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A01923	A panegyrique of congratulation for the concord of the realmes of Great Britaine in vnitie of religion, and vnder one king To the most high, most puissant and magnanimous, Iames King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland. / Written in French by Iohn Gordon Scottish-man, Lord of Long-Orme, and one of the gentlemen of the French Kings chamber. Translated into English by E.G.; Panégyrique de congratulation pour la concorde des royaumes de la Grande Bretagne. English.	Gordon, John, 1544-1619.; Grimeston, Edward.	1603 (1603)	STC 12061; ESTC S118946	22,215	52

A PANEGYRIQVE OF CONGRATVLATION FOR THE CONCORD OF THE REALMES OF GREAT BRITAINE IN VNITIE OF RELIGION AND VNDER ONE KING TO THE MOST HIGH most puissant and magnanimous Iames King of England Scotland France and Ireland Written in French by Iohn Gordon Scottish-man Lord of Long-Orme and one of the Gentlemen of the French Kings Chamber Translated into English by E. G. Imprinted at London by R. R. for Geffrey Chorlton at the great North-doore of Paules 1603. A Panegyrique of Congratulation for the concord of the realmes of great Brittaine in vnitie of religion vnder one King AN auncient writer saith that the ground and maintenance of all Monarchies and Empires is concord their ruine and subuersion is discorde The Histories of things past for sixteene hundred yeeres since the eternall Sonne of God and Monarke of all Monarkes became man to redeeme such as should beleeue in him shew vs many fayre and admirable blessings which God hath powred vppon the Ilands of great Brittaine and the planting of Christian truth in them the which I will represent vnto your Maiestie to shew plainly that the cōcord vnion of the people nations ouer whom God hath made you King is the accomplishment and perfection of all the precedent benefites which his diuine bountie hath bestowed vppon the people vnder your most happie gouernment The Apostle Saint Peter in his first Catholike Epistle the second Chapter sayeth that Christians are a chosen race a royall Priesthoode a holy nation a people purchased to God as his owne The which is very fitly applied to the people vnder your commaunde seeing that God hath first vnited them vnder this royaltie and Priesthoode of Christian veritie and afterwardes hath vsed this vnion of their soules as a Mother to bring foorth the vnion of three Realmes vnder your Maiestie in one royaltie The sayde Apostle in the same place doth teach vs to what ende God hath placed vs in this happie concorde That is To the ende sayeth he that you shoulde declare his vertues who hath called you out of darkenesse to his admirable light The which should mooue vs to preferre the wonderfull workes of God before all worldly things who hauing freede and redeemed vs from darkenesse from inuocation and adoration of deade men and from Pagan Idolatrie wherein our predecessours haue beene so long abused worshipping Images and the visible formes of Creatures as the Creator himselfe and the creature insteade of the Creator hath since and in this latter age called and inspired vs to worshippe him the onely Creator of all things Moreouer the Apostle in the same place doeth shewe vs what man was before that is Before you were no people and now you are the people of God you had not obtayned mercie but now you haue obteyned mercie The people SIRE of the Ilands of great Brittaine were not vnited in religion in peace in concorde in like affections and will vnder one King but they haue beene long banded one agaynst an other in a Sea of discordes discentions and cruell warres against the decree and lawe of God for that they were out of Christian charitie hauing no other obiect in their soules but hatred and malice with a desire of reuenge and so by consequence they were not Gods people but cast-awayes by reason of their Idolatrie and spirituall fornication wherewith they were poluted and so vnworthy to obtayne mercie But now that the light of the Gospell the true worshippe of one God hath taken liuely and sure roote in their hartes vnder the fortunate raygne of the deceased Queene and vnder your happy and lawefull succession in these Realmes they are become of one heart of one affection and finally beeing made the true people of God they haue obtained blessing grace and mercie The comicall Poet sayth A King is the image of the liuing God Christian diuinity teacheth vs that in God there be three persōs vnited in one deytie essence and power Saint Augustine compares the Trinity to the three partes of a mans soule which are distinguished in opperations and functions vnited in one and the same essence I beseech God SIRE so to worke in the hartes of your subiects and in the three realmes vnited vnder the power and commaund of