Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	believe_v	heart_n	word_n	5,244	5	4.1630	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41764	The Grand question resolved, viz. a king having protested to defend to the uttermost of his power, the true Protestant religion, with the rights and liberties of all his subjects but if they, fearing that he will violate this his protestation, take up arms to prevent it, what may be judged hereof?		1681 (1681)	Wing G1509; ESTC R7816	9,125	18

THE Grand Question RESOLVED viz. A KING Having PROTESTED To Defend to the uttermost of his POWER The TRUE Protestant Religion WITH THE Rights and Liberties Of all his SUBJECTS But if they fearing that he will Violate this his PROTESTATION take up Arms to prevent it what may be Judged hereof LONDON Printed for R. Baldwin 1681. THE Grand Question RESOLVED QUEST A King having Protested to defend to the uttermost of his Power the true Protestant Religion with the Rights and Liberties of all his Subjects but if they fearing that he will violate this his Protestation take up Arms to prevent it what may be judged of this kind of Proceeding THIS Question being very weighty ought to be managed with much Caution and Candidness In order hereto it will be requisite to propound some Questions or Doubts which do naturally issue out of the propounded Question for rectifying and settling the Minds of all Christian Subjects Quest I. Is it not better in disputable Mysteries of State for the Subjects to commend the whole matter to God the Righteous Judge than to take up Arms against their King whom we are not to curse in our heart much less to fight against him with our hands II. God saith The Heart of the King is unsearchable how then can any man know whether or no a King will decline from his Oath And if so why should any Subject oppose him by raising of Arms because he feareth such a Declining III. God saith The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord as the Rivers of water he turneth it whithersoever it pleaseth him if then a King decline from his Protestation God if it please him can again reduce him to it Is it not then safer for Subjects to rely upon Gods Word and Providence than to take up Arms against their Soveraign IV. God gives this counsel I counsel thee to keep the Kings Commandment and that in regard of the Oath of God Eccles 8.2 So far then we ought to obey the King as obliged by our Oaths which oblige us and that with relation to the fifth Commandment If then Arms be taken up against the King is there no violation of any Promise Vow or Oath and is there no Commandment of God rejected V. We hold this Assertion to be true Sanguis Martyrum est semen Ecclesiae The Blood of the Martyrs is the Seed of the Church If then the Subjects perceive that their King breaketh his Oath were it not better for them to dye Martyrs and thus to spend theit Blood in the Cause of Religion than to spill it in a Civil War doth he offend that dyeth a Martyr VI. St. Paul teacheth us Whatsoever is not of Faith is sin When therefore Subjects wage Warre against their King those that are Ignorant or misinformed have no ground or Faith to build this their fighting upon who then shall answer for the Blood of these men if it be shed in such a Civil War Shall not they who should inform and do not or else misinform And how shall men thus slain and that dye in their sin be able to answer at that great day of Judgment whose suddenness of death was hereby occasioned VII Moral honesty teacheth Men to keep their Promises much more their deliberate solemn Oaths Christianity requireth the same yea though it be to the hurt of him that sweareth For these and the like Reasons every good Man who considerably observeth his Promise and Oath may be truly offended against all those who will not give credence to his promise nor yet to his Oath Can a King be well pleased when this hard lot befalleth him Will he like to be accounted a Liar upon a meer surmise without any proof VIII David's Heart smote him after he had cut off the Skirt of Saul 's Robe privily If Arms should be raised up against a King and his Life in danger to be cut off thereby would no Mans heart who had a hand in such a business be so tender as to smite him IX Christ commandeth Render to Caesar the things which are Caesars namely Toll Tribute Custom c. if then such things as these be detained from a King and withall an attempt made to beat him with his own We apons how is Christ's Commandment observed and obeyed Are the Arms which are Caesars to be rendred to Caesar to his destruction X. Christ saith Blessed are they that are persecuted for Righteousness sake And thus the Case standeth if a King forget his duty towards God and Man and doth cruelly persecute his Subjects are not such Subjects so persecuted for their firm adherence to a Righteous cause blessed in that they patiently endure it But where hath Christ taught us that they are blessed that persecute their King at any time XI Where the Word of a King is there is Power and who may say unto him What dost thou Eccles 8.4 May not these Words rightly understood and wisely applyed to the Conscience perswade a Man to debate the matter and to expostulate with himself saying What dost thou before he presume to rectifie a King's Errours with the drawn Sword except it be with the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God For the King of Kings saith of an Earthly King who may say unto him What dost thou XII David asketh this Question concerning Saul who was a very wicked King Who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord 's Anointed and be guiltless If any Man might why not David who was causlesly and violently persecuted by Saul and who was also to succeed him in his Throne yet his Conscience taught him not to Right his own wrongs but he waited the good hour till God should be pleased either to turn his Heart or to end his Dayes Who believeth not that David was endued and extraordinarily guided by Gods Spirit as in other matters so in this particular behaviour towards Saul And who then will not resolve and pray as David did The Lord forbid saith he that I should stretch forth my hand against the Lords Anointed David prayed thus after Saul had violated that trust which his Subjects reposed in him XIII God directs us to two means of pacifying an angred Prince either by forbearance or by giving a soft Answer the Words are plain By long forbearing is a Prince perswaded and a soft Answer breaketh the Bone But when Arms are taken up where is forbearing And when the Sword is drawn what hope is there that a soft Answer will perswade XIV The Names which are given to Kings and Queens by God himself should be very much regarded by all good Men for they are called Nursing Fathers and Nursing Mothers yea gods Is it not unnatural to unsheath the Sword against Father or Mother Is it not impious to unsheath the Sword against him who is the Supreme of all Earthen gods Touch not mine Anointed saith God Almighty and will he allow his Subjects to fight against him who is the