item: #1 of 35 id: A07819 author: Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659. title: A sermon preached before the Kings most excellent Majestie, in the cathedrall church of Durham Upon Sunday, being the fifth day of May. 1639. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas Lord Bishop of Duresme. Published by his Majesties speciall command. date: 1639.0 words: 9811 flesch: 65 summary: * Sit Cautio ad●ibenda , ut vires 〈…〉 nt ad ●oc idon●a● s●bd●●● , alioqu● in ●eli●ion●● Catholicae praej●●i●tum ●●d 〈…〉 . ●gaine , Sub●●●● Obe●i●n●●am s●am praeb●ant R●●i●ae pro praesent●●●●u● statu . keywords: answer; apostle; armes; bee; books; briefe; calvin; canon; case; characters; christian; church; command; conclusion; conscience; conspirators; damnation; day; defence; divers; divine; doctrine; doe; doth; early; eebo; emperour; english; epistle; example; excellent; father; fight; force; generall; god; gods; good; government; governours; higher; highest; himselfe; holy; humane; judgement; king; kingdome; lawfull; lib; like; lord; magistrates; majestie; man; martyrs; mortall; needs; notwithstanding; ordinance; owne; paul; people; persecution; persons; peter; place; point; pope; powers; princes; profession; professors; publike; purpose; question; reason; religion; religious; resistance; resisteth; resisting; romish; said; saint; saith; sake; saying; second; seditious; self; soul; spirituall; subject; subjection; sword; tcp; teacheth; tei; text; thomas; time; true; tyrannous; tyrants; unjust; violence; violent; whatsoever; works; world; worldly; yeers; ● ● cache: A07819.xml plain text: A07819.txt item: #2 of 35 id: A25843 author: Philodemius, Eleutherius. title: The armies vindication ... in reply to Mr. William Sedgwick / published for the kingdomes satisfaction by Eleutherius Philodemius. date: 1649.0 words: 30934 flesch: 62 summary: And of the whole Army he saith , Never were men caught in such a snare of the devil as you are : you are true to nothing , neither God nor man : your wayes are beastly , cruel , absurd , monstrous : you continue in armes against command of God and men , you are a company of deceivers and mountebancks , that talke of curing , saving , delivering , but all wast , spoyl and destroy the people . Vain is the help of man : it is to offer help to a wicked world , cease ye foolish men , &c. We have not onely precepts for the lawfulnesse to call for others help , but the Saints in all ages have practised it before us : for howsoever mans help is vain rested in , yet God gives in Power to the creature , whereby succour and deliverance is obtained ▪ Again the worse the world is , the more need there is of help , that enormities and abuses may redressed , and righteousnesse , truth , and peace restored . keywords: able; act; admiral; ages; alwayes; answer; armies; army; authority; bad; best; better; blood; body; book; broken; cals; cap; cause; censure; change; chief; children; christ; church; civil; clear; common; conscience; contradiction; contrary; councel; course; covenant; creature; crown; danger; darknesse; day; deal; death; desire; destruction; divine; doe; dogs; don; doth; edward; end; enemies; enemy; evil; excellency; eyes; false; falshood; fathers; fear; form; france; free; glory; god; godly; gods; good; government; great; greater; greatest; ground; hand; hath; hearts; help; high; hold; hope; howsoever; humane; interest; israel; judge; judgment; justice; kind; king; kingdom; kingdomes; land; large; law; lawfull; laws; leave; lesse; liberties; liberty; life; like; little; long; lord; magistrates; man; manifest; matter; means; men; mind; misgovernment; monarchy; mother; mouth; nation; nature; necessary; need; neverthelesse; new; non; oath; occasion; officers; open; pag; page; parliament; particular; party; passe; people; person; place; point; popular; power; presence; present; preservation; princes; principles; profit; protestants; publick; punishment; purpose; question; reader; reason; religion; remonstrance; right; righteous; roman; ruin; rule; safety; saints; saith; salvation; satisfaction; saying; second; sedgwick; self; selves; set; shew; sin; soveraign; spirit; state; strength; subjects; succession; sundry; supream; text; thee; thing; thou; time; tongue; treaty; true; trust; truth; turn; tyranny; tyrant; unlesse; vain; war; way; wayes; wealth; wel; whatsoever; wicked; william; wise; wit; words; work; world; wrath; yea cache: A25843.xml plain text: A25843.txt item: #3 of 35 id: A26737 author: Barnes, John, d. 1661. Catholico-romanus pacificus. English. Selections. title: The ancient liberty of the Britannick church, and the legitimate exemption thereof from the Roman patriarchate discoursed on four positions, and asserted / by Isaac Basier ... ; three chapters concerning the priviledges of the Britannick church, &c., selected out of a Latin manuscript, entituled, Catholico-romanus pacificus, written by F.I. Barnes ... ; translated, and published for vulgar instruction, by Ri. Watson. date: 1661.0 words: 12920 flesch: 57 summary: Sir George , upon Theological points of controversie , wherein they differed , and which they discussed with some little earnestness , yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; If the former be not irrecoverably disposed of , Sir , you have now a fair opportunity to secure them ; though , if the good Doctor himself be living , the late misfortune befallen the Country learned * Travellers , not to exercise their function where the duty of praying for the King should be prohibited ; And a signal instance it was of Christian courage in our Reverend Author , when an Exile , to refuse the offer of a plentiful support , where that would not be allowed ; yet it had been worth his journey to Smyrna , to convert the Consul , who now , I hope , hath more than the Merchants argument ( which many times is more prevalent with men of business , than the Divines ) I mean , that of Interest , to convince him . I say , the Origin of every one of these , is referred by the Council ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , to Custome ; And moreover the Synod doth decree a Religious Observation of that Custome in these solemn words , which the Church truly Catholick did perpetually reverence as an Oracle , viz. keywords: affairs; alwaies; ancient; appeal; augustin; authority; barnes; basier; bede; bee; bishop; books; britain; britannick; britannick church; canon; case; catholick; catholick church; chalcedon; characters; christian; church; churches; clergy; communion; consent; council; custome; decree; dioceses; doctor; early; ecclesiastick; eebo; eighth; emperour; england; english; external; fact; fathers; force; general; god; good; government; great; hath; hee; henry; holy; imperial; intire; italick; iustinian; jurisdiction; king; kingdome; latin; law; liberty; little; long; lord; manuscript; matter; mee; metropolitane; monk; moses; new; nicene; oath; occasion; oecumenick; onely; order; patriarchate; patriarchs; pope; position; power; priest; priviledges; provinces; publick; reason; religion; rest; right; roman; romanus; rome; royal; sacred; said; second; self; sir; special; state; subject; synod; tcp; text; thing; time; title; universal; use; viz; watson; way; wee; wit; words; work; yea; years cache: A26737.xml plain text: A26737.txt item: #4 of 35 id: A27115 author: Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657? title: The royal charter granted unto kings, by God himself and collected out of his Holy Word, in both Testaments / by T.B. ... ; whereunto is added by the same author, a short treatise, wherein Episcopacy is proved to be jure divino. date: 1649.0 words: 33540 flesch: 39 summary: Secondly , God shewed him ; for n●●ther the people , nor any of the Sain● nor the Elders of Bethlehem , no , nor Sam●●l himself , knew not where to find this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Kings , till God said , This is he , he shall ●ign over my People , 1 Sam. 9.17 . It is written that the hearts of Kings are in the hands of the Lord , and he disposeth them as seemeth best to his heavenly wisdome ; certainly I would ●ake a little advice from that heart , ●hat is so directed by that hand ; the Kings head never plotted Treason a●ainst the Crown , and no man can wish ●etter to His Majesty then the King . keywords: abraham; act; age; almighty; angels; anointed; anointing; answer; apostles; authority; bad; best; better; bishops; bloud; body; break; calling; calvin; cause; chap; charls; child; children; christ; christian; church; command; common; condition; conscience; contrary; coronation; country; crown; david; day; dayes; death; dei; destruction; difference; divino; doctrine; doe; domini; doth; earth; emperour; end; enemy; england; english; episcopacy; evil; extraordinary; eyes; fall; false; father; fear; feet; fire; fit; flesh; free; ghost; glorious; god; gods; good; gospel; government; grace; great; greatest; ground; gyant; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; high; higher; highest; hold; holy; honour; hope; house; husband; isaac; israel; jehu; job; judge; jure; jus; justice; kind; king; kingdome; land; law; lawfull; laws; lay; leave; lesse; liberty; life; like; little; long; lords; love; making; man; manner; mans; master; mat; meanes; meaning; men; mighty; ministers; monarchy; murder; nature; necessity; new; noble; obedience; office; opinion; ordinance; owne; oyl; oyle; parliament; paul; peace; pen; people; person; peter; pharaoh; piece; pope; power; pretences; priests; princes; prophet; queen; question; reason; rebellion; regard; religion; reproved; respect; rest; rex; right; rod; rom; rome; royall; rule; sacred; said; saint; saith; sake; sam; samuel; saul; saviour; scepter; scripture; sea; seed; self; selves; servant; set; severall; shee; shoulders; signifie; solomon; sons; spirit; state; stones; strength; stretch; subject; submission; sufficient; supremacy; supreme; sure; t ●; tangere; tels; text; thee; thing; thou; throne; time; tongue; touch; touch'd; tree; true; unto; venetians; verse; viz; voice; war; water; way; wee; wel; whatsoever; wife; wisdome; word; worse; years; ● d; ● e; ● f; ● hat; ● hen; ● ing; ● nd; ● ny; ● o; ● s; ● ● cache: A27115.xml plain text: A27115.txt item: #5 of 35 id: A27454 author: Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691. title: The original of kingly and ecclesiastical government by T.B. ... date: 1681.0 words: 30377 flesch: 42 summary: Dear Christians , are we better pleased with the glittering tin●el of a painted Baby from a Pedlers shop , than with the rich , and inestimabl● Jewels of Divine truth ? will we suffer our s●lves to be cozene● with the g●lded slips of error ? and what Enthusi●smes every pretended spirit , if not ev●ry ●obler , Weaver , Groom , or Coach-man , shall dictate , who are but velut ign●ae , and velut status , as it were of fire , or as it were a mighty an●●ushing wind , but nothing sensible , some hot exhalations of the brain set on fire , by th● continual motion , an● agitation of the tongue . He was neither exalted of the p●ople , nor chosen of the people , I have exalted one chosen out of the people , said God , ( vers . keywords: abraham; act; almighty; angels; anointed; anointing; answer; apostles; authority; bad; best; better; bishops; blood; body; books; calling; calvin; cause; chap; charles; child; children; christ; christian; church; command; common; conscience; contrary; coronation; country; crown; david; day; days; death; depose; destruction; difference; divino; doctrine; dominion; doth; earth; eebo; end; england; english; episcopacy; evil; extraordinary; eyes; fall; father; fear; fire; free; freedom; fruit; general; ghost; god; gods; gold; good; gospel; government; grace; great; greatest; ground; gyant; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; high; higher; highest; hold; holy; honour; hope; house; image; isaac; israel; jehu; john; judgment; jure; jus; kind; king; kingdom; law; lawful; laws; lay; leave; liberty; like; little; long; lords; making; man; master; mat; meaning; means; mighty; ministers; monarchy; nature; necessity; new; noble; obedience; office; opinion; ordinance; original; oyl; paul; people; person; peter; pharaoh; piece; place; pleased; pope; power; pretences; priests; prince; psal; queen; question; reason; rebellion; regard; reign; religion; reproved; respect; rest; right; rod; rom; rule; sacred; said; saint; saith; sake; sam; samuel; saul; saviour; scepter; scripture; sea; self; selves; servant; set; signifie; solomon; soul; spirit; state; strength; subjects; submission; sufficient; supremacy; sure; tangere; tcp; text; thee; thing; thou; thought; throne; thy; time; tongue; touch; tree; true; tyranny; unto; violence; viz; war; warrant; water; way; whatsoever; wife; word; work; worse; wrath; ● e; ● s; ● t; ● ● cache: A27454.xml plain text: A27454.txt item: #6 of 35 id: A28864 author: Boughen, Edward, 1587?