TWO SPEECHES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS: THE FIRST, Concerning a Contribution for the Poor, Naked, Hunger-starved English, sent out of Ireland into England. THE SECOND, Concerning Toleration of Religion in Ireland.  
Made by Sir Benjamin Rudyerd.  
London, Printed 1642.   

THE FIRST SPEECH IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, concerning a contribution for the Poor, Naked, Hunger-starved English, sent out of Ireland into England.  
Mr. SPEAKER,  
THis Day is appointed for a charitable work, a work of bowels and compassion: I pray God, we may never have the like occasion, to move, to stir up our charity.  
These miserable people, are made so, because of their Religion. He that will not suffer for his Religion, is not worthy to be saved by it: and he is unworthy thy to enjoy it, that will not relieve those that suffer for it.  
I did know but the last year here in England, some (and they not Papists) who were resolved to make Ireland their retreat, as the safer Kingdom of the two.  
We do now see a great, a dismal Change, God knows whose turn shall be next, it is wrapped up in his Providence. That which happens to one Country, may happen to any. Time and Chance comes upon all, though guided by a certain hand.  
The right way to make a man truly sensible of an others calamity, is, To think himself into the same case and condition, and then to do as he would be done unto.  
Wherefore, Master Speaker, Let our Gift be a matter of Bounty, not of Covetousness, that it may abound to our account in the day of reckoning. He that allows plentifully, shall reap plentifully. I am sure, He that lends to the Lord hath the best security, and cannot be a loser.