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A46455	The speech of King James the I. to both Houses of Parliament upon his accession to, and the happy union of both the crowns of England and Scotland, regally pronounced, and expressed by him to them, die Jovis 22th. Martii 1603.; Speeches. 1604-03-22.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1689 (1689)	Wing J144; ESTC R220721	13,401	12

well to day That to deliberation would a large time be given but to execution a greater promptness was required As for the execution of good Laws it hath been very wisely and honorably foreseen and ordered by my Predecessors in this Kingdom in planting such a number of Judges and Magistrates in all convenient places for the execution of the same And therefore must I now turn me to you that are Judges and Magistrates under me as mine eyes and ears in this case I can say none otherwise to you then as Ezekias the good King of Judea said to their Judges remember the Thrones as you sit on are God's neither yours nor mine and that as you must be answerable to me so must both you and I are answerable unto God for the due execution of our Offices That place is not a place for you to utter your affections in you must not there love your friend nor hate your Foe fear the offence of the greater party or pity the misery of the meaner Ye must be blind and not see distinction of persons handless not to receive bribes but keep that just temper and mid course in all your proceedings that like a Iust ballance ye may neither sway to the right nor left hand Three principal qualities are required in you Knowledge Courage and Sincerity that you may discern with knowledge execute with courage and do both in upright sincerity and as for my part I do vow and protest here in the presence of God and of this honourable Audience I never shall be weary nor omit any occasion wherein I may shew my carefullness of the execution of good Laws and as I desire you Judges not to be weary in your Office in doing of it so shall I never be weary by Gods grace to take account of you which is properly my calling And now having told you the three causes of my Conveneing a Parliament all three tending only to utter my thankfullness but in divers formes the first by words the other two by actions I do confess that when I have done and performed All that in this speech I have promised Inutilis sum inutile because the meaning of the word inutilis in that place of Scripture is understood in doing all that service which we can to God it is but our due and we do nothing to God but that which we are bound to do and in like manner when I have done all that I can for you I do nothing I do nothing but that which I am bound to do and am accountable to God upon the contrary For I do acknowledge that the special and greatest point of difference that is betwixt a rightful King and an usurping Tyrant is in this That whereas the proud and ambitious Tyrant doth think his Kingdome and people are only ordained for satisfaction of his desires and unreasonable appetites the righteous and just King doth by the contrary acknowledge himself to be ordained for the procuring of the wealth and prosperity of his people and that his greatest and principall worldly felicity must consist in their prosperity If you be rich I cannot be poor If you be happy I cannot but be fortunate and I protest that your wellfare shall ever be my greatest care and contentment and that I am a servant is most true That as I am head and Governour of all the people in my Dominions who are my Natural Vassals and Subjects considering them in number and distinct ranks so if we will take the whole people as one Body and Mass then as the head so must a religious King know himself to be ordained for his people not his people for him For though a King and people be related yet can he be no King if he want people and Subjects but there are many people in the world that lack an head wherefore I will not be ashamed to confess it my principal honour to be the great Servant of the Common wealth and ever think the prosperity thereof to be my greatest felicity as I have already said But as it Mass the whole body of this Kingdom with an uniform assent and harmony in the begining of my speech which did so far oblige me in good will and thankfullness of requital by their alacrity and readyness in declaring and receiving me to that place which God had provided for me and not any particular persons for then it had not been the body so is my thankfullness due to the whole state for even in matter of faults Quod à multis peccatur impune peccatur even so in the matter of vertuous and good deeds what is done by the willing consent and Harmony of the whole body no particular person can justly claim thanks as proper to him for the same And therefore I must here make a little Apology for my self in that I could not satisfie the particular humours of every person that looked for some advancement or reward at my hand since my entry into this Kingdom Three kind of things were craved of me advancement to Honour preferment to Place of Credit about my person and reward in matters of Land or 〈…〉 if I had bestowed honour upon all no man could have been advanced to ho●●… 〈…〉 for the degrees of honour do consist in preferring some above their fellow● 〈…〉 every man had the like access to my privy or Bedchamber then no man coul● 〈◊〉 it because it would not contein all And if I had bestowed lands and rewar●● 〈…〉 on every man the fountain of my liberality would be so exhausted and drye 〈…〉 should lack means to be liberal to every man. And yet was I not so sparing 〈…〉 I may without vanity affirm that I have enlarged my