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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	king_n	people_n	subject_n	12,053	5	6.8171	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94074	The vvay to the highest honour. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Peeres, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, at their late solemne monthly fast. Feb. 24. 1646. / By William Strong, one of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the House of Peeres.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1647 (1647)	Wing S6013; Thomason E377_24; ESTC R201368	39,205	58

amplexus Irea nomen Regis ipsi remansit Grass Gram. sacr p. 8. yet his Family was laid aside and Joshua his servant exalted and yet Moses must put his honour upon him that all the Congregation of Israel may be obedient to him Numb 27.20 And this is recorded to the honour of Araunah 2. Sam. 24.23 though it is conceived he was anciently King in Jerusalem over the Jebusites whom David subdued and cast out yet being now converted and become a Proselyte to the Jewes he did so far cast away all his former interest and the thoughts of it that in the publique calamity he received David with a great deale of love and enlargement of spirit manifesting that though he had lost the title Esay 14.19.20 Rex habet in potestare liget constitutiones assisas in Regno suo provisas approbatas juratas ipse in propria persona sua observet a subditis suis faciat observari Et est Corona Regis facere justitiam judicium tenere pacem sine quibus Corona consistere non potest nec tenere Bracton de leg consuetud Angl. l. 2. c. 24. Quod Reges Angliae aegrè ferentes putantes se non liberè dominari in subditos moliti sunt ipse Progenitores tui hoc jugum politicum abjicere ut ipsi in subjectum populum regaliter tantum dominari sed potius debacchari queant Fortesc de Cand. leg Angl. c. 34. p. 78. yet he had received a Princely spirit and retained that still 2. Take heed of Oppression this brought the great dishonour upon the King of Babylon that he should be cast out of his grave as an abhominable branch and not be joyned with the Kings of the Nations in buriall because he had destroyed his Land and slaine his people Therefore see that yee breake every yoake and untie every burden that the Subjects may have no cause to complaine that their yoakes are only changed Wee are told that in England our Rulers are not above our Lawes but bound to rule by them as well as the Subject to obey them and in this their strength glory and authority consists And wee finde it taxed as a common evill designe that hath been long on foote in the Government of this Nation that the Kings did desire to cast off the Rule of Law and to governe by Prerogative in an Arbitrary way that in the end their wills might become Lawes and they might command and require what they list This I say hath beene condemned as an evill in former ages and this will be found as an evill in Government in all those that succeed under what name or title soever it be for surely God did not make men to be like the fishes of the Sea that have no King Let every one of you Right Honourable but upon higher even Gospel Principles say as Tiberius did Aurum illud adulterinum est quod cum subditorum lachrimis collectum est That will never prove currant coine to the Ruler that is gathered with the teares much lesse when it is with the blood of the Subjects 3 Do not set your selves against the power of godlinesse but countenance and advance it Let not circumstantiall differences cause substantiall divisions Mar. 9.18 It was a sinfull humour in the Disciples wee saw one casting out Devills in thy name and wee forbad him because he followed not us Surely Gods people wheresoever they come they are either as Dew upon the grasse Mich. 5.7 Zach. 12.6 or as a Torch in a sheafe Either to make them fruitfull or consume them Let nothing be done by you I beseech you that may proove a seede of persecution beyond your intentions in after times You know not into what hands the actings of those things may come which you shall enact how far against godlinesse in the power of it they may be stretched and what use may be made of them in time to come Wee reade Rev. 8.11 of a great star that fell from heaven and the name of that star was called Wormwood The fall of great persons is in Scripture commonly expressed by the falling of a Star as Esay 14 12. the fall of the King of Babylon is And to be called in Scripture is to be and to be publikely knowne to be As they shall call his name Immanuel Math. 1.2 3. ●er 23.6 This is the name whereby he shall be called Iehovah our righteousnesse sc this he shall be and this he shall be commonly knowne to be This Prince his name shall be called wormwood Princeps amaritudinum one bitter in his spirit unhappy and unsuccesfull in his Government both to himselfe and his Subjects And be sure of this If any Star be it of never so great a magnitude and never so high an elevation if it be called wormwood it will fall FINIS