Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	motion_n	natural_a	2,016	5	6.5181	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29882	The head of Nile, or, The turnings and windings of the factious since sixty in a dialogue between Whigg and Barnaby.	Baker, Thomas, 1652 or 3-1702.	1681 (1681)	Wing B518; ESTC R3068	40,159	46

Concessions That the sole power of the King can dispose of the Crown at his pleasure how would you doe it W. Easily B. How W. As thus The Crown may be dispos'd of by some Authority but the King with the necessary concurrence of the three Estates must not because that might do us perhaps more injury therefore the King alone may B. This is an Argument onely to convince those that long to be convinc'd with never so small a one this is made for your selves how would you convince the next Heir put by as to the right of it W. We would convince him by dint of Sword B. But how would you convince the other part of the world that might look upon this as a piece of injustice and perhaps right him in his Cause we are making again a Cock-pit of Europe W. If it come but once to that we have those that shall draw Declarations as well nay much better than their Swords B. But would not the Elder Brothers of the Nation 't is they that constitute the two Houses of Parliament have taken it ill to have had the next Heir have put their Noses out of joint by the importunities of their Fathers pretended Friends because they fancy'd the Eldest would have prov'd the hardest Masters W. How sillily you talk now that could not be done the Laws of the Land were their security they lay not at the pure will of their Predecessours their Estates are most of them entail'd upon them and you know in an entail'd Estate a superiour power is requisite towards the cutting them off either the Courts of Judicature a special Act of Parliament or the King's consent together with the Parents as in descent of Honours B. I profess I highly admire the Law as being the effects of great Reasoning nay so great a friend it is to it that it disowns it self if it comes otherwise or any ways contradicts what we hold reasonable to be believ'd our Religion in the whole or in its parts Now that Law thinks that in an entail'd Estate which I presume modestly the Crown may be thought to be the best holding in England sure the next Heir cannot be put by without an Authority supream to the Paternal or that deriv'd from it Now in private Estates there is a supreme to the immediate Paternal power such as Courts of Judicature and special Acts of Parliament by vertue of which they hold those and keep them from other people but in the case of the Crown there is no power supreme to the Possessour but the power of the Donor which is God himself so that we must have in reason we see a Revelation first before a Disinherison and if any thing is done contrary to Reason the Law says 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 in it 〈◊〉 and the parity of Reason no one endued with it can deny between an entall'd Estate of private persons and the Crown and the denying a descent in an entail'd Estate not cut off by a superiour power to the next Heir would for the present Gavelkind the best Estates in England and make better for the younger Brothers than Burrough-English or a War W. Here are two or three things in which I fear you have over-shot your self in as first what is all this to the purpose if in private Estates the Laws require a supreme power we can make a Law that shall wipe off all that and enact quite contrary B. If you can make Acts of Parliament against the Common Law of the Land which was in being before the Parliament I hope you can't make them against Reason too this Law was thought ever reasonable and the contrary may look suspicious W. We can make a Law that that Law it self that invalidates all other Laws if not reasonable shall be kick'd out of doors but another thing you say there is no supreme power to the Possessour's but the Donor's which is God c. how then can yone King By his powerfull inherit as I have heard a great many that would be thought most Loyal and most Orthodox maintain but I believe they were men that fear'd the consequences of a Popish Successour as bad as they hated the growth of Parliamentary power B. Great fears great preferments and great sins may so enslave a Soul as to make him sordidly flatter the Prince to the detriment of his Crown and Dignity W. But I highly dislike one thing more that Monarchy should come from God these Church-buildings of yours will one day ruin the Nation but what if it should come from the People what say you then I think I spoil your Mag-pies nest for you B. Though that is gratis dictum yet this will bring us to Scotland again and hunt over the old Game I thought you had quitted that hold before come 't is much the best and truest way to throw all upon the Almighty no single Monarch then like King John can make overtures of his Kingdom to an African Mahomentan shall we be less afraid of parting with the three Kingdoms at the Princes pleasure than with the single Town of Tangier if we give the Level to the People the Crown and they will draw one one way and the other another so that our Whimsies would but fever our Body Politick and cause a restless motion in it thus we find that axiome as true in that Body as in the Natural all things are in a restless motion till they come to their proper Centre W. If you puzzle the Cause thus with Objections 〈◊〉 body yet ha● taught us to make answer to and Consequences of Conclusions our Politicians have not or will not see I must though I know your manner of Education and living get you view'd see if you can't be found to have some lines or lineaments in your face or body that will verily perswade some to fancy they have seen you saying Mass a strong fancy brings a strong belief and belief 's above knowledge so that any one may safely swear you Priest Regular or Secular of what Order soever Dominican or Jesuit if he can but strongly fancy you so B. This is Plot-saving Doctrine as good as Scissars and Sieve or Key and Bible to make the Patron go halfs to detect his ●●n Some by Peter and some by Paul will find out whether the suspected be a Roman Catholick then if of any Order if so of which that once found 't is but opening the Catalogue of their names and there 's the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as quick a way and almost as sure as the High Court of Justice where the breath of the Lord became the breath of the People and mens Heads were poll'd off your Women can sit at home and play the Destinies spin the thread of Men's Lives but who can lay any thing to the Saints charge W. I begin to suspect you think lightly of the Plot and the King's Evidence you are a Heretick I fear if not a down-right Atheist in our modern policy what I warrant you you would make little of the Plot. B. I shall not make so much of it as some others I fear have and will I shall never build upon it either Wealth or Revenge list unrais'd Armies the Rabble instill fears into 'em and so far proceed till there remains nought to secure the Authours and followers but to put Weapons into their hands and then commit the horridest outrages against Church and State that your paper Ammunition your Declarations and Pardons might not make them disband I can tell you the end as you have told me the beginning and so fare you well FINIS