Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	body_n	soul_n	unite_v	6,137	5	9.8589	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81590	The doctrine of vnitie, or An antidote for the city of London and therein for the whole kingdome besides, against division a certaine symptome of destruction. With a caution for malignants of the same city.		1643 (1643)	Wing D1776; Thomason E246_40; ESTC R3851	8,558	8

ini●yment of a petty inconsiderable nothing availe us what a small difference then betwixt us and bruits or rather what a great difference would there be for they which were made only for the service of man would after this little minute or moment of life past be in farre better state and condition then the reasonable soule for they shall returne to their first principles nothing but poore man be for ever even to the utmost extremity miserable If we give away our Religion we renounce our God fell Heaven and depart from all possibility of our succeeding eternall happinesse and the soule must have a being if not above yet below if not in blessednesse yet in perpetuall woe O then let us resolve to unite our selvs in a sacred combination and rather divest our selves of all we are have or enjoy then part with this pretious gemme which will bee our surest and most faithfull friend when either we forsake the happinesse of the world as certainly we must for so heaven hath decreed it Statutum est omnibus semel mori or when it shall leave and desert us as casually it may for there is no stability or constancy in any temporall happinesse Againe it is for our Parliaments and in them for our lawes liberties and properties if we maintaine not the former the latter will quickly be forced from us The policie of State erected Parliaments as the ultimum refugium in case other powers neglected their duty or abused their authority in preiudice of the publike for the subiect to flie to for redresse of their heavie pressures and grieuances and these always have been the certaine propps and pillers of State and the Patrons of our Laws and Liberties And if we shall now foolishly like Esau part with our glorious Birthright for a poore messe of Pottage sell our Parliaments for a trifle what wil become o● us and our whole posterity They are the onely evidences wee have to shew for all we enjoy and if wee loose these no other assurance whatsoever can secure our Titles As the Sunne is to the Earth The Phisitian to the weake Patient or which is yet more the life or soule to the body of man such and of the like consequence are our Parliaments to us While the Sonne appeares with its resplendent raise the earth fructifies and is beautifull but if that should hide or withdraw it selfe how would the glory of the spring flagge and hang down its head for want of that glorious lustre and the earth become sterill and barren bringing forth nothing but combersome weedes and fruitlesse Thistles And while the weake patient is ruled by the skilfull Phisitian and followes his prescriptions so long the violence of his disease doth abate and there is great hopes of a recovery but let him discontinue his course of Phisicke and desert his Phisitian and immediately he fals into a desperate relaps and becomes worse then ever And lastly while the life or soule of a man is united and continues with the body so long it is active and moveing but when once the soule hath left it's habitation and is departed the body then perishes decayes and moulders away into its fi st principles Iust thus it is with us while we enjoy the Sunshine of our Parliaments and desert not this great Phisitian which is as the very life and being of the State so long prospire succedunt omnia the State flourishes the King is happy in his people and the people blest in their King The King enjoyes his just Prerogative and the people their Liberties and properties But if once these be taken away or but discontinued for a time then multitudes of State pressures and unsupportable burdens croud in upon us the Law then looseth its strength and vigor and the Subject his liberty and property then forct benevolences and loanes a farre greater plague to the purse than the twentieth part will be imposed upon us Then will the Tyranny and Arbitrary power of the Lievetenants and deputies Lievetenants be againe revived amongst us then shall new imposts and excises againe vex us n d new found courts and Corporations farre worse then the old poster us then will the grand Proiect Ship-money and coate and conduct money of which now there may be greater need then ever the great drayners and exhausters of the subjects store be againe set on foot to undoe us Then will Monopolies the ruine and bane of a state like pests of lice and Locusts swarme amongst us then shall we have a High Commission Court and Starre-chamber againe to exercise a power and iurisdiction above and besides the Law to plague us with grand penalties for our small offences and then should a Proclamation crate Law and be of as good authority as my Lord Coke or any of our yeare Bookes and Magna Charta be as a dead letter not able to defend the Subiects Liberty or property thus would it farre with the State I and much worse if we were but once courted out of our Parliaments and which is above all our condition would be as bad if not worse in the Church then would the Pontificiall power Lord it over us againe and excommunicate praying and Preaching or those that use it without that they will follow the Episcopall straine crying up the Kings Prerogative and pre●ching downe the subiects liberty and property as if the Kings honour and substance did depend meerely upon the ruine of his people No contientious Lectorers or pious and laborious Preaching Ministers should then be tollerated No the pride sloath and covetousnesse of the Prelacy and these are inconsistent they cannot possibly stand together but the one will detrude and depresse the other Then should we have the rabble of innovations introducted new disciplines I and new doctrines too broached Iesuits and Seminary Priests with their factious and damnable religion nou●ished I and wee our selves too poasting headlong to Popery To be short all things both in Church and state would change their habits and become new nothing then sh uld be tollerated but which should have the spetious and faire pretence of a refined government or of a more pure and glorious religion whereas the meere bent and aime would be gradually to introduct an Arbitrary power in the State pompous superstition and Popery in the Church Now our Parliaments are as a Hedge wall or fence against such incroachments or usurpations which while it stands secures us from all these but if we unwisely suffer this pertition to be broken or trodden downe then all these heavy burdens and miseries threatning ruine to our Religion Lawes Liberties and properties like an invation of the vast and irresistable Ocean flow in upon us O then worthy Citizens you whom succeeding ages will honour and dignifie with the style of your countreys Patriarches tye your selves together in the bend of Union and resolve never to desert the Parliament least Heavkn as a just judgement upon so vilde a defection