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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	aid_n	king_n	urgent_a	25	3	16.2671	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96594	Seven treatises very necessary to be observed in these very bad days to prevent the seven last vials of God's wrath, that the seven angels are to pour down upon the earth Revel. xvi ... whereunto is annexed The declaration of the just judgment of God ... and the superabundant grace, and great mercy of God showed towards this good king, Charles the First ... / by Gr. Williams, Ld. Bishop of Ossory.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1661 (1661)	Wing W2671B; ESTC R42870	408,199	305

barbarous Heathens And therefore no doubt but these Jews and these Gentiles shall rise in judgement and condemn our most wicked and rebellious generation But you will say What if my King seek to kill me for so now the Rebels have ascended to that height of impiety that they are not ashamed thus slanderovsly to taxe him and most falsely to accuse him Doth not nature it self teach me that common principle vim vi pellere and rather kill him than suffer my self to be killed To resolve this Question I demand of thee What if thy father seek to kill thee Mayest thou rather kill him than be killed First thou must know That the father next under God is the cause of the very Being 2 The sons obligation to his father is more than ever he can do to requite it and the giver of the life of his son so is not the son of the father 2. The father as I proved upon the 5th Commandment had under the Law of Nature and for many years after Moses potestatem vitae necis the power of life and death over all his children and the children unlesse they grew very ungracious and more than unnatural never durst resist them otherwise when God commanded Abraham Gen. 22.2 to offer up Isaac for a burnt-offering he might have answered First that he had no right to do it Secondly that he was old and feeble and the Lad was young and lusty as you see he was better able to carry the wood upon his shoulders than his father and therefore he might fear his son would be his death if he went about to sacrifice him But Abraham knew that his son was better taught and that nature shewed him The child should not with cursed Cham despise his father no not in his sin much lesse to resist him in his right And yet the King to whom the Paternal-right is transferred is more than any private Father for he is the publique Father of us all under whom we we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty 1 Tim. 2.2 as the Apostle speaketh and without whom we can have neither our Estates enjoyed nor our Persons secured from the violence of the strongest but that every one shall be exposed to the will of him that can master him which was the case of the Jewes when there was no King in Israel and will be little better with us if God doth not preserve our King And therefore men though they may flee with David to preserve their lives yet ought not to offer violence unto their King though he should prove as wicked as Saul was to David without cause to seek to take away their lives then certainly most wicked are those men that rebell and fight against a good King that expendeth his own fortunes and exposeth his own life to preserve the Estates and Lives of all his loyall subjects but to proceed 3. The last branch of that honour which I said was due unto our King 3 To assist our King is aid and assistance in all his urgent necessities which aid we all confesse to be due and yet few of us will believe or can endure scarce to hear the truth how far this aid is to be extended How far the aid that we owe unto our King extendeth I must tell you what the Scripture saith that it comprehendeth 1. Our Estates For 2. Our Persons For 1. He that bids us render unto God what is Gods 1 To the uttermost of our abilities bids us also render unto Caesar what is Caesars and S. Paul tells you that this tribute is due unto him Indeed when there is no urgent necessity it is a great deal seemlier for the Majesty of a King as Artax said to give then to take by pulling from his subjects and it is a golden Apothegm of King James unto his Son where he saith Enrich not your self with exactions from your Subjects but think the riches of your Subjects your best treasure And so it is generally conceived that whosoever in the time of peace overchargeth his subjects with taxations either for his own Luxury or to enrich his Favourites is very unwise because he that ruleth over men must be just 2 Sam. 23.3 ruling in the fear of God and Justice tells us he must take nothing from any man but when necessity requireth And then the ordinary glosse and Mr. Calvin also saith Neque nostrum est vel principibus praescribere quantum in res singulas impendant vel eos ad calculum vocare It is neither our part to prescribe how much they shall expend nor to call them to an account for their expences that account must be given to a higher Judge But we read that when Saul was annointed to be King over Israel Samuel told him he should come to the Plain of Tabor and there should meet him three men going up to God to Bethel one carrying three kids another carrying three loaves of bread and another carrying a bottle of wine and they should salute him and give him two loaves of bread which he should receive of their hands which thing wanted not a mystery but was an embleme as Divines make it of the right of Kings in their necessities The mystery of the gift of the men that met Saul unfolded two parts of three which was a very great proportion and yet we find that divers of the heathens went much further when after the coronation of their Kings most of his subjects especially the Nobility and those of any Fortunes presented unto him a Purse with a key hanging thereat by which Hierogly phick they shewed that all their treasure was submitted to his necessities he might unlock their Store-horse and put into his Purse What the heathens did give unto their Kings whatever pleased him because they conceived it right that he which protected all should have the use of any part of all when his necessity did require it and seeing they were bound to expose their persons for him they saw no reason they should detain their estates from him because my life should be dearer unto me then all my wealth And if our King had such subjects as these Heathens I think he needed not to have wanted to supply his necessities But our Kings are not like Augustus that taxed all the world as much as he pleased nor like Charles the fifth Qui immania tributa populis imperavit as Oscrius writeth nor like the Eastern Kings that impose upon their subjects what they will but of their speciall grace and favour have granted such priviledges and made such concessions limitations and pactions with their subjects as cannot be discussed or expressed within my limited time to set down how far and to shew how well or ill they were concluded and therefore all that I shall say herein is this that we ought to consider how far God requireth us to assist our King and take heed