Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	france_n	king_n	orange_n	2,955	5	10.1958	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55779	The cloudie clergie, or, A mourning lecture for our morning lecturers intended for a weekly antidote against the daily infection of those London preachers, who de die in diem do corrupt the judgments of their seduced auditors, against the governours and government of the common-wealth of England, grounded upon received aphorismes, digested into chapters, fit to be considered by those froward [sic] chaplins that have been the Quondam Beautefews against the late King of England, and are the present beadsmen for the now King of Scotland : the like whereof they may expect from week to week, while they abuse the Parliament and army from day to day / by a friend, who for their timous recovery doth cri in hope.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1650 (1650)	Wing P3341; ESTC R983	16,180	22

all godliness and honesty affirming it to be both good und acceptable in the sight of God this was their judgement that if so be they could live a peaceable and quiet life under their rulers in all goodliness and honesty such rulers should not onely be submitted unto but earnestly prayed for that God would blesse them and prosper them Why then should you haesitate in your yeilding obedience to the present Governours cannot you live under them a peaceable and quiet life in all godliness and honesty What hinders you had you ever such freedom speak your own consciences under any government or governours before what strains of Idolatry what ceremonies are imposed upon you May you not preach and pray and pray and preach and that not onely in private but in publique as oft as you will provided you disturbe not the civil peace of the Nation and may you not do this not only by the toleration and connivance but by the approbation and countenance of those that are in authority and let any history produce when you or the rest of the people of God had the like liberty and respects from the Rulers of England before yea and let any history produce instances of the like ingratitude scorne and contempt cast upon the ruling powers especially from the grand professors of the Ministers of the Gospel as your selves are bedashing them with the blood of the ●…ing and the imputation of murderers from day to day scorning all their Commands Acts Orders though requiring things at your hands in themselves agreeable to your profest principles and practises when they command you to fast and pray for success against your known and avowed enemies yea the very * Rebels in in Ireland you will not when they command you to give thanks for success against them you pine and mourn and murmur and will not give thanks to the very amazement of all that know you behaving your selves in your prayers in your Sermons after such a froward peevish peltish manner as if you had been the sons of the Prophet Ionah begotten by him in his angry fits never did such Ionasnes of spirit appear in so many professors of the Ministry in this Nation nay do you not pray against the present Governors preach against them work all underhand mischiefs against them tamper in the Parliament in the City in the Army pro●…uring their beheading that so the body of i●… might fall to the ground and all if it was possible to pul them from their seats of government surely Christ Iesus and his Apostles whose Ministers and Successors you profess your selves to be were of another spirit again the time would fail if we should insist but upon the tythes of those instances of Governours both in our own and other Countries who got the Government by meer power and of all the people of God that did always obey them in lawfull things and whereas the Covenant is pleaded by you for your justification in this behalf though enough and enough is answered in this kind that shift of Covenant and plea of Covenant being indeed almost worn out it is most notoriously known that that very Covenant was founded and grounded in a quite contrary sense to what you now urge it viz. to justifie your taking up arms against him that had lawfull authority over you though he did not use it lawfully as you all very well know and why may not others plead Covenant in the like case if you will but a little consider the exhortation of the Assembly of Divines to the taking of the Solemn League and Covenant Ordered by the House of Commons the ninth of Feb. 1643. to be printed and published you shall see that this very Covenant was founded in that which now you call usurpation in the Parliament viz. a Covenanted resolution of fighting against the King and his Lords and Commons be they either the major or minor part of the Parliament it matters not that contrary to their trust did imbondage and inslave the people and indeavored the same and this practise justified in an instance brought in by the said Assembly of Divines in these words neither hath this practice or doctrine viz. of joyning by force of arms against undeserving Governors been deemed seditious or unwarrantable by the Princes that have sate upon the English Throne but justified and defended by Queen Elizabeth of blessed memory with the expence of much treasure and bloud in the United Provinces of Netherland not onely without but against the unjust violence of Philip of Spain King James followed her steps so far as to approve of their union and to enter into a league with them as free States which is continued by his Majesty now raigning unto this day speaking of the late King who both by his expedition for the relief of Roche●…in France and his strict confederacie with the Prince of Orange and the States General notwithstanding all the importunity of Spain to the contrary hath set to his Seal that all that hath been done by his Royal Ancestors in maintenance of those who had so engaged and combined themselves was just and warrantable and what had become of the Religion Laws and Liberties of our sister Nation of Scotland had they not entred into such a solemn League and Covenant or if you will Engagement at the beginning of the late troubles there but instar omnium to give you one instance more of your own party we hope that will be authentique with you and that is of the Scots of happy memory if your memories will serve you but for two or three yeers together who you know when that the major part of the Parliament of Scotland did Vote the sending into this Nation and against the same an Army under Duke Hamilton contrary unto all their former Vows Treaties Covenants c. as the major part of the English Parliament did Vote a Treaty with the late King contrary to their former resolutions Votes Orders to the hazard of incurring the guilt of all the blood and loss of the ends of the late war yet you know a minor party did oppose them and by their own strength the aide of the now Lord Generall whom they indeed have required most what shall we say Scot-like did depose the said major part of the said Parliament as the now governing party did here in England by the said power and force were themselves established in the room thereof as the example still runs parallel here and yet did you not approve of them pray for them bless God for their happy success against their enemies can you imagine men so thick-skuld so stupified as not to observe your partiality or have you a dispensation to make election and reprobation of actions of the self same nature disposition circumstances tendencies and to reward them in some with honor and glory and in others with shame and contempt to say unto some men for these actions well done you blessed