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A37474	The speech of the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Warrington, Lord Delamere, to the Grand Jury at Chester, April 13, 1692	Warrington, Henry Booth, Earl of, 1652-1694.	1692 (1692)	Wing D883; ESTC R24883	10,473	34

those who take offence at the late Act of Indulgence which tends so much to our Peace by quieting the Minds of the People as to their Religion which hath ever been the handle to our intestine Troubles the Incendiaries of the State having ever made use of it as the best pretence to embroyl the Nation And therefore I for my part do think that the Act of Indulgence was a necessary and Pious Work and cannot imagine why any man should think that to be a disservice to the Church that tends to the Peace of the Nation They who do so I must believe are not much concerned in the Cause of the Chureh and their Country and care not what is uppermost provided they can but make fair Weather for themselves Therefore Gentlemen if any speak to the disadvantage of the Act of Indulgence you ought to present them as disaffected to the Government and sowers of the seeds of Division in the State But I desire to be rightly understood I do not say this to disswade any man from coming to the Church For I go constantly thither my self and I wish every body could do it as easily as I do and I wonder 't is otherwise for I never yet heard any good reason for the practising the contrary Yet I think unless a man be satisfied in that way of Worship it is better to keep away than to come for otherwise it is to mock and not to Serve God and on the other hand it is no less a mocking of God when a man from an over-assurance of the Gift of Prayer shall adventure to Pray in Publick without having before-hand well digested his Matter and Words and therefore may happen to let fall crude and nautious Expressions such as would be ridiculous in private Conversation for I am far from believing that Nonsence can be the effect of Fervency but rather of Affectation or something that is very reproveable And here it will not be amiss or improper to take notice of those Persons who go to no Church at all but spend the Lords day commonly called Sunday as the Statute hath it in an Ale-house or otherwise idle it away very unprofitably against such as these was that Law of Twelve-Pence a Sunday intended and were it duly put in Execution a great deal of that dishonour that is done to God by such Profanation would be prevented and the Poor would be relieved with less charge to their respective Parishes I wonder the Petty Constables are not more careful to make true Presentments at every Petty Sessions of those who herein offend the Glory of God and their own Interest being so nearly I may say so immediately concerned The next thing I would recommend to you is As far as in you lies to suppress that horrible Sin of customary Swearing whereby the Tremendous Name of God is every day Blasphemed It is too true that scarce any man when Provoked or in Passion has guard enough over himself to prevent his taking the Holy Name of God into his Mouth and if any of us fall into that sad misfortune we ought solemnly to beg forgiveness of it But yet that whereby God's Honour suffers most is customary Swearing when men do not think they express themselves handsomely without an horrible Oath or more to fringe off their Sentences It is such a daring familiarity with God Almighty as no man would allow to his best Friends I believe there is not any of you Gentlemen but would be very angry to have your own Names used upon every slight and trivial occasion and if so I will not imagine that you will be less concerned for God's Honour than for your own It is a shameful thing to see how very much the High ways are generally neglected and out of Repair the fault of which does mostly lye at the door of the Overseers whose chiefest care in them now a days is how to shuffle off the matter for their time being very little concerned for what comes after them and by this means they bring at last a great burthen upon their Townships which would have been prevented by a small charge if but taken in time and so the Township suffers through their neglect There are very good Laws against Vagabonds but the Execution of them is shamefully neglected and it is strange it should be so considering what Incouragement the Law gives for the apprehending of such idle People For who ever brings any of those Wanderers before a Justice of Peace The Towns through which they last past Unpunished is to Pay Two Shillings a piece to him that apprehended them Though this Reward carry no weight with it yet the great Mischief that those sort of People bring upon the Publick should make every body vigilant It is an incredible Sum that they cost the Nation in a year and considering how many Townships and Parishes are oppressed and almost ruined by the Accidents that are hereby brought upon them it is wonderful that People should rather chuse to Forswear themselves than do their Duty but so it is in this Case Were these Wanderers duly Punished it would reform many of them and discourage others from following so