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A81017	His Highnesse the Lord Protector's two speeches to the Parliament in the Painted Chamber the one on Monday the 4. of September; the other on Tuesday the 12. of September, 1654. Taken by one who stood very near him, and published to prevent mistakes.; Speeches. 1654-09	England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell); Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.	1654 (1654)	Wing C7177A; ESTC R231703	25,039	31

HIS HIGHNESSE THE LORD PROTECTORS TWO SPEECHES TO THE PARLIAMENT IN THE PAINTED CHAMBER The one on Monday the 4. of September The other on Tuesday the 12. of September 1654. Taken by one who stood very near him and Published to prevent mistakes Printed at London and re-printed at Leith 1654. His HIGHNESSE the Lord Protectors SPEECH to the PARLIAMENT In the Painted-Chamber on Monday the fourth of Sept. 1654. GENTLEMEN YOu are met here on the greatest Occasion that I beleeve England ever saw having upon your shoulders the Interest of three Great Nations with the Territories belonging to them And truly I believe I may say it without an Hyperbole You have upon your shoulders the Interest of all the Christian People in the World And the Expectation is that I should let you know as far as I have cognizance of it the occasion of your assembling together at this time It hath been very well hinted to you this day That you come hither to settle the Interests before mentioned for it will be made of so large extention in the Issue and consequence of it In the way and manner of my speaking to you I shall study plainnesse and to speak to you what is truth and what is upon my heart and what will in some measure reach to these concernments After so many changes and turnings which this Nation hath laboured under to have such a Day of Hope as this is and such a Door of Hope opened by God to us Truly I believe some Moneths since would have been above all our thoughts I confesse it would have been worthy of such a Meeting as this is to have remembered that which was the Rise and gave the first beginning to all those turnings and tossings that have been upon these Nations And to have given you a Series of the Transactions not of men but of the Providence of God all along unto our late changes As also the ground of our first undertaking to oppose that Usurpation and Tyranny that was upon us both in Civils and Spirituals And the severall Grounds particularly applicable to the severall Changes that have been But I have two or three Reasons which divert me from such a way of proceeding at this time If I should have gone in that way that which is upon my heart to have said which is written there that if I would blot it our I could not would have spent this Day the Providences and Dispensations of God have been so stupendious As David said in the like case Many O Lord my God are thy Wonderfull Works which thou hast done and thy thoughts Which are to usward they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee If I Would declare and speak of them they are more then can be numbred Truly another Reason new to me you had to day in the Sermon Much Recapitulation of Providence much Allusion to a State and Dispensation in respect of Discipline and Correction of Mercies and Deliverances the onely Parallel of Gods dealing with us that I know in the world which was largely and wisely held forth to you this day Israels bringing out of Egypt through a Wildernesse by many Signes and Wonders towards a place of Rest I say towards it And that having been so well remonstrated to you this day is another Argument why I shall not trouble you with recapitulation of those things Though they are things that I hope will never be forgotten because written in better Books then those of Paper I am perswaded written in the heart of every good man The third Reason was this That which I judge to be the end of your Meeting the great end which was likewise remembred to you this day to wit Healing and Settling And the remembring Transactions too particularly perhaps instead of healing at least in the hearts of many of you may set the wound fresh a bleeding I must professe this to you what ever thoughts passe upon me that if this day that is this Meeting prove not healing what shall we do But as I said before seeing I trust it is in the mindes of you all and much more in the minde of God which must cause healing It must be first in his minde and he being pleased to put it into yours it will be a day indeed and such a day as Generations to come will blesse you for I say for this and the other Reasons have I forborne to make a particular remembrance and Enumeration of things and of the manner of the Lords bringing us thorow so many Changes and Turnings as have passed upon us Howbeit I think it will be more then necessary to let you know at the least so well as I may in what Condition this nay these Nations were when this Government was undertaken For Order sake It s very naturall for us to consider What our Condition was in Civils in Spirituals What was our Condition Every mans hand almost was against his Brother at least his heart Little regarding any thing that should cement and might have a tendency in it to cause us to grow into one All the Dispensations of God His terrible ones he having met us in the way of his judgement in a ten years Civill War a very sharp one His mercifull Dispensations they did not they did not work upon us but we had our Humours and Interests And indeed I fear our humours were more then our Interests And certainly as it fell out in such Cases our Passions were more then our Judgements Was not every thing almost grown Arbitrary Who knew where or how to have right without some obstruction or other intervening Indeed we were almost grown Arbitrary in every thing What was the face that was upon out Affairs as to the Interest of the Nation to the Authority of the Nation to the Magistracy to the Ranks and Orders of Men whereby England hath been known for hundreds of years A Nobleman a Gentleman a Yeoman That is a good Interest of the Nation and a great one The Magistracy of the Nation was it not almost trampled under foot under despite and contempt by men of Levelling principles I beseech you for the Orders of men and Ranks of men did not that Levelling Principle tend to the reducing all to an equality Did it think to do so or did it practise towards it for Propriety and Interest What was the Designe but to make the Tennant as liberall a fortune as the Landlord which I think if obtained would not have lasted long The men of that Principle after they had served their own Turnes would have cried up Interest and Property then fast enough This Instance is in stead of many and that it may appear that this thing did extend far is manifest because it was a pleasing voice to all poor men and truly not unwelcome to all bad men To my thinking it is a Consideration that in your Endeavours after Settlement you will be so well minded of that I might well have spared