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A29208	A sermon preached at Dublin upon the 23 of Aprill, 1661 being the day appointed for His Majesties coronation : with two speeches made in the House of Peers the 11th of May, 1661, when the House of Commons presented their speaker / by John Lord Archbishop of Armagh, Primate and Metropolitan of all Ireland.	Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing B4235; ESTC R25292	22,740	52

of all things do consist in indivisibili Faith is ad●…lterated as vvell by the addition of nevv Articles as by the substraction of old A Religion vvhich is not like to perish for vvant of fit organs like those imperfect creatures produced by the Sun upon the banks of Nilus but shaped for continuance The terrour of Rome They fear our moderation more than the violent opposition of others The vvatch tovver of the Evangelical Churches I have seen many Churches of all sorts of Communions but never any that could diminish that venerable estimation vvhich I had for my mother the Church of England From her breasts I received my first nourishment in her armes I desire to end my days Blessed be he that blesseth her This good seed that is the Religion of the Church of England King CHARLES did bear forth vvith him This he brought home vvith him vvithout turning either to the right hand or to the left And like the Laurel tree the tree of Conquerers he gathered strength and vigour even from opposition Crescit sub pondere virtus I cannot deny but that some of us have started aside like broken bovves out of despair in this their bitter trial wherein they have had their goods plundered their estates sequestred their persons imprisoned their Churches aliened wherein they have been divorced from their nearest relations and disabled to discharge the duties of their callings to God wherein ●…ome of them have been slaughtered others forced to mantain themselves by mechanick labours others thrust out of their native Countries to wan●…er like vagabonds and exiled beggars up and down the merciless world But God be praised they are not many If we compare this with any the like persecution in Europe you shall never finde that so few Apostated As if they had been inspired with the free spi●…it of S Chrysostome will they banish me the earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof If they cast me ●…nt the sea I will remember Jonas if into a fiery ●…urnace t●…e three children if among the wilde beasts Daniel If they stone me I have S. Stephen for my companion ●…f they behead me John Baptist if they plunder me naked I came out of my mothers womb and naked must I return again Or with the heroical mind of S. Ambrose Vultisne ad vincula me abripere voluptas est mihi c. Will ye hale me to prison it is a delight unto me To death I vvill not incircle my self with a guard of trusty followers nor lay hold on the altars as a supplyant to save my life but will be freel●… offered up for the altars of my God Spices being brayed in a morter smell more sweetly so these servants of Christ being beaten and bruised by persecu●…ors do yield a more fragrant odour in the noseth●…ls of God and man The ground of their constancie next to the goodness of God was the examples of our dread Soveraign his courage and perseverance The example of a great Prince is like the great wheel of a clock which sets all the lesser wheels a going This shall one day Crown his temples with a diadem more bright than the beams of the Sun as far excelling that Crown which he is to receive this day as the radiant splendour of the Sun doth exceed the dim shining of a glow-worm Then if Tully an ●…eathen could say that the Romans did owe their victories and good successes more to their religious piety than either to their numbers or strength or policy why should Christians despair or doubt that King CHARLES who vvent on his vvay vveeping and did bear forth such precious seed vvith him should come again vvith joy and bring his sheaves with him The last sort of good seed which King CHARLES did bear forth with him was the prayers and good affections of his Subjects Tyrants might deprive him of his other contributions this they could not deprive him of If S. Austine did attribute so much to the prayers and tears of his Mother Monica what might not be hoped from the prayers and tears of so many thousands powred out to God in private for their King and Country Church and Commonwealth Liberty and Religion At a German Dyet the Princes fell upon a controversy which of them had the best Country The Palati●…e commended his for the fruitful soil the S●…xon his for the silver mines the Bavarian his for stately Cities the Duke of VVittenberge in praise of his Country said onely this that he durst lay his head in the lap of any Subject throughout his Dominions either by day or by night fortunati ambo an happy Prince of an happy people where that evil spirit had not walked which set dissension between Abimelech and the men of Sichem England was not always so happy when some counterfeit Physicians like the wolf in the sable perswaded against her own sense that she was sick to death without all kind of recovery unless she vvould put her self into their hands to be cured She did so And vvhat the issue had been if God almighty had not looked dovvn upon us from heaven vvith an eye of pity vve have seen Yet this vvas but a green sickness fit When that fit vvas over she threvv avvay her chalk and coles vvhich she had eaten in corners and returned to eat more healthful food at her Fathers table Or it vvas a short fit of madness