Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	justice_n	prudence_n	temperance_n	1,847	5	10.3903	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44969	An humble addresse to the right honourable Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament in vindication of kingly power and government against the damnable positions of Jesuits and phanatiques desiring they would be pleased to call in the king without dishonourable conditions according to his just right / written by the author of a letter to a member.	Author of A letter to a member.	1660 (1660)	Wing H3391; ESTC R31130	13,534	20

Houses of Parliament from the further violence of the Phanatiques who by open force have dissolved many Parliaments contrary to the known Laws in which they have rendred the Nation sinful to God shameful to themselves and a scorn to the world Into your hands it is put by divine providence to stop the rage and ambition of the Anapaptists highly acted with pernicious principles of the Jesuits who at this time design in the dissolution of this Parliament a total subversion of the true Reformed Religion and our ancient and well-established civil government and cunningly to introduce under the notion of new lights the old darkness of Roman Error and superstition and under fair pretences of liberty and common safety in a Free State to ruine and enslave us to the power of forreign Princes The onely way to render your selves high in the esteem of the world is to make your selves a full Parliament consisting of the three estates of the kingdome an excellent frame and composition of the three governments so rightly balanced according to the Ancient institution of it in a well-tempered Monarchy in the King Aristocracie in the Lords and Democracie in the Commons each particular interest complying so handsomely in a fair correspondence with each other the inferiour still subscribing to the superiour in a regular subordination without animosity or dispute So that this admirable constitution may be justly styled Monarchy without Tyranny Aristocracie without ambition and Democracie without Anarchy every man a freeholder concurring by his representatives to redress his grievances and to constitute the Laws of the nation to which he is in all justice obliged in a due observance most readily to subscribe when by his power in the advise of his delegates they are enacted And to that end in compleating the Parliament he being head of it you will give a great honour to your selves happiness to the nation and glory to God in being instrumental under him to bring in the King a most glorious person of Majestick aspect beautified with rare proportions of body polished in an excellent deportment all subservient to the more noble operations of his soul communicating the choice notions of it in an elegant purity of speech his significant expressions in great variety of languages being so many different emblemes that plainly interpret and clearly comment upon the inward characters of his acute fancy and profounder judgement And his heroick habits of personal valour justice prudence magnanimity clemency meekness humility temperance faithfulness constancy in his Religion and above all his most eminent charity in forgiving his enemies speak him most illustrious and highly accomplished in moral intellectual and Theological virtues so that if he had no title to the Crown by right of inheritance in its descent to him through so many Royal ancestours yet his incomperable merits would justly challenge your election of him to be your King But if these ingenuous principles will not obliege you to your duty pray be pleased to consult the great nationall advantages Our high born King being allied to most if not to all the Princes of Europe his Royal interest will make our peace with them and give the banquerupt kingdom such a repute with forreign Princes and Nations that it will highly advance our decaied trade in transporting our various manufactures the great imployment and support of the meaner sort of the kingdom You cannot give your selves a greater boon nor the kingdom a grerter satisfaction then to call in the King without signing such conditions which in effect will make him a Duke of Venice it is not consistent with the duty of Subjects to impose such restrictions on their Soveraign which shall render null in him the sacred function of supreme Magistracy which is not of humane institution and therefore it cannot be resumed with the hands of the people without giving an affront to God himself the true doner of it and let those look for the full viols of Gods wrath to be powred out upon them in being given into the hands of a military power for the administration of justice as a due punishment for taking away the Militia from the true owner as of late we have been two sensible of in imposing such articles in treating with the late most pious King to which in honour and conscience he could not consent I hope God will vouchsafe you more gracious tempers then to dispute the Kings most indubitate right and Regal dignities with which his Royal Auncestours have been formerly possessed do not study to gratifie the pusillanimous fear of those who think they have so highly disoblieged him in their unparalleled actions that they have no security for their persons and fortunes except he be rendred incapable of deserving them in the loss of his power this is to punish him because they have offended and to keep him from doing civil justice to the nation to protect their injustice from a due censure in the old current of the Law Do not blast your own reputation and those great hopes the kingdom conceiveth of you in not giving the King his ancient Rights the Parliament its due priviledges do not abridge the power of the Militia and deem you do him right in giving him an empty title without power to vindicate it which is no more then to let him wear a fair scabbard and take away his sword His late gracious Father chose rather to quit his life then that just power of the sword in which by divire Right and his own inheritance he was estated now is the time to make satisfaction to his glorious son as his immediate heir for those matchless violations which have been offered to his Fathers sacred person do not think to expiate the guilt of former times which long hath laid heavy on the nation in ingaging in the same errors with which they were justly branded The Militia is that which speaketh him the chief Magistrate which protecteth his sacred person and his subordinate magistrates in the exercise of justice and in pressing of the severe execution of those penal laws upon malefactours to the due loss of their lives liberties and fortunes to which though never so just they would not out of a partial love to themselves submit unless compelled by a stronger coercive power It is but a vain speculation to style him supreme and at the same time invest the people with the power of the sword who may when they please dispute his commands though never so lawfull if they hold not a compliance with their desires having a design to abrogate or lessen the just rights of the Crown which though never so much according to the law of God and man yet they may easily pretend as heretofore hath been done in the late Juncto that they are tyrannicall and inconsistent with the liberty of the freeborn people of England in that they give a check to those incendiaries who under the fair glosses of common safety and liberty have sacrificed