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A26146	The Lord Chief Baron Atkyns's speech to Sir William Ashhurst, Lord Mayor Elect of the city of London at the time of their being sworn in Their Majesties Court of Exchequer, Monday the thirtieth of October, 1693.	Atkyns, Robert, Sir, 1621-1709.	1694 (1694)	Wing A4143; ESTC R34194	10,530	14

hath placed us in an Island which lies not so open to the Incursions and Invasions of a Ravenous Enemy as the continent doth What a desperate condition had ours been if it had not been for this our situation long e're this Consider what a sad condition those poor creatures are in who live in the Seat of War themselves their Wives and Children all Slaves to the Conqueror's Sword daily under Oppressions Rapines and Cruelties one day under one Power another day under the opposite Power This is their Condition Blessed be God it is not yet ours I shall say no more upon this Head but resort to the other Head that I mention'd at first Consilium Domi. And it is a mercy from God that we have an opportunity yet left us for Counsel a Winter before us to consult in and wherein tho we do not doubt but our great Enemy will be very active yet he cannot make such a vigorous progress in his designs as he may at another time of the year We have yet time to consider and confer together And it is the Happiness and Blessing of Almighty God that we have the so near prospect of the Great Assembly of Parliament that will be Consilium Domi indeed If there be any miscarriages any ill Intelligencers any inbred Traytors and Enemies within our selves they will we hope take care about them The House of Commons we know is the Grand Inquest of the Nation It is one of their great Offices and Duties to make Enquiry after and prosecute such Offences and we doubt not they will do it It is not lightly and groundlessly to be suspected that those who lie in the bosoms of Princes should betray them But yet I will tell you that no Prince hath reason to be secure in that point I cannot read that Passage of the Royal Psalmist without a great deal of Compassion of the Condition of Princes in this respect David was an Holy Man beloved of God of great Courage Parts and Piety yet consider what he makes his own Case to be My Familiar Friend he that eat of my bread hath dealt treacherously with me But he describes him further than that We took Sweet Counsel together So that it should seem he was a Privy Counsellor as well as a Familiar Friend Nay yet further We went to the House of God together So that he was of David's Religion he was one that joyned in the same worship with him he was no Dissenter Nay he was one that professed great Love to the House of God possibly he might be a grat Champion for the Church and the Head of the Party Yet such an one David describes him to be who had betray'd him We have besides this which brings the matter home to what we have now before us great need to take care to chuse Excellent Persons into Offices of Magistracy especially for this great City upon whose good depend many things that I shall tell you of by and by and on which depends so much the good of the Nation And my Lord here we have cause to rejoyce that that Great and Wise Body have made such a Choice for their prime Magistrate as your Lordship one every way so fitted and qualified for that great Office My Lord I will tell you what comfort I hope for from it and I make no doubt many others that are here do the same That hereby we have a Token for good in the Inclinations of the Citizens we feel their Pulse we know what their temper is and we rejoyce in it it is spoken in their Choice of you They appear to be Lovers of their Country lovers of their Religion lovers of the true English Interest and well inclined to set the world at liberty as to their Civil and Religious Rights My Lord I have a further Comfort in this matter the Election of Officers is a deliberate Act it is the Fruit of Counsel which is the Head we are now discoursing of and the Result of wisdom But My Lord we may look higher even in this Action of the Citizens there is as in all great human actions the Primus Moter to be considered the Mighty God that governs in the Hearts of the People He hath put it into their Hearts to fix upon you What do we gather hence Vox Populi est vox Dei Almighty God hath chosen you It is a mighty Curse as we read in the Book of God to have a wicked Ruler set over a people On the other hand it is a great comfort happiness to see a good man chosen to bear Rule among us Almighty God hath given us in this an Earnest and a Pledge that he will not yet leave and forsake us and I raise to my self a good ground of great Comfort from it My Lord in the third Century after the time of our Saviour there was one Antenor the eighteenth or nineteenth Bishop of Rome died and the See became vacant and the Christians in a great Body met together to chuse a Successor and being in the Field together a great many Names were tossed to and fro of Persons that might be fit to be chosen But there was in the Crowd one that was known to a very few of that Multitude he was among the Ignota Capita one Fabianus who was a plain Country Person very obscure but a pious meek Man who little thought of or sought the Bishoprick As they were tossing about several Names at last in the open view of the Assembly there was a Dove lighted upon the Head of Falianus which when the People saw they presently with one Voice chose him to be Bishop You have the Relation in Eusebius an Ecclesiastical ' writer of great Note and Credit A Dove lighted on his head an excellent Emblem for a Bishop who ought to be of a meek Dove-like temper and disposition Amari non timeri debent Episcopi It was the Blessed Spirit of God in that similitude which lighted upon the Head of our Saviour to give Testimony to him as the Son of God at his Baptism And it was a Dove that brought the Olive-branch into the Ark. It is an excellent Emblem of a Magistrate who ought to be like a Dove without Gall. My Lord indeed there was no Dove lighted upon your Head at your Election nor was there need of any for Miracles were never done in vain it had been a Miracle if you had not been chosen Your every way being so fit and qualified for this Trust and Command did bespeak your Election It is a dispute among the Learned whether Government be of Natural Right or Human Institution I remember the Learned Hooker in his Ecclesiastical Polity says some Persons have a natural Right to be Governours that is Men of great Vertue Parts and active Spirits that are Mercurial Others again are fitted for Subjection being of duller tempers and more sluggish heavy Spirits some are fit for Hands others for Heads There was a Noble