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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

neither so perpendicular over our heads that they can scorch us nor yet so oblique but that they are able to warm us Should we go about in a madding humour to dissolve a frame of government which made our forefathers happy at home and famous abroad or loath our own Manna and long after the Fleshpots and Onions of Egypt If we dote upon forreign polities it is onely because we do not know them Consult but with those that do know them and we will quickly say our lot is fallen in a fair ground And so from Kings you come to Parliaments which have evermore had a venerable esteem in the world if not under the name of Parliaments yet under a more ancient name of Councills or Conventions As the inferiour orbes do by their transverse and opposite yet vincible motions stay and moderate the rapide force of the primum mobile or first Sphere So Parliaments by their Fabian Counsells do temper and moderate the quick motion of Soveraign power I speak not this of any danger that hangs over us God be praised we have no such young Phaetons but one that hath been as much and as long acquainted with Fabius as with Marcellus and knows how to use the Buckler as well as the Sword But Parliaments have a further advantage than that of Counsell onely namely in republicks to aggravate and unite and to render the whole society one political body and in M●…narchies to supply and second and execute Then the affaires of a Kingdom go prosperously on when they joyn one and all in advancing publique designes From Parliaments in general I come to the reasons of summoning this Parliament in particular But that is so evident that he that runs may read it Yet though it be so obvious that no man can miss it or mistake it and that it may seem superfluous to do that over again which hath been done so excellently allready by my Lord Chancellour as one of his Majesties representatives yet for order and method sake I shall assigne three reasons for convocating this present Parliament The first is discrimination of persons and distinction of possessions Me thinks I am now in one of the fields of Egypt upon the banks of Nilus presently after the inundation of that river when it is just returning into the old channel And all you that hear me look like so many measurers that are here on purpose to give every proprietor his right possession and to set them out their true bounds Never did an inundation of Nilus make a greater confusion of distinct possessions and interests than the late Rebellion hath made in Ireland blending all estates in one confused mass Kings Dukes Bishops Knights and pawns are all confusedly mixed together in one bagge It were folly Noble Peers and Patriots to ask what you do here As great as if one should inquire upon the banks of Nilus what the measurers do there presently after an in●…ndation It is to fix every man in his proper sta●…ion wherein he is to serve his King and Country This is the first end of this Parliament the distinction of possessions A second reason is that which is commonly the reason of summoning all Parliaments that is to satisfy the just debts of the Kingdom and disingage the publique faith We could not do it it was impossible And necessity must yield to impossibility But his Maj●…sty hath done it for us and satisfyed the publique debts out of his own rights The time hath been that the publique faith of the Kingdom hath been slighted No man had a publique trust and so no man could be sued upon a publique faith But King CHARLES hath redeemed the publique credit again by satisfying the publique debts But he satisfyes them in a Parliamentary way S. Paul saith that an oath is the end of all strife so is a Parliament For as there lyeth no appeal from God in the interiour Court So there lyeth no appeal from a Parliament in the exteriour Court I mean a compleat Parliament of King Lords and Commons whose act is the act of each individual Subject This is the second reason of calling this Parliament to satisfy the publique debts of the Kingdom A third reason of convocating this Parliament is the providing for the Army for the future without imposing too great a burthen either upon the English or Irish Subject Two things make a Prince gratefull to his people Easy eares to hear grievances and light hands i●… imposing Subsidies And to speak the truth a great part of the dissensions in England have sprung from this source The King could not live upon the revenues of his Crown without running into debt nor those debts be paid without raising new Monopolies or imposing new taxes as Ship-money or the like or parting with some branches of his Prerogative Royal. Hitherto England hath been necessitated to supply the defects of Ireland it is to be feared not over willingly Now it hath pleased God to put into his Majesties hands an opportunity of advancing his revenue to a competencie that Ireland may be able for the future to bea●… it s own burthen without charging either the English or Irish Subject in ordinary cases And this opportunity he puts wholly