-1660? title: Master Geree's Case of conscience sifted Wherein is enquired, vvhether the King (considering his oath at coronation to protect the clergy and their priviledges) can with a safe conscience consent to the abrogation of episcopacy. By Edward Boughen. D.D. date: 1650.0 words: 69955 flesch: 81 summary: b I sh●ll endeav●u● to shew , that though for argument s●ke , it be grant●● , that Episcopacy●e ●e lawfull I G. p 2. c I. G. p. For King● have their Commission from God ; but all State Governors from the King : and Iowe them no subjection beyond their Commission . keywords: 2ly; 3ly; aaron; able; abolisht; abolition; abrogation; abuse; acknowledgeth; act; acts; advice; ages; allegiance; alteration; ancient; apostles; argument; arke; articles; assembly; assent; aug; authority; bad; beleeve; best; better; beza; bishops; blessed; blessing; blood; body; bond; book; branch; brethren; calling; calvin; care; case; causes; certain; chap; charge; charta; charter; children; christ; christian; chron; church; churches; civill; clergie; clergy; coke; command; commission; common; communion; conceive; condition; confesse; confession; conscience; consent; consideration; contrary; cor; coronation; cotton; councell; court; covenant; crown; cum; curse; cut; cypr; danger; david; day; defence; deo; desire; difference; distinct; distinction; divine; doctrine; dominions; doth; dutie; duty; ecclesiasticall; edward; eliz; endeavour; enemies; england; english; epaphroditus; episcopacy; equall; equity; error; estates; evident; exod; experience; extirpation; eye; fall; false; fathers; fault; fear; fellow; fit; force; forfeiture; foundation; free; g. p.; gen; generall; geree; gift; glory; god; gods; good; good king; gospel; government; governors; grant; great; greater; grounds; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; heavenly; henry; high; higher; hist; holden; holy; honour; hope; house; i. g.; immunities; incongruous; inconvenient; indulged; ingaged; ingagement; inheritance; injurie; injurious; institution; intention; interest; israel; jesus; judgement; jure; jurisdiction; justice; justifie; king; kingdom; laity; lands; large; law; lawfull; laws; lay; league; learned; leave; legall; levit; lex; liberties; liberty; life; light; like; litleton; little; lives; loc; london; long; lord; luk; mag; magna; maintaine; maintenance; majestie; major; man; manifest; manner; masters; mat; meaning; means; meet; members; ministers; minor; moses; multitude; nature; nay; necessary; necessity; needs; new; non; note; notice; num; oath; obedience; observe; office; officers; onely; opinion; ordain; order; orderly; ordinance; ordinary; ordination; parliament; parochiall; particular; passe; pastors; paul; peers; people; perchance; performe; persons; perswade; petition; place; plain; pleasure; popery; posterity; potest; power; preaching; preists; prejudiciall; prelacy; prelates; presbyteriall; presbyters; present; pretence; priesthood; priests; princes; private; priviledges; profession; proposition; protect; protection; psal; publick; pulpit; purpose; question; qui; quia; quod; realm; reason; regular; religion; religious; resolution; rest; return; revenues; rex; rights; rob; rom; root; royall; ruine; rule; sacraments; sacred; sacriledge; safe; said; saith; sake; saviour; scotland; scripture; second; sect; self; selves; sense; service; set; severall; shew; sin; sinne; sir; sit; society; solemne; soveraign; speak; spirituall; state; statute; subjection; subjects; suffer; supremacies; supremacy; supreme; sure; sworne; tcp; tels; temporall; terrae; text; thee; thes; things; thou; time; timothy; title; titus; true; trust; truth; turn; unjust; unlawfull; unlesse; usurpation; utmost; valid; viii; void; vote; want; way; wealth; westminster; whatsoever; wise; word; work; worth; writ; wrong; yea; yeeld; ● e; ● t; ● u; ● y; ● ● cache: A28864.xml plain text: A28864.txt item: #7 of 35 id: A29375 author: Bridge, William, 1600?-1670. title: The truth of the times vindicated whereby the lawfulnesse of Parliamentary procedings in taking up of arms, is justified, Doctor Fernes reply answered, and the case in question more fully resolved / by William Bridge ... date: 1643.0 words: 27733 flesch: 64 summary: sa●●ff . P. 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8. for Truths of the time , r. Truth of the times ▪ p 4 for there r. they p 5. for Altha●ius r. Altha●ius , for Henomus , &c. r. Henonius . keywords: abstract; act; anabaptists; answer; apostle; apud; arbitrary; argument; aristocracie; armes; army; aswell; autem; authority; authors; battell; bee; better; bilson; body; booke; bridge; brownists; cap; car; case; chap; chiefe; children; choice; christ; chron; church; churches; civill; civill power; command; commandements; common; communitie; condition; conscience; consent; constitution; contrary; countrey; court; crown; cum; d ●; david; day; death; defection; defence; dei; delinquents; deo; designation; difference; disposed; divines; divino; doctor; doctrine; doe; dominion; donation; doore; doth; duty; earth; election; enemies; england; english; enim; esse; est; evill; example; exercise; extraordinary; families; family; father; ferne; fit; force; forceable; forth; foundation; free; gibea; god; god himselfe; gods; goe; good; governing; government; governours; granteth; great; ground; hands; hath; head; hebrew; hee; higher; highest; himselfe; houses; illa; immediate; inferiour; instruction; israel; ita; josephus; jotham; judgement; judges; jure; jurisdiction; justice; king; kingdome; kingly; labour; lame; land; late; law; lawes; lawfull; lawfulnesse; leave; lib; life; like; london; long; longer; lord; magistrate; manner; matter; mendoza; minister; monarchicall; moses; nam; nations; naturall; nature; nec; need; new; noah; non; oath; obedience; officers; onely; opinion; ordinance; owne; pag; page; papists; parliament; parliamentary; particular; parties; party; passive; paternall; people; person; peter; pineda; place; plaine; pleased; populo; potestas; potestatem; power; practise; prayers; present; preservation; primogeniture; prince; private; promise; pronoune; protestant; proving; punishment; purpose; quae; qualification; quam; question; qui; quia; quod; reader; reason; referre; regall; regard; regni; reigne; religion; remedy; replies; reply; resistance; respect; rest; right; rise; roman; rule; rulers; ruling; said; saith; salomon; sam; samuel; saul; sayes; scripture; seat; second; sect; sed; seeing; selves; senate; sentence; service; set; severall; shew; sinne; sit; sonnes; souldiers; speakes; speech; state; stranger; subjects; sunt; supremacy; supreme; sword; taking; tamen; tels; testimonies; testimony; text; thee; things; thou; time; tribes; true; trust; truth; unlawfull; use; vel; vero; verse; violence; warrant; warre; way; wealth; wee; wicked; william; words; work; world; yea; yee; zepperus; ● e; ● o; ● s; ● t; ● ● cache: A29375.xml plain text: A29375.txt item: #8 of 35 id: A29394 author: Bridgeman, Orlando, Sir, 1608-1674. title: The judgment of Sir Orlando Bridgman declared in his charge to the jury at the arraignment of the twenty nine regicides (the murtherers of King Charles the First, of Most Glorious Memory) began at Hicks-Hall on Tuesday the ninth of October, 1660, and continued at the sessions-house in the Old-Baily, until Friday the ninteenth of the same month. date: 1690.0 words: 1934 flesch: 67 summary: The judgment of Sir Orlando Bridgman declared in his charge to the jury at the arraignment of the twenty nine regicides (the murtherers of King Charles the First, of Most Glorious Memory) began at Hicks-Hall on Tuesday the ninth of October, 1660, and continued at the sessions-house in the Old-Baily, until Friday the ninteenth of the same month. The judgment of Sir Orlando Bridgman declared in his charge to the jury at the arraignment of the twenty nine regicides (the murtherers of King Charles the First, of Most Glorious Memory) began at Hicks-Hall on Tuesday the ninth of October, 1660, and continued at the sessions-house in the Old-Baily, until Friday the ninteenth of the same month. keywords: books; bridgman; characters; charles; crown; early; eebo; england; english; god; head; king; law; memory; old; online; orlando; phase; power; regicides; sir; subject; supream; tcp; tei; text cache: A29394.xml plain text: A29394.txt item: #9 of 35 id: A30561 author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662. title: A visitation and presentation of love unto the King, and those call'd Royallists date: 1660.0 words: 16618 flesch: 0 summary: We do believe he may and ought justly , and with most safety to himself , and happiness to the Kingdoms , Tollerate and Allow free LIBERTY of CONSCIENCE in all the Matters of Faith and Worship towards God ; for LIBERTY in exercise of CONSCIENCE , in the Matters of Gods Kingdom , is a very precious thing to the Lord , and very dear in his sight , and he is tender of it ; and I do stedfastly believe , he will not bless the Rulers of this Nation , that shall deny ( to the People of this Nation ) and oppose LIBERTY of CONSCIENCE in the exercise of Faith and Worship towards God ; for I do know it is not given of God to any Earthly King or Ruler whatsoever , to exercise Lordship over the Consciences of People in the Matters of Faith and Worship , and the things pertaining to Gods Kingdom ; for Kings and Rulers , are but to Rule over men in a Nation , in the Matters between one man and another , in outward things and worldly affairs ; and therein only men ought to Rule in Equity over a Nation , or City , or Country ; and Magistracy in this state , and for such an end is Gods Ordinance appointed of him , for the preserving of Peace and good order among men in outward things ; and it is a priviledge of the Crown of Christs Spiritual Kingdom , to be Lord and Ruler over and in mens Consciences , in Faith and Worship , and all the Matters of his Kingdom , even as and according to his pleasure , and as his Spirit leads and guids ; for , and if any man shall assume to prescribe God a way how he must be Worshipped , and shall limit his Spirit