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A84751	Foure speeches delivered in Guild-Hall on Friday the sixth of October, 1643. At a common-hall, vpon occasion of desiring the assistance of our brethren of Scotland in this warre. / Viz. the [brace] 1. by Mr. Solicitor. 2. by Mr. Edmund Calamy. 3. by Mr. Jeremiah Burroughes. 4. by Mr. Obadiah Sedgewick. Published according to order.	Gardiner, Thomas, Sir, 1591-1652.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.; Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.	1646 (1646)	Wing F1671; Thomason E338_1; ESTC R200837	38,460	48

that have been made by the Worthy Citizens of this City and by divers other well-affected persons throughout the Kingdome the Money the Plate the Horses and other things for this Warre too they will bee lost but not onely so but certainly that these have been lent to the Parliament for the maintaining of the Warre against that Party this will b●e good reason why they should take all away The publike Faith likewise of both Houses of Parliament and so the whole Kingdome certainly that must be violated and if that should bee so if that we should be ove●born in this cause it will easily be foreseene whether any future Parliament will be enabled to stand up for the defence of Religion and the Liberties of the People Wee may adde to this the Charters and the Franchises of this great City it will be easily foreseen what will be the event of that whether they wil be continued to you yea or no considering what affection you have born to this cause Certainly in former time● the Charters and the priviledges of this City they have been confirmed by Parliaments as doth appear in King Johns time in Henry the third Richard second always after the ending of those great Wars whe●in no doubt the City as hath been seen in that did engage themselves as now in the Parliaments cause therefore for their security their Charters were alwayes confirmed which wee need not doubt will be done in this cause but in case the event should bee otherwise what the losse will be in that way you may easily see so that all is at stake and if we bring not them in to our assistance for ought I know we are at fairs to lose the game as win●● it and if any mana estate here stood upon the like c●su●lty I believe hee would give some considerable summe to ensure it in the office of Policies Thus we stand in case they are no● called in the losse so great that is the losse of all the event so uncertaine In case they be called in we are to consider then what alteration this is like to make we are therefore to consider how it comes about that the Party comes to be so equall that so many should engage themselves on the other Party as we see they doe certainly a great many of them doe it being uncertaine in their judgements to which side to cleave Another Party they doe it because that they out of feare desire to keep their Estates and stand Neuters For the first of those certainly both at home and abroad those that are averse they looke upon us as a Protestant Kingdom but divided among our selves they heare Protestations on both sides that both Parties doe protest to maintaine the Protestant Religion the Laws of the Kingdome and the Liberty of the Subject and they see and read the Declarations that goe out on both sides and the matter of fact being that that makes the cause they know not what to believe of that for when they read the severall Declarations they see that affirmed by one party that is denyed of the other so that indeed they know not which way to bend themselves to beleeve of the matter of fact I meane But now a great many after the case hath been stated as it hath been on both sides b● these Declarations when they shall see that this Kingdome of Scotland to which Declarations have been sent by both Parties for so they have the King hath sent on his side and the Parliament hath sent on their side also when they shall see the Kingdome of ●cotland hath sent a Committee into this Kingdom to informe themselves of the businesse how it stood to the intent they might know how to carry themselves between both Parties I say when after all this they shall see a whole Protestant Kingdom as one Man a Protestant Kingdome that hath had differences heretofore and those differences have beene setled when they have beene in the same distractions as wee have and so setled as that it hath beene with a cleare Declaration of their innocencies that they had just cause to doe what they had dont and went away as they did with that full satisfaction they have given to the world I say when they shall see such men as have for so long a time stood by as a third Party and Spectators onely and lookens on when they shall see a Kingdome that is altogether unbyass'd that hath the same King lives in the same Island that hath the same Religion I say when they shall behold a whole Kingdome to declare for the one Party that is for our Party when they shall see them not onely doe so but enter into a League and Covenant and that by oath with us for the maintaining of this Religion when they shall see them engaging their whole Kingdome as one man in a War for the maintaining of this cause I say certainly that must bee a convincing silencing argument to all these men that this is the Party that doth maintain really and in truth the true Protestant Religion the Laws of the Realme and the Liberties of the Subject That is for the first The second is there is another Party that are well enough satisfied in their judgements but out of feare of their estates and other sinister by and base ends for so they may be called for as this