Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

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
A37464	The works of the Right Honourable Henry, late L. Delamer and Earl of Warrington containing His Lordships advice to his children, several speeches in Parliament, &c. : with many other occasional discourses on the affairs of the two last reigns / being original manuscripts written with His Lordships own hand.; Works. 1694	Warrington, Henry Booth, Earl of, 1652-1694.	1694 (1694)	Wing D873; ESTC R12531	239,091	488

at this time to forbear their Meetings at least to be so moderate in their Numbers that it may appear they do not glory in their Multitudes and by this Moderation I hope they may induce others to have a better opinion of them and instead of taking them to be Men who practice against the Government they may be found to be Men of Peace and of a good Conscience and to be ready to stand by the Government against the Papists and all other Enemies and then the Government in due time may be prevailed upon to pass a Law for the uniting of Protestants A DSICOURSE Proving the Reasonableness OF THE Present REVOLUTION From the Nature of Government THat our Religion and Civil Rights were upon the Brink of Destruction I believe none doubts or is Displeased at our Deliverance except those who were Instrumental in bringing on our intended ruine or do wish for an Opportunity to finish it Ever since the Reformation the united Council of the whole Popish Interest has been at work to reduce this Nation to the Romish Yoak And first they attempted to do it by force but after many Trials they found that Method was ineffectual and that nothing could ruine England but it self and therefore all their Wits were imploy'd how they might set us at odds amongst our Selves that we might become our own Executioner And at last they carried their Design very far for it is not long since that we saw a sort of Men amongst us who were guilty of as much Folly as Solomon's foolish Woman that pulls down her House with her Hands and had so much ignorance or Villany as to pretend that all they did was for the Church and Government and tho' what they did was never so much against Law or void of Morality yet they termed every man disaffected who did not cry Amen to all their Proceedings and even most of the Clergy who might have been supposed to have had either more knowledge or Integrity Preach't up and justifyed in their Pulpits all the Irregularities that were then practiced with as much assurance and Zeal as if they had delivered the Oracles of God Whereas it was obvious to all Men of common Sense that the Consequence of these things must be to bring in Popery and Slavery for it was laid down as undoubted Doctrine That the King had a Natural Right to the Crown and That the King was not to be opposed in any case the sum of all which is That the King may commit all manner of Oppressions and we are bound to submit to it for Conscience sake which if sound Doctrine would make God Almighty unjust and the Author of Confusion contrary to what he has declared of himself in Holy Writ Perhaps not rightly understanding the true Nature of Government might occasion those Mistakes and I have that Charity for a great many that I do believe they were led out of the way for want of true Information in the Point and therefore for the rectifying of their Judgments and confirming of yours I will with your leave give my Thoughts in this Matter by which you will be the better able to Judge of the unreasonableness of those things that have been imposed upon us in point of our Duty to the Government Government in general and that there ought to be some sort of Government I take to be not only necessary but of Divine Right but the particular form is a Humane Ordinance and the Apostle is my Authority who has in express terms declared it to be such For all Forms are equal in themselves and that becomes preferable to the rest which best suits the Inclinations of the People in order to support the Common Good For had God liked any Model or Shape above the rest all the Governments under the Sun would have been of the same Form for in a thing of that absolute necessity he would not have left the World in the dark but either have expresly revealed it or discovered it to us by the light of Nature But we don't find in Holy Writ any such Intimation of his Pleasure nor has Nature yet inabled us to find it out For there never was nor is not is at this day any two Governments of the same shape but differ in some thing that is very Material and essential And if God had thought any one Form of Government to be better than the rest he would not have permitted that of the Israelites his peculiar People to have been altered but we find that the Model and Form of their Constitution was altered and changed no less than five times So that it is plain that God Almighty left every People the Jews excepted to frame such a constitution as well as to the measure of Power of those with whom they intrusted the Administration as of the Obedience of the Subjects whereby the publick Peace might be best preserved and that the reasonable and just extent of the Prerogative cannot be supposed to go further than what men in their wits and without constraint would judge was necessary to relieve the Subjects against the extremity of the Law in such Cases as could not be foreseen at the time the Government was agreed on and because in the two late Kings Reigns the Prerogative was advanced to an unreasonable height the better to accomplish the Work of Popery and Slavery I think I shall not mispend your time if I offer a few Words further upon this Point There is not any thing in our Law-Books to justify the stretching of the Prerogative so far but it is pretended that Authority is found for it in Scripture and if so the Word of God will justify that Oppression and Violence that our known Laws will not Countenance and then it will follow that the Law of God is not so just and equal as the Statutes and Ordinances of Men And without question it must be very extraordinary that the Bible should tell us any thing of our Government that is not to be found in our Statutes or Law Books I am perswaded that the Holy Scripture was never more wrested to serve a turn than of late it has been to maintain the Divine Right and absolute Power of Kings for which these Texts are chiefly insisted on By me Kings Reign Where the word of a King is there is Power and who may say unto him what doest thou Let every Soul be subject unto the higher Powers for there is no Power but of God The Powers that be are Ordained of God Whosoever therefore resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God And they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for Wrath but also for Conscience sake These and such like Texts of Scripture are to be taken in a limited Sence or else these two absurdities will follow First That God Almighty made the world for the satisfaction of the lust and pleasures of the Kings that are in the