Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	government_n	king_n	monarchy_n	2,757	5	9.5091	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35724	Dagon's fall, or, The charm broke		1681 (1681)	Wing D110; ESTC R7682	4,044	2

the forementioned words such as Popery Arbitrary Power and the like But there is one extraordinary advantage which these words have viz. That any one of them is of itself alone not only a whole sentence but a whole science also so that an ordinary Tailor or Tinker though otherwise never so rude ignorant and unlearned if he get but these words readily by rot he becomes Master immediately of the chief liberal sciences and hath Grammer Logick and Rhetorick enough to dispute a point of Divinity State or Law with the greatest Professours and Practitioners in the Nation Ay and confute them too urg ehim never so hard with a strong Argument for Prelatical Government in the Church you are answered and confounded presently by the strength of one almighty word Popery 't is but pronouncing it secundum artem and your business is done So in State-affairs and point of Government argue never so convincingly in the defence of Monarchy and the divine and natural right of Kings your confutation consists but in two words only viz. Arbitrary Power After which you must e'ne desist with patience and silence for with these Persons and in all disputes and contests of the like nature any thing offered by way of rejoynder is hist off the stage presently or if you prove obstinate in your reasons and arguments 't is ten to one if you do not dispute your self into the Clutches of one of their Officers and so find your self at midnight in an inchanted Castle In fine this hath been the odd posture of our Affairs for some time past and most strange freaks and pranks have been played by the help of these few words such monstrous confusion and transfigurations have followed the force of these spells that nothing hardly appeared in its true shape or could be known distinctly truth became falshood and that again was made truth honest men turned mere Rogues and Villains true men all of a suddain Heresie Schism and Treason was evangelical Truth and Obedience and loyalty and so Vice Versa Now the Master Magicians and inventers of these spells tho 't was well enough known that they had made a contract with the Devil and had neither Piety Truth nor Loyalty at all in them yet they had so daubed and painted themselves all over with the glossy colours of Protestant Religion here and there intermixt with Magical Characters of liberty property and the like that to such as were not very well acquainted with the imposure and Legerdemain of such kind of limning they were thought to be really what they appeared and accordingly were admired as Master pieces and regular draughts of extraordinary nature but to the more curious and inquisitive and to such as came a little nearer and breathed upon them all the fair Varnish which appeared at a distance so very charming quite vanished and instead of a true and regular picture of Religion or Loyalty it all dwindled into mere rude rough Landskip where the chief things that presented themselves to view were the old tuine of Kings Court and great mens houses with devastations of Churches and Towns and the old carkasses of withered Trees somewhat resembling that near Paddington with a few portraits of Owls Buzzards Vultures Wolves Dogs and such like In fine the chief Strength of these charms is broke the magical words are become of little or no force all the Brazen heads that of late muttered dreadful necromantick sounds are silenced or else like that of Fryar Bacon fellen down and broken to pieces We hear no more frightful noises now from the inchanted Castle and Elephant nor from the burning Headpiece near Temple-Bar Besides one of the chief Magicians hath been a long time inclosed in an inchanted Castle and neither by his own art nor that of his Brethren can he yet break the strong spell that confines him for 't is said that one condition of the Inchantment is that he shall not be enlarged till such time as five hundred flaming Circles appear in his defence But yet since these Master-magicians have been quelled some little pedling retailers have gathered together scraps and pieces of broken charms and are still tampering to uphold the Mystery and Trade But every body now is so well acquainted with such tricks and so armed with forcible Countercharms that all the weak efforts of their Magical murmurs sound more like the faint eccho of a dying voice than strong powerful spells And 't is thought that ere long when these weak remains and faint efforts of this black-art are compleatly laid the Magicians lives like those in Romance will be of a date not much longer than their Inchantments Printed for John Smith in Great Queen-street Bookseller 1681.