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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
A78586	The true lavv of free monarchy, or The reciprocall and mutuall duty betvvixt a free king and his naturall subjects. By a well affected subject of the kingdome of Scotland.; True lawe of free monarchies	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2; Wing J145; Thomason E238_23; ESTC R6414	20,111	16

according to their laws whereby it is established and to punish all those that should presse to alter or disturbe the profession therof And next to maintain all the lowable and good laws made by their predecessors to see them put in execution and the breakers and violaters thereof to be punished according to the tenor of the same And lastly to maintain the whole Countrey and every state therein in all their ancient priviledges and liberties as well against all sorraine enemies as among themselves And shortly to procure the weale and stourishing of his people not only in maintaining and purting to execution the old lowable laws of the Countrey and by establishing of new as necessity and evill manners will require but by all other meanes possible to foresee and prevent all dangers that are likely to fall upon them and to maintain concord wealth and civility among them as a loving father ond carefull watchman caring for them more than for himself knowing himselfe to be ordained for them and they not for him and therefore countable to that great God who placed him as his lieutenant over them upon the perill of his soule to procure the weale of both soules and bodies as far as in him lieth of all them that that are committed to his charge And this Oath in the Coronation is the clearest civill and fundamentall law whereby the Kings office is properly defined By the law of nature the King becomes a naturall Father to all his Lieges at his Coronation And as the father of his fatherly duty is bound to care for the nourishing education and vertuous government of his children even so is the King bound to care for all his subjects As all the toyle and pain that the father can take for his children will be thought light and well bestowed by him so that the effect thereof redound to their profit and weale So ought the Prince to do towards his people As the kindly father ought to foresee all inconvenients and dangers that may arise towards his children and though with the hazard of his own person presse to prevent the same So ought the King toward his people As the Fathers wrath correction upon any of his children that offendeth ought to be by a fatherly chastizment seasoned with pity as long as there is any hope of amendment in them So ought the King towards any of his Lieges that-offends in that measure And shortly as the fathers chif joy ought to be in procuring his childrens well fare rejoycing at their weale sorrowing and pitying at their evill to hazard for their safety travell for their rest wake for their sleep and in a word to think that his earthly felicity and life standeth liveth more in them nor in himselfe So ought a good Prince think of his people As to the other branch of this mutuall and reciprock band is the duty and alleageance that the Lieges owe to their King The ground whereof I take out of the words of Samuel dited by Gods spirit when God had given him commandement to heare the peoples voyce in choosing and annointing them a King And because that place of Scripture being well understood is so pertinent for our purpose I have insert herein the very words of the text 9 Now therefore harken to their voyce howbeit yet testifie unto them and shew them the manner of the King that shall raigne over them 10 So Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked a King of him 11 And he said this shall be the manner of the King that shall raigne over you he will take your sons and appoint them to his Charets and to be his horsemen and some shall run before his Charet 12 Also he will make them his Captaines over thousands and Captaines over fifties and to eare his ground and to reape his harvest and to make instruments of war and the things that serve for his Charets 13 He will also take your daughters and make them Apothecaries and Cookes and Bakers 14 He will take your Fields and your Vineyardes and your best Olive-trees and give them to his servants 15 And he will take the tenth of your seed and of your Vineyards and give it to his Eunuches and to his servants 16 And he will take your men-servants and your maid-servants and the chiefe of your yong men and your asses and put them to his work 17 He will take the tenth of your sheep and ye shall be his servants 18 And yee shall cry out at that day because of your King whom yee have chosen you and the Lord will not heare you at that day 19 But the people woull not heare the voyce of Samuel but did say Nay but there shall be a King over us 20 And we also will be like all other nations and our King shall judge us and go out before us and fight our battels 20 And we also would be like all other Nations and our King shall judge us and go out before us and fight our battels That these words and discourses of Samuel were dited by Gods spirit it needs no further probation but that it is a place of Scripture since the whole Scripture is dited by that inspiration as Paul saith which ground no good Christian will or dare deny Wherupon it must necessarily follow that there speeches proceeded not from any ambition in Samuel as one loath to quite the reines that he so long had ruled and therefore desirous by making odious the government of a King to disswade the people from their farther importunate craving of one For as the Text proveth it plainly he then conveened them to give them a resolute grant of their demand as God by his own mouth commanded him saying Harken to the voyce of the people And to presse to disswade them from that which he then came to grant unto them were a thing very impertinent in a wise man much more in the Prophet of the most high God And likewise it well appeared in all the course of his life after that his so long refusing of their sute before came not of any ambition in him which he well proved in praying and as it were importuning God for the weale of Saul Yea after God had declared his reprobation unto him yet he desisted not while God himselfe was wrath at his praying and discharged his farther sute in that errant And that these words of Samuel were not uttered as a prophecy of Saul their first Kings defection it well appeareth as well because we heare no mention made in the Scripture of any his tyranny and oppression which if it had been would not have been left unpainted out therein as well as his other faults were as in a true mirrour of all the Kings behaviours who it describeth as likewise in respect that Saul was chosen by God for his vertue and meet qualities to govern his people whereas his defection sprung after-hand from the corruption of

