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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
A70226	A word to the wavering, or, An answer to the enquiry into the present state of affairs whether we owe allegiance to the King in these circumstances? &c. : with a postscript of subjection to the higher powers / by G.B.	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1689 (1689)	Wing H1878A; ESTC R11270	7,455	12

A WORD TO THE WAVERING OR AN ANSWER TO THE ENQUIRY INTO THE Present State of Affairs Whether we owe Allegiance to the KING in these Circumstances c. VVith a Postscript of Subjection to the Higher Powers by Dr. G. B LONDON Printed in the Year MDCLXXXIX A WORD TO THE Wavering c. 'T is said Page 3. Wheresoever Protection fails wholly Allegiance falls with it THE whole Nation almost did not think so when they own'd King Charles the Second in his Exile when his Protection failed them and yet they very Dutifully and Religiously as well as Loyally and Unanimously brought him in in 1660. and did what they could possibly for him by their Pens and Purses in his Absence And the whole People of Israel and Judah did not think their Allegiance cancell'd because King David's Protection over them was disabled but strove who should be the forwardest to bring him back 2 Sam. 19. 42. And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel Because the King is near of kin to us wherefore then be you angry for this matter have we eaten at all of the King's cost or hath he given us any gift nay to accommodate the Case to the Objection Was he so much as able to protect us Yet the men of Israel answered the men of Judah Ver. 43. We have ten parts in the King and we have also more right in David than ye why then did ye despise us that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our King What more evident then that their Allegiance did not fall with David's ability to protect them seeing they profess no Self-interest in the case no Gift c. but only the Allegation of Birth Family and Kindred or the like Again Pag. 3. Service and Obedience are without doubt absolved when a Father ceases to be a Father by becoming an Enemy That the Father of our Country is not become an Enemy shall be made out hereafter But if a Father or a Prince becomes an Enemy yet Service and Obedience are still due to them in as much as the Vices of the Fathers cannot affect the Duty of the Children C ham got a Curse for discovering his Father's Nakedness while Shem and Japheth got a Blessing by covering it Why should Cham be cursed if Noah's Drunkenness had cancell'd his Son's Respect and Duty And I believe his Majesty's Children abhor the thoughts of but supposing their Duty to their Natural Parent and Soveraign at present waved or extinguished lest upon the breach of the Fifth Commandment of not honouring their Father c. their days should not be long in the Land besides the Considerations of Eternity Pag. 4. The first 7 Verses of the 13th Chapter to the Romans are set down in which the Duty of the Magistrate as well as the Obedience of the Subject are set forth and so mixt together as that our Author thence concludes upon the total failing of the one the other does likewise cease But first does this hold on both Sides Then if Rebels and Traytors have totally failed their Duty of Allegiance the Magistrate is not to do his not to try judg nor condemn nor see them executed Is that it which you would be at Why then do you blame the King for going away from that his Duty But thus much only to shew the Weakness of your Reasoning As to the Text St. Paul meant it primarily and literally of Nero the worst of Men and Princes who was so very far from doing his Duty or protecting our Religion that he was a grievous Tyrant and a mighty Terror to good Works and yet the Apostle commands all without exception to be subject to him not because he was a good Governour for that he was not but because he was one of the Higher Powers and because he had received that Power not from any mutual Compact of the People but only from God whose Vicegerent he was though never so bad since there is no Argument ever yet able to shake that Assertion That there is no Power but of God and the Powers that be are ordained of him Whosoever therefore resisteth not the Vice and Wickedness of the Man but the Power and Ordinance of God lodged in that Man shall receive to themselves Damnation from which good Lord deliver us all As Nero was the worst so Saul was none of the best of Princes and yet David stiles him 1 Sam. 24. 8. My Lord the King and owns him his Soveraign because he was the Lord's Anointed Ver. 10. and this not out of Flattery and Courtship but Loyalty and Duty for he had been far from a Saint after God's own Heart if even upon any Occasion he had let himself loose to speak evil of Dignities To Nero and Saul I will add a third and that is Pilate whose Power Christ owned to have been from above Joh. 19. 11. and therefore submitted to it even to the Death though there was no Law of the Romans by which he could be put to Death Joh. 18. 31 38. and when he suffered he threatned not but committed himself not to Arms and Revenge but to him that judgeth Righteously thereby leaving us an Example that we should follow his steps And accordingly all the primitive and succeeding Christians fought the Battles of all their Pagan Emperors and Tyranical Persecutors without Resistance or ever aiding the Armies of the Rebels Tertullian glories that when Possenius Nigar in Syria and Clodius Albinus in France and Britany rebelled against Septimius Severus that bloody and cruel Emperor and pretended Piety and publick Good yet that none of the Christians joyned with either And the noble Thebaean Legion in the 18. of Dioclesian are most eminently Famous for laying down 6666 Lives at the command of the Emperor Maximinian when they could easily have saved them if they could have imagined that the Protection of the Magistrate failing it was Lawful for the Subject to withdraw his Obedience This is visible throughout all Ages and Places of the Christian Church and has been ever most eminently the constant Doctrine and Practice of this Church of England in her Articles Constitutions and Behaviours however some that have been willing to rejoyce in Iniquity have imagined some Occasion of triumph in Respect of some Persons and Things which perhaps they do not fully understand But there is too much behind Pag. 4. The King's Zeal for his Religion never pushed him beyond the Measures of a pious and just Prince If he attempted any thing that has appeared since Illegal it was against his Will having had the Judgment and Decision of all or most of the Judges and many other Protestant Counsellors Learned in the Law upon their Oaths and Consciences That what they put him upon was so far from Subverting the Establishment of our Religion and Laws that he thought he did no more than his Royal Predecessors had done and particularly Queen Elizabeth and King James by their Legal and Acknowledged