your royall Maiesty that beeing bound togeather they may represent the three persons of the Trinitye in one deity and that agreeing in one will vnder your Monarchy they may be made the true image of the heauenly that all may bee one in Christ as Christ is one with his father It was neuer seene in any age that the nations of the Ilands of Brittanie were vnited in hart and affection vnder one King as the admirable power of God hath lately brought them vnder your maiesty whereof the true and onely cause is the purity and truth of Christian religion the which God of his especial grace hath miraculously planted in your realmes and sence continued in you causing you to be borne the lawfull and vndoubted heire of these three auncient Imperiall Crowns of the west to raigne Christianly peaceably and happily as vndoubtedly you shall seeing that God hath indued and beautified you with learning in aboundance and so great wisdome as I may iustly say these vertues surpasse the greatnes of your royall maiesty If we examine the order of Histories we shall obserue that this most happy vnion of English and Scottish vnder one King hath beene long before foreseene by the diuine prouidence to be finally effected in our age by the establishment of the ancient Christian religion in your Ilands and the abolishion of the new religion of Arrius Nestorius and Eutichius brought in by the Stratagems of the olde serpent the spirite of errour and darkenesse through the ministry of Popes who since sixe hundred yeeres vnder the name of Christianity haue built vp againe this pagan idolatry hauing changed the Bishops and pastors of the Church into worldly power vsurping vpon the Kings of the Westerne Empire in whose soules through superstition and ignorance of the Christian truth they haue planted a more insupportable tyrannye then that which auncient Rome had conquered by force of armes The great God of armies hath in your Maiesties person begun this happy vnion and concord betwixt two nations which had for so many ages beene in cruell and bloudy warres that you might imploye the valour of their armes for the deliuery of his church from the barbarous tyranny wherewith shee hath beene long oppressed by Popes And as Constantine the great the protector and restorer of the auncient Christian Church was borne in great Brittaine and there beganne his Empire obtayning afterwardes admirable victories against fowre Romaine Tyrantes persecutors of the Church of God by meanes whereof he did abolish Gentilisme and planted Christian Religion at Rome and throughout the Empire In like sorte the same God hath raised your Maiestie to the height of greatnesse to be successor vnto Constantine in the saide Realmes and to chase out of the

same Rome the idolatry and abhomination of the Gentiles the which Sathan hath sence brought in vnder the name of Christ which is the true meanes to purchase you the iust title of protector and defender of the faith and restorer of Christianitie And as God by that marriage of Henrie the seauenth with Elizabeth his wife made the Vnion of the houses of Lancaster and Yorke who had a long time beene in bloudye warres and by the marriage of Iames the fourth King of Scotland with Marguerite the eldest daughter of the sayde Henrie the seauenth your great graundfather the coniunction of the crownes of England and Scotland within these hundred yeares So wee hope that the same God will imploye this admirable Vnion vnder your commaunde to vnite the Christian and vniuersall Church vnder one spirituall royalty which is the worship of one God and to abolish idolatry which hath in a maner swallowed vp and deuoured the true Church My intention is to represent in briefe vnto your Maiesty and to all Christians desirous of eternall health the infinite graces benifits which God hath powred vpon your Ilands in the planting maintaining the preaching of his Gospell that it may plainely appeare that neither the deceased Queene Elizabeth of happy memory nor your Maiesty haue established any new religion in your Ilands but banished the new being polluted and defiled with errours and false worshippes of the Gentiles Arians Nestorians and Eutichians that the Religion which dooth now flourish in your Realmes is the same which soone after the death of our Sauiour was preached and receaued by the Kings your predecessours and by the people of your Realmes Theodoret a Greeke bishop and one of the most ancient of the Church in his bookes de curatione Grecarum affectionum sermon 9. de legibus makes a goodly comparison betwixt the power of the Romaine Empire and their Lawes the Empire of Iesus Christ and of his Lawe receiued throughout the worlde He saieth the Romaines could neuer make the Persians and Parthians of the East subiect to their lawes nor towardes the North