Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	arm_n	force_n	king_n	1,070	5	3.3673	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56888	Questions resolved, and propositions tending to accommodation and agreement betweene the King being the royall head, and both Houses of Parliament being the representative body of the Kingdome of England		1642 (1642)	Wing Q186A; ESTC R215158	12,472	10

the Generall and Captaines for the safety and peace of his land and people against any forraigne foes or domesticke traiterous enemies But this is to be understood when his Majestie with his owne prospective eye and watchfulnesse or by the advise of his privie Councell before parliament or great councell in parliament hath or doth discover the plots or purposes of forraigne enemies intending mischiefe assault or ruine by invasion forraigne or of domestick traitors by Insurrection and rebellion at home For in truth it is a flower of the Kings crowne and an incident of his Regalitie as hee is a King to have Liberam absolutam potestatem or Ius Bellum indicendi gerendi to or against any forraigne Prince or potentate and againe Ius potestatem pacis contrahendae paciscendae with any of them and thus all the learned Authours writing of Law and policie by the titles of their Bookes de lege Regia have averred and maintained and it is not to be denyed because the King is the head of the body politicke which compared to the naturall body wherein the five senses are operative and do their Offices by their Organa rite disposita yet the naturallists doe affirme that the communis sensus is in the braine or in Occipite and that per discursum practicum it judgeth and resolveth of the other senses their pleasing or being usefull and profitable to the whole body or offending and annoying it And so the King hath the Ius militiae or power and command of Armes at home throughout his Kingdome for he hath potestatem vitae necis ast●e Civilians terme it And in our Law the death of any is to be accounted for to the King and the taking away of any Liege subjects life is in the indictment said to be contra Coronam Dignitatem Regis But all this notwithstanding the generall position of the jus principis or Lex Regia placing the power of Armes and Militia in the Crowne yet his Majestie cannot otherwise levie the militia but by lawfull meanes and not by Commission of Array as lately hath beene for that is an undue charge not warranted by law And in case of particular accidents that the King the head be misinformed of his and the Common-wealths enemies conceiving them to be friends which are secret and desperate adversaries complotting clandestine ruine and destruction to the body and refuse to afford aid for the prevention of imminent danger will any judicious man doubt but the eyes of the body being the great Councell of Common-wealth discerning the mischiefe and danger doe well and providently if they call he armes and hands to strike and fights the loynes to joyne in strength and leggs and feet to goe and run to helpe to defend the totall that so the head being disquieted with ache and paines may be preserved in rest and quiet repose Wherefore in such case as now it is here in England the representative body hath and in all reason Pro salute Regis Populi ought to have and to use and command the Militia throughout the land untill such time as the King be better informed and the Common-wealth and body be setled againe in peace and safetie and that then some provident Law concerning the Militia be made for time to come to prevent such like accidents as this hath beene And hereupon it may be considered whether the two houses of Peeres and Commons had not cause to demand the approbation of some Officers of State The Milttia not consisting meerely in the having of armes but also in the power of force to defend against invasion or the fiercenesse of an enemy wherein if such Officers as should be intrusted with the dower and force of the armes and with the custodie of the forts and other places of strength within the kingdome should not bewell and truly affected to the government of this land how easily may it be perceived those strong holds which alreadie are or at least are intended by the wisedome of the parliament shortly to be fortified for the greatest defence will or may become the reatest offence and those bands of military forces which are to bee supposed for the safetie of the Kingdome turne to the ruine and destruction of the Common wealth These then being the true and genuine causes or motives of the wofull severance betweene the king and the Parliament whereat all true hearts have grieved What presumption shall it bee deemed in a true English heart bleeding with compassionate sorrow for the head and body politike so miserably indangered of utter perditron by unnaturall and civill broyles which Lucan writing of lamenteth and describ●th in these words and lines Bella per Ema heos plusquam Civilia Campos Iusque datum sceleri canimus populemque potentem In sua vict●i●i conversum vis●●ra dextra Cognitasque acies c If I say such a true hearted Englishman doe propose these Soveraign Salves for so deadly a sore and these present remedies for so desperate a sicknesse to prevent the instant death and desolation of this famous and renowned Kingdome and Nation whose people were of old time surnamed Angli quasi Angeli or ab Angulo dicti as being in an angle or corner of the world and severed from the rest according to that of the Poet Et penitus toto diversos orbe Britannos And which some Divines terme one of the beloved Isles of the Gentles wherein the Gospell of Christ was soonely Preached after his Ascention 1. First then may it please his most excellent Majestie piously and religiously to turne his Royall heart and gracious affection toward hi● great Councell of Parliament who doe represent all his deare people and be advised by them no more to respect or give eare to those Syrene hallucinations of flattering seducers the papists and Iesuite priests the papally inclined Bishops who stand so much for thsir Hierarchy as that they with Demas have forsaken the puritie of the Gospell and neglect the preaching of the holy Word of God and h●ve imbraced this present world making themselves Lords over Gods heritage not true Shepheards to seed his flock as they ought to doe in Season and out of Season and to wait upon the alseeing eye of Gods providence for his beloved spouse the Church to bee purged and cleansed of her late inbred and inbrought corruptions 2 Secondly that his Majestie will abandon and quite put away the thought or imagination of any Tyrannicall or Imperiall Government over this land which the papall Bishops and Hierarchicall prelates and priests and other Lay Flatterers did presume to use daily and insinuate and inculcate to his Sacred eares under the pretence of telling his Maiestie that he is an absolute imperiall Monarch free and above and without all Lawes to rule his people ad arbitrium Principis and that he being Gods Anointed is responsall only to God if he doe tyrannize or grieve his subiects whereas they are or make themselves utterly