O Phocion said Demades look to thy self when the Athenians fall into their mad fits And thou Demades replyed Phocion look to thy self when they return to their right wits But God be praised even vvhilest this epidemical distemper did rage the most there vvere not onely seaven thousand in England but seaventy times seaven thousand vvho never bovved their knees to Baal Berith the God of the Covenant but continued loyal Subjects and orthodox Christians and vvere not afraid vvith the Serpent to expose their bodies to the blovvs and their estates to be a prey to their persecutors that they might save their head first their spiritual head that is Christ secondly their political head that is their Soveraign Prince and lastly their ecclesiastical head or lavvful superiours in the Church These vvere the true Israels vvho vvrestled vvith God by their prayers and prevailed I have done vvith the second qualification and beareth forth good seed I come novv to the catastrophe Shall doubtless come again with joy Every vvord in my text proclaims that there is an interchangeable vicissitude of all humane affairs Here vve have going forth and coming again weeping and acclamations of joy sovving and reaping seed and sheaves He that goeth on his way weeping and beareth forth good seed shall doubtless come again with joy and bring his sheaves with him That of Solomon There is a time for every thing a time to plant and a time to pluck up a time to build and a time to pull down holds in Cities and publick ●…ocieties as vvell as private Families and they may set

securely upon either ear When the Preacher hath but fallen upon the Martyrdom of our late Soveraign or those instructions vvhich he left behind him hovv have I seen his Majesty dissolve into tears that brought to my mind that of S. Austin proruperant stumina oculorum meorum acceptabile tuum sacrificium The f●…oods of mine eyes did break forth an acceptable sacrifice unto thee O God This is the first qualification He that goeth on his way weeping The second follows and bringeth forth good seed It is a Metaphore taken from sowers What a man sowes that he may certainly expect to reap But what is the good seed which our Soveraign did bear forth with him I answer first a good title Dieu son droit God and his right There is a 〈◊〉 error lately crept into the world and almost thrust out again That Dominion is founded in grace not in nature That the wicked have no interest in their possessions or estates but are like moths which make their houses in other mens garments That all things belong properly to the elect Paul Apollo Cephas things present things to come all are theirs if they be Christs Ex his praemissis necessariò sequitur collusio Admit this once and then they vvho take themselves to be true Israelites may with a good conscience rob plunder the profane Egyptians of this world Nothing is more hidden than true grace We know it not in another hardly in our selves Therefore if grace should give an interest to possessions no mans title should be certain from whence of necessity must follow an incredible confusion But our God is a God of order Religion neither alters nor takes avvay any mans right Ananias vvas no Saint yet S. Peter told him that he had a good interest in his estate was it not thine own The truth is Dominion is founded in nature not in grace It vvas said to our first parents immediately upon the creation Replenish the earth and have Dominion c. Every son of Adam may challenge an interest in his ovvn estate by virtue of this concession All is yours saith the Scripture that is not every individual creature but every species or kind of creatures All is yours that is not by vvay of civil possession but by divine ordination All things by Gods disposition serve for the good of the Church and help forvvard the salvation of Gods servants Or All is yours and you are Christs that is you onely vvho are Christs have the sanctified use of the creatures This is far enough from a civil possession far enough from a just title Such as King CHA●…LES had not grounded upon a Fana ick exposition of a text of holy Scripture nor upon the fickle humors of a giddy multitude nor upon the traiterous dictates of a seditious oratour but upon the evident Lavvs of God of Nature of Nations and the municipal Lavvs of these ●…ingdoms upon a radicated succession from royal progenitors He himself being the hundred and tenth person of one family vvho hath svveyed the Scepter I do not yet knovv any Prince in Europe or in these parts of the vvorld that can say the same A title so clear as if it vvere vvritten vvith a beam of the Sun vvhich no true English man in his right vvitts did ever yet oppose but one or tvvo forreign pensioners maintained on purpose abroad to kindle scath fires at home vvho gained nothing by the question but to render themselves ridiculous This vvas the good seed vvhich King CHARLES did bear forth vvith him A good title vvhich though it seemed for a time to perish under the clods yet vve see it sprouts up again A tempest brings Achilles his arms to Ajax's tombe to reverse an unjust sentence And Aaron's rod devou●…ed the rods of the enchanters to the comfort of all loyal Subjects and the confusion of all Egyptian Juglers for ever This is the first good seed vvhich King CHARLES did bear forth vvith him A good title A second sort of good seed vvhich King Charles did bear forth vvith him vvas the testimony of a good conscience void of offence towards God and towards man A good conscience is a better proof of innocence then a thousand vvitnesses and vvill