Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	know_v	let_v	love_v	11,229	5	6.1289	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65010	A vindication of addresses in general, and of the Middle-Temple address and proceedings in particular in answer to the impartial account of addresses : wherein the popular pretences of some men are exposed / by a barrester of the Middle-Temple.	Barrester of the Middle Temple.	1681 (1681)	Wing V469; ESTC R18697	15,280	8

A VINDICATION OF Addresses in general And of the Middle-Temple Address and Proceedings in particular In Answer to the Impartial Account of Addresses wherein the Popular pretences of some men are exposed By a Barrester of the Middle-Temple WHen Faction and Ambition has seiz'd the Ignorant man how troublesom he grows his Magisterial Nonsence roars in every corner fills every Press and however nauseous and intolerable it proves to the Discerning yet the Vulgar too often admire the man because they understand him not and are ready with him to cry out against the Government for that He and such Great men are not advanced thereto Till at last the braying Animal brings both himself and his miserable deluded crowd to the hazard of both their Temporal and Spiritual Interest On such men there was never greater cause of complaint than now and I wish to God the people would open their eyes to see what these Incendiaries aim at Has any man been Executed by publick Authority illegally Does not every man peaceably enjoy the Fruits of his own Vine Are Liberties abridg'd in any one particular or are any of these things like to be Has not His Majesty given fresh promises for the continuity of all and every these particulars in his late most gracious Declaration that 's true but that stabs them to the heart 'T is not the preservation of the Lives Liberties and Properties of the people that these men seek but they themselves would be disposers thereof Wherefore their Choler boils mightily that His Majesty should condescend to undeceive his people but much more that a great part of the people should be undeceived and give His Majesty thanks for that gracious condescention This reduces them to their former sneaking Aspects makes them stand as uneasie change feet as often as an Elephant learning to dance upon hot Stones At last these disappointments are plaguy things out creeps a Treasonable Answer to the Kings Declaration which has been by some Loyal Pen most ingeniously reflected on After that An Impartial Account as 't is titled of the Nature and Tendency of the late Addresses and this o' my word is performed after no ordinary rate not by one I dare say that pretends to those little helps and tricks of Unriversity and Humane Learning No no by one of the Saints of our times who 's above the vain thing called Learning or the dull thing called Practical Divinity Gratitude What paid to the King too This is in its nature the most devillish thing that ever was found out But suppose the Commons do give His Majesty thanks for his gracious Speeches made to them in Parliament this is one argument that they don't think Addressing or giving His Majesty thanks a thing evil in its own nature If not the next Parliament no doubt will be for maintaining the Liberties of the Subject and proceed against those as betrayers of our Liberties who have declared Addresses to be evil in their nature This we may well supp se from that late instance of preserving the Right of Petitioning and Addressing being altogether as great a Right it will no doubt receive as great favour and protection from the Parliament Well perhaps the nature of Gratitude is not truly so black as it does appear to our Authors Conscience what then 'T is however a vain insignificant thing and a thing of as damnable tendency as any thing about the Town For confirmation of this there 's a huge bundle of Reasons which had never never seen day had it not been for pure love and compassion p. 4. § 1. to the King whom he fears is not only industriously deluded but wofully betray'd by the Judgment which some about him pretend to make of the sence and inclination of the people from these Addresses Ah love and compassion how I reverence love and compassion what condition were we tumbling into till you Ah love and compassion rais'd this Moses to stand in the gap till you made him in all humility let the Privy-Councel know they were Fools and Knaves and in all humility let His Majesty know what an object of pity He was become by his unreasonable credulity And now woe to the poor Addressers for out comes our Authors Reasons the first is to be found in p. 4. No applications of this nature to the Regnant person are to be esteemed of any great weight and significancy if you do but consider the result of the many Addresses 23 years ago to Richard Cromwell and how they only served to render him secure till he was undermined and supplanted for of all that vowed to live and dye by him not so much as one man drew a Sword in his favour when he came to be laid aside That is as much as to say May it please your Majesty I as in tender love and compassion bound do in all humility let your Majesty know that your Majesty is a poor deluded wretch and cannot see so far into a Mill-stone as another else you would never esteem those ill-look'd things called Addresses Alas every Regnant person is to believe all his Subjects deceitful and lying Rogues he is to give credit to nothing they vow and protest because the Whigs proved Lyars to Richard Cromwell and notwithstanding their Addresses when they saw the rightful person would prevail they left poor Dick in the lurch In short the Argument is this If the Whigs are Lyars and not to be trusted all the men in the World are Lyars and not to be trusted But the Whigs are Lyars and not to be trusted c. The Assumption is proved and it 's no great matter for proving the Major besides he 's just now when he should go about it p. 5. frighted into the most astonishing surprizing amazing fit that ever poor creature was Strange what will this Age come to when well-meaning men are thus scared out of their senses The reason of this wondering fit is to be seen at large in p. 5. viz. That His Majesty should more discountenance one who comes to reprehend and instruct him in his managements in State-affairs than one who is well pleased with His Majesties managements and for that reason comes to make his humble and grateful acknowledgments If this is not cause of wonder what is especially when we consider too as 't is in the said p. That Petitioners know what they want but Addressers do not know what 's promised to them or what they have received Moreover and above Addresses will not p. 8. in the event prove so usefull either to a Popish or Arbitrary design as some do apprehend No I think verily that is very needlesly apprehended Not that any think the King knows of such a design promoted by them but there are those who may have ends in this which His Majesty is not aware of What a happy Nation should we be had His Majesty but this man's Head-piece then there would be some hopes that he would love and embrace those