Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	liberty_n	parliament_n	2,621	5	6.9289	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46777	A proposition for the safety & happiness of the King and kingdom, both in church and state, and prevention of the common enemy tendered to the consideration of His Majesty and the Parliament against their next session / by a lover of sincerity and peace.	Lover of sincerity & peace.; Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.; Jenkins, David, 1582-1663.	1667 (1667)	Wing J601; ESTC R26145	22,405	102

what means were most likely to do this I ●o think verily there is nothing ●nder the cope of Heaven com●arable to such a passing a really ●ee and ingenuous Act of Grace ●●r Indulgeance in matters of Re●●gion The King would see and ●●e Nation would feel another ●pirit running in their Blood ●●d what a difference there is ●etween a Man whose heart is ●ld at the thoughts that when ●e hath fought for his King and ●eaten his Enemies he must come home as it were again to his bonds and of his whose spirit is flush with assurance that after Victory abroad he shall return to the enjoyment of that thing that is dearer to him than his Life the Liberty of his Conscience O Sirs Is there never a drop of English Blood in the Veins of the Sectary How shall that thing you call Obstinacy and Faction when they suffer the violence of your Laws and are unmoved appear to be the most undaunted Courage of the English Spirit when it shall shew it self in the Field Are there no sober men amongst all the Malecontents whose advice assistance and prayers would do you no harm to take them with you It was not the Cause but the Party and this thing Liberty of Conscience that got the better of the King in our late Insurrections It was Laberty of Conscience got into the House and pull'd down the Bishops that went with the Parliaments Army and won all It was Liberty of Conscience came back and pull'd up the Parliament and then sate down and reign'd with Cromwel It is this piece of single policy the raising up such a Principle in base and mean fellows to mate the Bravery and Spirit of the Gentry shall eternallize that Mortal It was Liberty of Conscience when our Religion was at stake in those Confusions that tack't about and restored the King And if his Majesty wil● hearken to the counsel of a mean person rather than to the person of mean counsel let him keep this wild thing Liberty of Conscience on his side This Liberty of Conscience let me say again●● is that mad Earl of Warwick i● the time of Edward the fourt● and Henry the sixt call'd Make King that the gain or loss o● him on either side was the gai● or loss of the Kingdom with him It may be there is some grea● Prelate or eminent Statesman a the Helm are too hard for you● inclinations which steer by 〈◊〉 them unseen into other Counsels I will therefore humb●● argue with them Behold I w●● be to them in your stead I am framed also out of the clay Let me ●ot I pray you accept any mans ●erson neither let me give flattering titles unto Man for I know ●ot to give flattering titles in so ●oing my Maker might soon take ●●e away Ye have said We are ●●e men we have found out wis●om I will reprove them Great ●en are not alwayes wise Was it in the first place con●lted wisely when we restored ●piscopacy in this Nation to re●eive a company of men as low 〈◊〉 their interests as in their con●tion unto such vast Emolu●ents which never were and are ever like to be again being ●e fruits of twenty years toge●●er in one unto which excepting a very few of them they had no relation in the Earth to challenge the least penny before actual possession How wel● might such persons have been contented to have entered th● present Revenews Honours and left the Arrears for publick accounts or good works Thi● possibly was not wise Sirs no● only for the improvidence bu● for that envy and just kind o● disdain that so excessive Riche● thrown upon men so undese● vedly hath raised in the stomacks of others to the Function it self for the Covetousness o● the Persons especially of tho● whose high merits for the Kin● and his Cause did require som● other gratification than a languishing looking-on and repi●ing at their fortunes Great ●en are not alwayes wise Was it in the next place wise●y consulted wherein yet above ●ll you would seem most wise 〈◊〉 making such a stir with the Covenant as hath been done in ●ur late Impositions It was the Visdom of the Antient Church ●●stead of contention about the Jewish Ceremonies to take a ●pecial care that they might have ●n honourable burial and there●y have they bin all husht with●ut trouble for many Ages Me●●inks if the wisdom of these ●●eat and wise men were not ●iser than the ancient Wisdom ●●ey might at least for his Maje●es sake have dealt accordingly with the Covenant The might have laid it in a state of silence without light and without words evermore to be forgotten and never would it have done them further hurt But now have they raised it twice or thrice up in a former Subscription the late Oath as a dreadful Ghost out of his Grave to do what mischief or raise what troubles for the future I cannot tell but to little end at present for ought I see only to terrifie mens Consciences and keep alive the memory of it which were fitter to die be thought on no more Great men are not alwayes wise Once more There was a time when these wise and great men might have compounded for Episcopacy with the pious and learned of her Adversaries upon as high advantage and a sure foundation for themselves and the peace of the Nation as could be well wished or desired in any reason But they outstood their market and slipt the opportunity Great men are not alwayes wise They have slipt it yet may we redeem one lock of it to wit It is better the Parliament compounded them than that a foreign Enemy or the Papists should do it We know when it was our Ridley Hooper were agreed I draw up this If the greatest Seers may fail in their Politicks and erre in Vision in some things when there is no man doubts of their integrity otherwise than of their ability why may they not possibly have been out here in their advising us to these Acts about Religion Come then and let us set the Sun and Wind to strive again for mastery You see what the cold boysterous blasts of these late Acts have done on the Travellour that they have made the most but hold their Cloaks the faster about them Now let us have some gentle rayes and warm beams from his gracious Majesty and his loving Parliament in an Act of Indulgence and Concord that shal please his People and you shall see them all not only to throw down their Cloaks and Estates but their Hearts and Lives at his feet saying with Amasa in holy Story Thine are we O David and on thy side thou Son of Jesse Peace peace be unto him and peace to those that help him I will here turn and look back on the way I have come You have my Motion and my Arguments under the three first heads mainly at first named I must explain my self a little upon the Motion and