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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	king_n	people_n	tyranny_n	2,786	5	9.5807	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93714	Certain weighty considerations humbly tendered and submitted to the consideration of such of the members of the High Court of Justice for tryal of the King, as they shall be presented unto. There being onely one hundred of the copies appointed to be printed for that purpose By Josuah Sprigge.	Sprigg, Joshua, 1618-1684.	1649 (1649)	Wing S5071; Thomason E540_13; ESTC R203649	8,196	15

and issuing from one fountain even the Lord that we are his image and glory in all this variety and subordination of States and that all these are not so in themselves but that they are in each other as they are all in unity in their Original For certainly whatever unlikelihood and disappearance of this there is in what we have known of these subordinations as they have subsisted and acted in this dark corrupt and fleshly state yet I have so much faith to beleeve yea in the light of the thing I see it in God That King and People do subsist and have a glorious interest in each other and that it shall appear when the Creation that is now in pain is delivered that all the Majesty that dwels in the person of a King it is indeed the Peoples and all the peace and flourishing of a People it is the Kings and they shall possesse and be possessed each of other The King shall not have an envious eye against his people nor the people against the King each shall be satisfied with their own and each shall rejoyce in the others wealth The people shall cast glory upon their King and Kings shall throw love and riches upon their People and each shall think while the other hath it himself hath it and that they have not the lesse for the others having much Thus it is between the Lord and his Christ thus it is between Christ and his Church and thus shall it be between Kings and their People We have seen and convers'd with these Relations only in their weakness and so cannot beleeve this of them But the Lord hath a portion in these things He made them not in vain they shall be restored The Creature yea this Creature Magistracy or Polity shall be delivered into the glorious liberty of the sons of God and sure the day of its Redemption draws nigh For the Lord hath thrown it into the Furnace and the flames are hot about it Fire hath come out of Abimelech to consume the men of Sechem and fire is 〈◊〉 out of Sechem to destroy Abimelech And under this notion I confesse do I look upon this Tryall of the King and so I can freely acknowledge as the righteous Award and Judgement of the Lord under whose mighty hand we have suffered all these Wars For who gave Jacob to the spoil and Israel to the robbers did not the Lord against whom they had sinned But the end of the Lords judging is purifying not destroying and if the Lord have pleasure in you He may make you not only Tormentors but Judges he may bring you forth to act in the light and to be Instruments in the hand of God of that judgement upon the King that shall be saving even to pull him as a firebrand out of the fire of Tyranny over his people which hath throwen him into this fire of the wrath of his people For a Judge is not sufficiently accomplisht and instructed for his Office if he have not a power to release as well as to condemne to save as well as to destroy as Pilate could say to our Saviour Have not I power to Crucifie thee and power to release thee Otherwise ye answer not your Originall patterne the Lord who where there are two parts as flesh and spirit proceeds with that distinction as that while his left hand brings destruction to the flesh his right hand carries salvation to the spirit And if the day of the Lord be risen upon you and he have made you able to judge and discerne the hidden principles of things ye will exercise this discret●on between the lawfull Authority invested in the Person of the King and his unlawfull usurpation ye will damne this and save the other bringing it forth from all its drosse and flesh that hath made it not onely unprofitable but hurtfull as a vessell for the finer So shall ye be Repairers of our breaches indeed and Restorers of paths to dwell in And if ye doe this the Sword whereby ye must doe it is the Sword of Christs mouth The Spirit of the Lord If this Spirit have brought forth the Person of our Lord Jesus in you who is the true pattern of Government and of all things doe ye bring forth this pattern in your judgement Arraigne the King not at the barr of man but at the tribunall of Jesus Christ shew for who but a King can judge a King what the Spirit and the Government of Christ in union with Man is and compare the King and his government by this patterne in the mount and shew him his failings his narrownesse of Spirit and principle not comprehending his people in himselfe as Christ does not living in their wealth and prosperity as his owne as Christ does not bearing wi●h their weaknesses as Christ does not emptying himselfe to make them rich and happy as Christ does and save the King a labour of recriminating you confesse to him you have beene in the darke too and not seeing the person a●d majesty of the Lord in him ye have not been in such a naturall and affectionate complyance with his honour and grea●nesse as the Memb●rs are with the Head But if ye are not able so to deale wi●h him Th●n turne him over to those that can and to ●he justice and mercy of the Nation and heare what that will speake for him And in behalfe of the life of the King we alleadge That this warr that h●th been upon us was by the judgement of the Lord the Lord did bid the Sword devour and Eate flesh A Kingdome is not so easily nor ordinarily set on flame by Civill Waris without the speciall hand of God the Causes are long a working and the matter was long a gathering If the Lord had not sent an evill Spirit universally among us it was not the Exorbitancy of the will of one man as ye say the King is that could have throwen us into these fl●mes The Lord used the King as an Instrument of his wrath towards us and us as Instruments to powre wrath upon him 2 That in the procuring this wrath had our share with the King wee was overcome of this evill Hee could have brought no evill upon us had not we had it in us Vnder the weight of our flesh aswell as his own did his Government groan and bow down the Kingdome and its policy neither King nor People stood in the Lord in that Union and glory in Spirit and so fell and withered was gathered and burnt Therefore now it concerns both him and us to humble our selves under the mighty hand of God till he exalt us in his due time and not to seek satisfaction on one another other then by being examples to each other of a better carriage grounded on a better principle and union for the future If we will doe justice as indeed we must and take revenge it must be on that King of Babylon that dark deviding principle that is