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A86208	A famous speech of King Henry the eighth, made in the Parliament House the 24. of December, in the 37. yeare of his Majesties reigne. Anno Dom. 1545. Tending to charity and concord, and therefore necessary for men of these times.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1509-1547 : Henry VIII); Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.	1642 (1642)	Wing H1471; Thomason E199_41; ESTC R9898	3,119	8

A famous SPEECH OF King Henry the eighth MADE In the Parliament House the 24. of December in the 37. yeare of his Majesties Reigne Anno Dom. 1545. Tending to Charity and Concord and therefore necessary for men of these times LONDON Printed in the yeare 1642. A Famous SPEECH OF KING HENRY THE EIGHT ALthough my Chauncellor for the time being hath before this time used very eloquently and substantially to make answer to such Orations as have beene set forth in this high Court of Parliament yet is hee not so able to open and set forth my minde and meaning and the secrets of my heart in so plain and ample manner as I my selfe am and can doe Wherefore I taking upon me to answer your eloquent Oration Mr. Speaker say that where you in the name of our welbeloved Commons hath both praised and extolled me for the notable qualities that you have conceived to be in me I most heartily thanke you all that you have put me in remembrance of my duty which is to endeavour my selfe to obtaine and get such excellent qualities and necessary vertues as a Prince or Governour should or ought to have of which gifts I recognize my selfe both bare and barren but of such small qualities as God hath endowed mee withall I render to his goodnesse my most humble thankes intending with all my wit and diligence to get and acquire to me such Noble Vertues and Princely Qualities as you have alledged to be incorporate in my person These thanks for your loving admonition and good counsell first remembred I eftsoones thanke you again because that you considering Our great charges not for Our pleasure but for your defence not for Our gain but to Our great cost which We have lately sustained as well in defence of Our and your enemies as for the conquest of that fortresse which was to this Realme most displesant and noysome and shall be by Gods grace hereafter to our Nation most profitable and pleasant have freely of your owne mindes granted to Us a certaine Subsidy here in an Act specified which verily wee take in good part regarding more your kindnesse then the profit thereof as he that setteth more by your loving hearts then by your substance Besides this hearty kindnesse I can not a little rejoice when I consider the perfect trust sure confidence which you have put in me as men having undoubted hope and unfained beliefe in my good doings and just proceedings for you without any desire or request have committed to mine order and disposition all Chauntreyes Colledges Hospitalls and other places specified in a certaine Act firmely trusting that I will order them to the glory of God and the profit of the Common wealth Surely if I contrary to your expectation should suffer the Ministers of the Church to decay or learning which is so great a jewell to bee minished or poore and miserable people to be unrelieved you might say that I being put in so speciall a trust as I am in this case were no trusty friend to you nor charitable man to any poore Christian neither a lover of the Publicke-wealth nor yet one that feared God to whom account must bee rendred of all our doings Doubt not I pray you but your expectation shall be served more godly and goodly then you will wish or desire as hereafter you shall plainly perceive Now sithence I finde such kindnesse on your part otward me I cannot chuse but love and favour you affirming that no Prince in the world more favoureth his subjects then I doe you nor no Subjects or Commons more love and obey their Soveraigne Lord then I perceive you doe me for whose defence my treasure shal not be hidden nor if necessity require my person shall not be unadventured yet although I with you and you with me bee in this perfect love and concord this friendly amity cannot continue except you my Lords Temporall and you my Lords Spirituall and you my loving Subjects study and take paines to amend one thing which surely is amisse and far out of order to the which I most heartily require you which is that charity and concord is not amongst you but discord and dissention beareth rule in every place Saint Paul saith in the Corinthians and in the 13. Chaper Charity is gentle Charity is not envious Charity is not proud and so forth in the said Chapter Behold then what charity and love is amongst you when one calleth the other Heretick and Anabaptist and hee calleth him againe Papist Hypocrite and Pharisee bee these tokens of charity amongst you Are these signes of fraternall love between you No no I assure you that this lack of charity among your selves will be the hindrance and asswaging of the fervent love betweene us as I said before except this wound be salved and cleerly made whole I must needs judge the fault and occasion of this discord to bee partly by negligence of you the Fathers and Preachers of the spirituality for if I know a man which liveth in adultery I must judge him a lecherous and carnall person if I see a man boast and brag himselfe I cannot but deem him a proud man I see here daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another teach one contrary to another inveigh one against another without charity or discretion Some bee so stiffe in their old Mumpsimus others be so busie and envious in their new Sumpsimus Thus all men almost be in variety and discord and few or none preach truly sincerely the word of God according as they ought to do Shall I judge you charitable persons doing thus No no I cannot doe so alas how can the poore soules live in concord when you Preachers sow amongst them in your Sermons debate and discord Of you they looke for light and you bring them to darkenesse Amend these crimes I exhort you and set forth Gods word both by true preaching and good example giving or else I whom God hath appointed his Vicar and high Minister here will see these divisions extinct and these enormities corrected according to my very duty or else I am an unprofitable servant and an untrue Officer Although I say the Spirituall men be in some fault that charity is not kept amongst you yet you of the Temporality be not cleane and unspotted of malice and envy for you raile on Bishops speake slanderously of Priests and rebuke and taunt Preachers both contray to good order and Christian fraternity If you know surely that a Bishop or Preacher erreth or teacheth perverse doctrine come and declare it to some of our Councell or to us to whom is committed by God the high authority to reforme and order such causes and behaviours and be not judges your selves of your owne phantasticall opinions and vaine expositions for in such high causes ye may lightly erre And although you bee permitted to read holy Scripture and to have the word of God in your mother tongue you must understand that it is licenced you so to doe onely to enforme your owne conscience and to instruct your children and family and not to dispute and make Scripture a railing and taunting stocke against Priests and Preachers as many light persons doe I am very sory to know and heare how unreverently that most pretious jewell the word of God is disputed rimed sung and jangled in every Alehouse and Taverne contrary to the true meaning and Doctrine of the same And yet I am even as much sorry that the readers of the same follow it in doing so faintly and coldly for of this I am sure that charity was never so faint amongst you and vertuous and godly living was never lesse used nor God himselfe amongst Christians was never lesse reverenced honoured and served Therefore as I said before be in charity one with another like brother and brother love dread and feare God to the which I as your supreame head and Soveraigne Lord exhort and require you and then I doubt not but that love and league that I spake of in the beginning shall never be dissolved or broken between us And to the making of Lawes which bee now made and concluded I exhort you the makers to be as diligent in putting them in execution as you were in making and furthering of the same or else your labour shall be in vaine and your Common-wealth nothing relieved Now to your Petition concerning our Royall Assent to be given to such Acts as have passed both Houses They shall be read openly that ye may hear them Then were they openly read and to many his Grace assented and diver he assented not unto This the Kings Oration was to his Subjects there present such comfort that the like joy could not bee unto them in this world And thus the Acts made as the manner is and his Assent given his Grace rose and departed FINIS