with the motives of that remonstrance. Together with a short survey of the Presbyterian discipline. Shewing the inconveniences of it; and the inconsistency thereof with the constitution of this state, being in its principles destructive to the laws and liberties of the people. With a briefe review of the institution, succession, iurisdiction of the ancient and venerable order of bishops. Found to bee instituted by the Apostles, continued ever since, grounded on the lawes of God, and most agreeable to the law of the land. / By Sir Thomas Aston baronet.	Aston, Thomas, Sir, 1600-1645.	1641 (1641)	Wing A4078; Thomason E163_1; Thomason E163_2; ESTC R212696	75,691	128

hee be the sole disposer of Monarchies t 1 Chron. 17.11 I will raise up thy seed after thee and establish his Kingdome Nor were his intentions sure to let this be a titular shadow onely without power when wee are told u Proverbs 16.14 The wrath of a King is as messengers of death And we are commanded to w 24.21 feare the Lord and the King x Daniel 2.37 Thou O King sayes the prophet Daniel art a King of Kings for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdome power and strength and glorie And as the donation of this power is solely his so will he have the revocation too To Saul sayes the prophet y 1 Samuel 28.17 The Lord hath rent thy kingdome from thine hand and given it to thy servant David And to Salomon z 1 Kings 11.11 I will surely rend the kingdome from thee and will give it to thy servant a Daniel 2.21 Hee removeth Kings and setteth up Kings sayes Daniel Nor doth he seeme to subject them to the question of inferiours sayes Salomon b Ecclesiastes 8.4 Where the word of a King is there is power and who may say unto him What doest thou c Iob 34.18 Is it fit to say to a King sayes Job thou art wicked much lesse to expose them to violence But his precept d 1 Chron. 16.22 Touch not mine anoynted puts a guard upon their sacred persons which to violate though in our owne defence is a breach of his command Though Saul persecuted David for his destruction yet sayes he to Abishai e 1 Samuel 26.9 Destroy him not for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords anoynted and be guiltlesse And lest these precepts might seeme discontinued with the Law they are renewed in the Gospel f 1 Peter 2.13 Submit your selves to the King as supreme And as if bare obedience were not enough without due reverence wee are againe commanded g 1 Peter 2.17 to feare God and honour the King But was this honour due to them onely from the Laitie Aaron the high priest called Moses the chiefe prince Lord h Exodus 32.22 And Aaron said Let not the anger of my Lord wax hot Or was the power of Kings subordinate or superiour to the Church We read that Jehosaphat King of Iudah appoynted Iudges Levites and Priests i 2 Chron. 19.5.8 And was this power continued in the Royall Race of Kings since the comming of Christ or extinguished by the greater light of his presence We find Christ himself rendring Tribute to Caesar Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars k Mathew 22.19 Or is it that Regall right fixt onely to the Scepters of Christian Kings and Princes We find the ancient Fathers gave to the Thrones of Princes though Heathens the prerogative God left them Tertullian tells us We give that Reverence to the Emperour as belongs both to us and him as a man second to God and onely lesse than God for so hee is greater than all others being onely lesse than God l Tertullian ad Scapulam cap. 2. Colimus Jmperatorem sic quomodo nobis licet ipsi expedit ut Hominem a Deo secundum solo Deo minorem Hoc ipse volet sic enim omnibus major est dum solo vero Deo minor est Or is this right solely annext to the Imperiall Throne Hee againe tells us in the generall Kings are onely in the power of God from whom they are second after whom first before and above all others m Tertullian ad Scap. Are we onely to be subject while they rule over us after our owne desires and quit from our Allegeance under persecution St. Ambrose receiving Imperiall command to deliver up the Churches sayes Jf I bee compelled I may not oppose I may grieve I may weepe I may sigh Against Armes Souldiers the Goths also my Teares are my weapons such are the guards of a Priest I neither can nor ought to make other defence n Quid ergo turbamini volens nunquam vos deseram coactus repugnare non novi dolere potero potero flere potero gemere adversus arma milites Gothos quoque Lachrymae meae arma sunt Talia enim Ambrosius Concione 1. contra Auxentium But perhaps such passive piety was more requisite in those dayes when Gods designe was to convert the world by suffering nor by subduing when the seeds of Religion must bee water'd with the blood of Martyrs a Sanguis martyrum semen Ecclesiae than now in these purer times of Reformation Yet we see Calvin advises us not to fight for righteousnesse but to suffer for righteousnesse o Calvin Institut l. 4. c. 20. Art 29. Si ab imp●o sacrilego principe vexamur ob pietatem subeat primùm delictorum nostrorum recordatio quae talibus haud dubiè Domini flagellis castigantur Jnde humilitas impatientiam nostram fraenavit succurrat deinde haec cogitatio non nostrum esse hujusmodi malis mederi hoc tantum esse reliquum ut Domini opem imploremus cujus in manu sunt regum corda regnorum Inclinationes If we be persecuted for godlines by an impious and sacrilegious Prince let us first of all remember our sins which no doubt are corrected by God with scourges this will bridle our impatience with humility Then let us entertaine this thought that 't is not our part to heale such distempers that this is our onely remedy to appeale to Gods assistance in whose hand are the hearts of Kings and the inclinations of Kingdomes And in another place he tells us b Calvin Institut l. 4. Insignis est memorabilis apud Jeremiam locus quem tamet si prolixiorem ideo non pigebit referre quia totam hanc quaestionem clarissimè definit the Prophet Ieremiah clearly resolves this question p Ieremiah 27.6 8. 9. 12. I have given all these lands into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon And it shall come to passe that the Nation and Kingdome which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the K. of Babylon that Nation will I punish saith the Lord with the sword and with the famine and with the pestilence untill I have consumed the land Therefore hearken not yee unto your Prophets nor to your Diviners and which speak unto you saying yee shall not serve the King of Babylon I spake also to Zedechiah King of Iudah according to all these words saying bring your necks under the yoke of the K. of Babylon serve him and his people and live Why will you dye thou and thy people by the sword pestilence and famine as the Lord hath spoken against the Nation that will not serve the King of Babylon Upon which place saies Calvin * Videmus quantâ obedientiâ Dom●nus tetrum illum