his own nature and not through any default in God whō they that think so would make as a step-father to his people inmaking wilfully a choyce of the unmeetest for governing them since the election of that King lay absolutly and immediatly in Gods hand But by the cōtrary it is plain and evident that this speech of Samuel to the people was to prepare their hearts before the hand to the due obedience of that King which God was to give unto them and therfore opened up unto them what might be the intollerable qualities that might fall in some of their Kings thereby preparing them to patience not to resist to Gods ordinance but as he would have said Since God hath granted your importunate sute in giving you a King as ye have else committed an error in shaking off Gods yoke and over-hasty seeking of a King so beware ye fall not into the next in casting off also rashly that yoke which God at your earnest sute hath laid upon you how hard that ever it seem to be For as ye could not have obtained one without the permission and ordinance of God so may ye no more fro he be once set over you shake him off without the same warrant And therfore in time arme your selves with patience and humility since he that hath the only power to make him hath the only power to unmake him and ye only to obey bearing with these straits that I now fore-shew you as with the finger of God which lyeth not in you to take off And will ye consider the very words of the Text in order as they are set down it shall plainly declare the obedience that the people owe to their King in all respects First God commanded Samuel to do two things the one to grant the people their sute in giving them a King the other to forwarn them what some Kings wil do unto them that they may not thereafter in their grudging murmuring say when they shall feele the snares here forespoken We would never have had a King of God in case when we craved him he had let us know how we would have been used by him as now we find but over late And this is meant by these words Now therefore kearken unto their voyce howbeit yet testifie unto them and shew them the manner of the King that shall rule over them And next Samuel in execution of this commandement of God he likewiss doth two things First he declares unto them what points of Iustice and equity their King will break in his behaviour unto them And next he putteth them out of hope that weary as they will they shall not have leave to shake of that yoke which God through their importunity hath laid upon them The points of Equity that the King shall breake unto them are expressed in these words 11 He will take your sons and appoint them to his Charets and to be his hosemen and some shall run before his Charet 12 Also he will make them his Captaines over thousands and Captaines over fifties and to eare his ground and to reape his harvest and to make instruments of war and the things that serve for his Charets 13 He will also take your daughters and make them Apothecaries and Cookes and Bakers The points of Iustice that he shall break unto thē are expressed in these words 14 He will take your Fields and your Vineyardes and your best Olive-trees and give them to his servants 15 And he will take the tenth of your seed and of your Vineyards and give it to his Eunnches and to his servants And also the tenth of your sheep As if he would say The best and noblest of your bloud shall be compelled in lavish and servile offices to serve him And not content of his own patrimony wil make up a rent to his own use out of your best lands vineyards orchards store of cattell So as inverting the law of nature and office of a King your persons and the persons of your posterity together with your lands and all that ye possesse shall serve his private use and inordinate appetit And as unto the next point which is his forewarning them that weary as they will they shall not have leave to shake off the yoake which God through their importunity hath layd upon them it is expressed in these words 18 And yet shall cry out at that day because of your King whom yee have chosen you and the Lord will not heare you at that day As he would say When ye shall find these things in proof that now I sorewarn you of although you shall grudg and murmure yet it shall not be lawfull to you to cast it off in respect it is not only the ordinance of God bur also your selves have chosen him unto you thereby renouncing for ever all priiviledges by your willing consent out of your hands wherby in any time hereafter ye would claim and call back unto your selves again that power which God shal not permit you to do And for further taking away of al excuse and retraction of this their contract after their consent to underly this yoake with all the burthens that he hath declared unto them he craves their answer consent to his proposition which appeareth by their answer as it is expressed in these words 19 Nay but there shall be a King over us 20 And we also will be like all other nations and our King shall judge us and go out before us and fight our battels As if they would have said All your speechs and hard conditions shall not skar us but we will take the good and evill of it upon us and we will be content to bear whatsoever but then it shall please our King to lay upon us as well as other nations do And for the good we will get of him in fighting our battels we wil more patiently beare any burthen that shall please him to lay on us Now then since the erection of this Kingdom and Monarchy among the Iews and the law thereof may and ought to be a patern to all Christian and well founded Monarchies as being founded by God himself who by his Oracle and out of his owne mouth gave the law thereof what liberty can broyling spirits and rebellious minds claim justly to against any Christian Monarchy since they can claime to no greater liberty on their part nor the people of God might have done no greater tyranny was ever executed by any Prince or Tyrant whom they can object nor was here fore-warned to the people of God and yet all rebellion countermanded unto thē if tyrannizing over mens persons sons daughters and servants redacting noble houses and men and women of noble bloud to slavish and servile offices and extortion and spoile of their lands and goods to the Princes own private use and commodity and of his courteours and servants may be called a tyranny And that this proposition grounded upon the Scripture may the