Selected quad for the lemma: nation_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	england_n	law_n	statute_n	1,497	5	9.0809	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46266	Pictures of passions, fancies, & affections poetically deciphered, in variety of characters / by Tho. Jordan, Gent.	Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685?	1641 (1641)	Wing J1053; ESTC R639	22,911	62

PICTURES Of PASSIONS FANCIES AFFECTIONS Poetically Deciphered in Variety of CHARACTERS By THO: JORDAN Gent. Et veniā pro laude peto laudatus abunde Non fastiditus si tibi Lector ero LONDON Printed by R. Wood PICTURES Of PASSIONS FANCIES AFFECTIONS Poetically Deciphered in variety of CHARACTERS The Parliament of England INVOCATION GReat Genius of my Country whose bright eys Are macerated with our miseries Whose unrefisted royalty convinces The power of Prelacy and pride of Princes Great Secretary to the Fate of Thrones That turn'st the wheel of Revolutions That put'st a period to Imperial Stems And crownest Conquerours with Diadems Beneath the steps of whose immortal station Sits the selected safety of our Nation The supream Power Oh! pardon my instrusion If on bent knees I beg the sweet infusion Of thy cleer Spirit which in sacred slumbers May fill my soul with matter phrase and numbers Pregnant and perfect Let my impartial pen Picture the proper praises of those men Whom Providence by a decree of Fate Hath made the succours of our suffering State The Character A Parliament conveneth by the voyce Of the best N●tives fitted for free choise In which no private Passion or Affection Should sway the equal ballance of Election Where every man is just and doth not waver For future fear nor yet for former favour They do not chuse Old folly nor Young neatness Unrighteous Riches nor ungodly Greatness But their Election to discretion yeilding They finde fit timber for the famous building The grand Conjunction of the Nation signes To this Convention where each man enclines To actuate his Countries good which he Prefers above his life or liberty Not born for * himself doth daily strive How he may meliorate the Common hive Where as he led his life he shines a Star In Councel or a Meteor at the Bar Here men like Surgeons boldly do propound Lancets and Salvo's for the Publike wound Some Members are cut off others are bound Up that they may preserve the body sound Nothing is unattempted to gain health When as the Patient proves the Commonwealth Here without wrath one Neighbour cals another To strict accompt the words Father and Brother Are useless for who ever doth intend Ill to the State is voted no mans Friend Here all do take a relish from one Cup The poor man sinks not whil'st my Lord gets up It is not strength shall break the publike Hedge But all enjoy an equal priviledge HEE that respects no persons bids us be In point of Justice Holy * even as HE The Parliament of England are indu'd With power to Constitute Transact Conclude To Make Enlarge to Alter to Diminish To Nullifie Revive Repeal Replenish In Church or State with purpose to advance By Law by Statute Act or Ordinance All matters Civil Common Capital Criminal Martial and Municipal With Maritine affairs It is indeed Our Nations Soul and Body the decreed And onely Power to us on Earth whose use is To Right the wronged and suppress Abuses Where sight-less Justice is not set to sale Or forc'd by th' weight of gold to turn her scale Where the impartial wel-enacted Laws Countenance nothing but an honest Cause To rectifie the wretched from such wrongs As may arise from Bribes or Pleaders tongues It is a Sacred and transcendent Session Where the unblemish'd Purple daunts oppression The Poor mans refuge and the Just mans care The True mans triall and the False mans fear The Good man's Sanctuary Bad man's grief The Weak man's prop the Wretched man's relief The Patient man's reward the scourge of Pride The Simple's safety and the Nation's guide A Compleat Man HIs Life is our best method and the Graces Compose him a fair Book of Common places Directing to all vertues that inherit The glorious Microcosm of Bloud and Spirit His Birth is not his boast for he will treat Of his blest Ancestors as Good not Great And though the Tapers of their Fame wax dim Th' illumination is supply'd by him Whose most enumerate Vertues make such swarms You 'l know his House better by 's Arts then Arms He studies man and doth extract from thence A knowledge gain'd by safe Experience So justly square he is that we may see In him Natures best Rules of Geometry A Dye without a Chance whom Fortunes face With smiles or frowns makes neither Sice nor Ace So uncorrupted with his Countries crimes He scapes their plagues fears no change of Times Who keeping in his own sublimed height Elects Friends not by Number but by Weight That never durst admit of such a Treason As priviledgeth Passion to rule Reason Whose self-confining Edicts can maintain All Acts of Parliament to him are vain And useless since he needs no law at all Who to himself is a Law rational He is not one that mourns or rejoyces At new Events according to most voices And thinks the true tract to Eternal Rest Is not the Road which Most resort but Best For matter of Deportment he 'l ne'r fall At odds to see a worse man take the Wall Assume the Table or appear disgrac'd If amongst many he 's saluted last In Argument he treads a wary pace And you may reade your Errour in his Face In Disputations of Religion he Barrs things Inscrutible or Mystery His holy Actions such a faith expresses That none ask what Religion he professes Indep or Presbyt what he was he 's still And will remain so call it what you will Honour is not his aym though he would have That worth which makes just Honour truly brave Like him that is contented with the fate Of a Squires Title and a Lords Estate Calamities and Court-preferments he Looks on with such a Mediocritie That though the first would vex the latter love him Both alike move but never can remove him He is that real A●gus that can keep In spight of Mercury his eys from sleep For flattery with an alluring tongue Like Hermes pipe shall never do him wrong He loves his Equals envies no Superiours And proves an humble pattern to Inferiours He safely sits above and sees the salley Of Peace-deflowrers dye the verdant Valley Who 'gainst his unknown foes doth well agree To use his Brest-plate not Artillerie Conceiving though Hell threatens greatest harms To Man yet Innocency wants no Arms He is a Tower so flank'd on every part By something more then Mathematick Art That Envy Pride or Malice cannot be The Dis-composers of his unitie But every shot sent from a Foe perplext At Goodness proves prevention to the next His high resolves fixt by divine consent Pass Persian Laws or Acts of Parlament Thus with an even pace wears many years Dying imbalm'd in good mens spiritual tears These are the Virtues make poor man compleat Whil'st wealth crimes patch up the rich man great But never good for Hell and her Complices Contrive to bury him quick in his own Vices When t'others winged Soul ascends the skies With contribution