Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	colonel_n	sir_n	thomas_n	16,547	5	9.4595	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37426	The Englishman's choice, and true interest in a vigorous prosecution of the war against France, and serving K. William and Q. Mary, and acknowledging their right.	Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.	1694 (1694)	Wing D831; ESTC R9535	15,661	38

the same credit with the French King when with his Fleet upon our Coasts he so Graciously declared for the Church of England As to them who come in to the Government and yet deny its Right or place it upon such an uncertain bottom as is a Virtual denyal of it whether Conquest or such a Providence as gives one's Purse to a Robber it must be said that we find not this flying Party the same Men in one station that they are in another But what ever party they are of through whose hand the Administration has pass'd they ought to remember that Old Saving The Publick Affairs will not be ill Administred In this Case bare indiscretion or inadvertency or want of Intelligence is a crime of an high Nature And if any Man has arrived to that height to own himself the occasion of laying aside a Victorious Admiral because he has been against him in the House of Commons this would be to assume more than Regal Power and such Insolence if there were no more it it would deserve equal punishment with the most Notorious Treachery But if any in the Government have held out a Flag of Truce to its Enemies If being against the Right of their Majesties has with them been a Recommendation to Preferment and zeal for their Right a Cause of Disgrace what in others might pass only for Mismanagement cannot but be judged Treachery in them Whatevever is given under the Management of Men of an other Allegiance is but providing Cannon to be turned upon our selves But when Men are assured that they who hold their present Majesties to be our Lawful and Rightful King and Queen which is the True Test of Loyalty shall be the only Persons entrusted under them with the Administration Who is he that Wishes well to England that will not Chearfull Contribute to his Power for the maintaining the Right of a Prince without whom we cannot hope to be long a People They who have asserted his Right from the first Settlement of it as they have therein Renounced the Late King we may be sure can have no Merit to plead upon another change Nor will they Act to their own Apparent Ruine and hold the Bason at the cutting of their own Throats Others tho' they cannot long enjoy their Crimes may Fancy that what they have done for a French Tyrany and their fitness to be Instruments of it may continue to them the advantages they are now possessed of or at least they may be assured of the Ill-natured Satisfaction of seeing those whom they have long trampled on destroyed before them And indeed were it not for the inhumane pleasure of Malice and Envy it were impossible that Protestants and they men at ease in their Fortunes should engage in Plots against a Government which is the only Security of their Religion and Estates And the good of England is so bound up in the Life of His Majesty that it can hardly be thought that numbers of any Party should engage against him The Papists themselves owe to him that Protection and Security which King Iames could not have given them besides the restitution of those Fundamental Laws in the defence of which their Fore-fathers had signaliz'd themselves when they so truly distinguished between the Church of Rome and the Court of Rome and thought themselves very good Catholicks when they maintain'd their Liberties by resisting the Usurpations of Popes and of Princes as no part of Gods Ordinances The High Church and Passive-Obedience Men were perhaps the most sensible of the mischief of the late Reign as they found such advances towards turning them out of all Offices in Church and State and their most celebrated Heads had while under that Sense in their Proposals to King Iames their refusal to sign an abhorrence of any design against him their closing with the Deliverance if not inviting the Deliverer and joyning to put him into possession of the Power of the Nation acted so contrary to all their former Proceedings that one would have thought they had all of a sudden become Englishmen and would have vindicated the Reformation from the Reproach under which it has suffer'd as if we lost in Civil Rights while we gain'd in Spiritual and that to be true Christians we were to lay all our Worldly Goods at the feet of our Princes that they might distribute them among these Successors of the Apostles The moderate true Church Party could not but rejoyce to find such a return of their Endeavours in the Settlement of the Government upon a Bottom for which they had ventured so far and so long to no purpose But if any of them who have suffered in the Publick Cause or sympathiz'd with them that did now fall off from a Settlement call'd for by the Voice of the People and the Necessities of the Publick what do they but condemn themselves or those their Friends who by their laudable Endeavours for the Bill of Exclusion shewed that their Religion was more Sacred to them than the suppos'd Divine Right of Succession vested in a Popish Prince But if such men desert this Government the Blood of the Lord Russel Colonel Sydney Sir Thomas Armstrong Alderman Cornish and many other Sufferers for the Publick will in great measure lye at their doors as accessaries ex post facto to their Murders and partakers of the Crime with whatever pomp they adorn their Sepulchres what do they but pay honour to the memories of Iefferies and of those willing Iury-men who helpt to dispatch so many Traytors to God and their King But certainly it would be very strange if any of them who have so justly exploded the Doctrine of the Bowstring should become Proselites to it and if any one of their Spiritual Guides should now be for King Iames or King Lewis I should think him worse than Father Peters who may be said to have acted with uniformity to a Principle when such men must be destitute of all colour for their Actions and indeed of Common Sense unless they can think to bring back King Iames without French Forces or to restrain those Insolences which the French Faction would give them the opportunity to commit Should they think to supplant this Government and set up an other without such selp the vanity and madness were past cure or pity nor considering the power of France and how little vertue is left in those who should take cure for the Nation can Englishmen see any anchor for their hopes and expectations of Good to the Publick but in King WILLIAM Is there any man who tho' he set out well is weary of the race of Glory not finding the Reward due to his Merit or not enough to satisfie a boundless ambition let him consider how many like the Philenian Brethren of old contentedly suffered themselves to be buried alive to maintain the boundaries of their Country and that Perseverance in a Good Cause gives a Pleasure equal to the greatest Rewards and and