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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	bind_v	church_n	law_n	1,087	5	4.7146	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70864	Concordia discors, or, The dissonant harmony of sacred publique oathes, protestations, leagues, covenants, ingagements, lately taken by many time-serving saints, officers, without scruple of conscience ... by William Prynne, Esq. ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P3928; ESTC R22150	38,103	48

drinke Wine nor build house nor sow seed nor plant nor have any vineyard but dwell in tents all their dayes held themselves bound in duty conscience to obey it which God himself commends records rewards for others imitation Jer. 35. 1. to 15. who might in like sort oblige them by his Oath and Covenant Is a convincing gument that as the * Warranties Covenants Bends Contracts Feofments Grants Reservations of Rents Services Tenures in see by the Laws of England and other Nations firmly oblige mens Heirs Posterity Assignees Executors Administrators on both sides in succession and perpetuity So likewise their Oaths Covenants Protestations to their here litarie Kings their Heirs and Successors oblige them equally to them in Perpetuity and succession 7ly Because it is most evident by Gen. 3. 14 15. c. 4 5. Exodus 17. 16. c. 20. 5. c. 43. 7. 1 Kings 2. 33. 2 Kings 5. 27. Jer. 22 30. c. 36. 31. That Parents by their iniquities and transgressions may draw down and entayl the curses the judgements of God on them and their Posterityes after them to their prejudice Therefore they may much more oblige them by their Oaths Covenants to Obedience Loyalty Subjection to their hereditary Kings and their Heirs for their own particular and the m Publick good safety as well as Freehold and Copyhold Tenents in Honors Manors may oblige themselves their Heirs and Successors for ever by Homage Fealty Tenures Contracts to their Landlords their Heirs and Assignees for ever by the Common statute-Statute-laws of our own and other Realms though they be no Soveraign Lords and Kings over them 8ly Because the Saints and Churches of God in all Ages have held themselves and their posterity bound in Duty and Conscience to pray to God for the life safety prosperity of their Kings and their Sons and Royal Posterity in all hereditary Kingdoms as is apparent by Ezra 6. 10 11. Psal. 72 1 2 15. 1 Sam. 11. 14. 2 Sam. 16. 16. 1 Kings 1. 25. 34 39. 2 Kings 11. 12. 2 Chron. 23. 11. Psal. 149. 2. Ezech. 9. 9. Dan. 2. 4. c. 3. 9. c. 6. 6. 21. Mat. 21. 5. 9. John 12. 13 15. 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. by all the antient modern Liturgyes Collects Letanyes Canons of the Churches of England Scotland Ireland France Spain and other hereditary Kingdoms The Testimony of sundry Fathers Councils Historians and our own Clause Rolls in the Tower n elsewhere quoted Therefore they may lawfullie oblige themselves and their Posterity by Solemn Oaths Covenants Protestations to obey protect and defend their and their posterities Royal Persons Crowns and Royalties 9ly To put this out of further question I shall only prest one Scripture president and testimonie more wherewith I shall conclude this point and that is the Historie of the Gibeonites recorded Josh. 9. 10. and 2 Sam. 21. 1. to 13. The Gibeonites a remnant of the Amorites with whom the Israelites by Gods express command were to make no peace nor covenant nor shew any mercy to but smite with the edge of the sword and utterly destroy Deut. 7. 1 2 3. c. 20. 16 17 18. circumventing Joshua and the elders of Israel by a stratagem of old bottles shooes bread clothes and a lying information that they came from a farr country to make peace and a league with them by reason of the glorious victories God had given and the miracles he had wrought for them thereupon without asking any advice of God or the Congregation or examining the truth of their information Joshua and the Elders of the Congregation entred into a league with them to let them live and sware unto them in the name of the Lord Within three dayes after they heard they were their neighbours and dwelt amongst them and they came unto their Cities the third day * But the children of Israel smote them not Because the Princes of the Congregation had sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel Hereupon all the Congregation murmured against the Princes But all the Princes said unto the Congregation We have sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel therefore we may not touch them This we will do unto them we will let them live lest wrath be upon us because of the Oath that we sware unto them And the Princes said unto them let them live as the Princes had promised them but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water to all the congregation And Joshua called for them and spake unto them saying Wherefore have ye beguiled us saying We are very far from you when you dwell among us Now therefore ye are cursed and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen and bewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God And they answered Joshua and said because it was certainly told thy servants how the Lord thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the Land and to destroy all the Inhabitants of the Land before you therefore we were fore afraid of our lives because of you and have done this thing And now behold we are in thine hand as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us do And so did he unto them and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel that they slew them not And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the Altar of the Lord even to this day in the place which he should chuse After this Oath and League the Princes and Congregation were so farr from slaying or suffering them to be slain by their enemies contrarie hereunto that when as 5. Kings soon after came up with all ●h●ir hosts and encamped against Gibeah to destroy is because they had made peace with Israel the Giheonite sending this message to Joshus the camp at Gilgal slack not thy hand from thy servants to come up to us quickly save us for all the Kings of the Amorites that dwell in the Mountains are gathered against us thereupon Ioshua and all the men of Warr with him went up from Gilgal all night and came upon their Enemies sodenly and smote destroyed them with a great slaughter delivering them from that danger About 395 years after this Solem Oath League King Saul out of his zeal to the children of Israel and Iudah sought to destroy all and slew some of those Gibeonites posterity contrary to this Oath and League For which 35 * years after its violation and 430 years after its first making God sent a famine in the Land for three years year after year upon this David inquiring of the Lord what was the true cause thereof The Lord answered him It was for Saul and for his bloudy house because they slew the Gibeonites who were not of the Israelites but of the remnant of the Amorites and the children of Israel had sworn unto them whereupon David called the Gibeonites and said unto