Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	king_n	lord_n	person_n	4,136	5	4.8948	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47551	That neither temporallitie[s] nor tythes is due to the bishops, prelates nor clergy, by a Gospel rule And that kings, princes and lords temporal, may j[ust]ly take the temporallities and tythes from them, and dispose of the ... the defence and benefit of the kingdom, and the relief of the poor. Proved by the laws and pract[i]ce of twenty Kings of Judah, England, and France as also by the testimonies of the Universities of Oxford and Prague, fifty four of ... nobles of Bohemia and Morania, two hundred and fifty years agone, and als[o] one hundred and twenty authors beside. Together with some directions how gospel ministers ought to have maintenance, according to the gospel rule, and institutions of Iesus Christ. By E. K.	Netherlands. Emancipatiekommissie.	1672 (1672)	Wing K6A; ESTC R218954	82,628	97

Princely pomp John Hooper And Mr. John Hooper both Bishop and Martyr and great opposer of Ceremonies episcopal rochits and vestments in which he would not be Consecrated he said that Magistrates that suffered the abuse of Church goods by the Prelates be culpable of the fault for if the fourth part of the Bishoprick remained to the Bishops it were sufficient and the third part to School-masters and the rest to the Poor and to Souldiers Petrus Blesenses Petrus Blesenses Arch-Deacon of Bath writ to the Bishop of Bangor thus the Title of Poverty is glorious with Christ and that which became Christ ought not to misbesem you St. Peter said Gold and Silver have I none Acts. 3.6 Yea famous Augustine Bishop of Hippo made no will because the Poor servant of Christ had nothing to bequeth it becomes not you to go sumptiously in Ornaments nor in Pride with great Horses and multitude of attendance but to cut off all occasions and Foot-steps of such a Conversation and in another place he saith the voice of Christ is not till thy Land nor build high Houses nor increase thy Rents but feed my Sheep Thomas Walsingam Thomas Walsingam In hyst Angl. Page 205. Said that Popes Cardinals Bishops and other Priests may not rule like temporal Lords nor bear any civil Office without mortal sin and that is a sin to endow them with temporal possessions and that no Prelates ought to have Prisons to punish or restrain offenders nor ought they to purchase large temporal possessions or riches c. A nameless Author A nameless Author in his supplycation to King Hen. 8 saith of Bishops that the only infection and Pestilent poison of Bishops is their great Lord-ships and Dominions with their yearly revenue with superfluity of goods which justly belongs to the Poor and so long as Bishops do possess them so long will they waste them to maintain their pride and so long as they continue in pride they shall not receive the holy-Ghost which would teach them to speak the truth but there is no room in a proud rebellious heart for the holy-Ghost to dwel in wherefore you being our dread Soveraign Lord and King whom God hath set to govern and to redress enormities and abuses you are bound in justice and equity and God requires it from you to take away from Bishops and Prelates and other spiritual Persons such superfluity of temporal possessions and riches which they abuse and other seculars cures and worldly offices which is the cause of much sin in them William Tindall William Tindall in another place of his book of the obedience of a Christian Page 181. writing of the falshood and jugling of the Pope and Prelates he saith they have put out the light of Gods truth and set up their own traditions and lyes and robbed the world of lands and goods of peace and Unity and of all temporal Authority c. and that as Christs Kingdom is not of this world even so the officers of Christs Kingdom may have no temporal dominion or jurisdiction nor exercise any temporal authority for Christ commanded his Apostles that they should not exercise any worldly authority saying it shall not be so among you Mat. 20.25 26. And when he sent them out to preach he commanded them that they should not provide neither Gold nor Silver nor brass in their purses c. for the workman is worthy of his meat Math. 10. And Paul commanded that if any would not work neither should they eat 2 Thes 3.10 Why then should non residents and others have such large possessions that work very little or not at all except it be works of darkness their wages should be proportionable to their work and the overplus should be to the King and the publick use of the Common wealth for Clement Clement the successor of Peter Bishop of Rome and successor of Peter saith of Prelates if thou be occupyed in worldly cares thou shalt both deceive thy self and them that hear thee for so thou canst not fully distribute those things which pertain unto salvation Mr. Mead. Mr. Mead in his book of the Apostacy of the latter times saith as in Deut. 7.6 the Lord chose Israel to be a peculiar people unto himself above all the people of the world And Amos. 3.2 you only have I known of all the families of the Earth therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities the more light of truth God reveals to any people if they walk not suitable thereunto the more there sin is increased The Lord was head and husband to the Church of Israel but when Israel forsook the Lord and followed their own inventions God cast them off and chose another Spouse namely the Church of the Gentiles And the first Churches of the Gentiles as the seven Churches of Asia and others for falling from their first love as the Church of Ephesus and the Church of Smyrna that said they were Jews as our Prelates say they are the successors of the Apostles and were the Synagogue of Satan and the Church of Pergamos who held the doctrine of Baalim who loved the wages of unrighteousness as our Prelates do in their unlawful holding of temporalities and it were well if we were free from the fornication of Thyatyra and lukewarmness of Laodecea I fear that in the general we are like the Church of Sardice that we have a name to live and are dead now God for their sins hath cast off all these Churches and chosen himself another Spouse in these northern Nations c. But if we continue in the same and other sins we cannot assure our selves of any long continuance of the Gospel except God put it into the hearts of our King and Nobles to endeavour a thorow Reformation especially in the Bishops and Prelates and other of the Clergy and their reformation will be a leading way to reform the rest Volusianus In the Epistle of Volusianus to Pope Nicholas for Priests marriage he saith the great Shepherd and Prince of the Apostles doth declare how all Pastors ought to intreat the flock of Christ in love and to remove all tyrannical Lordship from Bishops for that they ought not to be Lords but fathers over their flock and not imperiously to command them as exercising Stately Authority and power over them but gently to admonish and beseech them in zeal and piety according to the strength of every person after the Lord and not after their own will and ambition to see forth their power and jurisdiction whereas they should be ensamples to the flock first doing that themselves which they command others to do but some and that many saith he are inflamed with affection not of Charity but of covetousness greediness ambition who covet to be their Masters and more to rule over them than to profit them they oppress the weak by force and violence of their authority and compel them to their obedience pretending a zeal for God but like Uzzah