Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	king_n	levy_v	statute_n	2,647	5	9.0849	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28568	Three charges delivered at the General Quarter Sessions holden at Ipswich, for the county of Suffolk, in the years 1691, 1692 to which is added the author's vindication for the calumnies and mistakes cast on him on account of his geographical dictionary / by Edmund Bohun ...	Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3462; ESTC R6022	15,248	34

should I expose my Head and Family to all this Why let such an one do it Ay doubtless even the Man that has no Being Mr. No-Body for he only is above the Revenges and Molestations of all his Neighbours This is the Reason why Moses so often and so earnestly Exhorts all that were concerned in the Execution of Justice to be Stout and Courageous and not fear the Face or Power of any Man because the Judgment was the Lords and he would assert and defend his own Minister and Ordinance against all that should design their Disquiet or Wrong Now Gentlemen if I could but Cure your Partiality your Lasiness and your Cowardize I would then promise my self a good effect But I must beg your pardon here for but supposing you can be guilty of any of these things Men of your Character and Estates can never be suspected never Justly Why Gentlemen I would not Defame you nay nor so much as Suspect you if Time and many Years Experience had not taught me to despair of having what I can say regarded I would not suspect even where I cannot but be certain but I must suspect whether I will or no and you may forgive it me because it is in your powers to satisfie me and the World you do not deserve to be suspected and if upon the Return of your Verdict I find cause for it I will publickly Recant what I now say and at the same time return you my Thanks for Confuting my Jealousie The gaining this Point is all I aim at to Excite and Awaken your Drowsie Sleeping Attentions and even Anger you into your Duty if nothing else will do But when all is done I would not willingly offend you and if I have gained my Point I am sure I have not The Statute of the 32 H. 8. c. 9. saith very truly The Articles There is nothing within this Realm that Conserves the Subjects in more Quietness Rest Peace and good Concord than due Administration of Laws For where this is not Impunity will soon produce sufficient matter to disquiet any Nation But the Work of Righteousness shall ever be Peace You shall diligently enquire of and truly Present Treasons all Treasons and Traiterous Conspiracies against our most Gracious Sovereigns King William and Queen Mary By whom when and where the same were perpetrated or attempted entred into or disclosed It is true this Court cannot Try any Treason because not in our Commission but yet we can and ought to enquire of it and you to Present it that the Records may be after removed into those Courts who can Try the same The compassing the Death of the King or Queen or Prince and declaring the same by any open Deed. Such as are a design to Depose or Imprison them For Death hath ever followed upon these Actions and of necessity ever must There is said Charles the First but a small distance between the Prisons and the Graves of Princes and his Death soon after verified the Observation Such are the Misfortunes of our Times that Loyalty it self is now suborned and made accessary to the disquieting and endangering Two of the best Princes that ever set upon the English Throne and Men think and say they do not owe them the same Allegiance they did their Predecessors because they are so De Facto and not De Jure A bold and a false Assertion but which will not Justifie the Conclusion if it were true The Allegiance is the same be the Foundation of it what it will for our Laws know but one Allegiance and have the same punishment for all Traytors The other Overt Acts are the providing Weapons to effect it sending Letters to second it assembling People to take the King or Queen into their Power writing Letters to a Foreign Prince to Incite him to an Invasion for speaking is not an Overt Act within the Statute but if it be set down in Writing any way it is then an Overt Act. The Joining with the King's Enemies within the Realm or without and the Levying War against them is another Branch of Treason within the Act of the 25 E. 3. c. The rest of the Treasons there mentioned can scarce be supposed to fall within your Cognizance and therefore may be omitted for Brevity The Second Charge delivered at the General-Quarter-Sessions of the Peace opened on Friday the 8th of April 1692 at Ipswich and held by Adjournment to the 9th of the same it being a General Fast that Day Delivered again on Friday the 22d of July in the same Year at Ipswich with some few Alterations GENTLEMEN IT has ever been my Custom in Obedience to the Usage introduced by our Wise and Industrious Ancestors to open the Charge I was to give you with something of a Preface or short Introduction necessary as to the times fit for me to speak and for you to hear tho' the bare repeating the Articles were much more easie to me But I value nothing in this World so much as the Service of God and the Safety and Welfare of my Country which are the main things I have ever aimed at and for the Promoting of which I shall never think any Labour or Hazard too great Deplorable is the State of Mankind whilst we live in this Mortal Life and Miserable World neither God nor Man Prosperity nor Adversity Peace nor War Plenty nor Want can universally please all And which is most of all to be admired at Men in all Ages have been most Insolent most Discontented when Heaven has most smiled upon them when Deliverance Prosperity Peace and Plenty have been given them and their Wishes prevented No sort of Men have met with harder Usage no Times with more Murmurers than those that have been Imployed by God to Deliver his People from the most Pitiful State and Condition of which in the Old Testament Moses and Jeptha and Gideon and Samuel and David are clear and undeniable Instances if I had time to open their Story This Carriage of the Jewish Nation from first to last both towards God and towards their Deliverers was so constantly the same that the Psalmist in his short Epitome of their Story sets it down as a never failing Rule When he Slew them they sought him and turn'd them early and enquired after God But then Psal 78. no sooner were they delivered but it immediately appeared they did but Flatter him with their Mouth and Dissembled with him in their Tongues And as they thus Foolishly Treated God so they did his Instrument too For which of the Prophets saith St. Stephen have not your Fathers Persecuted Acts 7. 52. Or which of the Princes Judges Generals met with better Treatment But of this I shall say the less because the History of the Bible is in all your hands upon the least hint your Thoughts will suggest all that I can say upon this subject To lead you then to another Scene which shall verifie the same Rule I will