A SERMON Preached at DUBLIN, upon the 23. of April, 1661., being the day appointed for his Majesty's CORONATION; With two SPEECHES made in the House of Peers the 12th. of May, 1661., when the House of Commons presented their SPEAKER.  
By the most Reverend Father in God JOHN Lord Archbishop of Armagh, Primate and Metropolitan of all IRELAND.  
DUBLIN, Printed by William Bladen, Anno Domini 1661.   
PSALM. 126. V. He that now goeth on his way weeping, and beareth good seed, shall doubtless come again with joy, and bring his sheaves with him. 
IN the saddest afflictions and blackest storms, that can befall a man in this world, (give me leave to make this thankful acknowledgement▪) there is no companion or comforter like the Psalms of David. He, that speaketh experimentally, is the best Physician both for soul and body.  
Being to speak unto this auditory upon his Majesty's happy restitution, I fitted and fixed my thoughts to the first Verse of this Psalm, when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, then were we like to them that dream. When the Lord, not the Lord Cyrus in relation to the Jews, though the edict for their restitution came out from him, but the Lord of Cyrus, nor the Lords of Parliament in relation to us, though they helped to lay the foundation of our present happiness, but the Lord Paramount of Heaven and Earth. When the Lord turned. In God there is no shadow of turning by change. But with us there is nothing but turning, and returning, we are all turning shadows upon the old exchange of this world.  
When the Lord turned again the captivity, that is, the Babilonish Captives, by an ordinary hebraism. So it is said of Christ, he led captivity captive, that is, those who were captives to Sin and Satan, he reconquered them and made them to become his own servants; And what were we better than Babilonish captives, while we sojourned in idolatrous and superstitious Countries?  
There are two sorts of captivity, corporal and spiritual; both are bad, but the latter ten times worse. In a corporal captivity the Tyrants are external, but in spiritual captivity they are internal, in our bosoms and bowels. There the stings are sharp, but nothing so sharp as the stings of a guilty conscience, corporeal Tyrants may dispossess us of our wealth, our life, our liberty; but spiritual deprive us of our Souls, of God's image, of eternal blessedness. There, one or two members do sinful and slavish offices, but here all our members are weapons of unrighteousness. Corporeal captives have but one Master, but spiritual captives have many Masters, Pride commands to spend, and covetuousness to spare Nay the same vice distracts them with contrary commands, as vainglory forceth them at the same time to soar aloft in the air, and yet to creep beneath upon the earth, to swell inwardly with pride, to crouch to the meanest persons, to obtain popular applause. Corporal s●…aves have hope to escape by flight, but in spiritual captivity no flight can help us unless we could fly away from ourselves. Lastly, corporal captivity doth end with life. Death is a perfect cure of all humane miseries. But in spiritual captivity death is but a beginning of slavery, and a shutting of the door of liberty with the key of eternity.  
But can Mountains be led away captives? otherwise what signifieth captivity of Zion? I answer, that as we say, there is more of Mon Martyr at Paris, then there is of Mon Martyr at Mon Martyr. So it might be truly said, there was more of Zion carried to Babylon than was left at Zion. First, the Temple which was the glory of Zion, was demolished, than the Ceremonies, and Sacrifices, and Ordinances of Zion were abolished. Thirdly, the holy vessels and garments, and other utensiles and sacred ornaments were exported. Lastly, the P●…iests and Levites, and people of God were all carried away captive. These were the living Zion, without these Zion was but a dead carcase of itself. Justly therefore is the captivity of the people of God called the captivity of Zion.  
Then were we, that is, by way of Historical narration, or then we shall be, by way of prophetical prediction. Either sense may be admitted. Like them that dream, that is, like those who are betvveen sleeping and waking; the events were so strange, so unexpected, so incredible, that we doubted whether they were real events or vain fancies and drowsy imaginations. Others translate it, like those that are comforted, or like those that are recovered from some languishing sickness, and restored to their former strength and vigour.  
But whilst I was making a parallel betvveen the Jewish captivity, and our English captivity, and of our deliverance and restitution with theirs, I see the flower, which I had designed for the subject of my discourse, cropped away before my face; this necessitated me to alter my meditations from the first Verse to the last Verse of this Psalm. The former was more emphatical for the Jewish captivity. But the later suits altogether as well with our present condition. He that now goeth on his way weeping and beareth forth good seed, shall doubtless come again with joy, and bring his sheaves with him.  
It is not my manner to amuse my hearers much with various lections or translations. Every language hath its proper idiotis●…nes, or peculiar forms of expression, which differ more in sound than in sense. The worst reading or translation is commonly not so ill, as those clashings, and uncharitable altercations which are about them. Various lections may sometimes bring some light to the understanding, but they shake that Christian faith which is radicated in the heart. Break ice in one place, and it will crack in more. Suffer the truth of sacred vvrit to be questioned in a word or a syllable, and you weaken the authority, and lessen the venerable estimation of the whole text. That which satisfyeth me, and may satisfy any good christian, is this, that God who hath given the holy Scriptures to his Church, to be the key of his revealed counsels, the anchor of their hope, the evidence of their blessedness, will not suffer those Scriptures to be so far corrupted in any thing that is fundamental and necessary, that it can hinder the salvation of his servants. Take this Text for an instance, that there is no such danger in various lections or translations, if they be expounded according to the analogy of faith, and that sense of the Scriptures which the Holy-Ghost did give to the Church, together with the Scriptures.  
He that going goeth saith the original, He that goeth on his way saith our translation, or he that goeth forth, that is, forth of his house to sow, or forth of his Country into exile, weeping, or pensive, or sorrowing, And beareth forth good seed, whether we read beareth or draweth, good seed, or precious seed, or the sowing seed, or the hopper or seed-basket, is not material. Shall doubtless come again with joy. The original is, in coming shall come, that is, shall come without fail. Shall doubtless come again with joy. This wo●…d only seemeth to me to be translated over flat, and might be rendered more aptly with a shout of joy, or with joyful acclamations, by allusion to those harvest dames, which they use in many places, when they bring in the last load of their harvest with great pomp, and shouts, and acclamations of joy. And bring his sheaves with him, that is, the increase of his seed, the fruit of his labour, the reward of his patience.  
