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A68445	The triumphs of King Iames the First, of Great Brittaine, France, and Ireland, King; defender of the faith Published vpon his Maiesties aduertisement to all the kings, princes, and potentates of Christendome, and confirmed by the wonderfull workes of God, declared in his life. Deuoted, dedicated, and consecrated to the most excellent prince Henry Prince of Wales.	Marcelline, George.	1620 (1620)	STC 17309; ESTC S111857	40,901	114

search into all families number the Monarchies the Empires and Kingdomes count all their Kings one by one their Emperors their Monarkes and you shal neuer finde so great a number neither any Raigne which hath endured for the space of 1908. without euer being subiugated like vnto ours or that goeth before vs in the susception of Christianity and profession of the Catholique Faith Christi transactis tribus annis atque ducentis Scotia Catholicam coepit inire fidem Since Donaldus the first Christian King he is the 79. who being multiplyed one by another in their times it produceth prognostically the most dangerous Climacteriall age of Poperie or the Papacy as their simple transposition marketh the yeare of the Reuelation Written by Saint Iohn and the last apart by it selfe did facilitate the way for him to his second Crown and to vs the sence of this Arithmeticall prediction by the effect Galla feret natum cui tota Britannia laeta Subijciet collum refluo circumsona Ponto Nec proprior quam nonus erit de sanguine Bruti His perfection likewise is seen in this that he hath the name of Iames the sixt of Scotland Sixe being the signe of accomplishment as Saint Augustine obserueth it to be that onely amongst numbers simple which resolueth all the parts and maketh them equal to wit of one of two and of three This is a number very pleasing acceptable to God and which himself hath obserued in the most part of his maruellous actions Six dayes he laboured and wrought in the perfection of the world Sixe dayes hee rained Manna in the wildernesse and distributed vnto men the bread of Angels Sixe dayes Moses conferred with him about the eternall decrees of his will and on the Articles of Religion he willed that the Wals of Iericho should be sixe times circuted about before they were to bee tumbled to the ground Six dayes he kept shut the gates of his Temple which looked towards the East and commaunded that sixe Lambes should bee offered to him on each day of the Sabaoth in sacrifice wee may also say that hee hath recommended this number in Nature as it being his will that among floures the Lilly should haue six leaues Among stones the Iris should haue six Corners and that the Lyonnesse in her first whelping shold haue six yong ones and that so decaying continually vnto one she should terminate her brood in an vnity which is the bottome the beginning and the onely sourse of all other numbers Jn the same sort is hee called and chosen of God without any doubt the sixt of Scotland to be the first not onely of Great Brittaine but also euerie where Because in this Vnitie the Veritie is founde who is but Onely One and as Mercurius Trismegistus saith The beginning and the roote of All. He is the first also of Tenne Kings Christians that should hate the whore making her become naked and desolate should eate hir flesh and burne her with fire So may we also say that hee hath chaunged his Name like vnto Iacob to resemble him in all thinges Of the sixt hee is come to bee the first and of King of Scotland of England he is now the King of Great Brittaine c. Iam cuncti Gens vna sumus Et Simus in aeuum And for the fulfilling or accomplishment of this old vaticination Imperium Fasces C. Fastus Sceptra Triumphus Quae fuerant penitus C. veniente cadent He ought of right as wel as by his Baptisme to be called Charles Charles and Charles the Great a more iust Title then that of Antiochus Quintus Fabius Pompey Methridates and the rest or they that are yet called the Great Chams of Tartaria or the dreaded Othomans For if Constantine did deserue this Name onely for hauing succoured the Church and Theodosius onely for warranting the Empire from so many imminent daungers what Name can be found conuenable vnto his Deuotion and desseign to deliuer all Christendome from the Tyranny of Antechrist Whome may a man tearme to bee more Great then he which is the Non pareil of all that are or may bee in this present Age Hee is Great according to the World and in all that which the worlde esteemeth to bee great as the Scripture sayeth According to the Name Greatnesse on the earth Great in Kingdomes and Prouinces Great in Landes and Seigneuries Great in Authoritie and power Great in Armes and Treasures Great in Nobilitie and Lineage Great in Age and youth And euery way so Great in all these as being not to be equalled by any hee is The Great of Greats the Chiefest and the most Great of all But that which is much morethen all these and whereunto the world cannot attaine hee is Great according to God great in Faith and Religion Great in Vertue and Faithfulnesse Great in Iustice and Piety Great in kindnesse and ●ansutude Great in Goodnesse and Innocency Great in wisedome and experience Great in name more Great in effects Briefly he is the liuely Image of Great Hercules who neuer did or thought on any thing but it was Great and greatly profitable All his actions al his wordes and cogitations are nothing but Great It is a thing most certaine that God doeth euermore raise Great personages whom hee indueth with excellent and Heroical vertues to finish fortunately whatsoeuer hee committeth into their hands The which is also testified by a most especiall prouidence of God euen in his Sur-name of Steuart thereby being opposed gainst Antechrist as the South-winde against the North-wind that is to say as Grace against sinne and as the blessed Spirit against the Deuill who is the true North-wind from whence all euill commeth vpon all the inhabitantes of the earth And this is conformable to the scripture where speaking of them that are Faithfull Ministers that is to say Good Stewards in our Language and whose workes God hath established in verity and made a perpetual league or couenant with them It is saide that Their seede shall be knowne among the Gentiles their encrease shal be in the midst of the people As it was seene in the Macchabees who by beeing of the seede of them by whome saluation came to Israell this blessing was bestowed vpon them Now this house of Steuart in Scotland is as a Phoenix among the Nobility the Lords therof are as Nectors among men for the length of time that their race hath liued For since the yeare of Grace 1057. from the raigne of Malcolme euen to this present it hath flourished ful of prosperity and honour All the Kings issued of that line haue taken hands with him and as by infusion transmitted their rare and excellent qualities still from one to another neuer degenerating for euermore Royall Eagles doo produce Imperial Eagles Eagles that haue continually made War with Dragons with Foxes and aboue all with Serpents As is now to be seene in our Great King who hath producted the most Noble Prince Henry the ninth in Sur-name among Kinges in Scotland as of Name in England for

