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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
A46960	Reflections on the History of passive obedience by Samuel Johnson.	Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.	1689 (1689)	Wing J838; ESTC R2473	7,933	12

since I have known the Pacquet of Advice to the Men of Shaftsbury to have been one of those Orders I can see nothing more which looks with any Face of a Publick Authority unless it be the Censures of our Universities but every Body knows what cheap things those are and that an Oxford Decree is nothing else but a Cambridg Address As for the Martyrs and Confessors Doctrine in Q. Mary's Time which is brought in by the Head and Shoulders into this History for it has no affinity with it it was Submission to the Law and not to Arbitrary Government His Popish Bishops Stokesly Tonstal and Bonner's Authorities I give him Here are indeed left in this History abundance of private Doctors Opinions and their flights of Flattery are very high especially in their Court-Sermons but these are in opposition to the Established Doctrine of the Church of England and to six Acts of Parliament as I shewed before and therefore their Authority is worse and less than Nothing But if they must have an Answer they are only fit to be confuted by a Second Edition of Dissenters Sayings And here I have reason to enter a just Complaint against the pretended Church-of England Men of the two last Reigns who not only left me the grinning Honour of maintaining the Establish'd Doctrine of the Church all alone which I kept alive till it pleased God to make it a Means of our Deliverance with the perpetual hazard of my own Life for many Years and with suffering Torments and Indignities worse than Death but also besides this were very zealous in running me down and very officious in degrading me as an Apostate from the Church of England for this very Service While at the same time they themselves were making their Court with their own Renegado Doctrine of Passive Obedience and wearing out all Pulpits with it as if it had been not only the First and great Commandment but the Second too and cramming it down the reluctant Throats of dying Patriots as the Terms of their Salvation And now in this Reign for want of recanting their Passive Doctrine they suffer it to be made use of against the present Government and to be compiled into such an History as is a Seed-Plot of Rebellion and a standing Common-place-Book for Treasonable Practices And this is the more to be complained of because they themselves must needs now clearly see if they did not before the mischievous Consequence of their Passive Doctrine which bound us not to Resist but to Assist our Prince though a Tyrant which if it had taken place in Mens Minds and inward Belief had for ever inslaved the Nation But God be thanked though this Doctrine filled the Ears of the Nation for a long time yet it never bored them for if it had the Prince of Orange with all the Power of Holland could never have brought us a Deliverance nor have been able to have rescued these three Kingdoms from themselves and from their own chosen and voluntary Bondage And while this Doctrine continues to be believed by any deluded Party amongst us they are bound in Conscience either to be doing Mischief here or else to go and join the Irish Camp at Drogheda For which Reason till it be publickly recanted or condemn'd I shall here fully confute it in a few words All their Proof that a Tyrant may not be Resisted but must be Assisted by his Subjects wholly centers in the 13th of the Romans In order therefore to know whether a Tyrant is any way concerned or has any part or portion in that Text we must first consider what a Tyrant is And because I will not be my own Judg nor make Definitions of my own I will take that exact one of Mr. Abraham Cowley approved and published by the present Lord Bishop of Rochester I call him a Tyrant who either intrudes himself forcibly into the Government of his Fellow-Citizens without any legal Authority over them or who having a just Title to the Government of a People abuses it to the destruction or tormenting of them So that all Tyrants are at the same time Usurpers either of the whole or at least of a part of that Power which they assume to themselves and no less are they to be accounted Rebels since no Man can usurp Authority over others but by rebelling against them who had it before or at least against those Laws which were his Superiors It is plain by this Definition that a Tyrant though he had a legal Title and is a Tyrant only in Exercise as they term it is both an Usurper and a Rebel and if neither of these are contained in the Text nor can lay any claim to the Duties of Subjection Non-resistance Assistance Tribute c. So neither can a Tyrant who is both of them in one As I have many Years since shewn in my Answer to Constantius that the Illegal Violence of inferiour Magistrates is excluded out of this Text by letting the Text speak for it self so let any Man try whether the Text will admit of a Rebel or Usurper and you may soon see how well they will become the Place For then St. Paul's words run thus Let every Soul be subject to a Rebel though he be neither higher Power nor lower Power nor any Power at all for there is no Rebel but of God the Rebels that be are ordained of God Whosoever therefore resisteth a Rebel resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation For a Rebel is the Minister of God to thee for Good and so is the Devil and the Inquisition Whereby it is demonstrable That St. Paul here describes a Just and Righteous Government which is employed for the Publick Good and requires subjection only to that for if you put in any other into the Text it quite overthrows it and turns it into Blasphemy And it is likewise demonstrable that no Tyrant can put in so much as his Nose at the 13th of the Romans The next thing is to consider whether the late King was a Tyrant or not by this Definition Perhaps the proving him so will as much displease some very courtly People as the calling a Crowned Head by that Name heretofore did but God be thanked they were so far mistaken for he was an Uncrowned Head at that time However pleasing and displeasing is not my Business but doing all the Right and Service I can to my Country and to that Just and Rightful Government which is now over us and so that be done I care not who is pleased or displeased This Definition then is very full and contains both a Tyrant in Title and a Tyrant in Exercise or in the Administration of the Government as Writers of Politicks call them The former is he who intrudes himself forcibly into the Government of his Fellow Citizens without any legal Authority over them I will not make my self more work than I need in saying the late King was