Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	king_n	law_n	prerogative_n	2,294	5	10.0658	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90767	A plea for moderation.		1642 (1642)	Wing P2512A; Thomason E143_7; ESTC R22468	9,127	16

sub Deo And in another place Si autem aliquid ab eo petatur cum breve non currat contra ipsum locus erit supplicationi quod factum suum corrigat emendet quod quidem si non fecerit satis sufficit ei ad poenam quod Dominum expectet ultorem nemo quidem de factis suis praesumat disputare multò fortiùs contra factum suum venire thus far Bracton It is not for nought that the Apostle doth so inseparably knit these two together feare God and honour the King as if hee should have said there is none can give that honour to the King as hee ought except hee be one that truly feareth God and none can truly feare God as hee ought if hee give not the honour due to his Prince And if Saint Paul could check himselfe with a scriptum est Thou shalt not speak evil of the Ruler of thy people what can be thought of those that would infringe his legall Prerogative which is as undoubtedly his as our estates are ours and by as firme a Law untill hee shall please to give way to the altering of it by his owne free and willing assent and consent first had and obtained which must not bee drawne from him by the least constraint or forcible perswasion whatsoever That of the Proverbs is a sure rule Feare God and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change And I pray tell me what is the cause why such mistakes and heart-burnings arise in the world but onely the great want of charity in a number Love covers a multitude of sinnes saith the Scripture Ex consequenti what doe you then call that which rips them up and layes them open Indeed love gaines a multitude of good good to others to themselves who use it and where can wee better manifest it then to those whom God hath placed in eminency above us Would it not grieve us much if our children should prove Chams unto us If therefore there bee truly that relation as wee are bound to beleeve it certainly their wounds must needes pierce through our sides and their contempt must needs bee our reproach I am not ignorant that this is a very hard lesson to take out but to come to my Medium it must bee done for to speake the truth while wee want this Theologicall vertue Love wee are very apt to doe injury to them wee love not and it argues a great partiality to our selves What saith Saint Paul to repeate him a little Though I speake with the tongues of men and Angels c. Though I had the gifts of Prophesie c. and knew all secrets yea had all faith c. Though I feed the poore nay though I give my bodie to bee burned and have not love all is nothing And yet God he knowes what an innumerable company of pretenders are there to all these but it is without Love The Apostle goeth on to tell the nature and condition of Love and do but view what characters hee puts upon it Love suffereth long is bountifull envieth not boasteth not it selfe is not puffed up disdaineth not seeketh not her owne things is not provoked to anger thinketh not evill rejoiceth not in iniquity but in truth suffereth all things beleeveth all things hopeth all things endureth all things never falleth away Here is a chaine consisting of fifteene linkes all of them most expressive and emphaticall What a hard taske have the men of our age to imitate all these what a brave Medium were here to fall upon Let me once for all speake boldly and it will easily be found to bee true upon due search and sad examination that there is not one the least tumult or distraction in a Nation not the least discontent in a family by which as by Hercules feete may be measured the proportion of the whole body but it ariseth from the want of due observation of all these I might expatiate my selfe in these particulars but my care is as much as I can to save time and trouble to the Reader I professe not my self a Divine it is not my way therefore I leave peculiar applications to the ingenious Now by the rule of Contraries I might illustrate unto you what is opposite and repugnant to Love but diverse mens practice now a dayes will in this point instruct you better then I. There is much to bee said but I shut up all in Love and I wish from my very soule all mistakes and misbeleefes might end there which will never be while they so be for unlesse they vanish no roome for Love That 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is extreamly mistaken abroad for it is often made but the baite whilest the hooke layes hold on private interests And truely as my hearty prayers shall be ever bent for a most prosperous event of proceedings in these instant great Assemblies So it shall still be one prayer of my Petition that there may be Love at the end of every thing and I am confident such a Petition as this needeth neither clubs nor swords to force its admission FINIS

