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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50734	A speech made by Sir Audley Mervyn His Majesties prime serjeant at law in Ireland, the 11th. day of May in the House of Lords when he was presented speaker by the Commons, before the right honourable Sir Maurice Eustace Knight, Lord Chancellour of Ireland, Roger Earl of Orrery, and Charles Earl of Mountrath, His Majesties Lord Justices of his kingdom of Ireland.	Mervyn, Audley, Sir, d. 1675.	1661 (1661)	Wing M1890; ESTC R8040	9,904	17

Cap of Maintenance could never fit that Bellua multorum capitum Thy Lyons O England roated not out of Courage but for Hunger Thy Lyon O Scotland was not rampant The Flower-de luces withred And thy Harp O Ireland thy discomposed Hup was hung upon the Willows But now you hear the Silver strings of it toucht by another David sounding Heavenly Anthems Glory be to God on high Peace unto Men Glory be to God on high the Church settled Peace unto Men Your Estates and Liberties secured and is not this that your eyes now behold a Mount of Transfiguration Draw near You House of Commons behold a King Poets faind Caelum and Terra to be the Parents of Soveraignty shadowing out to us its Divine Institution and Humane approbation the Nativity of Charles the Second Intitles it self to that truth Iam nova progenies Caelo demittitur alto there is Divine Institution It is reported that in that Latitude where the son makes a discontinuance to his Plea of Governing the World for six Months successively that the Inhabitants at the time of his return clime to the tops of the Mountains and ravisht with his praevius refractions cry aloud he is coming he is coming But how did his Majesties Subjects upon the guilding of our Horison by his happy ristitution make Mountains of men and built up many Stories high upon one anothers Shoulders How did the lame take up their beds and walk Glorifying God He is come he is come there is Humane approbation Nay but behold your King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Behold your King that solar Plannet culminating in the house of his Exaltation sitting either Personally or Representatively in his Parliament Do you not yet see him why then feel him what say your Lives Do they not feel the influence of his Metcy Hath not every Chest a Pardon as well as a Pattent in keeping What say your Estates do not they feel him hath not every Chest a Patent as well as a Pardon in keeping nay have not the greatest part of your Estates in this Kingdom felt his power of creation raising up Estates out of nothing What say your Liberties do not they feel him the Prisons those living graves have yielded up their dead an Iron fetters and shackles about the leggs are Metamorphised into Golden Chains and Collers of SS about the neck But what if his Majesties Necessities be great You feel them not none shall then share in that sense with himself True it is that the General Convention in this Kingdom humbly presented his Majesty with 20000. Pound but a cluster of those Grapes whereof the Vintage is yet behind and hath he not lately returned us 50000. Pounds to pay that Army which secureth Us If the Servant that improved his Masters Talent had the Eulogium of Euge bone serve when the Master improves thus the Servants Tallent shall not We say Euge bone Domine Rex Carole secunde If theer be any yet weaker then Didymus that neither seeing nor feeling will raise him up will you hear your King The voice of a King is like the roaring of a Lyon and yet this voice we never heard though when he hath been amongst the Beasts of the Forrests he is to be heard in a still voice If any hot Spirited Disciples move for fire to come down upon Samaritains for we have had Samaritains how gently doth he reprove them You know not what temper you are of For I came not to destroy but to save Will you hear him speaking in his Gracious Declaration for Settling of Ireland that Systeme of what are transcendent in him his Mercy and Justice his own hand set that Declaration as the Book Song for thy Harp O Ireland to be tuned unto and by it hath improved thee to play broken notes in a harmonious Concord who ever saw impatience sit in his Royal brow but when he remembred thee O Ireland when he remembred that thou wert mourning when his two other Kingdoms were rejoycing with what exemplary wisdom did he unravel thy complicated Interests how tenderly did he bind up thy wounds with his own hands He did not send his Stick to lay upon the dead Child but stretcht himself upon it to bring it to life thy cure was painful ay and costly two to purchase a Kingdom to Us he gave a Kingdom from himself But know great Soveraign such giving shall be but sowing seed in fruitful ground and Your Subjects hearts shall lade Your Arms with full Sheaves I askt one Question did you see your King give me leave to adde another Do you not see the King of Kings for behold a greater then Solomon is here when God writes Faith and Duty must be our spectacles to read I invite you not ro read a Mene Mene Tekel Peres but Hephzihah and Beulagh for the Lord delighteth in thee and thy Land shall be marryed Astrologers have made Divinations from the fiery Trigon and the conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter as to the condition of Our King and his Kingdomes bleer eyd men could you not see when Our King was wrapt up in the swadling bands of Majesty and after Worcester Fight laid in a Manger Could you not see a Star over the place the Wise men did see it and did foretell that God had snatcht him as a Fire-brand out of the Fire and designed him to be a Crown of Glory in the hand of the Lord and a Royal Diadem in the hand of his God Did you not see the Pillar of Fire with the bright side lighting the King in his Dangerous Wearisome and dark escape with the sable side of it to Pharoh and his persecuting troops Did you not see the Pillar of Fire by night and the cloud by day guarding his Majestie through Flanders Germany Spain France Did not God hide him in the hollow of his hand and shut him up like a Ioas in his Temple or which is more shut up his Temple in him warrantably may he be stiled Defender of the Faith whose Faith defended him but here Quid memorem infandas caedes quid facta Tyranni Effera How did his Majesties enemies consult with Satans rules of Policy to have destroyed his Body and Soul corrupt nature under the pressures of long-visaged necessities if not restraind by a divine power will close with the worst of means that may promise a deliverance Satan knew that after 40. dayes Fasting and in a Wilderness was the Critical hour to foment a temptation One of the best of men prayed against adversitie lest he might put forth his hand unto iniquitie Great and Dread Soveraign must no Nation be at Peace with England that would give you a receptien must your own natural Members be cut off if they payed but a little sustenance to You their head It hath been so and it s as true that France Spain and Germany if You would have fallen down and worshipt if you would but have exchanged the ancient Apostolick for the Roman