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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01924	England and Scotlands happinesse in being reduced to vnitie of religion, vnder our invincible monarke King Iames. Written by I: Gordon.; Panegyrique of congratulation for the concord of the realmes of Great Britaine in unitie of religion, and under one king	Gordon, John, 1544-1619.; Grimeston, Edward.	1604 (1604)	STC 12062.3; ESTC S117967	22,135	50

formes wee will therefore conclude our discourse of the proofe of the true and onely adoration of God obserued throughout all the habitable world during the first periode of three hundred yeares with the testimonye of Arnobius writing against the Gentiles obiecting to the Christians that they would not worshippe any but the first and the greatest of all the Gods and not the inferiour Gods according to the manner in those dayes to whome hee aunswereth saying And wee may say in that which concernes the worshippe and honour of the diuinity that it sufficeth vs to haue one onelye God God I saye the father of all things who hath created and gouerneth all things In worshipping of him wee worshippe all that we ought to worshippe when wee honour him wee honour in him that which hee requires at our handes what the duety of worshippe dooth exact that we performe by our worshippe For seeing wee holde the chiefe of all diuinitye of whome all diuine thinges depend wee thinke it superfluous to seeke to priuate persons And a little after hee saithe As in earthlye kingdomes wee are not constrained to worshippe and honour euerye priuate man of the Kings house but in the honour wee doe vnto Kings those which belong vnto them are sceretly honored with them So the Christians of that perfect age did not worshippe nor call vpon any thing vnder God as the Romanistes of our age doe which worship the blessed virgin the Angelles Michael and Gabriel Saint Iohn Baptist the Apostles and Martyrs their reliques Sepulchers and Images So as it is most apparent that the Religion planted at this present in the Ilandes of great Brittaine is the true auncient Religion and the only worship of one God incōmunicable to the Creatures the which hath continued during the first periode of the three hundred yeares of Christianity So as it is a meere slander what the aduersaries of the trueth saye that your Maiestye hath banished the true auncient Christian Religion out of your Realmes to plant a newe Religion pretended to bee begunne by Martin Luther Iohn Caluin and other great Personages in the puritye of the true Christian Doctrine But contrarywise it is an immortall glorye which shall increase in your raigne and continue to posterity seeing that your Maiesty is the author of the restoring of the true Christian religion in your realmes hauing restored it I saye to that beauty and sincerity as it was in oulde time planted by Lucius your fore-runner the first Christian King of great Brittayne who became so affectionate and zealous of the aduancement and propagation of the trueth and so great an enemie to Idolatrie and the worship of Creatures and visible formes that of a King he became a Preacher as some Histories say And as during the persecutiō of the Christians vnder Dioclesian and Maxentius which were the most bloudie of all God vsed your Ilands and kingdomes as a refuge for the true Christians which fled from the saide persecutions Euen so the same God hath made your most happie raigne to be a safe harbour for the Christians of our age who haue been forced to abandon houses goods and inheritances rather then to bow to the Romish worship God the protector of his true Church hath continued his admirable graces ouer your Ilands in the second Period of Christianisme the which begun with the most happie Empire of Constantius Chlorus for during the last persecution God raysed vp this wise and warlike Emperour in the westerne parts of Europe in the which England Scotland and Ireland are conteyned where the saide Emperor tooke to wife Hellen borne in your said realmes who receiued into his protection all the Christians which fled from other prouinces to auoyde the cruell persecution which was made against them by his other associates in the Empire SIRE we must here obserue a notable pollicie of this wise Emperour to trie the fidelitie of his seruants and ministers in the gouernment of his Empire which will much auaile for the preseruation of your royall estate He did publish a fayned edict commaunding all the subiects of his Empire to sacrifice to the false Gods and whosoeuer should refuse so to doe to departe out of his armies and Empire This proclamation beeing made a great number of Christians did sacrifice vnto the false Gods to preserue their estates dignities and goods but the true Christians desired rather to leaue all then to serue them wherevpon the Emperour discouered himselfe presently and discharged all such as had worshiped these false Gods saying How can they be faithful vnto the Emperour that are faithlesse vnto God And as for the true Christians which had left all hee called them home and made them guardiens both of his person and estate as Eusebius saith I desire not your Maiestie should make such counterfeite proclamations but that the same God which hath made you successor to Constantius Chlorus will giue you the grace to make such an election of your subiects as in your most important affaires you admit not any but such as are knowne to be well grounded in the true Christian religion For euen as a modest woman ought not onely to be chast but free from all suspition euen so those which are imployed in the affaires of true Christian Princes as your Maiestie is should be free from all suspition of false religion The said Constantius died at Yorke in England after that hee had instituted Constantine the great his sonne the which was an other especiall grace which God hath poured vppon your realmes And euen as vnder King Lucius It was the first part of the world which did banish the Pagan Idolatrie euen so God hath raised out of the same Iland the said Constantine the great who expelled the same Romish Idolatry out of all the other Prouinces of the habitable world whereof your Maiestie hath a familiar example to imitate in this restorer of the Christian religion This great Constantine your predecessor and countrieman in the beginning of his Empire Hee studied what God he should choose as the same Eusebius saith that his Father had condemned the Error of Idolatrie and al his life had worshiped one onely God the protector guardien of the Empire the free giuer of all good Vppon this resolution he made choise of the true God to serue beleeuing that the onely cause of Kings and Emperours felicitie proceeded from him alone as the same Authour saith He worshiped the same God that is aboue all things And in his ordinarie praiers beeing alone he spake to God alone Whereby it appeareth that the religion which your Maiestie hath established in your realmes is conformable to that of your predecessour Constantine who worshiped as I haue saide but one onely God the Creator of all things and not the Crosse and Images of Iesus Christ In his ordinarie praiers hee did not call vppon the blessed Virgin Saint Peter Saint Paul nor the other Apostles and Martires neyther haue we