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A86117	Collonel James Hays speech to the Parlament upon the debate concerning toleration. As it was taken by Anonimus a Member of the House, and sent to the press with this epigram on the author. [dagger] Fælix fifa suis cælebrata Catonibus eheu! clodius in miseros furit, & Catalina Britannos. [dagger] Henderson ...	Carlisle, James Hay, Earl of, ca. 1612-1660.; Brummet, Christoph.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1655 (1655)	Wing H1201; Thomason E828_4; ESTC R202584	15,186	32

the tearing sword And yet throughout al not one word of Toleration stil he who chooses the better part and adhears to the unity and purity of Religion goes away with a blessing and the other positively or by consequence loaded with a curse Adam is punished Eve plagued the devil condemned though there was neither man nor woman in the world besides yet would not the Lord away with the breach of his Law the questioning of his fundamentals no toleration in these Sir no liberty no indulgence no by-worship allowed Abel approved Cain banished Isaac chosen Ishmael cast out Noah saved the world drowned Lot delivered and Sodom burnt and so forth over the whole History of that Church you shal find the signals of love towards the one and the tincture of his wrath and indignation cleaving fast to the other The third Church Sir was the National Church called of God by Moses the third Seal opened the third Mystery revealed the Church called the Law proclaimed the third Anathema appended conform to the first plot in every thing except the characters viz. the black horse the pair of ballances intituling on this society the dead and lingring works of the Law much selfishness and home love flowing from the niceness of property and affection to interest occasioning much contempt of the Law of God and neglect of his glory All which you may observe in the constitution of that Church and progress therof First Moses summons it by shewing the people he was come from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to call them to the worship of him who is as Exod. 3.14 Secondly he setleth fundamentals and declares the Law as you may find Exod. 12. from 2. to 21 verse where he instituteth the Passeover and feast of unleavened bread 3ly He addeth the Anathema the Segregetur no stranger shall eat thereof as verse 43. no forraigner no hired servant as verse 45 the penaltie may be easily collected from that of the tabernacle N●mb●● 5 And every stranger that draweth nigh shall surely dye and more fully Deut. 30.15 and 19. See I have set before thee this day life and good death and evill And more clearly he tels the people that if they would fear the Lord and keep his statutes they should be blessed and possess the Land but if otherwise they should perish and be accursed for ever Suffer me to make a little digression it shall be short and to good purpose I hope Sir you know it is and hath been the care nay I may say the ambition of all masters of Arts sciences and societies to reduce these arts sciences and societies to the purest perfection neither is this perfection they aim at let them think what they will an imaginarie one or of their own invention if they do they are in an error no Sir it is that pure and primitive perfection which was in all arts sciences and societies and in which all arts sciences and societies were at the beginning for there is nihil novi inter nos As to that Sir it is impossible to make things better then once they were and it should be every ones care to bring them as nigh to the pattern as they can This was Moses his practise in the beginning of that National Church he studied to have all of one mind that thereby he might reduce this numerous bulk into one body politick one Congregation and consequently have the goods and fortune as one treasurie to serve and uphold the State He wel knew that Dissonantia inter se soepe conveniunt in tertio And that Quaecunque conveniunt in uno tertio conveniunt inter se therfore did he begin with the unity of mind Religion the pole of the State at which all courses though never so different on the line wil meet in the end He wel knew that having once both out of policie and piety conjured them with Religion and made them one there he should easily unite their bodies unite their fortunes and so become master of all The mind ruling the body and the body the Interest All over the constitution of this Church you 'l find this triple unitie commanded and in the progress stil aimed at in case of defection I need cite to you for the first onely the manner of celebrating the Passeover and feast of nleavened bread Exod 12. from 43 upward where First is shown who shall be admitted namely all the house of Israel either by birth or consequence By Birth as the Congregation verse 47. by consequence The circumcised stranger v 48. Secondly to prevent Toleration or any Debate thereabout is declared who shall not be admitted No stranger no forreigner no hired servant ver 43. and 45. No Heretick no Schismatick None but he that wil submit to the bloody law