In the words we may observe a double qualification, The former, he that now goeth on his way weeping, the latter, and beareth forth good seed. And a double prognostic, the former, shall doubtless come again with joy, the latter, and bring his sheaves with him. We may observe how going forth and coming again, weeping and shouting for joy, seed and sheaves do answer one another.  
And now that we have seen the sense, let us see how fitly these words do agree to the exile and happy rest●…tution of our Sovereign King CHA●…LES the second. First, he went on his way more like indeed some Bode or ordinary messenger than a great Prince. He went forth of England into France, from France to Holland, from Holland a●…ter some lesser excursions into Scotland, (Fishes and Guests gain little by long keeping,) where, to speak modestly, he was not entertained like the hundred and tenth Prince of that family, To give a civil honour to God's vicegerent was to idolise the creature. But no honour could be too much at the same time for a consistory of their own Commissioners. There was nothing to be heard but the Commissioners of Christ, the Tribunal of Christ, the Sceptre of Christ, the eternal Gospel, Oh partiality, how dost thou blind men's eyes!  
Before this adventure for Scotland, he had thoughts for Ireland, where the greatest and best part of the Kingdom did either profess to hold for him, or desire to return to him, only two Cities did hold out against him, Dublin and Londonderry, And, if my intelligence do not fail me, those expected only his own presence to have submitted with more honour and advantage.  
However it was, I did wish, if it had been God's will, that he had come over, that Ireland might have had a signal honour in his restitution then, as it contributed largely afterwards, but God disposeth all things sweetly.  
From Scotland he went on his way for England. But the iniquity of the Amorites was not yet full. God had something to do with his rod before he cast it into the fire, something in jamaica, something in Ireland, something in Scotland, something in England itself, to bring the first contrivers of our miseries to shame and condign punishment by their own power, to prepare and facilitate a way for his Majesty's restitution, without effusion of blood. God hath more noble means, and fitter opportunities to effect his own designs, than man can comprehend. We praise thee, O God, we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. That English voyage, though otherwise unsuccessful, was an happy presage of this great blessing which we now enjoy, that God who preserved his Majesty so miraculously then, had some great work to do with him. From England he returned to France, from France to Germany, from Germany to Flanders, from Flanders to France back again, thence to Spain, thence to Flanders, thence to Holland, and so for England, where long, and long, and long may his Crown flourish. Was ever Sovereign Prince so tossed to and fro, and bandied hither and thither by the racke●…s of a cont●…ary fortune? changing his stations as of●…en as the old Patriarches did whilst they dwelled in Tents. This was no comfortable life to be always rolling up and down. Which the next word in my Text implies, that is, weeping, He that goeth on his way weeping.  
I may say of weeping, a●… our learned Countryman the Lord Uerulam●…aid ●…aid of hope, that it was a good Breakfast, but an ill Supper, Early tears, like the mist descending, prognosticate a sayr serene day. As April showers bring forth May flowers. They who prove Benjamin's sons of the right hand, are commonly first Benonies sons of sorrow. Christ himself did wear a Crown of Thorns before he obtained a Crown of Glory. joseph was first clapped up close in a dungeon, where he ●…avv neither Sun, nor Moon, nor Stars for a season, before the Sun, Moon, and Stars did fall down and worship him, No man can rationally doubt whether our dread Sovereign d●…d ●…ow in tears, before he reaped in joy, who considers sadly what a misery it is, for a great King to be banished from all his relations, to be thrust out of his native Country, and hereditary Kingdoms, into the merciless world, to live in want. A French Author of good note relates with pity and commiseration, the deplorable condition of the Lancastrian family, being of the blood royal of England, in the Court of CHARLES Duke of Burgundy. That whereas God and nature had provided so bountifully for all other creatures, the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the field, that they never feared the want of food, only men, the best of creatures, and Princes the best of men, should sometimes not know where to find sustenance for to morrow. A man may justl●…●…ear want of money, or want of means, or want of friends, but▪ want of sorrows and tears he need not fear. Foreign kindred and allies do seldom contribute much to the wiping away of these tears. Like winter brooks, they ●…well with kindness when one hath no need of them, but when they should be u●…eful, they are dried up. And he, that trusts unto them, may expect S. Peter's lot, when his nets were full, he needed but to beckon to his fellows, and presently they were all at his elbow, but when he did sing his lachrymae, he had not one of them to comfort him. Every one is a kinsman to him that is prosperous, but a friend in need is a friend in deed.  
And truly, when I compare our necessary expenses in the long time of our banishment abroad, with our comings in, I cannot attribute our preservation so long to anything, but to a secret blessing of Almighty God. He that fed the Israelites with Manna in a barren wilderness, and preserved their shoes and their raiment from wearing, and waxing old, He that fed Eliah by Ravens, He that blessed the poor widow's handful of meal, and her cruse of oil, will not suffer his Servants to die for hunger.  
But the cares and troubles of Princes are incomparably greater, and their wants more pinching than those of private persons. Their Motto may be the candle, burning with these four letters, A. S. M. C. Aliis Serviens meipsam contero. In serving others I waste away myself. Their cares extend to all their followers, to provide for their necessities as well as for their own. The sufferings of all their Subjects and Relations do touch them more nearly than others. Thoughts troubled Nebuchadnezars head, whilst his Subjects slept securely upon either ear. When the Preacher hath but fallen upon the Martyrdom of our late Sovereign, or those instructions which he left behind him, how have I seen his Majesty dissolve into tears? that brought to my mind that of S. Austin, proruperant stumina oculorum meorum acceptabile tuum sacrificium. The f●…oods of mine eyes did break forth an acceptable sacrifice unto thee O God. This is the first qualification, He that goeth on his way weeping.  
