Northward is Britaine beyond Twede yet both on this side and that all but one Britaine non nos mare separat ingens exiqua prohibemur aqua as all France hath formerly been divided into two parts the one beyond the Alps the other within the Alps and all India Westward within the River Gange and Eastward beyond Gange And all Scithia within Imaus and without Imaus And though the Island hath beene long time divided into two Kingdomes yet England it selfe hath oft times of divers been called Britaine as by a Sirname and if pars pro toto might have that denomination much more ought the whole being now made one Therefore Linacre and Grocinus of the one part called themselves Britaines and Iohannes Major of the other affirmed that the Kings of England and Scotland wanted good Councell to advise them to marry together so to make of both one kingdome of Britaine and that only envious men and they who neglected the Weale publique did hinder this union of peace Which thing King Henry the seventh and King Henry the eigth wisely foresaw seeking by marriage to unite both kingdomes into one Discordantis saepe patriae non aliud est remedium quam si ab uno regeretur Therefore the wise men have most religiously observed two beginnings of things one of evill divisible imperfect manifold called duallity or Binarius numerus Another of good indivisible perfect and in name and nature alwaies one called unitas If Duallity or Binarius as cause efficient beare sway then in the aire breed intemperature if in Cities Families or Kingdomes wars and discord if in the body diseases if in the minde of men vice and wickednesse But where union possesseth chiefe place her fruits are to the aire wholsome temper to Cities Families and Kingdomes mutuall love and joy to the body health and strength and to the mind vertue godlines For unity admitteth no duality knoweth no contrariety and by consequence noâ— infirmity But Duallity seduced Adam in disobedience seeking to know as well evill as good who before was sole Monarch of the whole earth and was wholly good and perfect both in Body and Soule untill he drew with a double twisted cord of contrarieties unto his body in stead of health sicknesse and infirmities and unto his soul in stead of Righteousnesse sin and misery needing now to strengthen his body bread and to repaire his soule grace even for body and soule Gods mercy For so he turned the Monarchy of perfect good into a Monomachy or duellum of good and evill sinne and righteousnesse peace and war joy and sorrow sicknesse and health yea life and death And now when the sole Monarch of the whole earth left off to abide in the common obedience and universall union of all things to his Creator albeit all the creatures were before in voluntary subjection united also to their sole Monarch Adam on earth yet now every creature lifteth up himselfe against his sole earthly Soveraigne and against his Succession for ever The earth will not yeeld Adam bread but by the sweat of his browes the beasts become wilde and cruell yea the earth openeth her mouth against the succession of disobedient Adam and swalloweth up Corah Dathan and Abiram the waters drowne the whole world except eight persons the poore flie can and doth sometimes choake a man having before neither power nor will to doe it Lice can devoure and eate up Herod even the vilest and weakest creatures can and often do destroy the greatest Tyrants of the earth And in the opinion of some the holy Ghost seemeth in mystery to open this matter to a man of understanding forbearing in the second daies worke to say all was good as is plainely said of all the other five daies and he saw all things good not but that the worke of this day was also good for all his works are and were exceeding good but because of waters which in many places of the Scripture signifie troubles yea intollerable afflictions and because of division of waters in that daies worke God being a God not of division but of peace therefore the holy Ghost seemeth to forbeare to say in that place And it was good And yet would not these bee mistaken in their curiosity as if they included the division of waters in that dayes worke not to be good seeing that waters in the clouds divided from the Seas are upholden by Gods providence not to poure downe and overwhelme the earth for they approve divisions of constructions to be good as the dividing the light from darknesse the day from night and of whatsoever into parts for ornament and beauty of the forme divided but utterly condemne divisions of destructions or of distractions which is frangere non dividere comminuere non distinguere to part the body from the head or the members from the body to bring order to confusion unity to distraction forme to a Chaos and eâ—s to privation such division was that whereof Caselius answered the Merchant Navem si dividis nec tu nec socius habebit and such division the unnaturall harlot entended requiring the living childe to be cut into two parts 1 Kings 3. Let it be neither mine nor thine but divide it Where