Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	knowledge_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	151	3	9.9883	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96925	A word to purpose: or, A Parthian dart, shot back to 1642, and from thence shot back again to 1659. swiftly glancing upon some remarkable occurrences of the times; and now sticks fast in two substantial queries, I. concerning the legality of the second meeting of some of the Long-Parliament-Members. Also, a fools bolt shot into Wallingford House, by as good a friend to England, as any is there, concerning a free state.		1659 (1659)	Wing W3566; Thomason E985_9; ESTC R204153	9,686	15

subsequent and all these as firm in law one as the other and that which makes for our purpose is no more but this case I reenter for condition broken by another or another reenters in his own name and I agree to it this may be done by law Now then Oliver Cromwell pulled those whipsters out by the ears and did them no wrong say some for he might as well turn them out as they turn him out that had better right and he might as well Govern as they having as good Authority and better comming neerer the old model but let this Act be lawfull or not lawfull and some say no publick Act this sixteen years hath been lawfull Yet if he hath the agreement subsequent of the People to it that makes it doubtlesse lawfull And that agreement is very obvious First The Saints agreed to it that is to say the Army ask Lambert else next the godly party in the Country agreed to it as appears by their speedy scudding up to Westminster into the same place and confirmed it over and over next all the people of the three Nations agreed to it in chosing a new Representative to Congratulate Oliver for the good service and to give him some handsome gratuity for his pains which accordingly was done and that more than once and with great solemnity and not onely to him but to his Son and that with as great solemnity and as unanimously as ever any Prince could be enthroned And if I may speak the sense of all that ever I came neer since that time I never heard one man speak concerning it but heartily rejoyced that the yoak was taken off their necks But again let the Designes of Oliver be what they would yet the Peoples chusing new Representatives as oft as occasion was offered is clearly an implyed countermand of the Commission of the former For two sort of men cannot be commissionated severally to doe the same thing but the first are countermanded by the last if they be countermandable and the last are void if the other be not countermandable Now all these several choises of Representatives were to doe the same thing that is to transact the great Affaires of the Nation which Authority is countermandable draw hence the Conclusion c. And further It s evident the Army agreed to all this and so did a great many of those few that meet now in the Parliament house who sate more than once in the same place they now fit in by virtue of the Peoples new choise which some if not all made contrived and contended for and after made Laws to confirm the then Protector which doubtlesse shews plainly that they took the former long Assembly to be determined and by their actings are by Law estopped and concluded To say otherwise like to this case in Law Lessee for many years by a good Lease accepts from his Lessor a void Lease that is a surrender and determination of his former good Lease for by his acceptance he hath admitted the Lessor to have a power to make another Contract which must work a surrender of his former otherwise there could be no new contract So it is here which Note So now the grounds of my scruple being these That it s conceived generally that the long Parliament forfeited their Trusts and Authorities by going beyond their Commissions notwithstanding the Act of not Dissolving c. made by the three Estates Or else that they determined by the death of the King However their Power determined as to make Acts Or else they determined by their discontinuance or else by the Peoples reseising their Authority and granting it to others which they would not have done had they intended the same should have continued And had the Act of Oliver in Dissolving them not been acceptable to the People he had not sat so sure as he did I must ingenuously say I cannot see unless I be further enlightned which I wish some would endeavour how this present meeting in the Parliament House should amount to a Parliament But mistake me not I offer not this to publike view to breed contentions stirs and debates in the Land we are like to have enough of them besides but my main end is to have some satisfaction and that a thing of so great moment to the people may be settled and resolved and the consciences of many quieted For how can it be imagined that the people should be obedient when they doubt the grounds of the supream Authority And what compliance other than a passive submission can be expected when an Usurped confused unlimited rude and groundless power shall obtrude themselves upon the Rights Liberties and Native priviledges of the people When a disorderly unaccountable and unwarrantable procedure is set on foot by a company unauthorized inferiour spirits To whom sad experience hath dictated that no trust or heed is to be given because their whole proceedings have been violent their own judgements unsettled their pretences but pretences their thoughts conceits and their whole practise contradictions But now on the other side can they assure us of hopes of a settled Government and some advantage to the publike by their changes They shall have my Vote to be once more entrusted But give me leave to offer one Query more Whether as things now stand it is likely we should compass the designe of setting up a Free State The grounds and inducements to this query are these First in respect of those that are to doe it by greatest pretence Secondly In respect of those that would doe it without any pretence Thirdly In respect of the thing it self to be done First They that are to do it if any must be the men met at the Parliament House Now as to them consider how their Power stands for if it fall out that they go on in an unauthoritative way what they do will not long stand witnesse all the unwarrantable Attempts and Acts that have been attempted or acted from the first Rebellion if all or most have not been opposed contradicted and many nulled by after contrary actions Then again consider their spirits and tempers are they not dissatisfied distasted and distempered spirits are they not fiery tongues onely that is are they not zealous without knowledge When they that sit at the Helm of Government should have cloven tongues also that is knowledge to discern truth from errour and know that knowledge without zeale is like a Ship without a ●ayle and zeale without knowledge is like a ship under saile without a Pilot Also are they not men too much biassed to private Interests do they not call the long Parliament-time a blessed time because some of them could make shift to blesse themselves with above twenty thousand pounds per ann and the other with faire estates And is not this the designe of them to return willingly till the residue of the Land unsold be viis modis brought into their own clutches at least good