Selected quad for the lemma: state_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	government_n	king_n	monarchy_n	1,384	5	9.4516	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55004	The moderate Parliament considered in this time of danger being an answer to a letter sent a person of quality about electing a member to sit in the ensuing Parliament.	G. P.; H. D.	1679 (1679)	Wing P24; ESTC R5520	4,018	4

THE Moderate Parliament Considered in this time of Danger BEING AN ANSWER TO A LETTER sent a Person of Quality About Electing a Member to sit in the ensuing Parliament Dear Friend THat Kindness that hath been always between us makes me thus bold with you as to request your Vote for a Worthy Gentleman Mr. who stands to be Burgess here I had so great a confidence of your Kindness to me that I did almost assure him of your Vote and I am confident if you knew the Gentleman as well as I do I should not need to have ask'd this Favour But if you please to engage for him upon my Credit you will not I believe repent your Vndertaking for he is a moderate man and of sound Principles in Religion according to the Purest Reform'd way a stout Opposer of the Court and a good Country-man and one that will stand up for the Interest of the People and the Good of the Country and such men will make us happy and such I hope you will always stand for Our Election is next Thursday come seven-night at which time I hope I shall see you In the mean time I rest Aug. 22. 1679. Yours to my Power H. D. My Old Friend I Received yours and have considered of your Motion for my Vote I confess I have one to give and am resolv'd to bestow it on an honest Gentleman if I can Your Friend may be so for any thing I know but the Character you give of him in your Letter is not so taking with me as peradventure you think it is as to fetch me ten Miles to Vote for him You tell me he is a Moderate man what you mean by that piece of your Character I do not know whether you mean it as to the King or the establisht Government in Church it matters not he cannot be a fit man for this Election when the most zealous men for King and Church are the fittest now to secure us from those Plots that are on all sides against Monarchy and Episcopacy and to defend us from a commonwealth-Commonwealth-Government in the State and Presbytery or worse in the Church both which are so plainly drove at and intended and I fear your Moderate men will rather pull down than keep up and preserve the present Establishments amongst us I my self have felt and seen too much mischief by a Change in Government ever to give my Aid and Assistance a Second time to its Alteration or Downfal I formerly have been inclin'd to believe Moderation would be the best way to preserve the Government in Church and State and beget the King and Church many Friends and confirm and secure them for ever But sad experience hath found the contrary and nothing hath ruin'd All and made the Enemies of our Government so high so sawcy and insolent as Lenity Had they bin kept at first to their Duty and Allegiance and felt the Effects of Disobedience they would not have grown to such a Formidable Height of Presumption as now they are and been so ungovernable As for your Burgesses Principles in Religion which you warrant are so sound they do not appear so to me I have some reason to suspect them you word them so cunningly in an unusual Phrase According to the purest Reformed way He may be what he please even an Anabaptist or a Quaker for any thing I see in that Character Purity of Reformation is the language of them all and each Faction pretends to be the purest and where to rank him I cannot tell And for his Principles in Politicks I have too much ground to question them too from what you say of him That he is a stout Opposer of the Court the King I doubt you mean if not Monarchy And in that you tell me he is a good Countryman I must for ever be jealous of him and of that sort of men and believe for two Reasons them to be Men of Dangerous and Mischievous Principles to both Church and State I consess I have formerly lookt upon them as their Title bespoke them as a very Loyal true-hearted sort of Gentlemen that rather meant a great deal of good than hurt to Church and State and designed to carry it even betwixt Court and Country and not to destroy the Prerogative and to grasp at all Power nor to Inclose Soveraignty in the Commons House and make the King himself a Duke of Venice and his Antient Court and Counsel insignificant Cyphers But as things have been lately managed by that sort of Men you call Country-men I must except against them 1. Because the worst Principled Men in the whole Nation are the Men that usurp the Title of Countrymen and have it bestowed upon them and the Best and most Faithful Subjects His Majesty hath and those that have approved themselves always so are the persons that onely are blackned with that disgraceful Name of Courtiers which makes me think there is a Snake in the Grass so that I have no reason to think so well of your Countryman nor so ill of the Courtiers as you and others do and would have me I am inclined to believe there were some Covetous and Ambitious men at Whitehal in and about Sixty that sought their own Interest more than the King 's and Countrey 's and cast off the best Subjects His Majesty had because impoverisht and brought into Place and Power his worst Enemies to the manifest discouragement of Loyalty and good Principles And this unequal distribution of Preferments and Places did no doubt exasperate the Kings suffering Friends But now by the Jesuitical and Fanatick cunning those private piques are improved to an universal implacability against the Court and all that belong to it and as they have ordered the business every person about the King and Court except their own Party must be the object of the peoples Fear and Malice and though the complaint against the Court was first the suffering Cavaleers onely and not the Fanaticks because their Dad's were then uppermost and rul'd the roast yet since of late years Counsels have gone somewhat against them now 't is their complaint chiefly for this must be observed that when the Godly Party are not uppermost things cannot go well and they must cry out of Ill Management and bad Ministers of State and evil Counsellors and Address for their Removal that so there may be room for themselves for certain it is there is no such grievance under any Government as for them to be under Dominion being Founded in Grace they have a palpable wrong done them if they be not at the Stern and those Ministers of State that shall dare but advise the contrary shall be Enemies to God and Religion and disaffected to the Countries Interest and if possible be made a Sacrifice to Popular Rage and Fury so that I find the worst Principled Men are the best Countrymen in the peoples esteem and those in the House of Commons that fly most briskly in the face