from this , or to the other way of Religion , and think to be Lord in mens Consciences in religious Matters , such are but Usurpers , and are not well-pleasing to the Lord ( in such their way and Government ) if they oppress mens Consciences , by limiting from , or compelling to any such way of Worship or kind of Religion ; neither are they Ordained to Rule among men for that end , not to be King and Iudge , and Law giver in Heavenly and Spiritual Matters ; and this ought not CHARLES ( the King ) to do : but and if he do it , and will not let Christ alone be the Head over his Church , it cannot be with safety to himself , nor happiness to the Kingdoms , nor justly in the sight of God , but it will work contrary effects : And whether this Rebuke and Reproof that you have had in this measure of Suffering that hath been upon you , was not in some measure Iust as from the Lord ; that you might be humbled before him ; though it is by me acknowledged that your Enemies ( these I mean ) who are now cast out before you ; brought great guilt upon themselves , in executing Wrath upon you , in that , and because they proceeded further , and into more Bitterness , and Cruelty towards you , then they had either Commission or Authority from God ; But whether there was not a Iustice as from the Lord in that which partly befel you ? And was not his hand many times against you in Battel , though Number nor Valour was not wanting on your part , yet are not you sensible how by a Secret hand you were often Defeated , and Victory given to your Enemies , though the less in Number ? And were not these things in the Iustice of the Lords Hand ? Whether do you not believe it , and acknowledge it ? Quer. 5. Whether or no you do intend any Reformation from OLD Oppressions ? Or whether you intend to tread in the very steps and to walk in the very path in every Particular of Government , as it stood & was carryed on in the beginning of CHARLES the First his dayes ? And whether you ought not in the sight of God and before him , to consider how to relieve the Oppressed , and break off all Cruel Bonds of Injustice , & how a Government may be set up , which may be answerable to the Lord , & not unto your own and other Corrupted mens ends ? but if you shall do so , Whether do you Answer the End or Deny the End , wherefore the Lord hath thus dealt with you , in giving of you this Day unexpected , and contrary to all your Enemies ? And whether do you not believe , that God hath set you between good and evil , between Right and Wrong , between doing of his Will and the Will of the Devil , in the doing and fullfilling one or the other by you , whether doth not Depend Happiness and Blessedness upon you ; or the Woe and the Curse , your Standing or your Fall , your Renown or your Dishonour perpetually ? Quer. 6. Whether or no you do not believe in your Consciences , that the Prosperity , and Continuance , and Happiness of this your Government to your selves , the King , and Kingdomes ; or the Unhappiness , Overthrow , Misery , and Confusion of the Government it self , the King and these Nations , doth not stand and wholly depend upon the Government and Authority , as it proceedeth in Iustice , Righteousness and Equity , or as it is , and proceedeth contrary , and is Injustice , Oppression , and Unrighteousness ? And if therein it stand , whether do you believe in your Consciences that God shall Bless it , and Prosper it ; or he shall Destroy it , and Confound it ? for is not the hand of the Lord Stretched forth in Mercy , or in Iudgment accordingly as men walketh in his Fear , or without his Fear ? And whether if your CAUSE be Iust in it self , yet if-you walk in Unrighteousness , and Ungodliness , and Oppression , and Cruelty , Whether may not you thereby destroy your Cause and Loose it , and provoke the Lord to anger against you , and your Cause , to Confound you , and Destroy you ? And whether you do seriously Consider of this ? And is it not your Duty so to do ? And ought you not to endeavour to stop this Flood of Wickedness that is broken out ? which if it it be not stopped may provoke God against you , to overthrow your proceedings . Quer. 7. What is the very End of Rule and Government outward in this World ? And for what Cause did God at the first ordain it ? whether upon this , or not , really consider ; Was it not that Evil Doers might be Punished ; And them that did well , might be Praised ? And was not the outward Law added because of Transgrssion , and to Punish Transgressors ; But for the Preserving of the Peaceable and Meek , who walked in the Law of God ; and when the People had forgotten God , and his Law in their hearts , and his Power that executed Iudgment and Meroy ; Was it not then that the Law outward was added , and committed into the Hands of Men to execute upon such as regarded not the Law of God in their hearts ? And is not this the very End of Rule and Government , and Magistracy , at this very day ? Whether ought it to be extended further than only over and concerning the Affairs of the outward Man , to keep that in good order , not to be a Load and Burthen , and Vexation , and Bondage upon a Nation and People ; but to Suppress that which would Load and Burthen , and Oppress the Creation and People , that all men may be preserved in their just Right , and not Vex and Oppress one anothers Persons and Estates ? And if your Government be not from this Ground and for this very End , shall it ever be blessed and happy , either to the Governors or Governed ? Quer. 8. What do you believe of , and concerning LIBERTY of CONSCIENCE , in all Matters appertaining to the Kingdome of God ? Whether ought not you to give that LIBERTY in your Government , that every man and all sorts of People may believe in God , and Worship God according as he or they shall suppose and be perswaded in his or their Consciences ; provided still , that he and they annoy not , or Oppress his or their neighbors Person or Estate ? for if he or they do that , then he and they go out of the true Faith , and breaks the Law of God ; and the outward Law is to take hold of him and them : But whether it is not a just Right , and may justly be allowed from you , to all the People of this Nation , to live under what Ministry , and under what Worship , and to go to what Assemblies , as they shall suppose or be perswaded in their Consciences is the Best and Rightest ? And whether or no it be not GODS Proper Right alone to be Ruler and Lord over mens Consciences , and that he alone should Prescribe , Instruct , and Teach Faith , Worship , and Duty , in all things in the matters of his own Kingdome ? And whether God hath committed that Power and Authority , ever since the dayes of Christ , to any Emperor , King , or other Ruler whatsoever , to be Lord , and to exercise Lordship , in , and over mens Consciences in the matters appertaining to Gods Kingdome ? And whether it is not Gods only and alone Peculiar Priviledge to be Lord there ; and not any man to impose one upon another in Spiritual Matters ? And whether you your selves would be Imposed upon in such case ? ( that is ) Whether you would have such a Church-Government and Ministry , Imposed upon you , upon such or such a Penalty , which you Know , or Believe , or Suppose is not Right , nor according to God , nor Suiting with your own Consciences ? And then how can you with good Conscience in the sight of God , Impose upon others , whenas your selves would not be Imposed upon in such a Case ? Quer. 9. Whether or no , if that you cause any to Suffer Loss , or be Afflicted in Person , or Estate , for and because of their Conscience sake ( that is ) because they are of such a Faith , and of such a Worship , and of such a Principle in Religious matters , though different from others and from you ; yet if they walk Honestly , and Soberly , and Peaceably as men , and not Plotting and Contriving any Mischief in the Nation : I say , if you Cause any Such to Suffer upon that account , while you can charge nothing against them , but matters of Faith and Iudgment , and Opinion in Spiritual things ; Again I say , Whether or no such Suffering is not absolute Persecution , ( and Innocent on his or their part that so Suffereth any Injustice , Cruelty , Tyranny , and Oppression ) on your part that doth Inflict ? And will not the Lord require it of you , if you bring Innocent blood , and Cruel Sufferings upon your selves ? And is not that Innocent blood which is Spilt , and Unjust , and Cruel Sufferings which is Inflicted upon a man or a People , for his and their Conscience , and Religions-sake , when no matter of wrong or evil dealing amongst men , And in that Relation , is , or can be Charged upon them ? And whether do you not believe , that God will Avenge such a Suffering , which is for Conscience sake , upon the Heads of the Causers and Inflictors of it in his Day and Season ? Quer. 10. keywords: answer; better; blessed; cause; church; conscience; contrary; day; dayes; doth; end; enemies; estates; faith; fear; god; gods; good; government; great; guilt; hand; hath; hearts; injustice; iudgment; iustice; king; law; liberty; lord; man; matters; measure; nation; oppression; oppressors; outward; peace; people; power; present; principles; proceedings; purpose; quer; reign; religion; righteousness; rule; sake; self; selves; sight; spirit; spiritual; suffering; supremacy; text; things; time; unjust; unto; way; wickedness; worship cache: A30561.xml plain text: A30561.txt item: #10 of 35 id: A33467 author: Clifford, William, A.M. title: The power of kings, particularly the British monarchy asserted and vindicated, in a sermon preached at Wakefield in the county of York, Sunday, October the 30th, 1681 by William Clifford. date: 1682.0 words: 8833 flesch: 63 summary: But I hast to my Fourth and Last Proposition , namely , 4. That since the Persons , and Powers of KINGS are esteemed Sacred , both by the Laws of God , Nature , and all Nations ; to exhort all Men , that they be to the utmost of their Power careful not to violate so great a Priviledge . That since the Persons , and Power of Kings are esteemed Sacred , both by the Laws of God , Nature , and all Nations ; I shall exhort all Men , that they be to the utmost of their Power careful , not to violate so great a Priviledge . keywords: actions; apostle; authority; best; books; catholic; characters; christian; church; clifford; contradiction; david; doth; duty; early; eebo; emperour; england; english; evil; general; god; good; great; greater; greatest; hands; hath; inferiour; interest; judgment; justice; king; law; lawful; laws; like; lives; long; lord; magistrates; majesty; man; mean; men; nations; nature; needs; obedience; original; oxford; paul; people; person; pious; power; practice; primitive; princes; private; priviledge; prophet; proposition; question; reason; religion; respect; sacred; saith; saviour; self; sermon; shew; sin; subject; sufficient; supream; tcp; tei; text; thing; true; universal; use; william; work; world cache: A33467.xml plain text: A33467.txt item: #11 of 35 id: A33908 author: Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726. title: Dr. Sherlock's Case of allegiance considered with some remarks upon his vindication. date: 1691.0 words: 64709 flesch: 69 summary: Now I have made it appear , that King is the Name of Right , not of meer Force ; that Authority and Power are things vastly different ; that Usurpers have no Authority from God , neither soveraign nor unsoveraign ; and that