Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	king_n	power_n	regal_a	4,712	5	11.5491	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80064	Colchesters teares: affecting and afflicting city and country; dropping from the sad face of a new warr, threatning to bury in her own ashes that wofull tovvn. Faithfully collected, drawn out into a moderate relation and debate, humbly presented to all free-born Englishmen; by severall persons of quality. Who much doubted and desired to see the truth in the mist of various relations obscuring the same, but now convinced by their own eyes, doe conceive themselves bound to give out this brief narrative, to satisfie all unprepossessed civil and moderate men, and good Christians, who truly love Jesus Christ, their King, city, and countrey, and sincerely desire the settlement of peace and truth.		1648 (1648)	Wing C5018; Thomason E455_16; ESTC R205022	14,009	16

COLCHESTERS TEARES Affecting and Afflicting CITY and COVNTRY DROPPING From the sad face of a new Warr threatning to bury in her own Ashes that wofull TOVVN Faithfully collected drawn out into a moderate Relation and Debate humbly presented to all Free-born Englishmen By severall persons of Quality Who much doubted and desired to see the Truth in the mist of various relations obscuring the same but now convinced by their own eyes doe conceive themselves bound to give out this brief Narrative to satisfie all unprepossessed civil and moderate men and good Christians who truly love Jesus Christ their King City and Countrey and sincerely desire the settlement of Peace and Truth Have pity upon me have pity upon me O ye my friends for the hand of the Lord hath touched me Job 19.21 Is it nothing to you all ye that pass by Behold and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow which is done unto me wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger Lament 1.12 London Printed for John Bellamy at the three Golden Lions in Cornhill near the Royall Exchange 1648. A briefe Narrative of the wofull state of distressed COLCHESTER WEe are neitheir unwilling to looke backe upon all our former doubts and dissatisfactions nor willingly are wee unmindfull to look forward upon any thing that may cleare our judgements in the right understanding of truth and the true state and carriage of the cause of this wofully divided and if God in mercy prevent not like to bee undone kingdome And though with all the understandings God hath given us wee have laboured to judge of things as they have lien before us in their nature grounds and in order unto their proper ends yet wee finde our selves so farre Christians that wee are drawne and enforced oftentimes to judge many things evill by reason of the miscarriages therein which in themselves simply considered we have judged good and had entertained good thoughts of before Loving Friends and all you freeborne Englishmen Give us leave to propose and offer to all unprepossessed moderate men a few of our most serious renewed thoughts Do we not all desne the same thing Peace a happy peace pacem te poscimus omnes and the Lord grant it But God forbid that any of us should embrace sinfull securitie in stead thereof dote upon or rather dreame of our owne peace one with another whilst God is not at peace with us and whilst the proper foundations of peace and love Gods truth rightly understood Scripture truth is not advanced Wee judged our government to bee good but shall wee say it cannot bee mended our King to bee wise but shall wee say hee needs no counsell our Lawes to be just but are they perfect our Church to bee reformed but have wee no blemishes our nation to be strong but are wee not divided our Armie to be valiant but are they invincible our City to bee rich but are they not proud our countries to bee populous but are they religious Ah sirs if any thing bee amisse shall no hand goe about to mend but all to marre ravel and make it worse is there none to plead with God no balme in Gilead no kissing of the Sonne lest heee be angry or are men become more implacable then God and earth more unreconcileable then heaven where are the specious pretences of enemies when their designes and actings Boatman-like row another way then they looke where is the faith of friends when there is so little love where is the old English honour memorable in the subduing of forain foes whilst England makes a prey of it self And when is our former ancient renown again to be setled when every man even in disorderly wayes rises against another and all labouring to dig a grave for the Kingdome and to bury poore England in her owne sad ashes and wofull ruines Have we no hearts to mourne for our distractions no eyes to see our approaching destruction what no heads to contrive nor hands to helpe in a time of need are our hearts so hard that they will never melt are our eyes so big swollen or rather blinded that wee cannot or which is worse will not see the flames kindled ready to seize on our owne houses hath either divine justice so blasted Satan bewitched or wee perverted our owne judgements that we should now grow weary of being longer happy and bee content to sit downe and quietly embrace our own misery Wee moderate men did judge heretofore the frame of our Church to bee very far out of order and her constitution diseased when the most unpolished stones were laid nearest to the foundation the strongest pillars and helpers of the building were struck downe the windowes bedawbed with paint to hinder not helpe the light the dresse more regarded then the complexion and the lome on the walls more affected then the bread of life But we judge it now too bastardly to spit in her face too Cham-like to call her whore to mock at her nakednesse and abuse her sons and best children invade her patrimony spend her portion unthriftily and cast off all her first love Wee did judge the body of Religion by the greatnesse of the shadowes formerly and yet wee know the bigger the shadowes grew our Sun was the lower night the nearer and have found the beast of the field the fiercer after their prey But yet Pan-like wee would not whilst wee have either grace or wit left us bee content to embrace Bulrushes lest the dirt they grow in stick to our fingers and not the body of holinesse but the darke shadowes and formes of Religion and not the power under the bare notion of light bee our portion wee have ever judged it our duty to obey our King first in God and then for God and God knowes our consciences are the same they were But no honest man nor wise subject can in wisedome make him a God nor good Christian give him that which belongs to God if the King act as a man and discover any infirmity hee mends the matter when hee acts as a King for that wraps up and includes power quà King but when hee would put forth regall power and yet mixes infirmitie therewith will any judicious man affirme that infirmity to bee his power Wee have ever judged the Lawes of the Land to the defence of our just liberties and our libertie to bee supported by those just and prudent foundations of the Law But were were heretofore in some measure and now better satisfied that there are Lawes of higher concernment that must not bee neglected and liberties more to bee valued then those pent up within the straits of the creature here below modest men have seene many pretend making conscience of the Lawes of men that make none of the Law of God and those that pretend conscience in order unto Gods Law whom no tie will hold to render them just towards men wee looke then to see men