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A86117	Collonel James Hays speech to the Parlament upon the debate concerning toleration. As it was taken by Anonimus a Member of the House, and sent to the press with this epigram on the author. [dagger] Fælix fifa suis cælebrata Catonibus eheu! clodius in miseros furit, & Catalina Britannos. [dagger] Henderson ...	Carlisle, James Hay, Earl of, ca. 1612-1660.; Brummet, Christoph.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1655 (1655)	Wing H1201; Thomason E828_4; ESTC R202584	15,186	32

first before you come unto the particular Churches as it is set down in the Revelation of Saint John which was a vision of the Church As it was from the beginning and shall continue to the end of the world How sweet is it to observe the order of God in his wil toward the Church as it pleased him to reveal it to Saint John where you find 1. Seals 2. Trumpets 3. Vials with us Churches Laws Penalties seven Seals opened seven Trumpets blown seven Vials powred forth To each Church called God gives and proclaims the law to the law proclaimed he appends the Anathema ordains the penalties denounces Judgment on the Rebellious And this you wil find verified in the particular survey of the several Churches in order The first whereof is the Archetypical Church the Church of Angels God Sir being unum verum bonum the only true Good and the nature of good being Esse sui diffusivum God in the contemplation of his own goodness did beget in himself a desire to diffuse it and make it communicable and practicable which could not be without creatures Therefore did he create the Archetyp wherin the shapes and Ideas of all things were breathed and there and then did he send forth the spotles intelligences who doth inhabite that infinite vacuity which is filled with the Majesty of God whose Religion and work it is to sing praise honor and glory to the Jasper on the Throne with the rain-bow about him Thus Sir was the first seal opened the first mystery revealed the first Church called by the Lamb even the Bereshith rhe principium principians the word and wisdom of the Father by whom al things were made The characters of which Church were a white horse a Crown and bow The Ensigns of Candor Victory and triumph So was it and shal continue a pure victorious triumphant Church Then was the first Trumpet blown the first Viall powred out the first Law proclaimed the Anathema appended the first vengeance denounced against the Rebels the authors of division the fountain of Toleration In the constitution of this Church Sir there was but one God known by the one great ineffable Name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One Sephiroth one Emanation one great power one company of Angels of one mind thinking the same and singing the like all things in common amongst them none knowing more than other to none a more ful Vision of God than the rest no place or possession peculiar to any this is the nature of Angels Sir thus it was thus it is and thus it shall bee with these blessed spirits for ever and ever .. The name of toleration was not known here heresie a stranger to this happy society til Lucifer and his tender Conscience brake forth There is a proverb which in all Ages of the Church hath been found of universal truth namely that God had never a Church but the Devill had a Chappel in some corner thereof Sir all Religion hath its superstition all Doctrine its heresie and here it did begin even in this the purest and perfectest Church that ever was or shal be The Devil emulous of the glory and greatness of God would needs set up his own Image erect a congregation of his own by dividing that blessed unity into two Right wrong truth and falsehood But what came of it Sir was he tolerated was he suffered to go so No the spirit of unity and truth went out against him with crown and bow and conquering did conquer the prince of Darkness cast him out of the congregation deprived him the happiness of Heaven and thurst him down to Hel and the earth to have his dominion amongst the sons of Men hence that Church purchased and shall while the world lasts enjoy the name of Triumphant By this punishment God did not only condemn toleration assert the truth the unity of Worship the entirenes of Religion clearly holding forth that he would admit of no copartner in the Worship and praises of the Angels but also did declare the detestable nature of heresie and how unsupportable a thing it was and thus did he by the power of his own Councel which cannot etr reunite the Church again The second Church was the Paternal church that whereof Adam under God was Lord and High Priest In the constitution of this church you 'l find there was but One God one man one commandment one Religion one way of Worshipping that God one treasure and common fortune for all one body to enjoy that fortune one mind in that body Adam knew none above God loved none as God served none but God feared none besides God There was no heresie in Doctrine here no schism in discipline Adam stood in need of none to teach him and as few to enforce him to