Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	father_n	great_a	son_n	10,169	5	5.4959	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23682	A sermon preach'd at Oxford, before Sir. Will. Walker, Mayor of the said city, upon the 26th of July 1685 being the day of thanksgiving for the defeat of the rebels in Monmouth's rebellion / by Charles Allestree ...	Allestree, Charles, 1653 or 4-1707.	1685 (1685)	Wing A1081; ESTC R20829	16,424	36

Assertion that HE WOULD MAKE IT HIS ENDEAVOUR TO PRESERVE THIS GOVERNMENT BOTH IN CHURCH AND STATE AS IT IS NOW BY LAW ESTABLISH'D For have not all the Vacancies that belong to the disposal of the CROWN been carefully fill'd and supply'd with Men of Great learning and Abilities to support our Religion of Great zeal and inclination towards it and whose secular Interest is inseparably bound up in the preservation of it And can there be any furer Argument of the KING's sincerity than his readiness to make choise of such instruments to fill the vacant places in the Church who are every way qualified to maintain the Establish'd Religion both in their Abilities and willingness of mind and also are prompted to it from the consideration of their own Temporal Concernments All arguments conspire for a sure belief of the KING's resolution to keep inviolabely his WORD and there neither is nor can be any single instance produc'd to weaken or invalidate the credit of it So that granting we might fight for our Religion if it was in danger of being lost yet no man upon this Plea can be justify'd in his attempts upon the present constitution and Government and it is surely much better and more agreable to the precepts of Christianity to sit still and enjoy it with content and Thankfulness than by engaging in Rebellion to lose and destroy it For that would certainly have been the Issue and we could have had no Religion at all had God in punishment to this Nation suffer'd the late Rebellion to have been prosperous and successful For what Religion could HE have been suppos'd to have been zealous for who had so far debauch'd the natural light of his conscience as to esteem Adultery and Rebellion to be no sins I grant that in a suddain Transport men may sometimes be hurried upon the commission of ADULTERY and yet upon a serious and particular repentance be reconcil'd to the Church and prove very good Christians again But He that in his cooler thoughts at the last Hour with all his senses entire and the full use of his judgment shall undertake to palliate the sin or extenuate the guilt of it is in a fair disposition to receive any Religion and may easily be brought to embrace the ALCORAN and exchange Christianity for Mahometism So that if Religion can at any time bear mankind out in opposition to the Higher Powers it would with much more reason have justified us against the late REBEL's claim and pretensions even allowing his Title to have been just But indeed our Divine institution can do no such thing it is as far from giving Indulgence to invade any Man's Right or Property as it is from excusing any seditious practice against a Lawful Governour tho' it must necessarily have oblig'd us to have resisted his Usurpation upon another score upon the account of the Insufficiency of his Title which comes next to be consider'd Now this is a subject which has been search'd to the Bottome and examin'd ABOVE with all the fairness of procedure imaginable in a Venerable Just and August consistory of men And as it has been rejected there upon a serious and Impartial enquiry as Fabulous and without Ground so no doubt but upon a rational discourse it will appear so to every considering man For First I will take these Two preliminaries for granted That every Father has a greater tenderness and affection for his Son than his Brother especially if there be no disobedience in his Child nor any deformity in his Person to alienate his Love from Him And Secondly I shall suppose that it tends more to the Honour of a Father to have his Kingdom descend directly down upon his Son than to demise it to a Brother or to any Collateral branch of His family Now these things being premis'd it is very obvious to recollect that never Father lov'd a Son with greater passion and tenderness than our late most excellent Soveraign did the Duke of Monmouth and never any man had stronger Reasons or more forcible Inducements to engage his love For the personal qualifications and address of his Son the filial Duty and respect he always us'd to return in his Younger years were so many motives to extort the utmost Tribute which nature in this kind could pay so that the KING grew lavish and profuse in his bounty He heap'd honours upon him and loaded him with riches and not only advanc'd him as high as 't was possible for a subject to be promoted but what was infinitely above all honours gave him the first place in his affection And when his Kindness had fix'd him in that station of Grandure as to render him popular and courted by a Faction when he presum'd by the instigation of his party to lay claim to the Crown and assert his Legitimacy by the promiscuous mouths of the Rabble and caus'd it to be whisper'd abroad that there were not only witnesses but Records under hand and seal of his Mother's Marriage to the King His Majesty out of a just regard to the sacredness of Truth and without diminishing his love to him did not only declare upon the word and honour of a Prince that there never was any contract of Marriage betwixt Him and the said Duke's mother but summon'd the pretended witnesses before him in Council to speak their knowledge and give in their evidence concerning the matter inquestion Now they all of 'em severally disclaim'd the knowledge of any such thing or the being conscious of any Records that could attest it and only said that their names were abus'd for the support of a Lye without their privity or consent And this transaction and the King 's positive Averment was enroll'd in all the Courts of Record in Westminster with the hands and attestation of every member of Council at the bottom of it Now this Affair was transacted at a season and in such a Juncture when the KING had been several years married to the Queen without any hopes of Issue by Her So that if truth had been industriously conceal'd and stifled at first for the better facilitating the treaty of Marriage and for the removing the impediments that might obstruct this Illustrious Princess her consent to the Allyance because upon such a discovery her children must have been postpon'd and allow'd to have only a secondary relation to the CROWN yet now it might have been own'd and publickly avow'd without any detriment or damage to her Interest and yet notwithstanding this favourable conjuncture and the extraordinary kindness of the KING towards him his Legitimacy is disclaim'd and absolutely deny'd with the solemn protestations of his Father which is an undeniable evidence that these were the words of soberness and truth deliver'd purposely by that ADMIRABLE PRINCE to prevent the effusion of blood and the great slaughter of Men which must unavoidably follow the belief of starting of such a title Nay even MONMOUTH himself no more believ'd that he was