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A93850 Mr. Recorders speech to the Lord Protector upon VVednesday the eighth of Febru. 1653. Being the day of His Highnesse entertainment in London. Steele, William, d. 1680. 1654 (1654) Wing S5396; Thomason E729_2; ESTC R206829 1,776 7

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Mr. Recorders Speech TO THE LORD PROTECTOR UPON VVednesday the eighth of FEBRU 1653. BEING The day of His Highnesse entertainment IN LONDON LONDON Printed by R.I. for Mathew Walbancke and are to bee sold at his shops at Grayes-Inne-Gates 1653. Mr. Recorder's SPEECH To the Lord PROTECTOR Upon VVednesday the eight of February 1653. being the day of His Highnesse Entertainment in LONDON MAy it please Your Highness my Lord Protector it hath been observed by some That when Samuel offered Sacrifice he therefore reserved the Shoulders for Saul that he might know what was the weight of Government The consideration of which made Maximilian affirm That none who knew how heavy Diadems were would stoop to take them up Governors are like the Heavenly Bodies much in Veneration but never in rest and how can it otherwise be expected when they are not made for themselves or their own glory but for the safety and good of Mankinde as in the Natural so in the Civil World great things being ordained to serve the less We see the Sun by its Beams serving the eye of the meanest Flie as well as of the greatest Potentate The Supremacy of Salus Populi was the conclusion of the Twelve Tables and will be a Prevalent Maxime until the end of the World By thus much My Lord You may perceive the dark side of this Leading Cloud of Government but if God vouchsafe assistance from those Shoulders upon which the Government is laid and put under his Everlasting Arms You will see the bright side also and thence receive Encouragement This Support he is pleased to give by letting Rulers know he is the Author of their Power and that from him they are to expect their Rule The Designation of Government as to Forms and Persons is an Humane Institution and mutable as things that are made but Government it self abstractively considered in its pure Original is of a Divine Off-spring and can with no less difficulty be shaken then those Vestigia's which being as Relations tell us upon the tops of some Mountains above the Clouds can be disordered by Wind and Tempest And for the Rule the Word or Reason of God in the Divine Understanding is the Eternal Law of all things But this being too deep a Well for Mans Bucket to draw out of it pleased his infinite Goodness to let fall a Rivolet from this Source into the Creature which leaving an impression in mans understanding we call The Law of Nature But man having this honor presently became of no understanding his minde being clouded with passions and sins had soon need of superadded helps which God gave him by those other Laws fit for Government and still gives a Spirit for the framing such Municipal Laws as are according to his Will and suitable to the good of the People But when this was done the best Laws without a Government were no other then as the Sword behinde the Ephod and therefore Moses in his time and other Governors in their time must be as Walking Laws and Administrators of Justice We may conclude My Lord Your Highness hath Experimented both these Encouragements as being the Spectator of some and the Subject of other great Revolutions which have hapned in this Age and Land of Wonders And not onely know That the Most High rules in the Kingdoms of Men disposing them to whom he pleaseth but also That it s not sufficient with the Princes of the Nations to exercise dominion which is the common Image of God except there be also a share in the peculiar Image of his Righteousness and Holiness they being Gods indeed and after a peculiar manner to whom the Reason or Word of God so comes My Lord There is one help more in Government which God is pleased often to add to the rest which is the giving in of the Affections of the People The solemnity of this day wherein the Citizens of this great City appear in their several Companies as so many Cities within the City speaks much to this they leave it to other Nations to salute their Rulers and Victorious Commanders with the names of Caesares and Imperatores and after Triumphs to erect for them their Arcus Triumphales But if I mistake not their end this day is not any such outward Pomp or Glory but that those who have been delivered together might rejoyce together and to express their Desires That the Civil Sword might be as prosperous for Publick Ends in the Hand where it is placed as the Military Sword hath been in the same Hand This City seldom goes alone in Publick Actions it was anciently called by Stephanides The heart of the Nation and if the Heart be in a Politique consideration as it is in the natural it will communicate life and spirits into the other Members by which means the whole Body may unanimously contribute their desires and endeavors to oppose the common Enemy and after all our distractions see the Nation established upon the firm Basis of Peace and Righteousnesse which is the end of Government and shall be the end of my further troubling Your Highnesse FINIS