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kingdom_n	israel_n	king_n	tribe_n	3,514	5	9.6944	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84287	The Exercitation answered, in the assertions following made good against it. 1 That the usurpation pretended by the exercitator is really no usurpation, by any thing that he hath said to prove it such. 2 That former oaths in controversie oblige not against obedience to present powers. 3 That obedience is due to powers in possession, though unlawfully enter'd.		1650 (1650)	Wing E3865; Thomason E597_12; ESTC R201963	43,067	59

indeed Suprems that have a lawfull power over all men by vertue of a Supreame Right against which no Oath can oblige in a word God and the Common-Wealth This Right of God to begin with it in the first place is not onely supreame but absolute and therewithall universall and extends over all men in all things by vertue whereof he claimes a lawfull power Job 33.13 at pleasure to dispose of all rendering no man an account of his wayes but certainely of all that he claimes a power to dispose there is nothing wherein he is more peremptory there is nothing which with a more high hand under the name of the Most high he asserts unto himself with a more soveraigne majesty and absolute soverainty then the swaying stroake in the Kingdome of Men Dan. 4.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hwnillimum hominem Hier. and an undoubted right to give it to whomsoever he will and set up over it the humblest of men When therefore the most High actually puts downe one and sets up another Power and so by vertue of his supreame absolute and universall Right gives the Kingdome to whomsoever HE not WEE will for such a contra-distinction the solmne inforcement of the words must of necessity inferre in the eye of any impartiall judge who can plead a Right against God or what Oath stand valid to invalidate his Right Especially seeing all inferiour Rights cease and determine at least pro tempore upon the actuall entrance and interposition of the Superiour how much more shall the inferiour right of man be no right when not a Superiour only which yet it selfe might be subordinate and doubtfull but the supreame absolute and undoubted right of God by an actuall and powerfull interposition takes place 'T is said Si filius familias jurel se facturum aliquid in selicitum pater autem rei that in case a Sonne being under his Fathers power shall oblige himselfe by an Oath to an Act in it selfe lawfull and the Father being ignorant of the thing ignorus aliud ei faciendum imperet quod impediat id fieri quod juratum est filius non tenetur juramento quia lege divina naturali tenerur parere imperio patris D. Sands Pral 2. § 10. command somewhat else to bee done that hinders the accomplishment of what was sworne the Oath of the Son is not obliging because by the law of God and Nature he is bound to obey his Father How much more then are the Sonnes of men oblig'd to obey the God both of that Law and Nature the everlasting Father by subjection to the powers that are because they are Ordained of him and how much lesse can any Oath binde against Obedience to him by such subjection Seeing all Oathes at their first taking are to take in the tacite condition of a salva potestate juperioris an exemption of the Superiours Right much more of the Right of the most high by a si deus permiserit if God say a men to the Oath taken What sayes our Exercitator to all this God gives no power to Vsurpers he sayes but surely t is safer to say with truth it selfe Joh. 18.11 They could have no power unlesse he gave it them And t is certaine that our Saviour there speakes of a juriciall Power and to a Person that was an Vsurper if ever yet there were any For our Saviour himselfe if we will receive the truth out of Godly and judicious Mr. Perkins mouth was the true heire Mr. Perkins Expos on the Epistle of Jude and had the onely title of Right to the Crowne and Kingdome of the Jewes Besides he must either contradict himselfe and there-withall confesse the truth or the Scripture in express termes and therin given his own opinion the fall whilst he denyes that God gives the Kingdome to Vsurpers whose t is to give to whomsoever he will For he nndertakes to prove Jereboam an Usurper page 1. and yet he is not asham'd there to quote 1 King 11. where at verse 31. The Lord the God of Israel sayes Behold I wil rend the Kingdom out of theh and of Solomon and GIVe ten Tribes unto thee But our Exercitator not without manifest wrong to the expresse Text sayes yea suppose it a grant As if when God had in termes said to Jeroboam I will give there were not sufficient ground from the stability of every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God absolutely to conclude a full Grant But wee shall not here anticipate that which wee intend hereafter more fully to discusse for the further confirmation of this particular when wee shall come to the third assertion whither for the present we must still referre the Reader Only for a conclusion take the late judgement of our owne Divines with learned Mr. Diodati's concurrent in answer to the present Objection in these words on Rom. 13. Ordained of God that is instituted of God among man-kinde to Rule and Governe men in Order as in Gods stead For God is the Author of this Order in the world and all those which attaine unto this equity or excellency doe attaine unto it either by his manifest will and approbation when the meanes are just and lawfull or else by his secret providence with permission and toleration when the meanes are unlawfull and it is just and equall that man should approve and tolerate that which God himselfe approves and tolerates and that he approves and tolerates which wee cannot by any lawfull meanes apointed by him decline and avoid All therefore who resist authority make war after a sort with god himselfe Ann. on Rom. 13.1 Didati ibid. A Second Superiour or to speake more properly among things of an inferiour ranke under the most high Supreame for salus populi suprema lex is the Common-wealth bonum publicum Against the soveraigne Right of this superiour and that lawfull power which it hath over us no Oath can oblige and consequently not the Oathes pretended This is no deny'd by the Exercitator himselfe For speaking to this Argument urged against the Obligation of the present Oathes by the Author of the lawfulnesse of obeying c. He grants page 44. If the thing sworn shall become privative of or opposite to the publike good or wel-being of the Nation in its owne nature and necessarily the Oath would be void for to a sinfull thing there can be no Obligation But to assume upon his owne concession in the premises most certaine it is that where Order and good Government publike justice and peace may be had and surely it may be nay it is generally had under the present Government witnesse all the publike seates of Justice in the Land there to resist the powers administring this Order and Government publike Justice and Peace is as much in its owne nature and as necessarily destructive to the publike good and wel-being of the Nation as disorder and Anarehy is to Order and Government or war and consusion