Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	great_a	king_n	portugal_n	2,523	5	10.0178	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34731	Counsel to the true English, or, A word of advice to the Jacobites by a true member of the Church of England, as by law establish'd, in a letter to a friend.	True member of the Church of England.	1691 (1691)	Wing C6516; ESTC R15946	11,192	12

overthrow and that their Projects were permitted so far to succeed as might discover the malicious Intentions of their Authors and convince us that our Ruin was by them concluded yet were they blasted before they attain'd their desired maturity What could effect this What could snatch a Prey out of the Jaws of Destruction but the powerful hand of Heaven Providence was likewise seen in that wonderful Christian Patience then exercised by the Subjects in general notwithstanding such manifest and important Provocations as when an illegal Army was constantly insulting over them their Charters pull'd and commanded from them when all hopes of Justice were excluded when such Persons were put into all places of Trust whether Sacred Civil and Military as had combin'd to set up a Power and introduce a Religion which must inevitably and speedily confound all As none but God alone could bestow such a wonderful Patience so nothing but this Patience could have preserv'd them for a Revolution for the least Offence given the Hereditary Title had changed to that of Conquest When all had been lost as our Enemies desired and expected this Patience did suppress Choler though not Fear it kept the Tongue from reviling though not the Heart from trembling the Hand quiet tho the Ear was daily alarm'd Such admirable Patience such modest Submission would have turn'd the Heart of any Father to the Children had not the cruel Jesuit prepossessed it and to prevent all opportunities of doing Justice and shewing Mercy successfully advis'd against tolerating Addresses Man's Extremity is usually Heaven's Opportunity and when among us all humane Help failed then did he that sitteth in Heaven and also ruleth in the Kingdoms of Men stand up to help these meek and oppressed Kingdoms It was from God that counsel came seeing the present Possessor inexorable to apply to the next Heir who stood bound in Conscience to appear in Their Assistance who were both Christians and part of his Inheritance nor could he possibly connive at their waste and ruin unless resolv'd upon his own Dishonour and Damage To his R. H. therefore the Nobles and Gentry of each Degree and Quality speed away their Humble Petition such a large Description of so many various and intollerable Sufferings as they were constrained to give set his Heroick Blood on fire His own particular danger was not so much considered as our timely Preservation and he resolutely and generously undertakes the just Defence of the Forlorn and them that had no Helper Who doubts the Hand of the Almighty in this blessed Revolution Who else could incline the Dutch a People naturally jealous of their Liberty and Interest a People highly disoblig'd by Acts of Hostility and open Wars by our unkind deserting them in their necessity to put forth the utmost of their Strength under the Princes Conduct in order for our Relief It was the Righteous God who would not suffer the Debt contracted in the days of Q. Elizabeth to be longer unpaid Farther When these were Landed what became of the Courage of the Standing Army Who fill'd them with that Consternation as to turn back in the day of Battle Did not their Guilty Consciences apprehend these Succours to be as the Armies of the Living God against whom it was in vain to make Resistance What more just Proposals could a Prince so highly concern'd after so great Advantages obtain'd offer Than that all Matters might be accomodated by the great Council of the Nation a Parliament free from all manner of Corruption and Prejudice Father Peters had Christned their cruel bloody and unjust doings by the Name of Doing God good Service But now the Man whose Eyes this unexpected help had opened saw how Religious soever Holy Mother Church might style them yet they were not justifiable and therefore so dreaded the Examination that he judg'd it greater Prudence to Abdicate the Realm than be detected The Flock is in great Danger when the careless Shepherd deserts it but in greater when he angrily devotes it to the Ravenous Wolf And that we were not a Prey the greatest Thanks are due to Heaven for sending us so seasonable a Deliverance As for Moderation What greater could be shewn in every Transaction than what was at this time common Especially if we regard how desperate our Case was neither the Person of the late K. J. nor any of his Attendants suffered the least Violence more than what the present Circumstances of which they knew the Authors made necessary or their own indiscreet stiffness pull'd upon them When a blind Zeal and boundless Ambition shall change the Hearts of Princes so that they have no regard no pity no care or concern for the Safety and Well-being of their People these Transports render them uncapable of continuing their Government This was once the Judgment of Crowned Heads when they were consulted in the Case of Portugal whose King became so frenzical as to kill his Subjects in sport and without due Process of Law What greater Madness can a Prince possibly be guilty of Than to destroy and waste his People to rob them of their Antient and Lawful Priviledges to bear that mortal hatred to their Religion though by Laws established as to Sacrifice the Professors to extinguish the Profession The Government of England is certaily Feodatory and the Solemn Oaths taken by our Kings at their Coronation to Govern according to Law has so much more than a Ceremony that from thence rises the Subjects Homage and Fealty Who knows not that one part of the Covenant being broken all Obligations of keeping the other ceases No Reason to cry out There is Treachery O Ahaziah when he that exclaims is to himself the greatest Traytor This Revolution in the main depended upon the Divine Pity and Commiseration the outward Causes thereunto moving were The Change of Religion Violation of Laws Deserting the Throne repairing to the professed Enemy of the State seeking and employing Foreign Force to enslave a Free People Had not these things been K. J. might have now been at Whitehall and have been Lord of all true English Hearts and Affections But what Heart can truly love or Hand fight for that Governor that they are sure will destroy them We have better Eyes and cannot like Mocks adore that Light which will e're long consume us 3. The Advantages attending this Revolution are both as great and as many as either our Necessities require or our Curiosity can invent In short Religion with which no worldly Consideration is worthy to stand in Competition is by secured to us and our posterity The King that now Reigns is not only flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone and so our Natural Liege Lord but of our Religion also and so he ought to be the more dear as we are the more safe Our Laws are once more Sacred our Priviledges allow'd our Rights asserted and could we be so happy as to be reconciled to God by an hearty Repentance and an honest Reformation