Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	love_v	natural_a	2,838	5	6.5697	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65328	The way of peace, or, A discourse of the dangerous principles and practices of some pretended Protestants ... being certain brief ... writings of several learned Protestant authors : with divers additions perswasive to peace / by the author, a Protestant of the Church of England.	Protestant of the Church of England.	1680 (1680)	Wing W1162; ESTC R9234	23,498	32

Prince and his fears increase theirs and so run round in this diabolical and dismal circle without end to the ruin of both And when was this Nation ever more happy than in Queen Elizabeth's Reign when where was so great affection in her People towards her and confidence in her good Government that there was no place left for fears and jealousies although as Sir Robert Naunton observes in his Fragmenta Regalia she left more Debts unpaid taken upon the credit of her Privy Seals than her Progenitors did or could have taken up in an hundred years before her Yet saith ☜ he we are naturally prone to applaud the times behind us and to vilifie the present It is certain when her Parliaments met they never did capitulate or prefer their private concerns to the publick viz. the Queens necessities but waited their times and in the first place gave their supplies and according to the exigency of her affairs yet failed not at last to obtein what they desired so that the Queen and her Parliaments had ever the good fortune to depart in Love and on reciprocal terms although afterwards in her Successors Reign that happiness did not continue by reason of some few popular discontented persons such as with the fellow that burnt the Temple at Ephesus would be talked of though for the doing of mischief Thus speaks the said Author And doubtless 't is not a Contesting but Compliance with the Prince that tends to the honour and happiness of a Nation or People If there were may I say none other to give their Votes at Election of Parliament-men now in our times then was in queen Elizabeths Reign that is to say none but good and sound Protestants who had a zeal for their Mother the Church of England then we might expect the same good agreement in that great and illustrious Assembly as She met with but when there is so many men of desperate seditious and Phanatick spirits bitter Enemies to the Church of England that give their Voices at Elections and use so many arts to put by Worthy men I humbly conceive so great good can hardly be expected with any constancy or continuance at least Now as Cicero speaks Nulla res vehementius Rempublicam continet quam fides So I may say if there was but affection towards and confidence in our gracious Soveraign and his wise Conduct And it is a true saying Qui diligit Legem diligit Regem If we that are Subjects would love and honour our Prince as I am sure we ought in duty to do our Gracious Prince could not but cast a favourable Aspect upon his loving Subjects and what could there then follow but a continual interchanging of affections with each other that blessed circulation of love and kindness like the circulation of the blood in the natural body And what blessed fruits and effects might we enjoy from this excellent Athletick and healthy temper of our body politick And there would be no fears and jealousies of the meeting and Assembling of Parliaments and no need of presenting one Petition for their sitting But doubtless it is a lesser evil not to meet than to meet and not accord And therefore dear Friends and Country-men methinks when Religion Laws Allegiance our own Peace and Safety calls aloud to this duty of Love how can we withstand it Disorder and Confusion also is so great an evil and Government so absolutely necessary to the subsistence of the world and happiness of man-kind and disturbance and subversion thereof so hateful to me upon any pretence whatsoever That if I were satisfied that my Religion did enjoyn or allow of any such doctrins and practices I should for that very cause forthwith renounce my Christianity it being impossible for such a Religion to proceed from God Oh! How can I but pitty Caesar What a vast burden now lies upon his shoulders He had need be an Atlas to sustein it How have we his Subjects vile Wretches taken a surfet already of our peace and plenty under his mild and gentle Government Have we had any cause justly to complain thereof Have we not sat under our own Vines and eat the fruit of our own Fig trees in peace and safety Hath not Religion and Property been secured to us Whose Ox hath he taken Whom of the meanest of his Subjects hath he oppressed or injured And therefore what can hinder our happiness if we will our selves And shall we suffer our own phansies to raise chymera's and delusions fears and jealousies and then torment our selves with them Will we be offended with our Gracious Prince because he is but a man However I am sure he is Pater Patriae the common Father of his People I beseech you therefore if it be but for shame let us shew our selves related to Shem and Japhet and not to be of the Off-spring of cursed Cham. And if we apprehend any faults to happen in Government or Governours are we competent Judges in the case When as Dr. Stilling fleet observes in his Origines Sacrae That a falsehood may frequently seem truer to common understandings than truth it self And doubtless this is never more true than in matters of Government And if there be any fault in Governours are we that are governed faultless our selves And are not the miscarriages of Governours very often ordered and disposed by God as a scourge procured by the sins of the people if our Bibles speak true and when that therefore shall happen to us it may I think in reason very 2 Sam. 4.1 very much silence our complaints If Proroguing of Parliaments be an offence to us is that any new or strange thing under the Sun Hath it not been often done even in tranquil and peaceable times and by the wisest of Princes And although it must be acknowledged that Parliaments are an excellent constitution and of excellent use when they are not tainted by Prejudices Animosities and Faction and do not degenerate from their right ends and use may they not be reputed as the Physick to the body politick and if so made use of and not as its constant food be of great benefit and advantage to the Nation And here I shall insert the words of one of the greatest States-men that the world ever had the Cardinal de Richelien to the Assembly of the Notables in France in the time of Lewis the Thirteenth he speaks thus The Sick sometimes dye by too many Remedies as well as none at all I am bound to tell you by the by that to re-establish this Nation or State in its first splendor there 's no need of many Ordinances but real executions few words and many deeds will testifie both the good intentions and judgments of them whereof she is composed But though Parliaments are an excellent Constitution are they not like other sublunary things subject to corruption and abuse and we know Optima vitiata sunt pessima The best things when corrupted prove the