their actual Administration of Government is no more an Evidence of a Commission from Heaven , than any other Success of private Injustice : Therefore , unless he can disprove what I have urged upon these Heads , there is no danger of his making Passive-Obedience dependent upon his new Scheme . I hope the Doctor does not believe Antiochus could make himself King of Iudea whether God would or no : keywords: able; account; act; administration; advantage; affirms; alexander; allegiance; almighty; answer; apostle; appears; argument; army; assistance; authority; babylon; bad; better; bishop; body; book; break; business; canon; case; certain; character; church; circumstances; civil; claim; clear; command; common; condition; conscience; consent; consequence; constitution; contradiction; contrary; convocation; country; cromwel; crown; danger; darius; david; death; defence; design; desire; different; direction; dispute; distinction; divine; divine authority; divine right; doctor; doctrine; dominion; doubt; duty; empire; end; england; english; entail; estates; events; evil; express; family; farther; fear; follow; force; foreign; general; god; good; government; governors; grants; great; greater; ground; hands; hard; having; heaven; hebrews; heirs; hereditary; high; higher; history; honour; human; iaddus; ibid; iews; illegal; immediate; impossible; injustice; instance; interest; interpretation; iosephus; israel; israelites; iudea; jews; judges; jurisdiction; justice; king; kingdom; know; lawful; lawfully; laws; leave; legal; legal right; liberty; little; lives; long; lord; loyalty; majesty; making; man; mankind; manner; matter; meaning; means; meer; mind; ministers; monarchies; nation; national; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; new; oath; obedience; objection; obligation; occasion; old; opinion; orders; original; ought; pag; parliament; particular; party; paul; pay; people; permission; person; place; plain; pleased; point; possession; power; present; preservation; pretend; prince; principles; private; privilege; property; proposition; providence; publick; purpose; question; reader; reason; reasoning; rebellion; religion; respect; revelation; right; rightful; romans; royal; rule; said; sam; satisfaction; saviour; scheme; scripture; second; security; self; sense; settlement; short; sign; society; soveraign; state; subjects; submission; success; succession; sufficient; support; sure; tcp; text; thing; throne; time; title; true; truth; unjust; unlawful; unquestionable; usurpation; usurper; vind; violence; viz; way; wickedness; wonder; words; world; wrong; years cache: A33908.xml plain text: A33908.txt item: #12 of 35 id: A34365 author: Constable, Robert. title: God and the king, or, Monarchy proved from Holy Writ to be the onely legitimate species of politick government, and the onely polity constituted and appointed by God wherein the phantasied principles of supereminencing the peoples welfare above the kings honour, and popular election of kings are manifested to be groundless and unseasonable / briefly collected by Robert Constable. date: 1680.0 words: 9921 flesch: 56 summary: Who went down to Egypt with all his posterity , and there lived in Bondage and slavery , till God raised up Moses their Monarch and Ruler , by whose hand he delivered them , and after Successively continued that Monarchical Rule over them ( as is manifest in the holy History of the Israelites ) even from Moses unto our Saviour Christ , King of Kings , and the true King of the Jewes , Matth. The other , where God used their means for the vindication of the Kings just Title against an Usurper , as in Joas , whom Jehoida the Priest , and the Captaines , and the people crowned and annointed King in the Temple ; restoring him to his just Rights which had been usurped by his Grandmother Athaliah , 2 King. 11. 12 , 13. keywords: actions; acts; authority; blessing; blood; cause; christ; constable; covenant; creatures; crown; david; declare; divine; doth; duty; eebo; efficient; election; end; english; extraordinary; general; glory; god; gods; good; government; ground; hath; holy; honour; immediate; instrumental; israel; judge; judgement; king; lawful; legitimate; like; lord; man; manifest; matth; means; monarchical; monarchy; natural; necessary; obedience; onely; ordinance; ordinary; particular; peace; people; person; power; principal; reason; regal; right; robert; rom; royal; rule; sam; samuel; saul; self; society; solomon; species; subject; supremacy; tcp; text; title; true; trust; viz; wayes; welfare; whereof; world cache: A34365.xml plain text: A34365.txt item: #13 of 35 id: A36385 author: Doughty, John, 1598-1672. title: The Kings cavse rationally, briefly, and plainly debated, as it stands de facto against the irrationall, groundlesse misprisions of a still deceived sort of people. date: 1644.0 words: 12292 flesch: 44 summary: Hee who by virtue of his place is , & hath been alwaies so esteemed of in former times , not only {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , the chiefe framer and withall dispenser of lawes , but also {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , the very life and soule of the law : A point therefore which Maiestie useth but seldome to stoop to ; Princes accounting of none as competent Judges of them and their Actions , save God alone ; since it is a true saying , Rex est qui Regem , Maxime , non habeat , He is truely a King who acknowledgeth no commanding power upon earth above himselfe . Againe we find in Councells how there hath swayed oftimes a prevailing faction or party : so as they deserved not so much to have beene termed Concilia , as Conciliabula , rather Conventicles then lawfull assemblies , and accordingly the result of their consultations hath usually tasted strong of the prevailing side : nay , we have heard of Councells or Synods , that for a great part there sitting , in the first choice or constitution of them , have not alwayes beene , 't was thought , so impartially assigned to the place , as not consisting of the best , the ablest , and every way fittest for the worke that might be found : witnesse the many examples of Councells both ancient and moderne too , which might be called upon in attestation of these truths ; I apply not the one , nor the other : but this I may perhaps inoffensively say : what hath often happen happened to a Councell , may at some time be fall a Senate : those of the short robe are not more exempted then those of the long ; Howbeit I wave the point , with a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} there , wishing , though no wayes hoping , all to be well . keywords: a36385; able; acts; affaires; alwaies; armes; bee; beleeve; best; better; blood; body; businesse; cause; certaine; chiefe; church; commands; common; commonwealth; conscience; consideration; contrary; councells; david; defensive; doe; doth; drawne; duty; earth; end; english; ere; estates; feare; generall; god; gods; goe; good; government; great; ground; groundlesse; hands; hath; heads; heart; hee; highest; himselfe; hitherto; irrationall; kinde; king; kingdome; knowne; late; law; lawes; lawfull; like; long; love; manner; matter; meane; men; misprisions; nation; nature; nay; needs; new; non; obedience; occasion; offence; old; owne; particular; peace; peacefull; people; person; pleased; point; popish; power; present; pretended; prince; private; proceedings; publique; purpose; reason; religion; resistance; rest; right; roman; royall; rule; saith; saviour; saying; scripture; selfe; selves; set; sort; soule; soveraigne; speake; state; subjects; sundry; sure; termes; text; throne; times; title; true; trust; truth; unlesse; warre; way; wee; word; yee; zeale cache: A36385.xml plain text: A36385.txt item: #14 of 35 id: A41219 author: Ferne, H. (Henry), 1602-1662. title: The resolving of conscience upon this question whether upon such a supposition or case as is now usually made (the King will not discharge his trust, but is bent or seduced to subvert religion, laws, and liberties) subjects may take arms and resist, and whether that case be now ... / by H. Fern. date: 1642.0 words: 17623 flesch: 52 summary: For when I see Man is more sensible of every breach of his own rights and priviledges , then of those unparallel'd breaches so frequently made upon Gods publike Worship , I cannot but think the Lord will require it of this Land ; and when I see right and just subverted , property and liberty exposed to the will and power of every one that is pleased to conceive his Neighbour a Malignant , and able to make him so by commanding his . Of Fundamentalls , their ground-work according to the pleaders for resistance , is the originall of Power from the People , and their re-assuming it , when the Prince will not discharge his trust . keywords: answer; apostle; arms; body; case; church; clear; command; commonwealth; conscience; consent; day; defence; defensive; denying; discharge; doth; election; established; faith; fit; force; fundamentalls; generall; god; gods; good; government; great; ground; hath; higher; houses; intentions; judgement; king; kingdome; land; lawfull; laws; liberties; like; majesty; man; means; necessity; oath; onely; order; ordinance; parliament; people; person; place; plead; power; pretended; prince; principle; prohibition; promises; question; reason; reasonable; religion; resistence; resisting; right; rule; safety; saul; scripture; sect; security; self; set; state; subjects; supreme; text; thing; thought; times; true; trust; unanimous; use; warre; way; word cache: A41219.xml plain text: A41219.txt item: #15 of 35 id: A43758 author: Higgons, Thomas, Sir, 1624-1691. title: The Speech of Mr. Higgons in Parliament at the reading of the bill for the militia the twenty second day of May date: 1661.0 words: 2069 flesch: 65 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). keywords: bill; books; characters; countrey; early; eebo; english; government; great; higgons; images; king; liberty; militia; online; oxford; partnership; people; phase; power; second; sir; tcp; tei; text cache: A43758.xml plain text: A43758.txt item: #16 of 35 id: A46961 author: Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703. title: Remarks upon Dr. Sherlock's book intituled The case of resistance of the supreme powers stated and resolved, according to the doctrine of the Holy Scriptures written in the year 1683, by Samuel Johnson. date: 1689.0 words: 13517 flesch: 54 summary: His Reasons why the King is Irresistible in all Cases , are such as these : 1. That the King has a Personal Authority , antecedent to all the Laws of the Land , independent on them , and superiour to them . Which is not true ; for the King is King by Law , and Irresistible by Law , and has his Authority from the Law. He proves , that the King is under the Law , and ought to govern by Law , because he is made King by the Law , and receives his Power and Authority from the Law ; and then adds what this Author is pleased to cite , Non est enim Rex , ubi dominatur Voluntas , & non Lex : He is no King who governs by Arbitrary Will , and not by Law ; that is , no lawful English King , Bracton must mean ; for still he may be a good outlandish and Assyrian King , and no Tyrant , though his Arbitrary Will does all . keywords: able; absolute; act; acts; arbitrary; arms; authority; best; blood; book; bracton; case; civil; command; commission; contrary; counties; countrey; court; death; defence; doctrine; eebo; england; english; execution; exercise; false; forces; god; good; government; great; hands; houses; illegal; instance; invasion; irresistible; king; kingdom; late; law; lawful; laws; lieutenants; like; lives; lord; magistrates; majesty; man; men; militia; nation; nature; new; non; oath; obedience; pag; page; parliament; passive; peace; people; personal; persons; places; popish; power; prince; publick; realm; reasons; rebellion; resistance; right; said; sovereign; subjection; subjects; supreme; tcp; text; thing; time; true; violence; void; war; way; wicked; words; years cache: A46961.xml plain text: A46961.txt item: #17 of 35 id: A47055 author: Jones, John, d. 1660. title: Christvs dei, or, A theologicall discourse wherein is proved that regall or monarchicall power is not of humane but of divine right and that God is the sole efficient cause thereof and not the people : also, that every monarch is above the whole common-wealth and is not onely major singislis, but major vniversis : written in answer to a late printed pamphlet intituled Observations upon some of His Majesties late answers and expresses. date: 1642.0 words: 5384 flesch: 65 summary: And as for man in particular , God created him to his owne image and likenesse , endowing him with an understanding and a will , that he might know how to honour and love his Creator , and by such love and honour might finally become happy in the fruition of his eternall , unspeakable and inestimable Glory in Heaven : for means whereto , first God dictated certaine divine Precepts and Principles unto man , and imprinted them with his very Creation upon his naturall reason ( for which cause they are called divine naturall Lawes written in every mans heart , saith Saint Paul Rom. 2. 