into the hands of his Parliament as the proper judge both to supply the necessities of the Kingdom and to prevent them These are the three reasons of calling this Parliament 1. The distinguishing of possessions 2. The satisfaction of just debts 3. And the raising the Revenues of the Crown to a just competency Lastly Mr. Speaker you descend to the unity of both Houses His Majesty hath done whatsoever hath been desired of him and is yet ready to do whatsoever can be desired of a gracious Prince It is our own faults our own Frowardness and unseasonable opposition one to another if we be not happy All things preserve themselves by unity and the nearer they approach to unity the farther they are from fear of dissolution This lesson old Sillurus taught his Sons by a bundle of rods whilest they were tyed together all their conjoyned strength could not so much as bend them but when the bundle was divided and every Son had his single rod they did easily snap them in sunder So said he You my Sons are invincible whilest you preserve unity but if you suffer your selves to be divided you are lost This lesson Menenius Agrippa taught his hearers by the wel-known apology of the belly and the other members whilest they did nourish unity and all acted for the publique advantage of the whole body each member had his share and dividend in this happiness but when they began to mutiny and divide interests and to weigh their own particular merits too narrowly and all to grumble at the belly as an idle gluttonous and unprofitable member they found by costly experience that their well and ill fare were inseparably interwoven together and that they wounded that member which they maligned through their own sides On the other part disunion is the ready way to destruction Si colli●…imur frangimur if we be beaten one against another we are both broken in pieces It was not the power of Rome but the divisions and subdivisions of the Britains which rendered them an easy prey to their Conquerers It was not Philip but the dissensions of Athens Thebes and Sparta that ruined Greece It was not Scipio but the factions of Hanno and Hanniball that destroyed Carthage Our own eyes have seen a small handful of confederated Provinces able to oppose the greatest Monarch in Europe and were so far from sinking under the weight of such a warre which had been able to break a back of steel that like Palme trees they did grow up under the weight from distressed orders to high and mighty states or like Moses his bush not onely not consumed but sprouting and blossoming in the midst of the flames This virtue of unanimity is that whereupon our Riches our Honour our Religion our Laws our Liberties our King and Country our Fires and Altars and all our hopes do depend Hoc opus hoc s●…udium parvi properemus ampli si patriae volumus si nobis vivere chari The answer of the Lords Iustices to Mr Speakers last propositions THat they will be very careful and ready to mantain the House in all the just liberties and priviledges belonging to it 1. A freedom from arrests for themselves and their Servants in all cases whereunto the priviledge of the House doth extend 2. Modest and moderate liberty of speech void of all licen●…iousness which their Lordships are confident that the House is so far from desiring to have it tolerated that themselves would be the first and severest censurer●… of it 3. Seasonable and free access to their Lordships upon all occasions FINIS

one tree It vvere hard that quarrels should be immo●…tal or more durable than n●…ture or that the passions of the mind should be more maligna●…t and difficult to be clo●…ed than the vvounds o●… ulcers of the body and that no vvay should be le●…t to unite the divided members of Christ. Doth God delight as much in the observation or not observation of indifferent Ceremonies as he doth in the love unity of brethren and just obedience to lavvful superiours or is it his vvill that for a fevv innocent rites established by Lavv Kingdoms should svvim vvith blood Monarchies be turned upside dovvn and innocent Christians be brought to utter beggary It is a folly to dote so upon the body as to cherish the sores and ulcers thereof or out of hatred to the ulcers to destroy the body The not distinguishing betvveen the essences and abu●…es of particular Chu●…ches hath been the cause of all our miseries This is the first sheaf vvhich King CHARLES brings vvith him that is Peace The second sheaf is the opening of our Courts the restoring of our Lavvs to their vigour and the establishment of Justice among us What a vvretched condition vvas this poor Kingdom in vvhich neither had Court open nor Sheri●… legally appointed nor so much as a 〈◊〉 of Peace for so long time together It vvas the mercy of God that the policie and frame of this Kingdom vvas not utterly destroyed and brought to confusion The Lavv is like the vvrest of a musical instrument vvhich puts the jarring strings in tune It is the ballance of the Commonwealth which gives the same weight to gold and lead the rule and square of justice the standard and measure of the Kingdom the foundation of liberty the fountain of equity the life and soul of policy Parents may leave a patrimony to their children but the Law preserves it Armes may conquer Kingdoms but laws establish them A City may be safe without walls but never without Laws That we eat and sleep in quiet that our houses are not fired over our heads nor our daughters deflowred before our eyes it is the benefit of the Laws without which we s●…ould bite and devour one another as the greater fishes do the less This is the second shea●… which King CHARLES brought with him that is the Laws A third sheaf is his experience VVo be to thee O Land when thy King is a child Eccles. 