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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

Kings have their Periods by Dame Natures date The poore man dies so doth the Potentate And though to the Worlds eye Kings seeme compleater Their standing high makes but their fall the greater Pauosian sculp 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. LONDON Printed by John Bill Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie 1625. 1 Kings 11. 41. 42. 43. and part of the Verse And the rest of the words of Salomon and all that he did and his wisedome are they not written in the Booke of the Acts of Salomon And the time that Salomon raigned in Hierusalem ouer all Israel was forty yeeres And Salomon slept with his Fathers and was buried in the Citie of Dauid his Father Great Britaines SALOMON Most high and mighty MOst honorable worshipfull and well beloued in our Lord and Sauiour IESVS Christ It is not I but this woful Accident that chooseth this Text. You know best that no Booke will serue this turne but the Booke of the Kings no King but one of the best Kings none of the best Kings but one that raigned ouer all Israel which must be either Saul as yet good or Dauid or Salomon no King of all Israel but one of the wisest Kings which cannot be Saul but either Dauid or Salomon none of the wisest Kings neither vnlesse hee be a King of Peace which cannot be Dauid a Man of War but onely Salomon no King of Peace neither the more is our griefe aliue and in his Throne and therefore it must of necessitie be the Funerals and Obitts of King Salomon which wee haue in these words And the rest of the words of Salomon c. I Must no otherwise paint Salomon this day then as Apelles was wont to doe King Antigonus which was imagine lusca halfe-fac't and of one side onely to conceale the want of an eye which hee had on the other For if I should set him out in the full proportion and leaue not so much as a wart or a mole vndescribed he would proue but a foile and a shadow and not as I desire he should a liuely image and repraesentation to decke and adorn these praesent Funerals His Vices can be no blemish to that King that resembled him onely in his choisest Vertues The Rule in Scripture doth differ much from that in the Painters shop For here Coppies doe many times exceede the Originals Salomon was a Type of Christ himselfe and by consequence a Paterne for any Christian I doe therefore in these three Verses obserue three parts the Happy Life the Happy Raigne and the Happy End of this great King Salomon For the first part his Life was happy in foure respects First for his Sayings The rest of the Words Secondly for his Doings And all that hee did Thirdly for his Wisedome And his Wisedome And fourthly for the Eternitie and preseruation of all these In a Booke of Annals of the Acts of Salomon And the rest of the words of Salomon c. For the second part his Raigne was Happy for three Circumstances First for a great Capitall Citie wherein hee resided which was Hierusalem Hee raigned in Hierusalem Secondly for a great Circuit of Ground in which he commanded which was all Israel ouer all Israel Thirdly and lastly for a great Space of time wherein he flourished which was forty yeares And the time which Salomon raigned in Ierusalem ouer all Israel was forty yeares For the third part his End was Happie in a threefold Circumstance First in regard of his death which was not a sudden and violent dying but an affected and premeditated kinde of Sleeping And Salomon slept Secondly in regard of his Soule at the time of his death the which how euer wanton and vnruly wits haue made their disputes went to no other place then the receptacle of his Fathers And Salomon slept with his Fathers Thirdly and lastly in regard of his Body after his death which was no way despised or neglected but solemnely interred in the Sepulchers of the Kings in the Tower of Sion and the Citie of Dauid his Father And Salomon slept with his Fathers and was buried in the Citie of Dauid his Father Nor doth this Text hang together like a rope of sands but the parts thereof are chained and linked very fast in a mutuall cohaerence one with another For first Nullus magnam potentiam sine Eloquentia est consecutus saith Tacitus No glorious King but was a Kinde of Speaker and therefore here are Words Reliquum verborum as Saint Hierome reades it the rest of the Words Secondly because they are not Words but Actions that aeternize a King here are Actions likewise Quae fecit All that hee did Thirdly because Actions from without are of small continuance without a Well from within for a new supply here is a Pond to feed them from time to time Sapientia eius His vnderstanding