obey All was one Sir an universal Oneness this was the first and great model amongst men Thus was the second Seal opened the second Mystery revealed the second Church called the Law proclaimed Eat not of the Tree of knowledg c. Gen 2.17 The Anathema appended The day thou eatest thou shalt surely dye comparatively like in every thing to the pattern the Archetypicall Church onely differing in the prophetical characters the red horse and the sword the badges of blood war and man-slaughter signifying that this Church should be liable to many and great temptations and the spirit of the times much addicted to blood cruelty and revenge All things here were answerable to the pattern til the appearing of Satan and founding of heresie by him Then were the characters of this Seal made manifest and read in Mundo The pure perfect and Trinial unitie the prop and pillar of all societies rent asunder and all turned to confusion Nothing now but blood and War God against man and man against God Father against Son and Brother against Brother and the Devil against all and all for Religions sake Adam was one and the Devil made two and that was Heresie God had a Temple and now begins Satan to have a Synagogue God had his Priest and the Devil his Chaplain Abel of one mind Cain of another Cain draws the sword Abel is therewith killed Thus the unity of mind the unity of bodies rent in two Isaac had one portion and Ishmael had another Isaac the promise Ishmael what he could gain his hand against all and all against him Thus came the happy and harmless unity of fortune into the community of possession to be converted into the miserable and turbulent Law of property Jacob was of one mind Esau of another he chose the birth-right even Sacrum sacerdotii Sir Esaw somwhat else Mammon Dominium ventriculi the possessions of this Earth the things of this world Nay look over the whole Paternal time even from Adam to Moses you l find nothing but heresie in doctrine and schism and division in the matter of worship The impression of the red horse seconded with War blood and wounds The miserable effects of

it is said And the multitude of beleivers were of one heart one mind one Soule neither didany man say what he had was his own all things weie commond and the Apostle Paul assures the Romans 12.5 that being many they were one bedy in Christ and every one Members one of another He exhorts the Corinthians in that 2. Ep. 13.11 to be of one mind and live in peace and love and finally he telleth the Ephes 4.4.56 That there is one body and one Spirit one Lord one faith one Baptisme one God and Father of all In all their Councells also they were unanimous for it was for the sake of unitie they were called We must not think that they did call Councells to question their own Religion No it was prorenata ever upon the occasion of some Schisme some heresie as you will find in all their Councells where their work was to cleare truths and condemne errors without regard to Toleration In the beeleving and obeying of these truths to which there was ever an Anathema appended witness Paul 1 Cor. 16.22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus let him be Anathema Maranatha also Gal. 1.8 If I or an Angel from Heaven Preach any other Gospel unto you let him be accursed In all the apostles Canons you 'l ever find a Deponatur for the Clergy a Segregetur for the seculars All men equally tied to the rule without any exception or Latitude at all The first Councils they kept was at Jerusalem the 34 year of our Lord on the occasion of Electing Matthias to serve in Lieu of Judas the Heretick and high Priest of Satan Act. 1. where it is worthy observation that before Matthias was Elected the entire nubmer made up Peter sheweth the occasion of their meeting to be the fulfilling and uniting the Apostolical number the supplying of Juda's charge And next he pronounces an Anathema of the Charge a sad one indeed Let his habitation be desolate This smels nothing of Toleration The second Council was at Jerusalem anno 34 before the death of Steven upon occasion of a murmuring amongst the Grecians against the Hebrews because their Widdows were neglected Act 6. The third Council you 'l find Act 15. the cause was dissention about Circumcision The fourth Councel is Act 21. Anent the permission of legal things for a time In these two last there was somthing might seem to be like to Toleration for in the third the Gentiles are exempted from the burden of the Law by the fourth the Jews are allowed the exercise therof But Consider Sir first that these things purifying washing shaving were in themselves no sin at all In themselves I say for if otherwise they had been surely Paul had neither tolerated nor used them sin being condemned even in Casu necessitatis There being no excuse able to wash away the guilt of sin 2ly Things in themselves indifferent cannot be used at all times without sin For it is one thing to tolerate somethings in Ecclesia constituenda another in Ecclesia constituta It may be in the one expedient in the other altogether unlawfull which flows from the respective