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id: A79759
author: Church of Scotland. General Assembly.
date: 1649
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words: 1053
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flesch: 70
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title:
  Reverend brethren. The Kings Majesty who lately reigned, being contrary to the dissent and protestation of this kingdom, now removed by a violent death the estates of Parliament have declared and proclaimed the Prince of Scotland, and of Wales to be king, ...

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A79759 of text R225769 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C4258aA). Title from caption and opening lines of text.


id: B02940
author: England and Wales. Parliament.
date: 1690
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1265
sentence: 60
flesch: 63
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title:
  Anno regni Gulielmi et Mariæ, regnis & reginæ Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, secundo. On the fourtheenth day of April, Anno Dom. 1690. In the second year of their Majesties reign, this act passed the royal assent. An act for recognizing King William and Queen Mary, and for avoiding all questions touching the acts made in the Parliament assembled at Westminster the thirteenth day of February, 1688.

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  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).


id: A32499
author: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. aut
title: By the King. A proclamation for registring knights
date: 1673
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1363
sentence: 55
flesch: 60
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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). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A32499) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 30792)


id: A61948
author: Suckling, John, Sir, 1609-1642.
date: 1679
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2370
sentence: 88
flesch: 68
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title:
  A letter from Sir John Suckling to Mr. Henry German, in the beginning of the late Long Parliament, anno 1640

summary:
  Then how becoming a Work for the sweetness and softness of her Sex , is composing of Differences and uniting Hearts ? and how proper for a Queen , reconciling King and People ? There is but one thing remains , which whisper'd abroad busies the King's Mind much ( if not disturbs it ) in the midst of these great Revolutions , and that is , The Preservation of some Servants , whom he thinks somewhat hardly torn from him of late ; which is of so tender a nature , I shall rather propound something about it , than resolve it . And it is like a Country Clown , not to shew the way , unless he know from whence , and discourse of things before .


id: A69585
author: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
date: 1642
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2460
sentence: 83
flesch: 64
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title:
  An essay of a king with an explanation what manner of persons those should be that are to execute the power or ordinance of the kings prerogative / written by the Right Honorable Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban.

summary:
  Kings and rulers -- Duties. 2007-02 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-03 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-04 Emma (Leeson) Huber Sampled and proofread 2007-04 Emma (Leeson) Huber Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion AN ESSAY OF A KING , WITH An explanation what manner of persons those should be that are to execute the power or ordinance of the KINGS Prerogative .


id: A20851
author: Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.
title: To the Maiestie of King James A gratulatorie poem by Michaell Drayton.
date: 1603
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mime: application/xml
words: 2599
sentence: 90
flesch: 66
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summary:
  Edmond Tudor Ea●●● of Richmond , son of Owen Tudor by the Queen The daug●●ter of Iohn Duke of Sommerset , sonne ●● Iohn Earl● of Somm●●●set , the so●●● of Iohn o● Gaunt . Katherine wife to He●● the fift .


id: A67890
author: Sanders, Edward, 17th cent.
date: 1660
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3696
sentence: 123
flesch: 65
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title:
  The three royall cedars or Great Brittains glorious diamonds, being a royal court narrative of the proceedings ... of ... Charles by the grace of God, King of Great Brittain, France and Ireland, His Highness Prince James Duke of York, and the most illustrious Prince. Henry Duke of Glocester. With a brief history of their memorable transactions ... since their too-much-lamented Fxile [sic] in Flanders, and the Lord Chancellour Hide, the Marquess of Ormond, the Earl of Norwich, the Lord Wentworth, the Lord Digby, and many other nobles and gentlemen, created lords of his Majesties privie-council. Also, the resplendent vertues appearing in these princely pearles, to the great joy of all loyal subjects ... By E. Sanders Esq; a lover of his countries liberty, and a loyal subject and servant to his Sacred Majesty.

summary:
  The three royall cedars or Great Brittains glorious diamonds, being a royal court narrative of the proceedings ... of ... Charles by the grace of God, King of Great Brittain, France and Ireland, His Highness Prince James Duke of York, and the most illustrious Prince. The three royall cedars or Great Brittains glorious diamonds, being a royal court narrative of the proceedings ... of ... Charles by the grace of God, King of Great Brittain, France and Ireland, His Highness Prince James Duke of York, and the most illustrious Prince.