and wisedome And his wisedome Fourthly because this Wisdome would be soone forgotten as M. Aurelius was wont to complaine without a Historie here is a Historie prouided of the Acts of Salomon The Booke of the Acts of Salomon Fiftly because a Historie written in an obscure place of a little Countrey and but a short time is of no esteeme and reputation here are all things fitted for Fame and aeternitie A great Citie to wit Hierusalem He raigned in Hierusalem A great Empire the twelue Tribes of Israel ouer all Israel A great and a long raigne for the space of forty yeares The time that he raigned ouer all Israel was forty yeares Sixthly because such a long and glorious life would be crown'd as Augustus was wont to say with a faire and an easie death here is a dying compar'd to a sleeping Dormiuitque Salomon And Salomon slept Seuenthly because the Soule which cannot sleepe must be prouided for as well as the Body it is disposed of to his hearts desire In the Societie of Dauid and the rest of his Fathers Cum Patribus suis With his Fathers Lastly though this be enough for a Priuate Man yet somewhat more would bee wished in a King That Body which so repraesented God himselfe when it was aliue must not bee neglected now it is dead And therefore he is buried in the Sepulchre of the Kings and the Citie of Dauid in Ciuitate Dauid Patris sui In the Citie of Dauid his Father And the rest of the words of Salomon c. But you will say All these parts referre to King Salomon and that King IAMES is forgotten in the diuision Most High and Mightie Right Honourable and

How necessary in a King Salomons choice hath taught all Kings For being praesented by God himselfe with a Pandora of royall graces although braue Actions call'd in that place the life of his Enemies was in the Boxe yet tooke he out nothing but Wisedome to gouerne his people 1 Kings 3. 9. verse He tooke out nothing but Wisedome said I Nay rather in taking out Wisedome as God tels him in the next verse hee left nothing behinde Omnia assunt bona quem penes est virtus How can he want these golden Apples of Princely Actions that hath this garden of the Hesperides wherein they grow For although Kings as I said before be anointed on the Armes the Instruments of Actions yet are they crown'd onely on the Head the s●at of Wisedome For as in the naturall so in the ciuill Body the spie and discouerie of all the members is plac't aloft in the watch-tower of the Head Here are the Eyes that see for all Here are the Eares that listen for all Here are the Nostrils that smell out for all Here are the Braines that sweat for all And here is the Wisedome that prouides for all And therefore what can a tongue or an Arme doe a Man good if they be not guided by somewhat in the Head Sayings and Doings are of little worth if Wisedome follow not as it doth in this place And the rest of the words of Salomon and all that hee did and his Wisedome WISEDOME Whither this Wisedome of Salomons was vniuersall and embrac't all Sciences as Pineda or a Prudence reaching to the Practique onely because of those words To gouerne my people as Pererius thought the Latin translation Sapientia being for the first the Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the second the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for both the opinions Also whither Salomon did surmount as Tostatus or fall short of Adam in the pitch of his Wisedome as Gregorie de Valentia thinkes are such doughty Frayes as I haue no leasure to part at this time being now in the fourth place to speake of that Booke which if extant would peraduenture end part of the quarrell the Booke of the Acts of Salomon And the rest of the Words of Salomon and all that hee did and his Wisedome are they not written in the Booke of the Acts of Salomon THe Booke of the Acts of Salomon Alexander vpon the Conquest of Persia in a deepe contemplation of his late Victories being told of one that brought him some newes replied hastily thereupon What newes can any Man bring vnto Mee vnlesse it be that Homer is aliue againe As who should say All these Actions of mine will vanish into ayre if there be not a Scholler to write and record them And surely little had now remain'd of the Sayings the Doings and the Wisedome of Salomon if they had not beene of Record in this Booke The Booke of the Acts of Salomon For although God suffered this Booke to be burnt by Nebuzaradan and ordered not Esdras to renue the same because it was but a Iournall of Salomons Actions of a Ciuill rather then a Religious vse and fitter for a Closet then for a Temple yet was so much thereof plac't in the Canon as might be vsefull for Gods Church being cull'd out of this Iournall either by Hieremie or Esay or Esdras or Ezechias or as I thinke the Seruants of that King who without quaestion collected his PROVERBS Prouerbs 25. 