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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	david_n	king_n	solomon_n	11,542	5	9.1098	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65439	To the most illustrious, High and Mighty Majesty of Charles the II, by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, etc. the humble declaration of being first a supplicatory preface and discourse of His Majesty, and then humbly shewing the great and dangerous troubles and intollerable oppressions of himself and his family, and the true occasion thereof, in the wofull times of these late most unhappy distractions : wherein the perfect loyalty of a true subject, and persideous malice and cruelty of a rebell, are evidently deciphered, and severally set forth to the publick view in their proper colours, as a caution for England : hereunto are annexed certain poems, and other treatises composed and written by the author upon several occasions, concerning the late most horrid and distracted times, and nver before published.	Wenlock, John.	1662 (1662)	Wing W1350; ESTC R8066	124,478	168

conscience and dutie towards God whose command i● when thou art converted strengthen thy Luke 22 32. brethren That Subjects owe obedience to their Soveraign the whole consent of Scripture doth agree The Psalmist resembleth Kings to Gods upon earth and indeed they have their rule and Ps 82. 6. power by Gods appointment Prov. 8. 15. By me Kings reign and therefore to such as rebell against them it may be said as God said to Samuel touching the Israelites They have not cast ● Sam. 8. 7. thee away but they have cast me away that I should not reign over them I hope none are so impudent to compare our King to Saul rejected of God but if any such be had they any touch of the grace in Davids heart then would they yet pray with him Lord keep me from laying mine hands upon the Lords anointed let me intreat them with a single eye and humble spirit to read ● Sam. 26 the historie of Davids carriage towards Saul and to remember the wise counsels of Solomon My sonne fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change for their calamity shall rise suddenly The fear of a King is as the roaring of Prov. 20. 2. 3. a Lion who so provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul it is an honour for a man to cease from strife but every fool will be medling an evil man seeketh only rebellion therefore a cruel messenger Pr 17. ●● shall be sent against him The wrath of a King is as the messenger Prov. 16 14. 15● of death but a wise man will pacifie it for in the light of the Kings countenance is life and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain And again in Eccl. I counsell thee to keep the Kings commandement and Ecc. 8. 3. ● 4. ● that in regard of the Oath of God be not hastie to go out of his sight stand not in an evil thing for he doth whatsoever pleaseth him where the word of a King is there is power and who may say unto him what dost thou Let us never forget that divine precept of our Saviour the King of Kings set down in three of the Evangelists Give unto Caesar the thing that are Caesars Remember the Apostle of the Circumcision Fear God Honour the King and submit your 1 Pet. 2. 13 14 17. selves to all manner of Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be unto the King as unto the Superior or unto the Governours as those that are sent of him Observe the decree of the Doctor of the Gentiles writing to the Romans then governed by Nero a most cruell Tirant Let every Soul be subject to the higher Powers Rom. 13. ● 2. for there is no power but of God whosoever resisteth the Power resists the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves Condemnation And in the Marginall Notes upon the old Translation it is well observed that because God is the Author of this Order therefore Rebells must know that they make war with God himself and cannot but purchase to themselves great misery and calamity For though the King hath not Power over the Conscience of man yet seeing he is Gods Minister he cannot be resisted by any good Conscience And in his Epistle to Ti●us he gives a special memento Put them in mind that they be subject to the higher Powers and that they Tit 3. 1. be obedient and the like in divers places of his Epistles The King of England is an absolute Imperiall Monarch by the Law yet he is to govern his Subjects by the Laws and Antient Customes of his Kingdome But the King is the only supreme Power next under God and so acknowledged by all Parliaments and the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance do prove as much And by a Statute made in 1 of Elizabeth any man is disabled to sit as a Member in the house of Commons untill he hath taken a solemn Oath upon the Evangelists whereby he doth acknowledge the King to be the only Supreme Governour of these Realmes in all Cases whatsoever And also promiseth that he will to the best of his Power assist and defend all his Majesties Royal Priviledges Pr●heminences and Jurisdictions graunted or annexed to his Imperiall Crown and yield his Obedience thereunto Which Oath how faithfully some do now observe I leave to the Judgement of God and their own Consciences It is confessed by all knowing men that a Parliament truly understood is a Court of the highest Nature and Authority in this Kingdome and that it hath power to make and alter Lawes And that matters there in question are to be decided or agreed on by the Major part of Voices But it must not be a Parliament without a Head not a Parliament rent in pieces that hath power to do this For to make any Obligatory Act to bind the Subject absolutely either in Life Liberty or Goods there must be a concurrence of the Major part of both Houses with the Kings Royall Assent added thereunto in whom the Legislative power doth alone consist And therefore I know not how any such thing can now be done at Westminster the King being absent and the farr greater part of both houses nay almost all the Lords being also departed and now joyning themselves with the King in all his designes But it will be objected that many things may be done by Ordinance of Parliament I will not deny but that both Houses of Parliament joyntly assembled may possibly have power to make Ordinances for the present good of the Common wealth And that these Ordinances may be binding during the time of that Session Provided that they ●e no wayes contradictory to the known Laws of the Land For the Subject enjoyeth his Life his Liberty his Lands by the antient Customes and Statutes of this Kingdome which are indeed the fundamentall Lawes thereof And therefore the Subject cannot be deprived of these rights but by a Law of as high a nature and that must be a Statute Law at the least How then can any man by an Ordinance contradictory to Law be legally dispossessed of his Liberty or Goods which he doth enjoy by the Power of the Law But some say that these things may be done by Priviledge of Parliament And if there be such a Priviledge come to light that doth over-top all Law Reason and Religion then much may be done But I beeleeve that if any such Priviledge be now found out that it is as new as the inventers thereof for venerable antiquity their betters in learning and knowledge never yet heard of any such matter It is known to all that have but smelt of the Law that both by the Common and Statutes Lawes of this Kingdome it is high Treason to levie Armes against the King or to be Adherent or Assistant to the Kings Enemies and these Laws when they be once