The second follows, and bringeth forth good seed. It is a Metaphor taken from sowers, What a man sows that he may certainly expect to reap. But what is the good seed which our Sovereign did bear forth with him? I answer, first, a good title, Dieu & son droit, God and his right. There is a 〈◊〉 error lately crept into the world, and almost thrust out again, That Dominion is founded in grace, not in nature, That the wicked have no interest in their possessions or estates, but are like moths, which make their houses in other men's garments, That all things belong properly to the elect, Paul, Apollo, Cephas, things present, things to come, all are theirs, if they be Christ's. Ex his praemissis necessariò sequitur collusio. Admit this once, and then they who take themselves to be true Israelites, may with a good conscience rob & plunder the profane Egyptians of this world. Nothing is more hidden than true grace. We know it not in another, hardly in ourselves. Therefore, if grace should give an interest to possessions, no man's title should be certain, from whence of necessity must follow an incredible confusion. But our God is a God of order. Religion neither altars, nor takes away any man's right. Ananias was no Saint, yet S. Peter told him, that he had a good interest in his estate, was it not thine own? The truth is, Dominion is founded in nature, not in grace. It was said to our first parents, immediately upon the creation: Replenish the earth, and have Dominion, etc. Every son of Adam may challenge an interest in his own estate by virtue of this concession.  
All is yours, saith the Scripture, that is, not every individual creature, but every species, or kind of creatures. All is yours, that is, not by way of civil possession, but by divine ordination. All things by God's disposition, serve for the good of the Church, and help forward the salvation of God's servants. Or, All is yours, and you are Christ's, that is, you only who are Christ's, have the sanctified use of the creatures. This is far enough from a civil possession, far enough from a just title, Such as King CHA●…LES had, not grounded upon a Fana ick exposition of a text of holy Scripture, nor upon the fickle humours of a giddy multitude, nor upon the traitorous dictates of a seditious orator, but upon the evident Laws of God, of Nature, of Nations, and the municipal Laws of these ●…ingdoms, upon a radicated succession from royal progenitors, He himself being the hundred and tenth person of one family, who hath sweyed the Sceptre. I do not yet know any Prince in Europe, or in these parts of the world, that can say the same. A title so clear, as if it were written with a beam of the Sun, which no true English man in his right wits, did ever yet oppose, but one or two foreign pensioners, maintained on purpose abroad, to kindle scathe fires at home, who gained nothing by the question, but to render themselves ridiculous.  
This was the good seed, which King CHARLES did bear forth with him, A good title, which though it seemed for a time, to perish under the clods, yet we see it sprouts up again. A tempest brings Achilles his arms to Ajax's tomb, to reverse an unjust sentence: And Aaron's rod devou●…ed the rods of the enchanters, to the comfort of all loyal Subjects, and the confusion of all Egyptian Jugglers for ever. This is the first good seed, which King CHARLES did bear forth with him. A good title.  
A second sort of good seed, which King Charles did bear forth with him, was the testimony of a good conscience, void of offence, towards God, and towards man. A good conscience is a better proof of innocence, than a thousand witnesses, and will make itself a garland of the lying reports of Sycophants. When King CHARLES was first chased out of England, his age was not capable of much guilt, and his only crime was, that (which in truth was his chiefest glory,) he was the Son of such a Father. Those accursed jealousies and fears, which the first devisers and spreaders of them, did know assuredly to be damnable lies, are now vanished. Truth the daughter of time, hath discovered them to all the world, to have been counterfeit shows. They feared an apostasy to Popery, yet King CHARLES the Father, died a glorious Martyr, and King CHARLES the Son, lives a Noble Confessor of the true faith, professed in the Church of England, having showed evidently by a thousand proofs, that he is no such reed shaken with the wind. They complained of tyranny against him, whose only defect was overmuch goodness, and lenity. Let their high Courts of Injustice speak▪ let their black roll of Sequestrators and committee men speak, let all the great Towns in England, (which they made shambles of good Christians, and loyal Subjects) speak, let Tredah speak, and that torrent of loyal blood, which was poured out there, barbarously▪ upon cold and deliberate thoughts, like water upon the face of the earth, who were the Tyrants. Cajus the Emperor, out of a ridiculous affectation to make himself like the Gods, did assume mercury's rod, Apollo's bow and arrows, Mars his sword and shield. But King CHARLES hath ever better ensigns of the Deity, Justice, Mercy, Piety, and Temperance. These make up the image of God, where these abound, the bird in the breast sings sweetly. He, who hath these may with comfort expect an happy deliverance from all his troubles. He that goeth on his way weeping, and beareth forth this seed with him, shall doubtless come again with joy.  
The third sort of good seed, which King Charles did bear forth with him, was a good Religion. A Religion not reform tumultuously, according to the brain sick fancies of an half witted multitude, dancing after the pipe of some seducing charmer, but soberly, according to the rule of God's word, (as it hath been evermore, and every where interpreted by the Catholic Church,) and according to the purest pattern of the primitive times. A Religion, against which, the greatest adversaries thereof, have no exception, but that it preferreth grace before nature, the written word before uncertain traditions, and the all-sufficient blood of Jesus Christ, before the stained works of mortal men. A Religion, which is neither garish with superfluous Ceremonies, nor yet sluttish, and void of all order, decency, and Majesty in the service of God. A Religion, which is as careful to retain old Articles of faith, as it is averse from new Articles. The essences of all things do consist in indivisibili. Faith is ad●…lterated, as well by the addition of new Articles, as by the substraction of old. A Religion, which is not like to perish for want of fit organs, like those imperfect creatures produced by the Sun upon the banks of Nilus, but shaped for continuance, The terror of Rome. They fear our moderation more than the violent opposition of others. The watch tower of the Evangelical Churches. I have seen many Churches of all sorts of Communions, but never any, that could diminish that venerable estimation, which I had for my mother, the Church of England. From her breasts I received my first nourishment, in her arms I desire to end my days. Blessed be he that blesseth her. This good seed▪ that is, the Religion of the Church of England, King CHARLES did bear forth with him. This he brought home with him, without turning either to the right hand or to the left; And like the Laurel tree, (the tree of Conquerors▪) he gathered strength and vigour, even from opposition, Crescit sub pondere virtus.  
