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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	government_n	king_n	monarchy_n	1,384	5	9.4516	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86677	Lazarus's sores licked; or, An answer to these three positions: I: that Christ paid tribute to Cæsar. II. That Cæsar was an usurper in Judea, and had onely bare possession, but no right at all. III. That bare possession, without any right to a throne, gives title sufficient to the usurper, and is ground sufficient for people to subject to that usurper.	Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687.	1650 (1650)	Wing H326; Thomason E615_19; ESTC R202495	17,108	24

personall evils in that Monarch cannot exempt good men from subjection to them Indeed the world ran into Anarchy after the murther of Abel but yet we shall finde that God preserved Monarchie amongst his own people in the family of Seth and so to Noah and from Noah to Abraham and from Abraham untill the Church of God became exceeding numerous then God raised up those two great Ordinances of Magistracie and Ministry to govern his people Moses and Aaron both which sprung out of one fountain 1 Chron. 33. 13. to shew the nearness that is betwixt Magistracie and Ministry in the Church they are as two pleasant rivers rising from one head and running one way in several streams for the protection and profit of the Church From that day till the destruction of the Jewish Sate except when Gods heavie hand in judgment was upon them they were governed by Monarchs Moses was a Monarch for the twelve Tribes received the Law at his mouth all other Officers in that State were appointed by him and not immediately by God as Moses was From Judges the State rose to Kings when they came to Kings they came to the top of their prosperity they came to the government that God had promised to Abraham and to that government which Moses prophesied of and left directions for Dut. 17. 14 15 18 19. 'T is true God gave then their first King in Anger because they sought him unlawfully in murmuring against their lawfull Magistrate Samuel and desiring a King for unlawfull ends and not patiently waiting Gods leisure This King God took away in his wrath and cut off his family but God chose him another King David by name and established his family in the Throne of Judah untill the carrying away of the King and People into Captivity By which 't is manifest 't was not the office of a King that God gave in anger but the person of a King that God gave in Anger Kingly government continued for fourteen generations in Jerusalem unmoved in the family of Dauid neither the Church nor State of Israel were settled untill Kingly government was established and then the Arke was brought to a settled place and a Temple erected for Gods worship By all which and much more that might be said 't is evident that Monarchy is jure divino and therefore the office of Caesar as Monarchical simply considered was not usurped but lawfull Object But the Doctor saith that Caesar had no right but bare possession onely of the Kingdome of Judea Sol. To that we answer very briefly and plainly not medling with learned Grotius or those other Discourses of learned men but using this plain distinction of right in general There is a Natural a Providential and a Civil right 1. A Natural right Cesar could not have unless he could prove a succession from Noah which were ridiculous to think Besides he got his power by violence and therfore 't was not any natural right that he had to be Emperour 2. There is a Providential right which is by Gods permission this Cesar had for God suffered him to subdue the West and after that to overthrow the Eastern Armies that came against him he overthrew Pompey himself and so made himself Possessor of the most of Pompeys Victories in the East Yea this right Traitors and Usurpers have to the Thrones that they possess this right a Slave through Gods just judgment on a Nation may have to the Throne for not a Sparrow falls to the ground without Gods permission This right both lawfull Kings and Usurpers have to the Thrones they possess Athaliah that murtherer of the Royal family had onely this Providential right which she made appear onely by possession But this right gives not just Title nor can expect any subjection meerely upon that and no other right and the reason is because when Providential right crosseth Civil and Natural right here a man is not bound to follow providence but to guide himself by Moral and Divine precepts for divine precepts are perpetual standing laws by which the actions of men ought to be guided but Providential acts were never ordained for lawes or rules by which men should walk and therefore to such a right there is no subjection due for Providential right may be given by God to the to the vilest person in judgment to a nation on purpose to try them that so by such divil-worship and unlawful subjection that nation may fill up the measure of their iniquity and God may destroy both them and their Governours We see this dreadful ensample written on the ten Tribes backes in bloudy Characters 3. There is a Civill right which in divers respects may be either humane or divine As for example Caine had a Civill right of domination this civill right it was in respect of its original and the Author of it divine for God had ordered it so but as descending from Adam the Monarch of the world he had a right by succession which right we call humane right Now a humane right is either by Succession or Conquest or Compact To be briefe we affirme that Cesar had an humane right by conquest over the Kingdome of Judea That I call an humane right by conquest which brings the whole Community by an over-awing power to promise subjection to and owne the Authority of the Conqueror whereupon the Conqueror promiseth them protection This gives the Conqueror a humane right and title for he holds his title jure gentium concessu gentium The Learned well observe there are five sorts of Subjects 1. Subjecti naturae 2. Subjecti affectionum 3. Subjecti fortunae 4. Subjecti belli 5. Subjecti ex compact The Jewes were Subjecti belli to Nebuchadnezzar who by Conquest subdued Zedekiah and made him take an Oath of Allegiance not to rebell against him the breaking of that Oath was rebellion 2 Chron. 36. 13. Here Nebuchadnezzar's Conquest gave him a humane right otherwise there could be no rebellion against him Now I prove the Jews were either subjecti affectionum subjecti belli or subjecti ex compacto or all to Cesar by this Argument If the chief Priests and the people owned no other King then Cesar then Cesar by the consent of the Priests and people was their King and they his subjects But the chiefe Priests and the people owned none for their King but Cesar John 19. 12. the Jewes cried out If thou let this man go thou art not Cesars friend Whosoever maketh himself a King speaketh against Cesar Ver. 14. Pilate saith Behold your King Ver. 15. the chief Priests answered We have no King but Cesar Now I would faine know of the Doctor what more Cesar could desire to make him King of the Jewes by humane right then the consent of the high Priests and the people So that Cesar had more then bare possession for he had as much humane right as both the chiefe Priests and the people could give him 3. The last position of