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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	brother_n	king_n	year_n	5,919	5	5.0531	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62468	Captain Thorogood his opinion of the point of succession, to a brother of the blade in Scotland	Thorogood, B.	1680 (1680)	Wing T1062; ESTC R9103	17,937	16

a most high Spirit and invincible Courage of mature Wisdom and singular Industry and Application to business wary in Council and quick in Execution He hates above all things a perpetual fluctuation and unsteddiness in the Measures and Politicks of Government because it makes it a Riddle to it self as vvell as to all other Nations and forces it to wander and stray from the proposed Ends having no clue of reason to guide it through so many Labyrinths of Confusions and therefore is constant and inflexible in his Resolutions whilst suitable to she true Interest of the Nation which often created him great and dangerous Enemies every one hoping in the uncertainty and variety of Councils to be able to get the Ministry into his own hands and therefore looking upon him with an Eye of Envy as the hinderance and main obstacle of their ambitious purposes He is true and firm to his Friends and Servants whom not chance or fortune but parts and merit with a long and unstain'd reputation of Honesty places in his Favour and as his love is not to the Persons but their Vertues so his hatred extends only to their Vices and ends as soon as they begin to give any visible signs of their Repentance and whatever is said to the contrary by some of his Enemies who would scare the rest and harden them in their wickedness by putting them into a despair of forgiveness he is not of a vindicative Spirit for none ever yet fell otherwise then gently by his means or smarted any longer under his indignation then they continued obstinate and wilful in the pursuit of his and the Countries disquiet as might be proved by a thousand instances too tedious to be here recounted In short he is of a Martial and Souldierly Temper patient of cold heat hunger thirst and all the toyls and fatigues naturally incident to War either by Sea or Land his Valour is sprightly but not rash his Conduct wary and secure and the events of his Battels and Engagements still Fortunate and Succesful all which would certainly make the English Nation for whose Genius Providence has fitted him readier to shed their Bloud to acquire him new Crowns then deprive him of those Nature has already entitled him to after the Death of his Brother had not the inveterate malice of some restless and Factious Spirits possess'd them with an opinion of his having designed for so many years to involve them in Bloud and Slaughter the falshood of which will easily appear to any that consider his actions all along since his and the King 's Return from their Exile to which such Practices as are now a foot drove them I. AS it is doubtful whether he renounced the Religion wherein he was Educated and embraced Popery more then Socinianism or any other form of Christianity distinct from the National Worship so it is certain that he always adhered to the True Interest of England I mean the Glory and Preservation of the Monarchy which His Royal Father consigned to his Posterity Sealed with his Blood shed by Men out-doing in Practice though not in Principles the Modern Reformers II. He hath made it his Business to free his Majesties Subjects from their Fatal Longings after a Commonwealth to which the Contagion of the late Times had Enslaved them And by his Addresses Sollicitations and Preferments with which he was able when in Power to Reward such brave Souls as signaliz'd their Loyalty to his Father or Brother in the Disorder of their Affairs He hath brought that Virtue in fashion again and made more Converts to the Royal Authority than all the Orthodox Clergy with their Preachings and Arguments how Learnedly and Industriously soever handled were able to do Quis enim Virtutem amplectitur ipsam Praemia si tollas The Truth of this will appear easily to any that will take the trouble to consider how notably the Reverence due to Majesty is impair'd and how Universally the Anti-monarchical Principles are spread within these Seven or Eight Years since upon the misconceiv'd Jealousies of the People He declin'd the Influence He had upon the State by his Great Imployments III. Through the Power which his Fidelity and Ability gave him over the King He hath procured the chiefest Places of Strength in the Nation And most of the great Trusts as well Civil and Religious as Military to be confer'd upon known Royalists and sworn Enemies to such as under the specious pretence of securing our Liberties would again involve Us in the same Calamities from which Providence hath so lately Deliver'd Us. IV. He hath been by his Advice and Influence over the great Ministers the Principal Opposer of all the French Agents who in subservience to Their Interest were often tampering for promoting of an Arbitrary Government and of making the Kings Interest both distinct from and opposite to that of his People And this He hath done in Obedience to the Fundamental Laws for which he always testifyed a great Veneration and to prevent the ill Effects constantly attending such Pernicious Councels For He well knew from the History of some of his Progenitors that an Attempt to remove the Antient Boundaries and Land-marks of Government never misses opening a way of Discord and Confusion Of which Ambitious Men taking Advantage by their wheedling Practices often perswade the People that are Heady Valiant and Jealous of their Liberty to run into Rebellion which as it generally terminates in the Ruine of the Prince or Subject so it often Enslaves both to the Power of a Foreign Enemy For which Reason He always held the Constitution of the Kingdom as Sacred and Inviolable in reference to the People as He now does in regard of his own Right V. It was This Active and Vigilant Prince that possess'd with Flames of Love towards the City of LONDON as violent as those that reduc'd it to Ashes exposed his Person to a Thousand Dangers to Rescue it from Destruction He bufied those Hands destin'd for Managing of Scepters in Breaking open Pipes and Conduits for Water reach'd Buckets as nimbly as any of the Common People clear'd the Streets from the Throngs and Crouds that hindred the carrying away of their Goods Appointed his Servants and Guards to Conduct them to secure places And in fine for several Nights and Days without Sleep or rest from Labour was seen in all parts giving the necessary Orders for preventing the further spreading of the Conflagration as if Love which usually works Miracles had Multiply'd him or rather given him a kind of Ubiquity And this He did partly to shew his Gratitude to his Beloved Londoners whose Minion He was but chiefly to save the Magazine of the Strength and Treasure of the Kingdom from Desolation and Ruine VI. Whatever is said of his Inclination to Popery or the Humour of the French Nation 't is Evident He understands and pursues the Interest of England so well that to check the Torrent of their Victories by creating them work