15. ) That every man might be equally Capable to know them , and equally obliged to obey them . But most certaine it is , that men , living divided and scattered over the face of the world without the instruction and assistance one of another , cannot possibly performe this for every particular mans behoofe , as is requisite . And therfore from this finall cause arose primarily a necessity amongst men to unite and combine themselves into civill Societies and Common-wealths . keywords: absolute; answers; arg; body; cause; civill; commonwealth; dei; discourse; divine; divine power; efficient; efficient cause; end; english; est; expresses; families; finall; finall cause; god; humane; inherent; king; late; law; majesties; major; man; mans; men; monarchicall; monarchicall power; naturall; nature; necessary; necessity; non; observer; owne; particular; people; populi; power; preservation; private; regall; regall power; republiques; right; saith; societies; sole; super; text; theologicall; true; vniversis; worship cache: A47055.xml plain text: A47055.txt item: #18 of 35 id: A50955 author: Milton, John, 1608-1674. title: 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. date: 1649.0 words: 13187 flesch: 45 summary: 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 . keywords: account; actions; ages; allegeance; ancient; answer; author; autoritie; autority; bee; best; better; bin; blood; bond; books; brethren; cause; charge; christian; church; civil; command; comming; common; conscience; covnant; david; death; depos'd; deposd; deposing; dignity; don; doubt; emperor; end; enemie; england; english; evill; examples; faction; farr; feare; force; forren; free; god; good; government; great; hand; hath; heathen; hee; high; himselfe; house; inheritance; john; judge; justice; king; law; lawfull; laws; libertie; liberty; life; like; long; lord; magistrates; man; men; nation; nature; needs; new; oaths; obedience; office; oft; onely; owne; parlament; peace; people; person; power; presbyterians; prince; principles; protestant; public; question; reason; religion; right; rule; saith; scripture; set; som; sort; stand; state; subject; subjection; supreme; sword; tak'n; tenure; text; things; thir; thir king; thir owne; time; title; true; trust; tyranny; tyrant; vertue; warr; way; wee; wicked; words; world; yeares cache: A50955.xml plain text: A50955.txt item: #19 of 35 id: A51425 author: Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659. title: The necessity of Christian subjection demonstrated, and proved by the doctrine of Christ, and the apostles, the practice of primitive Christians, the rules of religion, cases of conscience, and consent of latter Orthodox divines, that the power of the King is not of humane, but of divine right, and that God onely is the efficient cause thereof : whereunto is added, an appendix of all the chief objections that malice is selfe could lay upon His Majestie, with a full answer to every particular objection : also a tract intituled, Christvs Dei : wherein is proved that our Soveraign Lord the King is not onely major singulis, but major universis. date: 1643.0 words: 10117 flesch: 69 summary: First , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , ( v. 1. ) for there is no power but of God . So that whether they be good or evil , we must be subject , sithence there is no power but of God ; {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , lest we will be found fighters against God , whose power none is able to resist , whether it bee for protecting or for punishing ; keywords: absolute; active; apostles; appendix; authority; bee; books; calv; cases; cause; christians; church; command; common; condemnation; conscience; consent; cum; dei; deo; disobedience; divine; doctrine; doe; duty; early; earth; emperour; english; est; evil; expresse; feare; god; godlinesse; gods; good; government; governours; hath; heaven; hee; honour; humane; iob; judgement; judges; king; laws; like; lord; m2842; magistrate; majestie; major; manner; matth; meanes; men; monarch; naturall; necessity; needs; non; obedience; ordinance; particular; people; persons; pet; power; practice; priests; primitive; princes; prov; punishment; reason; rebellion; religion; resist; right; righteous; roman; rule; saint; sake; sam; selfe; selves; shew; sive; soveraign; subject; subjection; text; things; thou; thy; times; truth; vel; vers; weale; wee; wing; word; wrath; yea cache: A51425.xml plain text: A51425.txt item: #20 of 35 id: A56832 author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. title: The loyall convert date: 1644.0 words: 7499 flesch: 67 summary: Power in it selfe is neither good nor evill , but as it is in subjecto , the person ; If an evill King an evill Power , if a good King , a good Power : God sends the one in Mercy ; and we must be subject ; the other in Judgement , and we must be subject : in things lawfull , actively ; in things unlawfull , passively : If a good King , he must have our praise and our plyance ; If an evill King , he must have our Prayers , and our Patience . God that hath put power into the hand of Majestie , hath likewise planted mercie in the heart of Soveraigntie : And , will ye take away both his birth-right and his Blessing also ? Take heed , you doe not slight that , which one day may prove your Sanctuarie . keywords: adherents; ans; answer; armes; army; assistance; babylon; blessed; blood; body; books; case; christ; damnation; day; defensive; divine; early; earth; end; english; evill; example; feare; francis; god; gods; good; government; great; hand; hath; heaven; holy; houses; king; kingdome; law; lawfull; left; life; lord; loyall; maintaine; majestie; majesty; mercy; nay; new; non; obedience; old; owne; papists; parliament; peace; people; power; precept; prince; quarles; reason; religion; resisteth; right; roman; second; set; soveraigne; subjects; sword; tcp; testament; text; thee; thou; true; truth; warre; way; wing; words cache: A56832.xml plain text: A56832.txt item: #21 of 35 id: A58824 author: Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626. title: Children of Beliall, or, The rebells wherein these three questions are discussed : I. whether God or the people be the author and efficient of monarchie? II. whether the King be singulis major, but universis minor? III. whether it be lawfull for subjects to beare armes or to contribute for the maintenance of a warre against the King? date: 1647.0 words: 9473 flesch: 69 summary: And it may be said of our King in his Chaire-Royall , as it was said of Solomon , That he then sits , not in solium Populi , as if they made him King ; but in solium Domini , because he is , what he is , Charles , by the grace of God , of England , Scotland , France , and Ireland , King , &c. And may Almighty God with his grace , by which he made him King , continue him in his Kingdomes , and restore him to his power , that he may punish all those men of Belial , who say , they made him King , and He shall no longer raigne over them ; yea , O God , let all those Children of Belial taste of thy mercy , and the Kings justice , who say , how shall this man save us ? And so deny his Authority to come from thee , and despise him because they conceive him lesse then the whole Body , though greater their particular Members . Looke else upon Aquinas for the Schoolemen , if a successive King , or King by inheritance turne Tyrant , recurrendum est ad omnium Regem , Deum , we must have recourse to God alone , because God onely hath power over Kings . keywords: act; age; apostles; armes; author; beare; bee; belial; body; cause; charles; children; christ; christians; condition; david; dayes; doe; efficient; england; english; est; example; false; fathers; god; good; greater; hand; hath; head; hee; himselfe; king; king saul; kingdome; law; lawfull; lord; maintenance; major; members; men; minor; monarchie; moses; non; onely; owne; parliament; people; person; peter; power; presents; prophet; questions; reason; rebellion; rebells; representative; right; roman; saies; saint; sam; samuel; saul; scripture; singulis; speake; subjects; text; thomas; thought; true; truth; universis; unlawfull; viz; warre; word cache: A58824.xml plain text: A58824.txt item: #22 of 35 id: A59476 author: Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683. title: Notes taken in short-hand of a speech in the House of Lords on the debates of appointing a day for hearing Dr. Shirley's cause, Octob. 