MASTER GRIMSTON HIS SPEECH IN THE House of Commons, Concerning the distempers betweene the King and both Houses of Parliament. 1642.
London, Printed Iuly 5. for M. T. 1642.
MASTER GRIMSTON HIS SPEECH IN THE HOVSE of Commons, Concerning the distempers betweene the King and both Houses of Parliament.
I VVould faine bring one stone to our building now in hand, and it is but a caveat [Page] to the Master builders, to beware, of those who hinder the worke, And pull downe by night, vvhat is built up by day.
Master Speaker
There are that Speake loudly to the King, And in agitating of all matters, seem very tender of him, but substances, and semblances, essences, and apparances, are opposite:
Multa videntur quae non sunt, these vvould make us beleeve, that our redressing of some greiveances, is
[Page] the pulling out of some flovvers from the Crovvn, and hereby they cast maine and Intricating Doubts, vvhere vvith to retard and perplex our proceedings, and to lay an il-favoured imputation upon us, as if vve vvere Regardlesse of our Gracious Soveraigne, and these good men, the onely Battresses of his Royalty: by this they endeavour to endeare themselves to the King, for their owne advancement, to have him
[Page] guided by their owne Councells, and to take off his affection from his best, and most Loyall Subjects, Assembled in Parliament.
Master Speaker, The King and his Subjects are Relatives, and we know that in Logicke, ne lato sublato tollaitur Correlatum, they that disioynt the King and his People, do neither better nor worse, but do their utmost (to un-King him.
Master Speaker, the King is the Parent, the Husband solemparely espoused at his Coronation, the head of the Republique, as it is with the naturall parent, Husband and head: So it is with the publique, The naturall parent bestoweth on his child, protection and love, with all his fruits: the Child returneth him filiall reverence with al due respects: [Page] And he that laboureth to breake this intercourse, by possessing the parent with an evill opinion of the Child, is equally an enemy to both.
There is a sweete echo of coniugall affections betweene the Maried, and be that shall goe about to interupt it, is a hater of them both, and a subverter of their Family.
In the naturall body, such is the connexion betweene it and the Head, that a seperation is distructive to both, wheras otherwise, the head in the body, being the seate of the vitalls, and the braine in the head, of the Animall Spirits, reciprocally cōmunicating preserve the whole: Our gratious Soveraigne is the common Parent, husband, & head, si Calumniemus frangimur: If therefore there shall be any found to be as undermining Pyoners envying to disaffect our parent to us, to divorce us from this our husband, [Page] to divide us from our Head.
My iust motion is, that upon a watchfull discoverie, whereon I would have every good mans intent, they may receive the extremity of severety as they will deserve, and if any of them shall prove member of this house, that the furnace may be heated, tenne times hotter, for betraying the trust reposed in them, by their County that sent them hither.