id: A86626
author: Howell, James, 1594?-1666.
title: The instruments of a king: or, A short discourse of the svvord. The scepter. The crowne. ...
date: 1648
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3857
sentence: 98
flesch: 56
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summary:
  'T is punishment enough for th' King , That God will Him to judgment bring . LONDON . The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest').


id: A25565
author: Gentlewoman.
date: 1681
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4416
sentence: 123
flesch: 56
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title:
  An answer to Pereat Papa, or, A reply by way of letter from a gentlewoman to a person of quality commending to her consideration a paper entituled Pereat Papa, or, Reasons why popery should not inherit the crown.

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. SIR , HAD the Paper you sent me , intituled Pereat Papa , or Reasons why Popery should not usurp the Crown , come accidentally to my hands , and had not been seriously recommended to my observation by you , I should have concluded its Author had jocularly intended , or to , use his own phrase , conceived , and that very candidly , such Reason● proper to Burlesque , a late Design for altering the Succession , on account of that so often baffled a Cause called Popery .


id: A64119
author: Briord, Gabriel de, d. 1703.
date: 1700
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mime: application/xml
words: 5227
sentence: 125
flesch: 53
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title:
  Reflections upon the memorial from his Most Christian Majesty presented by the Count de Briord, his ambassador extraordinary to the States-general of the United Provinces at the Hague, December 4. 1700 : containing his reasons for accepting the late King of Spain's will, in favour of the Duke of Anjou : in a letter from a friend, to Mr. J.C. Merchant in London.

summary:
  King of France , For whose Portion the King her Father , obliged himself to pay 500000 Crowns of Gold , and pretended Salick Law debars Females , from Succession to the French Crown ; as also to the end , that the two Crowns , being too Great and Puissant to be United into one Kingdom , all occasions of such a Conjunction might be avoided : It was Covenanted , ( among other things ) That neither the Infanta , nor her Children and Descendents , in what degree soever , should ever succeed in the Kingdoms , Seigniories or Dominions , which do or shall belong to his Catholick Majesty , as well within , as without the Kingdom of Spain , notwithstanding any Law or Custom , which by this agreement ( which is to continue in the full Force and Vigour of a Law for ever ) Their Majesties did abolish . eng Philip -- V, -- King of Spain, 1683-1746.


id: A94277
author: Montrose, James Graham, Marquis of, 1612-1650, attributed name.
title: The Scotch souldiers speech concerning the Kings coronation-oath.
date: 1647
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mime: application/xml
words: 5758
sentence: 82
flesch: 25
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summary:
  If ( fellow Souldiers ) you intend to be ruled by the Scripture , let me put you a Scripture-case ; in Sauls seeking to make havocke of the Gibeonites , contrary to the Oath given them , you may observe , how this Oath was obtained by fraud , and a lye ; that it was expresly against the Covenant of Promise given to Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob , and afterwards to Moses , Aaron , and the people ; that it was given rashly without asking counsell of God , and to a people by Nation heathens , by Religion Idolaters , and by condition vassals , to be drawers of water and hewers of wood ; that what Saul did was at the least 300 yeares after the Oath given , in which time that Oath may seeme to some to be antiquated ; and that he did it in zeale to the people of Israel ; I tremble to thinke what the event of these things may be though we have hitherto escaped the sword , I pray God that a Serpent out of the wall doe not bite us : If it were taken so ill that the late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury , and some other Counsellors of State should alter the Kings Oath in some circumstances ( the substance of the Oath still remaining ) how ill will it be taken that we should rise in armes to force the Kings conscience against this Oath ? but admitting it had been but a private Oath , nay if a wicked Oath , and his Majesties conscience had led him to take and defend the same , what Doctrine is there in the Scripture that inables the subjects to rise in rebellion against him for it ? we may now see the Scaene of the Churches stage strangely altered ; the Church , and true Religion formerly suffered persecution by the tyranny of Kings ; but now Kings ( yea pious Kings ) suffer persecution by the tyranny of Religion : these these and such like arguments are those rocks upon which the Royall party hath built their judgement ; who , although they be overcome by the sword , are not yet vanquished in their cause ; for which they make their appeales to heaven , and call God and man to witnesse their innocency , rejoycing in nothing more , then that there will be a day of Judgement , when the righteous , and impartiall Judge shall judge both them , and us according to the justice and innocency of the cause : in the meane time , now that God hath done with them , who knowes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he may begin with us , and call us to an accompt ?