20, 1675 date: 1679.0 words: 4976 flesch: 52 summary: In a word , if this Doctrine be true , our Magna Charta is of no force , our Laws are but rules amongst our selves during the Kings pleasure ; Monarchy if of Divine right cannot be bounded or limitted by humane Laws , nay what is more , cannot bind it self , and all our claimes of right by the Law , or the Constitution of the Government , all the Jurisdiction and priviledge of this House , all the Rights and Liberties of the House of Commons , all the Properties and Liberties of the people are to give way not only to the Interest , but the Will and Pleasure of the Crown , and the best and worthiest of men holding this Principle , must Vote to deliver up all we have , not only when reason of State , but when the pleasure of the King will have it so . Yet how future Princes may use this power , and how Judges may be made , not men of Ability or Integrity , men of Relation and dependance , who will do what they are commanded , and all mens Causes come to be judged and Estates disposed of as great men at Court please , is to be considered . keywords: appointing; books; business; cause; characters; commons; court; day; early; eebo; england; english; general; government; great; hand; hath; hearing; house; interest; judicature; justice; king; law; laws; long; lords; lordships; man; nation; parliament; people; power; principle; reason; right; second; selves; shirley; tcp; tei; text; thing; time; vote; way cache: A59476.xml plain text: A59476.txt item: #23 of 35 id: A59793 author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707. title: The case of resistance of the supreme powers stated and resolved according to the doctrine of the Holy Scriptures by Will. Sherlock ... date: 1684.0 words: 46181 flesch: 53 summary: Indeed I find some Learned men mistaken in this matter ; for they take it for granted , that what Samuel here calls the manner of the King , is such an abuse of power , as God had expresly forbid to Kings in the 17 of Deuter. Had the Apostle exhorted the Romans after this manner : Let no private and single man be so foolish , as to rebel against his Prince , who will be too strong for him : but if you can raise sufficient forces to oppose against him , if you can all consent to Depose or Murder him , this is very innocent and justifiable , nay an Heroical Atchievement , which becomes a free-born people : How would this secure the peace and quiet of the world ? how would this have agreed with what follows , that Princes are advanced by God , and that to resist our Prince , is to resist the Ordinance of God , and that such men shall be severely punisht for it in this world or the next ? for can the Apostle be thought absolutely to condemn resistance , if he makes it only unlawful to resist when we want power to conquer ? Which yet is all that can be made of it , if by every Soul the Apostle means only particular men , not the united force and power of Subjects . Nor can there be any reason assigned , why the Apostle should lay so strict a command on particular Christians to be subject to the higher Powers , which does not equally concern whole Nations . keywords: absolute; abuse; account; act; acts; answer; apostle; appointment; argument; authority; best; care; case; charge; christ; christians; church; civil; civil power; coesar; commands; conscience; contrary; crown; david; days; death; decree; defence; difference; disciples; divine; doctrine; dutie; duty; emperours; end; england; evident; evil; example; exercise; express; external; far; father; fear; fit; forbid; force; free; general; god; gods; good; gospel; government; governours; grant; great; greater; greatest; hands; higher; humane; iews; illegal; image; inferiour; irresistible; israel; iudges; judge; justice; king; kingdom; kingly; known; law; lawful; laws; libertie; liberty; life; lord; magistrates; man; mankind; manner; master; means; men; ministers; moses; nation; natural; nature; nay; necessary; need; new; non; obedience; obligation; onely; ordinance; particular; paul; peace; people; person; peter; plain; power; pretence; priest; prince; private; providence; publick; punishment; reason; rebel; rebellion; religion; resistance; resisteth; reverence; right; roman; rule; rulers; sacred; sake; samuel; saul; saviour; scriptures; self; sentence; servants; signifie; sin; single; soul; soveraign; soveraign power; soveraign princes; state; subjection; subjects; sufferings; sufficient; supreme; supreme power; sword; tcp; text; thing; thou; throne; time; tribute; true; tyrannical; tyrant; unaccountable; unjust; unlawful; use; violence; war; way; weak; words; world cache: A59793.xml plain text: A59793.txt item: #24 of 35 id: A59803 author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707. title: The case of the allegiance due to soveraign powers further consider'd, and defended with a more particular respect to the doctrine of non-resistance and passive-obedience : together with a seasonable perswasive to our New Dissenters / by Will. Sherlock ... date: 1691.0 words: 12584 flesch: 53 summary: For , can the Apostle be thought absolutely to condemn Resistance , if he makes it only unlawful to resist , wh●n we want power to conquer ? Which yet is all that can be made of it , if by every soul , the Apostle means only particular men , not the united force and power of the Subjects . Nor can there be any Reason assigned , why the Apostle should lay so strict a Command on particul●r Christians , to be subject to the higher Powers , which does not equally concern whole Na●ions ; for if it can ever be lawful for a whole Nation to resist a Prince , it may , in the same circumstances , be equally lawful f●r a particular man to do it . But Moses was not alwaies to rule over them , and therefore God expresly provides for a Succ●ssion of Soveraign Powers , to which they must all submit . keywords: act; answer; apostle; authority; caesar; care; case; christ; civil; david; death; design; doctrin; duty; eebo; english; example; external; general; god; good; government; great; greater; hands; higher; image; irresistible; israel; jewish; judges; judgment; keilah; king; kingdom; lawful; laws; lord; man; matter; men; money; moses; nation; nay; new; non; obedience; ordinance; paul; people; person; peter; place; plain; power; priests; princes; reason; rebellion; religion; resistance; rights; saul; saviour; sentence; set; single; soul; soveraign; soveraign power; subject; subjection; supreme; tcp; text; things; thou; thought; time; tribute; war; way; words; world; ● ● cache: A59803.xml plain text: A59803.txt item: #25 of 35 id: A59833 author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707. title: Observations upon Mr. Johnson's remarks, upon Dr. Sherlock's book of non-resistance date: 1689.0 words: 8281 flesch: 28 summary: Thus by laying the Scene under another Reign , we may take a just Estimate of the unaccountable Partiality we are guilty of in our own Cause , whereas there ought to be legitima personarum mutatio in order to the true understanding and practising the greatest and the most comprehensive Rule of Righteousness , Whatsoever you would that men should do unto you , do you even so unto them : Now if all the Priests in the Church of Rome were just such Casuists as you are , and all the People of that Communion could believe them , and would be directed by them , you might as well shackle the Hellespont , and commit the Sea to the Gate-House , or make any other Gotham-Act to hedge in these Cuckows ; for they upon this principle bid the same defence to any Law , Oaths or Tests that the power or wit of man can make , that you have done ( with less reason ) to Cambridge , and the Church Julia shall spead the rest ; the Heathen Poet corrects the Christian Priest. You say ( Page the sixth of your Preface ) that if King James had been a rightful King when he took Possession of the Crown ( as he was not but a publick Enemy ) he has since that time broken the Fundamental Contract : In these words there is one of the boldest and most notorious Falshoods that ever was broach'd , for he was certainly rightful King after the Death of his Brother , even though your malicious insinuation from his outliving him , had ( which it has not ) either weight or truth in it : The very Votes of both Houses of Convention acknowledge so much when they insisted upon the Abdication , without ever calling his Title into question ; besides if he had no right to succeed in the Throne , your Lord and the other Gentlemen of the Exclusion were much in the wrong ; had you made as much appear then , as you confidently assert now , you had sav'd the two Houses a great many angry debates , and the important Fortress of Tangier had been still in our hands , and undemolished ; and the lower House knew the importance of that place very well when they set the Bill of Exclusion upon it's head as the price of its Relief or Redemption rather ; and what necessity there was to shut out by Law , one that by Law had no right to come in , surpasses my discerning : yet farther , you prayed for him as King as oft as you did your duty in reading Common-Prayer ; now Men of mettle are seldom Hypocrites , and I cannot persuade my self you could in your Prayers to God acknowledge him to be King , whom in your Conscience you did not think rightfully and lawfully to be King : All prevarication is disengenuous and cannot become a Christian , much less one that waits at the Altar , and still less in the Service of God ; so that this consequence is self-evident , either you were a Hypocrite then , or worse now : As for what you say of his being excluded by three successive Houses of Commons , you might as well have told us that he was excluded by the Diet at Ratisbone , or the Swiss Cantons , for their Power was as great to exclude him as that of the Commons of England alone without the consent of the King and Lords : you have made as much of it as the case will bear , when you tell us it was a Caveat , and I suppose you know the Nature of a Caveat so well as not to stand in need of information what manner of treatment they commonly meet with in all places where they are entred . keywords: able; allegiance; answer; arguments; authority; best; book; cause; characters; christian; church; common; conscience; doctrine; early; eebo; england; english; evil; farther; god; good; government; great; greater; guilt; hands; ill; james; johnson; julian; king; law; life; little; lord; man; matter; means; men; nature; need; new; non; oath; obedience; obligation; opinion; page; passive; perjury; person; popery; power; preface; reason; religion; remarks; resistance; right; rightfullest; second; self; service; set; sherlock; sir; tcp; tei; text; things; throne; time; title; true; tyrant; unlawful; void; way; wicked; william; world; worse cache: A59833.xml plain text: A59833.txt item: #26 of 35 id: A61839 author: Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663. title: Episcopacy (as established by law in England) not prejudicial to regal power a treatise written in the time of the Long Parliament, by the special command of the late King / and now published by ... Robert Sanderson ... date: 1661.0 words: 20254 flesch: 45 summary: In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. And I suppose it would be a very hard matter for any man to find out a clear and satisfactory reason of difference between the Ecclesiastical power and the Oeconomical ; why the one , because it claimeth to be of Divine Right should be therefore thought to be injurious to Regal power , and the other ( though claiming in the same manner ) not to be injurious . keywords: acknowledged; act; acts; advantage; aforesaid; ancient; answer; authority; best; better; bishops; books; cause; censures; christ; christian; church; citations; clear; clergy; command; commission; common; consideration; contrary; coram; courts; crown; custome; day; derogatory; difference; divine; divinum; doth; ecclesiastical; ecclesiastical courts; ecclesiastical power; edward; eebo; elizabeth; england; english; episcopacy; established; exercise; god; good; government; great; hands; hath; high; hold; honour; immediate; iudges; iurisdiction; ius; judgement; king edward; kings; kings supremacy; late; law; laws; like; little; long; majesties; majesty; manner; matters; means; men; ministers; names; nature; necessity; new; oath; objection; objectors; office; onely; opinion; order; original; ought; papists; parliament; particular; party; persons; point; popes; power; prejudice; prejudicial; prerogative; present; princes; proceedings; processes; protestant; queen; raign; realm; reason; reformation; regal; regal power; religion; repeal; respect; right; rome; royal; said; seal; self; shew; sixth; sort; spiritual; state; statute; style; subject; summons; sundry; supremacy; tcp; text; thereunto; thing; time; title; true; truth; use; usurped; viz; way; whatsoever; world