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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	child_n	heart_n	love_v	5,211	5	6.2414	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93763	The reason of the war, with the progress and accidents thereof. / Written by an English subject. VVherein also the most material passages of the two books printed at Oxford (in which His Majesties party do undertake to justifie their proceedings) are briefly examined; viz. The [brace] declaration, entituled, Tending to peace; relation of the passages at the meeting at Uxbridge. July 1. 1646. Imprimatur Na: Brent.	Stafford, William, 1593-1684.	1646 (1646)	Wing S5152; Thomason E350_8; ESTC R201041	87,456	156

the people are for the most part measured by the deportment of the Prince so reciprocal is the obligation so natural the relation betwixt a King and His Subjects and how desirous His Majesties Predecessors have been of their Subjects love is fresh in Memory They knew and were protected by it that Fides magis tuetur quam satellitium their Subjects affections to be a surer Bulwark then their own Guard King James protested In the same Speech the enjoyment of His Subjects love and His possession of their hearts to be His greatest earthly security next the favor of God and so to be accounted of by any wise or just King Queen Elizabeths tender affections and care towards Camdens Annals Her people was expressed in that she took it ill that any man should think a Father loved his Children better then she her People Affections are not to be enforced when they are they turn into fear and are not durable Love hath a univocal generation begetting Issue like it self as the face in water answereth the face so the heart of man to man If Kings love not their Subjects whom God hath therefore made them Lords of their Raign is dangerous and where Subjects return not the like duty the Obligations being mutual their guilt of unthankfulness and disloyalty in infamous where the fault now is Peace only and such Laws as follow on it can resolve the Question But sure it is that the peoples free and unconstrained affections run for the most part all one way their * May 1641. Protestation lately taken binds them to an unity of concurrence they are sensible of the several parts thereof tending all to the maintenance of Gods Honor the Kings welfare the Subjects Right and Liberty no one part crossing or contradicting the other if it should it could not be safely taken and it is strange that in this great and Civil Discord the people being free to chuse which part to side with there should be such an aversnesse and disaffection in them unlesse on most vehement causes of suspition above ordinary Fears and Jealousies descending even to whole Families and Countreys for few or no one Countrey let men frame and flatter what they please more Malignant more Loyal then another excepting where the Kings power hath its residence the Authority and strength whereof subjugating the peoples hearts the Factors for that power pressing and protesting the Justice of their own party so seasoning and possessing the Subjects hearts with Calumny and prejudice against the other party together with some Gentlemen of note deeply engaged and stickling in their Countreys where they have power to make good that part which they take for their own sake and safety and those few have some Followers Tenants Servants or Mercenaries Nor one Town more Loyal then another or more Malignant taking the Malignancy against which side you will saving where some obnoxious persons of Eminency or Power hath Pre-eminence above the rest or where a chief Town in a County since this War began hath a more stout and expert Commander in it to Govern and keep the same against all Force opposing it wherefore what a mistake it is to call this Countrey or Town more or lesse Malignant more or lesse Loyal when as all men in a natural duty do and desire to serve the Countrey wherein they are born and live The Orator excepting against the ease and quiet Cicer. of many men did long since direct them in the gratitude which they owe unto their Birth and Breeding distributing their Duty and Endeavors into several portions Partem Parentes Partem Amici Partem Patria vendicat what their Countrey is what the Representative Body is already declared The King as Head thereof whilest joyned to the Heart and Members is implicitely meaned * Partem Patria One part the Countrey is explicitely set down Which terms of Malignant Loyal unquestioned before this War began hath much distempered the Common-wealth and set a difference even between the nearest Friends where Nature and Desert hath put an Unity Malice and Mistakings hath made Dissention that it falls out in these Kingdoms as in Israel and Judah two parts of a Nation we are no longer a Tribe and a Tribe but we are divided Kinred against Kinred Family against Family Son against his Father a Daughter against her Mother and a mans Foes to be those of his own House Nay it is a more intestine Discord betwixt a man as it were and himself the Body and the Minde between the outward Estate and inward Conscience When a man to save his Estate shall expose his Conscience having premeditately and on judgement resolved to betake himself to one side soon after for fear of losing his Estate or upon the turn of Victory hath submitted to the other against the consent of his own heart and conscience The prosecution of which War hath had several rises and beginnings many passages to increase and adde fuel to the Contention the Kings party always crossing and altering even in matters Arbitrary and Indifferent what the King and Parliament did on good reason institute Others of more moment as namely His * See the Articles of the large Treaty pag. 16. Demand 4. granted by His Majesty August 1641. Majesties gracing and preferring to His nearest secresie and trust a person whom His Majesty and Parliament did accuse and Proclaim guilty of High Treason Divers other matters of debate might happen to inflame the Discord one more particularly and remarkably concerning the Earl of Strafford who in the Dispute whether he should suffer or not had gained the most powerful and eminent Members as he thought of both Houses of Parliament on his side and the King to intercede as far as he might with Justice to acquit the Earl A sixth part at the most of the Members against the Sentence of his suffering might be peradventure troubled that their power and suffrages were over-matched and thinking much that they could not prevail to acquit the Earl have probably nourished thence an emulous spirit towards their fellow-Members the Debate whereof could not but adde unto the fuel of these Dissentions and so prove a prosecution of this War Thus the fire of War being kindled two principal parties have appeared in a martial posture And which first began unto whom was violence first offered in robbing and spoyling and the like is reported severally according to the affections of the Reporters a just estimate without varying in matters of considerablenesse is hardly to be had The King and His party say he intended no War the Parliament sayes Their's is defensive only the Proverb is The second blow makes the affray the first it is sure gives the offence The Kings coming in a Warlike manner attended with so many armed men to demand the six impeached Members resembled as much as for that present might be a Warlike act But a Warlike act and a War differ not much more then