Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	king_n	power_n	regal_a	2,103	5	11.1413	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25537	An answer to a paper entituled, A letter to a friend, upon the dissolving of the late Parliament, and the calling of a new one together, with a list of those that were against making the Prince and Princess of Orange, King and Queen		1690 (1690)	Wing A3328A; ESTC R210430	2,115	1

An answer to a Paper Entituled A Letter to a Friend upon the dissolving of the late Parliament and the calling of a New one together with a List of those that were against making the Prince and Princess of Orange King and Queen SIR AS by the strain and stile of your Letter I may easily repute you one more precipitant than prudent and more passionate than politick So may I on rational Grounds from the drift and design of your Letter conclude you a great Jacobite or vail'd Favorite of the late K. James For in pretence of vindicating the present King's Interest you first set up Marks of your own making or Suppositions of your own Invention which ought not to be supposed and then fighting with the Maggots of your own brain to please your own fond fancy you discharge the Artillery of your pretended Zeal and Loyalty at your own foolish proposals And for all you pretend by your Wit and Loyalty to antidote the fate which besel his Majesty's Predecessors viz. the robbing him of his peoples affections and then of his own Authority yet could you not have fallen on a readier and surer way to raise animosities in the Kingdom and bred jealousies in the hearts of the Kings best Subjects For at first you suppose a controversy where really there is none viz. whether it was the Kings wisdom or to please himself with an Exercise of Regal power and to look Great that made him dissolve this Parliament Then Worthy Sir your own wisdom acquiescing with what his Majesty did you take up the Cudgels in his Vindication whilst there is few or none to strike at Tho his Majesty in his last Speech to the Parliament when it was Prorogu'd spoke more sense and gave greater Reasons for what he did tho in few words than in all your long learned Legomachical Apology Next you cast an Aspersion on the Members of Parliament that they were ignorant of what was fit to be done and therefore you tell them that the K. sent them about their business for not uniting the Protestants and vindicating our Laws and Liberties and punish those who had subverted our Constitution c. Truly Sir there is much in this for it wlil be found a difficult thing to unite the Church of England with Dissenters tho' they seemtodiffer but in matters of Ceremony But if they did not make it their Business to vindicate the Laws and Liberties of the Nation and design in the right place to punish those who had subverted the Kingdoms Constitution they were neither good Christians just Judges nor wise States-men nor any ways fit to stand at the Helm of publick affairs But till you prove your assertion your contumelious speeches are but an aspersion The next thing you propose out of your wisdom is a speedy means to clear the Kings Descent into England from being an ambitious Usurpation Truly Sir I believe there are few men of sense that will repute the Kings Expedition to England an Unrighteous Invasion unless such busie men as you by sowing such seeds of Dissatisfaction and setting up such suppositions of Sedition and Faction gain the Weather-gage on a right Understanding and lead the people to open Rebellion and tho' you be pleased confidently to say that His present Majesty holdeth his Crown precariously and that King James's Abdication is easily reversible yet no man that is Master of his Reason and knoweth the circumstance of the late Revolution and the present state of Great Britain will be so Foolish as to believe any such thing Unless he likewise believe that it is an easie matter to turn Britain to a Bedlam and all the Inhabitants thereof to Mad-men who would willingly forfeit their Religion Lives Laws and Liberties Truly Sir as I have said you could have fallen upon no surer way to do both King and Country a diskindness than by supposing under the pretence of a good meaning those Rebellious Controversies which may breed Jealousies make the best Subjects question the Foundation of their Loyalty and deny their Allegiance to our present King For how can those Gentlemen who because in the twinkling of an Eye they were surprized with a sudden and unexpected Change and Revolution of Government and could not be resolved in a moment nor be satisfied in Conscience at a word whether they owed any Allegiance to King James or not be now pleased to see their Names Listed Posted and exposed as Dissenters from the present Government Stigmatiz'd with the Title of Jacobites and not likely to be true and lasting friends to King WILLIAMS Soveraignty and consequently unworthy to be Members of Parliament or to have any hand in State Affairs and undeserving of the King's favour Now how can any Parliament at this rate be reputed free When they ly under the lash of such disgraceful and murdering aspersions I shall not meddle with more of your Letter but take this of me Men of least Conscience soonest satisfie greatest scruples and he 's neither good Divine or good States-Man that would divide a Kingdom against it self For as Salust de Bello Jugurth saith Concordia res parvae crescunt Discordia autem maximae delabunter Callicratidas being affronted by King Cyrus in his Embassie when he returned to Sparta broke out in these words I shall use the best of my endeavours to reconcile the Greeks among themselves that they may be the more formidable to these Barbarians and leaving off all Controversies among thesmelves they may no more stand in need of help from that prodigal King And of this Man's resolution Conrad Lycosthenes speaketh thus Singularis profecto fuit prudentiae vir quod perspexit Graecos non alia magis ratione posse reddi Barbar●s formidabiles quam si depositis intestinis simultatibus mutam inter se concordiam sancirent Plut. in Lacon apoph Scipio Africanus asked Tyresius how the Numantians who were once reputed so Warlike a People were so easily broke and overthrown Tyresius answered concordia Victoriam Discordia exitium praebuit Thus Concord and Unity are the Sinews Strength and Victory of a Nation which with Faith Truth and God's favour I pray this Isle of Britain and all true Christians may long enjoy With Allowance