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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35736	Three speeches of Sir Edward Dearings, Knight and Baronet, in the Commons House of Parliament	Dering, Edward, Sir, 1598-1644.	1641 (1641)	Wing D1118; ESTC R27295	4,858	18

THREE SPEECHES OF SIR EDWARD DEARINGS Knight and Baronet in the Commons House of Parliament The first concerning the freedome of Mr. Wilson a Minister in Kent The second at a grand Committee of the whole house for Religion The third at a delivery of a Petition out of Kent concerning the present government of the Church LONDON Printed for Iohn Stafford in Chancerylane over against the Roules 1641. A SPEECH MADE BY SIR EDWARD DEARING KNIGHT AND Baronet in the Commons house of Parliament concerning the freedome of Master Wilson upon the tenth day of Novemer 1640. Mr. SPEAKER YEsterday the affaires of this House did borrow all the time allotted to the great Committee for Religion I am sorry that having but halfe a day in a whole weeke wee have lost that Mr. Speaker It hath pleased God to put into the heart of his Majestie for the Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord once more to assemble us into a Senate to consult upon the unhappy distractions the sad dangers the much feared ruines of this last flourishing Church and Kingdome God be praysed both for his goodnesse and for his severity wherewith hee hath impelled this meeting and humble thankes unto his Majestie whose parentall care of us his Subjects is willing to relieve us The sufferances that wee have undergone are reducible to two heads The first concerning the Church the second belonging to the Commonwealth The first of these must have the first fruits of this Parliament as being the first in write and worth and more immediate to the honour of God and his Glory every dramme whereof is worth the whole weight of a Kingdome The Common-wealth it is true is full of apparent dangers The sword is come home unto us and the two twinne-Nations united together under one royall head breathren together in the bowells and the bosome of the same Island and which is above all imbanded together with the same Religion I say the same Religion by a devillish machination like to bee fatally imbread in each others blood ready to digge each others grave Quantillum abfuit For other grievances also the poore disheartned subject sadly groanes not able to distinguish betwixt Power and Law And with a weeping heart no question hath prayed for this hower in hope to bee relieved and to know hereafter whether any thing hee hath besides his poore part and portion of the Common ayre he breathes may be truely called his owne These Mr. Speaker and many other doe deserve and must shortly have our deepe regard but Suo gradu not in the first place There is a unum necessarium above all our worldly sufferances and dangers Religion the immediate service due unto the honour of Almighty God And herein let us all be confident that all our consultations will prove unprosperous if wee put any determination before that of Religion For my part Let the sword reach from the North to the South and a generall perdition of all our remaining right and safety threaten us in open view it shall bee so farre from making me to decline the first setling of Religion that I shall ever argue and rather conclude it thus The more great the more iminent our perills of this world are the stronger and quicker ought our care to bee for the Glory of God and the pure Law of our soules If then Mr. Speaker it may passe with full allowance that all our cares may give way unto the treaty of Religion I will reduce that also to bee considered under two heads first of Ecclesiasticke persons then of Ecclesiasticke causes Let no man start or bee affrighted at the im at the immagined length of this consultation it will not it cannot take up so much time as it is worth This it is God and the King this is God and the Kingdome nay this is God and the two Kingdomes cause And therefore Mr. Speaker my humble motion is that wee may all of us seriously speedily and hartily enter upon this the best the greatest the most important cause we can treat of Now Mr. Speaker in pursuite of my owne motion and to make a little entrance into this great affayre I will present unto you the petition of a poore oppessed Minister in the County of Kent A man Orthodox in his Doctrine conformable in his life laborious in the Ministery as any we have or I doe know He is now a sufferer as all good men are under the generall obliquity of a Puritan as with other things was excellently delivered by that silver trumpet at the Barre The Pursivant watches his doore and divides him and his cure asunder to both their greifes For it is not with him as perhaps with some that set the Pursivant at worke gladded of an excuse to bee out of their Pulpit It is his delight to Preach About a weeke since I went over to Lambeth to move that great Bishop too great indeede to take this danger off from this Minister and to recall the Pursivant And withall I did undertake for Master Wilson for so your Petitioner is called that he should answer in any his accusers of the Kings Courts at Westminster The Bishop made me answer as neare as I can remember in haec verba I am sure that hee will not bee absent from his cure a twelvemoneth together and then I doubt not but once in a yeare we shall have him This was all I could obtaine but I hope by the helpe of this house before this yeare of threates runne round His Grace will either have more Grace or no Grace at all For our manifold griefes doe fill a mighty and a vast Circumferance yet so that from every part our lives of sorrow doe leade unto him and point at him the Center from whence our miseries in this Church and many of them in the Common wealth doe grow Let the Petition bee read and let us enter upon the worke A SPEECH AT A Grand Committee of the whole house for Religion YOu have many private Petitions give mee leave by word of mouth to interpose one more generall which thus you may receive Gods true Religion is violently invaded by two seeming enimies But indeede they are like Herod and Pilate fast friends for the destruction of Truth I meane the Papists for one partie and our Prelating faction for the other Betweene these two in their severall progresse I observe the concurrence of some few Parallells fit as I conceive to be represented to this Honorable House First with the Papists there is a severe Inquisition and with us as it is used there is a bitter high Commission both these contra fas jus are judges in their owne cause yet herein their Inquisitors are better then our High Commissioners They for ought I ever heard doe not saevire in suos punish for delinquents and offenders such as professe and practice according to the Religion established by the Lawes of the Land where they live But with