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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	king_n	mercy_n	throne_n	1,927	5	9.8019	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51533	The honour of kings vindicated and asserted In a sermon preached before the Right Honourable Sr. Patrick Drummond, late Conservator of the Priviledges of the Scots nation in the Netherlands, togeter [sic] with a considerable number of merchants, masters, and common sea-men from several places, the 3. of May 1661. stilo novo, being his Majesties coronation day. By Mr. Thomas Mowbray Minister of the Gospel at the Stapel-Port in Camp-veet.	Mowbray, Thomas, minister of the Gospel.	1663 (1663)	Wing M2995A; ESTC R217897	16,640	25

against the Soul be more perilous then that against the body I am sure no sin in the Book of God hath more woes attending it then this Have we not then reason to honour the King this day by praying for him that he may be preserved from such assuredly so long as such are in power and place the Throne will be but in a tottering condition but let mercy and truth preserve the King for his Throne is upholden by mercy Prov. 20.28 and whosover will not thus pray for the King let his tongue cleave to the roofe of his mouth and let him be noted as one that will not Honour the King The third way how we must honour the King is in our Works and that first by a reverend gesture and cariage while before him in regard of this it was not lawful so much as to laugh in the Court of the Areopagits and the Roman Censurs disgraded a Burges for yaunig too wide in their presence and not only owe we this reverence in regard of an Oath but we are bound unto it by Nature in token of which God hath given to Kings three especial ensigns of honour a Crown of Gold a Scepter of Righteousness and a Sword of Vengence 2. We must honour the King in our works by paying Tributes and Customs for the necessarie maintenance of his Estate Render to all their dues sacys the Apostle Rom. 13.6 7. Tribute to whom Tribute is due Custom to whom Custom is due this way as the Apostle sayes in the same place do we manifest our subjection to and honouring of them even by paying Tribute to them for they are Gods Ministers attending upon this very thing Therefore our Saviour rather then he should be deficient in this Duty he commanded a Fish to pay it Matth. 17.27 Christ doth not say speaking of this Tribute paying date as if it were a free voluntary gift but reddite quae sunt Caesaris Caesari It is a due and their proper good and therefore as one sayes upon these self-same words to withhold that which the Parliament grants or to value our selves at less then we are worth that so we may pay the less is no less then theft and these who goes about to deceive the Kings Customers and grudges at his necessary and lawfull impositions are theeves not such as are honourers of the King And how will this stand with that ordinary practice which as I am informed you have at your Washings as you call them I leave to your selves to judge I wish that there were no more of it it is base and I am sure contrary to every good Subjects Duty 3. Not only must we honour the King with our goods but in serving him with our lives for his defence the People will not have King David adventure himself in the Warr but put their lives in hazard to save him harmlesse The two Tribes Judah and Benjamin to shew their valour and fidelitie will fight against the other Tribes though their Brethren for Rhehoboam their King I read in the English History that King Henry the Second being at the siege of a certain Castle in Schropshire had been struck through with an Arrow had not a certain Noble-man put himself between the Arrow and the King and so received the Arrow with his own death VVhat shall we then say to these who are so far from hazarding their lives for the King that they will adventure their lives to make him away as Brutus and Cassius who slew Cesar in the Senate house but much more to be abhorred are these who under the colour of a Law will bring their King to a Scaffold as these most notorious and Treacherous Rigicids of late did an act which cannot be paralelled in any History either Sacred or profane since the beginning I am sure though this indeed did one way tend to the honour of the King that he was the Martyr of the People whose remembrance shall be alwaies famous fresh and odoriferous yet no other thing was intended by them but his great dishonour and by that fatal blow to put an end to all Kings for ever in BRITAINE and as they dealt with the Father so they resolved to deal with the Heir if ever he came in their hands but some of them did live to see themselves arraigned at his Barr and to receive the just reward of their for ever to be abhorred treachery and murther So let all such perish O Lord that others may henceforth fear to strech forth their hands against the Lords Anointed Lastly vve must honour the King by yeelding and submitting to their Ordinances preferring obedience to sacrifice or to the censures of any Man whatsoever the Kings vvill must be done aut à nobis an t de nobis either of us or upon us vvhen their Lavvs agrees vvith Gods Lavvs then must vve be Agents vvhen they are dissonant Patients The Conscience cannot be tyed by any Lavv of Man to do that vvhich in it self is sinful here vve acknovvledge no Superiour but God himself in such cases it is better to obey God then Men yet in not obeying the Ordinances and Commandments of the King though bad vve are to submit our selves to the punishment vvhich shall be laid upon us for our not obeying because the Lavvs of Men do bind the utter man properly It is more Christian to suffer thus then to raise Arms against the Magistrate upon any account though vve may have sufficient Forses and strength so to do As for things indifferent vvhich are commanded or things not clearly knovvn to us as bearing a double sense and ambignous vve must construct the Kings Commands in the best sense and albeit vve are to do nothing doubtingly yet it is better to give obedience beleeving that vvhich is commanded to be lavvfull then by supposing the contrary to refuse the Command for this certainly is a greater evil then possibly is imagined Suspision or doubting of the lavvfulnesse of things is no discharge for obedience vvhat confusion this hath brought into the Church and Commonvvealth our times doth afford instances enough If vve refuse to obey vvhen things unlavvfull and sinfull as being either against the Lavv of God the Lavv of Nature the fundamentall Lavvs of the Kingdom are commanded as vve alvvaies ought and should yet as I have said vve must submit our selves to the punishment vvhich shall be laid upon us bad Magistrates are tempters and vve must receive our tryals vvith patience VVe must look upon it as the just punishment of our iniquities and vve must vvillingly accept of the same Thus have you heard of the vvay and maner hovv vve are to Honour the King It follovvs next that I shevv you vvhy vve are to Honour the King vvhere you shall see that it is not an arbitrary thing but a Duty of an absolute necessity laid upon us This vvill appear in these seven or eight things vvhereby the excellencie of K ngs in regard of their outvvard