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religion_n	abandon_v	almighty_n	diversity_n	18	3	9.1900	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02782	The history of Scotland from the year 1423 until the year 1542 containing the lives and reigns of James the I, the II, the III, the IV, the V : with several memorials of state during the reigns of James VI and Charles I : illustrated with their effigies in copper plates. / by William Drummond of Hauthornden ; with a prefatory introduction taken out of the records of that nation by Mr. Hall of Grays-Inn.	Drummond, William, 1585-1649.; Gaywood, Richard, fl. 1650-1680.; Hall, Mr.	1696 (1696)	Wing D2199A; ESTC R175982	274,849	491

this Lady for some write He did inform against her in revenge that she refused to marry him giving her self to another suffered the Process to be concluded Some of the Judges would have referred her to the Kings clemency till a farther trial of the Witnesses might be had upon whose testimony the Process did depend it being a safer way in Judgment to absolve the guilty than condemn the innocent But the most part gave her over to the Assizers the better part of which being in voices fewer the greater who neither respecting conscience within them nor shame with the present age and posterity nor the Supream Justice of Heaven find this poor Lady guilty and she is condemned to be burnt alive Her sentence was executed the fifth day after the beheading of the Master of Forbess on the Castle hill of Edenburgh in sight of her Husband Who either out of Revenge or Fear after this tragical end of his Lady seeking to save himself by escape out of the Prison whilst he came over the Wall by the shortness of the Cable was dashed against the Rock and found dead Though the tender years of the Lord Glammes her Son proved his innocency he remained prisoner in the Castle till after the Kings death The old Priest when after torture nothing could be proved against him was set at liberty William Lyon the Author of his calumny was banished the Countrey which justified the Ladies integrity and verified that however Princes love to find out Treason they hate the Informers except upon clear grounds Upon the like suspitions Droomlenrigge and Hemps-Field ancient Barons having challenged others had leave to trie the verity by Combate the lists were designed by the King who was a Spectator and Umpire of their Valour at the Court of the Palace of Holy-rood-house They appeared upon the day armed from head to foot like ancient Palladines and after many enterchanged blows to the disadvantage of their Casks Corslets and Vantbraces when the one was become breathless by the weight of his arms and thunder of his blows and the other who was short sighted had broken his ponderous Sword the King by Heraulds caused separate them with disadvantage to neither of these Companions and the verity which was found was that they dared both fight in close Arms. The Abbot of Arbroth and the Lord Maxwell by many enterchanged Letters full of Princely love had assured the King and the Lady Mary of Lorrain and Articles being agreed upon to the great content of the French they were espoused by Proctors as is the custom amongst Princes with great triumph in the City of Paris in the presence of the French King and many Peers after which solemnity Monsieur d' Annabault Admiral of France accompanied her to New-haven in the beginning of the month of June 1538. where she embarked and with many French Ships when she had been tost on the Seas came to Fyffes-ness where at Cayrel she was attended by the Noblemen and the King who consumated the Marriage in the Cathedral Church of St. Andrews in July Nothing more linketh the affections of the Married than Children the first year the Queen answereth her Husbands hopes and in St. Andrews was delivered of a Son who was named James the Archbishop of St. Andrews and Earl of Arran being his God-Fathers and the Queen the Kings Mother his God-Mother 1539. in Febr. thereafter she was Crowned Queen or Scotland in the Abby Church of Holy-rood-house by the Abbot of Arbroth at which time Margaret the old Queen falling sick at Methven in few days departed and was buried in the Charter-house of St. Johnstoun near the Tomb of King James the First The King her Son with all the Nobility and Gentry being present at her Funerals which were celebrated in most solemn and pompous manner Not long after James Beatoun Archbishop a man of great age followed this Lady to the other World he had provided Successors to his Benefices and his Archbishops See to David Beatoun afterwards Cardinal whom the King accepted and admitted without contestation The Kingdom now began to be divided in Opinions of Religion they which held the helm of State labouring in vain to reconcile them the King was fore perplexed and uncertain what course to follow suppress them he could not to give way to them without shaking the strongest beams of the policy of his Kingdom seem'd unto him impossible his Privy Counsellors being more of his ancient Servants than Nobles or Church-men of which many were piping through these flecked clouds of ignorance as they favoured gave their Opinions some one way some another and a freedom of speech being given one of them as they were in his Chamber together spake to him to this purpose Sir Amongst the many blessings your Subjects enjoy under this your Government this is not the least that for the Weal of your Majesty and the publick good of the Kingdom the meanest of your Subjects may freely open his mind and declare his opinion unto you his Soveraign And if ever there was a time in which grave good and sound Counsel should be delivered to your Majesty it is this and the difficulties of the Common-wealth do now require it Nor ever in matters of advice and consultation can we embrace and follow what is most reasonable and what according to Laws Justice and Equity should be but what necessity driveth us unto and what is most convenient for the present time to be and what we may well and fairly accomplish and bring to pass The Estate of your Kingdom is troubled with diversity of Opinions concerning Religion It is to be wished that the one onely true Religion were in the hearts of all your Subjects since diversity of Opinions of Religion and Heresies are the very punishment of God Almighty upon men for their horrible vices and roaring sins And when men forsake his fear and true obedience God abandoneth them to their own opinions and fantasies in Religion out of which arise Partialities Factions Divisions Strife intestine Discords which burst forth into Civil War and in short time bring Kingdoms and Common-wealths to their last periods But matters arising to such a height and disorder as by all appearance they are like to advance in this Kingdom the number of the Sectaries daily increasing without dissembling my thoughts to your Majesty The preservation of the People being the supream and principal Law which God Almighty hath enjoyned to all Princes I hold it more expedient to give place to the exercise of both Religions than under pretence and shadow of them to suffer the common Peace of your Subjects to be torn in pieces What can wisdom Sir advise you to do with these Separatists Either they must be tolerated for a time or they must altogether be removed and that by death or banishment So soon as a Prince beginneth to spoil banish kill burn his people for matters abstract from sense and altogether spiritual he becometh as it were