make it self a garland of the lying reports of Sycophants When King CHARLES was first chased out of England his age was not capable of much guilt and his onely crime was that which in truth was his chiefest glory he was the Son of such a Father Those accursed jealousies and fears which the first devisers and spreaders of them did know assuredly to be damnable lies are now vanished Truth the daughter of time hath discovered them to all the world to have been counterfeit shews They feared an apostasy to Popery yet King CHARLES the Father dyed a glorious Martyr and King CHARLES the Son lives a Noble Confessour of the true faith professed in the Church of England having shewed evidently by a thousand proofs that he is no such reed shaken with the wind They complained of tyranny against him whose onely defect was overmuch goodness and lenity Let their high Courts of Injustice speak let their black roll of Sequestrators and committee men speak let all the great Towns in England which they made shambles of good Christians and loyal Subjects speak let Tredah speak and that torrent of loyal blood which vvas poured out there barbarously upon cold and deliberate thoughts like water upon the face of the earth who vvere the Tyrants Cajus the Emperour out of a ridiculous affectation to make himself like the Gods did assume Mercurie's rod Apollo's bow and arrows Mars his sword and shield But King CHARLES hath ever better ensignes of the Deity Justice Mercy Piety and Temperance These make up the image of God where these abound the bird in the breast sings sweetly He who hath these may with comfort expect an happy deliverance from all his troubles He that goeth on his way weeping and beareth forth this seed with him shall doubtless come again with joy The third sort of good seed which King Charles did bear forth with him was a good Religion A Religion not reformed tumultuously according to the brain sick fancies of an half witted multitude dancing after the pipe of some seducing charmer but soberly according to the rule of Gods word as it hath been evermore and every where interpreted by the Catholick Church and according to the purest pattern of the primitive times A Religion against which the greatest adversaries thereof have no exception but that it preferreth grace before nature the written vvord before uncertain traditions and the allsufficient blood of Jesus Christ before the stained works of mortal men A Religion which is neither garish with superfluous Ceremonies nor yet sluttish and void of all order decency and Majesty in the service of God A Religion which is as careful to retein old Articles of faith as it is averse from new Articles The essences

neither so perpendicular over our heads that they can scorch us nor yet so oblique but that they are able to warm us Should we go about in a madding humour to dissolve a frame of government which made our forefathers happy at home and famous abroad or loath our own Manna and long after the Fleshpots and Onions of Egypt If we dote upon forreign polities it is onely because we do not know them Consult but with those that do know them and we will quickly say our lot is fallen in a fair ground And so from Kings you come to Parliaments which have evermore had a venerable esteem in the world if not under the name of Parliaments yet under a more ancient name of Councills or Conventions As the inferiour orbes do by their transverse and opposite yet vincible motions stay and moderate the rapide force of the primum mobile or first Sphere So Parliaments by their Fabian Counsells do temper and moderate the quick motion of Soveraign power I speak not this of any danger that hangs over us God be praised we have no such young Phaetons but one that hath been as much and as long acquainted with Fabius as with Marcellus and knows how to use the Buckler as well as the Sword But Parliaments have a further advantage than that of Counsell onely namely in republicks to aggravate and unite and to render the whole society one political body and in M●…narchies to supply and second and execute Then the affaires of a Kingdom go prosperously on when they joyn one and all in advancing publique designes From Parliaments in general I come to the reasons of summoning this Parliament in particular But that is so evident that he that runs may read it Yet though it be so obvious that no man can miss it or mistake it and that it may seem superfluous to do that over again which hath been done so excellently allready by my Lord Chancellour as one of his Majesties representatives yet for order and method sake I shall assigne three reasons for convocating this present Parliament The first is discrimination of persons and distinction of possessions Me thinks I am now in one of the fields of Egypt upon the banks of Nilus presently after the inundation of that river when it is just returning into the old channel And all you that hear me look like so many measurers that are here on purpose to give every proprietor his right possession and to set them out their true bounds Never did an inundation of Nilus make a greater confusion of distinct possessions and interests than the late Rebellion hath made in Ireland blending all estates in one confused mass Kings Dukes Bishops Knights and pawns are all confusedly mixed together in one bagge It were folly Noble Peers and Patriots to ask what you do here As great as if one should inquire upon the banks of Nilus what the measurers do there presently after an in●…ndation It is to fix every man in his proper sta●…ion wherein he is to serve his King