Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	government_n	king_n	monarchy_n	2,757	5	9.5091	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50887	Brief notes upon a late sermon, titl'd, The fear of God and the King preach'd, and since publish'd by Matthew Griffith ... wherin many notorious wrestings of Scripture, and other falsities are observed / by J.M.	Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1660 (1660)	Wing M2097; ESTC R82	7,043	16

were lawfull for them to fly from thir charge upon pretence of privat safety it was much more lawfull for these to sit and act in thir trust what was necessary for public By a Law therefor of Parlament and of a Parlament that conquerd both Ireland Scotland all thir enemies in England defended thir friends were generally acknowledgd for a Parlament both at home abroad kingship was abolishd this Law now of late hath bin negatively repeald yet Kingship not positively restor'd and I suppose never was establishd by any certain Law in this Land nor possibly could be for how could our forefathers binde us to any certain form of Government more then we can binde our posteritie If a people be put to warre with thir King for his misgovernment and overcome him the power is then undoubtedly in thir own hands how they will be governd The warr was granted just by the King himself at the beginning of his last treatie and still maintaind to be so by this last Parlament as appears by the qualification prescrib'd to the members of this next ensuing That none shall be elected who have born arms against the Parlament since 1641. If the warr were just the conquest was also just by the Law of Nations And he who was the chief enemie in all right ceasd to be the King especially after captivitie by the deciding verdit of warr and royaltie with all her Laws and pretentions yet remains in the victors power together with the choice of our future Government Free Commonwealths have bin ever counted firtest and properest for civil vertuous and industrious Nations abounding with prudent men worthie to govern monarchie fittest to curb degenerate corrupt idle proud luxurious people If we desire to be of the former nothing better for us nothing nobler then a free Commonwealth if we will needs condemn our selves to be of the latter desparing of our own vertue industrie and the number of our able men we may then conscious of our own unworthiness to be governd better sadly betake us to our befitting thraldom yet chusing out of our own number one who hath best aided the people and best merited against tyrannie the space of a raign or two we may chance to live happily anough or tolerably But that a victorious people should give up themselves again to the vanquishd was never yet heard of seems rather void of all reason and good policie and will in all probabilitie subject the subduers to the subdu'd will expose to revenge to beggarie to ruin and perpetual bondage the victors under the vanquishd then which what can be more unworthie From misinterpreting our Law you return to do again the same with Scripture and would prove the supremacy of English Kings from 1 Pet. 2. 13. as if that were the Apostles work wherin if he saith that the king is supreme he speaks so of him but as an ordinance of man and in respect of those Governours that are sent by him not in respect of Parlaments which by the Law of this Land are his bridle in vain his bridle if not also his rider and therefor hath not only coordination with him which you falsly call seditious but hath superioritie above him and that neither against religion nor right reason no nor against Common Law for our Kings reignd only by Law but the Parlament is above all positive Law whether civil or common makes or unmakes them both still the latter Parlament above the former above all the former Lawgivers then certainly above all precedent Laws entaild the Crown on whom it pleasd and as a great Lawyer saith is so transcendent and absolute that it cannot be consin'd either for causes or persons within any bounds But your cry is no Parlament without a King If this be so we have never had lawfull Kings who have all bin created Kings either by such Parlaments or by conquest if by such Parlaments they are in your allowance none if by conquest that conquest We have now conquerd So that as well by your own assertion as by ours there can at present be no King And how could that person be absolutely supreme who reignd not under Law only but under oath of his good demeanour given to the people at his coronation ere the people gave him his Crown and his principal oath was to maintain those Laws which the people should chuse If then the Law it self much more he who was but the keeper and minister of Law was in thir choice and both he subordinat to the performance of his duty sworn and our sworn allegiance in order only to his performance You fall next on the Consistorian Schismatics for so you call Presbyterians page 40 and judge them to have enervated the Kings Supremacie by thir opinions and practice differing in many things only in terms from Poperie though some of those principles which you there cite concerning Kingship are to be read in Aristotles Politics long ere Popery was thought on The Presbyterians therefor it concerns to be well forewarnd of you betimes and to them I leave you As for your examples of seditious men page 54 c. Cora Absalom Zimri Sheba to these you might with much more reason have added your own name who blow the Trumpet of sedition from your Pulpit against the present Government in reward wherof they have sent you by this time as I hear to your own place for preching open sedition while you would seem to preach against it As for your appendix annext of the Samaritan reviv'd finding it so foul a libell against all the well-affected of this land since the very time of Ship-money against the whole Parlament both Lords and Commons except those that fled to Oxford against the whole reformed Church not only in England and Scotland but all over Europ in comparison wherof you and your Prelatical partie are more truly schismatics and sectarians nay more properly fanatics in your fanes and guilded temples then those whom you revile by those names and meeting with no more Scripture or solid reason in your Samaritane wine and oyle then hath already bin found sophisticated and adulterate I leave your malignant narrative as needing no other confutation then the just censure already pass'd upon you by the Councel of State