Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	master_n	servant_n	service_n	3,408	5	7.4851	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91163	Accommodation cordially desired, and really intended. A moderate discourse: tending, to the satisfaction of all such, who do either wilfully, or ignorantly conceive that the Parliament is disaffected to peace. Written upon occasion of a late pamphlet, pretended to be printed at Oxford; entituled a Reply to the answer of the London-Petition for peace.; Contra-replicant, his complaint to His Majestie.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.	1643 (1643)	Wing P392A; Thomason E101_23; ESTC R21031	28,922	35

eares and to justle out of his presence these bloud thirsty Papists and Malignants which use all possible art to staine the peoples loyalty and to candy over all his actions intending thereby not to reconcile the people by procuring grace from the King but to confound both King and people by fostering enmity between both I will only adde this by such instigations as our Replicant and his fellow Courtiers use the King cannot be happy but by the uncertainty of war that is by making his subjects miserable but such Traytors as I am if our advise bee entertained propose to the King a more certaine way to happinesse by Peace that is by making his subjects yet more happy but our Replicant saith the King is willing to condescend to any thing but you will admit of no reconciliation except the King will remove those servants whom he had found most honest and faithfull in his afflictions and prefer you undeserving in their place Here is the grand knot indeed we oppose such as have been the Counsellors or instruments of such and such designes the King saith they are his friends and he cannot abandon his friends 't is confest the King ought not to abandon his friends but the King may erre in the knowledge of friends and as he ought to protect his friends in whom he cannot err so he is not bound to protect such as he meerly thinks his friends and in whom if he will beleeve the voyce of the people he is very much deceived We have as much interest in the Kings friends and Counsellors as we have in our Laws Liberties lifes any thing for we know we can enjoy nothing if the King shall owne those for his friends whom we know to be our enemies and account of these as good Counseils which we know to be treasons against the State that Prince that will be arbitrary and rely upon his owne meer opinion and discretion in the imployment of Counsellors and Ministers of State having no regard to publique approbation therein is as injurious altogether as he that will admit of no other Law judge nor rule in the propriety and liberty of his subjects but his owne brest only It will be replyed not fancy but sense teaches this that he that obeyes the Kings commands and fights under the Kings Standart is more a friend than he that disobeyes and fight against the King this is demonstration no error can be in it I answer no 't is most false Scripture and reason manifest it to be most false Doeg did obey Saul when all his other servants denyed obedience yet even in that obedience he made himselfe culpable and his master abominable whereas the other servants of Saul were dutifull in withholding an unlawfull duty So those 3000 Souldiers which marched out after Saul to take away the life of just and uncondemned David they were instruments in a base disservice to Saul they are not to be justified for this service whereas those 600 valiant men which accompanied David in his dangers and afflictions and were ready with their sword drawn to guard that innocence which Saul himself should have guarded are not to be accounted false to Saul but true to David And the meere presence of Saul on the one side did not make the cause injust on the other side nor if himself had fallen by rushing oftentimes upon defensive weapons could that horrid guilt of his death have been imputed to any but to himself Cursed therefore yea thrice cursed be these miscreants which ingage the King in this war against the Parliam not without hazard of his sacred Person if they be private persons and have not sufficiency to decide this great controversie betwixt the King and Parliament For my part I dare not pronounce sentence neither for nor against the Parliament as the Replicant without all scruples doth in all places but I may safely say that if the King does though in person unjustly wage war against the Parliament the E. of Essex and his Army may far more lawfully fight in defence of that supreame Court than David and his followers did for the protection of one innocent private man And taking the controversie as undecided 't is not apparent who fight for or against the King and the King may himself as lawfully claime to be sole supreme judge over all single and universal persons and over all Laws and Courts and in all cases whatsoever as to claime any man a Traitor for serving the Parliament in this war and this if he claimes what Priviledge remaines to Parliament what limits remaine to the Prince what liberty remain is to the Subjects 'T is not only then trayterous but ridiculous in the Replicant to assume that supremacy to himself which is denyed to the King by condemning the Parliament and justifying the Kings party in all passages of this War we when we except against the Kings party asperse not at all the Kings person and the Law it self makes ever a distinction betwixt the King and his agents though our Replicant will not allow any such feverance but betwixt the Parl●am and its instruments no such feverance is except for the worse for there pejor est author quam actor but sayes the Replicant 'T is the unhappinesse of the King that he hath a par●y 't is the fault of the Parliament he desires and ought to have the whole See here 't is the Parliaments fault that Percy Digby Winter Mountague Crofts Killegrew and many other of the Queens devoted Creatures are preferred in the Kings favour before the Parliament And 't is the Parliaments fault that Rivers King and the Titular Court of the Palatinate with some other Irish Papists latly come over have the honour of the Court command of the Camp and spoyle of the Kingdom to reward them whilst Manchester Hambden Hellis ●im Strod Haselrig are designed for the block and that upon such charges as shall intangle almost all the most eminent Gentry and Nobility as well as them That this is the Kings unhappinesse is aggreed but that this is the Parliaments fault is not proved by the Replicant and we are not bound alwayes to abate him proofes in matters of this consequence Doubtlesse we are likely to expect great performances from Parliaments hereafter if it shall be guilt in them that they are rejected and if they shall be rejected only because other more favoring Courtiers pretend better affection to the Kings private advantage The actions of Popish and Malignant Courtyers cannot represent them more friendly to the K. than the Parliaments No honour or prosperity has followed hitherto therupon all their difference is that their single professions of Love are more credited than such as are credited by the Votes of the Generality and attestations of Parliament Howsoever though many men do think private advise and testimony to be more valuable and fit for Princes to hearken too then publick I never till now heard that it was a fault