favours in all three d●●… 〈…〉 towards as many or more then ever any King of England yet did in so s●●●… 〈◊〉 space no I rather crave your pardon that I have been so bountiful For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 meanes of the Crown be wasted I behoved then to recourse to you my Su●●●●●● and be burthensome to you which I would be loathest to be of any King 〈…〉 for as it is true that as I have already said it were a whole body which did s●… 〈…〉 deserve at my hand and not every particular person of the people yet were 〈◊〉 some who took occasion both before and at the time of my coming am●●● you to give a proof of their Love and affection toward me not that I am any 〈…〉 doubt that if other of my Subjects had been in their places and had had th●… occasion but they would uttered the like good effects so general and so great 〈◊〉 the affections of ye all towards me But yet this having been performed by 〈…〉 special persons I could not without Unthankfullness But requite them ac●●●●ingly And therefore had I just occasion to advance some in honour 〈…〉 places of service about me and by rewarding to enable some who had de●●●●●● well of me and were not otherwise able to maintain the rankes I thought 〈…〉 capable of And others who although they had not particularly deserved 〈…〉 yet I found them capable and worthy of preferment and credit and not 〈…〉 sustain those places for which I thought them fit without my help Two 〈◊〉 causes moved me to be so open handed whereof the one was reasonable and ●●nourable but the other I will not be ashamed to confess unto you proceed●… 〈…〉 mine own infirmity that which was just and honorable was that being 〈…〉 beholden to the body of the whole State I thought I could not refuse to let 〈…〉 some small brooks out of the fountain of my thankfullness to the whole 〈…〉 ●●freshing of particular persons that were members of that multitude The 〈◊〉 which proceeded out of mine own infirmity was the multitude and imp 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of suitors But although reason come by infrision in a manner yet experience g●…eth with time and labour and therefore do I not doubt but experience in 〈…〉 coming will teach both the particular Subjects not to be so Importune and u●●●●creet in craving and me not to be so easily and lightly moved in granting 〈◊〉 which may be harmful to my estate and consequently to the whole Kingdom And thus having at length declared unto you my mind in all the po●●… 〈…〉 which I called this Parliament My conclusion shall only be now to excuse my self in case you have not f●●●● such eloquence in my speech as peradventure you might have looked for a● 〈◊〉 hands I might if I list alledge the great weight of my affairs and my con●●●●al business and distraction that I could never have leisure to think upon w●●●… 〈◊〉 had to speak before I came to the place where I was to speak and I might 〈…〉 alleadge that my first sight of this so famous and honourable an assembly might 〈…〉 wise breed some impediment but leaving these excuses I will plainly and f●… 〈…〉 in my manner tell you the true cause of it which is that it becometh a Ki●● 〈◊〉 my opinion to use no other eloquence then plainness and sincerity by plain●●●●● mean that his speech should be so clear and void of all ambiguity that it may 〈◊〉 be thrown nor rent a sunder in contrary sences like the old Oracle of the A●●●●●● Gods and by sincerity I understand that uprightness and honesty which o●●●● to be in a Kings whole speeches and actions That as far as a King is in ho●●●●… erected above any of his subjects so far should he strive in sincerity to be a●●●● them all and that his tongue should be the true messenger of his great heart 〈…〉 this sort of eloquence may you ever assuredly look for at my hands FINIS

also grant me Victory over that uncircumcised Philistine But although outward peace be a great Blessing yet is it as far inferiour to that within as Civil Wars are more cruel and unnatural than Wars abroad and therefore the second great Blessing that God hath within my Person sent unto you is Peace within and that in a double form First by my discent lineally out of the Loyns of Henry the VII is reunited and confirmed in me the Union of the Two Princely Roses of the two Houses of Lancaster and York whereof that King of happy Memory was the first Uniter as he was also the first Ground layer of the other Peace The lamentable and Miserable Events by the Civil and Bloody discention betwixt these two Houses were so great and so late as it need not to be renewed to your Memories which as it was first settled and united in him so it is now reunited and confirmed in me being Justly and Lineally descended not only of that happy conjunction but of both the branches thereof many times before But the Union of the two Princely Houses is nothing comparable to the Union of the two Ancient and Famous Kingdoms which is the other inward Peace annexed to my person And here I must crave your patiences for a little space to give me leave to discourse more particularly of the Benefits that do arise of that Union which is made in my Blood being a matter that most properly belongeth unto me to speak of as the Head wherein that great Body is united And first if we were to look no higher than to Natural and Phisical reasons we may be easily perswaded of the great Benefits that by that Union do redound to the whole Island For if twenty Thousand Men be a strong Army is not the double Number hereof Forty Thousand a double the stronger Army If a Baron inricheth himself with double as many Lands as he had before is he not double the greater Nature teacheth us that Mountains are made of Motes and that at