Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	affection_n	grace_n	spirit_n	2,233	5	4.5134	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78467	Certaine considerations touching the present factions in the Kings dominions.		1648 (1648)	Wing C1697; Thomason E466_3; ESTC R205217	8,885	13

bring forth good fruit and another evill But when these things will have a remedy if any enquire it may as soone be answered when the Magistrate shall be invested with what properly belongs to him the Right of Dominion Christ would not have his Disciples as Lords if Kings would not have them so neither what do they but will the same things our Saviour Christ willed before There is no Argument to be used against them no more then there can be against Scripture yet as much labour hath been taken to expound the one and oppose the other as in any two things in the world In a word we are come to that passe that to lay a foundation of a durable Government and provide for the peoples Safety nothing is more necessary then to take away the power of the Clergie and their liberty of prevaricating in the Pulpits for by this meanes we shall prevent as much as in us lies the heavy judgements of God upon us then which none are greater no not plague famine or the sword then when he suffers a lying spirit to fill the mouthes of the Prophets which were the words of Sir Robert Spotswood at his death And since every one can reforme another better then himself 't is fittest for the Magistrate to reforme the Clergie especially now we live in an Age when the Laity and Secular men in morall vertue Learning and Piety not only equall but exceed them that they being the best of men may mend others by their example as well as precept Of the whole Controversie between KING and PARLIAMENT in a brief Conclusion TO conclude It hath appeared to me in the generall discourses of the times that the question never was amongst any men whether obedience should be given to the supreme Magistrate but who that Supreme Magistrate was or where it resided As if we could not tell after so many Ages and Successions of Kings and Princes what the forme of our Government yet was and that all this while we should as it were be Governed by chance But where the reason of all this is and how the matter comes to be ventilated with no other successe then the increase of animosities and heats among men must be imputed to Gods Judgements on the Nation For it is certaine that all truths whatsoever receive not their Quietus est from any Arguments of men or power of reason alone without a concurrent temper in the affections which God gives to imbrace them It could not otherwise be that what hath been received for so many Ages for an universall truth by wiser men perhaps then any now alive should come now to be disputed anew canvass'd and condemn'd perhaps And severall other opinions dogmatically obtruded upon the world as the rules of the faith good life and obedience of all men never heard of before The two Houses and their well well-affected Party say The King being wanting to his duty in them is supplementally all Supreme power and they being only Judges when he is wanting may when they will invest themselves with this power For if to be wanting to them is to be wanting to his duty how many occasions may they take to make him wanting to his duty when their passions shall put them upon demands not fit for his reason to grant them John Liburne and his well-affected Party and thus there can be no Malignants for every one is well affected to his own party say The Supreme power is in the Right Honourable the House of Commons which is a position till this year of deliration never heard of and yet perhaps John Lilburne and some of his would seal this truth with their Blood and call it Martyrdome to suffer for it So that call in Divines Politicians Lawyers Logicians and all the wit and understanding of the world to help us I cannot see what end they can give to our distractions For Divines Politicians Lawyers and Logicians are all divided and the disease lies more in our will and affections and about the heart then in the braine Men will not yield because they will not We have more need of Charity to prepare soften then of Councell to informe For all reason being inflamed with passion God must allay it with his good spirit of Grace and Truth or we must still remain the spectacle of madnesse and fury to all the world which He in mercy prevent who is onely able to lay the stormes and rebuke the wind of worldly commotions and particularly this in England causing his spirit to move upon the hearts of all persons now engaged in this present Treaty Amen THE END