Covenant calls it a detestable Neutrality so may wee I say when these Parties shall see such an addition of strength to the one side their owne principles of feare will reach them to goe to that that is the stronger side But admitting that men stood in their judgments and in Neutrality as they now doe and that their comming in did not alter one man yet we are to consider what the strength is that they doe bring in wi●h them and what that is like to doe admitting the parties to bee as equally engaged as now they be and that is by their owne Propositions that when they come in they intend to come in with 18000 Foot with 1000 Dragoneers and 2000 Horse with 21000 Horse and Foot with a Traine of Artillery proportionable and suitable to such an Army Certainly by the blessing of God such a force to bee added to the one Party that is now even it cannot but in all likelihood cary down the scales and alter the whole ●ame and the state of the businesse Why certainly two against one in all ●usinesses that makes oddes If we have the addition of that whole Kingdome to this Party that is even with the other or neare so now wee may easily judge of the event This is the first benefit I shall propound to you wee are like to reap by their comming in that is the assuring of this great cause that so much conc●●nes us The second is this which I shall propound to you that is that it will bee for our profit that it will ease the Warre that it will make

cause●●s to have a better a surer and b●tter g●dunded 〈◊〉 then if they doe not ●om● in And likewise what peace 〈…〉 that it will bee p●r●et and bee the sco●●● for us 〈◊〉 our posterity to reap the benefit of it First that their comming in will make our Peace in all probability the better I beseech you without their comming in what is it like to bee The p●●ties are equall the partie that is against us they consist of P●pi●●s and P●elates c. if wee come to compound this businesse what is it like to bee but that our composition will bee indeed the destruction of the Protestant Religion and of our Liberties I am afraid it is very like to bee the ending of that controversie between the two women for the Childe who should bee the Mother of it that is that the Childe should bee divided Wee know that our division must have caused death I am afraid wee shall then come to bee half Protestants and half Papists and this neutrality of both I am afraid it will bee the destruction of the one If it prove not destructive yet certainly it will prove very dangerous to us In diseases if Nature bee not able wholly to expell the malignity of the disease it afterwards breakes out in botches and one malady o● another A sore not cured at bottome it afterwards festers and breaks out and afterwards endangers the person as much as before If they come not in considering the engagements on both sides and considering the parties who wee must compound with I say the cure is like to bee very imperfect their comming in I hope will make it perfect Besides what ever the Peace is if it bee good without their comming in it is likely wee and our posterity shall reap the fruit of it certainly wee have had great experiences in the times of our Ancestors that when divisions of this nature have been as when the Statute of Magna Cha●●a was first obtained which was with all the care the w●t of man could devise there was the Oath of the King and all the Nobility of the Kingdom yet it was broken within twelve moneths after In his Sons time twelve of the Nobility were appointed to see it kept that would not doe the work afterwards they appointed Gentlemen in every Countrey that they should see to it this did not the work it broke out from time to time But what should wee goe further Those Lawes that have been made against Papists in our memories are not the Laws full that no Papist is to 〈…〉 how see wee that put in execution and that two pa●t● of their ●●●ates to bee seized when wee see nothing at all hath been done ●hat way For the Petition of Right in our memory how was that kept Again our neighbours the Netherlanders when they made that peace with the King of Spain they called in this Kingdom and France to bee witnesses to it wee see how that calling us in to bee witnesses how that hath engaged both parties to that State at this time and how wee have been assistant to them and expresse● our desires to have them thrive But how is it like to bee when there shall not onely bee our own Kingdom but a brother Kingdom an entire Kingdom one of the same Religion with us one that loves their Liberties as well as wee when they shall bee engaged in point of interest with us when the same Law the same Acts of Parliament that shall compose the differences when if it hee broken on our parts in any thing that concerns us they cannot conceive but it may be their case the next day because it all depends upon one Law one and the same Title and their interest is the same So that it there were nothing else in it but that wee were like to have the better Peace and on the better termes and what ever it bee it is likely to bee kept the better to us and our posterity if nothing else were in it that were much to our advantage surely if by some considerable summe of money wee might have them brought in and have them at the end of this Peace and interested in it as well as our selves So that I have now done with those Benefits I have offered to you that wee shall have by their assistance and comming in I make no doubt but that most of these things were known to you all before and that this part hath been to very little purpose that I have spoken for when that both the Houses of Parliament