Selected quad for the lemma: sense_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	motion_n	muscle_n	nerve_n	1,570	5	11.4857	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67700	A discourse of government as examined by reason, Scripture, and law of the land, or, True weights and measures between soveraignty and liberty written in the year 1678 by Sir Philip Warwick.	Warwick, Philip, Sir, 1609-1683.	1694 (1694)	Wing W991; ESTC R27062	96,486	228

to the young Sons of the Nobility and Gentry the growing hopes of their Country and who one day by their virtue courage loyalty wisdom and learning befitting their birth and quality will make a great figure in it for the seasoning of whose minds capable of the highest and noblest impressions with virtuous and true notions of Policy and for their direction and service it is chiefly published and to whom therefore it is humbly dedicated The Reader is desired to correct the following errata which have escaped the diligence of the Corrector PAg. 29. l. 29. Person p. 89. l. 29. make is p. 80. l. 23. were p. 121. l. 13. reckoned 139. l. 21. recommend 149. l. 12. justice is 146. l. ult prescribe 154. l. 7. condition for 164. l. 1. prompter 172. l. that is a. in the margin there for civil read single 193. l. 13. take 206. l. 20. for too read two OF Government As examined by Reason Scripture AND Law of the Land GOD and nature made men sociable creatures Government as examined by reason which appears by this that every man affects a companion which arises from this that every single man stands in need of anothers help Men could not have liv'd together in a body politick if God had not disposed the natural inclinations of their minds for such a society and the same reason that leads them to co-habit together exacted from them the preferring publick good before private interest or the whole before any part so as government is an ordinance of God and not an invention of man and arises not as Mr. Hobbs would make it from the passion of fear which one man had of another but from the moral virtue of justice to do as one would be done unto This makes the politick body so much to resemble the natural The brain must be distinguisht from the heart and the heart from the liver If one part give life another must sense and a third nutrition The understanding or Prince or soveraign power must give the law and the animal spirits or Nobility must influence the nerves or instruments of motion thro' the whole body or subordinate Officers to set on work the muscles or organical members or Commonalty to perform the several offices which belong to the several faculties of the soul of government But we will not follow affectedly metaphors or resemblances which only serve for illustration but not for proof The Object of Government stands in Persons Ruling are Either Supream Whether supremacy lies in one or more persons Here rule or government is absolute arbitrary and uncontroulable yet with an eye and duty to publick-weal or salus populi and an accountableness to God Or Subordinate Magistrates under him or them in whom the supremacy is lodged These do rule by the Soveraigns commission the powers whereof they are not to exceed and they are accountable for the execution thereof not to God only but man likewise Ruled are the People in general viz. 1. Nobility Ecclesiastical Civil 2. Gentry 3. Commons The three states of men which among us make up a Parliament and are united to the King or Supream as members with their head They represent the whole body of that people unto the King but the King is the true representative of the people to all the world The Soveraign the Virtual Body of the Nation The three Estates the Representative Body of the Nation The People themselves the Essential Body of the Nation Things Prerogatives are in defence of the Government it self and of the Soveraign Person and to be made use of in both cases Laws Civil or Municipal for securing the Lives Liberties Properties c. of the Subject Matters Thus Ad Caesarem potestas omnium pertiner ad singulos proprietas Divine Civil as 1 Religion 2 Justice 3 Council 4 Commerce 5 Confederation 6 Treasure 7 Arms by Sea Land The seven great sinews or pillars or nerves of Government Military Government and Governors Government and Governors are both Gods ordinances for though He himself was the sole Legislator in all those matters which concerned mans ultimate happiness yet he left men by the light of their own natural reason to make such laws as concern'd their civil interests or their concerns of this life as natural reason dictated unto them And because no society could be formed and kept together but by equal and just laws nor those laws executed but by some Persons therefore both laws and Governors were made sacred the one to be observed and the other to be reverenced and therefore God owns both and puts an impression of part of his own honor both on humane laws and Soveraign Persons though both these may be infirm and failing for Princes or Soveraigns may err as well in making laws or in their judgments about them as in the execution of them or in their own manners And therefore God obliged Princes to be well advised about making laws and as nigh as they could to follow sound reason and the best precedents and to do all with deliberation and good advice and with an eye to publick utility Nevertheless because these concerns were but about matters of an indifferent nature and that coming under so many divers circumstances it often puzled a sincere and a wise Governor what to ordain and the narrowness of mens understandings often making that whilst the business was in councel or agitation appear best which as soon as perfected was often discerned not to be so and so wisdom and sincerity though not likely so grosly or so often might fail in councel as well as folly and negligence therefore he stampt his own authority both upon human laws and Governors The reverence due unto authority thereby to keep them both from being disputed And upon this ground it was that laws were by the same authority that made them to be revoked or repealed Thus the human authority from whence these laws flowed silenced all private judgment and became indisputable there being nothing to be put in the ballance with it it being only the prerogative of God's Laws to be entertained for their own excellency mens for the authority or station they were in Otherwise all Government had been precarious or subjected so to change as to be unsteady or endless and so useless This every master of a family shall find if he give way to his wife children and servants to dispute his commands much more then a Lord or Soveraign over a whole nation And this should make every master of a family as careful to keep up the honor of his Prince in his great family as he would his own in his little family Soveraignty must be absolute and arbitrary Soveraignty therefore was by divine ordinance made both arbitrary and unquestionable else it could never have answered the true ends of government Divine wisdom therefore necessarily armed even in behalf of the governed the supream Governors with these powers following The