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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	great_a	king_n	year_n	3,100	5	4.5726	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56216	The oath of pacification, or, A forme of religious accomodation humbly proposed both to King and Parliament : thereby, to set an end to the present miseries and broyles of this discomposed, almost ship-wrackt state.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). His Maiesties declaration to all his loving subjects, after his victories over the Lord Fairfax and Sr. William Waller.	1643 (1643)	Wing P410; ESTC R1447	17,333	32

but yet quateus smaller matters onely Whereas if the same things become greater matters as they may then the peoples right is not to be prejudged because the Law of publicke safety is above all Lawes of Prerogative or any other laws whatsoever For example if J. S. be to cutt of the intayle of his Land in Parliament the King by his negative voice may oppose him at his pleasure but if judgement be to be given against such a notorious traitour t' is otherwise and yet even such a iudgment too is not alwayes alike for in times of great distresse it cannot be retarded interrupted or denied because of the extreāc hazard to the State in such case the King has lesse colour to pretend to a negative voice then at other times of more security for as that which is of greater concernment is not so much within the Kings power as that which is of lesser so that which is of lesser concernment at one time in one respect is of greater at an other time in an other respect And if Lawyers find not these distinctions in their reports and yeare books or if Devines find them not in the old Fathers or in their Cannons of the Church they must not forbid other men that studie the intrinsecall Rules of State to make use of more generall knowledge then that which their bookes afford The Bishop of Armach has declared himself in point of iudgement against the Parliament I shall onely demand of him whether he thinks himselfe wiser then the Lawes of England or whether he thinks himselfe wiser in the Lawes of England then the maior part of both Houses in Parliament One of these he must affirme Master Holborne his iudgement does not concurre with the Parliaments in such a point of Law I should demand of him whether Law must needs observe one rule in all cases of publicke and of private moments or whether we are restrained from all equitable distinctions and interpretations except such as we find in Fitz Herbert Cooke and Plowden or whether his or the Parliaments resolution herein be more authenticall surely t' were in vaine to trouble all our Counties Cities and Burroughs with such Ludibrious elections if some one Bishop or one Barrister could declare Law better then those which enacted it or enact Law better then those for whom all Law was ordayned The Kingdome it self taken in it 's diffusive body cannot convene in any one place nor fix upon any one certane resolution otherwise in all extraordinary cases and iudgements the finall decision ought to proceed from thence therefore it must be formed into such an Artificiall body as is fitt to convene and to deliberate And being so formed it has in it all the persection and excellence of the defusive body T is true the King may be held a representative of the people in ordinary cases for avoiding of a more troublesome convention but in extraordinary cases when such a convention is necessary the Parliament is the onely true representative and congregated to the King for more perfection sake or else it were vainly congregated And because the people cannot be congregated at all much lesse in any more perfect forme then in a Parliament therefore the peoples utmost perfection is truly residing in the Parliament Let not then any private man Let not the King himselfe undertake to define how far Regall power shall extend in iudiciall or Military affaires as such a perticular position of things may happen and according to all emergences better then the representative body of the Kingdome which in no respect ought to be held any other thing then the whole Kingdome it self much lesse let it be held against Law or disparagable to the King to hearken to his Parliament in the choice of State Officers when so great a flux of Protestant English bloud is to be stanched thereby If the King would exempt us from fear and therefore swears that he may exempt us and yet will neither suffer us to chuse Confidents for him nor swear for such as he himself shall chuse when our fears are chiefly grounded upon them either his intentions will seeme fraudulent or his oathes nugatory besides our fears now cause us to look upon our Enemies not meerely as men that have a power in the Kings affections but as men that are likely to have a power over the Kings Armes and when the King perhaps may want protection for himself if some timely prevention be not used how will he be able to protect us T' is possible for an Army composed of Papists strangers and those of the mercenary trade of war not onely to awe us but such also as first raysed them against us Absolute Empire ends not as is expected in the freedome but in the servitude of him which sores to the highest pich of it If the Pretorian Legions set Caesars foot upon the Senates neck they will so far set their owne feet upon Caesars neck as to sell the Empire when they please and to whom they please A hundred Nations remaine in bondage to one Grand signior by meanes of the Janizaries and yet those Janizaries retaine to themselves a Supream controll over the Grand signior himself The French King inioyes an arbitrary Prerogative more intirely and more cheape then any Prince that I have read of because he neither relyes meerely upon an Army nor meerely upon the Noblesse of that State whereby to oppresse the Pesantry but very subtilly he so makes use of both as that he is totally ingaged to neither But that Crowne has not of late suffered any violent shock or concussion if ever it does that frame of Government will soone be shattered and the great body of the Community will gaine a party either amongst the Noblesse or the Souldiary When Marquesse Hartford first strained himself to bring in Forces for Prince Rupert he did not perhaps intend to make Prince Rupert so imperious over himself over all our English Nobility as he is now growne Neither did Sir Ralph Hopton thinke by all his meritorious services to gaine such a Rivall to himselfe and to all the Gentry of England as Captaine Leg. But now I feare they are subject to more unlimitable Lords in the Campe then ever they stomached in the Parliament I pray God the King himselfe do not finde the like His Majestie needs no forraine discovery by Sir William Boswells Letters to advertise him of dangers and conspiracies against his sacred Person the designes of the Jesuites if they prosper as by favour at Court they are likely can never end but in the ruine of himselfe or of the Religion which he professes there need to be no strange Intelligencer to informe his Majestie of this We may then knit up this point in a more short discourse Somtimes Princes are voluntarily in bondage to their owne Creatures as Themistocles was who whilest he over-ruled all Athens and Athens over-ruled all Greece yet he was himselfe over-ruled by