Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	body_n	part_n	vital_a	2,464	5	10.5045	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91291	A summary collection of the principal fundamental rights, liberties, proprieties of all English freemen; both in their persons, estates, and elections; and of the memorable votes, resolutions, and Acts of Parliament, for their vindication and corroboration, in the late Parliaments of 3 & 17 of King Charles; collected out of their Journals, and printed Ordinances. Most necessary to be known, considered, re-established (in this present juncture of publick affairs) with all possible old and new securities; against past, present, and future publick violations, under-minings, by force or fraud, for the much-desired healing of the manifold large mortal wounds in these chief vital parts, and repairing the various destructive subversive breaches in these prime foundations of our English state fabrick; without which no effectual present or future healing, union, peace, or settlement can possibly be expected, or established in our distracted nations. / By William Prynne of Swainswick Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing P4095; Thomason E892_3; ESTC R206517	46,699	73

A SUMMARY COLLECTION Of the principal FVNDAMENTAL RIGHTS LIBERTIES PROPRIETIES OF ALL English Freemen Both in their Persons Estates and Elections and of the memorable Votes Resolutions and Acts of Parliament for their Vindication and Corroboration in the late Parliaments of 3 17 of King Charles collected out of their Journals and printed Ordinances Most necessary to be known considered re-established in this present juncture of Publick Affairs with all possible old and new securities against past present and future publick Violations Under-minings by force or fraud for the much-desired healing of the manifold large mortal Wounds in these chief Vital parts and repairing the various destructive subversive Breaches in these prime foundations of our English State Fabrick without which no effectual present or future Healing Union Peace or settlement can possibly be expected or established in our distracted Nations By William Prynne of Swainswick Esq a Bencher of Lincolns Inne Jer. 9. 21. Is there no Balm in Gilead is there no Physician there why then is not the health of the Daughter of my people recovered Jer. 51. 8. Take Balm for her pain if so be she may be healed 1 Chron 19. 13. Be of good courage and let us behave our selves valiantly for our people and for the Cities of our God and let the Lord do that which is good in his sight London Printed for the Author 1656. To the imprejudiced Reader BEing importunately solicited by Mr. VVilliam Shepheard a Lawyer specially imployed by some Swordmen and Grandees at VVhitehall from Whence he came to visit me at my Study in Lincolns Inne within two daies after their resolution to call a new Assembly at VVestminster wherewith he acquainted me to regulate the abuses in the execution of our Laws that I would consider of such abuses of this Nature as I had observed for him to present to that Assembly to be reformed by them being one chief end of their meeting which I then informed him I had no time to do being ready to take my Journey into the Country and that Sir John Davis in his Epistle to his Irish Reports had written so much in justification of our Laws as would satisfie and silence allsoldiers and others that ignorantly censured them He thereupon desired me at my vacant times to consider of this his motion in the Country for the publick good Which I since calling to mind and considering that in the Parliament of 5 R. 2 rot Parl. n. 17 18. it was the resolution both of the Commons and Lords desiring redress of their publick G●ievances and oppressions * that Reformation alwaies ought to begin in the Head and so gradually from the Highest Members to the Feet and that it will be both bootlesse impolitick and ridiculous for any publick or private State-Physicians or Reformers to spend their time and pains only to cure some small scratches or cuts in the toes or fingers or breaches in the tyles or seeling of our State and Laws as some Mountebancks and Pseudo-politicians now do and in the mean time to overpasse neglect if not increase dilate the large deadly wounds in the very Head Heart Vital Parts and most dangerous Breaches Under-minings in their very Foundations which threaten present death and suddain Ruine to the whole Body of our State Laws Nation if not speedily healed repaired with all possible care and diligence by the most skilfull Artists and Philopaters sufficiently qualified for such a desperate difficult publick cure Repair and with sincere self-denying publick spirits couragiously addressing themselves with all their skill might to this necessary Heroick work And withall observing that there can be no health ease rest quiet but perpetual pain languishing consumption torture decay in the Body politick of our Nation as in the Body natural so long as there is any dislocation fraction convulsion wound malady in the Bones Nerves Arteries or chief Parts and members thereof And then remembring that serious Protestation and solemn League and Covenant which I my self all members of the late Parliament most Persons in late power and the generality of all the well-affected people to publick Laws Liberty Justice Religion in our three Kingdomes not long since took in the presence of the most High God Angels and Men with hands lifted up to Heaven and then subscribed with those hands That they shall with sincerity reality and constancy in their several Vocations endeavour with their Estates and lives mutually to preserve the Rights Privileges Laws and Liberties of the Parliaments and Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland c. And in this common cause of Liberty and peace of the Kingdomes assist and defend all those that enter into this League and Covenant in the maintaining and pursuing thereof and not suffer themselves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terror to be divided or withdrawn from this blessed union c. but shall all the daies of their lives zealously and constantly continue therein against all opposition and promote the same according to their power c. Which Solemn League and Covenant I find subscribed in * print by VVilliam Lenthal Speaker Robert Nicholas Gilbert Pickering Oliver Cromwell Philip L. Lisle VVilliam Ellis Oliver Saint-John Miles Corbet John Lisle Francis Rous Nathaniel Fyennes Edmund Prideaux John Glynn Bulstrode VVhitelocke Edward Montagu and others in greatest present power and imployments whom I desire now to remember and perform the same effectually as they shall answer the contrary at that great day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed according to those their printed subscriptions thereof for all the good ends therein prescribed I thereupon apprehended I could not perform a more seasonable acceptable or beneficial service to my native Country in pursuance of the Protestation and solemn League and Covenant lying still as sacred Bonds upon my conscience than to draw up this summary Collection of the principal fundamental hereditary Rights Liberties Properties of all English Freemen both in relation to their Persons Estates and free-Elections most mortally wounded more dangerously under-mined shaken subverted by force and fraud of late years since our Parliamentary and Military contests for their defence to the vast effusion of our Treasures and Blood by some who were most deeply engaged in their Protection and preservation than in the very worst of former ages under our late or antient Kings in every particular branch And of the several memorable Votes Resolutions Declarations and Acts of Parliament for their Vindication and Corroboration in the happy Parliament of 3 Caroli remembred and ratified likewise in the last Parliament of King Charles as the most soveraign Balm the most effectual materials prepared applyed by the learnedest skilfullest wisest State-Physicians and Builders in those Parliaments to heal and close up the mortal wounds the perilous Breaches our late Kings * Jesuitical arbitrary tyrannical ill-counsellors and other Viperous self-seeking projectors had sormerly made in them to the impoverishing oppressing enslaving