Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	good_a	king_n	people_n	13,375	5	4.9419	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87521	All is not gould that glisters; with a vindication of His Majestie from the scandalous aspersions concerning former taxes and ship-money. / Written to informe the ignorant, to satisfie the unsatisfied, and to stop the mouthes of all such as carry two faces under one hood.	Jenkins, David, 1582-1663.	1648 (1648)	Wing J580; Thomason E536_19; ESTC R205331	4,444	8

the servants of David And they caught every one his fellow by the head and thrust his sword in his fellowes side so they fell downe together This was the pleasing tragicall play before Joab Abner and that bloody sport was much like ours for they were all of one Countrie one Nation as we are But the gallants of the●e dayes are so madly desperate that the name of Peace in Odious to them they will daily venture their lives in seeking their deaths and hazard the losse of Heaven to purchase Hell their felicity is in Armes most redoubted Deeds Warres dreadfull Warres and politick designes But all this stir is not to kill Pagans Heathens Infidells Iewes surkes or savage Monsters these bloody Bickrings and surious Slaughters have not bin or are like to be for the glory of God or making the King glorious for the Kingdomes good for the peoples freedome for the Laws preservation or the liberty of the Subiect These were the promises that glistered like Gold which appeares now to be meere drosse for the very contrary calamities to all our fore-named blessings are now upon us God is blasphem'd in stead of being glorified his Word prophaned in lieu of obedient reverence his Church despised and disperst in stead of honorable and Christian settlement his Houses of Prayer pollured and desiled in stead of repairing and regard the King hath had a great share of thraldom long-lasting captivitie which attends His Maiesty in the rooms of Loyaltie and Allegeance the Laws are trampled down in stead of being kept up in authoritie the Subiects right is that no man can be certaine to call any thing his owne and the libertie of the people is bondage and slavery insomuch that as the case stands now it is a dangerous thing to be rich for every mans wealth is his crime a good estate wil trans forme a man into three shapes in short time first to a Delinquent secondly to a Malignant and thirdly to a Begger To draw to a conclusion let us thinke a little upon the King let us consider that disloyaltie to him is disobedience to God Kings are cal'd Higher Powers Heads of Tribes Children of the most High high Hills and tall Cedars and therefore God is to be accounted amongst us in the first place and the King in the second foure wayes the King is the Minister of God for the good of his people first he is our Naturall Good in the preservation and conservation of life and body by his soveraigne Power in maintaining the Lawes secondly he is our Morall Good for that he protects Vertue and corrects Vice thirdly the King is a Civill Good in his securing our estates and possessions and fourthly he is a Spirituall Good in defending the Faith and Gods true Religion All these Goods good King Charles was as long as he had Power and all and more then all these would be heap'd upon us if he did but enjoy his right Dignitie and K●●gly Authoritie As God is our Almightie invisible King so by his grace and favour the King is our visible God A King is said to be the Light of Israel people without a King are like sheepe without a Shepheard 1 Kings 22 17. The Crownes Scepters Thrones and anoyntings of Kings are Gods peculiar Rights and God is Master of the Substance whosoever is Master of the Ceramonie And that God that made all men did make some men to be Kings amongst whom our gracious Soveraigne Lord King Charles is one and one of the best that ever reigned in England and absolutely the best but the worst dealt withall If it were considered how the case stood with him when he came to the Crowne that consideration would give all reasonable men satisfaction he was hemd round about with cares and troubles first his Father King James of blessed memorie left him deeply in debt besides great debts he himselfe owed secondly he had Warres with two mightie Kings of France and Spaine both at once and the same time thirdly the Coffers and Treasurie was low or neare empt●e fourthly the King had no Navie at Sea nor any meanes to set forth one and the Ships much out of repaire fifthly the King had no f●wer then fifteene or sixteene of the Blood Royall to keepe and maintaine yet according as the time was then and as it is now without any great Taxes he paid his Fathers debts and his owne he secured himselfe and Kingdomes from soreigne Invasion he maintained his great charge and kept a Royall House as befitted the Majestie of a King of Great Britaine and Ireland he refurnished the Navie and in that shewed his clouded magnificence on the Seas to the admiration and astonishment of other Nations for the effecting of which the Ship-Money was laid upon the people whereof his Majesty had never the value of one peny into his Coffers but it will be easily proved that he did lay many thousand pounds to it to increase it and all was little enough to defrand so great a charge which Tax was levied for no other end but for the honour and safetie of the Kingdome and to desend those that have sought to destroy the King for doing so good a worke Let us with griefe of heart call to mind the happinesse which we have lost which we enjoyed sixteene yeares by his gracious government then we had peace and plenty no taking prisoner or being taken uo leading into captivitie and no complaining in our streets a man might then in those dayes not have beene ashamed or afraid to be a true Subject and an honest man hee migh● boldly say as I now say God save the King which good dayes and times I hope are suddenly comming and so I close up all with Vive le Roy. 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