Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	holy_a	scripture_n	10,125	5	6.0328	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36466	Rex meus est deus, or, A sermon preached at the common place in Christs-church in the city of Norwich by G.D. ...	G. D. (George Downham)	1643 (1643)	Wing D2061; ESTC R209871	32,251	33

sitters have taken peace from the earth you furies of hel whose voices are lightnings and thundrings whose breathing is nothing but sword fire rages rebellions pardon me if I shake off all respect of civility towards such miscreants is this orthodox divinity is this according to Christ and his Apostles surely the devill drop't poyson into their pens to infect all Christian countries with disobedience and disorder for let them but shew me but one place of holy Scripture and on● is but a smal number yet let them shew me but one either in the old or new testament or any one of the ancient fathers who have let fall so loose a speech as may be strayned to make good their tenets and ● will bee their bondman for ever therefore were not the spirit of division I meane the devil● bin seated in their soules hey would not so openly opposed the settlings of their cotten braine against the expresse command of holy Scripture which forbid forbiddeth so much as resistance under any Prince though never so heathenish or tyrannicall but as for the word rebellion the very thought of it was so odious to Christ and his Apostles that as Sol●n made no law against paricide because he thought no man would prove so wicked as to commit such a horrid fact I do not finde it so much as once mentioned throughout the new testament yet they have got a trick to produce some examples out of the old testament of rebellion which though were ever attended upon with heavy judgements from God but I would faine know what they can force from thence will they ●ake over all histories for examples of rebellion and then argue a facto adjus and say every thing is lawfull that they finde hath bin done we must judge facts by law and not lawes by facts for there hath bin no fact so impious which may not be parraleld by examples will they justifie their grosse sacriledge their ●●●aturall ince●●● with their frequent adulteries their notorious lying their uncharitable judging because they have for these examples of Achan Ammon David Ananias and Saphyra the Scribes and Pharisees who then hath but halfe an eye and cannot see how these mens pens have ranged and their judgements raged beyond all compasse and course of reason or religion But to let goe these as they and the devill would have it what policy can there be in it for the Subject to oppose or resist the King upon any termes for what can wee expect from thence but murders out-rages ripes ruine and desolation for what if the Prince aggriev'd be able to make and maintain his party as King John and Henry the third did against their Peeres what if some forreigne Prince whom it may well concerne as well in honour to see the Law of nat●ons observed as also in policy to break the neck of those proceedings which may form preced●n●s against himselfe do come in and side with his brother king and in the end play the kite with them both wil not this prove a pretty piece of policy were it not farre more safe to take Saint Pauls counsell and be obedient unto Princes not onely for conscience sake because they are the ministers of God but for our owne sake because hee is so to us for good it is for our safety and tranquility that we may lead under them a quiet and peaceable life for the Prince is the very soule of the body poli●ick and what is the body without it but a confused lump unformed sencelesse witlesse and destitute of all meanes to maintaine or uphold it selfe but it is quickned and moved and provided for and kept from dissolution only by the soule Now of the soule there are two principall receptacl●s although she be totain tot● et tota in qualibet parte The head and the heart such is the king in respect of the body politick he ●s the head in which regard we should have him in so high esteeem as we should not onely seek his ease and welfare but even expos● our selves to any perills for his sake and safety wee should be so far from offering violence unto him that wee should readily receive the strokes and wounds in●ented against him yea there is no part of us but would willingly endure paine by incision scarrifying ligature or issue to remedy his grievances especi●illy considering how deare and tender all the members are to him for such is the sympathy and fellowseeling that he hath of the griefes of the whole body that when the most inferiour member suffereth he suffereth together with it even as a little wet or cold taken in the remotest part of the body hath forthwith a ready passage to the head Againe the king is the heart of the body which is the wel of life the furnace of heat the centry of blood the first thing in man that lives and the last that dies and look as the heart sendeth forth somtimes the blood and spirits with a ful flush plenteously replenishing al the parts of the body And otherwhile againe being possest with a fe●●●… of imminent danger retireth them home with all speed to his little sconce to comfort and fortifie it selfe and judge if this be not sometimes the case of Kings And whilest you are judging of that I will passe fairely on to the second point which is that Abels innocency did not free him from subjection to his brother If the superior have his power from God the inferiour ought to obey him for God no mans vertue that hee hath in himselfe can be a warrant for him to be vitious to another but who ever is holy and righteous must expresse it in duties to God and men Therefore be the subject never so much in the right and the soveraigne in the wrong yet notwithstanding there is due from every one of them to him a threefold duty honour to his person subjection to his calling obedience to his lawe First we must honour his person and that in word and deed the first consisteth in speaking honourably and reverently of him he being no other then the derivative or rather diminutive of Almighty God This Moses enjoyneth Exod. 22. 28. Thou shalt not revile the Gods nor curse the rulers of thy pe●ple no not so much as in our thoughts saith Solomon Ecclesiastes 10 And this God takes notice off Nu. 12. 8. as a speciall indignity done unto him wherfore are ye not afraid saith he to Aaron and Miriam to speake against my servant against Moses not against my servant Moses but more emphattically against my servant against Moses against my servant although he were not Moses against Moses my great serv●nt seeing hee is both my servant and my servant Moses wherefore are yee not afraid to speake against him When this searching and piercing presumption shall get up to this highest step and dare to pry into the kings dispositions intentions