Selected quad for the lemma: evil_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
evil_n	good_a	know_v	knowledge_n	3,077	5	7.3450	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92044	The royal chronicle: wherein is contained, an historical narration of His Majesties Royal progress; the princely cabinet laid open, with an embleme to Great Brittain; the peoples diadem, proceeding from the ornament and crown of their gracious Lord and soveraign; the incomparable studies of His Majesty in the government of Kings, to the admiration of all forreign princes; and His Majesties leige people within these His realms and dominions; His great endowments aud [sic] experience, in religion, law, and governments; His mercy rejoycing over justice, and his justice cutting out work for his mercy; His gracious pardon to offenders, and His Christian speech to the London ministers.		1660 (1660)	Wing R2104; Thomason E1034_2; ESTC R209029	4,759	8

writings and actions in his own breast and there digested them into axiomes of an entire and well framed policy to policy He hath added ancient and modern History whereupon he seeth those things performed that He saw in policy contri●ed When we have admired the gracious contents of any of His Majesties Writings we cannot but admire also his excellent Rhetorick 1. His Majesty being naturally averse from that lawless power he saw exercised in the Countryes where he sojourned and resolved to Govern by Laws he proceeds to study the Law of Nations and that of his own Countrey too wherein his Father so excelled that few Gentlemen in England came near him his skil in Geography what with his study what with his Travels is admirable Indeed the useful parts of the Mathematicks the Globe Fortification c. take him up very much in Navigation what by his own Genius what by converse with Marinners and his own Observations in the Downes and elsewhere he is so good a Proficient that expert Seamen have admired him and dare promise that his skil that way will be no small advantage to the Nation whose Interest lyes in forraign Voyages and Trades But Divinity is his Mistress with whose wholesome principles he hath well stocked the great spirit of his mind upon which his Soul may rest he searches that word of God which is able to make a man wise to salvation and perfect to every good work in a word he hath all the advantages of knowledge 1 A cleer apprehension to receive a right and distinct notion of the things represented to him 2 Solidity of Judgement to weigh the particulars he apprehends 3. Fidelity of Retention for as Nature hath given to the bodies of men for the furtherance of Corporal strength a Retentive power to clasp and hold fast that which preserveth it until a thorough concoction be wrought so he hath a Retentive faculty of Memory given to Reason as a means to consolidate and inrich it 2. His great wisdome as of an Angel of God as large a heart to know good and evil as great education the difference of Nation and Factions he had to deal with his Enemies opposition his Friends treachery his personal converse with men of all sorts the variety of his experience from the distinct knowledge of the Natures of the People of several Countreys of their chief Ministers of State Ecclesiastick and Civil and all this as a noble Pen observes in adversity which opens the understanding and confirms the judgement could make he with his Grand-father of France carrieth a Councel with him upon one Horse 3. But this wisdome were dangerous were it not accompanied with justice his wisdom is not a crafty or sordid subtilty nor devilish policie but pure good and just Judgement He hath a Justice that becomes the Throne a constant will to give every Man his due as he hath well or ill deserved A person of Honour who hath spent 18 years in his Majesties Court and service doth upon distinct knowledge let the World know he can as confidently believe that his Majesty is just as that he is a Man he observes a Justice in his word and in his action the one is an Oracle and the other Law 4. But he hath a mercy that rejoyceth over his Justice a mercy calculated for our time and Nation wherein Subjects were never so obnoxious to Justice nor a Prince so enclined to mercy a People was hardly ever so guilty as we and hardly a Prince ever so gratious as himself we are not more ready to offend then he to pardon with what tender Majesty doth he pass by the guilty prostrate his Justice doth but cut out work for his Mercy what stubborn Offenders that brings upon their knees this stoops to bring them up again they that fall by his severity rise up again by his favour he is more compassionate to Men then they are to themselves It is but the least part of his mercy that he can be merciful to others while they are most cruel to him he is exercising the highest charity towards them while they are exercising the greatest injuries towards him this Nature taught him then God and afterwards his Father in that incomparable advice to him 5. A general goodness whereof that mercy is but a branch familiar converse easiness of access a readiness to communicate himself his fair carriage towards all how unwilling he is to force men to do him right how when he who fears not to do others justice afraid is he to do it to himself I know not whether he be more good then great more Charlebone then Charlemaine I am sure his virtues are esteemed by him more then his Kingdome and he doth not exercise these vertues as malice as Hell once suggested that he might dissemble himself to his just Right but he would obtain his Right that he might be the more able to exercise his vertues his Right will therefore please him because then he is able to forgive them that did him wrong 6. His magnanimity fortitude and courage he is as magnanimous in suffering wrong as he is valiant in attempting to recover his Right his Innocence being guilty of nothing is afraid of nothing the Righteous is as bold as a Lyon fearing no Enemy because he hath justly provoked none his Religion is not the least support of his valour He with David encourageth Garisons and wraps up himself in his God where Reason leaves doubting their Faith begins in hope even against hope In a word God hath indued His Majesty with those incomparable Graces that are seldome poured forth any where below the Throne for whatsoever things are true just pure and lovely they are in Him This is the Person whom God and all Men think worthy of a Kingdom but those over whom He is a King meaning the Phanatique these are the Vertues in whose enjoyment other Nations hug themselves These are the Princely Rayes that shine with Majestick Lustre in most parts of Europe And this is the great and Christian Conqueror who attributes not any thing to Himself but with Holy King David giveth the glory of all to the King of Kings saying I wil not trust in my Bow neither shall my Sword save me But thou hast saved us from our enemies and hast put them to shame that hated us Or as His Majesty graciously expressed Himself in His short Speech to the Ministers in his passage through the City The deliverance which God hath wrought for me I own as the work of his own right hand beyond humane contrivance and desire that all the glory of them may be ascribed to Him FINIS