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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	tyrant_n	2,833	5	9.5249	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05078	A true and exact copy of a prodigious and traiterous libel, affixt upon the church-door of Kettle, in Fife, the third of this instant, being Easter-day; / written and subscribed by James Russel, one of those bloody and sacrilegious murtherers of the late Lord Primate of Scotland, His Grace.	Russell, James, of Kettle.	1681 (1681)	Wing R2341; ESTC R182896	6,970	12

A True and Exact COPY OF A PRODIGIOUS and TRAITEROUS LIBEL Affixt upon the Church-door of Kettle in Fife the third of this instant being Easter-day written and subscribed by James Russel one of those bloody and Sacrilegious Murtherers of the late Lord Primate of Scotland his Grace Published by Authority for the satisfaction and information of all His Majesties Loyal and dutiful Subjects EDINBVRGH Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to His Most Sacred Majesty Anno Dom. 1681. Edinburgh eighteenth day of April 1681. VEra Copia collationed with the Original all written and signed by this execrable Murtherer his own Hand which is kept amongst the Records of His Majesties Privy Council and attested by WILL PATERSON Cl. Sti. Concilij and PAT MENZIES Cl. Sti. Concilij A True and Exact COPY OF A PRODIGIOUS and TRAITEROUS LIBEL Affixt upon the Church-door of Kettle in Fife c. BE it kend to all men That whereas these who were once lawful Magistrats and Rulers and were exercising their power in opposition to all the Enemies of God and were a terrour to allevil doers are now become Tyrants and Land judgements and Murderers of all these who departs from iniquity and who are jeoparding their lives every day for maintaining and promoving of the Gospel of Christ and the true Presbyterian Government which the three Kingdoms swore oftner nor once or twice to maintain with their lives and liberties which Oaths they have all now broken and have taken new Oaths contrair to the word of God in opposition to their former Oaths and Ingagements by the which doing they have overturned the whole Government Civil and Ecclesiastick and having made butcheries and havock of all the truly Godly and Loyal and true Subjects of the Land and raised such Persecution that I was forced to flee the Country and I hearing tell that my Mother and others who medled with my Affairs were still paying the Few Duty which properly belongs to the Crown of Scotland and Sess which that Tyrant causes uplift for the bearing down the Gospel of Christ and for maintaining these Butcherers Troopers and Souldiers and was paying that Teind which properly belongs to the Ministers of the Gospel of Christ to Mr. John Barkley who is both a thief and a robber by the paying of which they acknowledge Charles Stewart to be a lawful Magistrate and Mr. John Barkley to be a Minister of Jesus Christ which is blasphemy to say as I shall prove afterwards and after several times writing to my Mother and some others who pretended kindness to me shewing the great sin that we were involved in by owning any of these Tyrants any manner of way and earnestly desiring her to forbear and not to own them any manner of way directly or indirectly but rather to suffer the outmost of hazard than to sin against God by strengthning the hands of the stated and avowed enemies of our Lord Jesus Christ who is King and alone Head of his Church but my writing being to no purpose and I being convinced of the greatness of this sin and the heinous aggravations thereof and the Judgements that would follow if repentance prevented not and being exercised for a long time about what way to take for exoneration of my conscience before God and the World and a testimony against all others who does go on in that sin the clear conviction of the indispensibleness of this my duty I have now resolved through the grace of God be the outward hazard whatsomever to write thir two or three Lines and cause put it on the Kirk-door of Kettle being the most publick place as my testimony against all the wrongs and injuries done to my sweet Lord Jesus Christ As I do own and declare before God and the World that Magistracie is an ordinance of God so I disown and declare that Tyranny is not of God and so in opposition to God and so against God and therefore cannot be of God and Charles Stewart being once made King of Scotland upon condition that he should keep these Covenants and rule according to these Covenants and the Covenants being the Coronation Oath which Oath he has broken and caused burn these Covenants which was the contract and Covenant betwixt him and the people by the hands of the Hangman by the burning of which Covenant he has forfaulted his right of the Crown and Kingdom of Scotland and is no more a King but is become a Tyrant therefore the people is loosed from all obligations and ties as to him Buchannan acknowledges and sayes When the King breaks the Contract and Covenant that was betwixt Him and the people and doth contrair to that He covenanted to do whatever Right or Privileage did belong to Him by that Agreement Covenant is then lost Likewise he saith When a King does those things which are directly for the dissolution of Society for the continuance whereof He was created He is a Tyrant Other Loyalists acknowledge and say When a King overturns one of the Fundamental Laws He is no more a King but a Tyrant 2. They say When a supream Magistrate maketh use of a● absolute power and so breaketh all Bonds for the good of the main Society He is a Tyrant 3. They say When He taketh from one or more members of the Common-wealth free exercise of the Orthodox Clergie or Religion He is a Tyrant 4. They say When a King doth not defend His Subjects from injuries when he may but suffereth them to be oppressed He is no more a King but a Tyrant And much more when he oppresses them and murders them himself as Charles Stewart does 5. They say VVhen a King oppresses the Subjects by immoderate exactions and hindereth the free suffrages of Members of Parliament so that they dare not speak what they would He is a Tyrant 6. They say When He taketh away from the people all power to resist His Tyrany as Arms Strengths and chief men though innocent he persecuteth and exhausts their goods without right or reason He is a Tyrant 7. They say When a Magistrate for corrupting of youth erects Stage playes Whore-houses and other Play-houses and suffers the Colledges and other Seminaries of Learning to be corrupted they are unfit for any Office therefore He must be a Tyrant Prov. 6.13 Righteous lips are the delight of Kings and they love him that speaketh right therefore Charles Stewart cannot be a King because the unrighteous lips are his delight and he loveth all them that doeth evil and speaketh against the truth and therefore he must be a Tyrant and seing that the least of all these forenamed particulars makes a King a Tyrant surely without debate Charles Stewart must be one of the Monstruous and wildest of Tyrants for he is guilty of all these and has overturned the whole Fundamental Laws of the Land by that Act rescissory and has set up Lustful and Tyrannical Laws of his own in opposition to the Laws of God and the