bad an example whereas the great remisness of Constables and other Officers in this point is a great temptation to many who otherwise would think of some more Lawful as well as Profitable ways of living A neglect and slowness to Punish increases the number of Offenders These things Gentlemen I in particular recommend to you not as all your business but yet as things that cry aloud for redress for there does fall within your Enquiry High-Treasons Petty-Treasons Felonies of all sorts whether against the Person Possession or Goods of a man Riots Routs and unlawful Assemblies and every thing that is an Offence against the Publick Peace in which I am not more particular because I fear I have held you too long already and therefore I will trouble you no farther but pray God to direct you in your Business FINIS BOOKS Printed for R. Baldwin ME●ourius Britannious Or the New Observator Containing Reflections upon the most Remarkable Events falling out from time to time in Europe and more particularly in England The Fifth Volume Printed for Rit Baldwin where are also to be had the First Second Third and Fourth Volumes with the Appendix to them The Speech of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Stamford Lord Gray of Gr●●●y c. at the General Quarter-Sessions held for the County of 〈◊〉 at Michaelmas 1691. His Lordship being made Gustes Rot●●rum for the faid County by the late Lord Commissioners of the Great Seal Bibliotheca Politica Or a Discourse by way of Dialogue Whether Absolute Non-Resistance of the Supreme Powers be enjoined by the Doctrine of the Gospel and was the Ancient 〈◊〉 of the Primitive Church and the 〈◊〉 Doctrine of our Reformed Church of England Collected out of the most approved Authors both Ancient and Modern Dialogue the Fourth Printed for R. Baldwin where also may be had the First Second and Third Dialogues A Project of a Descent upon France By a Person of Quality A True Relation of the Cruelties and Barbarities of the French upon the English Prisoners of War being a Journal of their Travels from 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 to Th●●lon in Provence and back again With a Description of the Scituation and Fortifications of all the Eminent Towns upon the Road and their Distance Of their Prisons and Hospletals and the number of men that died under their Cruelty 〈…〉 Europe 's Chains broke or a sure and speedy Project to rescue her from the present Usurpations of the Tyrant of France Reflections upon the late King James's Declaration lately Dispersed by the Jacabites Truth brought to Light or the History of the first 14 years of King James I. In Four Parts I. The happy state of England at his Majesty's Entrance the corruption of it afterwards With the Rise of Particular Favourites and the Divisions between this and other States abroad II. The Divorce betwixt the Lady Frances Howard and Robert Earl of Essex before the King's Delegates authorized under the King's Broad-Seal As also the Arraignment of Sir Jer. Ellis Lieutenant of the Tower c. about the murther of Sir Tho. Overbury with all Proceedings thereupon and the King 's gracious Pardon and Favour to the Countess III. A Declaration of his Majesty's Revenue since he came to the Crown of England with the Annual Issues Gifts Pensions and extraordinary Disbursements IV. The Commissions and Warrants for the burning of two Hereticks newly revived with two Pardons one for Theophilus Higgons the other for Sir Eustace Hart. A Sermon preached before the General and Officers in the King's Chappel at Portsmouth on Sunday July 24. 1692. Being the day before they Embarqu'd for the Descent upon France By Willam Gallaway A.M. Chaplain to Their Majesties Sea-Train of Artillery

any take pains to obtain an Act of Parliament to settle his Inheritance on his Heirs except he were an Alien or Illegitimate and therefore considering that by vertue of an Entail of the Crown by Act of Parliament in Henry the Seventh's time it is that the Four last Kings have swayed this Scepter I could never understand that Divine Right that was by some stampt upon the Title to the Crown or that the Succession was preferable to the Publick Good I have endeavoured to explain this Point the more by reason that some object against the Sufficiency of this King's Title to the Crown because the Succession was broke through to let him into the Throne as if nothing could give a King a good Title to the Crown but Succession For my part I never saw any reason to be of that Opinion and if there be nothing but the Interruption of the Succession to object to this King 's Right if he continue to govern according to the Principle upon which the Crown was given him and according to the good and laudable Customs of the Realm I think every man that wishes well to the Interest of his Countrey ought to bless God for this Revolution In my poor opinion I do not apprehend that a King that comes to the Crown by Election should think worse of his Title than if he had come in by Succession but rather the more securely because the People are under a more immediate Obligation to stand by and support the King they have Elected than any other that takes the Crown