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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43342	Royal directions both to Whigs and Tories in a famous speech of King Henry the VIII in the Parliament House, Decemb. 24. in the 37th year of his reign, Anno Dom. 1545 : tending to charity and concord, and therefore necessary for these times.; 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	England and Wales. Sovereign (1509-1547 : Henry VIII); Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.	1660 (1660)	Wing H1472; ESTC R8858	2,989	2

ROYAL DIRECTIONS BOTH TO WHIGS and TORIES In a famous Speech of King Henry the VIII In the Parliament House Decemb. 24. in the 37th year of his Reign Anno Dom. 1545. Tending to Charity and Concord and therefore Necessary for these Times ALthough my Chauncellor for the time being hath before this time used very eloquently and substantially to make answer to such Orations as have been set forth in this high Court of Parliament yet is he not so able to open and set forth my mind and meaning and the secrets of my heart in so plain and ample manner as I my self am and can do Wherefore I taking upon me to answer your eloquent Oration Mr. Speaker say That where you in the name of our welbeloved Commons have both praised and extolled me for the notable qualities that you have conceived to be in me I most heartily thank you all that you have put me in remembrance of my duty which is to endeavour my self to obtain and get such excellent qualities and necessary vertues as a Prince or Governour should or ought to have of which gifts I recognize my self both bare and barren but of such small qualities as God hath endowed mee withall I render to his Goodness my most humble thanks 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 counsel first remembred I eftsoones thank 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 fortress which was to this Realm most displeasant and noysome and shall be by Gods grace hereafter to our Nation most profitable and pleasant have freely of your own minds granted to Us a certain Subsidy here in an Act specified which verily we take in good part regarding more your kindness then the profit thereof as he that setteth more by your loving hearts then by your substance Besides this hearty kindness I cannot a little rejoice when I consider the perfect trust and sure confidence which you have put in Me as men having undoubted hope and unfained belief in my good doings and just proceedings for you without any desire or request have committed to mine order and disposition all Chauntreys Colledges Hospitals and other places specified in a certain Act firmly 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 jewel to be minished or poor and miserable people to be unrelieved you might say that I being put in so special a trust as I am in this case were no trusty friend to you nor charitable man to any poor Christian neither a lover of the Publick-wealth nor yet one that feared God to whom account must be 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 since I find such kindness on your part toward me I cannot chuse but love and favour you affirming that no Prince in the world more favoureth his subjects then I do you nor no subjects or Commons more love and obey their Soveraign Lord then I perceive you do me for whose defence my treasure shall not be hidden nor if necessity require my person shall not be unadventured yet although I with you and you with me be in this perfect love and concord this friendly amity cannot continue except you my Lords Temporal and you my Lords Spiritual and you my loving Subjects study and take pains to amend one thing which surely is amiss 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 Chapter 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 he calleth him again Papist Hypocrite and Pharisee Be these tokens of charity amongst you Are these signs of fraternal love between you No no I assure you that this lack of charity among your selves will be the hindrance and aswaging of the servent love between us as I said before except this wound be salved and clearly made whole I must needs judg the fault and occasion of this discord to be 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 carnal person if I see a man boast and brag himself 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 anoanother inveigh one against another without charity or discretion Some be so stiff 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 and sincerely the word of God according as they ought to do Shall I judge you charitable persons doing thus No no I cannot do so alas how can the poor souls live in concord when you Preachers sow amongst them in your Sermons debate and discord Of you they look for light and you bring them to darkness 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 Spiritual men be in some fault that charity is not kept amongst you yet you of the Temporality be not clean and unspotted of malice and envy for you rail on Bishops speak slanderously of Priests and rebuke and taunt Preachers both contrary 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 Council or to us to whom is committed by God the high authority to reform and order such causes and behaviours and be not judges your selves of your own Phantastical Opinions and vain Expositions for in such high causes ye may lightly err And although you be permitted to read holy Scripture and to have the word of God in Your mother tongue you must understand that it is licensed you so to do only to enform your own conscience and to instruct your children and family and not to dispute and make Scripture a railing and taunting stock against Priests and Preachers as many light persons do I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel the word of God is disputed rimed sung and jangled in every Alehouse and Tavern 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 less used nor God himself amongst Christians never less reverenced honoured and served Therefore I said before be in charity one with another like brother and brother love dread and fear God to the which I as your supream head and Soveraign 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 Laws which be 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 the same or else your labour shall be in vain and your Common-wealth nothing relieved Now to your Petition concerning our Royal Assent to be given to such Acts as have passed both Houses They shall be read openly that ye may hear them LONDON Printed by George Larkin in Scalding-Alley in the Poultry