have seen the necessity and benefit of it when it was propounded to the Common Councell that they likewise saw the necessity of it I know it will ●ee bootlesse to use any further Arguments to you that you may see the benefits that will redownd by their comming to us But it will bee asked notwithstanding wee may receive benefit by it how may wee bee assured that they are willing Truely for that by what hath been done it will bee sufficiently clear Both Houses sent a Committee to them that in a little time did produce the Covenant there approved of by their Assembly of Divines and by the Convention of Estates it is co●● hither it hath been agreed here it hath been taken here by the House of Commons already and by a great many of this City A worthy Lord my Lord Wharton I may name him here at a Common-Councell he did declare to my Lord Major and Aldermen that their House would in few dayes likewise take it this Covenant shews their willingnesse in the first place for wee by that are bound to the mutuall defence of our Religion and preservation of our civill Liberties for by that we are bound to the preservation of the Liberties of Parliaments and that Delinquents and Malignants may be brought to their just triall so this is already done It was likewise declared by the Commissioners of Scotland that they did not doubt but by this time they were taking it in that Kingdome and their Commissioners here they have taken it already so that they have joyned themselves to us by oath for the mutuall preservation of Religion and Lawes In the second place they have shewed their consent by the Propositions they have sent to us which are the termes upon which they are to come in they have not stayed here but they have proceeded to action they have named the Generall of their Army which is my Lord Generall Lesley which was their Generall when they came into this Kingdome And likewise they have granted Commissions into all the Shires of Scotland for the raising of Horse and Foot and named their Colonells Captaines and other Officers and listed them There is a further progresse likewise that is that we have taken Berwicke already for the facilitating of their comming in which may bee a place of retreat for them and a Magazine for their Ammunition and Victualls And since this hath been taken by the

and our Brethren so faithfull and so well affected to this Cause what should wee not bee willing to doe to ingage so great a party I would intreat you to remember that it is not many yeers agoe since our Brethren of Scotland came hither into England in a warlike manner and yet with peaceable affections and that you would reminde your selves what good they did to you when they were then in England they were the chiefe Causes of this Parliament that now wee doe enjoy and of all the good that hath been reaped by this Parliament as you may well remember By their comming in you know this Parliament was procured and their second comming in through Gods mercy may bee a means to confirm this Parliament and to establish it and to uphold it in its dignity and in the priviledges of it and to keep it from being ruined and if the Parliament bee ruined you all well know that our Religion and our Liberties are ruined for the Parliament is the great Conservatour of Religion and Liberties and I may truly say as you know Caligula did once wish that all Rome were one neck that hee might cut it off at one blow They that intend to ruine the Parliament they ruine your Religion and Liberties all England at one blow Now I say as their first comming was a meanes to produce this Parliament so their second comming in through Gods blessing may bee a means to establish it and to confirme it And when they were here you know how faithfully they carryed themselves and when they had done their work how willingly they went away without doing any hurt and I doubt not of the same faithfullnesse nay you ought all to beleeve that they will likewise when they have done the worke they are called too in England they will likewise with the same faithfullnesse depart for it is Religion that brings them here and the same Religion will make them willingly leave us and goe home to their owne Countrey when they have done that worke for which they came I am assured that the great hope at Oxford is that they will never prevaile for the petting of Money for to bring them in and if they once see the matter of Money effected and if they once heare of the Scots comming in it will worke such a terrour there as I am assured that it will through Gods mercy produce a notable complyance of that Party with the Parliament for an effectuall peace such as all the godly of the Land shall blesse God for I foresee there are many Objections that may be brought to hinder this worke many mountaines of opposition that will lye in the way And likewise that the Malignants will bu● many things in your eares if it be possible to put some great rub in the way to hinder the effecting of this work but I hope the love you have to God and to your Religion and to the Gospel and to yours wives and children will swallow down all these objections and conquer them all I le name some few objections and give you some short answer Some it may bee will put you in minde to call in question the lawfulnesse of contributing towards the bringing in of the Scots to this Nation But for this I le give you an easie answer Certainly Gentlemen it is as lawfull for the Parliament to call in our brethren of Scotland to their help as it is lawfull for mee when my house is on fire and not able to quench it my self to call in my neighbour to quench my house that is