of circumcision Thirdly is shown the manner how this feast was to be celebrated 1. In one house 2. No flesh to be carried without doors 3. No bones broken By all which you see how that first hee 'l have them of one mind in profession acknowledging the one true God and him only of one mind in Worship hee 'l be adored in the accustomed and commanded manner all must be circumcised 2. Hee 'l have them of one body under the name of a Congregation ruled by one Law as ver 49. Thirdly hee 'l have them of one fortune as it were by meeting in one house once every year and eating of one dish together And while they are together hee 'l have them neither to carry flesh without doors nor break a bone shewing he would have no division no Heresies amongst them that he would own no temporary professors no livery-men no pettie worshippers abroad Peremptorily saying no uncircumcised person shal eat thereof No Toleration on any terms This was but a smal comfort to the Libertines whose squeemish and tender stomachs could eat no Lamb with the Congregation of Israel in the house of God and yet perhaps they had an appetite to devour Swines flesh with the Sons of Belial in Bethaven the house of iniquity The second remarkable passage against this Toleration is the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai where you find the command of keeping the Sabbath to be so very strict that the very stranger within the gates is bound thereby This I beleive looks liker compulsion then Toleration The third and singularly observable thing in that Church against Toleration is to be seen in the great and marvellous fabrick of the Tabernacle Let no man think that this was a bare peice of Artifice signifying no more then what was seen It were ridiculous to think that God would have kept Mose● 40 dayes in the Mount only to learn to build an house which any ingenious artist could have learned in one day I suppose from a more unskilful master than was he who taught Moses No it did containe within it the true mystery of all things betwixt Alpha and Omega God had said Ostendam tibi omne bonum And

it is said And the multitude of beleivers were of one heart one mind one Soule neither didany man say what he had was his own all things weie commond and the Apostle Paul assures the Romans 12.5 that being many they were one bedy in Christ and every one Members one of another He exhorts the Corinthians in that 2. Ep. 13.11 to be of one mind and live in peace and love and finally he telleth the Ephes 4.4.56 That there is one body and one Spirit one Lord one faith one Baptisme one God and Father of all In all their Councells also they were unanimous for it was for the sake of unitie they were called We must not think that they did call Councells to question their own Religion No it was prorenata ever upon the occasion of some Schisme some heresie as you will find in all their Councells where their work was to cleare truths and condemne errors without regard to Toleration In the beeleving and obeying of these truths to which there was ever an Anathema appended witness Paul 1 Cor. 16.22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus let him be Anathema Maranatha also Gal. 1.8 If I or an Angel from Heaven Preach any other Gospel unto you let him be accursed In all the apostles Canons you 'l ever find a Deponatur for the Clergy a Segregetur for the seculars All men equally tied to the rule without any exception or Latitude at all The first Councils they kept was at Jerusalem the 34 year of our Lord on the occasion of Electing Matthias to serve in Lieu of Judas the Heretick and high Priest of Satan Act. 1. where it is worthy observation that before Matthias was Elected the entire nubmer made up Peter sheweth the occasion of their meeting to be the fulfilling and uniting the Apostolical number the supplying of Juda's charge And next he pronounces an Anathema of the Charge a sad one indeed Let his habitation be desolate This smels nothing of Toleration The second Council was at Jerusalem anno 34 before the death of Steven upon occasion of a murmuring amongst the Grecians against the Hebrews because their Widdows were neglected Act 6. The third Council you 'l find Act 15. the cause was dissention about Circumcision The fourth Councel is Act 21. Anent the permission of legal things for a time In these two last there was somthing might seem to be like to Toleration for in the third the Gentiles are exempted from the burden of the Law by the fourth the Jews are allowed the exercise therof But Consider Sir first that these things purifying washing shaving were in themselves no sin at all In themselves I say for if otherwise they had been surely Paul had neither tolerated nor used them sin being condemned even in Casu necessitatis There being no excuse able to wash away the guilt of sin 2ly Things in themselves indifferent cannot be used at all times without sin For it is one thing to tolerate somethings in Ecclesia constituenda another in Ecclesia constituta It may be in the one expedient in the other altogether unlawfull which flows from the respective