id: A59882
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1692
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mime: application/xml
words: 6122
sentence: 136
flesch: 48
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title:
  A sermon preached at the Temple-Church, May 29. 1692 printed at the desire of the Bench-Table of the honourable Society of the Inner-Temple / by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  To affix a proper and distinct signification on these words , Supplications , Prayers , Intercessions , and giving of thanks , which are recommended as the distinct parts of Prayer , Learned men tell us , that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , which we render Supplications , signifies Prayer to avert evils , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Prayers for the obtaining some good ; and that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , are properly Intercessions or Prayers for other men ; but this is too general a notion of it , since in this place the Apostle applies Supplications and Prayers , as well as Intercessions , to praying for other men , even for all men : And therefore the proper notion of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , is to intercede for a sinner , for the pardon of his sin , and to reconcile him again to God , whom he hath offended , as the word is most commonly used . Our Prayers for Kings , and all that are in Authority , it will be useful to show you , on what great Reasons this Duty is founded , of praying for all men , as well as for our selves ; and that both with respect to our selves , to other men , and to God.


id: A42674
author: Ghest, Edmund.
title: An impartial disquisition, how far conquest gives the conqueror a title
date: 1688
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words: 6571
sentence: 311
flesch: 77
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summary:
  2. to be the ordinance of God , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , which signifies an Edict , or a Law , so that no Usurper is God's ordinance , unless he can show either some particular Charter from God , or some general Law in favour of Usurpers . — Again , in the same Verse it is said , they that resist , shall receive to themselves damnation ; not a right , or title to the supreme power , that would make the Law both partial , and useless , restraining none , but those , whom Princes might restrain without it . 8. expresses himself : nay , even our Saviour's kingdom over his brethren ( that is , the members of the Christian Church ) is often put upon this title of primogeniture , as being * the first-born among many brethren ; so then the people have no more to do to make a King , than a child to make his father ; God the sole giver of life disposes of what Parents every one shall be born , who shall be heirs of Kings , and whom they shall inherit for their subjects ; for the word Inheritance is in Scripture language ‖ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is , a lot , and the whole disposing ( judgment , or right ) of that is from the Lord :


id: A96173
author: Weldon, Anthony, Sir, d. 1649?
title: A cat may look upon a king
date: 1652
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words: 8431
sentence: 249
flesch: 63
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  THis King reigned about nine years and a halfe , all which time our stories mention nothing but his wars , raising of monies , and spending the blood of this poor Nation . ●●on , which briefly was thus : Sir Henry ( a man for person & parts highly esteemed , and honoured of all that knew him ) being in Florence , when Queen Elizabeths death drew nigh , ( which King Iames gaped for ) the Duke of Florence had intercepted some Letters , which discovered a designe to take away the life of King James : The Duke abhorring the fact , resolves to endeavour the prevention , calls for his Secretary to advise by what meanes a caution might be best given to the King ; and it was resolved to be done by Sir Henry Wotton , who ( being well instructed ) is presently dispatched into Scotland with Letters to the King , and most rare Antidotes against all manner of poysons , whereby that mischief was prevented ; and Sir Henry Wotton returns into Italy , where shortly after came the news of the death of Queen Elizabeth , and James King of Scots proclaimed King of England ; and away comes Sir Henry Wotton , to joy the King .


