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	parliament_n	people_n	3,242	5	5.1503	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78589	A character of an antimalignant, or right Parliamentier; expressing plainly his opinion concerning King and Parliament. Published by authoritie.		1645 (1645)	Wing C2005; Thomason E294_1; ESTC R200175	2,850	9

A CHARACTER OF AN ANTIMALIGNANT OR RIGHT PARLIAMENTIER Expressing plainly his opinion concerning KING and PARLIAMENT Published by Authoritie July 28th LONDON Printed by F.N. for Robert Bostock dwelling in Pauls Church-yard at the sign of the Kings Head 1645. A CHARACTER OF AN ANTIMALIGNANT Or right Parliamentier Expressing plainly his opinion concerning King and Parliament AN Antimalignant or right Parliamentier is one who layes aside all partiality and makes reason his Perspective through which he looks upon King Parliament weighing the ends actions of both in an equal ballance nor is he so confident in the successe as the cause knowing that when God purposeth to punish a people for their transgressions he suffers many times their scourge to prevaile till they be reformed or destroyed And therefore if at any time the malignant party gets the better it begets no doubts in him whether he be in the right or no esteeming it not as a blessing upon them but a just punishment upon the Nation Neither is he so great a soother of the Parliament as to maintain that all their proceedings are in some of their Agents so exactly justifiable as their curse is undoubtedly good For being inforc'd to trust so many in all places of the Kingdome with carrying the bagge it is almost impossible but there must be some Judasses amongst them who with faire and splendid pretences obscure their own foul and covetous ends some Achans who busie themselves more in hiding The Babylonish Garment the Shekels of silver and Wedge of gold then the Reformation either of Church or Common-wealth who are yet unfound out which he conceives though we humble our selves before the Lord to be one main reason that the men of Ai have prevailed so farre sometimes against us for God will accomplish his own work his own way but as He is not refractory to reason and things probable so He will by no means be drawn to the belief of impossibilities and contradictions as that Papists Monopolists Fugitives from Parliament Popish Prelates corrupt Judges and other Renegadoes who are the chiefe Fomentors of this unnaturall Warre both in their purses and persons and are all justly under the lash of the Parliament for their foule abuses both in Church and Common-wealth can by any possible meanes be likely men to assist his Majesty in fighting for the true Protestant Religion the Priviledge of Parliament and Liberty of the Subject and therefore cannot but acknowledge that his Majesty hath justly rendred his integrity suspected in the opinion of his people For it is to Him a Riddle though it be the Common salve for the Kings evill to put off all from him and lay it onely upon his evill Councell how any man can beleeve that evil Councellors make an evill King who dare not appear before him except they first find him fit for their purposes that is with a propensity and forwardnesse in him to consent to such things as by them shall be propounded So that upon the matter they are but onely Abettors and Cherishers of him in such wayes as by their own former observations they have discovered him to be addicted unto That the King hath consented to his Parliament in the redresse of divers insufferable oppressions he doth not deny but yet not without they cry of the people in his eares for justice which the Malignants call driving him out of the Towne But the evill he hath done us hath been voluntary acted with much zeale industry to the great disturbance and hazard as well of his own Person as three Kingdomes Nor will He acknowledge that the very calling of this Parliament was a voluntary act of the Kings For if you consider the abrupt and sudden dissolution of the former so little before and in what condition the Kingdome stood when this was called you shall easily perceive it was a thing to which he was absolutely necessitated to still the people who were otherwise resolved to throw off the burthen of oppression from their own shoulders with their own Arms which he conceives might possibly have been done by them though not so lawfull and loyall a way yet with more facility lesse charge and effusion of blood then now And from hence ariseth a quaere which he knowes not how to resolve that is Why so many who were implacable without a Parliament should since have their understandings so infatuated as to forsake the same Parliament and draw their swords to purchase their own bondage against them who with the hazard of their lives and livelihoods have faithfully endeavoured the preservation of their Liberties And this he looks upon with griefe as a great forerunner of ruine it being an undeniable truth that the misplaced confidence of the multitude is the onely opener of a convenient gap for men that are great and bad to bring in upon a Common-wealth unresistable destruction which sad experience maketh too manifest amongst us for by that meanes pretence hath raised all these powers against reallity So many false fighters for the priviviledge of Parliament antd the liberty of the Subject against the Parliament because they will not betray the trust of the Kingdome in yeelding up both that and themselves to perpetuall slavery So many quarrellers with them that nothing is made better but all things worse and the greivance of the subject greater then before which he conceives to be as absurd to one of right understanding as if a man in the hands of Theeves and Murderers ready to be spoiled and robbed of all he hath should quarrel with his Rescuers because both he and they are wounded in his rescue And his opinion is that these preposterous mistakes proceed in part from the astonishment of the people being so amazed with these miserable and unexpected alterations that they are in their sufferings like a man in drowning who distractedly catching at any thing to save himselfe fastens upon his friend that comes to preserve him to the losse or danger of both their lives For he conceives that no well recollected man can possibly beleeve that his Majesty now fights to maintaine what he hath already granted a Trienniall Parliament the continuation of this and the putting off all power from himselfe to dissolve this or any other at his own absolute pleasure but rather as one that hath gone too farre to raze out the memory of those things by the sword and make them not Acts but oversights For the better illustration whereof he would have you remember what a Noli me tangere the prerogative hath been to former Parliaments when the sole power was in his Majesty to dissolve them with a Sic volo which doth plainly demonstrate his liberall yielding to this in so many things to be the highest point of policie that his evill Councell did ever advise him to since his coming to the Crown being not done by them with the least intention of any performance as we have since found by experience but onely to incline the peoples mindes to an opinion of a refractory Parliament and the graciousnesse of the King upon which foundation his Army was first raised whereas if otherwise he had relinquisht the Parliament without passing those satisfactory Acts he had so evidently discovered himselfe to all his subjects that this presence would rather have fastened their malignity upon him then perswaded their assistance which no man he conceives can deny that is not resolved to make his own humour and partiality the only object of his will and wilfully suffer his understanding to be led into error by impossible positions grounded upon contrarieties as that his Majesty hath exprest much love to his subjects and care of the Common-wealth in being so industrious to destroy both or that he undoubtedly purposeth to govern a Parliamentary way as his predecessors have done because he hath so king strugled with the Lawes of the Kingdome to rule by his Prerogative without a Parliament and at last forsaken it when he knew not how to dissolve it for thus a malignant must prove his tenents and no otherwise His conclusion therefore is that upon due consideration of these things no man can repine or murmure at the Parliament for his present sufferings except he look only upon the present and esteem future times impertinencies FINIS