I cannot deny, but that some of us have started aside like broken bows, out of despair in this their bitter trial, wherein they have had their goods plundered, their estates sequestered, their persons imprisoned, their Churches aliened, wherein they have been divorced from their nearest relations, and disabled to discharge the duties of their callings to God, wherein ●…ome of them have been slaughtered, others forced to mantain themselves by mechanic labours, others thrust out of their native Countries, to wan●…er like vagabonds, and exiled beggars up and down the merciless world. But, God be praised, they are not many. If we compare this with any the like persecution in Europe, you shall never find, that so few Apostated. As if they had been inspired with the free spi●…it of S chrysostom; will they banish me, the earth is the Lords, and the fullness thereof. If they cast me ●…nt the sea, I will remember Ionas, if into a fiery ●…urnace, t●…e three children, if among the wild beasts, Daniel. If they stone me, I have S. Stephen for my companion, ●…f they behead me, John Baptist; if they plunder me, naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked must I return again. Or with the heroical mind of S. Ambrose, Vultisne ad vincula me abripere? voluptas est mihi, etc. Will ye hale me to prison? it is a delight unto me. To death? I will not encircle myself with a guard of trusty followers, nor lay hold on the altars as a suppliant to save my life, but will be freel●… offered up for the altars of my God. Spices being brayed in a mortar, smell more sweetly; so these servants of Christ, being beaten and bruised by persecu●…ors, do yield a more fragrant odour in the noseth●…ls of God and man. The ground of their constancy, next to the goodness of God, was the examples of our dread Sovereign his courage and perseverance. The example of a great Prince, is like the great wheel of a clock, which sets all the lesser wheels a going. This, shall one day Crown his temples with a diadem, more bright than the beams of the Sun, as far excelling that Crown, which he is to receive this day, as the radiant splendour of the Sun, doth exceed the dim shining of a glow-worm. Then, if Tully, an ●…eathen, could say, that the Romans did owe their victories, and good successes, more to their religious piety, than either to their numbers, or strength, or policy; why should Christians despair, or doubt, that King CHARLES, who went on his way weeping, and did bear forth such precious seed with him, should come again with joy, and bring his sheaves with him.  
The last sort of good seed, which King CHARLES did bear forth with him, was the prayers and good affections of his Subjects. Tyrant's might deprive him of his other contributions, this they could not deprive him of. If S. Austin did attribute so much to the prayers and tears of his Mother Monica, what might not be hoped from the prayers and tears of so many thousands, poured out to God in private, for their King and Country, Church and Commonwealth, Liberty and Religion. At a Germane Diet the Princes fell upon a controversy, which of them had the best Country▪ The Palati●…e commended his, for the fruitful soil; the S●…xon his, for the silver mines; the Bavarian his, for stately Cities; the Duke of Wittenberg, in praise of his Country, said only this, that he durst lay his head in the lap of any Subject throughout his Dominions, either by day, or by night: fortunati ambo, an happy Prince of an happy people, where that evil spirit had not walked, which set dissension between Abimelech, and the men of Sichem. England was not always so happy, when some counterfeit Physicians, (like the wolf in the sable,) persuaded against her own sense, that she was sick to death, without all kind of recovery, unless she would put herself into their hands to be cured. She did so. And what the issue had been, if God almighty had not looked down upon us from heaven, with an eye of pity, we have seen. Yet this was but a green sickness fit. When that fit was over, she threw away her chalk and coals, which she had eaten in corners, and returned to eat more healthful food at her Father's table. Or, it was a short fit of madness. O Photion, (said Demades) look to thyself, when the Athenians fall into their mad fits. And thou Demades, (replied Photion) look to thyself, when they return to their right wits▪ But, God be praised, even whilst this epidemical distemper did rage the most, there were not only seven thousand in England, but seaventy times seven thousand, who never bowed their knees to Baal Berith, the God of the Covenant, but continued loyal Subjects, and orthodox Christians, and were not afraid with the Serpent, to expose their bodies to the blows, and their estates to be a prey to their persecutors, that they might save their head, first, their spiritual head, that is, Christ; secondly, their political head, that is, their Sovereign Prince; and lastly, their ecclesiastical head, or lawful superiors in the Church. These were the true Israel's, who wrestled with God by their prayers, and prevailed. I have done with the second qualification, and beareth forth good seed. I come now to the catastrophe: Shall doubtless come again with joy.  
Every word in my text proclaims, that there is an interchangeable vicissitude of all humane affairs. Here we have, going forth and coming again, weeping and acclamations of joy, sowing and reaping, seed and sheaves. He that goeth on his way weeping, and beareth forth good seed, shall doubtless come again with joy, and bring his sheaves with him. That of Solomon, There is a time for every thing, a time to plant, and a time to pluck up, a time to build, and a time to pull down holds in Cities and public ●…ocieties, as well as private Families, and they may set the Moon upon their gates, as well as the old Romans did upon their shoes, to put them in mind of the unstability of this world. One is, another was, and a third shall be, even as it pleaseth God, in whose hand, there is a chain to lift them up, or let them down at his pleasure. The greatest Monarches and Monarchies in the world, in comparison of him, are but guttae roris antelucani, drops of morning due, quickly dried up with the heat of the Sun, or easily dispersed with the least puff of wound. All places have their days and nights, their summers and winter's, their sunshine and storms. No sublunary thing is stable. The Sun hath its eclipses, the Moon its waxings and waining, the Sea hath its ebbings and flow, the elements their successive changes. Peace and war, sickness and health, plenty and dearth, do succeed one another. The whole world is a restless whirligig, running violently, sometimes this way, sometimes that way. A reed shaken hither and thither, with every puff of wound. A tottering quagmire, whereupon it is impossible to lay a sure foundation: like a sick man, that can take no rest in his bed, but is continually tossing, and turning from side to side.  