the first Kingdoms being divided and every particular Town or little Country that Tyrants or Usurpers could obtain the possession a Seigniory a part many of these little Kingdoms are now in process of time by the Ordinance of God joyned into great Monarchies whereby they are become within themselves powerful to defend themselves from outward Invasions their Head and Governour enabled to redeem them from Foreign Assaults and punish private Transgressors within Do we not remember that this Kingdom was divided into seven little Kingdoms besides Wales and is it not now the stronger by their Union and hath not the Union of Wales to England added a greater strength thereto which although it was a greater Principality was nothing comparable in Greatness and in Power to the Ancient and Famous Kingdom of Scotland But what should we stick upon any natural appearance when it is manifest that God of his Almighty Providence hath preordained it so to be Hath not God first united these Kingdoms both in Language Religion and similitude of Manners Yea Hath he not made us all in one Island compass'd with one Sea and of it self by Nature so indivisible as almost those that were Borderers themselves in the late Borders cannot distinguish nor know or discern their own Limits These two Countries being separated neither by Sea nor by any great River Mountain nor other strength of Nature but only by little small Brooks or demolished little Walls so as rather they were divided in apprehension than in Effect and now in the end and fullness of time United the Right and Title of both in my Person alike Lineally descended of both the Crowns whereby it is now become like a little World within it self being Intrenched and Fortifi●● round about with a Natural and yet admirable strong Pond or Ditch whereby all the former fears of this Nation are now quite cut off The other part of the Island being ever before now not only a place of Landing to all strangers that were to make Invasions here but likewise moved by the Enemies of this State by untimely incursions to make inforced diversion from their Conquests for defending themselves at home and keeping sure their backdoor as then it was called which was the greatest hindrance and lett that ever my Predecessors of this Nation gave in disturbing them from their many Famous and Glorious Conquests abroad what God hath enjoyned then let no Man separate I am the Husband and the whole Island is my lawful Wife I am ●he Head and it is my Body I am the Shepherd and it is my Flock I hope therefore no man will be so unreasonable as to think that I that am a Christian King under the Gospel should be a Polygamist and Husband to two Wifes that I being the Head should have a divided and monstrous Body or ●hat I being a Shepherd to so Fair a Flock whose Fold hath no Wall to hedge it but the four Seas should have my Flock parted in two But as I am assured that no honest Subject of whatsoever degree within my whole Dominion is less glad of this joyful Union than I am so may the frivolous objection of any that would be hinderers of this Work which God hath in my Person already established be easily answered which can be none except such as are blinded with ignorance or self transported with malice being unable to live in a well Governed Common-Wealth and only delight to fish in troubled Waters for if they would stand upon their reputation and priviledges of any of the Kingdoms I ●ray you was not both the Kingdoms Monarchies from the beginning and consequently could ever the body be counted without the head which was ever inseperably joyned thereunto so that as the Honour and Priviledge of any of the Kingdoms could not be divided from their Soveraign so are they now con●●nded and joyned in my Person who am equal and like kindly head to you both When this Kingdom of England was divided into so many little Kingdoms as I told before one of them behoved to edate upon another till they were United in one And yet can Wiltshire or Devonshire which were of the West Sax●ns although their Kingdom was of longest durance and did by Conquests overcome divers of the rest of the little Kingdoms make claim to Priority or Place or Honour before Sussex Essex and other Shires that was conquered by ●hem And have we not the like experience in the Kingdom of France being composed of divers Dutchies and one after another Conquered by the Sword for even as little Brooks lose their Names by their running and fall into Great Rivers and the Name of the great River swallowed up in Ocean so by the ●onjuction of divers little Kingdom in one are all these private differences and ●uestions swallowed up And since the success was happy of the Saxons King●oms being Conquered by the Spear of Bellona now much greater reason ●ave we to

through evil Education have never been Nursed or brought up but upon such Venom in place of wholesome nutriment And that sort of people I would be sorry to punish their Bodies for the errors of their mind the reformation whereof must only come of God and the true Spirit But the other Rank of Layicks who either through curiosity affectation of Novelty or discontentment in their private humours have changed their Coats only to be factious stirrers of sedition and partakers of the Common-Wealth their backwardness in Religion giveth aground to me the Magistrate to take the better heed to their proceeding and to correct their obstinacy But for the part of the Clericks I must directly say and affirm that as long as they maintain one special point of the Doctrine and another point of their practice they are no way sufferable to remain in the Kingdom Their points of Doctrine is that arrogant and ambitious