Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	fortitude_n	justice_n	temperance_n	2,097	5	10.3230	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97171	Pax vobis or a charme for tumultuous spirits. Being an earnest and Christian advice unto the people of London, to forbeare their disorderly meetings at VVestminster, least they prove to the disturbance of the great businesse in hand, pressed by divers waighty and considerable reasons offered to their serious thoughts. Together with a motion for the speedy reliefe of the poore distressed Protestants in Ireland : and for a publike fast that we may all joyne in harty supplications to God for them. / By Thomas Warmstry Minister of Gods word.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1641 (1641)	Wing W886; Thomason E180_24; ESTC R12759	20,943	42

PAX VOBIS OR A CHARME FOR tumultuous Spirits Being an earnest and Christian advice unto the people of London to forbeare their disorderly meetings at VVestminster least they prove to the disturbance of the great businesse in hand pressed by divers waighty and considerable reasons offered to their serious thoughts Together with a motion for the speedy reliefe of the poore distressed Protestants in Ireland and for a publike fast that we may all joyne in harty supplications to God for them By THOMAS WARMSTRY Minister of Gods Word Study to be quiet and to doe your owne businesse 1 Thess 4.11 LONDON Printed for George Thompson 1641. PAX VOBIS OR A Charme for tumultuous Spirits Being an earnest and Christian advice unto the people of London to forbeare their disorderly meetings at Westminster GReat workes if they end happily are great Blessings for the most part if unhappily they disolve into great Curses or mischiefes If they goe up orderly and stand firmely they may yeeld shelter and supportance unto many If they faile or miscarry they doe not onely breake themselves to peeces with their weight but doe also crush and grind those that are under the ruine who expecting a sh●lter meete with a confusion The worke which is now in hand in the Parliament I may truely say it is a great worke and that in various and diverse respects great it is if wee consider the body that sways it the very poize whereof must needes be active and can hardly leave any light impressions The very name and sound of a Parliament gives gravity and weight unto the aire me thinks that carries it and hath a kind of rest and sollid stay upon the eare more then other voyces that are usually of a fluid and wasting condition and whose very constitution is a consumption And if the name bee so ponderous what is the body it selfe thinke you The least graines in the composition whereof outwaigh whole pounds in other Corporations Great it is in respect of the subject they have to worke upon being the vast and large Fabricke of more then one state and Church Great it is in regard of their scope and aime which extends it selfe through the whole Horizon both of pollicie and religion and hath in its view and prospect all that concernes either the Temporall or spirituall good of many Millions Myriads of people who must either stand or fall by the successe or miscariage of their actions And great it is too in Consideration of those many and great difficulties they are to encounter in the procuring of that good issue they aime at So that there is indeede a great accumulation of greatnesse in that businesse which is now in hand and is likely to give over and conclude either in exceding happinesse or excessive misery especially as the case now stands with us wee can hardly find roome for any meane expectation And therfore it must needes very highly concerne us all to desire and endavour in what wee may that it may proceede orderly and succeede prosperously and to remove all shelfes and rockes of impediments which this royall vessell or navie may split upon unto our generall shipwracke This desire I hope is setled in all that are not of a a meere Diabolicall spirit but the effects thereof are various and unlike and not alwayes answerable unto the united intentions but to the variety of mens judgements and Fancies in the designation of those meanes which they diversly conceive to be mostapt and proper for the compassing of those generall aymes wherein all perhaps agree The errours whereof are alwayes diffusive of themselves into those designes or motions which proceed from them and indeed amongst so many and various apprehensions and advices that have shewed themselves busie in the carriage of the worke I cannot but conclude some to be mistaken since I finde them lying so farre assnnder from one another that they cannot move in any direct lines unto the same center or purpose There are if I misjudge not but foure generall mistakes which doe alwayes though not alwayes equally share and divide betwixt them the misconduct of all enterprises The first and most malignant is the errour in the end when the worke is guided to a wrong purpose when the very goale or marke it self is mistaken which wheresoever it is found doth usually pervert the whole course of the action so that it becomes entirely wild and savage Such kind of wandrings being like unto the errours and failings of the first concoction in the body which are observed I take it by Phisitions to be incorrigble by any after worke that nature can performe Since the proposall of the right end is the great Scale or standard where by all the parts and couducts of the businesse must be measured and waighed add he that measures with a crooked rule is not like to make straight worke if the scales be not even how shall a man know the waight of that which is put into them The second generall Errour is the mischoice of the due way or meanes when men set up the right marke before themselves but for want of a good ayme doe not guide the shaft in the right line They meane to sett up at a good Towne but they doe not take the right way over to get thither And this though it be not in all respects so cursed as the former that having the allay of a good intention yet if we may judge of thinges by the Event as it may seeme more miserable since there is some good lost in a sort therein which is not in the other as is miscarriage of a pious intent so it proves many times within few degrees if not altogether as pernitious The third sort of Errours or failings whereby great and good designes are baned is the want of due force or strength in the motion when the enterprise languisheth and dyeth in the way for want of spirit to carry it through unto the Butt and though the Arrow be well guided yet it falls sh●rt of the marke and so falleth short of the victory and prize The fourth and last is the want of a right gage or moderation when there is too much force or impetuousnesse in the setting forward of the businesse so that like a Charret that is driven too furiously it is overturned with its owne speede Or as a Bowle that is well weighed and biast but is at home before its time and so over-runnes the Mistris And the prevention of these foure errours is the work of the foure Cardinall virtues Iustice Prudence Fortitude and Temporance Iustice gives us a true meaning sets us upon the right end Prudence directs us to the choyce of the right meanes Fortitude keepes us from languishing in the motion Temperance from exceeding or overturning it For the two former of these errors as concerneth the great worke in hand I hope there neede bee no agues or shiverings in the States for them or at least if