and Country This is the first end of this Parliament the distinction of possessions A second reason is that which is commonly the reason of summoning all Parliaments that is to satisfy the just debts of the Kingdom and disingage the publique faith We could not do it it was impossible And necessity must yield to impossibility But his Maj●…sty hath done it for us and satisfyed the publique debts out of his own rights The time hath been that the publique faith of the Kingdom hath been slighted No man had a publique trust and so no man could be sued upon a publique faith But King CHARLES hath redeemed the publique credit again by satisfying the publique debts But he satisfyes them in a Parliamentary way S. Paul saith that an oath is the end of all strife so is a Parliament For as there lyeth no appeal from God in the interiour Court So there lyeth no appeal from a Parliament in the exteriour Court I mean a compleat Parliament of King Lords and Commons whose act is the act of each individual Subject This is the second reason of calling this Parliament to satisfy the publique debts of the Kingdom A third reason of convocating this Parliament is the providing for the Army for the future without imposing too great a burthen either upon the English or Irish Subject Two things make a Prince gratefull to his people Easy eares to hear grievances and light hands i●… imposing Subsidies And to speak the truth a great part of the dissensions in England have sprung from this source The King could not live upon the revenues of his Crown without running into debt nor those debts be paid without raising new Monopolies or imposing new taxes as Ship-money or the like or parting with some branches of his Prerogative Royal. Hitherto England hath been necessitated to supply the defects of Ireland it is to be feared not over willingly Now it hath pleased God to put into his Majesties hands an opportunity of advancing his revenue to a competencie that Ireland may be able for the future to bea●… it s own burthen without charging either the English or Irish Subject in ordinary cases And this opportunity he puts wholly into the hands of his Parliament as the proper judge both to supply the necessities of the Kingdom and to prevent them These are the three reasons of calling this Parliament 1. The distinguishing of possessions 2. The satisfaction of just debts 3. And the raising the Revenues of the Crown to a just competency Lastly Mr. Speaker you descend to the unity of both Houses His Majesty hath done whatsoever hath been desired of him and is yet ready to do whatsoever can be desired of a gracious Prince It is our own faults our own Frowardness and unseasonable opposition one to another if we be not happy All things preserve themselves by unity and the nearer they approach to unity the farther they are from fear of dissolution This lesson old Sillurus taught his Sons by a bundle of rods whilest they were tyed together all their conjoyned strength could not so much as bend them but when the bundle was divided and every Son had his single rod they did easily snap them in sunder So said he You my Sons are invincible whilest you preserve unity but if you suffer your selves to be divided you are lost This lesson Menenius Agrippa taught his hearers by the wel-known apology of the belly and the other members whilest they did nourish unity and all acted for the publique advantage of the whole body each member had his share and dividend in this happiness but when they began to mutiny and divide interests and to weigh their own particular merits too narrowly and all to grumble at the belly as an idle gluttonous and unprofitable member they found by costly experience that their well and ill fare were inseparably interwoven together and that they wounded that member which they maligned through their own sides On the other part disunion is the ready way to destruction Si colli●…imur frangimur if we be beaten one against another we are both broken in pieces It was not the power of Rome but the divisions and subdivisions of the Britains which rendered them an easy prey to their Conquerers It was not Philip but the dissensions of Athens Thebes and Sparta that ruined Greece It was not Scipio but the factions of Hanno and Hanniball that destroyed Carthage Our own eyes have seen a small handful of confederated Provinces able to oppose the greatest Monarch in Europe and were so far from sinking under the weight of such a warre which had been able to break a back of steel that like Palme trees they did grow up under the weight from distressed orders to high and mighty states or like Moses his bush not onely not consumed but sprouting and blossoming in the midst of the flames This virtue of unanimity is that whereupon our Riches our Honour our Religion our Laws our Liberties our King and Country our Fires and Altars and all our hopes do depend Hoc opus hoc s●…udium parvi properemus ampli si patriae volumus si nobis vivere chari The answer of the Lords Iustices to Mr Speakers last propositions THat they will be very careful and ready to mantain the House in all the just liberties and priviledges belonging to it 1. A freedom from arrests for themselves and their Servants in all cases whereunto the priviledge of the House doth extend 2. Modest and moderate liberty of speech void of all licen●…iousness which their Lordships are confident that the House is so far from desiring to have it tolerated that themselves would be the first and severest censurer●… of it 3. Seasonable and free access to their Lordships upon all occasions FINIS