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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	king_n	power_n	regal_a	2,103	5	11.1413	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09511	The poore mans appeale In a sermon preached at Leicester assises before the judges. By T.P.	Pestell, Thomas, 1584?-1659?	1620 (1620)	STC 19791; ESTC S100747	21,164	34

of the world turne away their eyes yet hee that is higher then the highest regardeth But where is the agent and defendant wee shall need a quest of inquiry for him If thou seest c. Non est inuentus what does hee slie for it so much the worse But t is not possible he should bee farre the very sinne will finde him out without a Cryer t is a crying sinne Sure hee is hidden heere this greedy eating Adam among the leaues or like Saul among the stuffe of the Text. Let vs turne it ouer againe If thou seest the oppression of the Poore soft the Poore opprest who can this bee and defrauding of iustice and iudgement in whose power is it to doe that hee that is higher then the highest There is all the persons this Text affords It is betwixt these two then either the high one of heauen or the high one of earth hath done this It cannot bee the first alas no God oppresse the Poore hee is their helper and defender t is hee that regards him or does God vse to defraud in iudgement or iustice Oh no Shall not the Iudge of all the world doe according to right yes With righteousnesse shall he iudge the earth and the people with equity It is the other high one then it can be none but he hee is the Oppressor whether it be an height of wealth this and so liker to fall vpon the poore è diametro or an height of authority and so apter to defraud in iudgement and iustice and whether this oppression bee by violence or secret cosenage it skils not they are both like to abide it for God can abide neither of them both but abhorres both the blood-thirsty and the deceitfull man Ps 5.6 Yet since the principall intended heere by Salomon is the high one that abuses his height of place and power to the oppressing of the poore such as these if thou seest them doe so and so and goe cleare away with it yet bee not astonish'd let not this stagger thee for hee that is higher then the highest regardeth Out of this text thus opened arise these doctrinall conclusions And first from the persons First that there bee high ones vpon earth Secondly that these are sometimes oppressors Thirdly that God is still the highest From the action then First God regards does marke and obserue all things Secondly obserues men and their actions with a double Respice a twofold obseruat of mercy to the good iustice to the bad Lastly hee both wayes regards oppression the patient in mercy because pauperem first and then pauperem pressum the poore oppressed The agent in iustice because altum first and then altum oppressorem the high Oppressor Of these in order and order requires wee begin with the latter person first and from it the first obseruation is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that there be such or there are higher powers Height of wealth I passe ouer and insist on dignitie Height is by ascending assents are by staires and degrees such asconding is motion properly all motion from some principle and euer to some end The generall end of motion is quies peace and rest that is the end of this motion wherein men ascending are heighthened by degrees Peace opposed both to warre and to disorder This height is in differently called Magistracie Magistracy I mean subordinate is either Ecclesiastique or secular secular is militarie or ciuill polemick or politick The first of these wee blesse God wee haue had little practise of so little wee can scarce imagine there is such a thing but wee may haue It is not good to neglect the knowledge of it first for these men soldiers and warriours despised in this dull and fusty time of peace if occasion serued would be as highly esteemed as now basely who are of so high and braue an order that God himselfe is said to bee the soueraigne of their order The Lord is a man of warre saith Dauid the Lord of Hoasts is his name hee teaches my hands to warre and my fingers to fight and as the motion from God so the ascent is by degrees ranks they haue and orders Officers sergeants Lieftenants Captaines Coronels Generals Admirals of the height whereof iudge but by that of Dauid to Ioab and his brethren you are too mighty for mee yee sonnes of Zeruiah and Elisha●s offer to the Shunamite wouldest thou be spoken for to the King or to the Captaine of the hoast as happily the second person in the Kingdome Now the end of armes is peace the Ciuile Magistrate also I meane subordinate for of regall power the supreame on earth I speake not now is in high place such are the nerues and glory of a Kingdome therefore Chronicled in the dayes of Dauid and Salomon and their offices registred such such were Chancellors and Recorders such ouer the tribute such Iudges and Rulers And in this ranke wee see and know a diuersity of order and degrees of dignity and all from God a Deo ordinate ordered and ordained by him And as Salomon calls marriage Pro. 2. the Couenant of God propter eximiam sanctitatem so Dauid the Session of Iudges and Magistrates coetum Dei as approued of him and honoured with his presence in a speciall manner Ps 82. He sits in medio corum 2. Chron. 19. But as the wilde and foolish Anabaptist would destroy all Magistracie from the libertie of the Gospell so there want not some such froward disputers as the Apostle speakes of men of peruerse minds that reason from the old Testament that sinne first brought in seruitude or else God had made no subiection It is true indeed that the sinne of Cham occasioned his slauery A seruant of seruants shalt thou bee Gen. 9 But yet in purest nature euen in the state of innocencie there was a superioritie not onely in man ouer the creatures but coniugall in the husband ouer the wife in which estate had children beene borne there would euen in the law of nature haue sprung vp patria potestas a fatherly power which in time must needs haue risen to regia or the same that regia is And of this motion to and promotion which comes from the Lord comes also the right end set downe by saint Paul That we vnder them may lead a quiet a peaceable life in c. Where peace may bee opposed to tumult strife and priuate reuenge For first if we had not these lawfull assemblies but that Demetrius and his fellow hammer heads might rush into the halls and seates of iudgement what would they doe why shout they would and teare the ayre with noyses and so part againe before they knew why they were come together and secondly where would contention stop her course did not the lawes confine vs and as God giues a law to the Sea bound vs in with a decree of Hitherto shalt thou come and no further And last of all would the Rorers of the Age and Bretheren