Saint Paul doth describe our right image, in two metaphors, 4. Ephe. 14. That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine. The former metaphor is taken from little children. You may draw a child any whither from his duty, from his interest, from his engagements, with a fair word, or an apple, or some new fangled toy, or fear of some bugbear, or promises of golden mountains. So we like children, are easily led into a fool's paradise, not with apples of Eden, but with apples of Sodom, which turn to dust when they come to be enjoyed. The other metaphor is taken from a Ship lying at Hull, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind, even ●…o do we fluctuate between the broken waves, and contrary billows of different opinions and desires.  
Thus we are changeable in our minds, but we are as changeable in our estates. Now we abound with wealth, God knows how soon the best of us may be necessitated to beg an halfpenny of passengers with great Bellisarius. Now every man's tongue is a silver trumpet to sound out our praises, which perhaps deserve not to be piped upon an oaten reed. God knows how soon this hosanna may be changed to crucifige, and we be loaden with more unjust calumnies, than ever was blessed Athanasius. Now we enjoy the sweet sauce of all temporal bessings, that is, health, God knows how soon sickness may cast us upon our restless beds, and change our sweet repose into wearisome toss. God knows how soon we may be choked with the fumes of a vicious stomach, or d●…ovned with hydropical humours, or burned up with choleric distempers, or buried alive in the grave of melancholic imaginations. Now we sit in the beauty of peace, every man under his own Vine, and his own Fig tree. We know not how soon our ringing of bells may be changed to roaring of canons. It is the mercy of the Lord, that these mischiefs do not overwhelm us.  
This vicissitude of humane affairs, is necessary to the being of the world. Beasts would multiply without number, if none were brought to the shambles. Fish's would fill the Sea, and Fowles' the Air, if the greater did not devour the less, and both serve for the use of man. By nature we are born thicker into the world, than we die out of the world, every age builds Cities, Towns, Villages, so, as if God did not sometimes thrust in the sickle of his justice into the over rank field of this world, and sweep away whole multitudes by war, or famine, or pestilence, two world's could not contain us, ten world's could not nourish us.  
If any place could have pleaded a privilege to exempt itself from this changeable vicissitude, what rather than Jerusalem? yet it had not one stone left upon another. Or Capernaum, whose magnificent buildings were lifted up to Heaven? yet it was cast down to hell. Pliny and Strabo write wonders of the walls of Babylon, yet now it is become a place for owls to screech in, and for satyrs to dance in. And now grass grows where once Troy stood. Alas, wherein can any City or Society place their confidence, to protect them from this common vicissitude? In navies or Armadoes? how easily may they be cast a way, or dashed in pieces against the rocks: as the Ships of jehoshaphat were at Ezeon Geber. Or, in walls and fortifications? when the walls of Hiericho fell down at the sound of rams horns, and the shout of an enemy. Or, in prudent politicians? when God can infatuate the wisdom of the wise, and turn all their counsels into folly, as he did the counsels of Achitophel▪ Or, in numerous armies of experienced Soldiers? when he can fill their hearts with panical fears, so that ten shall chase an hundred. Or, in leagues and confederacies? when he can set Ephraim against Manasses, and Manasses against Ephraim, and both against juda. Navies, Armies, Garrisons, Counselors, Confederates, are no more able to prevent this common vicissitude of all humane affairs, than a shield of paper, to resist the shot of a Canon.  
First then, seeing that by the Ordinance of God, there is such a necessary vicissitude of all things, let us not think vainly to translate this valley of tears into a paradise of perpetual bliss, or to clip the wings of prosperity, that it should never fly away. Eve called her eldest Son Cain, a possession, and he proved a vagabond. Then as skilful Pilots, vvhilst the season is calmest, do provide for a storm, and as good Soldiers do keep a vigilant sentry in the time of truce: so when we have enough, let us remember the time of hunger, and when we are rich, think upon poverty and need, Eccles. 18. 25. When we are at home in peace, let us think upon those times, when we hanged our Harps upon the willows by the rivers of Babylon: star the worst, and the best will save itself. Darts, that are foreseen, seldom do any great hurt. Above all, take heed that thou never boast of to morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth,  
Secondly, since there is such a vicissitude of all humane affairs, why should any man murmur, or repine at his present condition? The murmuring speeches of men, are like arrows shot up in de●…yance against Heaven, which always fall down again upon their own heads. Should we receive good at the hand of God, and not evil? who can say that his sufferings are equal to his sins? God rewardeth many beyond desert, but he never punisheth any beyond desert. I know that the Saints themselves are involved in national judgements, as well as others, as Hieremy, Ezekiel, Daniel, in the captivity; but it was a blessing to them, not a punishment. As it were madness for a boatman, to think that by the strength of his arm and cable, he was able to draw the main rock to his little boat, and not to pull himself and his little boat to the main rock: So it were a mere folly for any man to think that by his struggling against the stream of humane affairs, he should be able to change the course of the world, and to make it pliant to his desires. It is both pious and prudent to think that to be evermore best for us, which God sends.  
