Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	king_n	kingdom_n	richard_n	3,833	5	8.9502	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40962	An expedient for the king, or, King Charls his peace-offering, sacrificed at the altar of peace, for a safe and well-grounded peace the welfare and happiness of all in generall, and every subject in particular, of his kingdom of England Behold! all ye that passe by, stand stil, and see the wonderful salvation of the Lord, which he hath wrought for the people of this kingdom, by his servant King Charls : Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God : Aske of the King, and he shal give you not stones, for bread, nor scorpions, for fish / studied and published for the honour of the King, and his posterity, and the universall happiness of the whole kingdom of England, by Richard Farrar, Esq.	Farrar, Richard, Esq.	1648 (1648)	Wing F520; ESTC R8687	30,129	43

AN EXPEDIENT FOR THE KING OR King Charls his Peace-Offering Sacrificed at the ALTAR of PEACE For a safe and well-grounded Peace the welfare and happiness of all in generall and every subject in particular of this His Kingdom of ENGLAND Behold all ye that passe by stand stil and see the wonderful Salvation of the LORD which he hath wrought for the people of this Kingdom by his servant KING CHARLS Blessed are the Peace-makers for they shal be called the children of God Aske of the King and he shal give you Not Stones For Bread Nor Scorpions For Fish Studyed and Published for the honour of the King and his Posterity and the Universall happiness of the whole Kingdom of England BY RICHARD FARRAR Esq Printed in the Year MDCXLVIII TO The Kings most excellent Majesty Most Gracious Soveraign IT is the saying of Solomon the pen-man of the Holy Ghost and the wisest King that ever was Prov. 21. 1. The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord as the rivers of water he turneth it whithersoever he pleaseth I a poor despicable man despicable because poor do presume out of my sincere loyal affection and duty to Your Majesty and my earnest desire for the re-uniting of You with Your Parliament and Subjects of this Kingdom to offer or rather to sacrifice my weak Conceptions to Your gracious Acceptance or Refusal Sir We are all in an Egyptian darkness be You but pleased to cause the Sun-shine of your Mercy and Goodness to break out upon Your poor Subjects of this Kingdom and there is great hope we may soon be delivered from this fearful Confusion whereinto we are faln For my own part I beleeve Your Majesties not being conscious of the misery Your poor Subjects are in in regard of the unkingly restraint You are for the present unhappily under is the cause You cannot be so zealous as otherwise you would to redress it and that your want of knowledg of the present conjuncture of Affairs is that which renders Your People so infinitely miserable that they are ready every minute to precipitate themselves into the Gulf of Despair It is said of Almighty God There is mercy with him that he may be feared and his mercy is over or above all his works And I beleeve without least flattery I speak it that there is abundance of Mercy and Bowels of Compassion with You towards Your poor Subjects that You may be both loved and feared and that Your Mercy will shower it self down to the amazement reproach of those that seem not to beleeve it Did I say Your Mercy yea and Your Justice also even against Your self in the voluntary clouding of Your own Princely Royalty and that Prince who shadows his own Glory meerly for the good of his Subjects is a rare Pattern And the first giver of so great an unexampled Example must needs render himself glorious to all Posterity Sir in the first place I presume with boldness enough I confess yet will I not flatter you so much as to say I beg Your Majesties pardon for it to remember you that Self-Denial is the only way to happiness Temporal here Eternal hereafter and had it been but a little practised on all hands by the three Estates of Parliament at the beginning or budding forth of these unhappy differences although Malice it self cannot but say that Your Majesty acted Your part and the very Lepers of Samaria shall one day rise up in Judgment against some and say that that was a day of good tydings and they ungratefully held their Peace In Your abolishing of Monopolies putting down the Star-Chamber disannulling the High Commission Court outing of Bishops from the House of Peers Regulating the Councel Table granting of Triennial Parliaments and continuing of This not to be dissolved without the consent of both Houses Your Majesty and Your People had not felt Gods heavy hand as You and They have done for these seven years past and yet do but for me to presume to tell Your Majesty what Self-Denial is were a most unpardonable offence And yet for Your Majesty to beleeve that this Peace-Offering which You sacrifice to the good and happiness of Your People in this sad condition Your Majesty is in and the most miserable one They are plunged into can be happily begun without Self-Denial on Your part first and then all the Peoples part also is so far as I can apprehend in Reason and Religion altogether unpossible and by the sequel of my discourse I doubt not but to make good the Truth of it at the Full Sir look into Your own heart and see whether informer times You were not more Your own or others who abused you then Your Subjects universally The word Proprium is of a neer relation and I doubt whether it sits not as close to the hearts of Kings as of Subjects which your Majesty well knows is not compatible with Self-Denial Sir You are a great Monarch true yet You are but a Steward nomine re a Steward of the great House of the Common-wealth and one day it shall be said to You as to the Steward in the Gospel Redde Rationem Give an Account of thy Stewardship And the Accounts of Kings are of a vast extent Sir You are a Sheepherd also a Sheepherd of a great Flock our Saviour calls himself a Sheepherd the great Sheepherd of Israel and he tells you a good Sheepherd will dye for his Sheep he did so And S. Paul Phil. 2. 5. speaking of our Saviour Christ and there deducing him from all eternity to time hath these words Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus Who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God But made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men And being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the Cross Wherefore God highly exalted him c. And shal I doubt Your Majesty will imitate our blessed Saviour in all you can I doubt it not He prayed for his persecutors and taught us so to do He forgave his enemies that crucified him even upon the Cross Father forgive them they know not what they do nay he dyed for them who dyed saith the Apostle for the sins of the whole world You are not desired Sir to dye out of the world or to part with Your Soul by a Sequestration of it from your body for then we were miserable Let the greatest curse that ever fell on the head of any man fall on that head that hath but such a wish or thought in his heart All you have to do or suffer is but to part with a sillable or two from one single word a few letters cut off from that Monster as the People call it although there hath been held out to them for a long time a more Prodigious one