ready to burn down The Kingdom is all on fire wee are not able with that speed to quench it as wee wish wee call in our brethren in Scotland to help us to quench the flames that are kindled among us It is as lawfull as it is for the Master and Marriners of a Ship when it is ready to sink through a mighty Tempest to call in other Marriners to help to keep the Ship from sinking It is the condition of our Kingdom now it is ready to sink and it is our desire that our brethren of Scotland would come in to our aide to keep it from sinking Others it may be will object and say to you it is rebellion especially to call in another Nation to your helpe But I beseech you give me leave to put you in minde that when the Scots came last into England there was a Proclamation out against them wherein they were called Rebels and there were prayers to bee said in our Churches as you well remember in which we were to pray against them as Rebells and there was Money likewise contributed then for to hinder their comming in and to raise an Army to drive them out of the Kingdome and I doubt not but you may remember all the ill-affected did contribute Mony to keep them out of this Kingdom and from tarrying in but it pleased Almighty God through his great mercy so to change and alter the state of things that within a little while the Nation of Scotland even by Act of Parliament they were proclaimed and made the true and loyall Subjects of the King and in those Churches in which they were prayed against as Rebells even in those very Churches they were pronounced the good Subjects of the King this I doubt not but you remember I doubt not but through the mercy of God the Lord raising up our hearts I doubt not but the same effect will come of their second comming into this Kingdom and they that now tell you they are Rebels and you do an act of Rebellion in the contribution to the bringing of them in I doubt not but you shall see an Act of Parliament to call them his Loyall Subjects wherein I hope our King will concurre with his Parliament and likewise Prayers made nay a day of thanksgiving as was after their first comming a day of Thanksgiving for the mercy of God in stirring up their hearts to be willing to come unto our help But it may be some others will object and say why should we that are Ministers engage our selves so much in this businesse to see a Reverend Assembly of grave Ministers to appeare here in so great an Assembly This it may be will bee a mighty objection to some but I beseech you give me leave to give you a short answer did I not think that that that shal be said this day would mightily conduce to peace for my part I would not have been the month of the Assembly did I thinke any other way to produce a solid and a setled peace a Religious peace I that am a Minister of peace an Ambassador of peace I would not have been a Trumpeter to this businesse this day the truth is if you would have peace with Popery a Peace with slavery if you would have a Judas peace or a Joab his peace you know the Story he kiss'd Amasa and then killed him if you would have a

of it it is in your power now either to save us or to undoe us and shall this be let fall now out of love of Mony shall I say Let the Mony of those men perish with them No I came not hither to threaten but to perswade consider that the mercies that you have from Christ cost Christ more then money they cost Christ his deare heart bloud Who is it that raised your estates more then others have not many of you come hither low as Jacob with your staffe to this City and now behold these bands this estate who knows but that you are raised for such a time as this Have not you engaged your selves many times in prayer to God when first you entred into Covenant to God did not you give up all your estate then to God to bee employed in his Service God cals for his due at this time from you Oftentimes upon your sick beds and death beds in your apprehension of death that they would have been death beds you have then given up all again to God and vowed that if God did raise you up you would live to his service you would employ your strength in his Service God calls for all those vows you have now an opportunity to fulfill all those vowes And seeing providence hath cast it so that a Reverend Assembly of Divines hath appointed us to speake thus unto you give us leave to speak in the name of God unto you and to call upon you in the name of God for the fulfilling of all the vows that you have made upon your sick beds to give up your selves and your estates for the service of the Lord And know that if you shall keep your estates otherwise then God would have you it will be to you as the Manna was to the Israelites they kept it longer than they should and there was wormes in it 〈◊〉 that was preserved no longer than Gods time was sweet but that that was kept afterwards it had wormes breeding in it Your estates you have now you must not think will alwayes bee so sweet as they have been unto you if you preserve them longer than God would have you there will wormes breed in them yea the curse of God will bee in them Have not you s●nt up many prayers to God for this great Cause that God would blesse it I appeal to you then you have engaged your selves to Heaven by all your prayers therfore I beseech and intreat you now by all the prayers you have made as before by your vowes by all the prayers you have made upon your Fasting dayes that God would preserve his Cause that you would now doe as much as in you lies to maintain his Cause otherwise how doe you trifle with the great God and mock him in your prayers that you seek to him to