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
A91886	A short discourse between monarchical and aristocratical government. Or a sober perswasive of all true-hearted Englishmen, to a willing conjunction with the Parliament of England in setting up the government of a common-wealth. By a true Englishman, and well-wisher to the good of this nation.	Robinson, Henry, 1605?-1664?	1649 (1649)	Wing R1678; Thomason E575_31	16,476	20

Common-wealth whereas while they act in a Parity among themselves as their judgements are most free from being acted by Superior influences so their Debates and Results must needs be of more common and publique concernment they themselves having an equal share in that good which is done unto the whole That if we do but cast up our accounts right we shall find that Kings are but meer chargeable Ceremonies or Ciphers of little use but to contract humors and promote personal designs destructive to the being and well-being of Common-wealths for they neither are executioners of justice themselves nay scarce many times Counsellors nor do any special or publique work and yet for meer custom and formalities sake we must have one man adored having a supreme power invested in him and be maintained in the greatest State and Glory meerly to sit still and have the best and wisest and most faithful and gallant instruments bow down and rejoyce but to kiss his hand If any King hath ever yet been more then ordinarily active or instrumental it hath been to prosecute some design which would advance his Supremacy more Independently against the Publique Good as the late King was in his Wars against this Nation And what ever other Nations may experiment if we have found any good by Monarchy in this Nation it is that it hath made us I hope know what Liberty and Law is and to prize them the more Quae libertas ut laetior esset proximi Regis superbia saceret Which Liberty we should esteem more had we but one tryal of the next KINGS Raign And as there is nothing more vertually and really in Monarchical then what is in Aristocratical Government and nothing to be expected by the one but what may be done by the other with less fear of danger and without such costly formality So Aristocracy or this Government of a Common-wealth the Parliament have set up is the most even and just Government that any men have yet come to the knowledge of it being a middle State between Popular Anarchy and Prerogative Tyranny whereby men are freed from the necessary exorbitancies of both and seated securely in a uniform and equal condition free from all extreams in which the people are best represented and by which the Laws and dispatches of Justice and other affairs have a quicker and easier passage with less noise Tumult then if they should run down from the high mountains of Prerogative and Majesty in the dispensations of which you have little cognisance of justice or reason but of grace and favor Kings and Princes seldom granting any thing though never so just but it 's ever as from grace so with an expectation of something from the people to advance their Prerogative the doing of which may be a greater loss and hazard then the former grant could be of concernment to them But in this other Government as justice runs more smoothly and clearer and is not painted with Royal colours so the people have a more immediate way to the redress of all their grievanc●s and are not forc'd as to clime too high so not to go to far about or through so many mercenary Favourites or rooms of State or be scar'd with the suddain beams of supposed Majesty but come to their own Representatives that themselves have chosen and who may be in the same condition and are to be tryed by the same Laws themselves which they for the present judge others by And it 's observable These few Nations which have once got the opportunity which some have ventured hard for with little success of casting off Kingly Power have naturally and out of choice fallen into this Government as the middle and best and that which was most safe and sutable to Liberty and Justice and how these Nations which have been under it have flourished I could mention if it were needful in multitudes of testimonies And not to go so far back unto the Roman State that little time it enjoyed it Let us view these little spots of Land in Europe that live under this Government how do they lift up their heads in strength and wealth above all their neighbours to name no more but the Netherlands and Venice The first even on a suddain even by it's Wars against Monarchy enriching of it self beyond many Kingdoms of ten times a larger continent and the other defending it self yea annoying one of the greatest Empires under the Sun And there is no reason why England should not flourish under it much more who hath a more Natural defence of it self then other places have and more reason and advantage of setting it up then any other people have yet had and doubtless the Climate and Air is not incompetible to it Had other Nations but the Liberty to speak and the Freedom to choose as we have we should soon hear which way the Vote would go But let it be found out as a Phoenix That some Nations have had Liberty and Justice under the Raign of some Kings which were of singular tempers and vertues or it may be had not time enough or opportunity both to plot and act designs together yet when Government shal come to be hereditary Regal Power advanced by succession there must needs be unknown mischiefs propagated together with it And all mens liberties are cast away on a peradventure at the best for be he young or old wise or unwise vertuous or vicious talis qualis he must be entrusted with all the Liberties it may be of many Nations and a necessity of bondage and misery without remedy successively entailed on men and their posterity All liberty of dissent or choice which is the birth right of rational and free-men being utterly denyed to them and destroyed by a titular plea of succession to that which it may be the person is neither fit for the mannagement of being a child or weak or worthy of through vice or ill conversation And however other Nations may out of hidden secrets of State think Monarchy best for them and be willing to venture at succession yet to us it would not be only inconvenient but mischievous Having justly cut off the Fathers head for a wicked and ill Goverment to enthrone the Son who was engaged in the same quarrel and hath entertained the same principles with an addition of more malice and revenge and what were it but to give that power to undo us which we through the providence of God have happily deprived his Father of For as we had no hopes of the late King but were in continual danger of taking advantages by us so we cannot have any probable expectation from his Son who was engaged Body and Soul in his Fathers Interest and trained up from his cradle in blood who besides his Youth and so his unfitness to manage the Affairs of such a State hath a double portion of his Fathers Spirit of Pride and Tyranny on him besides his Mothers blessing and is the