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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	authority_n	people_n	power_n	1,463	5	4.9193	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75520	An appeale to the world in these times of extreame danger.		1642 (1642)	Wing A3569; Thomason E107_26; ESTC R17522	9,568	10

AN APPEALE TO THE WORLD IN THESE TIMES OF EXTREAME DANGER THe variety of dangers unto vvhich this Parliament and in it this Kingdome is now subject and the manifold distempers vvhich are the causes of these dangers together vvith the multiplicity of those evill influences vvhich are the causes of these distempers as also the great mischiefes and miserable destruction not only threatned but really intended and at this time attempted against this Parliament by the Manassites of the times hath necessarily occasioned this ensuing Appeale as vvell to generations to come as to those now present The common and Epidemicall disease wherein this Kingdome at this time lies now gasping under being filled with nothing but feares jealousies and perplexities as may be observed by the miserable complaints of all men whose hearts are tender of the good and welfare of the Common-wealth hath a Superiour and universall cause from the evill Counsels wicked designes of those who under his Majesty threaten to carry all before them against the Parliament and all others who will not stoope to the illegall demands of the King These evill influences hath been formerly the cause of the preparations for War wirh Scotland and the procuring a rebellion in Ireland and now is the cause of distractions and divisions betwixt the King and his faithfullest Subjects and of procuring preparations of War here in England by his Majesty seduced by wicked Counsell principally aiming first at Hull and then at London which are become the objects of the Kings hatred not excluding the Parliament The Parliament is the foundation and basis of Government and consequently of the peace and happinesse of the Kingdome as it creates the Law by which we are ruled and governed in peace and quietnesse so it preserves the Law in power and authority It hath not only power and authority to preserve good Lawes being made but also to create such new Lawes as by which the Kingdome may be ruled and governed in peace and also to repeal such Laws as are opposite to the peace and prosperity of the same all Laws lying at their feet to use them for the best advantage for the King and Kingdome First for the King to reduce him from that seduced condition wherein he is And secondly for the Kingdome to rescue and deliver it from those dangers and miseries it is liable to at this time by reason of his Majesty so seduced For all the power which Princes have is but derivative and secondary The fountaine and efficient cause is the people and from hence the inference is just The King though he be singulis major yet he is universis minor for if the people be the true efficient cause of power it is a rule in nature Quicquid efficit tale est magis tale And hence it appeares that at the founding of Authorities when the consent of societies convayes rule into such and such hands it may ordain what conditions and prefix what bounds it pleases and that no dissolution ought to be thereof but by the same power by which it had its constitution And as for the finall cause of Princes power or Regall Authority his Majesty doth not in any of his papers deny that the same people are the finall cause which is the efficient cause of it and indeed it were strange if the people in subjecting it self to command should aime at any thing but its own good in the first and last place Power originally being thus inherent in the people which is nothing else but that might and vigour which such or such a society of men containes in it self and when by such or such a Law of common cons●nt and agreement it is derived into such such hands God confirmes that Law and so man is the free and voluntary Author the Law is the Instrument and God is the establisher of both Therefore not that Prince which Tyrannizeth over his Subjects but that Prince which ruleth and is most Po●ent in his Subjects is indeed most truly Potent Now if Kings are so inclinable to follow private advice rather then publike and to prefer that which closes with their naturall impotent ambition before that which crosses the same are without all limits Then they may destroy their best Subjects at pleasure and all Charters and Laws of publike safety and freedome are void and God hath not left humane nature any meanes of sufficient preservation But on the contrary if there be any benefit in Laws to limit Princes when they are seduced by vvicked counsells and vvill not hearken to the great Counsell of the Land doubtlesse there must be some Court to judge of that seducement and some Authority to inforce that judgement and that Court and Authority must be the Parliament or some higher Tribunall now none are so ignorant to affirm a King in his single person is a Court either in time of Parliament without his Parliament or out of Parliament in his own person alone to judge in any cause nor his meere fancy authority sufficient to inforce judgement in any cause much lesse nay altogether is he unfit either to judge of his own seducement or to inforce such a judgement by any Authority though he were not seduced for the King is not above the Law but in subjection to it his meere will being not the rule of the Law but the Law the rule of it therefore the will of a King is not an unlimited will and in case a King be seduced by wicked Counsell and vvill not rule by Law nor heathen to the Petitions of his three kingdomes then the Law is free to reduce him Now it is not unknown to all the vvorld how powerfull active the vvicked counsellors about his Majesty hath been and still are for the accomplishment of their own ends seeking to destroy and extinguish that power the true Religion the Liberty and Laws of the Kingdome by many traiterous endeavours from time to time First to keep off Parliaments then either to dissolve them vvhen they are gathered or to raise in his Majesty a disaffection to his Parliament and so at last to draw him into the Northern parts from them to prevent all their just and lawfull designes and now infusing into his minde such false reports as hath raised in him an inveterate hatred against them and all others vvho vvill not assist him in his demands and designes publishing in his name divers ignominious reproaches against the Parliament in king his Majesties Court a Sanctuary for all kinde of Delinquents against the justice and lawfull priviledge of Parliament and drawing to Torke by Letters and other meanes divers Members of both Houses vvhereby they set up a counterfeit imaginary visage of a Parliament to the great danger not only of the disturbance but even of the subversion of the fundamentall constitution and frame of this Kingdome Now vvhether this Parliament hath not to this day vvatched over our Religion the Liberty and Laws of this Kingdome