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kingdom_n	great_a	just_a	king_n	2,151	5	3.5705	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29446	A Briefe discovrse vpon tyrants and tyranny		1642 (1642)	Wing B4584; ESTC R4594	6,182	10

mens consciences In the primitive time the Christians served in great troops under the Heathen Emperours but whether they had altogether beene able to establish their owne conditions all reason makes me doubt Besides true Religion was to be planted and we see patience gaines at the beginning more Proselytes than either force or prosperity But now our work is only to defend it All must confesse that the Protestants have not yet had the leisure or will to act such bloody and dark treasons as the Papists what they have done hath beene hitherto bravely with their swords in their hands the naturall and generous way of deciding a controversie But if against this the Duke of Guise be obiected I answer hee was none of their Prince next that he was condemned by the greatest part of the Kingdom as a man unworthy to live being thought the cause of most of the ill France did then labour with this being apparant to every judgement therefore what was done to him was only the execution of a just sentence which so great a Iury had pronounced against him yet it cannot be proved that they did it though it matters not much Christ tells Pilate if his Kingdome had beene of this world that is sufficiently beleeved his subiects would have fought for him by which hee seemes to me silently to upbraid the cowardlinesse of his followers I know the Romans by Tyrants meant ill Kings so doe not I who only comprehend under this title such as encroach upon the just liberties of their subiects for a true King is he that watcheth over his Countrey for their generall good acknowledging the particular propriety every one hath in what he enioyes ought not to be violated but where law allowes and necessity compells If it be pleasure a King seeks Law barres him not but preserves him more safe in a wilde Forrest than the Grand Signior can be in his Seragleo or when he goes his progresse with an hundred thousand men or if he delights in things lesse honest Law only informes him by punishing of others for the same faults that he which is set out of the reach of her power ought to be a Law to himselfe To conclude I ever beleeved that the maine scope of those rules for patience and sufferance prescribed in holy writ extend onely to restraine the unbridled passions of over furious men and to perswade temperance in the tongue and hands when there is no sufficient power to make resistance neither doe I like this opinion the worse because it is maintained by Bellarmine and the rest of the Iesuites that having most probability of truth that is consonant to all parties For it is no lesse than madnesse to think that God that hath allotted a punishment for all faults should protect this which is the greatest because it destroyes the principles of the second table and hinders the performance of those of the first there being no stronger enemy to Religion than unsetled feare For how can the Word have a free passage when the Churchmen have nothing to protect them when they tell the King of his implety and the Nobles of their transgression So then Tyranny cannot agree with the joyfull tidings of the Gospel which desires the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace Now where Law Religion and the Love of the People are it makes a threefold cord not easily broken which drawes on plenty peace and prosperity And if such a Prince comes to be invaded he is commonly the last that suffers when a Tyrant is ever the first FINIS