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<P>A famous SPEECH OF King Henry the eighth, MADE In the Parliament Hou&s;e the 24. of De|cember, in the 37. yeare of his Maje&s;ties Reigne. <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1545.</P>
<P>Tending to Charity and Concord, and therefore nece&s;&s;ary for men of the&s;e times.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed in the yeare, 1642.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>A Famous</HI> SPEECH OF KING HENRY THE EIGHT.</HEAD>
<P>_ALthough my Chauncellor for the time being, hath before this time u&s;ed very eloquent|ly and &s;ub&s;tantially to make an|&s;wer to &s;uch Orations as have beene &s;et forth in this high Court of Parliament, yet is hee not &s;o able to open and &s;et forth my minde and meaning, and the &s;ecrets of my heart in &s;o plain and ample manner as I my &s;elfe am and can doe.</P>
<P>Wherefore I taking upon me to an&s;wer your elo|quent Oration Mr. Speaker, &s;ay that where you in the name of our welbeloved Commons, hath both prai&s;ed and extolled me for the notable qualities that you have conceived to be in me, I mo&s;t hearti|ly thanke you all that you have put me in remem|brance of my duty, which is to endeavour my &s;elfe to obtaine and get &s;uch excellent qualities, and ne|ce&s;&s;ary vertues as a Prince or Governour &s;hould or
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ought to have, of which gifts I recognize my &s;elfe both bare and barren, but of &s;uch &s;mall qualities as God hath endowed mee withall, I render to his goodne&s;&s;e my mo&s;t humble thankes, intending with all my wit and diligence to get and acquire to me &s;uch Noble Vertues and Princely Qualities as you have alledged to be incorporate in my per&s;on.</P>
<P>The&s;e thanks for your loving admonition and good coun&s;ell fir&s;t remembred, I eft&s;oones thanke you again, becau&s;e that you con&s;idering Our great charges (not for Our plea&s;ure, but for your defence, not for Our gain, but to Our great co&s;t) which We have lately &s;u&s;tained, as well in defence of Our and your enemies, as for the conque&s;t of that fortre&s;&s;e which was to this Realme mo&s;t di&s;ple&s;ant and noy|&s;ome, and &s;hall be by Gods grace hereafter to our Nation mo&s;t profitable and plea&s;ant, have freely of your owne mindes granted to Us a certaine Sub&s;idy here in an Act &s;pecified, which verily wee take in good part, regarding more your kindne&s;&s;e then the profit thereof, as he that &s;etteth more by your loving hearts, then by your &s;ub&s;tance.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides this hearty kindne&s;&s;e I can not a little re|joice when I con&s;ider the perfect tru&s;t &amp; &s;ure confi|dence which you have put in me, as men having un|doubted hope, and unfained beliefe in my good do|ings, and ju&s;t proceedings for you, without any de|&s;ire or reque&s;t, have committed to mine order and di&s;po&s;ition all Chauntreyes, Colledges, Ho&s;pitalls, and other places &s;pecified in a certaine Act, firme|ly tru&s;ting that I will order them to the glory of
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God, and the profit of the Common wealth.</P>
<P>Surely if I contrary to your expectation, &s;hould &s;uffer the Mini&s;ters of the Church to decay, or lear|ning (which is &s;o great a jewell) to bee mini&s;hed, or poore and mi&s;erable people to be unrelieved, you might &s;ay that I being put in &s;o &s;peciall a tru&s;t as I am in this ca&s;e, were no tru&s;ty friend to you, nor charitable man to any poore Chri&s;tian, neither a lo|ver of the Publicke-wealth, nor yet one that feared God, to whom account mu&s;t bee rendred of all our doings. Doubt not I pray you, but your expectati|on &s;hall be &s;erved more godly and goodly then you will wi&s;h or de&s;ire as hereafter you &s;hall plainly perceive.</P>
<P>Now &s;ithence I finde &s;uch kindne&s;&s;e on your part otward me, I cannot chu&s;e but love and favour you, affirming that no Prince in the world more favou|reth his &s;ubjects then I doe you, nor no Subjects or Commons more love and obey their Soveraigne Lord then I perceive you doe me, for who&s;e de|fence my trea&s;ure &s;hal not be hidden, nor if nece&s;&s;ity require my per&s;on &s;hall not be unadventured: yet although I with you, and you with me, bee in this perfect love and concord, this friendly amity can|not continue, except you my Lords Temporall, and you my Lords Spirituall, and you my loving Sub|jects &s;tudy and take paines to amend one thing which &s;urely is ami&s;&s;e, and far out of order, to the which I mo&s;t heartily require you, which is, that charity and concord is not among&s;t you, but di&s;|cord and di&s;&s;ention beareth rule in every place.</P>