id: A37429
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1698
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10347
sentence: 193
flesch: 41
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title:
  The interests of the several princes and states of Europe consider'd, with respect to the succession of the crown of Spain, and the titles of the several pretenders thereto examin'd

summary:
  In case of a Union with France , 't is very probable the Channel of Trade to Spain may be entirely alter'd : The French are a busy Trading Nation themselves , and are very apt to vye with the English and Dutch in their Manufactures : And to go no further , when 't is in their power to admit their own Merchants to import their Manufactures Custom-free , while we shall pay 23 per Cent. Philip the Fourth left One Son and Two Daughters ; the Eldest Daughter , Maria Teresia , was married to the present French King , and was Mother to the present Dauphin of France ; and in case of the Death of the present King of Spain , the Dauphin of France is Heir Apparent to the Crown of Spain , and to all its Dominions ; and , one Clause excepted , has an Unquestion'd Title to the Succession of the said Kingdoms .


id: A30439
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1691
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10832
sentence: 283
flesch: 58
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title:
  A sermon preached at White-hall, on the 26th of Novemb. 1691 being the thanksgiving-day for the preservation of the King, and the reduction of Ireland / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.

summary:
  Whereas a Prince whose ill Example has corrupted a Nation , or whose ill designs have divided and distracted it ; leaves behind him a ferment which will be working perhaps for some Ages after he is asleep in his Grave : On the other hand a Prince that is just and true , gracious and merciful , shines with so benigne an Influence that as a good season not only gives us warm and healthful Air while it lasts , but does also ripen those Fruits of the Earth , upon which we must subsist after it is gone ; so by his good Government that is duly tempered between rigorous severity and too Indulgent goodness , he no ● only makes his Subjects happy , during so blest a Reign , but lays the foundations of a Felicity which will be more lasting then the Princes themselves , who tho they are called Gods , yet must die like men . Accesseruit A ●ndli ●● Regni Regis Jacobi I. Apparatus , & Commentarius de Antiquitate , Dignitate , & Officio Comitis Marescalli Angliae .


id: A44798
author: Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.
date: 1658
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mime: application/xml
words: 12309
sentence: 103
flesch: -17
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title:
  The measvring rod of the Lord stretched forth over all nations and the line of true judgment laid to the rulers thereof wherein all governours and rulers, potentates and powers are measured, and all governments and lawes weighed in the true weight : wherein they all may see how far they are degenerated from the law of righteousness, and the rules of wisdome, which was in the beginning, before tyranny, and persecution, and rebellion had shewed it selfe : also shewing the end that will come upon all those rulers and governments, rulers and lawes that have been made in the apostacy, which is to all overthrown ... : also an advertisement to all the rulers upon the earth ... : published for the information of all the rulers upon earth ... / by one who waits to see the kingdoms of the world to become the kingdomes of the Lord ... Francis Howgil.