cache: A61839.xml plain text: A61839.txt item: #27 of 35 id: A64086 author: Tyrrell, James, 1642-1718. title: A Brief enquiry into the ancient constitution and government of England as well in respect of the administration, as succession thereof ... / by a true lover of his country. date: 1695.0 words: 23918 flesch: 47 summary: F. I confess these seem to be great breaches of the very Fundamentals of our Religion , Liberties , and Civil Properties , if done by the King 's express Order and Directions ; and if that he afterwards refused to disclaim them , and suffer the Authors to be Punished in Parliament , as they deserved , makes all those faults indeed fall upon the King himself , and consequently seem to amount to a Forfeiture of the Royal Dignity , according to that Law of Edward the Confessor , you have already cited , That if the King fail to Protect the Church , and Defend his Subjects from Rapine and Oppression ; the very Name ( or Title ) of King shall no more remain to him . And I suppose you will not say , that the Convention ( who certainly were no Parliament ) could without the Authority of a Lawful King and Parliament , alter the Ancient Laws of Succession , since I have heard it is a Maxim in Law , that nothing can be undone , but by the same Power that made it ; And therefore , in my Opinion , the Convention was too quick in Declaring their present Majesties King and Queen , before they had examined the Prince of Wales's Title ; who was commonly reputed , and prayed for in all our Churches , as Heir Apparent to the Crown . keywords: account; act; acts; allegiance; ancient; answer; arbitrary; arms; authority; body; books; case; chief; civil; commands; common; conqueror; conquest; consent; constitution; contract; contrary; convention; coronation; council; country; crown; day; divers; doubt; edward; election; england; english; estates; express; force; france; free; french; fundamental; general; gentlemen; god; good; government; great; hath; heirs; henry; hereditary; high; judges; justice; king; king edward; king henry; king iames; kingdom; late; late king; law; lawful; lawful king; laws; legal; liberties; life; like; long; lord; majesties; majesty; man; money; nation; nature; oath; officers; opinion; orange; order; original; parliament; particular; people; person; personal; place; power; pray; predecessors; present; pretended; prince; princess; queen; reason; reign; religion; resistance; respect; right; royal; safety; said; self; set; sir; statute; subjects; succession; tcp; text; things; throne; time; title; treatise; true; use; vacant; vid; violations; viz; william; words; world; year cache: A64086.xml plain text: A64086.txt item: #28 of 35 id: A64174 author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653. title: An humble desired union betweene prerogative and priviledge shewing, that if one draw too hard one way, and the other another, the whole common-wealth must be in danger to be pull'd in sunder. date: 1642.0 words: 2559 flesch: 54 summary: But all the world may know that such Pastors and Teachers were not sent by him whom they pretend and fainedly seeme to serve , for the Eternall Prince of Peace never gave any of his servants any command or Commission to raise Warre , ( especially Domestique , Civill vncivill Warre , and surely those nimble talking tong-men that talke so hotly of Battailes , they would not willingly be at one themselves , and th●y doe know chat a whole skin is a good cover to sleepe in . There are too great a number that have gotten the wisdom of the old serpent but there are few that are possest with the Innocency of the Dove , the old Serpent is a malitious breaker of Peace and a diligent Laborer for Warre , his onely businesse is to make us wicked and he knowes that for the sinnes of a people God sends War for a punishment , 1 Kings . keywords: a64174; betweene; bin; books; common; doth; early; english; god; gods; good; great; hard; hath; humble; iohn; john; king; kingdom; love; men; peace; pope; prerogative; priviledge; protestants; queene; raigne; serpent; shewing; sonnes; subjects; sunder; taylor; tcp; text; union; warre; way; wealth cache: A64174.xml plain text: A64174.txt item: #29 of 35 id: A66109 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: An appeal to all the true members of the Church of England, in behalf of the King's ecclesiastical supremacy ... by William Wake ... date: 1698.0 words: 31831 flesch: 69 summary: Some things which , at first Sight , may seem an Abatement of the Authority of the Church , is rather such a way of Regulating the Exercise of its Power , as , under Religious Princes , is for the Churches Advantage . But I shall chuse rather to express the process of this Convocation , in the Words of an Author , who may perhaps be less liable to Exception ; and whose account of it is this : That the Clergy being met in their Convocation , according to the Tenour and Effect of his Majesties Writ , his Majesty was pleased , by Vertue of his Prerogative Royal , and Supreme Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical , to give and grant unto Them , by his Letters Patents , dated April 12. and June 25. full , free , and lawful Liberty , Licence , Power and Authority , to Convene , Treat , Debate , Consider , Consult and Agree upon such Canons , Orders , Ordinances , and Constitutions , as they should think necessary , fit , and convenient , for the Honour and Service of Alimighty God , the good and quiet of the Church , and the better Government thereof from time to time &c. — Which being Agreed on by the Clergy , and by them presented to the King , humbly requiring him to give his Royal Assent unto them , according to the Statute made in the 25 of King Henry VIII . keywords: 1st; account; act; acts; affairs; agreeable; allow'd; antient; appear; archbishop; articles; assemblies; authority; behalf; better; bishops; book; calling; canons; care; case; causes; certain; charge; charles; chief; christian; church; churches; civil; clergy; command; comp; confirm'd; conscience; constantine; constitutions; continued; contrary; controversy; convocation; councils; crown; decrees; defence; design; desire; discipline; divine; doctrine; ecclesiastical; elizabeth; emperours; end; england; english; establish'd; exercise; farther; fit; force; general; god; good; government; great; greatest; hath; having; henry; ibid; imperial; judge; judgment; jurisdiction; king; late; laws; learned; leave; like; little; magistrate; majesty; man; matters; members; men; ministers; municip; national; necessary; new; oath; occasion; opinion; order; pag; page; parliament; particular; people; persons; place; plain; point; power; present; princes; principles; purpose; queen; realm; reason; reformation; reign; religion; right; royal; rule; said; self; sense; set; shall; shewn; state; statute; subject; submission; supremacy; supreme; synods; tcp; text; things; time; title; treatise; true; truth; viii; whatsoever; words; work; world; years cache: A66109.xml plain text: A66109.txt item: #30 of 35 id: A70276 author: Howell, James, 1594?-1666. title: Divers historicall discourses of the late popular insurrections in Great Britain and Ireland tending all, to the asserting of the truth, in vindication of Their Majesties / by James Howell ... ; som[e] of which discourses were strangled in the presse by the power which then swayed, but now are newly retreev'd, collected, and publish'd by Richard Royston. date: 1661.0 words: 74929 flesch: 29 summary: And what Forren Nation will do either of these to the King of England if he be Armless , and without a Sword ? who will give any respect o●… precedence to his Ambassadors , and Ministers of State ? The Sword also is the prime Instrument of publick protection , therefore that King who hath not the power of the Sword , must have another Title given Him , the Protector of his peeple . This kept a foul noise beyond Sea I re●…ember , so that upon the Rialto in Venice , ●…t was sung up and down , that a Midsummer Moon ( though it was then midst of Winter ) did raign amongst the English , and you must ●…hink that it hath made the Venetian to ●…hrink in his shoulders , and to look but ill-favouredly upon us , since wee 'l have none of his currans . keywords: able; account; act; actions; acts; adde; advantage; advice; affaires; affections; againe; allegiance; almighty; alwaies; ambassadors; ancient; answer; apollo; arbitrary; armes; army; assembly; assent; attempt; authority; awe; baffled; base; beat; beginning; benefit; best; better; betwixt; bill; bin; birds; birth; bishops; black; blessed; bloud; bodies; body; books; bowels; brain; braines; britain; businesse; calamities; call'd; care; cast; cause; censure; certain; cessation; chamber; characters; charge; charles; charter; chiefest; children; choice; christendom; christian; church; churches; citie; city; civil; clear; 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malignity; man; mankind; manner; master; matters; maxime; meanest; means; meer; meet; members; methought; military; militia; mind; ministers; miseries; monarchy; money; monsters; monstrous; morall; morning; mother; motion; narrow; nation; national; native; naturall; nature; nay; necessary; necessity; needs; neighbours; new; news; nobility; nobles; non; north; northern; nos; nostre; notes; notice; nous; number; o're; oaths; obedience; offer; office; officers; onely; ones; open; opinion; order; ordinance; oxford; pacification; palace; pardon; parlements; parliament; particular; parts; pass'd; passages; passe; passing; patricius; pay; peace; peers; people; peregrin; perfect; pernicious; person; petition; petty; pieces; piety; places; pleas'd; pleased; plot; point; policy; poor; pope; popular; posterity; posture; power; practise; prerogative; presence; present; presse; prime; prince; prison; private; priviledge; privy; proceedings; proclamation; progenitors; promise; protection; protestant; protestation; prudence; publick; pulse; pure; purpose; quality; quam; queen; question; rare; reach; ready; reason; rebellion; record; reformation; regall; regard; relation; religion; respect; rest; return; revenge; reverence; rich; right; rise; road; roman; rome; rose; rotten; royall; ruine; rule; sacred; sacrifice; said; saying; scarce; scepter; scot; scotland; sea; seas; second; secure; security; self; sense; sensible; servants; service; set; shold; short; sides; simple; sir; sitting; slavery; small; solemn; som; somthing; sorts; soul; souldiers; soveraign; spain; spaniard; speech; speeches; spirit; stand; star; state; strafford; strange; streets; strength; strong; subject; sun; sundry; support; sway; sweet; sword; taxes; tcp; term'd; text; thee; themselfs; ther; therby; therof; thing; thought; time; timely; title; town; trade; traverses; treasure; treaty; tru; true; trust; truth; tumults; turn; turn'd; twixt; ugly; understanding; unhappy; unity; unlesse; us'd; useth; utter; vast; vertue; vindication; violent; visible; viz; walls; want; war; wars; water; way; wealth; westminster; whatsoever; wheras; whereof; wherin; white; wife; wind; wings; wonder; words; work; world; worse; writ; written; wrong; years; york; young cache: A70276.xml plain text: A70276.txt item: #31 of 35 id: A70333 author: Harrison, Thomas, fl. 1690. title: Political aphorisms, or, The true maxims of government displayed wherein is likewise proved ... : by way of a challenge to Dr. William