Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	bishop_n	king_n	place_n	2,822	5	4.2630	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74649	An entertainment of solitarinesse or, the melting of the soule, by meditations, and the pouring of it out by prayers. By Sir Richard Tempest, knight and baronet.	Tempest, Richard, Sir, 1619 or 20-1662.	1649 (1649)	Wing T625; Thomason E1410_1; ESTC R209519	28,217	157

obedience of the King and the Lawes made by the consent of the free people of England A fourth cryes out Forainers fore-saw this and helpt to cast in these seeds and principles upon which they contrived our ruine they are all Heretikes and these Divisions are Judgements light upon them for departing from their Mother-Church The Matter being thus prepared the Spark would easily be procured And thus are our men placed just in that posture our enemies desire to play their Game in Our wittie Adversaries by a penetrating insight into the constitution of this State have long since contrived our Ruine upon those very Principles this Warre hath begun upon and may be continued Those ingenious artificers of our Ruine dexterously applying their active to passives and by electing fit instruments aptly working upon the severall parties have contrived our dissolution Though other peccant humours have flowed in and the ambitious practises of great ones yeelded their malignant aspects yet the grand matter of the Disease lay within and that sharpe humour in the Body of the Kingdome being set on fire hath turned it into a Feaver They knew well the complexion of our Countrey which is now made too sanguine as appeares by that Draught of our Ruine delineated by the Pen of Campanella who though shut up in his Cloyster had inlarged his minde to the consideration of all Crownes And writing to the King of Spaine how he might so treat with every Kingdome and Republique that taking hold of the advantages the things themselves afforded he might become Monarch of the West part of the World And concerning the affaires of these Islands he adviseth thus That the King of Spaine should send to King Iames of Scotland to promise him his assistance to the Crowne of England in case of oppositions and to get back from him ingagements for the advancement of the Catholike Religion or at least not to disturbe his Plate-Fleet by Sea wherein their Shipping saith he is so powerfull and at the same time to send his Emissaries abroad which should refresh in the people of Englands mindes the remembrance of the former animosities betwixt the two Nations and to sharpen and sowre the mindes of the Nobilitie to insinuate to them That the King comming into England would bestow his Places Honours and Preferments upon his Countreymen to their under-valuing and dis-respect as also in Parliament that it be assured the Bishops if the King were admitted once into England he would bring along with him the Presbyterie of Scotland to their destruction Then by wittie Florentines on purpose maintained at Bruxels to negotiate here with the most eminent of the Nobilitie that were Catholikes promising each of them a part the one not knowing of his negotiation to the other that they should be the Heads of his partie in the Divisions which would happen among them Thus saith the wittie Politick you shall sowe the feeds of an immortall War among them that by their continuall Distractions they will not be able to hinder you in your Designes upon others or at last the parties growne desperate in Armes shall divide the Kingdome into little Principalities whereby at last they will turne your prey Thus doe they enjoy all our heats and Calentures and at those fires which are given in our Warres bring to maturitie their Designe of our Ruine while each partie seekes to support it selfe with Counsells and Strength separated from that of the publique Is there lesse danger The fruits of these Warres no other than they designed if this be practised by a neerer State Perhaps with the ingredients of many more fine and well-layed Plots The Moone hath greater influence upon the Earth than the other Planets not by reason of its magnitude as vicinitie Let them bee phlegmatick and have no Designe stupid and have no braine and can wee thinke so of them whose malice is as active as their constitution yet we force upon them the enjoyment of their Ambitions they suffer our heats to tyre us What is the fruit of all the Bloud and Treasure which the full Purses and the wanton veines of England have lavished out Doth not the present posture of things represent us in such a condition as they fore-saw wee should fall in The King in Prison the Church in Schisme the Countrey in Oppression the Citie in Faction new armed men dayly springing up from those Dragons teeth which are so artificially sowne among us They doe not onely with the nimble dashes of their Pen seeke to deface as it were with one blot all the faire and flourishing Letter of this Government but with Armes doe lay in dust what bravely rear'd his head with glory to the Skie Doe they not meditate of Cantonizing And to resume the same Power they have pull'd down and maintaine it by the same Armes with which they have destroyed the other Is not that faire and goodly Mirror which used to represent the beautifull image of the Common-wealth broke into severall pieces each of which represent severall faces Is not that Mould wherein our Lawes were cast used onely now for to have instruments of Warre fore-cast in Doth not every day the Case grow more perplext and intricate New knots which the most cunning hand will be never able dextrously to undoe except they be cut and the necessitie of the Sword must double upon us our former injuries Is it not truly observed that Armes once raysed turne to many uses which at first were never thought of And thus our miserie like Proteus begets every day new formes and shapes The farther wee send our eyes to looke what will become of these Divisions doe wee not lose them in those vast depths of Miserie and Ruine in that Gulfe of Destruction wee doe precipitate our selves into Is not the fire onely likely to be quenched with the Ruines of the House One may seeke England in England and not finde it The present condition of the Government unestablisht as touching its Lawes and Constitutions the Government being like a Ship that is almost covered with billowes scarce visible yet in being the outward adventitious condition of the thing onely altered And whether it shall be brought into the Port of Peace or it must finde in those vast gapings and yawnings of the Sea a liquid Grave Heaven only is the Insuring Office The people doe not apprehend the Reason and Wisdome of those Lawes by the benefit whereof they had their lives and estates secured till by the neglect of them the effects thereof fall upon them in Oppressions Injuries and Wrongs and till in the utter extremities of Miserie they learn the causes of mens entring first into Societie If men make use of their prerogative and that part wherein men excell their fellow Creatures they will finde there is no way imaginable to hinder the corruption of a State but by the reducement of it to its principles for every State drawne within its proper Rules and Lawes is