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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
diversity_n	body_n	gift_n	operation_n	454	5	9.5544	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13742	The ioiefull and blessed reuniting the two mighty & famous kingdomes, England & Scotland into their ancient name of great Brittaine. By John Bristoll	Thornborough, John, 1551-1641.	1605 (1605)	STC 24036; ESTC S118409	39,081	92

hurt can be wished to our enemies then to be disvnited among themselues and if they will not be at one with vs that they may bee at oddes betweene themselues mane at quaeso duretque gentibus si non amor nostri at certe odium sui Quando nihiliam praestare fortuna maius potest quam hostium discordiam And nowe farther to enforce this vnion into both nations the rather because we are both alike vnder one head and governour hath not his Maiestie two eies to respect both kingdoms two eares to heare a like the cause of both two shoulders to beare alike the burden and care of both two hands to distribute honours alike to both two feete to goe one before the other yet both alike to support but one body The inequalitie only is if we are not alike duetifull and thankeful neither doe we as the Apostle Rom. 12. exhorteth carrie like mindes one towardes another nor make our selues in our owne conceipts equal to them of the lower sorte And where Xenophon calleth Magistrates and mighty men the kings eies the kings ears the kings shoulders yea also his hands and his feete it is not thereby meant that they should thinke they also had two eies to envie one the other two eares to listen after advantages or offenses one against the other two shoulders to shoue at and shoulder out one the other two feete to outrunne and preuent one the other to hands two catch snatch one from the other or to carrie fire in one hand and water in the other or to builde with the one and to pull downe with the other or with the one to offer a guift and with the other a stab altera manu panem altera lapidem but that their eies eares shoulders feete and hands are or should be mutuall helpers one to the other for the common good and publique service of the whole State And I perswade my selfe that all Magistrates vnder his Maiestie of the one or other nation vnited now in one common name of Brittaines will for publique Administration of the common Weale so see with their eies heare with their eares beare vp the head with their shoulders and walke vprightly having pure and cleane handes that as the fingers in the hande are distinctly divided and yet doe clap and claspe themselues togither for more strength so all of commande and in authority within great Brittaine though they haue distinct offices yet will so concurre and agree togither that though there appeare among Aug. de Chatizandisrudibus them and their distinct publique services as in digitis divisio it shall not bee ab vnitate praecisio And verily the two kingdomes are like tvvo handes warming and enfolding each other continuing two yet in one bodie vvhere if the right hand challendge more necessarie vse and service in the bodie then the left or the left hande more then the right one not readyly yeeld to ioine with the other as is meete the head may in his good pleasure make choice and vse of either as in the Romane Storie when Tribunes Liv. 1. Dec 4. lib disagreed for chiefest honour Quintus Servilius Consul of much lesse dignitie and authoritie then a king tooke the matter into his own hands saying patria maiest as altercationem istam dirimet Here Prudence among Subiectes hath neede intermeddle with all other vertues and shew the power of vnion in her selfe where Iustice demaundeth righte fortitude tollerateth what ought be borne temperance reformeth wil subdueth anger moderateth passion and represseth ambition and al in vnitie of obedience coupled togither bring forth plentiful fruit for societie honour and ioy Which thing wel pleased Marcus Furius Camillus Dictator of Rome seeing all the Senate and Subiects of Rome not only accorde in the common execution of each office for common good of al but willingly and lovingly both highest and meanest to embrace one the other saying that the common Weale was flourishing Liv. 1. Dec. 6. lib and most happie sitales viros in magistratu habeat tam concordibus iunctos animis parere atque imperare iuxtaparates laudemque conferentes potius in medium quam excommuni ad se trahentes whereof the Senate Consuls and Tribunes gaue testimonie and good proofe vvhen they all submitted all authorie to Camillus perswaded in themselues nec quicquam de maiest ate sua detractum quod maie statieius viri concessissent In Brittaines vniō England may not exalt it selfe aboue Scotland nor Scotland striue against England but both as mēbers of one body vnder one head ought to haue the same care one for the other as if one member suffer all suffer with it and if one be honoured all the members reioice with and as in the church so in the common Weale one is my doue one is my darling shee is the onely beloved of her mother deere to her that bare her so I know there are diversities of guifts and differences of administrations and diverse manners of operations in both and God hath set the members of the whole body everie one of them several in the body as it hath pleased him but omnia ab vno ad vnum All from one head and to one ende He that is wise will consider this Qui Aug. de cōsensu evāg vero curiosiores sunt quam capaciores quaedam magis contentiosè obiectanda quàm prudenter consideranda esse arbitrantur And nowe seeing I haue waded so farre in the vnion of Brittaines English may not mislike that Scottish beare office among and with them as if they were of a farre Countrey hunting after others Treasures serving the king of Babilon and not as the same Subiects to Hezechias for they are of and for England as we and wee of and for Scotland as they and both for both being made one Nay rather we ought desire their society reioice in this community setting before our eies for example that saying of Austin of the communiō of Saints made fellow heires with Christ through the mercie of our good God Deus cum haberet vnicum noluit esse vnum sed habere fratres And if in humane matters humane examples more mooue remembring that Scipio was as glad of his Brothers preferment as of his owne and that Castor would not be a God without his brother Pollux but would be only Semideus that his brother might partake with him as Aug. de bo no viduit is wel said habent oculi in corpore magnum honorem sedminorem haberent si soli essent Tac. 11. An. In the time of Claudeus the Emperor when it was consulted that the Senate should be supplyed with more Senatours the Peires and Nobles of France long before enfranchised free denisons of Rome sought also to participate in honours magistracies and dignities with Romanes and the matter beeing handled on both sides with greate consideration the Romanes alleadged against the French that Italie wanted no sufficient men