summary:
  Because they have asked Counsell and not at the Lord , and taken advice and not at the holy One , therefore violence is set up as an Ensign , and wickedness runneth down as a river , and cruelty and opression as a mighty stream , the whole Earth is full of folly and madness , and all the people thereof are degenerate and grown out of the Image of God into a monstrous and strange nature , the prophets are all fooles , the diviners thereof are mad , and they being degenerate themselves from the life of God , have not turned the people from their iniquitie , but hath led them into further blindness , darkness , ignorance , and deceit , and hath made the Word of truth of none effect through their traditions , & hath taught for doctrine the precepts of men , & the traditions of them who are out of the Faith , and out of the life , and out of the power of God , and the Counsellors they have established wickedness by a law , they themselves being stranged from the life of God , therefore violence is broken forth into the earth as a flood , and now all Kings , Rulers , Potentates of the Earth who have given their power to the Whore , who sitts upon many waters , and the waters are kindreds , and tongues , and people , and Nations , yea all Nations have been drunk with the cup of her Fornication , and being all gone forth from the life , in which the Prophets and the holy men of God lived in , and were established in ; the Nations are become as waters , reeling to and fro , hither and thither , unsetled , unstable , there the Whore hath her seate , and all having drunk of her cup of Iniquity and Fornication , even of mystery-Babylons cup , and are inflamed therewith ; and so reeles to , and fro , as the waters , and are as the waves of the Sea unstable , by her who hath made all Nations drunk , and by them who have been made drunk with her , even all Nations , kindreds , tongues , and people , have the Prophets been slain , and the witnesses slain , and none to bury them , not in mystery-Babylon , who is drunk with the blood of the Saints , and they that have drunk of her cup of Fornication , even all the Kings , Nobles , Potentates of the earth , they have acted the like , and have slain the appearance of God , where ever it hath been brought forth , and the red Dragon hath stood ready to devour the heir , which is borne of mystery-Ierusalem which is the Mother of all who are borne from above , who are heires of the promise of Eternall life , and the powers of the earth hath joyned their power to the Dragon , who cast out floods of venome after the Child , which is brought forth by the woman , which is clothed whith the sun : and now the powers of the earth taketh part with the Dragon , and their authority and dominion that they exercise is by his power which arises out of the bottomless pit ; and shall goe into perdition , and he hath deceived the Nations long , and all hath exercised their power against him who is the heire of the promise , the first-born of every Creature , who is higher than the highest , and greater than the greatest , and have changed his lawes , and made them void , and hath set up the law of sinne and death , & hath established unrighteous Lawes by the power of darkness , in which all Nations hath been involved in , since the Dragon hath power , and whosoever would not obey those Lawes and customs , and constitutions , the Dragon hath had power , and all that have joyned to him for a time , to kill , to imprison , to destroy , and they who have been exalted have had thought to weary cut the Saints of the most high , and to root out the memoriall of the just , that he and all his adherents , might reign for ever , in the Kingdome of unrighteousness , and in the dominion of darkness , which is the Devills dwelling place , and residence for ever , who is at enmity against God , and the Children of light , which worship God in spirit and truth , in life and righteousness . 9. shall worship him , whose names are not written in the Lamb's book of life , shin from the foundation of the World , this Beast receiving his power and authority from the Dragon hath prevailed ; he rose out of the Sea , the Waters upon which the whore sits , and the waters are kindreds , tongues and people , and the Beast arose out of the Sea also , that the whole World wondred after and worshipped , and John that saw this coming 14 or 15 hundred years agoe ; so that in a few ages after the Apostles all was worn out , the life lost , the Dragon had power , the Beast had power , and all wondred after him , and the Whore had made all Nations drunk with her Fornication ; and then she came to sit upon many Waters , Kindred , Tongues and People , hears the Waters , hears the Sea out of which the Beast rose , who received his power from the Dragon , and this is he who upon his head had the names of Blasphemy , and all kindreds , tongues , and Nations whose names were not written in the Lambs book , they who honoured the Beast , and worshipped the Beast , and said who is able to make war with him , admired his power , and submitted unto him ; and he hath had power , and hath prevailed against the saints , did overcome them , and the Dragon hath made war with the Seed which keep the Commandements of God , and the testimony of Iesus , all this was seen many Ages agoe , and what worke the Dragon hath made in the Nations and in the Earth , where he hath had dominion and prevailed , and what a raging the roaring Lyon hath kept in the Earth is evident , seeking to destroy them in whom the seed remained , and to destroy them in whom the power of God was , or the least measure , and so the false , Prophets , deceivers , Antichrists , which wenout then , which the Apostle saw , they cried up that power which was from the life of God , and hath cryed it up for the higher power , and said all ought to be subject to it , and said who is able to make war with the Beast , for the false Apostles and Deceivers and Antichrists went from the Grace of God , and from the light , and from the power of God , into the World and into that Nature , which all kindreds , and tongues , and people walked in , and into the power that acts the Children of disobedience , and joyned with that power upon which the Whore sits : and they taught Nations and People to admire this power , and to admire the Beast because of his Heads and Horns , and Crowns and Names ; and hath wrought miracles before the Beast ; and this power which the Beast had received from the Dragon , this power admires the false Prophet , and the false Prophet the Beast ; so that none could buy nor sell , nay nor live , but that had his marke or the number of his name , and so all hath been in utter darknesse , and the deeds of darknesse hath spread themselves over the Earth ; For the Whore who is adulderated from God ; and the Dragon , and the Beast , and the false Prophet , all have acted from that power , which is below the truth , and below the life , which power is at enmity against the truth and the life and against the light ; and this power overspread all Nations , and the Sun being set , the night came over all , and the shadow of death over all Nations , and a veil and a covering hath been spread over all : and so out of the midst of thick darkness all hath acted this long and darke night of ignorance in the Apostacy , wherein the Dragon hath had power , and the Beast , and that power hath been admired and set up , which hath transgressed the life , so that any who have been zealous for the truth , and have kept the testimony of Jesus , and the spirit of prophesie ; the false prophets in all Nations , who are from the testimony of Jesus , have called to the Beast to slay and to kill and to destroy the seed of the woman , which is cloathed with the Sun , and so the Beast exercising his power which is from below , have killed and destroyed them who were subject to the higher power .


