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A96962	Eight occasionall speeches, made in the house of Commons this Parliament, 1641. 1 Concerning religion. 2 Vpon the same subject. 3 Vpon dismounting of the cannons. 4 Vpon the Scotch treaty. 5 Vpon the impeachment of the Lord Strafford, and Canterbury, &c. 6 Vpon the Straffordian knot. 7 Vpon the same subject. 8 A seasonable motion for a loyall covenant. / By Sir Iohn Wray knight and baronet.	Wray, John, Sir, 1586-1655.	1641 (1641)	Wing W3667; Thomason E196_10-17; ESTC R7004	5,732	16

EIGHT Occasionall Speeches made in the house of Commons this Parliament 1641. 1 Concerning Religion 2 Vpon the same subject 3 Vpon dismounting of the Cannons 4 Vpon the Scotch Treaty 5 Vpon the impeachment of the Lord Strafford and Canterbury c. 6 Vpon the Straffordian knot 7 Vpon the same subject 8 A seasonable motion for a loyall Covenant By Sir Iohn Wray Knight and Barronet LONDON Printed for Francis Constable 1641. EIGHT Occasionall Speeches made in the House of Commons this Parliament 1641. The first concerning Religion Novemb. 12. 1640. Mr. Speaker IT was well observed by my Lord Keeper that a multiplying Glasse may deceive but the right English Glasse of the Common-wealth never In which I discerne so comely and active a Motion that out of all question some great work is here to be done some thing extraordinary is here to bee decreed or else God and the King beyond all our expectations at the last breath would never so soone have cemented us againe to meet in this great Councell Mr. Speaker What an happy sight will it be to see the King and his people accord A threefold cord is not easily broken and I hope King Charles his threefold Kingdomes shall never bee so divided as to break in peeces Mr. Speaker God knowes the divisions of Great Britaine have halfe untwisted our long union and I feare that God is angry with our Nationall luke-warme temper The zeale of his house hath not kindled that flame in our hearts which our seeming good actions have blown abroad much like the walking of a Ghost or livelesse body which affrights many but pleaseth no beholder Omnia honesta opera voluntas inchoat It is the heart or will which gives the beginning to every good action and I hope our constant resolutions will be to settell religion in his splendor and purity by pulling Dagon from the Altar and whipping the Buyers and sellers out of the Temple Pars prima bonitatis est velle fieri bonum The first part of goodnesse is to have the will of being good God knowes all our hearts and takes notice of our inward resolutions and for what ends wee come hither if to propagate and advance his glory and Gospel blessed shall this Parliament and Nation be and then most happy we whose God is the Lord all things shall work together for our good For Mr. Speaker he that turns the hearts of Kings like the rivers of waters will make the King and his Kingdomes all of one minde Long live King Charles the Great and his numerous Royall Issue to defend the true Faith which will protect and keep him and his safe in his fathers Throne Never King gave more full content to his people than his Ma●esty now hath done and I hope never subjects came with better hearts and affections to their King and Countrey then we do let it then appear Mr. Speaker by our outward actions and practise that our inward obedience both of heart and hand is true loyall and currant coyne not false nor counterfeit for Nemo veraciter dicit velo qui non facit illud quod potest no man truly sayes I am in will and heart resolved unlessen according to his ability he endeavour to performe his resolution which to speak the hearts of us all in this renowned Senate I am confident is fully fixed upon the true reformation of all disorders and innovations in Church or Religion and upon the well uniting and close rejoynting of the now dis-located great Britaine For let me tell you Mr. Speaker that God be thanked it is but out of joynt and may be yet well set by the skilfull Chyrurgions of this Honourable House to whose loving and Christian care and to whose tender and upright hands I leave it only with this Aviso let brotherly love continue and be constant and of good courage for the keeper of Israel who neither slumbers nor sleeps who delivered us from Romes November powder-blast will no doubt still preserve his Annoynted our gracious King and us his loyall Subjects from all dangers of fire or sword For Si Deus nobiscum quis contra nos The second upon the same subject Novemb. 20. 1640. Mr. Speaker BY the report made from the Committee of Religion you may see to what an exorbitant height Popery is grown and yet how slowly wee goe on to suppresse it I feare God is displeased with us or else no disaster should have prevented the sealing of our Covenant when intended And I hope it shall be performed the next Sabboth Had our Fast been accepted and our outward humiliation cordiall no blow should have distracted our preparations Mr. Speaker If we had taken the good Counsell of our Teachers at the Fast and beleeved their report wee had done well and by this time no doubt wee might have found out Achan with his Wedge of Gold and Babylonish Garments but we have spent our time only in pilling off the Barke and snatching the boughes and the branches of Popery and that will doe no good for they will grow thicker and harder what must wee doe then Mr. Speaker to preserve our Religion safe and sound to us and our posterity that our golden Candel-stick be not removed Why the only way is to fall to our work in earnest and lay the Axe to the root to unloose the long and deep Fangs of Superstition and Popery which being once done the Barke will soone fall downe Let us then Mr. Speaker endeavour a thorough Reformation for if it be imperfect it will prove the seed of dissolution if not desolation which God forbid And to prevent that I shall humbly move that the groves and high places of Idolaty may bee removed and pulled down and then Gods wrath against England will be appeased untill then never The third upon dismounting the Cannons Decemb. 15. 1640. Mr. Speaker A Man may easily see to what tend all these Innovations and alterations in Doctrin and Discipline and without a perspective discover a farre off the active toylesomnesse of these Spirituall Engineeres to undermine the old and true foundations of Religion and to establish their tottering Hierarchy in roome thereof which least it should not hold being built with untempered morter you see how carefull they are by a vast Oath to force mens consciences not to alter their government Archiepiscopall c. Mr. Speaker the thoughts of the righteous are right but the Councells of the wicked are deceit and nothing else is in their hearts but destruction and devastation but to the Councellors of peace is joy So long as they kept themselves within the circle of spirituall commerce and studied to keep mens hearts upright to God and his truth there was no such complaining in our streets of them nor had we ever seen so many thousand hands against them as now there are come in and no marvell though God withdraw so many hearts and hands from them who have turned so many out of the way