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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	king_n	power_n	subject_a	2,513	5	7.6545	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47055	Christvs dei, or, A theologicall discourse wherein is proved that regall or monarchicall power is not of humane but of divine right and that God is the sole efficient cause thereof and not the people : also, that every monarch is above the whole common-wealth and is not onely major singislis, but major vniversis : written in answer to a late printed pamphlet intituled Observations upon some of His Majesties late answers and expresses.	Jones, John, d. 1660.; Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659 Supposed author.	1642 (1642)	Wing J961; ESTC R14104	9,563	20

CHRISTUS DEI OR A THEOLOGICALL DISCOURSE WHEREIN Is Proved that Regall or Monarchicall Power is not of Humane but of Divine Right and that GOD is the sole Efficient Cause thereof and not the People Also That every Monarch is above the whole Common-wealth and is not onely Major Singulis but Major Universis Written In Answer to a late Printed Pamphlet intituled Observations upon some of His Majesties late Answers and Expresses 1 Pet. 2. 13. Subjecti estote omni humanae creaturae propter Dominum sive Regi quasi Praecellenti Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lord's sake whether it be to the King as Supreme OXFORD Printed by H. Hall An. Dom. M. DC XLII CHRISTUS DEI OR A Theologicall Discourse wherein is proved that Regall Power is not of Humane but of Divine Right and that GOD onely is the Efficient cause thereof and not the People Preface THere is a Booke come forth of late barely intituled Observations upon some of His Majesties late Answers and Expresses without any name of the Author or place where it was Printed Wherein the Observer soe I must call him not knowing him by any other name aimes cheifly and directly to prove that the hereditary Regall and Monarchicall Power of our now present dread Soveraigne King Charles is inferiour and subject to the Power of the now present Parliament Which to evince he undertakes to lay downe the Originall foundation of all Regall Power whatsoever according to the efficient and finall causes thereof And having made the finall cause to be the safety of the people together with their Civill or Politicall happinesse he also makes the efficient cause to be not God but onely the people and the instrumentall cause of conveying and deriving this Regall Power to be not any divine law nor nothing else amongst Christians but the meere humane pactions and Agreements of the Politique Body of the people And then arguing by a rule in nature that quicquid efficit tale est magts tale he issueth out this just inference as he calleth it that though the King be singulis major yet he is universis minor and therefore inferiour and subject in Power to the Parliament Having perused this discourse and finding it to be most injurious to Regall Power or Monarchie contrary to the true Principles of State and Divinitie or Orthodox Christian Doctrine I thought I might doe my King and Country good service to confute these desperate and more then dangerous Positions by declaring and proving the true Originall foundation according to the finall and efficient causes of Regall or Monarchicall Power which with Gods good helpe I hope to do perspicuously in the few ensuing Paragraphes §. 1 Of the Primary Finall cause as also of the Efficient cause of all Civill Societies or Republiques Because whatsoever is done is done for some end or purpose without which it should not have beene done nor had a being therefore it is the constant Doctrine of all Philosophers that the End is the cheif and Principall of all causes and therefore for methods sake I will begin with it now to find out the Primarie end of all Civill Societies or Commonwealthes we that are Christians must reflect attentively upon those words of the Holy Ghost Prov. 16 4. universa propter semetipsum operatus est Dominus By which we are ascertaind that God Almighty created not only all other Creatures but all mankind also as for their Primarie end for himselfe and his owne Praise and Glorie And as for man in particular God created him to his owne image and likenesse endowing him with an understanding and a will that he might know how to honour and love his Creator and by such love and honour might finally become happy in the fruition of his eternall unspeakable and inestimable Glory in Heaven for means whereto first God dictated certaine divine Precepts and Principles unto man and imprinted them with his very Creation upon his naturall reason for which cause they are called divine naturall Lawes written in every mans heart saith Saint Paul Rom. 2. 15. That every man might be equally Capable to know them and equally obliged to obey them Secondly God infused into him Faith Hope and Charity and other supernaturall Virtues all tending to this Conducement that man following them as his guides might through his obedience to God attaine to his owne Salvation Thirdly to bind man more strongly to his Subjection and to make it appeare more illustriously unto him that therein principally consisted his Welfare as the very End and Center for and to which he was created He gave him an expresse divine Law not to eate of the tree in the midst of Paradise upon paine of death Fourthly by Revelation he instructed him in many particular sacred formes and Rites of exterior divine worship as sacrifice and others for though we read not anywhere in holy Writ that Adam offered Sacrifice no more then wee do of Isaac yet wee read there that Cain and Abell did and that Abraham and Iacob did But it cannot be imagined that Cain and Abell were the first Inventors of this most religious and divine worship noe more then that Isaac did neglect it but that by Paternall Tradition and example they received it from Adam All which duely considered it will appeare evidently that the primary end for which all men are created is to serve honour love obey worship God From whence it followes that this being mans highest and principallest Concern it ought also to be his highest and principallest care to attend to it But most certaine it is that men living divided and scattered over the face of the world without the instruction and assistance one of another cannot possibly performe this for every particular mans behoofe as is requisite And therfore from this finall cause arose primarily a necessity amongst men to unite and combine themselves into civill Societies and Common-wealths This end could not be prefixed by men but men were created for this end by God And therfore this is the Primary spirituall supernaturall and divine finall cause of all Republiques to which every other end must be but secondary subordinate and subservient And from hence it followeth further that since on the one side no naturall agent can by it's naturall power compasse the attaining of a Supernaturall end and on the other side Civill Societies ought not to be instituted in vaine we mustneeds conclude that the Primary efficient Cause of all Common-wealths is only God §. 2. Of the Secondary finall Cause and also the onely Efficient Cause of all Civill Societies and Republiques Every Creature in the World strives to preserve its owne kind Wee see what paines and Care Beasts and Birds take to reare their Younglings Trees and Plants beare fruites and seeds to produce the like when they are perished Yea the inanimate Creatures according to their predominant Element and mixture strive every one to obtaine and enioy their Center