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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	law_n	parliament_n	7,328	5	6.6868	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67636	The resurrection of loyalty and obedience, out of the grave of rebellion by the sacred force of the oathes of supremacy and allegiance, which have lain as dead, and out of minde, for diverse years, and here raised up out of the dust, and discovered in their great inviolable force and power unto the people : for the humbling of those that are guilty of the breach of them, the quelling of rebellious principles, and excitement unto the duties of obedience and subjection, according to the tenor of the said oathes.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing W890; ESTC R38492	13,854	26

of those very Gibeonites amongst the rest of the Nations that inhabited the land of Canaan and expresly prohibiting them to make any Covenant with them or to shew them favour as appears Deut. 7. v. 1 2. and was manifestly against the consent and interest of the people and was broken by Saul in his zeal to the house of Israel and Judah as appears 2 Sam. 21. viz. which yet was punished with so great a judgment as three years Famine upon the children of Israel and could not be expiated without the destruction of divers of the posterity of Saul Obser IV. That the custome of Oaths made unto Princes by the people is no act of unlawfull Tyranny or Oppression but hath its foundation and warrant in the word of God as in the 2 Kings 11. v. 4.17 Where Athaliah had usurped the Kingdome was deposed and slain and the people were engaged in an Oath and Covenant unto Joshuah the lawful Successor in the Kingdome by the means of Jehoiada the Priest and in the 8. of Ecclesiastes v. 2. Obedience unto the King is required of the people in regard of the Oath of God and in the 17. of Ezekiel v. 13 14 15 16. as also in the 18 19 20. verses of the same Chapter you finde God severely threatning the breach of that Oath of Fidelity that was taken by Zedekiah unto the King of Babylon notwithstanding he was an enemy to the truth of God and a great oppressor of the people Obser V. That the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance must needs be allowed to have in them all that sacred force and binding power that hath been before mentioned to binde the people of these Nations and all their succeeding posterity either to the just and faithfull performance of them or to the undergoing of the dreadfull Judgment of Gods wrath and eternal indignation which is invoked upon the breach of them if it be not prevented by timely repentance and that upon these severall Considerations 1. Because these oaths were made taken by the publick authority of these Nations who in that and other publick acts did represent the whole people of the land 2. Because they are not avoydable by those infirmities that have been formerly noted in the oath of Joshua and the Princes of Israel which as they cannot be imputed unto these Oaths so neither if they were imputable unto them would they be invalidated thereby 3. Because these oaths appears now clearly enough by the sad consequences of them violations not to stand opposite to the interest of the People but to conduce exceedingly thereunto and if it were otherwise the validity of an Oath doth not depend upon the compliance with politick interest as hath been before shewed but stands firme and binding with a non obstante there against so that no pretence of the mistake or change of interest can be pleaded in barre to the obligation of these Oaths 4. Because the force of these Oaths cannot die of age no more then the Oath made unto the Gibeonites did in all that time which interceded between Joshua and Saul but are still in as great and full force and power for the binding of conscience as if they had been made and taken but yesterday or this very hour 5. Because no specious pretences of the good of the people to be obtained by the breach of them nor fair intention of those that violate them can either justify them or discharge from their obligation as is manifest in the case before propounded So that by all that hath been said these Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance do remain at this day in their full force and vigor to bind the people of this land and their posterity unto the King and his Heirs and Successours to all intents and purposes for which they were first made and that under the penalty of eternal destruction if they shall wilfully continue in the breach thereof Obser VI. Observe that no succeeding Oath or Covenant Protestation or Ingagement whatsoever that doth either contradict or limit a precedent lawfull Oath can either be lawfully taken or being taken is of any force at all either to make void or diminish or circumscribe the force of the foregoing lawful Oath For Oaths are not like Wills and Testaments which being but the free declarations of the present wills of them that make them are controulable by any succedent declarations or Testaments so that the last Will doth prevail against all that have gone before it but Oaths and promises and obligations whereby we bind our selves to others whether God or man put such limits and bounds upon our wills that we have no power to contradict or limit them by any succedent Oaths or obligations whatsoever But the first lawfull Oath stands firm and inviolable against all that shall betaken afterwards in the whole and in every part and the full extent of the tenor thereof otherwise an Oath were not an end of all strife as it is declared to be Heb. 6.16 nor were there indeed any valid security in a promissory Oath since a succeeding Oath to the contrary or setting limits conditions or exceptions to the former might renew the strife and destroy or diminish the security thereof so that no Engagement Covenant Protestation or Oath of Abjuration contrary to the Oaths of Supremacy or Allegiance can be taken without an horrid sin against God exposing the soul unto his eternall wrath Or can it be at all of any force against them though they should be never so oft taken neither can that limitation in the Covenant wherein they oblige themselves to the preservation of the King in the maintenance of the true protestant Religion the priviledges of Parliament and the Liberty of the Subject limit or abate the force of those absolute obligations whereby all Subjects are obliged to the King and his lawful Heirs and Successors which are upon them by the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance but as such limitations look very unhandsomely so they have not at all any force of abatement in them but ought to be abhord disclaimed rejected by all honest Subjects and Christians as an evil gap opened to rebellion and sedition to those that have a mind to make such an evil use thereof under pretence that the King doth that which indeed he ought not to do either depart in any thing from the true Religion or violate the Priviledges of parliament or the Liberties of the Subject Obser VII That those fore-mentioned Oathes as they have a binding influence upon all so especially do they bind those who have personally and solemnly taken them and are enjoyned thereunto by the laws of the Land and must have a peculiar influence obligatory upon them in the execution of those Offices or places and in the performance of those Acts and Operations which they doe by law enter upon with the solemn taking of those Oathes so that whatever they shall do therein contrary thereunto are not onely grievous and