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cause_n	court_n	justice_n	law_n	3,065	5	4.7299	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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