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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	ordinance_n	power_n	resist_v	4,907	5	10.4011	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04923	The appellation of Iohn Knoxe from the cruell and most iniust sentence pronounced against him by the false bishoppes and clergie of Scotland, with his supplication and exhortation to the nobilitie, estates, and co[m]munaltie of the same realme.	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.; Gilby, Anthony, ca. 1510-1585. An admonition to England and Scotland.; Kethe, William, d. 1608?	1558 (1558)	STC 15063; ESTC S106719	70,824	162

as this day be in controuersie and also that you by your auctoritie which ye haue of God compell such as of long tyme haue blynded and deceaued both your selues and the people to answer to such thinges as shalbe laide to theire charge But lest that somme dout remayne that I require more of you then you of conscience ar bound to graunt in few wordes I hope to proue my petitiō to be such as without Gods heauy displeasure ye can not deny My petition is that ye whome God hath apointed heades in your cōmune welth with single eye do studie to promote the glorie of God to prouide that your subiectes be rightly instructed in his true religiō that they be defended from all oppression and tirannie that true teachers may be maintained and such as blynde and deceaue the people togyther also with all idle bellies which do robbe and oppresse the flock may be remoued and punished as Gods Law prescribeth And to the perfurmance of euery one of these do your offices and Names The honours and benefites which ye receue the Law of God vniuersally geuen to all men and the examples of moste godlie Princes bynde and oblish you My purpose is not greatly to labour to proue that your hole studie oght to be to promote the glorie of God neither yet will I studie to alledge all reasons that iustly may be broght to proue that ye are not exalted to reigne aboue your brethrē as men without care and solicitude For these be principals so grafted in nature that verie Ethnicks haue confessed the same For seing that God only hath placed you in his chaire hath appointed you to be his lieutenantes and by his owne seall hath marked you to be Magistrats and to rule aboue your brethren to whom nature neuertheles hath made you lyke in all points for in conception birth life and death ye differ nothing from the commune sort of men but God only as said is hath promoted you and of his especial fauour hath geuen vnto you this prerogatiue to be called Gods how horrible ingratitude were it then that you should be founde vnfaithful to hym that thus hath honored you And further what a monster were it that you should be proued vnmerciful to them aboue whome ye are appointed to reigne as fathers aboue theyre children because I say that verie Ethnicks haue graunted that the cheefe and fyrst care of Prīces ād of such as be appointed to rule aboue others oght to be to promote the glorie and honour of theyr goddes and to maintaine that religion whiche they supposed to haue bene true And that theyre secōd care was to maintaine and defend the subiects committed to theyre charge in all aequitie and iustice I will not labour to shew vnto you what oght to be your studie in maītainyng Gods true honour lest that in so doing I should seme to make you lesse careful ouer Gods true religion then were the Ethnickes ouer theire idolatrie But because other petitions may appere more hard and difficile to be graunted I purpose brefely but yet freely to speak what God by his worde doth assure me to be true To wit ▪ fyrst that in conscience you are bounde to punysh malefactors and to defende innocents imploringe your helpe secondarely that God requireth of you to prouide that your subiects be rightly instructed in his true religion and that the same by you be reformed whensoeuer abuses do crepe in by malice of Satan and negligence of men and laste that ye are bounde to remoue from honour and to punish with death if the crime so require such as deceaue the people or defraude them of that foode of theyre soules I meane Gods liuely worde The fyrst and seconde are moste playne by the wordes of S. Paule thus speaking of lawfull powers Let euerie soule saieth he submit hym selfe vnto the hygher powers for there is no power but of god The powers that be are ordained of God Whosoeuer therefore resisteth power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receaue to them selues damnation For rulers ar not to be feared of those that do well but of those that do euill Wilt thou then be without fear of the power do that which is good and so shalt thou be praised of the same For he is the minister of God for thy welth But if thou do that which is euil fear For he beareth not the sworde for noght for he is the minister of God to take vengance on them that do euil As the Apostle in these wordes moste straytly commaundeth obedience to be geuen to lawfull powers pronouncing Gods wrathe and vengance against such as shall resist the ordonaunce of God so dothe he assigne to the powers theyre offices which to be take vengance vpon euil doers to maintaine the well doers and so to ministre and rule in theyre office that the subiectes by them may haue a benefite and be praised in well doing Now if you be powers ordeined by God and that I hope all men will graunte then by the plaine wordes of the Apostle is the sworde geuen vnto you by God for maintenance of the innocent and for punyshement of malefactors But I and my brethren with me accused do offre not only to proue our selues innocents in all thinges laid to our charge but also we offre most euidently to proue your Byshoppes to be the verie pestilence who haue infected all christianitie And therefore by the plaine doctrine of the Apostle you ar boūde to maintaine vs and to punysh the other being euidently cōuict and proued criminall Moreouer the former words of the Apostle do teach how far hie powers be bounde to theyre subiectes to wit that because they are Gods ministers by hym ordained for the profitt and vtilitie of others moste diligently oght they to intēd vpon the same For that cause assigneth the holie Ghost commaunding subiectes to obey and to pay tribute saing For this do you pay tribute and tole That is because they are Gods ministers bearing the sworde for your vtilitie Wherof it is plaine that there is no honour without a charge annexed And this one point I wishe your wisdomes dipely to consider that God hath not placed you aboue your brethren to reigne as tyrantes without respect of theyre profitt and commoditie You heare the holie Ghost witnesse the contrarie affirmyng that all lawfull powers be Gods ministers ordened for the welth profitt and saluatiō of their subiectes and not for theyre destructiō Could it be said I besech you that Magistrates inclosing theyre subiects in a citie without all victuales or geuing vnto them no other victuales but such as were poisoned did rule for the profitt of theyr subiet●es I trust that none would be so foolishe as so to affirme but that rather euerie discrete person would boldly affirme that such as so did were tyrantes vnworthie of all regiment Yf we will not deny that whiche Christ Iesus affirmeth