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A15453	Great Britains Salomon A sermon preached at the magnificent funerall, of the most high and mighty king, Iames, the late King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. At the Collegiat Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, the seuenth of May 1625. By the Right Honorable, and Right Reuerend Father in God, Iohn, Lord Bishop of Lincolne, Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England, &c.	Williams, John, 1582-1650.	1625 (1625)	STC 25723; ESTC S120058	36,498	80

the Time then for a fragment of a Funerall Sermon Euery Action of his sacred Maiestie was a Vertue and a Miracle to exempt him from any parallel amongst the moderne Kings and Princes Not a particular of his life but was a mysterie of the Diuine Prouidence to keepe and praeserue those admirable parts for the setling and vniting of some great Empire Why was the Queen his Mother barren in France then growne a greater and yet fruitfull in Scotland a lesser Kingdome then this of ours Why was the Father killed in his Bed and yet the Sonne at the same time spared in his Cradle Why was hee put like another Hercules to strangle Serpents in his swadling clouts and to fight before he could lift vp his Arme with the Husband of his Mother for a iust reuenge of the Death of his Father Why were those worthy Guardians of his Sacred Person so swept away Murray Lenox and Morton killed and Marre tormented and vexed to death and yet this Infant without his Protectors from time to time miraculously protected How was his Youth freed from the Faction of France and his Riper yeares from that of Spaine the which two like Sampsons Foxes tied by the tailes agreed in nothing but their End which was to poison his Religion and Succession Why did Gowries Man prepar'd to Kill him tremble in his praesence and begin to adore him Lastly for no praeseruation can be nam'd after this when the Match and the Powder not farre from this place was so fitted and praepared why was this King so diuinely praeserued Surely for no other End then this that as Perez was wont to call himselfe Monstrum Fortunae the Monster of Fortune So this Prince might appeare in the world Monstrum Prouidentiae a Monster as it were of the Diuine Prouidence taking the word as Scaliger applies it to Virgil Monstrum sine Labe a Monster for want of Imperfections and be esteem'd for his Quae fecerit what he should doe in time to come a Miracle of Kings and a King of Miracles I leaue the multitude of his Actions to fill vp Chronicles and will instance onely in those foure Vertues which it seemes doe now adorne his Hearse and speake the same vnto your Eyes which I would doe vnto your Eares that is the Actions of his Religion his Iustice his Warre and his Peace foure principall Members in this Statue of Salomon First for the Actions of Religion it is true what St. Gregory saith that God doth therefore giue Princes their Kingdomes to fit and praepare men for his Kingdome Hence our Churches come to be builded and our Church-men to be thus maintained Now as Salomon of all the Kings of Israel So our Late Soueraigne of all Christian Kings that euer I read of was the most constant Patron of Churches and Church-men This Patronage extended to three seuerall Braunches to the Doctrine to the Discipline and to the Maintenance of Gods Church And of his Affection to these three he gaue a full demonstration by that he had spent three Moneths in this Kingdome To the Doctrine by the Translation of the Bible against the Papists To the Discipline by the Conference at Hampton Court against the Nouellists And to the Maintenance by remitting all Sede-vacantes and disabling Church-men to make Leases to the Crowne against the Courtiers and Statists of those worser times Yee House of Leui praise yee the Lord quoniam misericordia eius in Saeculum For this Mercy of his endureth for euer But this beginning amongst vs was but a Mappe of his whole Life as many times a little Ring receiueth the image of a great Colossus Because from the very cradle wherin he was crown'd all his life was a continued Patronage of the Doctrine the Discipline and the Maintenance of the Church For the first I will speake it boldly Et dicam vniuersa audiente Graecia in the praesence here of God and Men that I beleeue in my soule and conscience there neuer liued a more constant resolute and setled Protestant in point of Doctrine then our late Soueraigne The first Letter that euer he wrote to Queene Elizabeth of famous memory vpon his taking of the Gouernment to