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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	wonder_n	work_n	work_v	96	3	6.3578	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28565	The justice of peace, his calling and qualifications by Edmund Bohun, Esq.	Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3458; ESTC R18572	84,020	203

Cause And 3. In determining it Not denying or delaying or Perverting Justice Not Extending or Diminishing his Jurisdiction Not Proceeding upon his Own Opinion or Humour without Good Warrant 9. Abhorrence of Perjury In himself by considering carefully the Oaths which he hath taken In others to be Avoided by his care to Administer none but Lawful and Necessary Oaths 2. To give good Admonitions and sharp Reproof in cause of failure THE Justice of Peace HIS CALLING A Moral Essay AS all the Works of God are perfect The Introduction so are they full of Variety and Wonder whether we Consider the Works of his Hands the Fabrick of the World and all the Beings in it or the Works of his Providence in the Government and Conduct of them at once preserving what he has made and so disposing them as to produce those Effects for which they were Created without their Knowledg and sometimes against their Wills But tho this is true of all the Creatures yet it is most apparent and full of Wonder when it is applyed to the Government of Mankind for all the other Creatures do pay a blind and unerring obedience to the Laws of their Creation and do never transgress willingly but Man being endued with discursive Faculties and Corrupted by the Fall doth very often act against what he knows to be his Duty and as often mistake it But then if we consider the Mass of Mankind we shall find that there is nothing in the whole World more Uncertain and Unconstant than Men changing like the wind very often to the quite opposite Points of the Compass without any Reasonable and sometimes without any Sensible Cause Yet in this they seldom vary that they are almost always unwilling to obey envious against their Sup●riours jealous of their Conduct and discontented with almost all Events they all think themselves wise and good enough to Command and because this is impossible affect a dispensation from all Obedience which they miscall Liberty And which is yet worse there never was nor ever will be wanting a Sort of Ambitious ill-natured men to instill into the heads of the Rabble a greater Aversion for their Governors and their Government be it never so Easy Gentle and Just and a love for a Liberty which they promise ●●em will Ensue upon the ruine of the ●●rmer by which Means this Natural ill ●●clination to Licentiousness is yet more ●●flamed and inraged So that a man may wonder to see so ●any Hundred Thousands Obey one ●ingle Man whom they never saw and ●●om whom they Expect no Extraordinary ●●vour and as Seldom meet with it And if at any time their own natural ●●clinations and the Cursed insinuations ●f their Tempters so far prevail as to tran●●ort them into Tumults and War and ●●ey prevail in that too so far as to destroy ●oth them and their Government yet then ●hey Constantly and Unavoidably fall ●nder some other Power as bad if not ●orse than the former and so do but toss ●hemselves from one supposed misery to ●●other For since the Creation of the World was 〈◊〉 never known that any Number of men ●ived long without some Government or ●ther nor can the Multitude subsist with●ut it any more than the Individuals can ●ithout breath Some inquiring into the Cause of this ●ave ascribed it to Fate and the Influence 〈◊〉 the Stars and others to the Nature of ●ankind But I cannot conceive it proceeds from any of these Causes for taking Fate as it ought properly for a blind and Natural determination of things to their Events it cannot be supposed that there should be such an inclination to perfect and unco●troulable Liberty in Man without any possibility of having it satisfied And as to the Stars their Influences and Aspects vary every moment and are different in one Country from what they are in Others But this inclination runs thro all Mankind tho it is sometimes restrained by External Accidents and is like the Seaever disposed to Motion tho sometimes quiet because no Winds Excite it And as to any Natural Inclination in Mankind to be governed and Acquiesce in the Wisdom of Others it is so contrary to the former of Living in perfect Liberty that they two are inconsistent and cannot stand together And therefore I have ever thought the reason lay higher and that it Must proceed from some Decree of God Almighty which is irresistable and uncontroulabl● and that he in his Divine Providence hath set Bounds to this raging Sea saying to it Hither shalt thou come and no further For if it were otherwise those strange Revolutions that have hapned in the World would Certainly have left us some instances of a People that had attained and continued in a state of Natural freedom for some time without any Government or Governors For to speak the truth that is the thing they all seek On the other side were there not such an Inclination in Mankind why should they so restlessly pursue that airy Notion and for it venture the loss of Life and Limbs And what is the Multitude concern'd whether one or twenty or ten thousand command them to do what they would not or to suffer what they hate above all things But God is a cause strong enough to Over-rule this Ocean always the same ever Watching over the affairs of Mankind and making things fall insensibly and irresistibly into the Order he wills they should be in Accordingly he laid the foundations of humane Society in a Single Person and Made all the rest to spring from him like a Fountain and enured them from their infancy to obedience and made them sensible of the use and benefit of Government before they could consider what it was And as no Government was ever destroyed without force so that force like the Ashes of the Phenix being warmed by the Sun of the Divine Favour hath ever produced another to succeed it and left the Multitude repining and discontented at those Chains it never could nor ever shall break till Time shall be no more SECTION I. IT is no less a Wonder to see how God in every Age and Nation hath raised up Men to Govern and indued them with such a proportion of Abilities as fitted them more or less for that employment Man is not Naturally his Brothers Keeper and great is the number always of them who are perfectly unconcern'd for the Publick Prosperity or Misfortune of their own Times or Countries till they find the danger approach their own houses or persons and then for the most part 't is too late to prevent it And those few that are otherwise minded do as often mistake or but pretend the Publick Good and yet after all this there is very seldom Wanting a Sufficient Number so qualified as to Keep the Several Parts of the World in some tolerable order And the Wonder is the greater if we consider how often these men meet no other recompence than Death and Ruine from their Superiors or