Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	ordinance_n	power_n	resist_v	2,543	5	10.0817	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89178	The mistake of the times, written by a faithfull sonne of the late flourishing Church of England, observing present differences betweene the Parliament and Army. Being written by one much bemoaning the the [sic] sad condition of his native kingdome. From a scholler in Cambridge to his friend in London.		1647 (1647)	Wing M2255; Thomason E410_23; ESTC R204457	3,824	10

THE MISTAKE OF THE TIMES Written By a faithfull Sonne of the late flourishing Church of ENGLAND observing present differences betweene the Parliament and Army Being writtten by one much bemoaning the the sad condition of his native KINGDOME From a Scholler in Cambridge to his friend in London LONDON Printed for George Linsey at Londonstone 1647. THE MISTAKE OF THE TIMES WHEREIN Is observed the present difference betweene the PARLIAMENT and ARMY IT hath ever been held an unfit course to Intermeddle with other mens actions especially when one hath nothing to do with the matters in question yet here methinks every good subject as well as every great subject may challinge an interest I have therefore though in the midst of my own private distr●ctions lent thy observations to those publick distances between Parliament and Army Indeed I have often heard it that a King is the husband and the Common-wealth is the wife now whom God hath joyned together let no man nor malice seeke to seperate ye● if any differences arise I shall pray they may compose them themselves or else they throw themselves upon the c●●●u●e of others but sometimes they may be lyable to such distempers that they may need a Physitian and Parliaments have been held the fittest and best Physitians to cure disquiets in either For as houshold jarrs may rend and ruin a family the husband pulling one way and the wife another to their own infinite disquiets So when theose differences are composed it doth knit the bond of affection the firmer that many times they may cry out we are happier by our failings and falling out But if any go about to make the breach wider now horrid a taske they undertake they and they only can tell who have been lyable to such mischances for when bad perswasions meet with such untoward humours as are apt to entertaine ill conceits of one another how easie a thing it is to make that irr 〈…〉 which by 〈◊〉 and seasonable advice is soone composed even so in a distempered Kingdome where either the Prince playes the wanton with his prerogatives and gives others power to abuse his Subjects thinking his people bound to suffer any thing he layeth upon them or where a distempered Nation ●egin● to thinke evill of their Princes ●●…pi●●…ing to see any in grea●er power then themselves how easie is it for any siding with either to make the sparkes of devision grow to such a flame as may set the whole Kingdome in combustion And how easie is it on the other side to procure a faire composure if any will modestly and mannerly shew their Prince how he is abused by his instruments and what a derrogation it is to his Princly dignity to imploy bad agents because the worst of the evill ●●flects upon himself Therefore intreate him in time to prevent such growing evils by taking advice by a Parliament and no the other side to perswade the people to have a reverent esteeme of their Prince as of one God hath set over them and that as soone as the world became populous there was a necessity of diff●rence and distinction of persons and that supreame powers are ordained by God and those that resist them resist the Ordinance of God And so having brought both to see their sicknesse to perswade both to make their refuge to the Physitian but now if this Physition shall proceed so cunningly with both as to refuse to undertake the cure unlesse all the power they both have be conferred on him presuming the Prince will indure no such corasives if there be occasion to use them nor the people being of an untamed humour will not be kept in fitting bounds if I say the Parliament be so cau●ious as out of these considerations not to undertake the cure unlesse it be invested with this power the danger will be and is but to apparant the cure man be worse then the disease For could it have been imagined that the King for his volun●ary desire to satisfy his subjects in granting the continuance of this Parliament that they should not onely make it perpetuall but deprive the King of all subjection to him nay of all livelihood and did the Common-wealth immagine that out of a desire to be freed from all Monopolies and all illegall demands as Shipmony and the rest they should have been thus ensnared as to pay greater Taxes new Excises such Contributions as do not onely farre exceede all former demands but are still so increasing that they not onely groane under the burthen of them but grow not able to discharge them and yet they are made beleeve this is for the liberty of the Subject I have heard that none can mannage an estate so well as those that are breed in the familiar use of it which is the reason that the Sonnes of those men that suddenly grow rich are for the most part prodigalls so I wonder not that this Parliament having such an expected power put in their hands prove and play the Prodigall with it what vast summs have been raysed and how disposed not the wisest amongst them I verily beleeve can tell why Armies have been listed hummunition provided so many Innocents killed can any of them give a reason for what good hath all our fighting produced but breed an inviterate hate against one another nay after all our glorious as they call them victories are we any whit the nearer happinesse nay I feare we are rather falling into greater distractions for doth not the Army prescribe rules to the Parliament nay to the King himselfe by fetching him violently from Holmby and still disposing of him as they not he pleaseth so as I feare they guard him for danger not from danger and do they not impeach the Members of the House of Commons and require a perfect time for determination of this Parliament and divers other things and do not the Quer●es object against the Army nay may not the Parliament justly wonder that an Army should at one and the same time require pay from them and infringe their priviledges is not this strange bandying at one another offing one another from hazard to hazard even to the hazard of one anothers ruine for are we not next doore to be againe imbroyled in a new warre and so to be made and what is worse to make our selves the scorne of all our Neighbour Nations but was it not so with the Children of Izrael when they had no King did not every man what seemed good in his owne eyes and I pray consider what strange thinge have been acted both in Church and Common wealth in this Kingdome of la●e may it not truly be said Thy holy Temples they have defiled and made Ierusalem an he●p● of stones so as it is a wonder to me that the stones do not cry out and now must we expect our happinesse from further divisions certainely no I wish therefore we would prevent so neere an approaching evill before it come upon us