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kingdom_n	great_a	time_n	world_n	5,204	5	4.2496	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78586	The true lavv of free monarchy, or The reciprocall and mutuall duty betvvixt a free king and his naturall subjects. By a well affected subject of the kingdome of Scotland.; True lawe of free monarchies	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2; Wing J145; Thomason E238_23; ESTC R6414	20,111	16

confesse that a King at his coronation or at the entry to his Kingdome willingly promiseth to his people to discharge honorably and truely the office given him by God over them But presuming that thereafter hee breake his promise unto them never so inexcusable the question is who should be judge of the breake giving unto them this contract were made unto them never so sicker according to their alleageance I think no man that hath but the smallest entrance in the civill Law will doubt that of all law either civill or municipall of any nation a contract cannot be thought broken by the one party and so the other likewise to be freed therefro except that first a lawful tryall cognition be had by the ordinary Iudge of the breakers thereof Else every man may be both party and judge in his own cause which is absurd once to be thought Now in this contract I say betwixt the King and his people God is doubtlesse the only Iudge both because to him only the King must make count of his administration as is oft said before as likewise by the oath in the Coronation God is made judge and revenger of the breakers For in his presence as only judge of oaths all oaths ought to be made Then since God is the onely judge betwixt the two parties contractors the cognition and revenge must only appertaine to him It followes therefore of necessity that God must first give sentence upon the King that breaketh before the people can think themselves freed of their oath What justice then is it that the party shall be both judge and party usurping upon himselfe the office of God may by this argument easily appare And shall it lye in the hands of headlesse multitude when they please to weary off subjection to cast off the yoke of government that God hath said upon them to judge and punish him by whom they should be judged and punished and in that case wherein by their violence they kithe themselves to be most passionate parties to use the office of an ungracious Iudge or Arbiter Nay to speake truly of that case as it stands betwixt the King and his people none of them ought to judge of the others breake For considering rightly the two parties at the time of their mutuall promise the King is the one party and the whole people in one body are the other party And therefore since it is certaine that a King in case so it should fall out that his people in one body had rebelled against him the should not in that case as thinking himselfe free of his promise and oath become an utter enemy and practice the wreak of his whole people and native Country although he ought justly to punish the principall authors and bellowes of that universall rebellion how much lesse then ought the people that are alwayes subject unto him and naked of al authority on their part presse to judge and overthrow him otherwise the people as the one party contracters shal no sooner challenge the King as breaker but he as soone shall judge them as breakers so as the victors making the tyners the traitours as our proverb is the party shall aye become both judge and party in his owne particular as I have already said And it is here likewise to bee noted that the duty and allegeance which the people sweareth to their Prince is not only bound to themselves but likewise to their lawfull heires and posterity the lineall succession of Crowns being begun among the people of God and happily continued in diverse Christian common wealths So as no objection either of heresie or whatsoever private statute or Law may free the people from their oath given to their King and his succession established by the old fundamentall Lawes of the kingdom For as he is their heritable Over-lord and so by birth not by any right in the coronation commeth to his Crowne it is a like unlawfull the crowne ever standing full to displace him that succeedeth thereto as to eject the former For at the very moment of the expiring of the King raigning the nearest and lawfull heire entreth in his place And so to refuse him or intrude another is not to hold out uncomming in but to expell and put out their righteous King And I trust at this time whole France acknowledgeth the superstitious rebellion of the liguers who upon pretence of heresie by force of armes held so long out to the great desolation of their whole Country their native and righteous King from possessing of his own crown and naturall kingdom Not that by all this former discourse of mine Apology for Kings I meane that whatsoever errours and intollerable abhominations a Soveraigne Prince commit he ought to escape all punishment as if thereby the world were only ordained for Kings and they without controlement to turne it upside down at their pleasure But by the contrary by remitting them to God who is their only ordinary Iudge I remit them to the forest and sharpest schoole Master that can be devised for them For the further a King is preferred by God above all other rankes and degrees of men and the higher that his feate is above theirs the greater is his obligation to his maker And therefore in case hee forget himselfe his unthankfulnesse being in the same measure of height the sadder and sharper will his correction be and according to the greatnesse of the height he is in the waight of his sale will recompence the same For the further that any person is obliged to God his offence becom and growes so much the greates then it would bee in any other Ioves thunder-claps light oftner and sorer upon the high stately Oakes then on the low and supple willow trees And the highest bench is sliddriest to sit upon Neither is it ever heard that any King forgets himselfe towards God or in his vocation but God with the greatnes of the plague revengeth the greatnesse of his ingratitude Neither think I by the force argument of this my discourse so to perswade the people that none will hereafter be raised up and rebell against wicked Princes But remitting to the justice and providence of God to stirre up such scourges as pleaseth him for unishment of wicked Kings who made the very vermine and filthy dust of the earth to bridle the insolency of proud Pharaoh my only purpose and it tention in this treatise is to perswade as far as lyeth in me by these sure and infallible grounds all such good Christian Readers as beare not only the naked name of a Christian but kith the fruits thereof in their daily forme of life to keepe their hearts and hands free from such monstrous and unnaturall rebellions whensoever the wickednes of a Prince shall procures the same at Gods hands that when it shall please God to cast such such scourges of Princes and instruments of his fury in the fire ye may stand up with cleane hands and unspotted consciences having proved your selves in all your actions true christians toward God and dutifull subjects towards your King having remitted the judgment and punishment of all his wrongs to him whom to only of right it appertaineth But craving at God and hoping that God shall continue his blessing with us in not sending such fearefull desolation I heartily wish our Kings behaviour so to be and continue among us as our God in earth and loving Father indued with such properties as I described a King in the first part of this Treatise And that ye my deare Country men and charitable readers may presse by all meanes to procure the prosperity and welfare of your King that as he must on the one part thinke a I his earthly felicity and happinesse grounded upon your weale caring more for himselfe for your sake then for his own thinking himselfe only ordained for your weale such holy and happy emulation may arise betwixt him and you as his care for your quietnesse and your care for his honour and preservation may in all your actions daily strive together that the Land may thinke themselves blessed with such a King and the King may thinke Himselfe most happie in ruling over so loving and obedient Sukjects FINIS