Selected quad for the lemma: head_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
head_n	body_n	king_n	politic_a	2,735	5	10.6730	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97115	God save the King, or A sermon of thanksgiving, for His Majesties happy return to his throne. Together with a character of his sacred person. Preached in the parish-church of East Coker in the county of Sommerset, May 24. 1660. By William Walwyn B.D. and sometimes fellow of St. Johns College in Oxon.	Walwyn, William, 1614-1671.	1660 (1660)	Wing W696B; Thomason E1033_10; ESTC R203977	18,961	42

Rebellions of the French Subjects against their King Fomented and Backt by the Prince of Conde Though indeed he was most unworthily requited for that grand piece of Service by the French King his nearest Relative Witnesse his Gallantry and Fortitude in bearing up his Royal Spirit from dejection though pressed with the grand injuries and indignities of a 12. years Banishment and upwards from his native Soyle Court Throne and Dignity Witnesse his patience and tolerancie under his almost insufferable afflictions and contumelies who having the free profer of Forein Princes Ayd and Assistance for his Restitution He chose rather to want his Crowns than to Swim to his Throne in the Blood of his Subjects desiring rather to be received with our Condui●s running with Wine than with our Channels running with Blood and with Bonfires in our Streets than with the Conflagrations of our Towns and Cities Witnesse his faith hope and firm dependency upon his God under his tedious and Long-lived sufferings Witnesse his Zeal and Constancy in adhering to his Principles in his profession of the true Protestant Religion notwithstanding all Tamperings with Him and Arguments used to enforce or perswade Him to turn an Apostate from his dear mother the Church of England commended to his tender Tuition by his dying Father as Christ commended the care of his mother the Virgin Mary to his Beloved Disciple John the Evangelist Witnesse I say His constant adherency to that Church to the Infamous shame both of those Clergie and Laymen who in these times of our Distractions have so often turned their Goats Surely had not His Sacred Majestie been as immovable as a Rock he was Battered with Arguments enough to have made Him made Shipwrack of his Faith Arguments inforced 1. By our grievious Distractions in our Religion here at home 2ly By the Scandal of our latter time 3ly By the Exigency of his Majesties then present Affairs 4ly By the uncertainty of his future Livelihood 5ly By the Injustice of his Subjects which might well have prompted his Courage and Revenge to have said what the King in the Gospel said concerning his Servants that had abused him since mine Enemies will not that I should reign over them bring them hither and slay them before me Luke 19. 27. 6ly By the Tediousnesse of his Banishment And 7ly By His irrecoverable restauration as to all humane Judgements and Opinions without his gratifying Popish Princes by his perversion to the Romish Church But the grace of God had taught him as well to want as to wear a Crown which is not worth the taking up upon Sordid Dishonourable and Irreligious termes as His most incomparable Father in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath admirably admonished him And what can we now expect but happy times under so Gratious a Prince wherin by our miseries we have I hope sufficiently Learned what our late Martyr'd King before hand had foretold that our Religion towards our God and our Loyalty toward our King cannot possibly be parted without both our Sin and our Infelicity and I pray God we may learn and remember this that it may deter and Affright us from ever returning again to our former Follies and Rebellions since the taking off the Head from the Body Politick and such is the King is if we rationally consider it but a mad way to cure the distemperatures of the Inferiour parts For who would not account him a Bloody Murtherer and not a skilfull Physician who should order his Chirurgions to cut off the Head of his Patient to cure the Surfet in His Stomach or the Gout in his Feet The King is the Head of his people So Samuel calls him 1 Sam. 15. 17. so doth Isaiah 74 and so doth Hosea 1. 11. but especially so Daniel in expresse terms Dan. 2. 38. Tu es caput Aurcum speaking to the King Thou art the head of Gold and the Persians by the light of nature called their King Assuerosh that is Soveraign head now as Philosophy and experience both demonstate unto us from the head we derive motion sense and life for at the head we take in the breath we live by and in the head are seated the animal spirits from whence we receive sense and motion and we experimentally see that the head is no sooner taken off but the body streight falls and tumbles to the ground struggle indeed for some short space of time it may but live long it cannot without its head We have Buzzed and Turned and Turned and Buzzed like a flesh fly without his head i. e. we have kept a great stir and pudder and made a great noyse a while in the world and have tried all the wayes we could imagine to live without our head but we found that we could not long subsist in this condition Our State like a carcasse that had been long without an head began even to stink in the Nostrils of all the Nations round about us our Church was cut into so many Shreds by so many Fanatique Sects and Schisms that we could very scarcely perceive that there was any Religion visible amongst us Our Trade and Commerce was quite decayed and now perceiving well that we could not live any longer Acephali a people without an head we would fain try whether we could live Pseudocephali a people with a False head Having therefore first taken off the head of Jupiter we set the head of a Caligula in the place thereof and was not the matter well amended trow ye when thus like Horace his Painter we fixed upon the shoulders of a man the head of a beast And that not as he did the head of an horse an harmlesse and usefull Creature but of a venemous and subtil Serpent rather which like the Viper eat through the very bowels of the Church his Mother that bred him and instead of Protecting the State under his shelter like the Bramble-King in the book of the Judges scratcht it to the very bones till at length God in mercy to the poor Church and State took Him off And now Exit Protector the Scene is changed yet being wantonly Rebellious seeing we could no longer subsist Acephali without an Head over us or Pseudocephali with a false head or an Head that was not rightly and properly our own we were ●●solved to try whether we could better our condition by being Polycepholi i. e. by putting an whole Consistory of heads over us as many heads as the Scarlet-coloured beast had that carried the Whore of Babylon upon his back Rev. 17. 3. or as many heads as the monstrous Hydra is famed to have in the Poet or rather as many heads as stood heretofore upon London Bridge But alasse we found that our case now waxed from bad to worse for now we found that those many Heads like the heads of those children that have the Rickets began to suck and attract wholly to themselves all the juice and Radical moisture from the rest of their inferior parts and