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A50955	Milton, John, 1608-1674.	The tenure of kings and magistrates proving that it is lawfull, and hath been held so through all ages, for any who have the power, to call to account a tyrant, or wicked king, and after due conviction, to depose and put the author, J.M.	1649.0		.xml	application/xml	13187	269	45	And therefore when they desit'd a King , though then under another forme of goverment , and though thir changing displeasd him , yet he that was himself thir King , and rejected by them , would not be a hindrance to what they inended , furder then by perswasion , but that they might doe therein as they saw good , 1 Sam. 8. onely he reserv'd to himself the nomination of who should reigne over them . And to couple reason with example , if the Church in all ages , Primitive , Romish , or Protestant held it ever no less thir duty then the power of thir Keyes , though without express warrant of Scripture , to bring indifferently both King and Peasant under the utmost rigor of thir Canons and Censures Ecclesiastical , eev'n to the smiting him with a final excommunion , if he persist impenitent , what hinders but that the temporal Law both may and ought , though without a special Text or president , extend with like indifference the civil Sword , to the cutting off without exemption him that capitally offends .	cache/A50955.xml	txt/A50955.txt