consequences of either Whether the like necessity does press you now which urged the Apostles then you best know for my part I doubt of it And were it so Yet can I find no warrant in all the Scriptures to blaspheme Gods Name And I am perswaded the Toleration now aimed at will tend to that in the highest degree What madness is it that men will be content to be bound up from acting or speaking against the supream Magistrate or the State under no less pain than Treason And who so transgresseth is hailed to the stake And yet will they strugle to unwreath themselves from the yoak of Christ and under the notion of tender Consciences must needs be tolerated yea why say I tolerated warranted by a Law to rebell against God and his Son Jesus Christ if they please Would you but enquire at the four great Counsels universally received by all Namely that of Nice in anno 323. Consisting of 300 Bishops against the Arrians and Quadradecimals That of Constance against the Macedonian Heresie That of Ephesus against the Nestorian Heresie and that of Chalcedon against the Eutychean heresie Enquire I say at these and you shall find there was nothing amongst them like Toleration Their care and practice was the clearing and asserting of truth and condemning of Error Do not you think Sir but these same errors or worse are amongst you which were amongst them at that time Is there none think you Sir in England who will say with Arrius Dei filius aliquando erat aliquando non erat None who with Macedonius holds that Spiritus sanctus nihil ad patris filii divinitatem gloriam pertinet None who maintaineth Filium esse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 similem non ejusdem essentiae None think you who with Nestorius divides the natures of God and call-leth the Virgin Mary 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As if she had brought forth Christ as man only not as God and man Is it not possible to find one who 'l say Christus non sub carnis veritate sed figura in terris laborabat Assure your self Sir there are thousands of this nature amongst you and worse if worse may be Nay what say I may be there wants not who deny that they hold any thing of God or his Son either they knowing neither and denying both acknowledging nothing above themselves in dignity I mean of Essence In place they may and yet with a grudg I verily believe Loose the bonds and break the curb of Religion and cherish such impious vermine as this land swarms with and you shall see what will become of your State in the end when it will be too late to repent Seeing therefore you have the same Enemies In all Humility I advise that you use the same weapons against them which they did with so much and so good sucecss otherwise shew us a better way how to overthrow this monstrous Hydra I pray you Sir the sweet and gentle voice of Syon the peaceful ayr of the Gospel The faith of Jesus and the principles of Christian Religion are they not as dear to us the Children of Light as the dictates of Nature were to the Sons of Adam As pretious to the Adopted Gentile as the fearful voîce of Mount Sinay the Thundring Trumpet the lingring works and uncertain Ceremonies of the Law were to the chosen Israel Let me exhort you therefore Sir you who sits in the chaire of Moses to take to hart the building of the sanctuarie Remember that so soone as the people were delivered from the bondage of Egypt the Tabernacle was provided for Exod 25. No sooner had David rest from his enemies but he intended the building of a house to God 2. Sam. 7.1 And amongst the first and greatest of the miracles of Christ was the purgeing of the temple the subduing of the enemies and abuses thereof Remember that super hanc potram even according to all that you have seen in the Mount after the modell of Sion must you build your house otherwise if the storme blow your house will fall But you 'l happily reply that you have done that already in passing a Vote on the 35 Article and declaring the Christian Religion to be the profession of England A good beginning I confess a fair frontispiece indeed But beware that it prove not like the Aegyptian Temples brave stately buildings to look upon but within nothing but the Images of Doggs Catts Crocodiles and unclean Beasts I advise you Sir to provide for this House and furnish it according to all that I have told you The kindliest guest that ever came into a house is the Landlord himself If you do it not Sir be sure your Enemies will do it for you But what say I do it I fear they have done done it already UP therefore and call to mind that Christ did with zeal and passion if any may be attributed to him purge the Temple brake down the the tables and cast out the buyers and sellars Call your Brother Aaron whose mouth the ord hath filled with Eloquence and his heart with understanding you with him and he with you scourge out the unapparalled guests with the cords of the spiritual sword and civil execution Be not ashamed to assert the truth nor afraid to condemn errors And then you 'l know both what to Tolerate and whom to compel And this is my humble motion FINIS