confesse them to be dangerous men especially those that are Jesuited their practice hath been very factious and their doctrine is venemous and distressed Ireland hath too-too-much felt the smart of it but God be thanked they have neither clawes nor teeth here that I know of But as for that unconsiderable I may say inconsiderate number I wish they may be alwayes so in the first sense so long as they continue in the second And for once let the Papists and them goe together for the malignant party By this time you may partly discerne the scope of my intended discourse It is A Plea for Moderation a Plea for a Medium And I perswade my selfe I shall at one instant make two contrary sorts of people glad and sad the Papist the Separatist that whilest by this meanes both think to enjoy their Religion still their Opinion I would say both misse of what they aime for this Moderation this Medium shall give neither of these the least satisfaction I have learned by way of diversity what a Medium may be thus distinguished into Medium Participationis Abnegationis The first is that for which the Laodiceans received such a sentence from the mouth of God in the Revelations to be a Repudium for their luke-warmnesse This is the onely principle whereby the Temporizers of every age walke and steere their course a blind guide an Iguis fatuus which very frequently leaves them in the mire This is such a principle as proposeth to it selfe no other end then the present advantage and truely his halting in jest betwixt two makes men often become lame in earnest and when they are grown such Cripples no wonder if they close in the Hospitall of fooles Machiavell never lost himselfe so much as in this particular for if it bee once found out that there can bee two severall men in one ten to one but hee shall ever after have the hard hap not to be trusted in either condition A Puritan is an unlucky name thrown into the world but if ever there were such a man this is he who justly may assume that title He is like the feet of Nabuchadnezzars Image part of iron and part of clay an ill mixture therefore not likely to be of any long perpetuity this is not the Medium I plead for It is the Medium abnegationis I plead so strongly for Albeit I am neither Papist nor Separatist yet by Gods help I trust I may bee of a true Religion and maintaine Orthodoxill veritie and indeed I branch my Medium first into Religion because that is of the highest concernment and most of all justled at in this clay-iron age It is true that of Aristotle Qui ubique est nullibi est and may bee made good by the medly of so many opinionative Religions now set on foote by the step-mothers of sound Religion who so much magnifie their bastard issue before her as indeed shee scarce undergoes any thing at their hands but nips and pinches I confesse shee hath beene of late dressed in too gaudy too garish an attire and therefore now to make her do strict penance for how long God knows she is left stark naked exposed to summer scorches and winter colds and I pray God when she puts on any thing next it do not prove her winding sheet As I would not have her go like a painted strumpet so I should be glad to see her in a comely dresse I remember I did even now take the Bishops by the hand but my intent was not so to take my leave of them I have somewhat more to say of them before they go I seriously wish they had beene carefull to keepe my last medium the want of that hath exceedingly prevented me of something I would have said but thus much I will declare There have been Bishops Diocesan Bishops Lord Bishops all good Bishops not Jure divino pardon me for that but Jure Ecclesiastico vel civili ex favore Principis Ancient Histories will warrant me for that and they are so copious and so well knowne I hope no man will request a quotation yea all this the Ministers of the Gospell were made capable of therefore in my judgement not incongruous to the function and if the government must downe because some are bad why should not the government stand because some are and primitively have beene good For ought I can perceive it is as good an argument I denie not but the way of a Presbytery may be good in a State not here but however durst I presume to beg or think of begging the least stemme from sacred Majestie that is due to it our Bishops peradventure might bee much better then they are if the Ministers of every County by a majority of voices did out of themselves choose their Diocesan Bishop and there be settled for his life but then I conceive it is fit for maintenance that the least should be a thousand pounds a yeare to live upon and the greatest no more In this particular I am for a parity nay I would have none of them Lords but such on whom his Majestie should by his more especiall favour bee graciously pleased to bestow the title who is the undoubted fountaine of honour and dignity And if I hit aright in the understanding of that Text so severely urged against that which is Be you not called Lords the meaning is Bee not ambitious desirous covetous of that Title otherwise perhaps some one might call them Lords in spite of them and so against their wils incurre the breach of our Saviours precept And as concerning that of Saint Peter Be not as Lords over Gods heritage the meaning is You shall not have absolute rule over them for so the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies which hinders not but that they may have it subjugated to the chiefe Prince and State under which they live for indeed as it is admirably well observed by that English Seneca Sir Edward Dering in a Treatise of his when our Saviour tells his twelve Apostles that the Princes of the Gentiles and the Kings of the Gentiles c. exercise dominion c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It shall not bee so with you that is You shall not bee as the Kings and Princes of the Gentiles who assume an absolute and independent power No this I conceive is clearly prohibited them and although by the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be not meant as some would have it domineering or tyrannizing in a bad sense but governing and ruling in a good sense and seemly for men duely authorized thereto as Gods Vice-gerents on Earth yet I hold Clergy-men totally uncapable of it and this I conceive to be the meaning of that worthy Knight which I say doth no way hinder but that they may neverthelesse have a subordinate power limited them by a superintendent authority above them of the King and Lawes of the Kingdome and with this caution I take the word I adde a