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	people_n	power_n	4,914	5	5.4287	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94210	Malignancy un-masked. With a plea for the publique fayth. Briefely and promiscuously disputed, by J. S. Gent. Qui monet, amat, ave, cave, vale.	J. S., gent.	1643 (1643)	Wing S72; Thomason E86_10; ESTC R11283	7,086	16

discerning Then hence will arise this proposition That they that best know the Kingdomes danger can best provide for its safety but the Parliament doe best know the Kingdomes danger ergo c. Q. Q. And here comes in the quaere The danger being thus knowne may they be by power impugned Reason rules us to decline things destructive and prevention is the best of policies Seneca saith Facilius est pernitiosa resistere quam regere non admittere quam admissa moderari It is more easie to resist than rule and not to admit then being admitted to moderate a mischiefe where the supreame priviledges politicall or divine are in hazard the greatest ayd may be made use of for their preservation and if the King deny to secure his people by His power they may secure themselves by their own For as farre as publique are preferrable before private advantages so farre an Ordinance in Parliament before the meere personall commands of a Prince A King is as a private person if not considered in the execution of his Kingly Office and in that Office he hath His limits It is a paradox to reason that the will of one should subvert the being of a Nation for posterity may have cause to curse such an Introduction to slavery obedience is no further lawfull then it hath a mutuall reflection of good and is so much the more unjustifiable by how much the more the publique detriment may be occasioned therefrom If the subjects Jewels the Lawes may be defended they may in such manner be defended as they are opposed It was an excellent saying spoken by a milde King as Kecker in his Curs philosophici disput 35. cites it Hoe gladio pro meutitor si recte imperâro sin rempublicam laesero conirame utitor Use this Sword for me if I rule rightly but if I wrong the Commonwealth use it against me The case might be concluded with Doctor Ferne if the King did solely deviate the best way were to withhold from him what he willeth wherewith to accomplish his unjust ends and so the flame might be extinguished by withdrawing the fuell but this case is of a different complexion His Majesties actions have an influence upon many or rather theirs upon him and for former want of Parliaments there is such a swarme of evill doers in the Land that they stand in need of a protection and because they cannot safeguard themselves they will have assistants of equall guilt and for that a resistance so pernicious cannot be supported without some power that may strike terrour in the people they have got the King to owne them and that no sooner attain'd but by some superusuall prevalency which we have cause to feare Heavens have permitted for our scourge have seduced our Soveraigne to leave His Parliament a fatall blow and the seed of our sufferings and now they can boast of their cause their Captaine and their quarrell and woe unto us in that our Kings personall and politicall powers are intercombatants It is not unknowne how their Army consists of many who would not stay to heare the meaning of justice that pretend to fight for what apparently they fly from who fame truth and therefore feare the touchstone some there may be whose worth the weale publique hath never heard of and for ought that can be judged of them are meere indifferents for Law and Laodiceans for religion and of such I conclude that these troubles might sooner be determined were they as good as they are great Those who are related to His Majesty as Servants Officers Favorites or that expect any such interests in reversion or otherwise are many and we wonder not if they are borne away in the streame of their expectations What Bishops doe proceed undoubtedly from a spirit of revenge which is ever acted with envy and ceaseth not till the object of its malice be made the subject of their chastisement we expect not reasons from ignorants nor why indigents thrust themselves upon such a service it is more then sufficient that defect of wit and wealth are their prime inducements Papists whose Religion tolerates them to be cruell begin to make us sensible of a papall enemy they acknowledge Protestancy and their usurped Catholisme to be direct contraries and yet they are undertakers for defence of the Protestant religion a mystery to reason and a perillous insinuation indeed they are ad haras aptiores quam ad aras fitter to be marked for mortall enemies then competent assistants and beyond contradiction they will make use of their power to root out their opposers of all which persons take a survey and you will finde the remainder of their strength very inconsiderable so that the instruments the matter and manner of their first disseverance from us and association amongst themselves and the ends they apparently propound may so stigmatize their pretences that none who prize their owne or posterities good can forbeare to endeavour their suppression To what distresses we are now subjected a tender heart cannot conceive without great reluctancy and we are the more unhappy in this that we begin to be weary of defending our lives liberties and religion great Forces are raised a great worke is on foot the hearts of people are enlarged and why should their hands be straitened There is a publique Felicity which claimes the Publique Faith Justice is the efficient cause of Law execution the life of power the protection of offenders justifies the offence and to dispence with punishment is an implicite incouragement to intrust the Kingdome in unsafe hands is to provide for its ruine and should the Nation perish the Parliament sitting what blemish would accrue to such future assemblies many are acquainted with their disease and remedy and sleighting both blame the Phisitians what monsters are they to nature what mockers of God whiles they thus persist many never appeared and some appearing have disanimated multitudes by their apostacies so sweet is the name of propriety and the Mammon of this world that they dote upon the increase of wealth whiles a losse of the totall should more affect them they are so far from believing that it is requisite to hazard all for the preservation of all that they will not hazzard part for the securing of the rest they imagine not how individuall and dependant all interests be nor how they are bound by the Lawes of God nature and Nation to sacrifice themselves much more their estates for the generall good wherein they have a particular share There is a strange misprision of the word Publique when it is taken for the essentiall independency of the Kingdome for it doth or ought to receive influence from every member and so by participation they are both compleated Those that fall backe from their good beginnings checke their owne judgements and discover their diffidence in the one they become objects of scorne to the world in the other they provoke the Almighty to punish them with what they feare