two or three are made one there is the image of God of truth of peace of fortitude of praise and of perfection but where one is drawne divided and torne asunder there breaketh forth falshood warre feare dishonour and confusion They which are of God embrace the one and they which are of the devill the other For God both in the Center and Circumference of truth is in simplicity and perfection one but the devill neither dwelling in this Center nor sitting in this Circle is carried in duallity nay contrariâ—ety of numbers opposing evill against good whose Center being falshood the circumference cannot bee truth his is a kingdome divided and must fall being not a Monarchy it cannot stand And yet we reject not the number of two so they continue and persist in union as it is written they shall be two in one flesh but reprobate is that duallity that maketh war in peace begetting and ingendring division and contrariety controversie and confusion and either of ambition senslesness hatred quarrell open discord or rebellion hindreth that sweet Harmony of union most pleasing to God most profitable for men of whom saith Tacitus In publicum exitiosi nihil spei nisi per discordias habent tamen libertas praeciosa nomina praetexuntur But doe we not see by this unfolding of things how the perpetuall course of truth and unity throughout all in the world doth even now conduct and lead me by the hand to the matter now in hand And verily I will follow thee sacred union whither soever thou leadest me and into whatsoever Region of vertue thou intendest I will not leave thee being never unlike thy selfe alwaies well accompanied adorned and beautified with diversity of things and never
alone and yet still but one It is thy doing that Prudence the chiefe head and governour of vertues the rule and direction of all well doings and prescribing to every vertuous action the manner order and course of doing well doth so knit and joyne together all morall vertues as that by thy secret influence they all may be found joyntly in all wise Subjects and in every one particularly with one heart to performe that duty which both yeeldeth right to the King and maintaineth peace and love among men Siquidem communis vitae societas in unione consistit And seeing it hath pleased his Majesty King Iames by publique Proclamation to assume the name and stile of King of Great Britaine jure haereditario it is meet that all loving Subjects not only acknowledge the clearenesse of his right but joyfully applaud and chearfully follow him herein now in our gracious K. Charles his reign lest murmuring they like evill and base minded souldiers follow their Emperour with an evill will according to that saying Malus miles imperatorem sequitur gemens We see some noble men yea and the gentlemen in our State daily to purchase and unite Land to Land and Lordship upon Lordship and to seek by all meanes to shake off the Tenure in Capite and to hold all their Lands in some other more free Tenure And it cannot be denyed that to all their severall Courts all Tenants and freeholders willingly performe their severall services or else are fined by the Lord of the Mannor or by his Steward And may the inferiour Lord expect more homage from a Tenant then a King require both of Lords and Tenants all Subjects to him and holding all they have from by and under him Pacis interest omnem potestatem ad unum referri But all gain-sayers and murmurers qui contumaciam potius cum pernicie quam â—bsequium cum securitate malunt are not unlike Mesech and Kedar spoken of in the Psalme in respect of whom the good King complained to God and to himselfe saying Woe that I dwell with Mesech and Kedar I labour for peace and they prepare them to battell I study union and they strive to make division Non placeo concordiae author said that good Valerius But alas why should Ephraim beare evill will to Iuda or Iuda vexe Ephraim fratres enim sumus should not they rather both together united now into the name of Britaines as into the name of the beloved Israel of God Esay 11. Flee upon the shoulders of the Philistines and make spoile of their enemies so that the Idumites Moabites and Ammonites even all their enemies might be subdued unto them Duo enim sunt quibus omnis respub servatur in hostes fortitudo domi concordia And verily the uniting the two Kingdomes into the name of Britaine is not unlike Esay 21 that chariot drawne with two horsemen mentioned in Esay at sight whereof the watchman cryed Babilon is fallen Babilon is fallen and all the images of her Gods are smitten downe to the ground For so except we will smother the childe of Vnion in his first birth both English and Scottish will soone heare him sound aloude into the whole world that all great Britaine is like Ierusalem which is as a City at unity within it selfe and Babilon even division disorder discord and confusion are confounded and overthrowne and what King Egbert did write in Sand King Iames of blessed memory and our gracious King Charles hath blotted out and troden under foot all the dishonour