Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	law_n	people_n	power_n	6,970	5	5.1237	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71168	Twenty new qveries proposed to all true English-men concerning the unreasonable & insupportable burthen, lying heavy upon the shoulders of this groaning nation, occasioned by the illegal and traiterous usurpation of a late deceased tyrant, who Jehu-like carryed both law, religion, and tyranny in his scabbard likewise, the epidemical disease of this rolling and schismatical age, unmasked, and all weathercocks, king-fishers, new fangled usurpers, upstart-law-destroyers, and abominable Parliament breakers, discovered, in the case and recital of such devouring caterpillars, who thirst after nothing more then the swallowing up of the peoples antient rights and liberties, to perpetuate the nations still in misery and oppressions / by one of the few English men that are left in England.	One of the few English-men that are left in England.	1659 (1659)	Wing T3412A; ESTC R1633	4,830	10

Twenty New QVERIES Proposed to all true ENGLISH-MEN CONCERNING The Unreasonable Insupportable Burthen lying heavy upon the Shoulders of this Groaning Nation Occasioned by the Illegal and Traiterous Usurpation of a late Deceased Tyrant who Jehu-like carryed both Law Religion and Tyranny in His SCABBARD Likewise the Epidemical Disease of this Rolling and Schismatical Age unmasked And all Weather-Cocks King-fishers New-fangled Usurpers Upstart-Law-destroyers and Abominable Parliament-Breakers discovered In the Case and Recital of such devouring Caterpillars who thirst after nothing more then the swallowing up of the Peoples antient Rights and Liberties to perpetuate the Nations still in Misery and Oppressions By One of the few English-men that are left in England Printed in the Year 1659. Twenty New QUERIES BETWEEN Jest and Earnest c. OR Democritus turned States-Man I. WHether it be not convenient that the doctrine of Copernicus who held That the World turns round should be established by Act of Parliament which our late Changes Alterations and Revolutions in part have verified and that Tycho Brache with the Gang of the contrary Opinion be adjudged Heterodoxal and that from henceforth it be enacted That what persons soever do profess publish or hold forth any other Tenent contrary thereunto be adjudged Anathema Maranatha and that publick thanks be given to Vincent Wing for the great pains he took in the composure of that excellent piece called Harmonicon Coeleste II. Whereas it is humbly conceived fit by Machiavil and his Pupils That all the Gangrened Members of the body Politick be cut off lest putrifaction of the whole should ensue It is therefore worthy the consideration Whether it be not expedient to imploy an Ambassadour to the man in the Moon to procure habitations for our new Courtiers greater Antipodes to the present Government than the old constant Cavaliers And for the better effecting thereof it is deem'd necessary that the great Clerk Doctor Wilkins Warden of Wadham Colledge in Oxon in regard he hath the greatest knowledge in that new Plantation be desired with all speed to provide his winged Chariot for their convenient carriage and that he undertake the imployment of a Coachman to conduct them thither III. But if that design fail Whether it be not expedient to ship them all Oceana and that Mr. Harrington our famous modern Columbus discoverer of that floting Terra incognita be desired to be the Pilot to conduct them thither who for his pains deserves to be made Knight of the Sunne and that in a grateful remembrance of his good service it should alwayes be called after his name viz. Harringtonia IV. Whether it be not convenient or rather necessary to call all persons to an account that have any way contributed their assistance for the establishing of ●●e late deceased Tyrant as chief Magistrate of this Commonwealth And whether any person or persons who have any way abetted him and endeavoured to confirm him in his Tyranny or Acted under him in any places of Trust Power or sate in any Parliament or Convention summoned by his Writ be fit to be intrusted with any Office in the Common-wealth as 't is now settled V. Whether it be not a great Contempt of the Law enacted by this Parliament that made it Treason for any one person to aime at the sole Government of this Commonwealth to suffer such person to go unp●ished in despight of the said Law and whether it be not prudonce to have such person brought to condign punishment that hath transgressed that Law to terrifie others for the future for making the like attempt VI. Whether those Apostate Officers of the Army that were Active and grand Instruments in suspending and disturbing this Session of Parliament as well as secluding imprisoning and injustly detracting several Members of the same Parliament before that were eminent Assertors of the Peoples Liberties against Tyranny and Oppression conscientious propagators of the Gospel and establishers of the Fundamentall municipal Law of the Land and valiant Champions of the true Old Cause And by their Declaration of Aug. 22. Anno Dom. 1653 as also by a Pasquil call'd the true state o● the Common-wealth Anno 1654. declared this Session of Parliament to be actually and finally dissolved from being any more a Parliament by an extraordinary providence but also branded the members therof ignominiously for a corrupt party carrying on their own ends ●o perpetuate themselves as Supream Authority never answering the ends which God and his People expected from them exercising Arbitrary power and swallowing up the antient Liberties of the people and to perpetuate their miseries vexations and oppressions through the multitude of unnecessary Laws and Ordinances concerning their own particular interest as they there at large remonstrated be fit persons to have any imployment either Military or Civil within this Common-wealth VII Whether a Weather-cock a King-fisher a plyant Willow a piece of Wax capable of all Impressions a Time-Server a Persian still sacrificing to the Rising Sun a Lord President under the late Tyrant of his High Court of Injustice a man that hath made Justice quick sighted and redeemed it from blindness be a fit keeper of the Common-wealths consc●ence VIII Whether a hot brain'd Parrot that multiplies words without matter a new Courtier an Apostate from his first Principles and the Good Old Cause as appeares by a Speech he made in the last Parliament in the behalf of R. C. be fit to be restored to his place of Atturney General for South-Wales IX Whether Pride and arrogancy one who is of yesterday and knowes nothing a Clark or Barrister of nine years standing in his heart a Quaker yesterday a Protectorian this day a Republican to morrow what you please a favourer of levelisme and one that is not constant in any thing but inconstancy save onely in the opinion that there are no witches nor can deserve death though an Act of Parliament be made to that end be fit to be a Judge in Wales X. Whether a Debaucher of both the Protectors an oppressor of his Country a persecutor of the Godly one that sacreligiously robbed Gods House to build himself sumptuous Pallaces and hath purchased 5000 l. per annum who never fought nor drew a Sword in anger be fit to sit in that venerable assembly of the Common-wealths representatives or whether it be not fitter for him to be rejected and his estate sold to pay just publique debts XI Whether it be lawful for an ignorant Scribler to vent his pettish humor malice and reproaches against those persons who in the Seat of Judicature have behaved themselves upright just and honest and done the Common-wealth singular good service during both the late Protectors Government XII Whether Levellers Dippers Independants Presbyterians Jesuites Donatists Manachees Pelagians Enthusiasts Schismaticks Hereticks Hypocrites Devils incarnate yea whatever the present power will have them to be of any Religion of all Religions of none at all the true Orthodox and learned Divines Ordaels Knaves fools