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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	king_n	people_n	samuel_n	1,198	5	10.5950	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46722	The damning nature of rebellion, or, The universal unlawfulness of resistance under pain of damnation, in the saddest sense asserted in a sermon preached at the cathedral of Norwich, May 29, 1685, being the anniversary-day of the birth of His late Majesty Charles II, and of the happy restauration both of him and of the government from the great rebellion / by William Jegon ...	Jegon, William, 1650-1710.	1685 (1685)	Wing J530; ESTC R2562	26,268	40

they meddle not with the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in my Text yet they agree in the substance of it generally asserting it damnable to resist and none or very few of those that call themselves Protestant Divines are Dissenters in this but only those of the Kirk of Scotland and their Brethren here the Presbyterians and Phanaticks As for the sense of the Church of England and all her Divines or true and regular Sons as well as Fathers in the case 't is so plain and clear and so very well known that it were an inexcusable impertinence to insist particularly upon it at this time of day And now being compassed with so great a Cloud of Witnesses having such a concurrent stream of Expositors and others on my side I hope I may venture to assert from the importance of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in my Text that it is a sin of a damning nature to resist the Higher Powers But I shall add to the Confirmation of it from my third proposed Topick and that is from parallel places of Holy Writ which represent resisting as a Crime of a most horrid nature or at least a very great sin against God and consequently of a damning nature I instance 1. In that very remarkable expression of Moses to Korah and his Company when they associated themselves together against him and were not far from taking up Arms but certainly so far resisted him as openly to oppose his Authority as an encroachment upon them Ye are gathered together says he to Korah the Ring-leader thou and all thy Company are gathered together against the Lord Numb 16.11 They were not so senseless as to gather together intentionally against the Lord no but they were gathered together against Moses their supream Civil Governor appointed so by God against Aaron the chief in the Ecclesiastical Administration And this Moses calls their gathering together against the Lord. And as Arch-Bishop Vsher observes even Women did see plainly that in opposing Moses and Aaron in such a manner they opposed God himself the ordainer of their Authority for so the Daughters of Zelophehad Mumb. 27.3 But for a full Confirmation of it God himself attested it in such a manner as sufficiently shew'd his extream indignation against it and consign'd to all succeeding Ages his utter abhorrence and detestation of Resisting as a Crime of a most highly dreadful and consequently damning nature and certainly as one observes that some have smarted for it eternally is for ever enough to convince us that God is highly dispeased with every one that thrusts himself into the guilt of it But of these first Resisters the Text tells us That they went down alive into the Pit according to our Translation but the Margin reads into Hell which Optatus * Contr● Parmen understands literally Tartareo carcere subito clausi For certain to such as follow their steps St. Jude saith Is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever St. Jude 13. and St. Peter says the same 2 Pet. 2.17 2. But a second Instance is that of Samuel who telling the People that had been importunate with him for a King to be set over them after the manner of their Neighbouring Nations when indeed they were under a Theocracy God himself being immediately their King Samuel I say telling them the manner of a King in such Instances as some will have to savour of an Arbitrary Power tho' others reckon them only the necessary burdens and charges of Government However that be the Prophet adds that when they had once subjected themselves to that Power and felt themselves aggrieved by it they should cry out in that day because of their King they had chosen them and the Lord would not hear them in that day it seems they should have nothing left them even in case of real grievance but recourse to God and that would prove in their case ineffectual too God would not hear them But how if they should take upon them to redress their grievances themselves by resisting and taking up Arms against their King Why it would only be directly and daringly to intrench upon God's Prerogative of Vengeance But of that I leave you to conceive the issue 3. But we have yet a plainer instance of the criminal nature of Resisting 1 Sam. 26 where David having opportunity which alone is oftentimes incentive enough in such cases and absolute Power to have destroy'd the King his Enemy when 't is certain he could as easily have taken away Saul's Life as his Spear and we may suppose him prompted to it by two powerful motives Interest and Revenge And whatever there might be of guilt in it Abishai offer'd to take that upon himself by perpetrating the fact and laying violent hands upon Saul Yet David would by no means suffer it but urged this remarkable Query against it Who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord 's Anointed and be guiltless But before whom should David have been guilty Or to whom accountable if he had consented for he was as I may say Heir apparent to the Crown by Divine Designation And was not the King his implacable Enemy that had persecuted him with the utmost of malice and virulency against Law and against Reason and had not God as Abishai urged to him delivered his Enemy into his hand by casting all his Army into a deep sleep and had cut them off and the King with them Who should have called David to an account for it Why truly nothing of all this was in the least to be feared in the Case And yet David was infinitely afraid of stretching forth his hand against the Lords Anointed or suffering another to do it because of the guilt attending it in the sight of God No! Homily of Obedience Part. II. As the sense of the Church of England is in her Homilies concerning this very instance David durst not for fear of offending God and his own Conscience tho' he had occasion and opportunity for it once lay his hand upon God's High Officer * The King whom he did know to be a Person reserved and kept for his Office-sake only to God's Punishment and Judgment And from this instance of David's invincible Loyalty so clear and manifest so abundantly evident one would think beyond contradiction the Homily aforesaid infers that it is an intolerable ignorance madness and wickedness for Subjects to make any Murmuring Rebellion Resistance or Withstanding Commotion or Insurrection against their most Dear and most Dread Sovereign Lord and King ordained of God's Goodness for their Commodity Peace and Quietness And if we may judg of the Criminal nature of Resisting by God's severe proceedings against the Authors of it What can we think but that it is infinitely odious in his sight When the first and most remarkable instance of it he punished by an astonishing Miracle the Earth opening and swallowing up all the Resisters And tho' 't is true nothing of this did