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A29208	A sermon preached at Dublin upon the 23 of Aprill, 1661 being the day appointed for His Majesties coronation : with two speeches made in the House of Peers the 11th of May, 1661, when the House of Commons presented their speaker / by John Lord Archbishop of Armagh, Primate and Metropolitan of all Ireland.	Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing B4235; ESTC R25292	22,740	52

dexterously and without ostentation and to dispose and direct the hand of that little one by occult motions of his own to seem to do that which in truth is his own proper work They know that the Honourable House of Commons is no little Fly-boat but a Ship royal of the second magnitude and the Cargazoon as rich as the Ship is great Therefore they have committed the charge of it to you as to a skilful Pilot. In summe the Lords Justices do exhort you to addecourage and resolution to your modesty and other great parts that you may adorn that Province which by the 〈◊〉 of that House is committed to your care For as the House of Commons have advisedly chosen You their Speaker so the Lords Justices by his Majesties authority do as advisedly confirm You their Speaker And now Mr. Speaker I have one thing more to adde which I am required by the Lords Justices to impart unto you That is that You being by your place an assistant to the House of Peers and summoned by writ to the discharge of that trust yet the House of the Lords taking into their serious consideration the possibility or rather the probability that some of their assistants might perhaps be chosen Speaker to let all the world see that they are equally careful of the priviledges of both Houses in order to the common good of the Kingdom they passed a Vote this morning that if any of their assistants should be chosen Speaker of the House of Commons they would dispense with him pro 〈◊〉 vice saving allways to the House of the Peers all their just rights and priviledges for the future So that there remain●… nothing but that you gird your self to your Office which is cast upon you from all hands The second Speech by my Lord Primate to the Speaker of the House of Commons Mr. Speaker YOu style this place aptly a mount of transfiguration and truly so it is We behold the greatest transfiguration here that ever was seen in this Kingdom on such a suddain either in our days or in the days of our forefathers A conversion from the greatest Anarchy and confusion to order and a settled form of Government If nothing else did evince it this change and transfiguration alone were able to make good the truth of that old maxime Res facile redeunt ad pristinum statum Things do easily return to their former condition Otherwise it were impossible that so much confusion should be attended with so much order or the worst of Anarchies with the best of Monarchies It is better to live under the Sicilian Tyrants or the Roman 〈◊〉 o●… the thirty Athenian usurpers than to live in an Anarchy where there is no Government It is better to live where nothing is lawful than where all things are lawful Better one Tyrant than a thousand I shall not need to press this further Cast but your eyes back to the by passed years and you will see this better demonstrated by experience than it is possible to do it by reason But behold a suddain transfiguration Neither the morning nor the evening starre in the Heavens is more beautiful than justice and good government upon earth To it we owe our prosperity our liberty our security all we are all we have all we can be in this world without which we should be like Fishes in the Sea or Fowles in the Air. The greater devour the less pisces sic saepe minutos magnus comest sic aves enecat accipiter Those innovators and incendiaries who labour to pull down a settled form of government are like a phrenetick person who takes pains to hew down the bough whereon he himself doth stand As those two signes or rather meteors Castor and Pollux when they appear double to seafaring persons promise serenity and a prosperous voyage but when they appear single or divided they threaten a storm whether it be by reason of the densi●…y or rarity of the matter or what other natural causes I leave to the Philosophers to determine So where power and justice do meet together it promiseth prosperi●…y and peace but where they are divided power without justice or justice without power it prog●…osticates a tempest to a state From your mount of transfiguration you shew us a King You House of Commons behold a King As Anarchy is the worst of misgovernments so Mo●…archy is the best of governments he most ancient the most universal th●… most natural the m●…st noble the m●…st advantageous form o●… government I do not deny the 〈◊〉 of other forms but I do altogether deny that any other form is so noble so naturall or so much from God There is one God in the world a Monarchy one soul in the body a Monarchy one sun in the Heavens a Monarchy one Master in each family and one Monarch in each societie It was good counsel which Lycurgus gave a mutinous citisen that would have had him bring a democracy into the state that he should try it first how he liked it in his own house and suffer his Servants to be his Quartermasters The silly Bees do teach us thus much who know no Law but the Law of nature yet they have their King And that which is much more strange which I have seen by ocular experience Take their King prisoner in a cane as it is usual to do and they will feed him with honey through the nicks and crevises of the cane So long as you detein him there they will never swarm nor seek for new habitations for themselves Remove him and his prison into another hive and they will all flock after him and travail for him Put a strange King into his cane or prison and they will be so far from feeding him that they will stop up all the holes of the cane with wax and starve him for an usurper How much are the silly Bees more observant of the Laws of nature than degenerated men In summe the soul of Soveraign power which is infused by God into Democracy and Aristocracy is the same that it is in Monarchy But the organ is not the same nor so apt to attain the end But God and nature do allwayes intend that which is best that is Monarchy And in some cases the existence of Kingly government is from God as well as the essence But God never instituted any other form than Monarchical He himself vouchsafed to be King of his people and gave them first Moses as a Viceroy Moses was King in Jesurun And afterwards he gave them a radicated succession of Kings No Commonwealth hath the like plea for it self And as Monarchical government is the best form of governments so our English Monarchy is the best form of Monarchy By the blessing of God we live in the most temperate part of the temperate Zone And injoy a government as temperate as the climate it self We cannot complain either of two much Sun or two little Sun The beams of Soveraignty are