id: A50856
author: Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
date: 1684
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title:
  That the lawful successor cannot be debarr'd from succeeding to the crown maintain'd against Dolman, Buchannan, and others / by George Mackenzie ...

summary:
  It is answered , that by a former Statute in the 25 year of his Reigne , he by Act of Parliament setles the Crown upon the Heirs male of his own body , and for lack of such issue , to Lady Elizabeth , and for lack of such issue also , to the next Heirs of the King , who should for ever succeed according to the right of Succession of the Crown of England ; which shewes that the Succession to the Crown of England is establish't by the Law of Nature , and the Fundamental Laws of England , upon the Heirs of Blood , according to the proximity of degrees ; so that though that King did afterwards prevaile with the Parliament to declare this Elizabeth a Bastard , as he did also his Daughter Mary , by another Act , and resolve to setle the Crown , upon Henry Fitz Roy , Duke of Richmond , yet these Acts teach us how dangerous it is to leave Parliaments to the impression of Kings in the case of naming a Successor , as it is to expose Kings to the arbitrariness of Parliaments . that he refus'd to allow the Lawes made in Parliament , does very well remark , that this was in effect to consent to their being King , and to transferre upon them the Royal power , and this will be the event of all such undertakings .


id: A56345
author: Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.
date: 1650
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19987
sentence: 224
flesch: 5
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title:
  The true portraiture of the kings of England, drawn from their titles, successions, raigns and ends, or, A short and exact historical description of every king, with the right they have had to the crown, and the manner of their wearing of it, especially from William the Conqueror wherein is demonstrated that there hath been no direct succession in the line to create an hereditary right, for six or seven hundred years : faithfully collected out of our best histories, and humbly presented to the Parliament of England / by an impartial friend to justice and truth.