maintain it and when there is an opportunity in your hands you will not doe wh●t lies in you It may bee you will say w●e have done much already Wee acknowledge it and blessed bee God for it but know the Cause is a great Cause and it is a great God that you doe for Philo Judaeus tells us it was enough among some heathenish people but to say to them Libertas agitur the businesse is your Liberty that is afoot enough to venture their estates and lives It is not Liberty alone but Religion as you have heard But because some may perhaps cast such a scruple into your mindes a● we have heard of it That what warrant have wee to take up Armes to maintain Religion that is not at present to bee discussed but only this to satisfie and stop all their mouths with one word Thus farre none can deny it but it is lawfull to take up armes to maintain that civill right wee have to our Religion and this wee doe For wee have not onely a right to our Religion by the Law of God but wee have a Civill right to this our Religion that other Christians have not had and therefore there can bee no scruple in this to retard you in such a work as this you have done much but a gratious heart will ever think what hee hath done for God it is but poore and low That example is famous of David that had done so much for preparing the Temple of God in the 1 of Chronicles 22. 14. It was 1000000 talents of silver and 1000 talents of gold which some compute a matter of 33 Cart loads of silver allowing 20000 livre. to every Cart load and 70 millions of French Crowns of gold this David had done preparing but for the house of the Lord and yet hee saith that out of his poverty hee had done all this all this was but a poor and low thing for him to doe in comparison of the great God why have you done more then this therefore seeing it is for the high God you have done it look upon what you have done but as low and still goe on in the work of the Lord You have done much and so have the adversaries too Wee would have you to weigh this that the adversary hath been at as much charge as you have been as bountifull and free as you have been in the 46 of Isaiah 6. Wee read that the Idolaters did lavish out their gold upon their Idols yea they lavished their gold out of their bagges Certainly our adversary hath felt the burthen of this and hath been at the charge of it as much as you You have done much but yet you have not gone in a good work so farre as a Herod hath done Josephus in his 15 Book of Antiquities and about the 12 Chapter tells us of Herod the King that in the time of scarcity hee sold away all his moveables all the plate that was served to his table and fetched corn from Aegypt and bought it for the poor and cloathed them yea and gave seed corn to the Assyrians his neighbours Why now in this our Kingdom wee may see much Plate still at many Noble mens tables yea at many Gentlemens tables a great deal of Plate reserved they have not sold all their moveables and Plate to give away it is but a proportion of their estates and but to lend upon so good security And take this one consideration further your having done much is a mighty preparation to make your doing now to bee formidable to your adversaries for what is the hope of your adversary but that you are drawn dry They triumph in this and they tell the world that there must bee such petty wayes to seek to the City to get petty summes of money and all is even gone and therefore wee shall have them to bee a prey ere long but when they shall see that after so much hath been expended here that you have such free spirits and to come out still abundantly with further treasure this will more daunt their hearts this 100000 livre. will daunt their hearts more than 2000000 li.

FOVRE SPEECHES Delivered in GVILD-HALL ON Friday the sixth of October 1643. At a COMMON-HALL Vpon occasion of desiring the Assistance of our Brethren of SCOTLAND in this WARRE VIZ. The 1. by Mr. Solicitor 2. by Mr. Edmund Calamy 3. by Mr. Jeremiah Burroughes 4. by Mr. Obadiah Sedgewick Published according to Order LONDON Printed by R. Cotes for Jo. Bellamie and are to bee sold at his shop at the sign of the three Golden Lions in Cornhill neer the Royall Exchange 1646. Foure SPEECHES Delivered In Guild-Hall on Friday the sixth of October 1643. At a Common-Hall Mr. Solicitor his Speech at Guild-Hall on Friday October 6. 1643. Worthy Aldermen and Gentlemen and Citizens of this Famous City of London THe cause of the calling of this Assembly of this Common-Hall it was the businesse of Scotland I thinke it is not unknowne to many of you that about two months since both the Houses of Parliament did send a Committee into Scotland to desire the assistance of our brethren of Scotland in this Warre the Committee hath from thence sent Propositions to both the Houses whereby wee see their willingnesse to come to our assistance but one part of it is that without some supplyes of Money they are not able at all to come into this assistance The Houses considering the necessity of their comming in and of speedy supplyes of Money to that purpose they did send a Committee and did desire that a Common-Councell might be called which was done upon Munday last and they did thither send a Committee with desire that the Common-Councell would take that into consideration that is the necessity of their comming and speedy supplies to bee raised And for the effecting of this not having any other means so neare at hand as that they did desire that the Common-Councell would appoint a Committee out of themselves to consider of this businesse with the Committee of the House of Commons These they met and have