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cause_n	great_a	lord_n	people_n	4,203	5	4.5705	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91409	Tvvo speeches made by Iohn Pymm Esquire; the one after the articles of the charge against the Earle of Strafford were read. The other, after the articles of the articles of the charge against Sir George Ratcliffe were read.	Pym, John, 1584-1643.	1641 (1641)	Wing P4302; Thomason E196_27; Thomason E196_28; ESTC R14842	1,871	8

TWO SPEECHES MADE BY IOHN PYMM Esquire the one after the Articles of the Charge against the Earle of STRAFFORD were read THE OTHER AFTER THE ARTICLES of the Charge against Sir GEORGE RATCLIFFE were read LONDON Printed for IOHN BARTLET and are to be sold at the gilt Cup neere St. Austine gate 1641. Mr. PYMS SPEECH MADE THE 25 th of Novemb. 1640 After the Articles of the Charge against the Earle of STRAFFORD were read My LORDS THese Articles have exprest the Character of a great and dangerous Treason such a one as is advanced to the highest degree of malice and of mischiefe it is enlarged beyond the limits of any description or definition it is so hainous in it selfe as that it is capable of no aggravation a Treason against God betraying his Truth and worship against the King obscuring the glory and weakning the foundation of his Throne against the Common-wealth by deshroying the Principles of safetie and prosperitie Other Treasons are against the Rule of the Law this is against the being of the Law It is the Law that unites the King and his People and the Author of this Treason hath endeavored to dissolve that Union even to breake the mutuall reversall indissoluble band of protection and Allegiance whereby they are and I hope ever will bee bound together If this Treason had taken effect our soules had beene inthralled to the spirituall Tyranny of Satan our Consciences to the Ecclesiasticall Tyranny of the Pope our Lives our Persons and Estates to the Civill Tyranny of an arbitrary unlimited confused Government Treason in the least degree is an odious and a horrid Crime other Treasons are particular if a Fort be betrayed or an Army or any other treasonable fact committed the Kingdome may out-live any of these this Treason would have dissolved the frame and being of the common wealth it is an Universall a Catholike Treason the venome and malignity of all other Treasons are abstracted digested sublimated into this The Law of this Kingdome makes the King to bee the fountaine of Iustice of peace of protection therfore we say the Kings Courts the Kings Judges the Kings Lawes the Royall Power and Majestie shines upon us in every publique blessing and benefit we enjoy but the Author of this Treason would make him the fountaine of Injustice of confusion of publique misery and Calamitie The Gentiles by the light of Nature had some obscure apprehensions of the Deity of which they made this expression that hee was Deus optimus maximus an infinite goodnesse and an infinite greatnesse All soveraigne Princes have som Characters of Divinity imprinted on them they are set up in their dominions to bee Optimi Maximi that they should exercise a goodnesse proportionable to their greatnesse That Law terme Laesa Majestas whereby they expresse that which we call Treason was never more thorowly fulfilled then now there cannot bee a greater laesion or diminution of Majesty then to bereave a King of the glory of his goodnes It is goodnes my Lords that can produce not only to his people but likewise to himself honour and happines There are Principalities Thrones and Dominions amongst the Divels greatnesse enough but being uncapable of goodnesse they are made uncapable both of honour and happinesse The Lawes of this Kingdome have invested the Royall Crowne with Power sufficient for the manifestation of his goodnesse and of his greatnesse if more bee required it is like to have no other effects but povertie weaknesse and miserie whereof of late we have had very wofull experience It is farre from the Commons to desire any abridgement of those great Prerogatives which belong to the King they know that their owne Libertie and Peace are preserved and secured by his Prerogative and they will alwaies be ready to support and supply his Majestie with their lives and fortunes for the maintenance of his just and lawfull power This My Lords is in all our thoughts in our prayers and I hope will so be manifested in our endeavours that if the proceedings of this Parliament be not interrupted as others have bin the King may within a few moneths be put into a cleere way of as much greatnes plentie and glory as any of his Royall Auncestors have enjoyed A King and his people make one Body the inferiour parts conferre nourishment and strength the superiour sence and motion If there bee an interruption of this necessary intercourse of blood and spirits the whole Bodie must needs bee subject to decay and distemper Therefore obstructions are first to be removed before Restoratives can be applied This My Lords is the end of this Accusation whereby the Commons seeke to remove this person whom they conceive to have bin a great Cause of the obstructions betwixt his Majestie and his People for the effecting whereof they have commanded mee to desire your Lordship that their proceedings against him may bee put into as speedie a way of dispatch as the Courses of Parliaments will allow First that he may be called to answere and they may have Libertie to replie that there may bee a quick and secret examination of witnesses and they may from time to time be acquainted with the depositions that so when the cause shall bee ripe for Judgement they may collect the severall Examinations and represent to your Lordships in one entire Bodie the state of the proofes as now by mee they have presented to you the state of the charge