his owne managing was for Assistance against those Men Qui verae Religioni aduersabantur that were Opposers of this true Religion And this was in the yeare 1578. In the same blessed minde he still remained when he made that profession to Secretary Walsingham Se Religionem receptam constantissimè defensurum that he would most constantly defend his receiued Religion in the yeare 1583. In the same Resolution he continued when hee put it to Queene Elizabeth to choose him a Lady who recommended vnto him at the first Madam Margarite Aunt to our now Queene whom God long blesse and praeserue and afterward our late Queene Anne a most blessed Ladie in many respects and yet in none more then this that she was the Mother of our praesent Soueraigne In the same Faith he perseuer'd when hee made his Rodes as they call it to the North of Scotland against the Papists in the yeare 1594. or there abouts Hee grew in this Faith from strengh to strength when he wrote his Basilicon Doron which made the Romanists despaire of him and set on Parsons to forge Titles Clemens Octanus to publish Bulls and the whole Conclaue to oppose his Succession as we may now reade at large in the Letters of Cardinall D'Ossat And vpon his happie Arriuall to this Crowne a Protestant he was deem'd by Watson the Prologue and that without any hope of Change by Faux the Epilogue of the Powder Treason To conclude he defended this Doctrine of ours with his penne his Lawes and his Sword the whole Progresse of his Life and seal'd it with the blessed Sacrament at the time of his Death Sic illi visum est viuere sicque mori I am bound in conscience out of Zeale to the Truth and my dutie to my dead Master to adde a word more ere I close this Point This blessed King in all the time I seru'd him did neuer out of deepe and iust reason of State and the bitter necessities of Christendome in these latter times giue way to any the least Conniuence in the world towards the person of a Papist for to his Doctrine he neuer did he neuer would doe nor was there any Consideration vnder heauen could haue forc't him thereunto but hee strictly guided himselfe in the same by some notable Praesident of Queene Elizabeth the Load-starre of all his greatest Actions and that in the very point and bath'd his fauours with showers of Teares I speake it in the praesence of Almightie God least these Intendments of his for the apparant good of the State might scandalize for all that in an oblique line his weake but well meaning

Subiects in their Religion and Doctrine And so much for the first point FOr the second as hee patronized the Doctrine so did he also the Discipline of this Church I meane the Hierarchie of the Bishops and the vse of Chapters and Cathedrall Churches as a Gouernment receiued from Christ and his Apostles and the only Discipline that euer agreed with the Fundamentall Lawes of any Christian Monarchie For as that Musitian in Philostratus sent his young Scholler to a sort of Bunglers where he might learne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how hee should not pipe so God Almighty was pleas'd that this great King should be bred for a while in that new Discipline that hee might learne in times to come how hee should not Discipline the Church of Christ In that Discipline he learn't this Doctrine that one King may be lawfully surprised by three Earles 1583. That Ministers are not subiect to either King or Councell 1584. That they may deny the King to pray for his Mother 1586. That they may call Synods without the King and make Lawes too Ne quid Respublica detrimenti capiat That there be nothing done to the praeiudice of the State 1593. For these Aberrations therefore in the Discipline of that Church though hee honoured those Preachers to his dying day for the truth of their Doctrine in all other points hee first brought in the Iurisdiction Secondly the Name Thirdly the Cathedrals and lastly the Consistories and Reuenews of my Lords their Bishops such a Patron hee was of this most reuerend most auncient and most Apostolicall Discipline Lastly he was as great a Patron of the Maintenance of the Church as euer I read of in any Historie For beside his refusall of Sede-vacantes and that Law he enacted at his first entrance for the preseruation of the Reuenew of our Churches in England he might well say with Dauid for his other Kingdomes Zelus Domus tuae deuorauit me that the Endowing of Bishopricques the Erecting of Colledges the buying out of Impropriations the Assigning of Glebes the Repairing of the old and the Founding of new Churches hath