been together these two dayes considering of it that is Wednesday and Thursday and they did intend and doe still to send to divers of those that are able and rich of this City to the intent that they might see what they would lend to this businesse and to tender to them such security as they conceive to be very convenient and fitting for those that are willing to lend Money but when they had entred upon the businesse and considering the speed and the necessity that the supply should be expedited they thought that would be too long a way yet resolved to prosecute it still but withall they did desire that my Lord Major would be pleased to call a Court of Aldermen this morning which hee did and likewise a Common-Hall to the intent that the necessity of the raising of this money speedily might be declared to you because the other would be a longer way which though it be intended still to be prosecuted yet when you are all here together we may the better know your affections to this businesse and that the Money may be speedily raised though not the whole yet it will be somewhat to the businesse if some considerable summe might speedily be sent away I conceive there is no need to acquaint you with the benefits that will redound to this kingdome and the advantages wee shall have by a nearer association with them and by their comming in to this purpose for our assistance the benefits certainly when wee consider of them are many As first This great cause which is now in agitation that by this means will be much secur'd it will bee assur'd to us that the event and the successe of it by Gods blessing will bee made a great deale the certainer If they do not come in then we are to consider how we stand Certainly the Parties they are very equall in this businesse and where the Parties are equall the successe must needs bee dangerous and very uncertain Now we all of us see that all ranks and degrees of men even from the highest Lords to the meanest Commoners they are engaged on both sides and if the advantage be of either side it is in the other because that the greater part of the Nobility and Gentry we know they are the other way Likewise if we consider the Citi●● and Townes of this kingdom that there is Newcastle that there is York-shire that there is Shrewsbury that there is Bristoll that there is Chester and that there is Exeter and divers others Cities and great Townes in their custody If we goe through all the Counties of the Kingdome wee see there the greatest parts of the Northerne parts possess'd wholly by the Earle of Newcastle Northumberland Cumberland Westmerland York-shire and some other parts So in the West goe to other Counties there is a mixture in all of them that we cannot say there is any part of the Kingdome free so that the mixture seemes to be of the people likewise if not the greater party the other way If we consider likewise the events and successes as we on the one side have taken Portsmouth Chichester and some other places so they on the other side have taken Exeter and Bristoll and other places If we consider the events of the Skirmishes Fights and Battailes that have been we cannot say that on any side hath been any compleat Victory that at Edgehill it pleased God to give us a deliverance we finde it was no compleat Victory by those things that followed so this at Newbury lately no compleat victory for had it been so the Warre had been at an end so that which way soever we looke unlesse wee call them in to our assistance certainly the Parties on both sides are very equally engaged and certainly when two men of equall strength doe wrestle it is an even lay which of them will give the fall as long as the ballances stand so even it is very uncertain which way they will weigh down We are to consider that in respect that the danger is such and the event of the Warre so uncertaine without their comming in what the cause is that is lost in case the day should be theirs certainly considering that the Papists in Ireland are wholly engaged that the Papists in England are wholly engaged that the Prelates and their Party are wholly engaged that there are divers that are Neuters and ill-disposed men that they likewise encline that way Considering that that Party is acted by Jesuiticall Counsells for certainly they are behinde the Curtaine though they are not so visible to us I say when this is considered who are the Parties that shall get this day it is very easie to prognosticate what the losse will be no lesse then of Religion and of our Lawes and of our Liberties In a word if that that Party doe prevaile I am affraid we have lost all and therefore those other things they will not be so considerable which I shall tell you of Wee know the great Loanes and Contributions

they are to continue three moneths and ten dayes in your Service after they come into your Kingdome after the payment of this 100000 l. so that there is full three moneths and ten dayes for these Counties to lie open to the repayment of this Mony for those three moneths they are to be without pay These are the principall things that wee have yet thought upon for the dis-ingaging of us that wee tender to you there are divers others which the Committee hath taken into consideration which they see as much or more certainty in than in any of these that hath been propounded If it were no more than the Publique Faith of both Kingdoms as long as the Kingdoms subsist or the Cause thrives in the hands of one or other this must bee dis-ingaged so that at best it is but a Loan and must bee paid if the Cause survive truely if it doe not survive it being our Religion I know not what