thereof and engraven as in a marble Stone the perpetuall honour of great Britaine by Royall restitution This verily commeth of the Lord of hosts which worketh with wonderfull wisdome and bringeth excellent things to passe Alexander asked King Porus his captive how hee would be entertained and Porus answered like a King Alexander demandeth againe Porus answereth againe in Kingly manner Alexander asketh what else Porus answereth nothing else for in this kingly maner every thing else is contained And though God be praised for it the cause be not between English and Scottish in Conquest and captivity as between Alexander and Porus but two famous Kingdomes in right of blood under one mighty Monarch yet our great Alexander in his high wisdome considering how these two might best be governed hath in his owne royall heart best resolved it namely by uniting them into one Monarchy into one government and into one name and if any demand how else verily he must be answered no way else for in this union whatsoever else is contained Nam in istoc sunt omnia even the Stoickes who I think neither were in jest nor arrogantly conceited contained under Prudence both justice and fortitude and temperance and whatsoever vertue else accounting also him who was perfectly wise an Orator a Poet a Rich man a very King and an Emperour All blessings and graces may be thought attendants and companions to union who alone knoweth how to order all things in government and is a princely commander of Subjects obedience and subduer of gain-sayers ordering unruly affections bridling untamed lusts restraining swelling pride composing rebellious appetites determining all doubts and rights within the compasse of her judgement and yet giving to every one his due by her discretion And therefore is like the Sun in the middest of heaven among the Stars and as the Stars take light of the Sun so also blessings of Weale publique proceed from this sacred and thrice happy union into the name of great Britaine whose glorious light shineth to all and every one hath comfort thereby It is also not unlike the Soul in the Body of man for in the whole common Weale it is wholly and in every part thereof whether it be of English or Scottish intire Tota in toto tota in qualibet parte As a shining light it sheweth a way for common good and as a reasonable soule giveth understanding to the blindest body to see the full fruition of all worldly happinesse let no man shut his eyes against the Sunne nor refuse a living Soule for his Carcasse If I could express the image of this union in lively colors I would surely make her a goddess faire beautifull having a garland and crown of all blessings upon her head and sitting in a Chaire of State with all good fortunes vertues and graces attending her and as a goddesse in triumphant chariot going into the capitol or temple of mighty Iupiter where also the Poets have found her but called by another name even Pallas who is also named Monas that is Vnity because having one only parent she resideth in Iupiters braine even in the chiefe seat of his wisdome where all the Muses are her companions so called Musae quasi {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that is altogether in one where all the Graces goe hand in hand congratulating to Vnion their mutuall society where all vertue and knowledge are neare of affinity but Iustice
that great Supper which mine Hoast at Chalcis dressed for me and for my followers with much variety and marvell at the diversity of the dishes and yet all was but one flesh though of so many divers dressings The river Peneus may better serve for instance it divideth it selfe and floweth into divers Rivers and every one of these Rivers in his division hath a proper name to himself one after this name and another after that but all these meeting in one and becomming againe one great and mighty River doe now lose the particular names which they held being divided and are called by one generall name as before namely Peneus Non sunt multiplicanda entia sine necessitate It is not reasonable that brethren from one parent should be divided in one house though they be severed in distinct place but be as fingers to one hand knit together by common joynts for mutuall offices even as the brethren Molionides are poetically imagined to have but one body or rather the three Cerions to have many bodies but one soule and one minde not unlike to that of Pithagoras Vt unum ex pluribus fiat many in name but one in deed And as when Piso was commended to posterity for frugality I doubt not but he was wise withall and as when Lelius was renowned for wisdome I doubt not but he was just withall and Metellus for piety I doubt not but hee was temperate withall and Aristides for justice I doubt not but he was valiant withall yet I know that the denomination is ever but of one though it containe things two and moe as the Temple consecrated to two brethren Castor and Pollux was named only Castors Temple and the munificency of two Consuls Caesar and Bibulus was called only