Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	ordinance_n	power_n	resist_v	2,543	5	10.0817	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68830	St. Pauls threefold cord vvherewith are severally combined, the mutuall oeconomicall duties, betwixt husband. wife. parent. childe. master. servant. By Daniel Touteville Pr. to the Charterhouse.	D. T. (Daniel Tuvill), d. 1660.	1635 (1635)	STC 24396.5; ESTC S101650	102,232	490

brings them afterwards to full maturity It is the Oceans yeelding to the Moone which occasioneth her daily ebbes and flowes without which motion the waters thereof would quickly putrifie and with their stench poyson the creatures In a word there is no maintayning of any politicke society without this vertue Rule and subjection saith the Philosopher are things not onely profitable but likewise absolutely necessarie When the people will not obey the Prince when the Mariner will not listen to the master when the Souldier will not follow the directions of his Leader what can follow but confusion In the beginning GOD established a superiority among all the workes of his Hands after their severall kindes Hee made two great Lights the one to rule the day the lesser to rule the night and afterwards when hee had created man he did invest him presently into imperiall authority To subdue the earth and to r●le over the Fishes of the Sea Gen. 1. and over the Foules Bees have their Soveraigne little Ants are not without their Discipline In a word wee reade of an Hoste in heaven and why is it so called but because there are orders and degrees therein which being withdrawne from an Army it can have no setled composition There must bee then a Masterie and dominion specially designed to say Ho● puto non iustum est illud malè rectius istud This is not right that is evill the other is better This is the Soder by which the severall parts and Members of a Common-weale are all united and combined together 'T is the very life-breath of every Creature which if the Spirit and Soule of government were taken from them were like to prove nothing but a burden to themselves a booty to their enemies Maximilian the Emperour comparing the Kings of France and Spaine together with himselfe said wittily and merrily that the King of Spaine was Rex hominum a King of Men because he used them ingenuously and liberally The King of France Rex Asinorum a King of Asses by reason of the many burdens and taxations which he laid upon his people Himselfe Rex Regum a King of Kings because all that were under him would doe but what they pleased themselves The best is Rex Subditorum a King of Subjects And whosoever shall shake from off their necks this yoke they provide but ill for their owne good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Obedience is the mother of all happinesse saith the ancient adage and surely he that followes her shall shew a noble and a generous minde Facile imperium in bonos pessimus quisque asperrime rectorem patitur Good men are easily govern'd only the base and refractary spirit will admit no reines Let the lawlesse Anabaptist therefore together with the ambitious Romanist cry out in Church and Common-weale against the Gods and Christs of the Earth as sometimes did those cursed Vipers among the Heathen against the anointed Sonne of GOD Let us breake their bonds in sunder Psal 2. and cast their cords from us We must know yet that there is no Power but of God and hee that resisteth the Powers that bee hee resisteth the ordinance of God The Lord is King be the earth never so impatient Promotion commeth not either from the East or from the West or from the South but wholly from the Lord. By him Kingdomes are disposed Princes inaugurated Scepters and States established By Him were Corah Dathan and Abiram with their Confederates sent downe alive into the darker bowels of the earth by him was Zimri burnt in his Pallace Achitophel hanged in a halter and Absalom by his owne haire all for denying their duteous fealtie to those whom hee had constituted and appointed over them as his Vicegerents And thus much concerning subjection in generall The particular followeth Wiues be subiect This subjection of the Wife unto her Husband consisteth principally in three things The first is an internall Act of the heart as when the Wife notwithstanding shee come of a nobler house and have brought with her a a greater portion than she found and know herselfe to be of a more able understanding than her husband she doth yet in her minde acknowledge him to be her head counting herselfe every way inferiour unto him in that she is his wife This humbling of the heart is the fountaine of all externall subjection And when it floweth not from hence 't is eyther constrain'd or counterfeit For the avoyding of this St. Paul would have the wife to feare her husband Eph. 5.33 Now this may bee expressed divers kinds of waies 1. By giving him reverend and respective titles So Sarah obeyed Abraham and cal'd him Lord Non blandiendi con uetudine sed hujus subjectio is testificandae voluntate Not out of any soothing custome but out of a serviceable conscience And her daughters ye are 1 Pet. 3.6 saith the Apostle while ye doe well not being compelled thereto by any terror 2. It may be exprest by living without suspition and making ever the best interpretation of his doubtfull actions Michol fayld in this when so presumptuously she taunted David for dancing before the Arke of God in presence of the mayds of Israel 3. A woman may shew a feare towards her husband by striving to walke continually under the lee of his anger making her eye rather a Bucket to quench the fire than her breath a Bellowes to kindle it 2. This subjection of a wife towards her husband consisteth in a desire to conforme her will her words her workes as neere as she can in things lawfull and indifferent to those of her husband For likenesse in manners argues a likenesse in minde and there is no affectation of similitude but where there is some similitude of Affection This I confesse is a hard taske but the more painefull the more praisefull It is hard because all are addicted to love their owne waies to like of their owne humours and distaste the contrary Oderunt hilares tristem Hor. Epist 18. lib. 1. tristemque jocosi sayth the Poet Mirth will not willingly come into the house of mourning nor mourning into the house of mirth Lamenting Niobe will sit alone and Rahel weeping for her children will not be comforted 'T is a laborious thing therefore for any to strip themselves of their owne disposition and put on an others 'T is requisite yet for a wife to doe it that which above all must bee commended in her For as a looking-glasse though it bee curiously wrought and richly garnished with sundry sorts of gemmes is nothing esteemed as it is a glasse unlesse it reflect the true resemblance of them that looke therein So let a woman be never so rich never so faire never so comely never so qualifyed she is not to be valued as a wife if she be not conformable to the inclination of her husband She that is married sayth the Apostle careth how she may please her husband The word in the