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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	faith_n	overcome_v	victory_n	10,069	5	9.2408	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15700	An armoure of proufe very profitable, as well for princes, noble men; and gentlemen, as all other in authoritie, shewing the firme fortresse of defence, and hauen of rest in these troublesome times and perilous dayes. Made by Iohn VVoolton minister of the Gospell.	Woolton, John, 1535?-1594.	1576 (1576)	STC 25974; ESTC S106615	49,980	114

Vnto the whiche question we shall answere both soundly and safely if we examine what honor is and gather a definition or declaration hereof out o● Gods word Honor hath sundry slgnifications in the scripture but as it serueth to this cause To honor is to feare to loue to reuerence to obey To obey I say as it were vnto God who exacteth the same at our hands and vnto whom we know out obedience acceptable so that if the magistrate shal eyther do or cōmaund any wicked thing wee may not obey eyther by imitation ●or by action For the latter commaundementes haue relation vnto the first But we are taught in the second commaundement the sinnes and iniquities of the fathers to be punished in the children vnto thr third and fourth generation Therefore they are not to be obeyed in thyngs against God and nature Ionathas hearkened not vnto his father Saule when he sought the life of Dauid and is therefore greatly commended in the word of god The three companions of Daniell obeyed Nabuchodonozer in politicall things they loued him and they reuerenced him as a mightie Monarch and most bountifull prince but when he exected Idolatrie they neglected his power and might Saint Peter the commaunder of obedience due to fathers and Magistrates when the seniors of the people woulde haue stopped hys mouth from preaching of the Lorde Iesus he aunswered earnesily VVe ought rather to obey God than men But what neede I to seeke many proofes seeing the Lorde him selfe hath comprehended all such authorities in one sentence If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters yea and his own life life also he cannot be my disciple It is out of all doubt that the magistrates ought not to commaund any thing againste God and the lawe of nature and they should bend all theyr studie so to gouerne that their subiects may feele and tast that they haue their authoritie from God and that they vse the same in god But if they enterprise any thing without that compasse the subiect shoulde preposterously prefer the seruant before the master It may be demaunded what if the Prince seeing his will and commaundement neglected vse extreame executions against such as will not obey him may the subiect resist with violence I say no no violence by no meanes Let him disobey not in rebelling but in suffering all iniuries and oppressions Let hym not by any calamitie be stirred to lift vp hys hand against a Ruler and so offend the maiestie of god And if he cannot by way of petition and supplication mitigate the Princes anger neyther yet by flight and departure auoyde the same it remayneth that he commit him selfe and his cause to that iust iudge who hath reserued vengeance to him selfe and hath promised to powre it vpon wicked and impenitēt persons at such a time as al their limmes and stayes shall slide from them The violence and extreame crueltie whiche wicked rulers do vnto Christian subiects are of two sortes For some touch temporall things only as our bodies our lands our liuings others do concerne heauēly things as the truth of gods word faith in Christ Iesus the true worshipping of God such like Now as for our Temporal things a Christian may sustayne damage vtter losse of al his goodes yea and of his life also yet may keepe his faith and hope of eternall life firme stable But he may not suffer those diuine heauenly things to be taken frō him For there is no creature bee he neuer so mighty that is able to spoile mē of those treasures Besides that the taking away of heauēly things lie not in the power of the magistrate but remayne by Gods grace in the will and consent of the beleener And the heauenly Lord onely is of power to exercise iudgemente in semblable cases eyther to reiect men and cast them away according to his iustice or to preserue them according to his mercie to eternall life So that albeit the Prince woulde with a thousande torments driue vs to imbrace superstition and idolatrie we are neyther bound to obey him neyther yet is he able if God bee on our side to vanquish and conquere vs. Moreouer there is no small difference betweene those men that doe patiently tolerate vniust violence those that do offer iniurious violēce to others A Christian may suffer with a good and quiet conscience iniustice but hee cannot in like sort practise and execute vnlawful things In all actions therefore the perfit line of Gods law is to be considered and that our desire wil is to do good things and to omit y cōtrary And if being deteined in bonds or imprisonmēts or otherwise we cānot serue y Lord our God yet do earnestly wish and desire to do it In suche case our willes and intentes are accepted before God for acts and deede Againe if the prince do command vs to do y which is to be auoided no man may excuse him selfe before God by reason of that cōmandement neyther wil it be a sufficient discharge vnto him to aunswere I was commanded I was compelled I did it vnwillingly S. Iohn saith this is the victorie whiche ouercommeth the world euen your faithe And howe shall we resist Sathan the greate prince of this world if we be such weakelings that we cannot resist no not the worlde And how shal we resist the whole world if through the threats torments of one worldly prince we turne our backes from the truth He that is regenerate by Gods spirite may truly say I do not now liue but Christ liueth in me I am perswaded that neyther death nor life nor Angels nor Principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come c. shall be able to separate vs from the loue of God whiche is in Christ Iesus our Lorde There is a mirror or glasse of such innocent and vprighte dealing in that worthy man Papinianus in profession a ciuill lawyer in religion an Ethnike which is as hereafter foloweth When the Emperour Autoninus Caracalla whome some do cal Bassinianus had murthered cruelly and vniustly his brother Getha in his mothers lappe who was so deare vnto the army for his father Seuerus his sake that the Souldiers were almost bent to runne vpon Bassinianus with their weapons for that fact the Emperour dealt with Papinianus his counseller whom all the Souldiers reuerenced for his deepe wisedome and vprighte Iustice to defende his vnnaturall offence vnto whome Papinianus aunswered Wilfull patricide ô Emperour is more easily commited than defe●●●d O worthy sentence and well beseeming a counseller and a lawyer That good man was more willing and readie to suffer like smart with Getha which he knew would proceede from the Tirant for his refusall than to defend or by any colour to smooth or cloke wilfull murder But some man will