by Succession nor that the people should suspect that they hold their Properties and Rights more precariously under a King that is Elective than under one that claims the Crown by Succession but rather the contrary because it more highly imports him as well in point of Gratitude as in that of Policy to preserve the good opinion of the people by Governing well than if his Title was by Succession for I am far from believing that a King who comes in by Election may make more bold with the Laws than he that claims under any other Title or that his Right to the Crown continues any longer than by his Administration it doth appear that his Interest is the same with that of the Nation The next deceit by which the Nation was to be gull'd into Popery and Slavery was by fomenting Divisions amongst Protestants and especially about the Terms of Communion making them so strict and narrow as to exclude the greatest part of the Protestants in England and Nine parts in Ten of the rest in the world That this was not to promote God's Glory and the Salvation of mens Souls but to serve some new Design is clear to me from several Reasons First Because the Laws against Dissenters were stretched and executed beyond their genuine and natural Intent or Construction Where fair Play is intended such Tricks are altogether need less but daily experience proves that when they are made use of some other thing is designed than what is pretended True Religion needs no such methods to support it the nature of which is Peace and Charity and besides such forced Constructions being nothing less than summum Jus are abhorred by our Laws and are looked upon no less than summa Injuria the highest Injustice Secondly The Second Reason for my Opinion is because that several Laws were put in execution against the Dissenters which were plainly and directly made for other purposes by which the Law it self suffered Violence and so it became evident to every man that had a mind to see that some foul Design and not the Church was at the bottom of the business Thirdly Another Reason is this Because more Diligence and Care was employed to Punish People for Non-conformity than to Reform their Lives and Manners For if a man were never so openly Wicked and Debauched and very scarce if ever saw the inside of a Church yet if he could talk loud and swagger bravely for the Church and storm against and pull the Dissenters to pieces he was cry'd up by all means for a good Son of the Church an honest man and truly affected to the Government Whilst those who could not come up to all the Ceremonies enjoined in the Rubrick though their lives in all other respects were upright and their conversations unblameable yet were called Villains and Rogues and Enemies to the Government as if the outside and Ceremonious part of Religion was more to be valued than the substance and essence of it Which puts me in mind of a passage I have met with in a Play which is worthy your hearing if I do not spoil it in the telling it is in the Play called Sir COURTLY NICE betwixt two Persons one is called Mr. Hothead a very Idle Profligate Fellow but who yet sets up for a great Son of the Church and cannot speak or think with patience of any thing that inclines to Moderation the other Person is called Mr. Testimony as Rigid and Ridiculously squeamish on the other hand in his way these Two falling into a great Dispute about their Opinions Hot-head out of his great Zeal to the Church treats Mr. Testimony with very scurrilous Language and bitter Invectives against him and all Dissenters as that they were the plague of the State and that he hoped to see them all Hang'd and declares the mighty concern he hath for the Church To which Testimony replies pray Good Mr. Hot-head forbear your indecent language you are too rude in your Expressions what need you trouble your self so much about the Church seeing you your self never go to Church To which Hot-head in great fury presently makes answer with a horrid Oath What though I do not go to Church yet I am for the Church This Gentlemen I believe you and every man else can easily apply I could never yet meet with any precept in all the Gospel that doth justifie such proceedings as I have mentioned but there are several that expresly condemn it To me it seems altogether inconsistent with that Charity which is expected to be found in all those that hope to enter into Heaven and it seems to be little less than Teaching for Doctrines the Traditions of men and to add to God's Word which is prohibited under no less a penalty than that of Damnation I am far from being against Order and Decency to be observed in the Church yet under that pretence we are not to forget the Rule of Charity And I cannot see wherefore those should be terms of Communion that are not terms of Salvation I was always of Opinion That it would never go well with England till every man might Worship God in his own way for nothing can be more unreasonable than to expect that a man should believe otherwise than according to the conviction that is upon him or that one man's Opinion should be a Rule or Guide to another man's Conscience And therefore I cannot but wonder at