summary:
  This King not being able to suppress the Barons and people by his own strength , ( they having gotten not onely heart , but power ) sends to forraign Nations for aid , and entertains Poictovines , Italians , Almains , Provincioes to subdue his own people , and set them in great places ; which dangerous and desperate design the Barons much resenting , raised their spirits , and ingaged them in opposition to his Government , and set them on with more courage to look after their liberties ; therefore they several times stand up against the violence of Prerogative ; but what through want of strength or caution they were commonly disappointed ; yet rather ( if we may speak truly ) from the unfaithfulness of the King then any other defect , except it were their easiness to believe Kings , when their Prerogative , and the peoples liberties came in competition ; for after they had many times got , or rather extorted many promises , and confirmed them by oaths , ( the best humane security ) they were put to new designs , through either the suspention , or breach of them , witness these Instances ; after many foiles ▪ and tedious and various delusions by this King ( whose beams attracted most , dazled others ) the Barons , and people ( who were then unanimous through mutual oppressions ) fall more close , and severe on their principles , and wil not endure either delays , or delusions , and therefore effectually to redress their grievances , came very well armed to a Parliament then holden at Oxford ( intended rather for getting Subsidies , then removing oppressions ) in which Assembly they put the King to it , urge their former complaints with more zeal and reason , and with an addition of a mighty Spirit , demand the absolute confirmation of Magna Charta , and in a larger edition ( wherein are comprised those gallant priviledges of the Commons of England , which have yet been but kept by Ink , and Parchment ) and not trusting the King , got his son , Prince Edward , to seal it , with an addition of twenty four ( some write twelve ) Peers which Fabian stiles the douze Peeres , not only to see these priviledges truly observed , but to be as joynt Regents with the King ; and all the Lords , and Bishops in Parliament took a like Oath , to maintain these Articles inviolable ; yea , and all that would have any benefit of residence in the Kingdom , were enjoyned to take the same ; But these were too strict bonds for such a Princes wil , he soon finding advantages ( as he sought them ) recals all , gets a dispensation from the Pope for his forced Oath and to countenance his perjurie ▪ and acts in the old account ; the Barons again stand up with the people stoutly for the performance of the Articles of Oxford ; and sometimes brought him into straits ; yea , fully ▪ defeated him in many bloody battles , and regained the confirmation of the same laws , with security ; that all the Castles throughout England should be delivered to the keeping of the Barons , that the provisions of Oxford be inviolably preserved , that all strangers should be dismist the Kingdom , but those which by generall consent should be thought fit to remain ; this necessitous act though as it gave the people some peace and hopes , so it gave the King time to consider of new mediums , and therefore still to delay , and blind , he Assembles a new Parliament at London , where having ( by the sprinkling of Court water ) won many Lords to take his part , begins to surprise as many of the Barons as he could get , and spoiled their Castles and Houses , that success and authority grows strong on his side , and the Barons with some calme provisoes mediate a peace , insisting onely in generall that the Articles of Oxford might be observed ; But the King relying on his strength , defies them as Traitors ; which done , the peoples two Generals , the Earls of Leicester and Glocester , seeing no other means but to put it to a day , supply their want of strength by their wit and diligence , and carefully and artificially placing their battel ( which was fought at the Town of Lewis in Sussex ) overthrew the Kings Army , took the King , the Prince , the Earl of Cornwal , and his son Henry , the Earls of Arundel , Hereford , with many other Lords , and Gentlemen , both English and Scottish . His eldest Son Edward who was the fifth of that name , succeeded him in claim , & title , but rather lived then raigned ( being an infant ) had never any actuall exercise of his government ; for Ric. Duke of Glocester , and Uncle to this Infant , and made his Protector , that he might set up himself , causeth both the young titular King , & his Brother , ( these two Royall Infants ) to be barbarously murthered in their beds , and so wears the Crown himself , by the name of Richard the Third , untill Henry Earl of Richmond ( a twigg of a Bastard of John of Gaunt ) by his valour at Bosworth field , having overthrown his Army , slew the Tyrant himself , and created by his sword ( for other he had none ) a new title to himself , and was Crowned King , by the name of Henry the Seventh , who , what by his power and by a marriage of the Lady Eliz. the eldest daughter of Ed. the Fourth , confirmed his succession , & from him do all our later Princes derive their Title , as Henry the Eighth , Edward the Sixth , Queen Mary , Queen Elizabeth , King James , and our last Tyrant Charls .


id: A85738
author: Grosse, Robert, D.D.
date: 1647
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19360
sentence: 913
flesch: 75
cache: cache/A85738.xml
txt: txt/A85738.txt
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

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 .


id: A70272
author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
date: 1697
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22076
sentence: 540
flesch: 51
cache: cache/A70272.xml
txt: txt/A70272.txt
title:
  A free discourse wherein the doctrines which make for tyranny are display'd the title of our rightful and lawful King William vindicated, and the unreasonableness and mischievous tendency of the odious distinction of a king de facto, and de jure, discover'd / by a Person of Honour.

summary:
  That King James the Second , having endeavoured to Subvert the Constitution of the Kingdom , by breaking the Original Contract between King and People ; and by the advice of the Jesuites , and other wicked Persons , having violated the Fundamental Laws , and having withdrawn himself out of the Kingdom , hath abdicated the Government , and that the Throne is thereby become vacant . But I will make short of this matter — Original Contract there must have been between King and People , wherever lawful Power is exercised by a King , because Kings are not immediately chose of God :


id: A90972
author: Price, John, Citizen of London.
date: 1654
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21791
sentence: 540
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A90972.xml
txt: txt/A90972.txt
title:
  Tyrants and protectors set forth in their colours. Or, The difference between good and bad magistrates; in several characters, instances and examples of both. / By J.P.

