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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	david_n	house_n	saul_n	2,074	5	10.7882	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86930	The magistrates charge, for the peoples safetie. Laid open in a sermon, preached before the right Honorable House of Peeres, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, at their late solemne monthly fast, May 26. 1647. / By William Hussey, Minister at Chesilhurst in Kent.	Hussey, William, minister of Chiselhurst.	1647 (1647)	Wing H3818; Thomason E389_7; ESTC R201521	33,273	53

command whereby they might assist the King defend their Country and doe the people justice honour without command in war and judicature in peace is uselesse Esay 3 3.4 and a scorne whereas men whose faces are lifted up above the people are as necessary for a Commonwealth as bread and water Honorable men unto whom the people may have recourse in case of imminent danger to be a stay unto them who meeting in a publique Counsell may carry all things for the publique good yee may see what service David did to Saul against the Philistines what his Worthies did for him 〈◊〉 58.5 in his wars against the house of Saul yee may see what power the Nobles had in the dayes of Zedekiah unto whom the King did confesse the King is not ●e that can doe any thing without you To make a man great in war that is not great in peace is dangerous unlesse virtue sway he will love the greatnes of his condition too well he that is as great in peace as in war will easily change his troublesome and dangerous estate for rest and safety Vse 2 Exhortation that the King and Lords would joyne together to submit to the government of Christ● you are required in my Text to joyne with the King in this duty not to be instruments of the Kings will so you shall shew your selves servants to the King but not Judges of the earth his Majesties wisdome and your learning should joyne together to put on the yoke of Christ to save your selves and your people from breaking with the iron rod in the hand of Christ that is as I have intimated from Civill war from such destroying Civill War a● will dash you all to p●eces 〈◊〉 48.2 the Lord is the Lord of Hosts a name that 〈◊〉 hath put upon himselfe Esay 47.4 Ie●●va ex●r●iti●●●o●en ●p●s the great n●me of God Esay 4●● Esay ●●● all Hosts are his rod wicked ones holy ones just or unjust ●orra●e intestine legall or rebell●●●s they are all his he punisheth offenders by them all what power wee have that wee conceive our safety that party that conceive they have the power of the sword strength in their owne hands they thinke they may doe what they will but they are mightily deceived they that have all power to day may have none to morrow the Lord is the Lord of Hosts 〈…〉 s●pientia est sui destructiva force without wisdome will destroy it selfe Esay 3●● Therefor Rabsak●h joyneth counsell and strength together and Aristotle wisdome riches and power and descanteth that upon them men thinke they have quickly wisdome enough but power and riches never enough whereas too much either of riches or power is troublesome or at least unprofitable But a man can never have too much wisdome That power wee thinke wee have wee cannot claime as ou● owne it is Gods right strength is in the Host whereof God is the Lord P●a 4.28 In the multitude of people is the Kings honour but the want of the people is the destruction of the Prince it is the Lord that hath hearts of people in his hand he maketh them subject to their Governours and mooveth them against their Rulers he uniteth and divideth them in Court in Councell in field when he hath a purpose to dash them one against another he doth divide them Ier. 13 1●.14 I will fill all the Inhabitants of the Land the Kings that sit upon Davids Throne and the Priests and the Prophets and all the Inhabitants of Jerusalem with drunkennesse And I will dash them one against another even the Fathers and the Sonnes together saith the Lord I will pity nor spare nor have mercy but destroy them He can make such divisions that no unity of interest of condition of affinity or consaguity can prevent he can divide Kings and Subjects Subjects and Subjects Kings and Lords Kings and Commons Lords and Commons Lords and Lords Commons and Commons Father and Son Brother and Brother where still note that the neerer the conjunction the more dangerous the discord That some differences should arise among the people is not wonderfull the ordinary course of justice doth heale them that some greivances should arise betweene the King and the Commons is not strange it is the businesse of a Parliament to redresse them Then my Lords had you a call from God by the duties of your places to have been the instruments of unity then should you have made use of your learning to have reconciled them then you had use for Divinity Law Pollicy Instice Power a little of all these in your hands would have set all things right if yee and the King had then beene tyed together with the bonds of Christ yee might have ruled him and contented the people But insteed of reconciling the difference betweene them yee also fell at odds among your selves Parliaments doe expect some difference the first worke the Commons use to doe is to represent their greivances unto your Lordships from whom by the very intendment of the Law they doe expect redresse You by your places as Councellors to the King and Judges of the people having power over both should have acted the parts of good reconcilers but this iron rod of Gods displeasure fel on you also the very Phisition had got the plague You likewise were divided among your selves I blame you not I rather pity you your power was broken by the iucroachment of former Princes you were defrauded of your learning here required by discontinuance of Parliaments your education honour among the people by Courtship Kings and Commons have heretofore joyned together to breake the power of Lords and now they fall out the Lords have not power to helpe them And now I take up the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of my Text as applicable to this purpose where I crave leave to speake to your Lordshippes in the language of my Text. It had beene very good that the King and your Lordships had alwaies beene wise and learned enough to have beene alwaies under the yoke of Christ Psal 72. from 1. to 15. never to have consulted any thing against God and Christ Mach. Pranespag 36. never to have departed any thing from the wayes of God and Christ the wayes of judgement and justice I meane which are his wayes That Turkish cutlandish distinction found in Machiavil of civilis soluta potentia which is power above Law and by Law had not been misconstrued and made use of upon all occasions in the Kings name at Court in former times I wish it had been the manner of our Kings alwaies to have ruled by the positive Lawes as far as the justice of them would any wayes extend and when any thing of unjustice did fall upon the letter of the positive Law that should be reformed by the Law of God and the universall Law of nature that had not been done by a cabinet Councell but a Councell of State in