Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	house_n	king_n	time_n	12,858	5	3.5925	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90200	A persvvasive to a mutuall compliance under the present government. Together with a plea for a free state compared with monarchy.	Osborne, Francis, 1593-1659.	1652 (1652)	Wing O517; Thomason E655_5; ESTC R203026	31,118	47

but the fearfull apparition of some visible punishment And that other Governments want not the blessings of the best of Monarchies yet stand uncharged with their inconveniences It being possible to be a bad King though a good man in an inferiour Relation The whole masse of History being scarce able to furnish out one in all points accomplished with so many Regall virtues as might compense the damages received from his Predecessour or him that did immediatly succeed Yet dazled with the splendor of a Title whose foule originall continuance hath razed out of the memories of the most The ignorant multitude doe without any scrutiny after worth or conveniency thinke themselves obliged to submit to the untry'd discretion of the next of the same Line So farre intrusted in England before the Conquest that the decision of all controversies lay incumbent in the person of the King onely till corruption and oppression had given cause to mould Reason into a more certaine Law which no respect to their Subjects good but onely their owne trouble or visible constraint was able to tempt them to Yet the people were so simple that upon the least concession of ease they buried the benefit which might have resulted from their expence of bloud and treasure in the same Government if not in the same person they had opposed who was made the more cunning not the better by any thing had pass'd it being the businesse of all politique Princes to rebate the edge of the Lawes towards themselves for whose moderation they were chiefly intended and to render them mortall to the people who in case they were too weake to make good the justest quarrell against their King perished as Traitors when the true treason was perpetrated by their Prince and his evill Counsellours who are ordinarily the first causers of commotions by their cruelty and oppressions Now the indiscretion of our Ancestors hath beene such tempted to it by the miseries incident to Civill Warre as they gave concession to all the Lawes reason or experience could present were likely to strengthen the security of the King in fact So as the justest opposition in the Subject lay under no slighter penalty then the losse of Honour goods lands and life Forgetting That the stronger Fortification was raised before the gates of Kings the more difficult they rendred all accesse to Liberty when ever they were invaded by Tyranny or the peoples conveniency should call for another Government lesse ranting and expensive And I may be confident this could not have been effected with such ease but upon a presumption That the power of Parliaments was thought subordinate to any Law Experience being barren of occasion to make demonstration where the Legislative power should reside in case of a rupture between the King and both or either House never till now in dispute though tacitly implied in the cases of such as t is known they have deposed which questionlesse was done without the Royall assent Therefore not being determinated in expresse words it might be thought impossible a Court so paramount should lye included under generall Rules esteemed in all grants unable to prejudice the Crown and therefore with better Reason unbinding to the Parliament often known not only to dispose of that but the heads that wore it So farre as to determine some unable some unworthy to governe And if any should endeavour to set bounds to the power of this High Court it was as vaine an attempt as to limit the Nation to such an extent of felicity which could no longer hold in nature or Reason then those that did it were able by love or force to master her strength which wisdome would perswade her to resume upon the first approach of advantage Besides the King owning himselfe but a third Estate as you may find in one of his well-pen'd Declarations he could not by his absence remove power so farre from the other but that it did vertually remain in some hands for the good of the People esteemed the supreme Law supposed in all probability to be more cordially intended by the other by reason they were inseparable companions with the people in any good or evill redounded to them from the Law Then by the Prince whose Interest was single and so farre remote from epidemicall ends that he might by incroachment improve his condition to a selfe-advantage raising a particular gaine at the cost of the Publique not probably to be intended by the Nobility unlesse their reason were quite lost in their dependance on the Crown but impossible to be projected by the Commons who after dissolution and their power returned to those that gave it all markes of distinction cease and they are mingled with the rest of the people being equall sharers in what losse or advantage the Representative in which they did reside produced to the Commonwealth Wherefore if a Parliament falls in pieces as this hath done so much Legall power cannot remaine in both the other as in the House of Commons The fairest most naturall and least partiall Representative of the whole Nation whose true and unquestioned proxcies they are The Lords residing by birth as the Bishops in these latter times by favour And both found by experience rather to intend their owne ends then the publique And for such as maintaine That we owed the liberty of electing Parliaments to the benevolence of our Kings May as well say we were indebted to them for our being or nature which abhorres to hold felicity and what is assigned for supportation at the will of another a servitude impossible to be imposed upon a major part that are Masters of right reason Now for the King I should not have looked for him among the three Estates much lesse have owned him for one of them had he not pleased to name himselfe so and by this confession made empty the formerly unquestion'd seat of the Church By which he rather did weaken then support the unnaturall and destructive pretence he made to a Negative voyce For where there is a Parity in an unseparable union it is impossible to find room for so much difference in power as that the most single and suspected part in regard of an experimented selfe-interest should determine of the fitnesse or inconveniency of what the other should present without giving a stronger Reason then his own Will never known but upon constraint or for want of money to contradict it self for the peoples good And though in cases of equall correspondency there might seeme some colour of Justice yet here there cannot Because the King professeth his Person so farre out of the point-blank of Law as that he is responsible to none but God for the worst not onely that he can doe himselfe but suffer to be done by his Instruments Therefore since no tie can be made strong enough to restraine him from breaking in to his Subjects most sacred immunities this power must needs be too extravagant to mingle with theirs lesse interessed who