Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	duke_n	king_n	york_n	13,001	5	9.6505	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32306	A message sent from the King of Scots, and the Duke of York's court in Flanders to the Lord Douglas, and Collonel Brown, to be communicated to the rest of the nobility and gentry in the Scottish nation, with proposals and overtures, for the composing of all differences, the submitting to Counsel, and the preventing of a universal desolation.	Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; Culpepper, C.; James II, King of England, 1633-1701.	1659 (1659)	Wing C3128; ESTC R18313	3,654	7

A MESSAGE Sent from the KING of SCOTS And the Duke of YORK's Court in Flanders To the Lord Douglas and Collonel BROWN To be communicated to the rest of the Nobility and Gentry in the Scottish Nation WITH Proposals and Overtures for the composing of all Differences the submitting to Counsel and the preventing of a Universal Desolation Printed at Aberdeen by David Stranghan And Translated out of the Original for general satisfaction A Message from the King of Scots and the Duke of Yorks Court in Flanders Right Honourable VPon a serious reflect and discovery of the various Impostures in several parts I cannot but suspect the integrity of your procedure and deplore the sadness of your Condition with as much regret of spirit as I do my own But seeing we have bin prostrated to the powerful indications of the displeasure of the most High since many are apt to recriminate and boast of the prosperity of their Cause which if they did but look back to the source and search the very principles and then see if ever any cause had like success and whether it be a just reproach to your Enemies that the judgments of God have begun with them whilst you know not yet where they may determine My Lord Be pleased to look Northwards upon your Country-men the Scots who being instigated by the crafty Cardinal Richlieu to di●urb the groth of the incomparable Church of England and so consequently the tranquility of a Nation whose Expedition at the Isle of R● gave e●rour to the French made Reformation their pretence to gratifie their own avarice introduce themselves and a more then Babylonish Tyranny imposing upon the Church and State beyond all impudence or example I say my Lord look upon what they have gotten by deceiving their Brethren selling their King betraying their Lord and Master his Son and by all their perfidie become onely a conquer'd Nation for their Disloyalty and an infamy as unparalled as their Treason and Ingratitude But behold Sir the Scean being changed and sundry Models and Chimaeras blown away nothing remaining of them but empty Coffins but which is yet less empty then the heads of those Politians which so lately seemed to fill it As for the product and success in the several Intervals we shall not blot paper with a recital of such Interludes for it is not the various Dispensations and providencens in your journey to that Holy Land of purchases and profits which can serve as an appeal for the justification of your proceedings In a word my Lord it is the height of all impertinency to conceive that a few Subjects who fall into an exorbitabitant contradiction to their own good can ever constitute a well-order'd Government for the Thousands of true English men that are not clad in Red let me therefore intreat you to embrace a just Right to challenge submission to the precepts of Loyalty and to endeavour the investing of a Lawful Authority and to recover and protect a Civil Government according to the good old Laws of the Land For if the essential end of Rulers be the common peace and their Laws oblieging as they become relative restore us then to those under which we lived with so much happiness and tranquility as no age in the World no Government under Heaven could pretend or ever did enjoy the like And now my Lord if after the greatest of injustice and impiety on your parts you have prosecuted that with the extreamest madness which you esteemed criminal in your Enemies viz. For any To arrogate the supream power to a single person condemn men without Law witness the Marquess of Montross and others execute and prescribe them with as little violate Authority dispense with your solemn Oaths in summe to mingle Earth and Heaven as many have done by their unarbitrary proceedings All which actions do abundantly declare the Hypocrisie of some and the Justification of others pronouncing the Assertors of Regal Government the onely honest which have appeared upon the stage in Characters as plain that he which runs may read whilst there are some that would persecute them even to death My Lord When I compare these things together I cannot but acknowledge it the very finger of God mirabile in oculis nostris and it is that which induceth me to beseech you to re-enter into your self to abandon all false principles to withdraw your self from Seducers to repent of what you have done and to rise and promote the publick Interest And whereas many object that the King is not to be trusted judge not of others by your selves Did ever any man observe the least inclination of revenge in his Breast Has he not besides the innate propensity of his own nature to gentleness the strict Injunctions of a dying Father to forgive all men even the greatest of Offendors Yes I dare pronounce it with confidence and avouch it with all assurance that there is not an Individual amongst you throughout England Scotland and Ireland whose Crimes are the most crimson whom He will not be most ready to pardon and graciously receive upon their repentance nor any thing that can be desired of Him to which He would not chearfully accommode for the stopping of that torrent of bloud and extream confusion which has hitherto run and is yet imminent over several places Do but reason a little with your self consider sadl● whether a young Prince mortified by so many afflictions discip●in'd by much experience and instructed by the miscarriages of others be not the most excellently qualified to govern and reduce a people who have so successelesly tryed so many Governments and various Changes As to the Objection that He has lived among Papists is vi●iously inclin'd and has a wicked Counsel about Him What can be said more austerely Have not many the Foreheads to declare He has lived amongst Papists to his prejudice who have proscrib'd him from Protestants persecuted Him from place to place as a Partridge on the Mountains Whilst the Catholick King was an Allie to England many there were that had nothing to do with Parists it was then no crime God is not mocked away with this respect of persons where is it you would have him to be The Hollander dares not afford him harbour lest the English refuse him theirs The French may not give him bread for fear of offending others and unless he should go to the Indies or the Turk where can he be safe from revenge But suppose him in a Papist Countrey constrained thereto by incharity to his Soul as well as Body Would he have condescended to a toleration of Papists He needed not to have wanted the assistance of the most puissant Princes of Christendom to restore Him of whom He has refused such Conditions as in prudence He might have condescended to and the people would have gladly received So that we may easily divine who they are that transact truck with the Jesuit although at a far distant and how firm ●nd