Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	conscience_n	good_a	quiet_a	4,842	5	9.8994	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78285	The case stated touching the soveraign's prerogative and the peoples liberty, according to scripture, reason, and the consent of our ancestors. Humbly offered to the right honorable, General Monck, and the officers in the army.		1660 (1660)	Wing C1205; Thomason E1017_40; ESTC R208218	3,658	8

The Case stated Touching the SOVERAIGN'S PREROGATIVE AND THE Peoples Liberty According to Scripture Reason and the Consent of our Ancestors Humbly offered to the Right Honorable GENERAL MONCK And the OFFICERS in the ARMY Regi qui perfidus nulli fidus London Printed for Charles King 1660. The CASE stated Touching the SOVEREIGNS PREROGATIVE AND The Subjects Liberty TO plead precisely for the Soveraigns Prerogative is very necessary to be acquainted with the Subjects Liberty for otherwise like the counterfeit Mother the Child should be divided but not aright by which means I should incur the hazard of every Extreme and in stead of being free carried with a kinde of violence which would operate improperly therefore a sound and well-ordered judgement which is ever deliberate can never be conversant in such Extremes but is ever free to gives its true weight and measure to all Proceedings What barbarous Cruelties irreligious Policies and merciless Practises the late Rebellion hath brought forth I shall leave to others to discover whose distractions are fewer my present storm and Tempest of Misfortune having continued so long time that quocunque aspicio nihil est nisi pontus aer Yet because I infinitely dislike to be less than what a Subject ought to be and am a real lover of my Countrey and would have the Laws established and put in execution I will render to Caesar his due in opposition to the great disturbers of the true Peace and Tranquility of the Kingdom perswading my self I shall at one instant make two sorts of people glad In the first place it behoves the Subject to take notice That the Kings Authority is Jure Divino he is set over us by God himself he hath not his Reign or Crown by our favour for sayes God By me Kings Reign it is plainly not by us Yea by me Princes decree Justice and yet for all that some men will have a Court of Justice upon Earth above him though in that case the Scripture is plain and positive That were he never so wicked he is not to be dealt withall according to his deservings Jeremy 27.5 6 c. Where you may see how strictly God commands this proud Tyrant to be honoured for no other cause but because He had given him his Kingdom he obtained it therefore by Divine Decree which is is unlawful to violate the worst having been Established by the same Decree that the best Kings are To whomsoever the Kingdom is devolved he is certainly to be obeyed and as soon as he is advanced to Kingly Dignity God therein testifies he would have them Reign Behold the Israelites spoil'd of their Goods Houses and whatsoever was dear and near unto them led away into Exile not Exiling their Prince and miserable Bondage yet commanded by God himself to pray for the Conqueror not as we ought to pray for our Enemies but that the Kingdom may remain in Peace and Tranquility that they also might live prosperously under him Doubtless therefore the Duty of Subjects towards their King is not onely to speak honorably of him but to live and die for their King although the disobedience of Supreme Rebels have taught the inferior Juglings Impostures and meer Delusions The King is the Head of the People there is a Sacred and near relation betwixt them a disease or pain in the Head causeth a Dyscracy in the whole Body an Indisposition throughout the whole Members so that the Calamities of a King affect every honest man in his Kingdom Ammon was a most wicked and idolatrous Prince yet God punished the Treason of his Servants against him 2 Kings 21. Saint Ambrose unto Valentinian sayes Princeps Legibus solutus That the King is free from the power of the Law is a Maxime as old as Christianity that is from the penalties of it Laws have onely a Directive no Coercive Power over him Though not as a Moral man yet in his Politick Considerations he is above the Law Divino sunt judicio reservandi Reges Kings stand or fall unto their own Master GOD Satis est ad poenam quod Deum habeamus ultorem It is sufficient that God will punish their Crimes he is the onely Judge See the Spirit of David against Saul he refers his injuries to be remedied by the high Court of Justice 1 Samuel 24.12 How is the Happiness of a Kingdom twisted with the welfare of a Religious King How close doth the Ruine of a People follow the losse of a pious Prince A good King is a Rampire and Security unto his Kingdom that being slighted the destruction is easily undertaken Foelices nimium bon● si sua norint But who so apt to undermine these their own Fortifications as the People themselves A King in his Kingdom is Sole Deo minor and therefore above his Subjects Kings are Nursing Fathers Queens are Nursing Mothers the onely righteous Justicers Protectors and Conservators of our Liberty and Safety Does not Paul and shall others think themselves wiser bid the people obey Nero the bloody Tyrant for Conscience sake an Idolatrous Persecutor as the King of Babel was so that Preces lachrymae sunt arma Ecclesiae not to put him to death not to try him Judicially the whole Scripture affording no instance or example for such Actions but the contrary Princes are like the Bond of Wedlock once make them the Fathers of our Countrey and we take them for better for worse We may perswade them we cannot compel them without breach of Divine Precepts once let them be the Lords Anointed and it is Sacriledge to touch them I mean unfittingly The Common People made Caesars but being once made it was utterly our of their power to unmake them again nothing could do it but Death And if a King should break an Oath made by him to his People for a right governing according to his Laws yet under favour his breach quitteth not his Subjects of their Allegiance And if this stand not for a Truth for my part I do not know by what Principle any man can walk for destroy but this Foundation and then your Anti-governists will alwayes finde starting holes upon the least discontent to shake off that Yoke which is undoubtedly laid upon every Subject as a necessary Tye of their Obedience and Loyalty to their Soveraign and that even as they tender the peace and quiet of a good Conscience For though God permitted the people to work Treason against King Amaziah because it is there exprest He turned away from the Lord his God yet I trust no man can deny but that it was Treason still in the People So that Princes though they be Nero's and Caligula's are not to be rebelled against neither by the Real Sword nor by the Metaphorical one the Tongue that is neither by Speech nor Action It is not for nought that the Apostle doth so inseparably knit those two together Fear God Honour the King as if he should have said None can give that