Caesars munificency and even many imaginary shewes and shadowes have seemed compleate in deciphering one thing only yea the very images of excellent men have been patternes and resemblances of many consummate vertues in one as Plutarchs Alexander Xenophons Cyrus Homers Vlysses Virgils Aeneas and Lucians Imagines instead of all And as there is a common Idea and infolded notion of all things in the minde of man so the other viewing the whole race and tract of things in the world doth tell us that as many peculiar excellent properties may be and are in one man and hee over them as sole Monarch over all the diversities of worthiest vertues so a King under his Imperiall power hath to him subjected many shires states cities honors provinces and kingdomes himself being sole soveraign and Lord over all Therefore though magnanimity onely was attributed to Cyrus only modesty to Agesilaus onely wisdome to Themistocles skill to Philip and boldnesse to Brasidas yet Alexander as Plutarch reporteth was furnished and full-fraight with all these And Quintus Metellus is reported to attaine and possesse together ten of the chiefest greatest things that ever he desir'd as if he had at once ten Provinces under his command and was known a mighty warrier a sweet Orator a great commander to prosper in his greatest affaires to be in greatest honour of great wisdome a chiefe Senator plentifull in children rich of substance and most renowned in the City So copiously hath one man been stored with plentifull variety of manifold graces all these at once dwelling in him and he well ordering them even as one free and absolute Monarch may and doth rule many mighty and divers Nations knit in one by obedience and love among themselves and by law and justice from the King who by his lawes speaketh alike to all is heard of all and understood of all una eademque communi voce I confesse the name of great Britaine hath beene long time eclipsed or rather like those voices which Antiphon said were kept close and frozen up in the Winter untill the heate of Summers shining Sun resolved the frozen and fast bound aire that they might bee againe disclosed Comfortable is the warmth of this blessing in the Sun-shining daies of our Soveraign Lords King Iames King Charles wherein not only cloudes are scattered but the renowned name of great Britain breaks forth as a gladsome voyce from frozened aire comes forth as a Bridegroome out of his chamber long time before lockt up like a prisoner Doubtlesse this is our yeare of Jubile a yeere of delivering the Captive of making the bond free and of joy even in sort and true sense to us Annus Platonicus wherein things are come about againe to be as they were Iure Postliminij to recover our selves and be restored to name and fame of great and glorious Britaine long divided into two kingdomes but now most happily and joyfully subjected and reunited in all the government therof unto one onely Soveraigne most wise and most religious governour of the same Deus haec benigna restituit in sedem vice Doubtlesse this is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes this is the day that the Lord hath made for us to rejoyce and be glad therein For as it is said we owe to God our selves for creating us when wee were not and more than our selves for re-creating and restoring us when wee were lost So ought all good Subjects thinke the dayes more happy and joyfull in which they are now as it were new borne then those in which they were first borne as is well said Non minus illustres a que jucundi sunt illi dies quibus conservamur quà m quibus nascimur Happy art thou ô Israel ô people saved by the Lord who is like unto thee Thou wert lost and art found bond and art free eclipsed and art glorious dead and art alive thy name forgotten and behold it resoundeth even among hard rocks and in the hollownesse of mountaines thy beauty withered and behold thy vallies stand thick replenished and adorned with fairest varieties of all good thy yeares forgotten thy feathers plucked and thy strength weakned and behold thou waxest young and lusty like the Eagle yea thine honour the honour of thine ancient name ruined like an old house but behold it is now repaired and called after his owne and old name even as deliaca navis torne and taken in pieces was renewed and built againe to his most ancient forme and called still deliaca navis Sic rerum summa novatur And albeit worldly kingdomes and civill States seem subject to alteration and doe carry in their outward appearance faces sometime shining and glorious as the Sun and sometime defaced darkned and deformed conquering and conquered triumphing and enthralled yet the common weale it selfe like the ship before mentioned ruinated and repaired is still the same euen as the Sunne though eclipsed is still the same and a river sometime shallow sometime deepe still the same and a man now sick now in health still the same Respublica enim semper ut civitas est contigua unâ perpetuâque serie compacta and though admit it mutation as our state did long