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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	civil_a	law_n	nature_n	7,923	5	6.9972	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81708	A discoursive coniecture vpon the reasons that produce a desired event of the present troubles of Great Britaine, different from those of Lower Germanie Considered in the maine passages that seeme parallel, but upon a further survey are discovered to be otherwise. By Calybute Downing, L.L.D. pastor of Hackney.	Downing, Calybute, 1606-1644.	1641 (1641)	Wing D2103A; ESTC R223289	13,681	46

he is a rationall and religious creature taking up or shaking the foundations of Church and State if now Iustice should not proceed Spes praemia in ambiguo certa funera luctus Tacitus hist 61. much dishonor and more danger would arise out of it if we should now undergoe the worst of Government Civill War under the best of Princes it were the depth of misery which God and man forbid and this course is the only way to prevent it Rewards and punishments hold up all rationall orders and operations and have immediate influence upon the well-standing of a State now if the worst of men should not only have immunities impunities it were punishment unjustly inflicted upon the best but much more provoking when they reape and receive the chiefest rewards and have the favour though they want the faithfulnesse to distribute the rest Well it were Paucis charior fides quam pecunia Salust de Bello Iugur if such men as live against the rules and maximes of mans well-being that make Monopolies and so scarcity of necessary commodities Crimina extraord arbitraria capitali poena coercentur Vesembec in paud de crimin extraor which the God of nature hath made common should not be permitted to possesse a portion in the earth or to breathe in the aire but be interdicted fire and water as those that stop turne or corrupt the course of the Fountain his Majesties high waies of Iustice and by a Law fiction sinke the Land to serve the Sea and yet trouble all Traffique these are to be prosecuted as enemies of Civill society being de jure proscribed by the Lawes of Nature and Nations who to make good their mischiefe Clapmarius de flagitiis Domination lib. 5. would make the head of a State the top of a Faction and provoke a just Prince to be a Party when his office is to be a Iudge and charge the disturbance upon such Ministers as sought to worke a distance and by degrees a defiance with those Subjects that endeavour to deserve his Majesties favour and are most faithfull to his Crowne and dignity these men have wrought in so many obnoxious under-instruments as their Ministers and Minions that there will be roome time enough to exercise royall clemency towards them when the State is safe and strongest humours purged Then it will bee a naturall non-necessitated work of highest humanity when there is a true temper held betwixt formall refining reall reforming and utter ruine of all that deserve it Oh how much honour and comfort well underlaid which enemies would envy but could not hinder would come to his Majestie if out of these troubles and travels of his three Kingdomes with false conceptions and monsters a deliverance might be obtained by an universall reformation Sure with Gods blessing we are very faire for it So that weigh well and winde up all these particulars and consider withall the temper of the State strongly disposing to take up Civill dissentions for a Monarchy where Councells meet in one head hath more absolute advantage to compose and controule faction Warramond de foederib li. 2. then any Aristocracy especially if mixt of Germanes and Spaniards that could never fall into a League but only a Truce for Traffique and lay to that the universall love of his Majesties Royall person Optanda sunt laudandis pauciora Wotton ad Regem è Scotia reducem the confidence of his absolute Iustice and the present concurring of all the three States to serve him upon new endearing obligations and then you cannot but conclude the best event that ever was expected of so difficult and dangerous a disturbance Si non stet Respub certè in boni Principis sinum cecidit Vt SENECA sub AUGUSTO CAESARE