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	power_n	supreme_a	2,768	5	8.6947	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77718	Solomons blessed land a sermon upon Ecclesiastes X.17. Preached before an extraordinary assembly at Newark upon Trent, May 29. 1660. Being the birth-day of our soveraign lord Charles II. King of Engladnd, [sic] &c. / By Samuel Brunsell rector of Bingham in Notting.	Brunsell, Samuel, 1619 or 20-1688.	1660 (1660)	Wing B5233; Thomason E1033_9; ESTC R208965	28,934	40

a Judge As for the due ordering of Gods publique Worship in Religious Assemblies private Christians that have not the leisure or ability to dive into the depths of Divinity had better assurance given them that their devout Addresses were agreeable to Gods holy Will and Word then the uncertain chance of a States-lay-preachers or other ordinary Church-mans fugitive and extempore Fancy which must produce as many distinct services in the Church as there are Congregations and Inventions of private men If all the Congregations make one Church why should they not serve God after one and the same manner So they should no doubt and so they did keeping the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace And blessed be the God of Peace that hath once more joyn'd us in that Unity and tyed us again together in that Sacred Bond which I hope we shall never more break asunder nor cast away these Cords from us Better and stronger we cannot have good Government an excellent bond of peace the perfection of outward blessings and of Governments the best namely that of a King nor so only but Kingly Government in its greatest perfection as being then most blesseds when the King is the Son of Nobles and the Princes eat In due season for strength and not for drunkenness Which is the third and last Conclusion of which briefly and in a word To be a Son of Nobles speaks a relation to the quality rather then the person in the same sense that men of great Atchievements are called the Sons or honour or those that apply themselves to a more curious search after knowledge are usually styled the Sons of Art or that such are said to be the Children of Abraham Jo● 8.39 who follow the saith and works of that friend of God whose sons and daughters also are those that do endear themselves unto his grace and savour by their conformity to his image and endeavouring to be perfect as 〈◊〉 Father 〈◊〉 is perfect Mat. 5.48 To a contrary purpose the Scripture also expresseth a vitious person by calling him a Son of Belial or a Childe of the wicked one his Father the Devil For Children being the lively images of their Parents by the participation as of a common nature so of some special and more peculiar lineaments and aptitudes by which they frequently discover the Authors of their being the appellation is very fitly given to those whose descent is reckon'd according to the pedegree of a moral as well as that of a natural generation And thus a Son of Nobles is one in whom are to be found the special signatures and distinctive lineaments of those heroick endowments that being propagated in a line of succeeding ages do make a race of generous and renowned persons the blessing and glory of their times Seeing also that the manners of the minde have a great dependence upon the temper of the body according to that vulgar saying Mores animi sequuntur humores corporis where the body is rendred exactly serviceable to the soul in such sort as that sensuality and passion are perfectly kept under the command of Reason which is the great foundation of the best Nobility no marvail if the perfections not only of the inferiour but also of the better part as to strong inclinations propensities and dispositions do many times descend together especially where nature is not alloyed and debased with some vitious sordid and unequal mixture the great unhappiness of a mercenary and luxurious age That which in Creatures of a lower rank we commonly call a good breed doth not unfitly represent the matter And the care men use to procure and preserve it in their beasts should one would think reproach the neglect of it in themselves A wretchedness occasioned by nothing more then a lazie degenerating from the spirit and industry of our Noble Ancestors or matching the Childe of Vanity with the Son of Honour whose light thereby grows more dim and obscure being first wasted by that which impoverisheth the kinde and is by Solomon discredited under the title of eating in the morning as you have it in the Verse immediately before and directly oppos'd to my Text where he makes the misery or ruine of a people the necessary consequence of childishness and intemperance in their Rulers Wo unto thee O Land when thy King is a Childe and thy Princes eat in the morning that is unseasonably to which if we add the vile end and design they propose to themselves in so doing not strength but drunkenness the perfect contradictory to his end whom the Text Crowns with temperance we have a very eminent cause discovered to us of a Lands weal or woe For without the due excercise of a power Supreme there can be no good Government and so no blessing But power is no power in a subject indispos'd to use it because it can never be well reduc'd to act there 's no strength nor vigor in it no grace or dignity belonging to it Whatever therefore weakens or empairs the strength either of the minde or body hath no proportion or congruity with the proper quality and constitution of a Governour the very formality of whose Office is to be a man of power Debauchery therefore by transubstantiating the man into the beast which was never made for Rule and Dominion is more peculiarly opposite to that state and condition by which a Land is blessed He then that would truely be styl'd the Son of Nobles and possess more then an empty or ridiculous title must not be one that eats out of season or that eats for drunkenness and so takes order that such meats be procur'd and in such sort prepard as may best serve to inflame the thirst and kindle unnatural fires in the bloud to the great detriment of that health and soundness without which the whole man consumes and decayes till at length the enfeebled judgement and besotted reason become useless and insufficient for the difficult conduct of those great affairs in the right managing whereof the blessing of a Land doth consist So Princely and strengthening a vertue is Temperance The Land whose Rulers and Governours by their authority and examples have planted it to a thriving is enrich'd and blessed by it So happy also are the people whose King is the Son of Nobles above them whose Rulers are passionate ignorant unconstant rude and wanton the usual properties of children or such as is the childe before the Text who by being oppos'd to the Son of Nobles is suppos'd to be of some ignoble breed some riotous or mean extraction Which we shall not at all think strange if we consider how the meanness of their condition must needs render their envyed persons odious and make their power contemptible When the vilest men are exalted Psal 12.8 then the wicked walk on every side then servants ride upon horseback and Princes walk as servants upon Earth Eccles 10.7 Mean persons have commonly tyrannical sordid