Last week you had a brief account of some passages
touching the late entertainment of his Highness in the
City. Among which we omitted this that the Lord Major
was Knighted by his Highness. This following Speech
was delivered also by the Recorder.
Mr. Recorders Speech to the Lord Protector.
MAy it please your Highness, my Lord Protector, it
hath been observed by some, That when Samuel
offered Sacrifice, he therefore reserved the Shoulders for
Sanl, that he might know what was the weight of Government:
The consideration of which made Maximilian affirm,
that none who knew bow heavy Diadems were,
would stoop to take them up. Governours are like the
heavenly bodies, much in veneration, but never in rest;
and how can it otherwise be expected, when they are not
made for themselves, or their owne glory, but for the safety
and good of mankinde? as in the natural, so in the civill
world, great things being ordained to serve the less: We
see the Sun by its Beams, serving the eye of the meanest
Flye, as well as of the greatest Potentate. The Supremacy
of Salus Popnli, was the conclusion of the Twelve Tables,
and will be a Prevalent Maxime untill the end of the
world.
By thus much, My Lord, you may perceive the dark
side of this Leading Cloud of Government; but if God
vouchsafe assistance from those Shoulders, upon which the
Government is laid, and put under his everlasting Arms,
you will see the bright side also, and thence Encouragement:
This Support he is pleased to give, by letting Rulers
know he is the Author of their Power, and that from
him they are to expect their Rule. The Designation of government,
as to forms and persons, is an humane institution,
and mutable, as things that are made; but Government
it self, abstractively considered in its pure Original, is
of a Divine Off-spring, and can with no less difficulty be
shaken, then those Vestigias which being as Relations tell
us, upon the tops of some Mountains, above the Clouds,