10. 16. That is a child in understanding and experience The inexperience of Reh●…boam and his young counsellours quickly destroyed the Kingdom We use to say a new Physician must have a new Church yard A new Physician is not more dangerous to the body than a new Politician to the state It is written of Darius that in opening a fair Pomegranate one demanded of him of what thing he desired so many as there were kernells in that Pomegranate He replyed so many Zopyrus's that is prudent and experienced counsellours God be praised our Darius may be a Zopyrus to himself having had that advantage which none of his predecessours ever had to have viewed with his own eyes the chiefest of his neighbour Courts Kingdoms and Commonwealths their Interests their Laws and forms of Government their strength and weakness their advantages and disadvantages both in Warre and peace things of excellent use to a Prince and may well pass for a third sheaf And shall bring his sheaves with him A fourth sheaf and the last which I shall mention at this time is Security Usurpers are always full of jealousies and fears The reason is evident VVisd 7. 11. VVi●…kedness condemned by her own testimony is very timorous and being pressed with conscience allwayes forecasteth grievous things It was observed of Richard the third that after he had murthered his Nephewes and usurped the Crown he wore his hand continually upon his Dagger A plain signe of inward guilt When the wise men made this demand where is he that is born King of the Iews Herod was troubled and all Hierusalem with him Successor instat pellimur satelles i ferrum rape perfunde cunas sanguine A successour is come we are chased away Go Souldiers catch your swords and make the cradles swim vvith blood These inward fears render them cruel and vindictive and make them multiply their Souldiers and their guards vvherein their onely hope of safety doth consist These grovv chargeable to a Commonvvealth and easily from Servants turn Masters From all these burdens and suspicions vve are freed by the restitution of the right Heir So every vvay King CHARLES brings his sheaves with him A Prince as supereminent above others in goodness as Saul vvas in stature and more adorned vvith virtues than vvith his purple To vvhose happy Coronation this day is dedicated Much may he give long may he live a nursing Father to the Church a patron to the Commonvvealth a protectour to his friends a terrour to his enemies an honour and a darling to his Country Let the hopes of all those vvho envy this dayes happiness melt avvay as vvinter ice and flovv avvay as unprofitable vvaters And long long may his Crovvn flourish vvhich this day first adorns his temples until he change that corruptible Crovvn vvith an immarcescible Crovvn of glory When I consider vvith my self the condition of the most flourishing Commonvvealths as Athens hovv satall they have for the most part been to persons of eminent virtues vvhereof fevv escaped both banishment and poyson I cannot but admire our happiness under the best of Monarchies When I compare those arts and exactions vvhich are used in our neighbour Countries vvhere the vvhole esta●…e of the Commonvvealth goes through the Magistrates hands in the short compass of a very fevv years Much good may the mock liberty of their tongues do them which their purses pay for I cannot but proclaim O happy England if thou knewest thine own happiness But neither the time permitts me nor my desires invite me to fall upon this subject I will turn my discourse into prayers that the great God of Heaven and earth will give his Majesty a long life a secure empire a prudent and faithful Council a loyal and obedient people expert and valiant Armies Blessed be he that blesseth him and let every loyal Subject ●…ay Amen The first Speech by my Lord Primate to the Speak●…r of the House of Commons SIR THe Lords Justices of this Kingdom have graciously heard that relation which you made unto them from the Honourable House of Commons touching their election of You to be their Speaker together with your modest desire to decline the place as two heavy for you They know right well the great importance of the place But they know as well your great abilitie to discharge it Neither do they look upon you as a Child that hath the reins put seemingly and for a shew into his hands but as upon an experienced Charioter who knows how to discharge all the duties that belong unto his office

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