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mercy_n	lord_n	son_n	world_n	5,765	5	4.8332	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63022	Historical collections, or, An exact account of the proceedings of the four last parliaments of Q. Elizabeth of famous memory wherein is contained the compleat journals both of Lords & Commons, taken from the original records of their houses : as also the more particular behaviours of the worthy members during all the last notable sessions, comprehending the motions, speeches, and arguments of the renowned and learned secretary Cecill, Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Rawleigh, Sir Edw. Hobby, and divers other eminent gentlemen : together with the most considerable passages of the history of those times / faithfully and laboriously collected, by Heywood Townshend ...	Townshend, Hayward, b. 1577.	1680 (1680)	Wing T1991; ESTC R39726	326,663	354

liberty of Priviledg to all the Members of this House and their Servant And lastly if any mistaking of any Message delivered unto him from the Commons should happen that her Majesty would be pleased to attribute that to his weakness in delivery or understanding and not to the House As also any forgetfulness through want of memory or that things were not so judicially handled or expressed by him as they were deliver'd by the House To which after the Queen had spoken to the Lord Keeper again the Lord Keeper spake in effect as followeth Mr. Speaker her Majesty doth greatly commend The Lord-Keeper replies by the Queens Order and like of your grave Speech well divided and well contrived the first proceeding from a sound Invention and the other from a setled Judgment and Experience You have well and well indeed weighed the state of this Kingdome well observ'd the greatness of our puissant and great Empire the King of Spain the continual and excessive charges of the Wars of Ireland which if they be well weighed do not only shew the prudence of our gratious Soveraign in defending of us but also the greatness of the charge continually bestowed by her Majesty even out of her own Revenues to protect us and the exposing of her Majesties self to continual troubles and toilesome Cares for the benefit and safety of her Subjects Wherefore Mr. Speaker it behoveth us to think and say as was deliver'd by a great man lately in a Concilio ad Clerum opus est subsidio ne fiai exitum or as I think excedium Touching your other Requests First For freedom of Speech her Majesty willingly Consenteth thereunto with this caution That the matter be not spent in Idle and Vain matters Painting out the same with Froth and Volubility of words And her Majesty Commandeth That you suffer not any Speeches made for Contention or Contradiction-sake maintained only by a Tempest of words whereby the Speakers may seem to get some reputed Credit by imboldning themselves to maintain Contradiction and on purpose to trouble the House with vain and long Orations to hinder the Proceedings in more weighty and greater Importance Touching Access to her Person she most willingly granteth the same desiring she may not be troubled unless urgent and matters of great Consequence compel you thereunto For this hath been held for a wise Maxime In troubling great Estates you must trouble seldome For Liberty unto your selves and servants her Majesty hath Commanded me to say unto you all That she ever intendeth to preserve the Liberty of the House and granteth Liberty to the meanest Follower of the meanest Member of this House But her Majesties Pleasure is you should not maintain and keep with you notorious Persons either for Life or Behaviour As desperate Debtors who never come abroad fearing her Laws but at these times Petty Foggers and Vipers of the Common Wealth prouling and common Solicitors that sets Dissention between man and man and men of the like Condition to these These her Majesty earnestly desireth a Law may be made against as also that no Member of this Parliament would entertain or bolster up any man on the like Humor or Quality on pain of her Highnesses Displeasure For the Excuse of the House and your self Her Majesty Commandeth me to say That your Sufficiency hath so often times been approved before her That She doubteth not of the Sufficient Discharge of the Place you shall serve in Wherein she willeth you to have a special Eye and Regard not to make new and idle Laws and trouble the House with them But rather to look to the Abridging and Repealing of diverse obsolete and superfluous Statutes As also First To take in hand Matters of greatest Moment and Consequence In doing thus Mr. Speaker you shall fulfil her Majesties Commandment do your Country good and satisfy Her Majesties Expectation Which being said the Speaker made three Reverences to the Queen Then the Lord Keeper said For certain great and weighty Causes Her Highness's Pleasure is the Parliament shall be Adjourned until Friday next Which Speech was taken to be an Adjournment of the Lower House but it was not so meant wherefore the Lower House sate the next day being Saturday morning So after some room made the Queen came through the Commons to go into the Painted-Chamber who graciously offering her Hand to the Speaker he kissed it but not one word she spake unto him neither as she went through the Commons few said God bless your Majesty as they were wont in all great Assemblies And the throng being great and little room to pass she moved her Hand to have more room whereupon one of the Gentlemen Ushers said openly Back Masters make room And one answered stoutly behind If you will Hang us we can make no more room which the Queen seemed not to hear though she heaved up her Head and looked that way towards him that spake After she went to White-Hall by Water Saturday Octob. 31. I was not there thinking the House had not sare till Thursday but I heard there was a motion made for the maintenance of the Priviledges of the House and to have a Committee for it which was appointed on Thursday at one of the Clock in the Afternoon And two Bills were Read one against Drunkenness another that no Bishop nor Arch-Bishop may make any Lease in Remainder or Reversion until within three Years before the expiration of the former Lease This Day the Prayer was brought into the House which was appointed every Morning to be Read during the sitting of this Parliament amongst other Prayers by a Minister appointed for that purpose The COPY of the PRAYER OH Eternal Almighty and ever Living GOD A Prayer to be used Every Morning in the House of Commons which hast made the Eye and therefore seest which hath framed the Heart and therefore understandest from whose only Throne all Wisdome cometh Look down upon us that call upon Thee bow down thine Ear and hear us open thine Eyes and behold us which in the Name of thy Son and our Saviour do lift up our Hearts unto Thee Forgive us O Lord forgive us all that we have done amiss in Thought Word or Deed. Forgive us our negligences forgive us our unthankfulness make us mindful of thy Benefits and thankful for all thy Mercies Thou that seest the Hearts and searchest the Reins and beholdest the utmost parts of the World try and examine our Hearts and guide us in thy ways knit our Hearts unto Thee that we may fear thy Name Let us ever fear this Glorious and Fearful Name The Lord our God Let all that despise Thee feel thy Judgments Let all Men know it is a fearful thing to fall into the Hands of the Living God Let thy Mercies always prevent us and compass us about In all our Ways Words and Works let us set Thee always before our Eyes Remove from us all vanity and hypocrisy Let thy Truth always