a short time praeceding had so barbarously endangered the lives of my self and my whole family and so forcibly broke open my house and stollen away my goods which entering presently into my confideration I thought it not safe to tarry at my own House misdoubting that the Party would give notice of my being about home and that so I might be lyable to a second surprise for I knew well that the meer fury and madnesse of the multitude was in truth as legal as any Warrant they could obtain against me from such seditious Simpletons as then pretended to be in lawfull Authority thereabouts and therefore to eschew the present danger within the space of an hour as I remember I departed from my House and went to a poor Tenants of mine in a Village near adjacent where in a little close room I did anchorise my self for that day and at Evening my Wife came unto me there in the poor mans bed we lodged together for that night in the Morning I soon prepared my self for my retraiting foot march to Dalham again whither my God in his mercy did safely conduct me with a setled resolution to have gone to Oxford with my said Kinsman but in the interim of my absence which was not many daies the aire there also did begin to overcast the Country to smell so strong of Rebels and Gunpowder that my Kinsman being of a Sound stomack and an honest Divine that could not dissemble knew not at all how to rellish or disgest such poysonous Vapours as the infectious stinch of Rebellion did daily cast forth and present before him and therefore as an Antidote against further danger and a Preservative for his health liberty and safety he was enforced to change the aire and so departing from his House went immediately to Oxford before that your Subject could make his return to Dalham Notwithstanding whose absence that was the nearest to me in relation there yet I still found as much nobleness at that place as might in reason or civility be expected and therefore finding my self to be welcome and well at ease I continued there the longer for indeed Journeys were not very pleasant unto me in regard that I travelled for the most part on foot which I commonly used to do at that time because I did find that kind of passage to be more free from suspition and danger and also lesse chargeable to those that were willing to give me a friendly entertainment But my Fates were such as my quiet repose and felicity at Dalham aforesaid must not admit of any long continuance there for to the intent and end that I might be made truly sensible of my former sinnes and present sufferings and least I should be lulled asleep in security or vainly puft up with a false vision and shadow of Prosperity it pleased God that a Messenger of Satan was sent to buffet me and th●s it hapened There lived in that Town a mean mechanical fellow a Blacksmith by his Trade that was a daily Workman and Reteyner to the Parsonage where my chiefest abode then was and this Partie was reported and taken to be a dangerous stubborn and rebellious Roundhead and by some that well knew his Conditions I was oftentimes advised to beware of him and not to discourse or utter my minde in his hearing But this Fellow set on surely by the Devil the first Father and cunning Contriver of all Rebellion Malice and Mischief and a sworn Enemy to all Truth had a fervent desire as the sequele declared to work me a Mischance when he once understood me to be a constant Maintainer thereof And yet he presented himself unto me in a more subtle specious and angelical Garbe and Posture than others of his Brethren of a far more cleanlier Profession had done before him for he ever endeavoured by fair words and submisse Demeano●r to infinuate himself into my respect and favour alwayes expressing more signes of Service towards me then either I expected or desi●ed at his hands and sometimes when he did espy me walking alone in the Fields he would repai●e unto me with the pretence of much observancy and an ardent desire to conser with me telling me that he had heard and also perceived that I was a man of much knowledge and therefore he thought himself happy when he had any opportunity of Discourse with me whereby his Judgement might be the better informed in the truth of many things concerning the troubles and divisions of these times intreating me still to exouse his boldnesse of accesse unto me and protesting that whats●ever his Opinion had formerly been yet he had now a great desire and love to learn the truth and also assuring me that I need not misdoubt or fear to speak ●y minde unto him freely for he would be faithfull un●o me and would never be an Instrument to procure to so honest and loving a Gentleman as I was the least hurt or ●njury in the world And after many such meetings and expressions your Majesties subject being of an open heart and free from all deceit did hope and imagine that such others as spak● fai●ly were of his own nature and disposition and that their reall intentions were correspondent to their verball expre●●●ons and therefore he began to b●leeve that this late so vip●rou● a Vulcan was now capable of conversion and hereupon in truth of charity towards the poor seduced wretch and ●o preserve his body from the hands of the hangman and his so●l from the danger of the devil I did oftentimes very freely converse with him alwayes endeavouring to evince and rectifie his depraved judgement to molifie his minde and by Scripture law and reason to convince him of his errors and ever presenting to the view of his apprehension that ugly monster of Rebellion in as hideous and horrible a shape as I was able to limne it out or blaze forth the pedigree thereof telling him that the Devil was ●he first father of Rebellion and that all others that were infected with that witchcraft were his own undoubted children and the very proper souldiers that fought under the devils b●nner and informing him at large of the loyalty of that holy Prophet David towards his Soveraign notwithstanding that he was his enemy and sought his life and was a man in some manner forsaken of God and how benignly and mercifully the Lord likewise dealt with David for his uprightness and pious and just demeanour in that behalf and also relating unto him at sundry times many other passages presidents and precepts out of holy Scripture and several authentick Authors and Histories which did declare and make manifest the religious necessity of the subjects true obedience and loyalty to their lawfull Sovereign and withall shewing him how great and honourable the rewards have been that truth and loyalty hath received both in antient and modern times and how prodigiously fatal and fearfull that desperate condition and period of rebells and traitors had ever