Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	delusion_n	unrighteousness_n	1,978	5	11.2673	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95803	Novemb. 18. 1642. The unlimited prerogative of kings subverted. Or a short treatise grounded upon scripture and reason, to prove that kings ought as well as others to bee accountable for their actions. By a well wisher to the church of God, his King and countrey. And dedicated to all such as love the truth.	Well wisher to the Church of God, his King and countrey.	1642 (1642)	Wing U84; Thomason E127_32; ESTC R16462	22,383	17

up Armes for their own protection they do not resist the ordinance of God nor come within the reach of the Apostles censure as those that for so doing shall receive damnation Here is one thing yet more that I have to say concerning the Unlimited Prerogative and so I shall finish this Discourse and that is What good can there come by ascribing such a Power For every circumstance in point of Government must have respect unto some good or other either for the glory of God or for the benefit of the People if so be that they conduce not to these ends they are utterly to be rejected as sinfull and obnoxious For God never gave Magistrates any such power as to be unlimitable in breaking his Commandements or to become terrible and dreadfull to their People but this He requires that they especially whom He and His People have trusted with power and Magistracie should by their example honour God in a holy and godly conversation and be comfortable and profitable to their People through their pious peaceable and Religious government But how or which way doth it appear that the unlimited Prerogative hath or can have respect to any such ends nay reason tells us the contrary and We have learned asmuch by the best of Schoolmasters to wit experience And if the Spirit of God say true a great deale of evill and mischief may come by it but no good at all as ever I could read Thus much we may perceive if we will look into that place in the 17. Deut. 18. where the Spirit of God speaking concerning the King when he shall come to sit upon the Throne of his Kingdome He shall write saith he a coppie of this Law in a Booke out of that which is before the Priests the Levites and it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the dayes of his life that he may learne to feare the Lord his God to keep all the words of this law and these Statutes to do them Here we see the rule which God would have Kings apply themselves unto in governing of their People but here is no grant or Charter that God at all hath given them to rule them according to their wills and pleasures and he binds them within the compasse of His Law And it cannot be denied but that these Statutes and Commandements of God before spoken of require passive as well as active Obedience For what is here said unto Kings is oftentimes in this Book and else where said unto the People and I beleeve there is none will say but that they are required therby to obey in both kinds why not Kings then as well as others for here is no exception Nay the Spirit of God here gives us a sufficient reason that they ought so to doe in the words following for so it is said least his heart be lifted up above his brethren He foresaw what mischief would come of it if Kings should have any such Unlimited Power allowed them And indeed how can it otherwise be but they must needs exceedingly swell with Pride when they shall be made like God subject to no Laws And what doe they else that ascribe such a power unto them as that they are no waies accountable or punishable for any actions that they doe Is not this the very next way to cause them to despise and trample their People under their feet as if they were so exceedingly beneath them though in truth they be the same and equall with them in respect of their nature and being therfore the Spirit of God here calls them their Bretheren the difference only lying in their power and Magistracie and to make them forget themselves and their humane condition as if they were a degree above Men by exalting them above all Laws as if by vertue of their place and Dignitie their very nature were changed into the Divine Besides this it is further worth the marking what other evill consequence will be readie to follow if such a power as is said before should be ascribed Therfore it is said in the next words that he turne not aside from the Commandement to the right hand or to the left as who should say to give Kings such a power as is Unlimited and disresponsable it is the very next way to cause them to presume and take liberty to themselves how they list and when they list to break the Commandements of God and to cast his Precepts behind their backs Here we see now the evill that comes by this Prerogative I would any one could shew me what that good is that doth from it arise or where in all the Scripture it is said that Kings shall not be accountable for what they doe I perswade my selfe that it will be a taske too hard for any man to undertake By this it appeares what Enemies they are to the Common-wealth and what a deale of mischief they doe that teach such Doctrine as Kings Unlimited Power and how abominable they must needs be both in the sight of God and Men that teach men to erre from Gods Commandements and to conclude all in a word I may here say to such as our Saviour doth Math. 5.19 Whosoever shall break one of the least of these Commandements and shall teach men so to doe shall be call'd the least in the Kingdome of heaven And here also I may well remember them of the words of that prediction of the Apostle 2 Thess 2.11 which are truly verified in these men God shall send them strong Delusions that they may beleeve a lye that all they might be damned that beleeve not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousnesse I doe not much question but that this paper may light of those that will not spare to lay Censure hard enough upon it and it is not unlikely but it may suffer under that terrible name of Treason yet I say it would be well for them before they shoot their bolt to consider wisely with themselves what they doe least otherwise they prove to be such as fall foule upon the Truth of God and so be found to be such as fight against Him which if they doe let themselves judge how it is like to be with them But let it be as it will yet the comfort is it is not the first time that Truth hath suffer'd under as bad a Censure as this can be and let them that are enemies to this Truth doe what they can yet let me tell them that Truth is strong and shall prevaile and that howsoever it may be blamed by those that hate it yet it shall never be ashamed And as all Truth ought to be known so especiallie every Truth in its chiefest time and season for as the Wise man saith Pro. 25.11 A word spoken in due season is like apples of gold in pictures of silver then it is most like to do good and then most acceptable and delightfull I have spoken a few words upon this theame the rather that hereby at least I might provoke those of better judgements and are able to say farre more of this point then my selfe according to the necessitie of the times to speak in this behalfe if they be lovers of their King of the Truth and of their Countrie And so I commend it to the blessing of GOD. 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