Thirdly, since humane affairs are so mutable, no extremity should make us despair. When the bricks are doubled, when our miseries are at the highest, when all the help of man doth seem to fail us, then comes Moses to deliver us. When Pharaoh's Butler had forgotten joseph, than God remembered him. An U●…urer will trust a Bankrupt upon a pawn. And shall not we trust God almighty with our deliverance, unless he give us a pawn for performance of his word? Remember that judgement which fell upon the Samaritan Lord for his infidelity. Though the Lord (said he) should make windows in Heaven, could this thing be? The Lord did not make windows in Heaven, yet that thing was, and came to pass at the time prefixed, but he lived not to enjoy the benefit of it. God hath unimaginable ways to bring his own designs to effect, as we see with wonder & admiration this day. Thus, as the woman of Canaan did pick comfort out of the name of a dog: so we may gather hope out of the vanity and vicissitude of all sublunary things. After darkness we may hope for light, after a tempest for a calm, after wearisome toss for sweet repose; when the storm is weathered, and the black clouds overblown which darkened the face of the sky, and seemed to take possession of the whole region of the air, and to pierce the very Heavens, suddenly behold a viciss●…tude. As no prosperity is permanent: so no adversity is perpetual. After exile, comes a Country, after seed time comes harvest, and after weeping comes joy. He that now goeth on his way weeping, and bea●…eth forth good seed, shall doubtless come again with joy.  
I told you before, that our translation, which renders it only joy, seems to me over flat, and short of the original, which signifies a shout, or acclamation of joy, such as harvest men do use when they b●…ing home their harvest dame, or the last load of their lummers' crop, with music, and feasting, and shouting. If ever this was verified in any exiled Prince, who had gone forth weeping, and came again with joy to his Kingdom and native Country, it was verified in King CHARLES at his happy restitution, and entrance into his Royal City. I have seen high expressions of joy in foreign parts upon the like occasion, I see when the King of France that now is, returned to his City of Paris, after he had been thrust out of it by his own Subjects; but such loud acclamations, such universal expressions of joy, I did never see or hear, as were then made to welcome in King CHARLES; that as a Father said hyperbolically of the sin of Adam, that it was an happy fault which obtained such a redeemer: so we may say in the same sense (and no other,) that it was an happy exclusion which produced such a restitution.  
There remains only one word yet untouched in this part of my text, that is, doubtless, shall doubtless come again with joy. What then is it so undoubted a truth, that every one who is thrust out of his right here, shall be restored with such joyful acclamations? O no, God's judgements in this life are imperfect, and the dispensations of them are inscrutable, In rebus divinis magna est caligo, there is a great mist in the ways of God. God's temporal promises ought to be understood with an exception of the Cross, unless he see it to be otherwise expedient for the advancement of his own glory, and the eternal good of his servants. God punisheth some sinners here, to show there is a just judge, and leaves others unpubished, to show there is a judgement to come. This truth is affirmed expressly by Solomon. Ecles. 7. 15. All things have I seen in the days of my vanity, there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness. And if we had not plain Scripture for it, the example of our late dread Sovereign King CHARLES the first, was proof sufficient, who was murdered by his own Subjects, (that had sworn allegiance to him,) in his Capital City, before the gates of his own Palace, in the sight of his own people, in the face of the sun, under a sormality of Justice. God did see all this then, and doth now require it, require it here in part, but will require it hereafter to the uttermost farthing, from all those, who had an hand in that crying parricide, and have not, or shall not wash away the guilt with unfeigned tears. That happy Martyr is now following the lamb in his whites, and reaps in joy what be did sow in tears; And his Son is this day Crowned with his Royal diadem, with the shouts and acclamations of his Subjects. So true is that of my text, that either here, or hereafter, or both, He that goeth on his way weeping, and beareth forth good seed with him, shall doubtless come again with acclamations of joy, and bring his sheaves with him.  
This brings me to the last clause of my Text, and bring his sheaves with him. This life is a seed time, whatsoever we sow here, we are sure to reap hereafter, even to a glass of cold water. As surely as when thou seest a man casting seed out of an hopper, thou mayest foretell what shall be the crop. The seed and the sheaves cannot choose but be the same grain. Only the sheaves are seed multiplied, it may be thirt●… fold, it may be sixty fold, it may be an hundred fold. So sheaves do signi●…y all those advantages which we reap by his Majesty's restitu●…ion.  
The first sheaf is Peace, the ne●…rer that societies approach to unity, the farther they are from fear of dissolu●…ion▪ When the Romans did find themselves in any great peril, they ever submitt●…d themselves to one Dictator, as a sacred anchor, and sure remedy to take away their divisions. His Majesty hath not only stopped up the spring of all our divisions by his just title, but hath purchased our peace by parting with his own just rights, to satisfy the interests of all parties. Let his example be our pattern, to do whatsoever we can with justice for the public peace, although it be to our own private prejudice. The Pythagoreans had a rule to leave no print of the bottom of the cup in the ashes, that is, in reconciliation to re●…ein no re●…entment of former quarrels. The d●…vided sides of a wound do meet together in a scar. And strange plants by inoculation, do become one tree. It were hard that quarrels should be immo●…tal, or more durable than n●…ture, or that the passions of the mind should be more maligna●…t and difficult to be clo●…ed, than the wounds o●… ulcers of the body, and that no way should be le●…t to unite the divided members of Christ. Doth God delight as much in the observation, or not observation of indifferent Ceremonies, as he doth in the love & unity of brethren, and just obedience to lawful superiors? or is it his will, that for a few innocent rites established by Law, Kingdoms should swim with blood, Monarchies be turned upside down, and innocent Christians be brought to utter beggary? It is a folly to dote so upon the body, as to cherish the sores and ulcers thereof: or out of hatred to the ulcers to destroy the body. The not distinguishing betvveen the essences and abu●…es of particular Chu●…ches, hath been the cause of all our miseries. This is the first sheaf which King CHARLES brings with him, that is, Peace.  