Sherlock and ten other new dissenters, and recommended as proper to be read by all Protestant Jacobites. date: 1690.0 words: 14767 flesch: 54 summary: Thou shalt in any wise set him King over thee , whom the Lord thy God shall choose : One from among thy Brethren shalt thou set over thee ; thou mayst not set a Stranger over thee . God did not require the Jews to accept of him for King whom he should chuse , but left it to their own free Will , whether they would accept him or no , is plain from the following Examples . keywords: absolute; act; allegiance; appointment; authority; blood; body; case; charles; children; christians; civil; common; community; consent; contrary; country; crown; david; day; death; deprived; doctrine; doth; eebo; emperor; end; england; english; evil; father; form; france; free; general; god; good; government; great; guilty; hath; head; henry; idolatry; israel; king; kingdom; lawful; laws; liberty; life; like; magistrates; man; nation; natural; nature; obedience; particular; passive; people; person; plain; power; prince; protestant; publick; reason; reign; religion; reserve; richard; right; rule; saith; saul; scripture; second; self; set; sherlock; sin; society; son; sons; state; stead; subject; tcp; text; things; thou; time; true; unjust; use; war; way; wealth; william; world cache: A70333.xml plain text: A70333.txt item: #32 of 35 id: A70874 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The title of kings proved to be jure devino and also that our royall soveraign, King Charles the II, is the right and lawful heir to the crown of England, and that the life of his father, Charles the First, was taken away unjustly, contrary to the common law, statute law, and all other lawes of England ; wherein is laid down several proofs both of Scripture and law, clearly and plainly discovering that there can be no full and free Parliament without a king and House of Lords / by W.P., Esq. date: 1660.0 words: 2363 flesch: 80 summary: The title of kings proved to be jure devino and also that our royall soveraign, King Charles the II, is the right and lawful heir to the crown of England, and that the life of his father, Charles the First, was taken away unjustly, contrary to the common law, statute law, and all other lawes of England ; wherein is laid down several proofs both of Scripture and law, clearly and plainly discovering that there can be no full and free Parliament without a king and House of Lords / by W.P., Esq. The title of kings proved to be jure devino and also that our royall soveraign, King Charles the II, is the right and lawful heir to the crown of England, and that the life of his father, Charles the First, was taken away unjustly, contrary to the common law, statute law, and all other lawes of England ; wherein is laid down several proofs both of Scripture and law, clearly and plainly discovering that there can be no full and free Parliament without a king and House of Lords / by W.P., Esq. Prynne, William, 1600-1669. keywords: a70874; body; bracton; charles; contrary; crown; divine; england; english; god; hath; heir; king; law; lawes; lawful; life; lords; non; parliament; power; right; royall; scripture; soveraign; statute; subjects; text; thing; title cache: A70874.xml plain text: A70874.txt item: #33 of 35 id: A85738 author: Grosse, Robert, D.D. title: Royalty and loyalty or A short survey of the power of kings over their subjects: and the duty of subjects to their kings. Abstracted out of ancient and later writers, for the better composeing of these present distempers: and humbly presented to ye consideration of his Ma.tie. and both Howses of Parliament, for the more speedy effecting of a pacification / by Ro: Grosse dd: 1647 date: 1647.0 words: 19360 flesch: 75 summary: For hence it is that S. Peter calleth a King , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , the ordinance of man : which is not so to be understood , Causally , as if it were excogitated or invented by men ; but Subjectively , because it is exercised by men ; and Objectively , because it is versed about the government of humane society ; and then Finally , because it is constituted by God for the good of men , and the conservation of humane policie . For the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} doth recall us to God , as to the first Author of authority : and although Kings are created by men , that is , erected , anointed , and inaugurated by them ; yet the first Creator of Kings is God , to whom all creation doth appertaine , and from whom all power doth come . keywords: ancient; apostle; arist; aug; authority; bee; better; caesar; cause; certaine; chiefe; christ; chrysost; city; civill; command; commanded; common; consent; contrary; custome; david; death; desire; divine; doe; doth; duty; earth; emperour; empire; end; evill; father; feare; free; glory; god; gods; good; government; great; greater; hands; happy; hath; head; hee; higher; himselfe; hist; holy; honour; humane; image; imperiall; judgement; justice; king; kingdome; law; lawfull; laws; lesse; life; like; little; long; lord; love; loyalty; magistrate; majesty; manner; men; minister; monarchie; multitude; nations; nature; necessity; non; obedience; obey; office; onely; order; ordinance; owne; parliament; paul; peace; people; performe; peter; pol; power; princes; prophet; purpose; reason; reverence; right; roman; royall; saint; saith; sam; samuel; scriptures; sentence; servants; set; short; soule; speake; state; subjects; text; thee; things; thou; thy; time; tribute; way; wayes; wealth; wee; wicked; wil; words; world; writers; yea cache: A85738.xml plain text: A85738.txt item: #34 of 35 id: A86683 author: Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687. title: Lingua testium: wherein monarchy is proved, 1. To be jure divino. 2. To be successive in the Church (except in time of a nationall desertion) from Adam untill Christ. 3. That monarchy is the absolute true government under the Gospel. 4. That immediately after extraordinary gifts in the Church ceased, God raised up a monarch for to defend the Church. 5. That Christian monarchs are one of the witnesses spoken of Rev. 11. 6. That England is the place from whence God fetched the first witnesse of this kind. 7. England was the place whither the witnesses, (viz. godly magistracy and ministry) never drove by Antichrist. Where is proved, first, that there hath been a visible magistracy, (though in sackcloth,) these 1260. yeares in England. ... Amongst these things are proved that the time of the calling of the Jews, the fall of Antichrist, and the ruine of the Beast of the earth is at hand. Wherein you have the hard places of Mat. 24, and Rev. 17. explained with severall other hard texts: ... / Written by Testis-Mundus Catholicus, in the yeare of the Beasts of the earth's raign, 1651. date: 1651.0 words: 22870 flesch: 58 summary: 2. To be successive in the Church (except in time of a nationall desertion) from Adam untill Christ. 2. To be successive in the Church (except in time of a nationall desertion) from Adam untill Christ. keywords: adam; answer; antichrist; apostles; argument; ark; babylon; beast; betwixt; bishop; bloud; book; bottomlesse; cause; chapter; christ; christian; church; churches; clear; coming; conversion; converted; covenant; dan; day; dayes; distinct; divine; doctor; doe; doth; earth; eighth; end; enemies; england; english; extraordinary; eyes; fall; false; flesh; gentile; ghost; glorious; god; godly; gods; good; gospel; government; great; half; hand; hard; hath; heads; heaven; hebrews; henry; holy; horns; house; iohn; israel; jesus; jews; john; king; kingdom; lamb; lawfull; laws; learned; like; long; lord; magistracy; men; mighty; ministery; monarchy; mystery; naturall; neer; new; non; office; old; onely; opinion; parliament; party; people; person; pit; place; pope; power; priest; probability; prophets; protestant; question; raign; reader; reason; reformation; respect; rev; right; roman; rome; ruine; sackcloth; saints; saith; scotland; scriptures; sea; self; senate; set; shew; slain; slayes; slaying; spirituall; state; subject; succession; sudden; testament; testimony; testium; text; thee; things; time; title; tribes; true; truth; visible; war; way; whore; witnesses; words; work; world; years cache: A86683.xml plain text: A86683.txt item: #35 of 35 id: A88972 author: Maxwell, John, 1590?-1647. title: An answer by letter to a worthy gentleman who desired of a divine some reasons by which it might appeare how inconsistent presbyteriall government is with monarchy. In which the platforme of that government is briefly delineated, with the tenents and suitable practices thereof. And withall it is demonstrated, that it is inconsistent with any government whatsoever; is full of faction, sedition and treason; an enemy to all peace, domesticall, neighbourly, brotherly, &c. against soveraigne authority, authority of all iudges, and iudicatories, entrenching upon all so farre, as there can be no liberty of person, trade, commerce or propriety, but at their pleasure who bear sway therein. date: 1644.0 words: 24752 flesch: 59 summary: I confesse this Divinity is so transcendent and Metaphysicall , that it exceeds my capacity , and is so fruitfull upon any occasion to work all or the greatest of mischiefes , that I doe not see how it can consist with peace or safety of King , Kingdome , Church , or of any entrusted with greatest trust in Church or State . If you will cast your eyes upon the third glorious reformation , that makes the Popes knees shake like Belshazzars when he did see the handwriting on the Wall , ( that is if we will speak truly , this deformation which is the disgrace of reformed Catholike Religion , and which threatneth Church and Religion , King and Kingdom with ruine ) you will find these men have sung a note above Ela , have ordered and practised more then all that went before them . keywords: able; act; acts; advice; ambassadors; anno; answer; appeare; armes; assemblies; assembly; authority; best; better; bishops; body; book; brethren; bruce; businesse; capacity; case; censure; christ; christian; church; churches; civill; close; command; commissioners; commonalty; competent; concerneth; confession; conscience; councell; course; court; crowne; danger; day; decrees; demand; desire; direction; discipline; divine; doe; ecclesiasticall; edenburgh; elders; enemy; england; excommunication; faction; faith; fit; force; france; free; generall; gentleman; god; goe; good; government; great; greater; greatest; hands; hath; highest; himselfe; hist; holy; honour; hope; house; iames; inconsistent; iudges; iudicatorie; joyne; judgement; jurisdiction; king; king iames; kingdom; knox; lawes; lawfull; lay; leave; like; little; lord; majesty; man; meeting; melvil; ministers; moderator; monarchie; nay; necessary; noble; non; obedience; onely; order; ordinary; owne; pag; parish; parliament; parochiall; peace; people; person; pious; platforme; pleasure; power; practice; preaching; presbyteriall; presbyterie; present; prime; private; proper; province; provinciall; prudence; publique; queen; reasons; rebellion; reformation; reforme; regent; religion; resolution; right; robert; roman; royall; sacred; sanhedrim; scotland; sedition; sense; service; session; set; sinnes; sir; soveraignty; spirituall; state; subjects; text; thing; time; treason; true; trust; truth; violence; voyce; way; whatsoever; work; world; worship; worth; writ; yeare; zeale cache: A88972.xml plain text: A88972.txt