Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	king_n	people_n	tyranny_n	2,786	5	9.5807	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08833	A copy of a letter; written to one of the members of Parliament now sitting : wherein is contained a serious reflection, upon the fallacies and disingeniousness of the Army, in their seven unalterable fundamentals, lately published. As also a seasonable caution to all governours, for their better securing themselves and the nation, from being made any more a prey to the lusts and wills of the Army and their adherents.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1659-1660? (1660)	Wing C6176; ESTC R171525	5,435	8

A Copy of a LETTER Written to one of the Members of Parliament now sitting Wherein is contained a serious reflection upon the fallacies and disingeniousness of the Army in their seven Unalterable Fundamentals lately published As also a seasonable Caution to all Governours for their better securing themselves and the Nation from being made any more a prey to the lusts and will of the Army and their Adherents SIR HAving lately perused those few Principles agreed on as it was said by the Generall Councill of Officers and published for the people's view under the Title of Vnalterable Fundamentals I thought it my duty as a Member of this Common-wealth to give in my sense hereof together with these Cautions following Providence having so ordered it I hope for the best that after this second and therefore most shamefull defection of one part of the Army you are now in a hopefull way of being established in that fulness of power you have laid claim to and I hope will improve through grace to the establishment of the Laws of God and the Nation and the vindication of the people from Oppression and Tyranny For God having done so much in mercy for you it is now in the expectation of all men what you in duty will do for him and his people Before I come to the Fundamentalls here mentioned I shall premise this Quaerie touching the Authors thereof Whether they are not the unfittest men to be makers of unalterable Fundamentalls that have been the greatest Breakers of Fundamentalls themselves and such too as were thought as Unalterable as both by the consent of the People and the Wisdom and authority of Governours could be effected The first particular agreed on for an unalterable Fundamentall is That there shall be no Kingship exercised in these Nations But because I know not how to answer Tautoligies I shall joyn this and the Proposition following together viz. That they will not have any single Person to exercise the Office of chief Magistrate in these Nations For what is Kingship but a single Person exercising the Office of chief Magistrate in these Nations and if there be no single Person there can be no King To these two then I answer It is not the Formall part in the word King or in that single number One which hath been so long engaged against but the Substantiall part in that latitude of Power and Arbitraines of Government the Spirit and life of Tyranny which be it in one or in two or in twenty is the same burden and oppression to the free born people of this Common-wealth Monarchy being rejected and laid aside rather as an opportunity and fitness for Tyranny to seat it self in than as Tyranny it self which doubtless may be found in any form which is farthest distant from it where Persons are corrupt and Laws be defective That an Army may be continued and be conducted so as it may secure the Peace of these Nations and not be disbanded nor the Conduct thereof altered but by consent of the said Conservators appointed I answer That forasmuch as Authority of it self is but a name and meer formall thing without the soul and spirit of Government which is strength to compell whatsoever Authority shall command Therefore I must assert these two Positions as unalterable Maxims 1. That the Parliament which is owned as the Supream Authority of the Nation and their Army which in truth is the strength and sinues of this Authority must be so much one as that the Army our of that interest and influence which the Parliament hath over it by way of necessity must acknowledge and yield up thereunto the right of giving definitive sentence and power of juding what is fit and reasonable for the people of this Nation usurped of late by part of the Army and their Adherants 2. This must be done so really without any more contradiction or opposition than any private man who is not of the Army shall use in his own behalfe who is onely passive herein Otherwise to own any Supream Power above the Army is a gross contradiction That no imposition may be upon the consciences of them that fear God This because it is unalterable it hath need to be more fully and plainly expressed that is to say That no imposition shall be upon the consciences of those whom the Supream Authority shall adjudge to fear God and not what the Army shall determine herein That their be no House of Peers Observe what care is taken to make up their Fundamentalls of words onely that they may keep themselves loose in the things themselves It is not another House they resolve against but a House of Peers 'T is a House of Lords forsooth and not a House shall Lord it over us that they will venture for ever to declare against As long as they will not have a House of Peers although they have the same and far greater power exercised in other persons and names 't is sufficient and fair enough That the Legislative and Executive Powers shall be distinct and not in the same hands That any may see of what mettle their Fundamentalls are made of This Sixth Proposition hath broken the neck of the Fifth already for there they declare against a House of Peers and yet here they say they will have another Assembly distinct from the Parliament to whom if you give no more power than the House of Peers had then are they as needless as you * March 19. 1648. An Act for abolishing the House of Peers Voted the House of Peers to be If you give them more power than the House of Peers had then what becomes of your priviledges of Parliament Then let me tell you Your Rump as they call it is not worth a That both the Assemblies of the Parliament shall be elected by the people of this Common-wealth duly qualified The Army should have made one Fundamentall more that is to say That the Army should be for ever deemed the onely duly qualified people of this Common-wealth and then the next Fundamentall comes in plainly and sincerely without any fraud or jugling viz. That both the Assemblies of the Paliament shall be elected by the people of this Common-wealth duly qualified that is to say with Red-coats Muskets Swords and Pikes Otherwise we have great cause to fear that they who have so long assumed this Title as peculiar to themselves will never disclaim it at the election of Parliaments Now Sir Fearing that Party which hath so shamefully fallen away from you hath yet too great an interest in many persons among you yea seeing daily so many of them as to outward appearance admitted into grace and favour with the Parliament and thorough the carelesnesse of some into places of chiefest trust in this Common-wealth I cannot but give you as already a brief account of their unalterable Fundamentalls so now likewise a short and seasonable Caution for your future dealing with them It is no lesse wise then