a Plague unto them It is an Error of State in a Prince for an opinion of Piety to condemn to death the adherers to new Doctrine For the constancy and patience of those who voluntarily suffer all temporal miseries and death it self for matters of Faith stir up and invite numbers who at first and before they had suffered were ignorant of their Faith and Doctrine not only to favour their Cause but to embrace their Opinions Pitty and commiseration opening the Gates Thus their belief spreadeth it self abroad and their Number daily encreaseth It is no less Error of State to banish them Banished men are so many Enemies abroad ready upon all occasions to invade their native Countrey to trouble the Peace and Tranquillity of your Kingdom To take Arms against Sectaries and Separatists will be a great Enterprize a matter hard and of many dangers Religion cannot be preached by Arms the first Christians detested that form of proceedings force and compulsion may bring forth Hypocrites not true Christians If there be any Heresie amongst your People this wound is in the Soul our Souls being Spiritual Substances upon which fire and iron cannot work They must be overcome by spiritual Arms Love the men and pitty their Errors Who can lay upon a man a necessity to believe that which he will not believe or what he will believe or doth believe not to believe No Prince hath such Power over the Souls and thoughts of men as he hath over their bodies Now to ruine and extirpate all those Sectaries what will it prove else than to cut off one of your Arms to the great prejudice of your Kingdom and weakning of the State they daily increasing in number and no man being so miserable and mean but he is a membor of the State The more easie manner and nobler way were to tolerate both Religions and grant a place to two Churches in the Kingdom till it shall please Almighty God to return the minds of your Subjects and turn them all of one will and opinion Be content to keep that which ye may Sir since ye cannot that which ye would It is a false and erroneous opinion That a Kingdom cannot subsist which tolerateth two Religions Diversity of Religion shutteth not up society nor barreth civil conversation among men a little time will make persons of different Religions contract such acquaintance custom familiarity together that they will be intermixt in one City Family yea Marriage-Bed State and Religion having nothing common Why I pray may not two Religions be suffered in a State till by some sweet and easie means they may be reduced to a right Government since in the Church which should be union it self and of which the Roman Church much vaunteth almost infinit Sects and kinds of Monks are suffered differing in their Laws Rules of government Fashions of living Dyet Apparel maintenance and opinions of perfection and who sequester themselves from our publick union The Roman Empire had its extension not by similitude and likeness of Religion Different Religions providing they enterprize nor practise nothing against the Politick Laws of the Kingdom may be tolerated in a State The Murthers Massacres Battels which arise and are belike daily to encrease amongst Christians all which are undertaken for Religion are a thousand times more execrable and be more open plain flat impiety than this Liberty of diversity of Religions with a quiet peace can be unjust Forasmuch as the greatest part of those who flesh themselves in blood and slaughter and overturn by Arms the peace of their Neighbours whom they should love as themselves spoiling and ravaging like famished Lyons sacrifice their souls to the infernal powers without further hopes or means of their ever recovering and coming back when those others are in some way of repentance In seeking liberty of Religion these men seek not to believe any thing that may come in their Brains but to use Religion according to the first Christian institutions serving God and obeying the Laws under which they were born That Maxim so often repeated amongst the Church-men of Rome That the Chase and following of Hereticks is more necessary than that of Infidels is well applyed for the inlarging and increasing the Dominions Soveraignty and power of the Pope but not for the amplifying and extending of the Christian Religion and the Weal and Benefit of the Christian Common-Wealth Kingdoms and Soveraignties should not be governed by the Laws and Interests of Priests and Church-men but according to the exigency need and as the case requireth of the publick Weal which often is necessitated to pass and tolerate some defects and faults It is the duty of all Christian Princes to endeavour and take pains that their Subjects embrace the true faith as that semblably and in even parts they observe all Gods commandments and not more om commandment than another Notwithstanding when a vice cannot be extirpate and taken away without the ruine of the State it would appear to human judgments that it should be suffered Neither is there a greater obligation bond necessity of Law to punish Hereticks more than Fornicators which yet for the peace and tranquillity of the State are tolerated and past over Neither can a greater inconveniency and harm follow if we shall suffer men to live in our Common-wealth who believe not nor embrace not all our opinions In an Estate many things are for the time tolerated because they cannot without the total ruine of the State be suddenly Amended and Reformed These men are of that same nature and condition of which we are they worship as we do one God they believe those very same holy Records We both aim at Salvation We both fear to offend God We both set before us our happiness The difference between them and us hangeth upon this one point that they having found abuses in our Church require a Reformation Now shall it be said for that we run divers ways to one end understand not rightly others Language we shall pursue others with Fire and Sword and extirpate others from the face of the Earth God is not in the bitter division and alienation of affections nor the raging flames of sedition nor in the Tempests of the turbulent Whirl-winds of contradictions and disputations but in the calm and gentle breathings of Peace and Concord If any wander out of the High-way we bring him to it again If any be in darkness we shew him light and kill him not In Musical Instruments if a string jar and be out of tune we do not frettingly break it but leisurely veer it about to a Concord and shall we be so churlish cruel uncharitable so wedded to our own superstitious opinions that we will barbarously banish kill burn those whom by love and sweetness we might readily win and recal again Let us win and merit of these men by reason Let them be cited to a free Council it may be they shall not be proved Hereticks neither that they