Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	good_a	patience_n	temperance_n	1,039	5	11.0856	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80408	Redintegratio amoris, or A union of hearts, between the Kings most excellent Majesty, the Right Honorable the Lords and Commons in Parliament, His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the Army under his command; the Assembly, and every honest man that desires a sound and durable peace, accompanied with speedy justice and piety. By way of respective apologies, so far as Scripture and reason may be judges. / By John Cook of Grayes-Inne, Barrester.	Cook, John, d. 1660.	1647 (1647)	Wing C6026; Thomason E404_29; ESTC R201862	78,816	92

as one of the most necessary works to be done in this Kingdom and that wherein there wil appear much opposition and if it be not suddainly done it wil not be done in this Generation our Laws are actually or potentially the best in the world for if any thing be amiss the Parliament may reform it according to right reason which is the soul of al humane Laws without exception no Law ought to live longer then the reason of it continues away with all bugbear objections and after Naseby fight lets never distrust God for any thing I mean let us have such Laws as are not directly against Scripture and for which some reason may be given besides the course of the Court for that for which probable reason may be rendred on both sides is not fundamental as the eldest son to inherite the whole estate certainly there ought in all reason some provision to be made for the young Children if the Father make none for them in his live time but true it is that many positive Laws are fundamental secundarily to alter which would be ful of danger and inconveniences unless it were most evident that great utility would thereby arise and accrue to the Kingdom but that is not my present work something I intend concerning Government in general rules by which no man can conceive himself prejudiced as by general rules of Physick no wise man can expect to be cured 1. That the people girt the sword about the King the King says our Law books is the fountain of honor and it is true for the peoples good therefore doth the King make Judges and Magistrates great that they may not be afraid to do right and justice to their brethren so that indeed the state confers honors by the King as the King gives the Alms by his Almoner they presume that the King wil make no Lords but such as shal be an honor to the Kingdom in whom the Kingdom shal be preferred the Judges Robes are for the Kingdoms good to strick a terror into offenders if the Kingdom or the Parliament which is the state contract can justly except against those which are honored that is if they by their greatness oppress the people and Lord it over poor men the honor ought not to continue for all Priviledges and Preeminences are forfeited by abusers no Priviledg which is a private Law must oppose Publique welfare Indeed nothing done without the states allowance is allowable that is nothing against the fundamental good of the people and truly the main end of Parliaments is to supervise the Publique Magistrates to see that Ministers of justice be just and execute justice impartially If Kings did always prefer good men and conferr the great offices of trust and judicial places upon the most idoneous and best men in the Kingdom which are Infra Causam meriti that best deserve them there would be the less need of Parliaments I mean officers of the Kingdom for there are officers of the Empire for the Administration of Publique justice and officers of the Emperors as his Domestical servants answerable to our distinction of the Kings natural Capacity and his politique Capacity art is always the perfection and never the destruction of nature Let me but humbly observe a little defectiveness in state policy concerning the Kings Councel That the Regal heires have not in their princely education Tutors to instruct them in that which most concerns the good of the Kingdom which is Councellors to acquaint them in the fundamental laws of the land how improper is it that the Kings Counsel should be least of Counsel with his Majesty but by per-audience to gain other Clyents and be ingaged in other mens business when they should be attending his Majesty stil presenting the law before him which is the golden rule of justice Judg Fortescue holds it necessary for the peopl●s happiness that the King see with his own eys what is for his peoples good that so he may reward the most vertuous the Fr●nch King is enioyned to pray so much every day to be exemplary to the people how happy would it be if the nobles and Grandees of state would study that fundamental and true end of Government which is the w●lfare of the people The young Prince of Persia hath 4 Tutors for Religion as many for the Law but 2 for Martial Exploits for they said for the King to know how to ride the Great horse is but half as good for the Subiects as to know the law by which he wears his Crown and one Tutor for every moral vertue patience courtesy temperance chastity c. 2. Not to argue whether we live under a Government mixt and co-ordinate or simple and subordinate 't is a common Tenent that the Empire France and Spain are merum Emperium England Sweden Denmark and Poland a mixt Empire the Venetians a pure Aristocracy Holland Geneva c. Jurisdictio sine Imperio that of the 6. Kings that be in Christendom Fran●e and Spain have too much power Sweden and Poland too little for their title England and Denmark just enough to make themselves splendid and their people happy All agree that the King cannot make a Law without a Parliament and I cannot but exceedingly magnifie the mixture of the 3. estates the superlative trust by Law is in the King Lords and Commons 't is but loss of time to look back into the power of the Bishops for 't is not much above 100. years since there were Statutes enforced for the Popes supreamacy yet so as if the Lords and Commons perceive that the King by evil advice undermines the subjects liberties to the manifest indangering of Salus they must then necessarily suspend the operation of that mixture as when 3. men are to cary a weight if one plucks back his hād the other 2. must bear it for the consideration of publick utility is always equivalent to a necessity Causae necessitatis util tatis aequiparantur in Jure and therefore it is an error to say the people do not trust the right honorable Lords because they do not choose them Their Nobility was acquired and is continued by noble actions those noble Peers that have not deserted the Parliament but continued faithful and adventured their lives and honors for the publick safety deserve eternal praises and in the multitude of such Counsellors there is much safety to this Kingdom for all true Honor consists in vertuous endowments and their improvements the principal whereof is faithfulness to the Kingdom expressing their honorable endeavors after that in works of m●rcy justice peace and love The King is ever present by his power the Lords present in their persons and the Kingdom represented by their choycest members who are impowred for themselv●s and the whole Kingdom so the whole Kingdom is figuratively present by a part taken for the whole therefore the words Comm●ssioners or Arbitrators or Feoffees in trust of exceeding their power and such