Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	5,115	5	10.1244	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28517	The union of the two kingdoms of Scotland and England, or, The elaborate papers of Sir Francis Bacon ...	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Irvine, Christopher, fl. 1638-1685.	1670 (1670)	Wing B340; ESTC R338	40,143	72

smaller River runneth into a greater it loseth both his Name and Stream And hereof to conclude wee see an excellent example in the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel The Kingdom of Judah contained two Tribes the Kingdom of Israel contained ten King David raigned over Judah for certain years And after the death of Isbosheth the Son of Saul obtained likewise the Kingdom of Israel This Union continued in him and likewise in his Son Salomon by the space of seventy years at least between them both But yet because the Seat of the Kingdom was kept still in Judah and so the lesse sought to draw the greater upon the first occasion offered the Kingdoms brake again and so continued ever after Thus having in all humbleness made oblation to your Majesty of these simple Fruits of my Devotion and Studies I do wish and do wish it not in the nature of an impossibility to my apprehension That this happy Union of your Majesties two Kingdoms of England and Scotland may be in as good an hour and under the like Divine Providence as that was between the Romans and the Sabines CERTAIN ARTICLES OR CONSIDERATIONS Touching the Union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland Collected and dispersed for His MAJESTIES better Service YOur Majesty being I do not doubt directed and conducted by a better Oracle then that which was given for light to Aeneas in his peregrination Antiquam exquirite Matrem hath a Royal and indeed an Heroical desire to reduce these two Kingdoms of England and Scotland into the Unity of their ancient Mother Kingdom of Britain Wherein as I would gladly applaud unto your Majesty or sing aloud that Hymn or Anthem Sic itur ad Astra So in a more soft and submiss voice I must necessarily remember unto your Majesty that Warning or Caveat Ardua quae pulchra It is an action that requireth yea and needeth much not only of your Majesties Wisdom but of your Felicity In this Argument I presumed at your Majesties first entrance to write a few Lines indeed Scholastically and Speculatively and not Actively or Politickly as I held it fit for me at that time when neither your Majesty was in that your desire declared nor my self in that Service used or trusted But now that both your Majesty hath opened your desire and purpose with much admiration even of those who give it not so full an approbation and that my self was by the Commons graced with the first Vote of all the Commons selected for that Cause Not in any estimation of my ability for therein so wise an Assembly could not be so much deceived but in an acknowledgement of my extream labours and integrity in that business I thought my self every wayes bound both in duty to your Majesty and in trust to that House of Parliament and in consent to the matter it self and in conformity to my own travails and beginnings not to neglect any pains that may tend to the furtherance of so excellent a work Wherein I will indeavour that that which I shall set down be Nihil minus quam verba For length and ornament of Speech are to be used for perswasion of Multitudes and not for information of Kings especially such a King as is the only instance that ever I knew to make a man of Plato's opinion That all knowledge is but remembrance and that the mind of Man knoweth all things and demandeth only to have her own Notions excited and awaked Which your Majesties rare and indeed singular gift and faculty of swift apprehension and infinite expansion or multiplication of another mans knowledge by your own as I have often observed so I did extremely admire in Goodwins Cause being a matter full of Secrets and Mysteries of our Laws meerly new unto you and quite out of the path of your Education Reading and Conference Wherein nevertheless upon a spark of light given your Majesty took in so dexterously and profoundly as if you had been indeed Anima Legis not only in execution but in understanding The remembrance whereof as it will never be out of my mind So it will alwayes be a warning to me to seek rather to excite your Judgement briefly then to inform it tediously and if in a matter of that nature how much more in this wherein your Princely cogitations have wrought themselves and been conversant and wherein the principal Light proceeded from your Self And therefore my purpose is only to break this matter of the Union into certain short Articles and Questions and to make a certain kind of Anatomy or Analysis of the Parts and Members thereof not that I am of opinion that all the Questions which I now shall open were fit to be in the Consultation of the Commissioners propounded For I hold nothing so great an enemy to good resolution as the making of too many questions specially in Assemblies which consist of many For Princes for avoiding of distraction must take many things by way of admittance and if questions must be made of them rather to suffer them to arise from others then to grace them and authorize them as propounded from themselves But unto your Majesties private consideration to whom it may better sort with me rather to speak as a Remembrancer then as a Counceller I have thought good to lay before you all the Branches Lineaments and Degrees of this Union that upon the view and consideration of them and their circumstances your Majesty may the more clearly discern and more readily call to mind which of them is to be imbraced and which to be rejected And of these which are to be accepted which of them is presently to be proceeded in and which to be put over to further time And again which of them shall require Authority of Parliament and which are fitter to be effected by your Majesties Royal Power and Prerogative or by other Policies or Means And lastly which of them is liker to pass with difficulty and contradiction and which with more facility and smoothness First therefore to begin with that Question that I suppose will be out of question Whether it be not meet that the Statutes which were made touching Scotland or the Scots Nation while the Kingdoms stood severed be repealed It is true there is a diversity in these For some of these Laws consider Scotland as an Enemy Countrey Other Laws consider it as a Forraign Countrey only As for example the Law of Rich. 2. Anno 70. which prohibiteth all Armour or Victual to be carried to Scotland And the Law of 70. of K. H. the 7. that Enacteth all the Scots Men to depart the Realm within a time prefixed Both these Laws and some others respect Scotland as a Countrey of hostility But the Law of 22. of Ed. 4. that endueth Barwick with the Liberty of a Staple where all Scots Merchandizes should resort that should be uttered for England And likewise all English Merchandizes that should be uttered for Scotland This Law beholdeth Scotland