The second sheaf is the opening of our Courts, the restoring of our Laws to their vigour, and the establishment of Justice among us. What a wretched condition was this poor Kingdom in, which neither had Court open, nor Sheri●… legally appointed, nor so much as a 〈◊〉 of Peace for so long time together? It was the mercy of God, that the policy and frame of this Kingdom was not utterly destroyed, and brought to confusion. The Law is like the wrist of a musical instrument, which puts the jarring strings in tune. It is the balance of the Commonwealth, which gives the same weight to gold and lead, the rule and square of justice, the standard and measure of the Kingdom, the foundation of liberty, the fountain of equity, the life and soul of policy. Parents may leave a patrimony to their children, but the Law preserves it; Arms may conquer Kingdoms, but laws establish them. A City may be safe without walls, but never without Laws. That we eat and sleep in quiet, that our houses are not fired over our heads, nor our daughters deflowered before our eyes, it is the benefit of the Laws, without which, we s●…ould bite and devour one another, as the greater fishes do the less. This is the second shea●… which King CHARLES brought with him, that is, the Laws. A third sheaf is his experience. Woe be to thee O Land, when thy King is a child, Eccles. 10. 16. That is, a child in understanding and experience. The inexperience of Reh●…boam and his young counsellors quickly destroyed the Kingdom. We use to say, a new Physician must have a new Church▪ yard. A new Physician is not more dangerous to the body, than a new Politician to the state. It is written of Darius, that in opening a fair Pomegranate, one demanded of him, of what thing he desired so many as there were kernels in that Pomegranate? He replied, so many Zopyrus', that is, prudent and experienced counsellors. God be praised, our Darius may be a Zopyrus to himself, having had that advantage which none of his predecessors ever had, to have viewed with his own eyes the chiefest of his neighbour Courts, Kingdoms, and Commonwealths, their Interests, their Laws, and forms of Government, their strength and weakness, their advantages and disadvantages, both in War and peace, things of excellent use to a Prince, and may well pass for a third sheaf. And shall bring his sheaves with him.  
A fourth sheaf, and the last, which I shall mention at this time, is Security. Usurpers are always full of jealousies and fears. The reason is evident, VVisd. 7. 11. VVi●…kedness condemned by her own testimony is very timorous, and being pressed with conscience, always forecasteth grievous things. It was observed of Richard the third, that after he had murdered his Nephews, and usurped the Crown, he wore his hand continually upon his Dagger. A plain sign of inward guilt. When the wise men made this demand, where is he that is born King of the jews? Herod was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. Successor instat, pellimur, satelles i, ferrum rape, perfunde cunas sanguine. A successor is come, we are chased away. Go Soldiers, catch your swords, and make the cradles swim with blood. These inward fears render them cruel and vindictive, and make them multiply their Soldiers and their guards, wherein their only hope of safety doth consist. These grow chargeable to a Commonwealth, and easily from Servants turn Masters; From all these burdens and suspicions we are freed by the restitution of the right Heir. So every way King CHARLES brings his sheaves with him.  
A Prince, as supereminent above others in goodness, as Saul was in stature, and more adorned with virtues than with his purple. To whose happy Coronation this day is dedicated. Much may he give, long may he live, a nursing Father to the Church, a patron to the Commonwealth, a protector to his friends, a terror to his enemies, an honour and a darling to his Country. Let the hopes of all those who envy this day's happiness, melt away as winter ice, and flow away as unprofitable waters. And long, long may his Crown flourish, which this day first adorns his temples, until he change that corruptible Crown with an immarcescible Crown of glory.  
When I consider with myself the condition of the most flourishing Commonwealths, as Athens, how satal they have for the most part been to persons of eminent virtues, whereof few escaped both banishment and poison, I cannot but admire our happiness under the best of Monarchies; When I compare those arts and exactions, which are used in our neighbour Countries, where the whole esta●…e of the Commonwealth goes through the Magistrates hands in the short compass of a very few years. Much good may the mock liberty of their tongues do them, which their purses pay for. I cannot but proclaim, O happy England, if thou knewest thine own happiness. But neither the time permitts me, nor my desires invite me to fall upon this subject. I will turn my discourse into prayers that the great God of Heaven and earth will give his Majesty a long life, a secure empire, a prudent and faithful Council, a loyal and obedient people, expert and valiant Armies. Blessed be he that blesseth him, and let every loyal Subject ●…ay Amen.  

The first Speech by my Lord Primate to the Speak●…r of the House of Commons.  
SIR,  
THe Lords Justices of this Kingdom have graciously heard that relation which you made unto them from the Honourable House of Commons, touching their election of You to be their Speaker, together with your modest desire to decline the place as two heavy for you. They know right well, the great importance of the place: But they know as well your great ability to discharge it. Neither do they look upon you as a Child, that hath the reins put seemingly, and for a show into his hands, but as upon an experienced Charioteer, who knows how to discharge all the duties that belong unto his office dexterously, and without ostentation, and to dispose and direct the hand of that little one by occult motions of his own, to seem to do that, which in truth is his own proper work. They know that the Honourable House of Commons is no little Flyboat, but a Ship royal of the second magnitude, and the Cargazoon as rich as the Ship is great. Therefore they have committed the charge of it to you, as to a skilful Pilot. In sum, the Lords Justices do exhort you to addecourage and resolution to your modesty and other great parts, that you may adorn that Province, which by the 〈◊〉 of that House is committed to your care. For as the House of Commons have advisedly chosen You their Speaker, so the Lords Justices, by his Majesty's authority, do as advisedly confirm You their Speaker.  
And now Mr. Speaker, I have one thing more to add, which I am required by the Lords Justices to impart unto you; That is, that You being by your place an assistant to the House of Peers, and summoned by writ, to the discharge of that trust, yet the House of the Lords taking into their serious consideration the possibility, or rather the probability that some of their assistants might perhaps be chosen Speaker, to let all the world see, that they are equally careful of the privileges of both Houses, in order to the common good of the Kingdom, they passed a Vote this morning, that if any of their assistants should be chosen Speaker of the House of Commons, they would dispense with him pro 〈◊〉 vice, saving always to the House of the Peers all their just rights and privileges for the future. So that there remain●… nothing, but that you gird yourself to your Office which is cast upon you from all hands.   

