Master Grimston his worthy and learned speech: spoken in the High Court of Parliament. Concerning troubles abroad, and greevances at home. Shewing the inward symptoms and causes of all our feares and dangers. And what probability there is of reformation, in case due punishment be speedily executed on incendiaries, and chiefe causers of those distractions, that have opprest our church, and common-wealth. Grimston, Harbottle, Sir, 1603-1685. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A85730 of text R8768 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E199_25). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. 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A85730) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 157523) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 35:E199[25]) Master Grimston his worthy and learned speech: spoken in the High Court of Parliament. Concerning troubles abroad, and greevances at home. Shewing the inward symptoms and causes of all our feares and dangers. And what probability there is of reformation, in case due punishment be speedily executed on incendiaries, and chiefe causers of those distractions, that have opprest our church, and common-wealth. Grimston, Harbottle, Sir, 1603-1685. [8] p. Printed for W.H., London : 1641. The first "t" in distractions (line 15) is inverted. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Speeches, addresses, etc., English -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1625-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A85730 R8768 (Thomason E199_25). civilwar no Master Grimston his worthy and learned speech: spoken in the High Court of Parliament.: Concerning troubles abroad, and greevances at home. Grimston, Harbottle, Sir 1641 1429 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 B The rate of 7 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-11 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-07 Judith Siefring Sampled and proofread 2008-07 Judith Siefring Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion MASTER GRIMSTON HIS WORTHY AND LEARNED SPEECH : SPOKEN In the High Court of PARLIAMENT . CONCERNING TROVBLES ABROAD , AND GREEVANCES AT HOME . SHEWING The inward Symptoms and Causes of all our feares and Dangers . And what probability there is of Reformation , in case due punishment be speedily executed on Incendiaries , and chiefe Causers of those Distractions , that have opprest our Church , and Common-wealth . London , Printed for W. H. 1641. Master GRIMSTON HIS Learned Speech in Parliament . Mr Speaker , There hath now a great and weighty busines bin presented to this house , & a Letter hath bin read importing a dicesion of the Kings naturall Subjects . Mr. Speaker , this is a great case , and very worthy of the consideration and advisement of this great Counsell ; but J am very much mistaken , if there be not a case here at home , of as great a danger as that now put to be abroad , the one stands without the doore ( for so dangers from thence , in all our histories , have ever bin termed : ) but the case that I would put , is a case of danger already upon our backs . And in those great cases of danger , which so much concerne the wellfare of the body politique we ought to doe in them like skillfull Physitians that are not led in their judgments so much by the outward expressions of a Disease , as by the inward Symptomes , and causes of it . For it fares with a body politique , as it doth with a body naturall : It is impossible to cure an ulcerous body , unlesse you first cleanse the veines , and purge the body from those obstructions , and pestilentiall humours that overcharge Nature , and being once done too , botches , blaines , and scabs , that grew upon the superficies and out-side of the body , dry up , shed , and fall away of themselves . Mr. Speaker , the danger that hath now bin presented to the house , it standeth at a far distance , & J wish heartily , that it were further off ; yet as it stands at a far distance , it is so much the lesse dangerous . But the case that J shall put , is a case of great danger here at home , domestique : & therefore so much the more dangerous , because it is home-bred , and runnes in the veines . And , Mr. Speaker , if the one shall appeare , to be of as great danger , as the other , J hope it will not bee thought unreasonable at this time , to put the one aswell as the other ; And the case that I would put , is this . The Charter of our liberties called Magna Charta was granted unto us by King Iohn , ; which was but a renovation and a restitution of the ancient Lawes of this Kingdome . This Charter was afterwards in the succession of severall ages , confirmed unto us above thirty severall times , and in the third yeere of his Majesties reigne that now is , we had no more then a bare confirmation of it . For we had an Act declaratory past , and then to put it out of all question and dispute for the future , his Majesty by his gtatious answere , Soit droit comme est desire , invested it with the title of Petition of right , Master Speaker . It may be some may object , Parturiunt montes &c I promised to present the house with a case of very great danger here at home , but the Mountain at last hath brought forth nothing but a Mouse , That this case is not worthy the name of a case , and so not worthy the putting . And truly , for mine owne part , J should have bin of the same opinion ( had not some expositors , contrary to the Lawes of God , and Man , and reason , & J am sure contrary to the Dictamen of their own Consciences ) marred the text with their expositions , undermining the liberty of the Subjects , with new invented subtile distinctions , and assuming to themselves a power ( I know not where they had it ) out of Parliament , to supercede , annihilate and make voyd the Lawes of this Kingdome . What sad effects , these wayes and opinions have produced , I am confident , his Majesty hath neither seene nor heard , as wee have felt them . And it is now his Majesties goodnesse and Piety , to give us leave to speake them , and to present them with our Greevances , which are not few . Mr. Speaker , the Common-wealth hath bin miserably torne and macerated , and all the proprieties , and Liberties shaken : the Church distracted , the Gospell and Professors of it persecuted , and the whole Kingdome over-run with Multitudes , and swarmes of projecting Cater-wormes , and Caterpillars , the worst of all the Aegyptian Plagues . Then as the case now stands with us , I conceive there are two poinis very considerable . The first is , what hath bin done any way to impeach the Liberty of the Subject , contrary to the Petition of Right . The second is , who have bin the Authors and Causers of it . Mr. Speaker , the serious examination and decision of those two questions , doe highly concern his Majesty in the point of Honour , and his subjects in the point of Interest : and all that I shall say to it is but the words that Ezra did to King Artaxerxes , to the setlement of that State : which at that time was as much out of frame and order ▪ as ours is at this present ; and which cured theirs , I hope will cure ours . His words were these . Whosoever hath not done the Law of God , and the Law of the King , let judgment be speedily executed upon him , whether it be unto death , or unto banishment , or unto Confication of goods , or to Imprisonment . Now , M. Speaker , it may be some doe think this a strange text , and is 't possible ! Some may thinke it as strange a case . As for the text , every man may reade it , that will . And for the case , I am afraid there are but few here , which doe not experimentally know it , to be as bad as I have put it : And how to mend a bad case , is part of the busines wee met about . His Majesty hath graciously confirmed unto us , our great and ancient priviledge of Freedome af Speech : and having his Kingly word for it , J shall rest confidently upon it , as the greatest security under heaven . And whilst J have the honour to have a place here , I shall with humility be bound to expresse my selfe as a Free-man . The Diseases and Distempers that are now in our body politique , are growne to that height , that they pray for , and importune a Cure . And his Majesty out of his tender care , and Affection to his people , like a nursing Father , hath now freely offered himselfe to heare our prayers and Complaints . Mr. Speaker , We cannot complaine that we want good Lawes ; for the wit of man cannot invent better then are already made ; There want only some Examples , that such as have beene the Authors , and causets of all miseries , and distractions in Church and Common wealth , contrary to those good Lawes which be like TREAKLE to expell the poyson of mischiefe out of others , But my part is but ostendere Portam , and rherefore having put the Case , I must leave it to the judgement of this house , whether our dangers here at home be not as great and considerable ; as that which was even now presented . FINIS .