Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	court_n	great_a	king_n	2,817	5	3.7634	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26469	Advice to the nobility, gentry, & commonalty of this nation in the qualifications and election of their knights and burgesses, their representatives in Parliament humbly offered unto their serious consideration / by Robert Tell-Truth.	Tell-Truth, Robert.	1680 (1680)	Wing A660; ESTC R19296	5,251	4

shall be the Darling and the Delight of the People and shall command their Votes and Suffrage Let him be a Man of Sacriledge and Violence to God and his Church Let him hold his own and other Men's Lands by the strength of two Acts of Indemnity Let him be for Rebellion Schism Faction Tolleration Comprehension or whatever else is Dear and Precious in the Saints esteem if he write but Country-Man he is sure to carry the Day Not that I think 't is Essential to all Men that live in the Country that have no Imploy at Court to be endowed with these Excellent Qualities God forbid But this I say But all men of these Mischievous Principles against King and Church that have any Designe to insinuate into the People to creep into Place and Power where the People can help them they get in by this Artifice And all Persons of the most Eminent Loyalty and Integrity that oppose them and are not Competitors with them are cast off with this Stratagem These are for the Court Party when perhaps they have no Concern there at all So that in a very short time 't is like to come to this That none must be accounted Lovers of the Country but the Enemies of the King And 't is pretty near it now For let these Gentlemen that seem to be so taken with this Distinction now consider well and consult their own Experience and they shall find that all the Elections for Knights and Burgesses of late in any of the Counties and Corporations of the Land have been endeavoured to have been filled with such Leavenned Men and under that Notion of Good Country-Men only And in a little time it is to be feared that the Populacy will confirm it as the Cunning Men design it to a Phanatick only And an old fashioned Loyal Cavalier must not think to shew his Head upon any Publick lest he be deemed a Courtier For the people are taught to believe that neither the King nor any about him nor indeed any that are highly for him have any true Love for the Country but that they design to Enslave them and their Estates and to bring all under an Arbitrary Power and Bondage And from this gross leud and False Conceit they conclude That it concerns all that Love Themselves or their Posterities to oppose with Might and Main the Court and all that adhere to it And he that so doth is a True Lover of the People and a down-right Country-Man And we find this Name made use of always to serve the most Disloyal and Phanatick Ends and Purposes in all Counties and it seems to be as well fitted for those Ends as any of the former Religious Names of Sober and Godly Party were and better for those that will not be wrought upon by Pious Pretences and Religious Arts and Wheedles Yet will be strangely affected when they are told that their Secular Concerns are in Danger And any that pretend so much Love to Them as to stand up against all Underminers of these their Dear Diana's shall be sure to be their Darling for ever For we see the Generality of the Country have more Care for their Commons and Country Priviledges than for their Consciences Nay will often venture Them to secure those And those Persons for instance that declare for this one thing viz. Against giving away the Countries Monies be the Occasions of State what the will except by it they can hope to make New and Great Incroachments upon the Prerogative shall be accounted the Countries Friends for ever and never want their Vote at any time So that you see 't is a very serviceable cunning and mighty obliging Distinction and is the likeliest to pull down White-hall of any yet and principally for this reason because it obtains so much amongst the Royal Party For as they were always a sort of good Natured Persons and innocent themselves so were apt ever to believe well of others too and to be caught with fine Names till they had believed themselves into the Saints Yoke and their Families into want and their Estates into villainage and so will do Agen if they be not very wary The truth of it is the suffering Cavalier had the most reason at first to allow this distinction of any Man and I am almost in the mind was the first that made it But then it was upon a particular reason and that at a particular time I will not say how reasonable and just his discontents then were but certainly the then New States-men in Sixty and upwards laid the Ax to the Root of the Royal-Oak when they pursued that cursed Rule in their New politicks Obliege your Enemies you are sure of your Friends which blew up more of the Royal party then either Cromwells Plots or Army and was more distructive to them than that fatal Naseby for then some Escaped but this Maxime Kills all if well followed and that in their own Quarters and makes their dear Soveraigne for whom they fought to be their executioner this kind of usage no doubt exasperated the Kings suffering friends if not against the Cause yet against the then Court and gave them too great occasion to believe they had worse enemies at Whitehall when the KING was come home than before for before they had but what they looked for but to be split in their Harbour and to revive their greatest Stabbs from the Court-friends went to the very heart and hence I fear came the opposition between the Court and Country But now Gentlemen consider those Statesmen are dead and their politicks stink as well as their names and those New-ruling men that drew sword both against Father and Son and sucked of the ones blood and the others Wine are most of them gone to their place and Loyalty that then Languisht begins now to revive and meets with better encouragement then when Rebels and Regicides were in place and power and now his Majesty sees with his own spectacles knows God bless him though at too dear a rate that the old Cavelier is the best Subject and loves and serves him best and is truest to his interest and that all others pretend they what they will are hollow at the heart and will love as they obey with abundance of distinction and caution that is just so well as may consist with their brethrens their own and their causes interest Now then there is not the same reason for these mens prejudices against the Court as once there was for Sir John Fresbyter is now pretty well known and perhaps is the most contemptible of all pretenders to an interest there and therefore is fain to use his old Tricks and his new Shibboleth to creep into Place and Power to save a sinking and dying cause and if the Gentry and Nobility would keep from a second time under the Fanatick Tyranny and from Grinding any more in these Philistine mills they must not allow of such serviceable distinctions as those are for their cuning purposes Choose therefore of the Country men for your Representatives men of Religion and Loyalty that love the Church and KING and be sure there is no danger in such but all others whatsoever let them pretend what they will are hollow within and mean no good to either God or Church to King or Country but are by their old slie Tricks and new Artifices seeking an opportunity of destroying a glorious Church a second time and of Acting the second part of the same Tragedy and insinuating Agen craftily into the good opinions of the people by the pretences of Love and Zeal to their good and welfare Of these beware and take this as a certain truth that a house of Commons made up of such Country-men as the pretended Godly party cry up will be the most Antimonarchical seditious and Fanatical Assembly in the Christian world From which Good Lord Deliver us FINIS