consumed and taken vp all or the farre greater part of his Reuenews in Scotland and Ireland I haue no time to dwell vpon particulars but in the generall thinke you of whom you please of Constantine of Rome of Charlemaine of France of Alphonso of Spaine or to come home to our owne Island a Soile more fertill in prodigious Founders of Lucius of Offa of Alfred of Saint Edward of any King before or since the Conquest and I will say of my deare Master as he said of Traian Tu melior peioriaeuo though the times be farre worse yet was he farre the greater Founder And therefore to conclude this point imagine Discipline to be the Wals Maintenance the roofe and couer true Doctrine the sweet perfume and Incense of the Temple and you haue Salomons first Act before your eyes the Building of Gods House and his Quid fecerit what he did by Actions of Religion FOr the Actions of Iustice in this King they were so ordinary that being repeated they would proue as taedious for the praesent as in the Ages to come they will be admired For as Synesius saith of that glorious Planet that it is nothing for the Sunne to shine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it being of his Essence to glister and shine so were it frigidissima laudatio very poore Oratory to commend our King for being iust there hauing beene made ouer all Europe for the space of forty yeeres no more quaestion of his being Iust then of his being King If wee looke at home in his owne Dominions neuer were the Benches so grauely furnished neuer the Courts so willingly frequented neuer poore and rich so aequally righted neuer the Ballance so euenly poized as in the Raigne of our late Soueraigne I could tell you that that will neuer be beleeu'd in future times of a Lord that died for a vile Varlet of a Peere condemned for a sorry Gentleman nay of a deare Sonne vnrelieued for a time against a Stranger for feare of swaruing the breadth of a haire from the line of Iustice If wee looke abroad into forraign Countries Quae tam seposita est quae gens tam barbara Those very Princes that haue done him none haue beene forc't to confesse his Vprightnesse and Iustice I leaue you therefore to resolue with your selues of the which of these Salomons that Text is most true The Wisedome of God was in Him ad faciendum iudicium to doe Iustice 1 Kings 3. last verse And so much of the Actions of his IVSTICE THe third sort of Actions which are those of Warre are also obseruable in the peaceable Raigne of our late Salomon For although it be a fashion amongst men vt nolint eundem pluribus rebus excellere as the Orator speakes that they cannot endure that one Man should bee thought eminent in many qualities as the same Prince in the managing of Peace and Warre yet surely nothing but the malice of some people that would place their wheeles in Princes as Daedalus did in his Statues to pull them to combustions at their owne pleasure can denie this Laurell to our late Soueraigne For besides that occasioned in Scotland to make his roades into the North a●ter the defeat of the Earle of Arguile hee shewed himselfe in person not onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 resolute enough but if wee may beleeue the Story as Plutarque said of Tiberius Gracchus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 somewhat too forwardin those vnapproachable places scattering his Enemies as much with his example as he did with his forces dum magnos tolerare labores Ipsa Ducis virtus cogit I say beside these Aduentures of his person he was vnto his people to the houre of his death another Cherubin with a flaming sword to keepe out Enemies from this Paradise of ours wherein aboue al neighbouring Nations grew in abundance those Apples of peace which now I am to gather in the last place ANd surely Actions of Peace what euer debauched people say to the contrarie set out a Prince in more orient colours then those of War and great combustions In turbas discordias pessimo cui que plurima vis Pax quies bonis Artibus indigent saith Tacitus any Phaethon will serue to fire the world but none beside the God of Wisedome can keepe it in order And this is most euident in the Booke of God When Israel is to be chastized with Warre and Desolation any furious Iehu will serue the turne But for the managing of a long and a continued Peace no lesse is required then the Wisedome of Salomon Now of these Actions of King Iames his Peace though many others haue made whole Bookes yet will I make but a short Index You may finde in those volumes the Schooles of the Prophets newly adorned all kinde