The second Speech by my Lord Primate to the Speaker of the House of Commons.  
Mr. Speaker,  
YOu style this place aptly, a mount of transfiguration, and truly so it is. We behold the greatest transfiguration here that ever was seen in this Kingdom, on such a sudden, either in our days, or in the days of our forefathers. A conversion from the greatest Anarchy, and confusion, to order, and a settled form of Government. If nothing else did evince it, this change and transfiguration alone, were able to make good the truth of that old maxim. Res facile redeunt ad pristinum statum. Things do easily return to their former condition. Otherwise it were impossible that so much confusion should be attended with so much order, or the worst of Anarchies, with the best of Monarchies. It is better to live under the Sicilian Tyrants, or the Roman 〈◊〉, o●… the thirty Athenian usurpers, than to live in an Anarchy, where there is no Government. It is better to live where nothing is lawful, than where all things are lawful. Better one Tyrant than a thousand. I shall not need to press this further. Cast but your eyes back to the by passed years, and you will see this better demonstrated by experience, than it is possible to do it by reason. But behold a sudden transfiguration. Neither the morning nor the evening star in the Heavens is more beautiful, than justice and good government upon earth. To it we owe our prosperity, our liberty, our security, all we are, all we have, all we can be in this world, without which we should be like Fishes in the Sea, or Fowls in the Air. The greater devour the less: pisces sic saepe minutos magnus comest; sic aves enecat accipiter. Those innovators and incendiaries who labour to pull down a settled form of government, are like a phrenetick person, who takes pains to hew down the bough whereon he himself doth stand, As those two signs, or rather meteors, Castor and Pollux, when they appear double to seafaring persons, promise serenity and a prosperous voyage, but when they appear single or divided, they threaten a storm, whether it be by reason of the densi●…y or rarity of the matter, or what other natural causes, I leave to the Philosophers to determine. So where power and justice do meet together, it promiseth prosperi●…y and peace, but where they are divided, power without justice, or justice without power, it prog●…osticates a tempest to a state.  
From your mount of transfiguration you show us a King, You House of Commons behold a King. As Anarchy is the worst of misgovernments, so Mo●…archy is the best of governments, he most ancient, the most universal, th●… most natural, the m●…st noble, the m●…st advantageous form o●… government. I do not deny the 〈◊〉 of other forms, but I do altogether deny that any other form is so noble, so natural, or so much from God. There is one God in the world, a Monarchy; one soul in the body, a Monarchy; one sun in the Heavens, a Monarchy; one Master in each family, and one Monarch in each society. It was good counsel, which Lycurgus gave a mutinous citizen, that would have had him bring a democracy into the state, that he should try it first how he liked it in his own house, and suffer his Servants to be his Quartermasters. The silly Bees do teach us thus much, who know no Law but the Law of nature, yet they have their King. And that which is much more strange, which I have seen by ocular experience. Take their King prisoner in a cane, as it is usual to do, and they will feed him with honey through the nicks and crevices of the cane. So long as you detain him there, they will never swarm, nor seek for new habitations for themselves. Remove him and his prison into another hive, and they will all flock after him, and travail for him. Put a strange King into his cane or prison, and they will be so far from feeding him, that they will stop up all the holes of the cane with wax, and starve him for an usurper. How much are the silly Bees more observant of the Laws of nature, than degenerated men, In sum, the soul of Sovereign power, which is infused by God into Democracy and Aristocracy, is the same that it is in Monarchy. But the organ is not the same, nor so apt to attain the end. But God and nature do always intend that which is best, that is, Monarchy. And in some cases the existence of Kingly government is from God, as well as the essence. But God never instituted any other form than Monarchical. He himself vouchsafed to be King of his people, and gave them first Moses as a Viceroy, Moses was King in Jesurun. And afterwards he gave them a radicated succession of Kings. No Commonwealth hath the like plea for itself.  
And as Monarchical government is the best form of governments, so our English Monarchy is the best form of Monarchy. By the blessing of God, we live in the most temperate part of the temperate Zone. And enjoy a government as temperate as the climate itself. We cannot complain either of two much Sun, or two little Sun. The beams of Sovereignty are 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 foreign polities, it is only 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 Councils, or Conventions. As the inferior orbs 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 Counsels do temper and moderate the quick motion of Sovereign power. I speak not this of any danger that hangs over us. God be praised, we have no such young Phaeton's, 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 Counsel only, namely in republics 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 affairs of a Kingdom go prosperously on, when they join one and all in advancing public designs.  
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 already by my Lord Chancellor, as one of his Majesty's representatives: yet for order and method sake, I shall assign 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 bag. 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 disengage the public 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 satisfied the public debts out of his own rights. The time hath been, that the public faith of the Kingdom hath been slighted. No man had a public trust, and so no man could be sued upon a public faith. But King CHARLES hath redeemed the public credit again, by satisfying the public 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 lieth no appeal from God in the interior Court. So there lieth no appeal from a Parliament in the exterior Court. I mean, a complete 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 public 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 burden either upon the English or Irish Subject. Two things make a Prince grateful to his people. Easy ears 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 Majesty's hands an opportunity of advancing his revenue to a competency, that Ireland may be able for the future to bea●… it's own burden, 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, whilst they were tied together, all their conjoined 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 whilst you preserve unity, but if you suffer yourselves to be divided, you are lost▪ This lesson Menenius Agrippa taught his hearers by the welknown apology of the belly, and the other members, whilst they did nourish unity, and all acted for the public 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 Britain's, which rendered them an easy prey to their Conquerors. 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 Hannibal 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 war, which had been able to break a back of steel, that like Palm trees they did grow up under the weight, from distressed orders, to high and mighty states, or like Moses his bush, not only 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 justices to Mr▪ Speakers last propositions.  
THat they will be very careful and ready to mantain the House in all the just liberties and privileges belonging to it. 1. A freedom from arrests for themselves and their Servants in all cases whereunto the privilege 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.