Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	die_v	king_n	scotland_n	3,606	5	8.4993	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53652	A persvvassion to loyalty, or, The subject's dutie vvherein is proved that resisting or deposing of kings (under what spccious [sic] pretences soever couched) is utterly unlawfull / collected by D.O.; Herod and Pilate reconciled	Owen, David, d. 1623.	1642 (1642)	Wing O704; ESTC R36621	28,490	36

the name of Pius Secundus Otho Frisin in his Epistle dedicatory before his Chronicle Otho Frisin gensis hath an excellent saying in his Epistle dedicatory to Frederick Barbarossa Cum nulla persona mundialis inveniatur quae mundi Legibus non subjaceat c. Although no earthly man can be found that is not subject to the Laws of the World and in respect of subjection liable to correction Kings as it were placed over Laws are not restrained by them but reserved to the examination of God according to the words of the King and Prophet Against thee only have I sinned Psal 51.5 It becommeth therfore a King both in respect of the noble disposition of his mind and the spirituall illumination of his soule to have God the King of Kings and Lord of Lords ever in his mind and by all meanes possible to take heed that he fals not into the hands of God seeing it is as the Apostle saith a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the living God It is more fearefull for Kings than for any other because Kings have none but God himselfe above them whom they need feare It shall be so much more horrible for them by how much they may offend more freely than other men So far Otho Thomas Aquinas Aquin de regimine prin lib. 1. cap. 6. if the tractate de Regimine Principum be his maketh three sorts of Kings Kings by Election Kings by Subordination and Kings by Succession For the first he saith that they which did establish may abolish For the second we must have our recourse to him that did surrogate the subordinate King as the Iews did to Caesar against Herod for the last his resolution is Recurrendum esse ad omnium Regem Deum that we must fly to God the King of all Kings in whose only power it is to molifie the cruell heart of a Tyrant And that men may obtaine this at the hands of God they must cease from sin for wicked Princes by Divine permission are exalted to punish the sins of the people tollenda est igitur culpa ut cessat tyrannorum plaga we must therefore remove our sins that God may take away his punishment Thus far Thomas Gratianus which compiled the Decrees is very peremptory that the Bishop of Rome ought not to medle with the temporall sword the state of Common-wealths or the change of Princes He saith nothing indeed de Regni ordinibus which in his time and a 100 yeares after him never dreamed of any such authority Cum Petrus qui primus Apostolorum à Domino fuerat electus materianlem ladium exerceret When Peter whom the Lord had first chosen of all the Apostles drew the material sword to defend his Master frō the injuries of the Iews he was commanded to shearh his sword Mat. 26.52 For all that take the sword shall perish by the sword As if Christ should have said Hitherto it was lawfull for thee and thine auncestors to persecute Gods enemies with the temporall sword hereafter thou must put up that sword into his place and draw the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God to slay the old man Caus 23. quest 8. pa●ag 1. Rom. 13 4. whosoever beside the Prince and without his authority that hath lawfull power and as the Apostle teacheth beareth not the sword in vaine to whom every soule must be subject whosoever I say without or beside the Princes authority beareth the sword shall perish by the sword Thus far Gratian. About the yeare 1300 began a quarrell between Boniface 8 and Philipus Pulcher the French King about the collation of Benefices Prebends and other Ecclesiasticall promotions Whereupon the Pope wrote unto the said King as solloweth Boniface Bishop the servant of Gods Servants to his well-beloved Son Philip by Gods grace King of France greeting and blessing Apostolicall Feare God and keepe his Law We give thee to understand that thou art subject to us both in Spirituall things and Temporall and that no gift of benefices or prebends belongeth to thee If thou have in thy hand any vacant keep the profits of them to the Successors and if thou hast bestowed any we decree the collation voide and recall it how far soever it hath proceeded Whosoever beleeveth otherwise we account him a foole Dated at Lateran the fourth of the Calends of December and in the 6. yeare of our Papacy King Philip returned his hautinesse a correspondent answer viz. Philip by the grace of God King of France to Boniface bearing himselfe for Pope Philip. Pulcher. Salutem modicam sive nullam Sciat tua maxima fatuitas Lattle health or none at all Let thy great fooleship know that in temporall things we are subject to no man And that the gifts of prebends and Ecclesiasticall promotions made and to be made by us were and shall be Lawfull both in time past and in time to come For such collations belong to us in the right of our Crown wherefore we will manfully defend the possessours of the said dignities and do judge them that thinke otherwise fooles and mad men Given at Paris the Wednesday after Candlemasse 1301. Questionlesse this King that did so scornefully reject the Popes chalenge pretended from Christ would little regard the claime of the Nobles derived but from the people The same busie Boniface of whom some write that he came in like a Foxe craftely raigned like a Lion cruelly and dyed like a Dog miserably would take upon him the decision of a controversie between the Kings of England and Scotland and commanded King Edward of England either to cease his claime or to send his procurators to the Apostolike sea to shew his right and to receive such order from the Pope as justice and equity would require The Lords and Commons then assembled in Parliament at Lincolne sent Boniface this answer in the Kings behalfe Whereas our most dread Lord Edward by the grace of God the Noble King of England caused your Letters to be read openly before us touching certaine occurrents of state between him and the King of Scotland we did not a little marvaile at the contents thereof so strange and wonderfull as the like hath never been heard of We know most holy father and it is well known in this Realme and also to other nations that the King of England ought not to make answer for his right before any judge Ecclesiasticall or secular by reason of the free estate of his Royall dignity and custome Parliament at Lincolne quoted by M. Beken-shaw without breach at all times unviolably observed Wherefore after treaty had and diligent deliberation this was our resolution that our said King ought not to answer in judgement nor send procurators or messengers to your court seeing that tendeth manifestly to the disinheriting of the right of the Crown the overthrow of the state of the Kingdome and the breach of the Liberties Customes and Lawes of