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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

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