Supremacy of their Head the Pope whereby he not only claims to be spiritual Head of all Christians but also to have an Imperial Civil Power over all Kings and Emperors dethroning or decrowning Princes with his foot as pleaseth him and dispensing and deposing of all Kingdoms and Empires at his appetite The other point which they observe in their continual practice is the Assassinate and Murthers of Kings thinking it no sin but rather a matter of Salvation to do all Actions of Rebellion and Hostility against their Natural Soveraign Lord if he be once Cursed his Subjects discharged of their Fidelity and his Kingdom given a Prey by that Three Crown'd Monarch or rather Monster-their Head And in this point I have no occasion to speak further here saving that I could wish from my heart that it would please God to make me one of the Members of such a Christian Union in Religion as laying wilfulness aside on both Hands we might meet in the midst which is the Center and Perfection of all things for if they would leave and be ashamed of such New and Gross Corruptions of theirs as themselves cannot maintain nor deny to be worthy of Reformation I would for my own part be contented to meet them in the mid way so that all Novelties might be removed on either side for as my Faith is the true Ancient and Catholick and Apostolick Faith grounded upon the Scriptures and express Word of God so will I ever yield all Reverence to Antiquity in the points of Ecclesiastical policy and by that means shall I ever with Gods grace keep my self from being either an Heretick in Faith or Schismatick in matters of Policy But of one thing would I have the Papists of this land be admonished that they presume not too much upon my lenity Because I would be loath to be thought a persecutor as thereupon to think it lawful for them to encrease their number or strength in this Kingdom whereby if not in my time at Least in the time of my Posterity they might be in hope to erect their religion again No let them assure themselves that as I am a friend to their persons if good Subjects So am I avowed enemy and do denounce mortal war to their Errors And that as I would be sorry to be driven by their ill behaviour from the protection and conservation of their bodies and lives so will I never cease as far as I can to tread down their Errors and wrong oppinions For I could not permit the encrease of growing of their religion without First betraying of my self and my own Conscience Secondly this whole Isle as well the part I am come from as the part I remain in in betraying their liberties and reduceing them to the former slavish yoke which both had casten off before I came amongst them And Thirdly the Liberty of the Crown in my Posterity which I should leave again under a new slavery having found it left free to me by my Predecessors and therefore would I wish all good Subjects that are deceived with that corruption first if they find any beginning of instinction in themselves of Knowledge and Love to the truth to foster the same by all lawful means and so beware of quenching the Spirit that worketh within them And if they can find as yet no motion tending that way to be studious to read and confer with learned men and to use such means as may further their resolution Assuring themselves that as long as they are disconformable in religion from us they cannot be but half my Subjects be able to do but half service and I to want the best half of them which is their Souls And here have I occasion to speak to you my Lords and Bishops for as you my Lord of Durham said very learnedly to day in your Sermon correction without instruction is but a Tyranny So ought you and all the Clergy under you to be more careful vigilent and diligent then you have been to win souls to God as well by your exemplary life as Doctrine and since you see how careful they are sporeing neither labour paynes nor eztream peril of their persons to divert the Devil is so busie a Bishop ye should be the more careful and wakeful in your charges follow the rule prescrib'd you by St. Paul be careful to exhort and instruct in Season and out of Season and where you have been any way Sluggish before now waken your selves up again with a new diligence in this point remitting the success to God who calling them at the second third tenth and twelfth hour as they are alike welcome to him so shall they be to me his Leiutenant here The third reason of convening you here at this time which conteineth such action of my thankfullness towards you as I may either do or leave undone yet shall with Gods grace press to performe all the days of my life It consists in these two points in making of Laws at Certain times which is only at such times as this in Parliament or in the careful execution thereof at all other times as for the making of them I will thus far faithfully promise unto you that I will ever prefer the weal of the Body of the whole Common-wealth in making of good Laws and Constitutions to any particular or private ends of mine thinking ever the wealth and weale of the Common-wealth to be my greatest weal and worldly felicity A Point werein a lawful King doth directly differ from a Tyrant But at this time I am only thus far to forewarn you in that point that you before to seek the making of too many Laws for two special reasons first because in Corruptissima republica plurimae leges and the execution of good laws is far more profitable in a Common wealth then to Burthen mens memories with the making too many of them And next because the making of too many Laws in one Parliament will bring in confusion for lack of leisure wisely to deliberate before you Conclude For the Bishop said