consequences of either Whether the like necessity does press you now which urged the Apostles then you best know for my part I doubt of it And were it so Yet can I find no warrant in all the Scriptures to blaspheme Gods Name And I am perswaded the Toleration now aimed at will tend to that in the highest degree What madness is it that men will be content to be bound up from acting or speaking against the supream Magistrate or the State under no less pain than Treason And who so transgresseth is hailed to the stake And yet will they strugle to unwreath themselves from the yoak of Christ and under the notion of tender Consciences must needs be tolerated yea why say I tolerated warranted by a Law to rebell against God and his Son Jesus Christ if they please Would you but enquire at the four great Counsels universally received by all Namely that of Nice in anno 323. Consisting of 300 Bishops against the Arrians and Quadradecimals That of Constance against the Macedonian Heresie That of Ephesus against the Nestorian Heresie and that of Chalcedon against the Eutychean heresie Enquire I say at these and you shall find there was nothing amongst them like Toleration Their care and practice was the clearing and asserting of truth and condemning of Error Do not you think Sir but these same errors or worse are amongst you which were amongst them at that time Is there none think you Sir in England who will say with Arrius Dei filius aliquando erat aliquando non erat None who with Macedonius holds that Spiritus sanctus nihil ad patris filii divinitatem gloriam pertinet None who maintaineth Filium esse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 similem non ejusdem essentiae None think you who with Nestorius divides the natures of God and call-leth the Virgin Mary 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As if she had brought forth Christ as man only not as God and man Is it not possible to find one who 'l say Christus non sub carnis veritate sed figura in terris laborabat Assure your self Sir there are thousands of this nature amongst you and worse if worse may be Nay what say I may be there wants not who deny that they hold any thing of God or his Son either they knowing neither and denying both acknowledging nothing above themselves in dignity I mean of Essence In place they may and yet with a grudg I verily believe Loose the bonds and break the curb of Religion and cherish such impious vermine as this land swarms with and you shall see what will become of your State in the end when it will be too late to repent Seeing therefore you have the same Enemies In all Humility I advise that you use the same weapons against them which they did with so much and so good sucecss otherwise shew us a better way how to overthrow this monstrous Hydra I pray you Sir the sweet and gentle voice of Syon the peaceful ayr of the Gospel The faith of Jesus and the principles of Christian Religion are they not as dear to us the Children of Light as the dictates of Nature were to the Sons of Adam As pretious to the Adopted Gentile as the fearful voîce of Mount Sinay the Thundring Trumpet the lingring works and uncertain Ceremonies of the Law were to the chosen Israel Let me exhort you therefore Sir you who sits in the chaire of Moses to take to hart the building of the sanctuarie Remember that so soone as the people were delivered from the bondage of Egypt the Tabernacle was provided for Exod 25. No sooner had David rest from his enemies but he intended the building of a house to God 2. Sam. 7.1 And amongst the first and greatest of the miracles of Christ was the purgeing of the temple the subduing of the enemies and abuses thereof Remember that super hanc potram even according to all that you have seen in the Mount after the modell of Sion must you build your house otherwise if the storme blow your house will fall But you 'l happily reply that you have done that already in passing a Vote on the 35 Article and declaring the Christian Religion to be the profession of England A good beginning I confess a fair frontispiece indeed But beware that it prove not like the Aegyptian Temples brave stately buildings to look upon but within nothing but the Images of Doggs Catts Crocodiles and unclean Beasts I advise you Sir to provide for this House and furnish it according to all that I have told you The kindliest guest that ever came into a house is the Landlord himself If you do it not Sir be sure your Enemies will do it for you But what say I do it I fear they have done done it already UP therefore and call to mind that Christ did with zeal and passion if any may be attributed to him purge the Temple brake down the the tables and cast out the buyers and sellars Call your Brother Aaron whose mouth the ord hath filled with Eloquence and his heart with understanding you with him and he with you scourge out the unapparalled guests with the cords of the spiritual sword and civil execution Be not ashamed to assert the truth nor afraid to condemn errors And then you 'l know both what to Tolerate and whom to compel And this is my humble motion FINIS