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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	aaron_n	acknowledge_v	israel_n	54	3	6.4415	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57465	Sir Walter Rawleighs judicious and select essayes and observations upon the first invention of shipping, invasive war, the Navy Royal and sea-service : with his apologie for his voyage to Guiana.; Selections. 1667	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.	1667 (1667)	Wing R171; ESTC R14127	66,390	233

before we medle with the great He spake reason if we regard policy But attending one to Religion find we not that he held the Chastisement of one which molested the Sea of Rome a like pleasing to God as would have been the holy Warre against the Common Enemy of our Christian Faith So thought all the rest of those Bishops And so much more upon their severall occasions declared themselves to thinke it by how much they were commonly worse men then this Aeneas Silvius And good reason was there that they should be of such beliefe or Endeavour to make the Christian world believe none otherwise For the naturall Constitution of their estate I meane since the age of Pepin and Charlmaine or the times not long foregoing hath urged them all hereto though peradventure some few Popes may have been overlewd by their own private natures and thereby have swa●●ved from the rule of policy To speake in generall whosoever hath dominion absolute over some and authority lesse absolute over many more will seeke to draw those that are not whol●y his owne into intire subjection It fares with politick bodies as with the physicall each would convert all into their owne proper substance and cast forth as Excrement what will not so be changed We need not Cite Philip the Father of Alexander nor Philip the Father of Perseus Kings of Macedon for examples Of which the former brought the Thessalians the latter would have brought the Acheans and many estates in Greece from the condition of followers and dependants unto meer vassallage Philip the second of Spaine is yet fresh in mind who attempted the self same upon the Netherlands Exceptions may be framed here against one of the honest quiet or timerous disposition of some Princes yet that all or the most are thus inclined both reason and experience teach yea even our Cities and Corporations here in England such as need the protection of great Men Complaine otherwhiles of their patrons overmuch diligence either in searching into their private estates or behaving themselves master-like in point of government But never hath authority better means to enlarge it self then when it is founded upon devotion And yet never doth authority of this kind worke to raise it self unto meere dominion untill it fall into the hands of those whose piety is more in seeming then indeed The Leviticall Priests in the old Law never arrogated unto themselves any Temporall or Coactive power Nor advanced their Miters against the Crowne of Israel They well understood what authority God had committed unto them and rested therewithall content Some wrangling hereabout hath been of late The Popes flatterers labouring to prove That the high Priests of old were not meerly Subject unto the Kings of Iuda and men of better spirit and learning having shewed the contrary But whatsoever befell in those dayes when there was no King in Israel that is before the Reigne of Saul or after the Captivity of Babel sure it is that the sons of Aaron were alwaies obedient unto the sons of David And acknowledged them their Lords As for the race of the Maccabees that held both the Kingdome and the Priesthood at once It falls not within this Consideration the first thereof of whom I read that used the advantage of honour given to him in matter of Religion towards the getting of Temporal possession was if nor Mahomet himselfe Abubachar the Successor unto Mahomet This man having obteined by help of his friends the miserable happinesse of being chosen heire unto that foole Impostor in his dignity of a Prophet made it one of his first works to dispoile poor Aliffe the Nephew of Mahomet and heire of his great riches taking al from him by this pretence That unto whom belonged the Succession in wisdome unto him also belonged the Succession in wealth And this grew presently to be a famous question among the Doctors of the Saracen Law But howsoever it were then decided we see now the Muphti of high Prelate who is the only Oracle among the Turkes in Spirituall matters lives and holds all that he hath at the discretion of the great Sultan Neverthelesse it should seeme that the doctrine of Abubachar hath not lost all force for the examples are many in all Saracen Lands of Prophets or deceivers which got that name that never rested untill they became Kings The Seriph in Barbarie was one of the last who having once acquired the opinion of an holy Man afterward found means to become a Captain and Lord of a small Territory And finally increased his followers and withall his bounds so fast and so far as having made himself King of Morocca he had the grace to tell the King of Fessy lately his Soveraigne that both Fesse and all Kingdomes in those parts were belonging to his own holinesse and this he made good by winning all sooner after Whether the claime which the Popes laid to a Supremacie over all Kingdomes and estates had not affinity with the principle of Abubachar Let other men Judge that their practises to mainetaine it have been sutable to those of Seriffo all Historians doe testifie For when Pope Gregory the second procured the Citie of Rome and some other places in Italie to Rebell against the Emperour Leo the third what other colour used he then that himself had Excommunicated Leo as an ungodly Prince for breaking downe Images that were worshipped in Churches when for this treason Paul the Exarch Leiutenant unto the Emperour besieged Rome with the assistance of Lueitpraud King of the Lumbards by what other art did the Pope remove the siege then by perswading the Lumbard with a Tale of Peter and Paul that had consecrated the Citie of Rome with their pretious blood Thus was devotion made the Cloake for treason And thus did the Popes first slip their necks out of the Emperours coller Within very few years after this by the like Religious pretext were those Princes of France Charls Martell Pepine and Charlemaine won to assist the Papacie against the Lumbards yea to give unto St. Peter the most of those Lands which the Pope now holds in Italie And not restore them to the Emperour from whom the Lumbards had gotten them And thereunto Pepine was perswaded for his Souls health Yet had Pope Zachary through the opinion that went of his holinesse done a notable good office for Pepine before when he Released the Frenchmen of their Oath to King Chilperick And was the cause that Pepine was chosen in his stead by saying That rather he should be King who did the Kings duty then he that did it not In like manner did Pope Leo recompense the benefits of Charlemaine by setting him up as Emperour in the West against those of Constantinople But in these mutuall offices the Popes did only help with gracefull words to adorne that might which Pepine and Charlemaine had before acquired Whereas these Kings used force of arms to erect the papacy in Principallity That was held yet