<P><PB REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 20 -->Saint <HI>Paul</HI> &s;aith in the Corinthians and in the 13. Chaper, Charity is gentle, Charity is not envious, Charity is not proud, and &s;o forth in the &s;aid Chap|ter: Behold then what charity and love is among&s;t you when one calleth the other Heretick and Ana|bapti&s;t, and hee calleth him againe Papi&s;t, Hypo|crite and Phari&s;ee, bee the&s;e tokens of charity a|mong&s;t you? Are the&s;e &s;ignes of fraternall love between you? No, no, I a&s;&s;ure you that this lack of charity among your &s;elves, will be the hindrance and a&s;&s;waging of the fervent love betweene us, as I &s;aid before, except this wound be &s;alved and cleer|ly made whole.</P>
<P>I mu&s;t needs judge the fault and occa&s;ion of this di&s;cord to bee partly by negligence of you the Fa|thers and Preachers of the &s;pirituality, for if I know a man which liveth in adultery, I mu&s;t judge him a lecherous and carnall per&s;on, if I &s;ee a man boa&s;t and brag him&s;elfe, I cannot but deem him a proud man. I &s;ee here daily that you of the Clergy preach one again&s;t another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one again&s;t another without cha|rity or di&s;cretion. Some bee &s;o &s;tiffe in their old <HI>Mump&s;imus,</HI> others be &s;o bu&s;ie and envious in their new <HI>Sump&s;imus.</HI> Thus all men almo&s;t be in variety and di&s;cord, and few or none preach truly &amp; &s;incere|ly the word of God according as they ought to do.</P>
<P>Shall I judge you charitable per&s;ons doing thus? No, no, I cannot doe &s;o; alas how can the poore &s;oules live in concord, when you Preachers &s;ow a|mong&s;t them in your Sermons debate and di&s;cord?
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Of you they looke for light, and you bring them to darkene&s;&s;e. Amend the&s;e crimes I exhort you, and &s;et forth Gods word both by true preaching and good example giving, or el&s;e I whom God hath ap|pointed his Vicar and high Mini&s;ter here, will &s;ee the&s;e divi&s;ions extinct, and the&s;e enormities cor|rected according to my very duty, or el&s;e I am an unprofitable &s;ervant, and an untrue Officer.</P>
<P>Although I &s;ay the Spirituall men be in &s;ome fault, that charity is not kept among&s;t you, yet you of the Temporality be not cleane and un&s;potted of malice and envy, for you raile on Bi&s;hops, &s;peake &s;lande|rou&s;ly of Prie&s;ts, and rebuke and taunt Preachers, both contray to good order, and Chri&s;tian fraterni|ty: If you know &s;urely that a Bi&s;hop or Preacher, er|reth or teacheth perver&s;e doctrine, come and de|clare it to &s;ome of our Councell, or to us, to whom is committed by God the high authority to reforme and order &s;uch cau&s;es and behaviours, and be not judges your &s;elves of your owne phanta&s;ticall opi|nions, and vaine expo&s;itions, for in &s;uch high cau&s;es ye may lightly erre.</P>
<P>And although you bee permitted to read holy Scripture, and to have the word of God in your mo|ther tongue, you mu&s;t under&s;tand that it is licenced you &s;o to doe, onely to enforme your owne con&s;ci|ence, and to in&s;truct your children and family, and not to di&s;pute and make Scripture a railing and taunting &s;tocke again&s;t Prie&s;ts and Preachers (as many light per&s;ons doe) I am very &s;ory to know and heare how unreverently that mo&s;t pretious je|well
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the word of God is di&s;puted, rimed, &s;ung and jangled in every Alehou&s;e and Taverne, contrary to the true meaning and Doctrine of the &s;ame.</P>
<P>And yet I am even as much &s;orry that the readers of the &s;ame follow it in doing &s;o faintly and coldly; for of this I am &s;ure, that charity was never &s;o faint among&s;t you, and vertuous and godly living was never le&s;&s;e u&s;ed, nor God him&s;elfe among&s;t Chri|&s;tians was never le&s;&s;e reverenced, honoured and &s;er|ved. Therefore as I &s;aid before, be in charity one with another, like brother and brother; love, dread and feare God, (to the which I as your &s;upreame head and Soveraigne Lord, exhort and require you) and then I doubt not but that love and league that I &s;pake of in the beginning &s;hall never be di&s;&s;olved or broken between us.</P>
<P>And to the making of Lawes which bee now made and concluded, I exhort you the makers to be as diligent in putting them in execution, as you were in making and furthering of the &s;ame, or el&s;e your labour &s;hall be in vaine, and your Common-wealth nothing relieved. Now to your Petition concer|ning our Royall A&s;&s;ent to be given to &s;uch Acts as have pa&s;&s;ed both Hou&s;es: They &s;hall be read open|ly that ye may hear them. Then were they openly read, and to many his Grace a&s;&s;ented, and diver he a&s;&s;ented not unto. This the Kings Oration was to his Subjects there pre&s;ent &s;uch comfort, that the like joy could not bee unto them in this world. And thus the Acts made as the manner is, and his A&s;&s;ent given, his Grace ro&s;e and departed.</P>
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