Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	pray_v	prayer_n	supplication_n	1,875	5	11.3215	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67247	The antidote: or, a seasonable discourse on Rom. 13. 1 Shewing the necessity and reasonableness of subjection to the higher powers. With an account of the divine right or original of government. By John VValker, M.A.	Walker, John, 1650-1730.	1684 (1684)	Wing W392; ESTC R222266	59,633	307

them when He hath so liberally the Fleece This may with more reason and truth be expected from a necessitous Prince who to supply His wants is forced to use Arts and Stratagems to squeeze some full Spunges that He may not be quite drain'd and dried Himself and to extort that by Power and in an Arbitrary manner which Disloyalty and Undutifulness do rob and deprive Him of A strong and healthy Head in the political sence of it is always a sure indication and sign of a strong and healthy Body in that there is an immediate dependance and communication between the one and the other And when 't is otherwise in the natural and proper meaning of it 't is generally an undoubted symptom that both are disaffected the Body as well as the Head So that these men are as much out in their Physicks as Politicks 2. And as it is Unreasonable so is it Unchristian 'T is a Law of our Religion that we should pay unto Caesar his due of Tribute and less than what is sufficient to maintain His Crown and Dignity cannot be supposed to be His due And then if we do not give Him that but default from and pinch Him of it we act contrary to our Religion and Christianity We are to do our duty and leave the issue and event of things to God Let Him be never so bad Preces Lachrymae Prayers and Tears are all that we are to oppose against Him as I above inform'd you and most certain is it that Non sunt facienda mala ut eveniant bona We are not to do any unjust and evil thing in behalf of an undeniable and real good but when that we propose to our selves here is very uncertain and yet the sin and iniquity of our actings certain 'T is madness 't is presumption 't is the height of Impiety to abett and avow such wicked and irreligious courses and ways Add to this that we have had the woful experience how bad a sign of health a little Head is to the Body Politick or State how ill it secures the welfare and good of a Kingdom or People For when the Royal Martyr had with too great Condescentions too much lessened Himself did not some of the inferiour Members presently shoot up to a preternatural growth and bigness and as quickly draw away that juice and nourishment by which He should have been sustain'd Was not the Nation soon divided and in a tottering falling condition Were not Liberty and Property lost and the felicities of Peace exchang'd into a bloody War This was all the healthiness these Mens Policy procured us then I hope the Burn'd Child will dread the Fire Say then Supposing with them that Ship-money had been a publick Nusance and illegal had it not been better to have endur'd and undergone that than so many miseries and calamities that came rowling in upon us like a mighty torrent However it was not as illegal and unjustifiable as the Vote of Non-Addresses as making Laws and Ordinances without a King as erecting a High-Commission Court and Arraigning their Sovereign as cutting off His Head and plundering and sequestring whom they would without any truth of Law and Justice But it is always lawful 't is still just and Christian 't is still our duty to help and relieve the necessities and distresses of our lawful King and Governor even without forms of Law but never so to let both King and Kingdom fall and perish through our fears and jealousies our covetousness our pride and ambition This then is another duty we owe and are to pay unto them 4. The Fourth and last is our Prayers for Them And whether we consider Them in Their more private capacity as Men and Christians or in their more publick as Governors the reasonableness and necessity of this part of our duty will be very manifest and evident If as Men and Christians they generally and for the most part lye more open and exposed to the calamities and miseries incident to mankind to the assaults and batteries of the World the Flesh and the Devil than others whose greater privacy is a rampart and security against a great many temptations and dangers their more publick state and condition of Life renders them subject and obnoxious to They like the tall Cedars and high Turrets are sure to meet with every impetuous shock and blast of wind and foul weather when others as lower Trees and Structures by their being so escape their force and severity So that in this respect as They want greater strength and larger supplies of Grace to support and keep Them from falling so more prayers than their own and of these a greater proportion and measure answerable to their greater needs that by a kind of holy violence we may open the flood-gates of Heaven and derive the Divine Assistance Protection and Blessing upon Their Heads and Hearts Their Lives and Actions And this is no more than what our common Christianity suggests and a piece of Charity we owe unto the whole Race of Mankind Let him be Iew Infidel or Turk we are to pray for him It is that our Saviour enjoyns us as to our Enemies Pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you Mat. 5.44 And 't is St. Paul's Doctrine I exhort therefore that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men for Kings and all that are in authority for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour who will have all men to be sav'd and to come to the knowledge of the truth 1 Tim. 2.1 2 3 4. But if he be a Christian King one who hath submitted his Scepter to that of Christ and is partaker of the same Faith and Hope of Salvation then as we have new Reasons added to the former in as much as we are Members of the same mystical Body and so to be compassionate tender concern'd and careful for one anothers Good which is to be express'd as in other things so in an entercourse of Prayer one for another and the Apostle hath made it a necessary part of the Christian Armour Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all Saints so is the Obligation enhans'd and the Duty the more indispensable And this will yet farther appear to be the more so if we consider them as actually governing as those who have so great a People committed to their Charge and so wanting a greater and more excellent Spirit and Wisdom Judgement and Discretion Foresight and Prudence to assist direct and help them in all the great Affairs and Transactions of the Publick Now every good and every perfect gift being from above and coming down from the Father of Lights as St. Iames tells us and we are to ask to beg this wisdom and gift of God before we can have it and the effectual fervent prayers of