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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94228	Two speeches of the Right Honourable William, Lord Viscount Say and Seale, Mr. of his Majesties Court of Wards and Liveries, and one of his Majesties most honourable Privy Councell, spoken in Parliament. The first upon the bill against bishops. The other a declaration of himselfe touching the liturgie.	Saye and Sele, William Fiennes, Viscount, 1582-1662.	1641 (1641)	Wing S796; Thomason E198_16; Thomason E198_17; ESTC R8713	5,438	12

TVVO SPEECHES OF THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE WILLIAM Lord Vicount SAY and SEALE Mr. of his Majesties Court of Wards and Liveries and one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Councell spoken in Parliament The first upon the Bill against Bishops The other a Declaration of himselfe touching the Liturgie LONDON Printed for Thomas Vnder-hill 1641. A Speech of the Right Honounourable WILLIAM Lord Vicount Say and Seale one of his Majesties most Honourable privie Councell spoken in Parliament upon the Bill against the Bishops MY LORDS I Shall not need to begin as high as Adam in answer to what hath beene drawne downe from thence by a Bishop concerning this question The Bishop of Lincolne for that which is pertinent to it will onely be what concernes Bishops as they are ministers of the Gospell what was before being of another nature can give no rule to this The question that will lye before your Lordships in passing of this bill is not whether Episcopacie I meane this Hierarchicall Episcopacy which the world now holds forth to us shall be taken away Roote and branch but whether those exuberant and superfluous branches which draw away the sap from the tree and divert it from the right and proper use whereby it becomes unfruitfull shall be cut off as they use to pluck up suckers from the Roote The question will be no more but this whether Bishops shall be reduced to what they were in their first advancement over the presbyters which although it were but a humane device for the Remedie of Scisme yet were they in those times least offensive or continue still with the addition of such things as their owne ambition and the ignorance and superstitions of succeeding times did adde thereunto and which are now continued for severall politicke erds things heterogencall and inconsistent with their calling and function as they are ministers of the Gospell and thereupon such a ever have beene and ever will be hurtfull to themselves and make them hurtfull to others in the times and places where they are continued And these things alone this bill takes away that is their offices and places in Courts of Iudicature and their imployments by Obligation of office in civill affaires I shall insist upon this to shew first how these things hurt themselves and secondly how they have made and ever will make them hurtfull to others They themselves are hurt thereby in their consciences and in their credits In their consciences by seeking or admitting things which are inconsistent with that function and office which God hath set them apart unto They are separated unto a speciall worke and men must take heed how they mis-imploy things dedicated and set apart to the service of God They are called to preach the Gospell and set apart to the worke of the ministery and the Apostle saith who is sufficient for these things shewing that this requireth the whole man and all is too little therefore for them to seeke or take other offices which shall require and tye them to imploy their time and studies in the affaires of this world will draw a guilt upon them as being inconsistent with that which God doth call them and set them apart unto In this respect our Saviour hath expresly prohibited it telling his Apostles that they should not Lord it over their Brethren nor exercise Jurisdiction over them as was vsed in civill governments among the Heathen They were called gracious Lords and exercised Jurisdiction as Lords over others and sure they might lawfully doe so but to the Ministers of the Gospell our Saviour gives this Rule it shall not be so done by you If ye strive for greatnesse he shall be the greatest that is the greatest servant to the rest therefore in another place he saith He that putteth his hand to the Plow and looketh backe to the things of this world is not fit for the kingdome of God that is the preaching of the Gospell as it is usually called To be thus withdrawne by intangling themselves with the affaires of this life by the necessi●y and duty of an Office received from men from th● discharge of that Office which God hath called them unto brings a woe upon them Woe unto me saith the Apostle if I preach not the Gospel what doth he meane If I preach not once a quarter or once a yeare in the Kings Chappelle No he himselfe interpreteth it Preach the Word ●e instant in season and out of season rebuke exhort or instruct with all long suffering and doctrine he that hath an office must attend upon his office especially this of the ministery The practice of the Apostles is answerable to the direction and doctrine of our Saviour There never was nor will be men of so great abilities and gifts as they were indued withall yet they thought it so inconsistent with their Callings to take places of Iudicature in civill matters and secular affaires and imployments upon them that they would not admit of the care and distraction that a businesse farre more agreeable to their Callings then these would cast upon them and they give the reason of it in the sixth of the Acts. It is not reason that we should leave the word of God and serve Tables And againe when they had appointed them to choose men fit for that businesse they institute an office rather for taking care of the poore then th●y by it would be distracted from the principall worke of their Calling and then shew how they ought to imploy themselues But we said they will give our selves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the Word Did the Apostles men of extraordinary gifts thinke it unreasonable for them to be hindred from giving themselves continually to p●●●●hing the Word and prayer by taking care for the ●●…les of the poore Widowes and can the Bishops no● thinke it reasonable or lawfull for them to contend for fitting at Councell Table to governe States to turne States-men in stead of Church men to sit in the highest Courts of Iudicature and to bee imployed in making lawes for civill polities and government If they shall bee thought sit to sit in such places and will undertake such imployments they must not sit there as ignorant men but must be knowing men in businesses of State and understand the Rules and Lawes of government and thereby both their time and studies must be necessarily diverted from that which God hath called them unto And this sure is much more unlawfull for them to admit of then that which the Apostles rejected as a distraction unreasonable for them to bee interrupted by The doctrine of the Apostles is agreeable to their practice herein for Paul when hee instructeth Timothy for the worke of the ministery presseth this argument from the example of a good souldier no man that warreth intangleth himselfe with the affaires of the world So that I conclude That which by the commandement of our Saviour by the practice and doctrine of the Apostles