summary:
  Soveraignty and subjection are Gods appointment FOR MANS GOOD ; He is the minister of God to thee for good , Rom. 134 , Sociableness , or appetitus convivendi , is the impress of Nature : and the reason thereof , mutual preservation and accommodation , which cannot be without Government : Sin hath brought sorrow upon the world ; Sin entered into the world in the van of a black and bloody Regiment , sorrows , pains , aches , hunger , thir●t , shame , &c. with death through sin in the rear ; Conscience of guilt brings fear of death : hence one end of society is preservation ; and because men need security from misery and ruine by one another , therefore hath God appointed Government and Governors among themselves for the good of all , the form of which Government is le●t by God to their own discretion , who hath only confin'd them within the limits of this general rule , His GLORY and THEIR FELICITY : That God would melt all Crowns , and S●epters of the Potentates of the Earth , into a Crown & S●epter for the Head , and hand of Jesus Christ , putting all Pow●rs and Authorities under his feet , making our Government peace , and Exactors Righteousness , that violence be no more heard of in our Land , nor desolation , nor destruction within ou● Borders : Let all the people CRI IN HOPE , AMEN .


id: A29958
author: Buchanan, George, 1506-1582.
date: 1680
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 37873
sentence: 1334
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A29958.xml
txt: txt/A29958.txt
title:
  De jure regni apud Scotos, or, A dialogue, concerning the due priviledge of government in the kingdom of Scotland, betwixt George Buchanan and Thomas Maitland by the said George Buchanan ; and translated out of the original Latine into English by Philalethes.

summary:
  What therefore 〈◊〉 with very great care observed in the parts would they be negligent of for the security and safety of all ? And would they willingl● redact themselves into bondage to him , wh●● was to possess a lawfull Kingdome in stea● of some benefit ? and would they freely giv● over their liberty acquired by vertue , defend●ed by armes , not interrupted for so many ages , to one not expecting it , without force● without war ? But I am afraid , that our Kings wi●● not be intreated to performe what you hav● now mentioned .


id: A91489
author: Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.
date: 1655
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 39706
sentence: 1759
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A91489.xml
txt: txt/A91489.txt
title:
  A treatise concerning the broken succession of the crown of England: inculcated, about the later end of the reign of Queen Elisabeth. Not impertinent for the better compleating of the general information intended.

summary:
  The use of Speech is given to man for this end and purpose , otherwise little available were it , if men should live alone , and converse with none . Subjecti estote omni humanae Creaturae propter Deum , sive Regi quasi precellenti , sive Ducibus ab eo missis , &c. saith S. Peter , where he seemeth to signifie that a King's Government is the best among all others ; seeing at this time when he wrote this Epistle , the chief Governor of the world was not called King , but Emperor ; though indeed between the title of King and Emperor there is little or no difference in substance , but only in name .


id: A02848
author: Hayward, John, Sir, 1564?-1627.
date: 1603
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 48975
sentence: 2126
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A02848.xml
txt: txt/A02848.txt
title:
  An ansvver to the first part of a certaine conference, concerning succession, published not long since vnder the name of R. Dolman

summary:
  But where you attribute these mutations to the authoritie of the states , Girard saith , that they were by faction & vsurpation of such , who frō the weaknes of their Prince , did make aduantage to their owne ambition ; affirming plainly , that betweene the death of Loys le Begue , & Charles the simple , not one of them who held the crowne of the Realme was lawfull king g , noting further , that the first two races of Kings , were full of cruel parricides & murthers ; & that in those times the Realme was oftē trauelled with tempests of seditiō . It is most certaine that Dauid knew , both because Samuel tould him , and because he had the spirit of prophesie , that God had reiected Saul , and designed him to be king in his place : yet his doctrine was alwaies , not to touch the Lords anoin●ed , wherto his actions vvere also answerable .


id: A27353
author: Bell, Thomas, fl. 1672-1692.
date: 1692
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 72352
sentence: 2480
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A27353.xml
txt: txt/A27353.txt
title:
  Nehemiah the Tirshatha, or, The character of a good commissioner to which is added Grapes in the wilderness / by Mr. Thomas Bell ...

summary:
  2. Understanding lodged high●● in the upper room of the speculative judgement , and reaching deeper , discovereth things in ●●eir original , and taketh them up in their causes , ●●d how they are . Why is it ●at the Lord gives many of his finest and most ●oly Saints , such a sad inward life of desertions , ●ears , Tentations , that are able to distract even a ●ise Heman from his youth ? and to make them ●iferenters also of such Exercises ? Answer , I find ●is Question made by Heman Psal. 88 , 14.


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