Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	castille_n	king_n	portugal_n	2,670	5	10.5073	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02848	An ansvver to the first part of a certaine conference, concerning succession, published not long since vnder the name of R. Dolman	Hayward, John, Sir, 1564?-1627.	1603 (1603)	STC 12988; ESTC S103906	98,388	178

to liue alone But how thē wil you say is nature immutable It is in abstracto but it is not in subiecto Or thus In it selfe it is not chāged in vs by reasō of our imperfectiōs it is Or els more plainely it is not changed but it is trāsgrested But nature you say is alike to al. Not so good sir because all are not apt alike to receiue her euen as the sun beames doe not reflect alike vpon a cleane and cleare glasse and vpon a glasse that is either filthy or course And in many not onely men but nations euill custome hath driuen nature out of place and setteth vp it selfe in steade of nature Your third conclusion that no particulare forme of gouernement is naturall doth not finde so easie acceptaunce Your onely proofe is that if it were otherwise there should be one forme of gouernement in all nations because god and nature is one to all But this reason I haue encountred before and yet you take paines to puffe it vp with many waste words howe the Romanes changed gouernment how in Italie there is a pope a king and many dukes how Millaine Burgundie Loraine Bavier Gascoint and Britaine the lesse were changed from kingdomes to dukedomes howe Germanie was once vnder one king and is now deuided among dukes earles and other supreme princes How Castile Aragone Portugall Barcelona and other countries in Spaine were first Earldomes then Dukedomes then seuerall Kingdomes and now are vnited into one how B●eme and Polonia were once Dukedomes and now are Kingdomes how Fraunce was first one kingdome then deuided into fower and lastly reduced into one How England was first a Monarchie vnder the Britaines then a Prouince vnder the Romaines after that diuided into seauen Kingdomes and lastly reduced into one how the people of Israell were first vnder Patriarkes Abraham Isaac and Iacob then vnder Captains then vnder Iudges thē vnder high Priests then vnder Kings and then vnder Captaines and high Priests againe I will not followe you in euery by way whereinto your errours doe leade for who would haue aduentured to affirme that the childrē of Israell were vnder Abraham and Isaac and that the Britaine 's at the first were vnder one King whereas Caesar reporteth that hee found fower kings in that country which is now called Kent but I will onely insist vpon the principall point in regard whereof all this bundell of wordes is like a blowne bladder full of winde but of no weight For first you doe but trifle vpon tearmes in putting a difference betweene Kings Dukes and Earles which holde their state with soueraigne power Wee speake not of the names but of the gouernement of Princes Supreme rulers may differ in name they may change name also either by long vse or vpon occasion and yet in gouernment neither differ nor change Secondly it is a more vaine ieast to put a difference in this regarde beweene a great territorie and a small If a kingdome bee enlarged or streight●ed in limites the gouernement is not thereby changed if many kingdomes bee vnited into one if one bee diuided into many the nature of gouernment is no more altered then is the tenure of lande either when partition is made or when many partes accrewe into one The knot of doubt is whether it bee not naturall that one state bee it great or small should rather bee commaunded by one person howsoeuer intitled then by many And if wee descende into true discourse wee shall finde that the verie sinewes of gouernment doe consist in commaunding and in obeying But obedience can not bee performed where the commaundementes are eyther repugnant or vncertaine neither can these inconueniences bee any waies auoided but by vnion of the authoritie which doth commaunde This vnion is of two sortes first when one commaundeth secondly when many doe knit in one power and will The first vnion is naturall the seconde is by meane of amitie which is the onely bande of this collectiue bodie and the moe they are who ioyne in gouernment the lesse naturall is their vnion and the more subiect to dissipation For as Tacitus saith aequalitie and amitie are scarce compatible Naturall reason teacheth vs that all multitude beginneth from one and the auncient Philosophers haue helde that from vnitie all thinges doe proceede and are againe resolued into the same Of which opinion Laertius reporteth that Musaeus of Athens was authour who liued long before Homer but afterwardes it was renewed by Pythagoras as Plutarch Alexander and Laertius doe write who added thereunto that vnitie is the originall of good and dualitie of euill And of this opinion Saint Hierome was also whose sentence is repeated in the canonicall decrees but vnder the title and name of Saint Ambrose Hereupon Homer doth oftentimes call good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and applyeth the terme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to affliction and trouble Hereupon Galen also writeth that the best in euerye kinde is one Plato produceth all thinges from one measureth all thinges by one and reduceth all thinges into one The whole worlde is nothinge but a greate state a state is no other then a greate familie and a familie no other then a greate bodye As one GOD ruleth the worlde one maister the familie as all the members of one bodye receiue both sence and motion from one heade which is the seate and tower both of the vnderstanding and of the will so it seemeth no lesse naturall that one state should be gouerned by one commaunder The first of these arguments was vsed by Soliman Lord of the Turkes Who hauing strangled Sultane Mustapha his sonne because at his returne out of Persit he was receiued by the soldiers with great demonstrations of ioy hee caused the dead bodie to be cast forthe before the armie and appointed one to crye There is but one God in Heauen and one Sultane vpon earth The second was vsed by Agesilaus to one that moued the Spartans for a popular gouernment goe first saide hee and stablish a popular gouernment within your owne doores To the third Tacitus did allude when hee saide The body of one Empire seemeth best to be gouerned by the soule of one man In the heauens there is but one Sunne which Serinus also applyeth vnto gouernement in affirming that if wee set vp two sunnes we are like to set all in combustion Many sociable creatures haue for one company one principall either gouernour or guide which al authors take for a natural demonstration of the gouernment of one And if you require herein the testimonie of men you shall not finde almost any that writeth vpon this subiect but hee doth if not alleage yet allow that of Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one Lord one King Plutarch declareth both his owne iudgement concerning this point and also the consent of others in affirming that all men did acknowledge that the