Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	church_n	word_n	1,925	5	4.0979	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91248	Jus regum. Or, a vindication of the regall povver: against all spirituall authority exercised under any form of ecclesiasticall government. In a brief discourse occasioned by the observation of some passages in the Archbishop of Canterburies last speech. Published by authority.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.; Hunton, Philip, 1604?-1682,	1645 (1645)	Wing P404; Thomason E284_24; ESTC R200064	30,326	40

truth the Lord hath sent me to you to speake all these words in your eares The words are so plaine they need no comment His third particular is this poore Church of England as he calls it but from thence no observation is to be drawne for it is an undeniable truth what is there affirmed onely it would be inquired after who hath beene the principall and Instrumentall cause of this great change but he hath made no application and so will I. His last particular is himselfe and that about his religion in which he is very breefe choosing to expresse himselfe by circumstances which admit of a latitude that may deceive the hearer or reader rather then positively and cleerly whereby he leaves the hearer or reader as little satisfied as if he had said nothing at all yet doth he confesse his labouring to keep up an Vniformity in the externall worship of God but makes no mention at all of what meanes he used to doe so for in the wayes which he tooke and in the meanes which he used consisted his cheefest guilt but that he passeth over and so comes at last to speake of his accusation which was no lesse then an accusation of High treason and by no meaner persons then by the whole Commons of England assembled in their representative body in Parliament and there and by them proved agaynst him yet hath he the confidence to say it was a crime his soule ever abhorred howsoever he proceeds to the parts of his charge being two an Indeavour in him to subvert the Law of the Realm and a like Indeavour to subvert the true Protestant Religion established by those Laws both which he seemeth to deny but so mistically as that his meaning is rather to be collected then that it can be cleerely discerned For he expresseth himselfe variously and answereth in another forme of words then which were proposed by him for having propounded them that the charge against him was an Indeavour to subvert the Law of the Realme and a like Indeavour to overthrow the true Protestant Religion established by those lawes he answereth having first protested In the presence of Almighty God and all his holy and blessed angels that hee did take it now upon his death that he never endeavoured the subversion of the Lawes of the Realme nor never any change of the Protestant Religion into Popish superstition the sense of which words doth imply a great change from what they were when first propounded for by his first proposition of them he expresseth himselfe to have been accused of an endeavour to subvert the Law of the Realm by which word Law in the singular number as in the abstract may bee understood the legislative power or power of law-making comprehending the frame of this government and including King and Parliament which he was charged to overthrow by an Indeavour to introduce an Arbitrary government depending upon the will of the King alone and excluding the Parliament and in his answer he makes mention of the subversion of the lawes in the plurall number where they are confined to different subjects as to so many individuall substances by which may be meant the particular acts and laws issued forth and derived from that power and may comprehend them all which no man did ever thinke or lay to his charge that he indeavoured the subversion of all the whole lawes and of every particular and therefore here doth appeare a fallacy and deceite which is agreable to his former practises so likewise in the other branch about Religion he first propounds it of an Indeavour to overthrow the true Protestant Religion established by those lawes and answereth of any change of the Prottestant Religion into Popish superstition which is a manifest difference whereof hereafter having occasion to speake first of his esteeme of Parliaments which he takes occasion to mention here as having bin accused as an enemie to them the which he denies expressing a Reverend esteeme of them in the generall as of the greatest Court over which no other Court can have any Jurisdiction in the Kingdome but professeth his dislike against some few one or two Parliaments in particular for some misgovernments in them as he did conceive but what those misgovernments were hee doth not expresse onely in stead thereof a generall reason is given Coruptio optimi est pessima but from thence he might condemne and destroy all Parliaments and the best of governments and of every thing as often as he pleaseth if nothing more be required but that his affirmations must be admitted for proofes for there is nothing wherein the frailty of man must bee imployed but may admit of errour and corruption but it doth not follow that whatsoever may doth nor doth it anywhere appeare that any of those Parliaments which hee here condemneth were guilty at all of any such corruption as he layeth to their charge but the contrary is manifest and if for no other thing yet for this his esteem of them for undoubtedly by him they should have been better esteemed If really and truely they had been more corrupted for Parliaments may be then said to be corrupted when all or most part of the members do subject their Votes to the determination and judgement of others preferring the particuler pleasure interrest or ends of some whom they respect before the generall good of all whom they represent neither is it any impossible thing so to pack a Parliament as not onely the things to be proposed and debated but the greater number of the Members Votes shall depend upon the pleasure of others being agreed and united amongst themselves for a particular and sinister end for it is no false report but a well known and undenyable truth that in the choice of the Members of the lower House of Parliament which doth depend upon a free Election by the Gentry Communalty and freeholders in England the major number within their severall limits and jurisdictions giving it to whom they please yet the reputation of some in some places especially hath been such as to prescribe to those who were to choose who should be chosen by them whereby many have been returned by the favour and recommendation of others rather then by any merit of their own and it is probable that a designe of changing Religion and altering the government having been for a long time pursued by a faction of men who had obtained power and favour about the King that they were not negligent in making use of this advantage for their own ends it plainly appears that they were not because at divers times they had recourse to Parliaments in time of prosecution of the designe before it was finished which to some might seeme a likely meanes in all apperance to have overthrowne all such designe for ever but the successe of those Parliaments and the conclusion which they made doth cleerely demonstrate what the designers purpose and intention was in calling them for the end