winning and neuer suffered themselues to be foyled or fully conquered Imperij fuerat Romani Scotia limes Romanae fuerit Scot-Anglus origo ruine But to conclude the Kinges most glorious and pompous Title of Triumph is to bee called DEFENDER OF THE FAITH because it is apparant he shewes himselfe more affectionate ardent and zealous to preserue exalt proclaime and communicate it to them which haue not as yet receiued it then any other King on the earth It is a Title which giues him more glorye and splendour then all his Scepters and Diadems It honoureth him so much as he should not thinke himselfe worthy to beare the name of King if hee had not that withall of Defender of the Faith It is a Tytle which maketh him as much beloued of all as that of King causeth him to bee feared It is a Title not as to day deserued and giuen to our Kings but it is more then an hundered yeares since it was giuen to his Maiesties great Grandfather Iames the fourth K. of Scots as the Chronicles of M. Chambres do testifie So that they deceiue themselues who thinke it is no longer then since the time of King Henry the eight of England A glorious and Hereditary title which you and we ought to esteem since it hath bin grauen in the fore-heads of the late Kings of either kingdom Yet a title not so much by succession as by merit acquisition of a King who fightes and beats down idolatry and Heresy more valiantly then all his Ancestors By a King who shal reforme the error not onely of Scotland and England an Angle of the earth but of the vvhole earth For beholde the dayes are comming when God will punnish the grauen Images of Babylon that hee will make all her Countrey ashamed and will cause al the wounds of death to fall in the midst thereof These tidings shall come this year and after this in the other there shall be violence on the earth and Ruler vpon Ruler Roma diu titubans varijs erroribus acta Coruet mundi desinet esse caput Wherfore Go forth of her all people to the end that you be not partakers of hir sins receiue not hir plagus Deliuer euery one his life out of the heat of the wrath of the eternal Hūble your selues vnder the mighty hand of God resist no longer his reasonable will through a rash kinde of zeale There is no one of you so ignorant but he knoweth most part of the abuses of the Romaine Church to be so euident as the fautors and fauourers of them can no longer denie them Seeke the truth turn ouer the leaues of the Scriptures which haue beene for so long time maliciously interdicted to you None hath more or greater intrest in your saluation then your very selues Yea euen thou who with shame and false Ensignes doest vsurp the Title of Holy Father Lieutenant of God Vicar of Christ Vice Deo Vniuersall Byshop Great Priest Soueraign high Priest Prince of Byshoppes Heyre to the Apostles And you who say of him that for Primate he is Abell For Gouernement Noah for his Patriarchate Abraham For Ordere Melchizedeck For Dignity Aaron For Authority Moses For Iudgement Samuell For Power Peter and for Vnction Christ Thou that seatest thy selfe in the Temple of God aboue God aboue all that is called God to make thy selfe honoured as God Thou that sayest thou hast power to bind Kings to tie them in Chaines of Iron to bereaue at thy pleasure take away their Crownes to breake their Scepters trample on their Crownes to giue their kingdomes as preyes or otherwise to dispose of them to disoblige their subiects from their oath of fidelity and obedience Repent thy self of this doctrine when both reason and Authoritie fayleth Content thy selfe at least with the power limited by our learned Barcklay cut off the disorders which like a crafty Serpent haue crept into the Church scratch and breake the head of those Vipers of thy Pastorall staffe cast off also the sin and corruption so much as may be not onely of thy Court but of Rome yet not of Rome alone but of all those places where thou art feared and reuerenced Let the Church recouer her first splendour againe that all abused may be beaten farre from her Thou hast a long time conuerted Lead into Gold by meanes of thy Buls which are but sorry meat to satisfie feeble spirits Thy Pardons are too pardonous and thy Indulgences haue too much indulgence keepe them to thy sourse thy selfe Acknowledge the power of them that haue giuen thee this power Reddendo Caesari quae sunt Caesaris et quae sunt Dei Deo And you also who will be Princes and Cardinals altogether You Prelates Bishops Cannons Priests Prebends all Romain Church-men of what order or name soeuer ye be learn that it is now no longer time to resist you must bend or break vnder the yoake of the Sonne of God and of his holy word There hath bin sleep enough Luxury enough Trafficke enough enough of disorderly walking in the house of God enough haue ye serued your bellies and idlenesse enough haue ye pild pold the very fattest sheepe in the flock enough haue ye chopped changed bought sold in the tēple of the Lord. Awake now preuent iudgement there is yet place for clemency and for mercy The Synagogne of the Iewes it is gone the Law hath giuen place to the Gospel by much more powerful reason then shold abuse make way for purity lying for truth inuentions and Traditions of men for the ordinances of God against which let time bee neuer so long it prescribeth nothing Nec poterit ferrum necedax abolere vetustas I beseech the Father of Lights to open the eyes and harts of Kings of Magistrates their people to the end that in giuing place to his Heauenly word they may take knowledge of Antechrist and detesting his yoake they may submit to that of Christ To whom with the Father and the blessed Spirit be Glory and Dominion eternally Amen FINIS