the Cimbrians Danes nor the people of Brittaine But the power of Iesus Christ hath beene greater for saieth he our fisherman that is Saint Peter and our maker of tents which is Saint Paul haue made the Brittish people subiect to the lawes of Christ the which would not obey the Romaine lawes so as antiquitie doth testifie that the Apostles haue preached in our Ilands Metaphrastes cited by the Cardinall Barenius sayeth that Saint Peter came thether Ioseph of Arimathie and Simon Zelotes came likewise as Histories do teach vs. This seede of the Gospell in your Ilands tooke such increase as King Lucius and all his subiects about the yeere 180. did publikely receiue the Christian religion And indeede the Chronographers haue noted that about the yeare of our Lord 180 Brittaine was the first part of the world which did publiquely receiue the fayth of Christ for Lucius King of Brittaine did in those dayes depose the Priests of the Gentiles and did substitute in their places Bishoppes and Christian pastors hee banished Gentilisme out of his countrie which hapned not in any part of the worlde vntill the time of Constantine the great Tertulian and Origen who liued about the same time testifie that the countries of Brittaine beeing inaccessible for the Remains were subiect vnto Christ. The Bishops of this Iland were at the councell of Nice held vnder Constantine the great three hundred yeares after Christ which is the first period of Christianisme during the which the Christians did suffer twelue most cruell persecutions vnder the tyrannie of Paganisme and the Idolatrie of olde Rome We well wot that during the three first Periods of Christianitie whereof eyther conteynes three hundred yeares the true and onely worshippe of one God which hath beene planted since the Apostles time in your Ilands hath beene continued there during the said time and yet the Christians which liued in those ages no not the Romaines did euer allowe in the publique vse of the seruice of the Church of the worship of the host in the Romish masse nor of the pretended woode of the very crosse nor of the Images of Iesus Christ or his sepulcher seated neare to Mount Caluarie all which are worshiped in the new Romish Church as God himselfe which worships are abhominations of the Gentils Arriens Nestoriens which bring with it the shipwracke of eternall health The Christians vvhich liued during the first Period of the three hundred yeares of Christianitie did inuiolably keepe the first commaundement Thou shalt haue no other Gods against my face or before mee which the Thargum of the Caldeans hath interpreted besides mee or any other then mee The Greeke translation saith other Gods besides me Athanasius interpreting this commaundement sayth Hee hath not forbidden them to haue other Gods for that there were other Gods but least any one falling from the true God should make him a God of that which is not like to those Gods which the Poets and writers make mention of which haue but the name of God and not the effect And the same Authour sayeth If reason and the esteeme we houlde of God doth make vs beleeue that hee may bee in all places and that nothing of all that which God hath vnder him is God and that all things are vnder his power why doe not they which make a creature God see that it is out of the definition attributed vnto God Theodoret vppon the same commaundement saith that the Arrians offend against it and the true Christians obserue it They doe not allowe any thing to be held or worshiped for God but the deuine nature but those which follow the error of Arrius and Eunomius sinne directly against the deuine law for they confesse the onely Sonne of God but they maintaine that he was created and is deuided from the deuine substance God hauing sayde Thou shalt haue no other Gods but me doubtlesse these men bring in another God By these authorities we do inferre that the Romains which worship the host in the Masse breake this commaundement for they agree that it is no part of the deuine nature but of the substance and nature of Iesus Christs humanitie who is worshiped according to his diuinitie and not after his humanitie according to the auncient simboles of the Church The Christian faith then hath for a firme and onely foundation the worship of one God according to this first commaundement and the worship of any thing created by God which is vnder him ought not to be receiued in the Christian religion but the onely deuine nature of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost ought to be worshiped and called on in Triple vnitie without the which nothing ought to be worshiped without manifest impietie and idolatrie The same Theodorei interpreting this commandement saieth Serm. 2. God the maker of all things in the beginning of the law which he