reason wee have 〈◊〉 desire to survive it and if wee lose it I am sure wee lose all Truly Gentlemen thus I have but one word more to say The Cause it is Gods if it bee not so let us repent that ever wee medled with it It is the Cause of our Countrey if it bee not so let us now say wee repent and leave it It is the Cause of these three Kingdomes England Ireland and Scotland it is the Cause of Christendom for if this Cause be carryed against us certainly the Protestant Cause throughout all Europe will fare the worse for it this is the Cause this we all know to be the Cause It hath pleased Almighty God out of his Providence to call even us poor creatures to be the managers of this great cause of his we have undertaken it we have formerly by our Protestations engaged our selves to the maintaining of it wee have all of us both Parliament City and all well-affected Subjects of this Kingdom wee have put our shoulders to it wee have of late manifested to God and all the world that wee doe not repent of what wee have done wee have entred into a Solemn League and Covenant I think the solemnest that ever was seen in this Kingdom Gentlemen thus let our cheerfulnesse in this service shew that wee have taken that Covenant and doe affect this businesse with our whole hearts I have done Pray God give his blessing Mr. Edmond Calamy his speech in Guild-hall on Friday the sixt of October 1643. Gentlemen YOU have heard a worthy Gentleman of the House of Commons it is desired by this grave and Reverend Assembly of Ministers that three of the Ministers of this Assembly should likewise speak unto you concerning this great businesse and notwithstanding my indisposition of body being required by them though that Gentleman of the House of Commons hath spoken so abundantly to the purpose yet notwithstanding I am here come to speak something the rather to declare my willingnesse to appear in this Cause that is every way so just and every way so honest and so good that I may truly say as the Martyr did that if I had as many lives as I have haires on my head I would bee willing to sacrifice all these lives in this Cause You know the story of Craesus that though hee never spake in his life yet when hee saw his Father ready to bee killed it untyed the strings of his tongue and then hee cryed out that they would not kill his Father you are not ignorant that England and Ireland lye a dying and though I never appeared in this place yet I blesse God that hath given mee that health this day to speak something in this Cause for the reviving of the dying condition of England and Ireland It is such a Cause as is able to make a very Infant eloquent and a dumb man to speak that never spake in all his life The matter I am desired to speak to is concerning the Contribution to perswade you to bee liberall towards the bringing in of the Scots to help us in this our great necessity The truth is it is a great shame that England should stand in need of another Nation to help it to preserve its Religion and Liberties That England that hath been enriched with the Gospel of Peace and the peace of the Gospel for so many yeers that England that hath been blessed with so many rare Ministers of God so many precious and powerfull servants that have preached the Word of God in season and out of season that England that hath professed the Gospel with so much power and purity that England should stand in need of the help of their Brethren of Scotland for to preserve that Gospel that they have professed so many yeers I confesse to mee it seems a very strange Prodigie and a strange wonder but it hath pleased Almighty God for the sins of England for our great unthankfulnesse and for our unthankfulnesse under these means and for the great blood-guiltinesse and Idolatry and Superstition of this Nation it hath pleased God to suffer a great part of the Kingdom to bee blinded especially those parts where the Word of God hath not been preached in a powerfull manner and there are many in the Kingdom that will not bee perswaded that there is an intention to bring in Popery and to bring in Slavery Many of them I say think that though the Popish Army should prevaile and the plundering Army should prevaile yet they think all would goe well with Religion and with their Liberties I say it hath pleased God to suffer abundance in the Kingdom to bee blinded with this opinion out of a just judgement to punish us for our unthankfulnesse and for our ingratitude and this is the reason that so many men stand Neuters and that so many are Malignants and disaffected to this great Cause in so much that I am concluded under this that there is little probability to finish this Cause without the comming in of the Scots as you heard so worthily by that Member of the House of Commons The sons of Zerviah are grown so strong what through our fearfulnesse what through our covetousnesse what through our malignity that there is little hope I say to finish this great Cause or to bring it to a desired peace without the help of another Nation and by the assistance of God by the help of another Nation it may be done These are two mighty two omnipotent Arguments to prevaile with you to contribute your utmost aide and assistance to that Cause since it cannot speedily bee done without their help by Gods blessing it may speedily be don by their help What would the Kings party doe if they could engage another Nation to their help 21000. if they could engage them to our ruine what would they not doe How much more should wee be willing to contribute our greatest help to engage a Nation that indeed is part of our own Nation within the same Island