1. verse And therefore as this Text is but an Epitome of the 11. first Chapters of the first Book of the Kings so are these Chapters but an Epitome of this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Iournall of SALOMON The Booke of the Acts of Salomon And surely Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori as there was neuer any King that deserued so was there neuer a King in Scripture that hath obtained more Writers of his Acts then this King Salomon For whereas Saul had neuer a one Dauid in his long raign had no more then two besides what Salomon in his Ecclesiastes hath written of himselfe as many of the Caesars Iulius Augustus Tiberius and Adrian are noted to haue done three great Prophets famous in their times Nathan Ahias and Addo had their seuerall pens in these Acts of Salomon the Booke of the Acts of Salomon And indeed Bookes especially such as these written by Prophets and Honest men are most necessary both for the applauding of the good and the terrifying of ill-deseruing Princes Non potest humile aut abiectum quid cogitare qui scit de se semper loquendum saith Mamertinus in his Panegerique He had need be carefull of all his Actions that is to bee the subiect of future Histories For although I allow not a Priuate man to feed vpon Glory and haue preach't against it with all my heart not many weekes sithence yet was I euer of Panormitans opinion in the life of Alphonsus that it is Cibus Regum a very fit dish for the repast of a King and due vnto him from the after Ages Multi famam pauci verentur conscientiam Some few peraduenture referre it to God but most Kings desire as Augustus did to be applauded by Men. Then for the bad Kings a Historie is the true Aretine of the world Flagellum Principum the Lash and scourge of all wicked Princes They haue no Schoolemaster on this side Hell vnlesse it be this one to keepe them in awe And in very truth if hee comes but one day after their Raigne as Tacitus did to the Caesars hee laies about him like an Orbilio or as that Vsher in Theon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fetching bloud at euery stroake for very small and petty offences And yet as humorous as they are what Historie did euer commend Nero or discommend the Emperor Traian I except Cardan the Phantastique who writing a Booke de morte Gulielmi of the death of Will his foot-boy thought good to ioyne it with another peece which hee was pleas'd to stile the Encomium of Nero. To conclude this point it is calld 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies to fixe and settle All these sayings and doings and wisdome of Kings would scatter away like quicke Mercury if they were not fixed in such a Booke as this The Booke of the Acts of Salomon And so much of the first part of my Text which I call'd Salomons Life comprehending the words the deeds the wisdome and the Iournalls of Salomon And the rest of the words of Salomon and all that he did c. NOw to come to the second part of this Text which is Salomons raigne and to begin with the first Circumstance thereof his Capitall Citie it is true what Euripides said of old 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is requisite for a Man that would be glorious to haue his abode in a famous Citie

of learning highly improued manufactures at home daily inuented Trading abroad exceedingly multiplied the Borders of Scotland peaceably gouerned the North of Ireland religiously planted the Nauy Royall magnificently furnished Virginia New-found-land and New-England peopled the East India well traded Persia China and the Mogor visited lastly all the ports of Europe Afrique Asia and America to our red Crosses freed and opened And they are all the Actions and true-borne Children of King IAMES his Peace And so much or rather for want of time so little of the Quae fecerit and what he did The rest of the words of Salomon and all that he did THe third member of this Statue is his Wisedome fitly resembled to that of Salomons For if the patterne seeme to excell in the Intellectuals I am sure the Statue exceeds in the Morals If we take this Wisedome for an Vniuersalitie clasping in her Armes all Arts and Sciences shee cannot be denied in that large sense to haue built her a house in that sacred bosome For as Budaeus being ask'● by Francis the first if all the Bookes in the world were to bee burn't what one hee would saue to preserue Learning made answer that he would saue the Workes of Plutarque because they had impressions of all the Sciences so say I and appeale herein to any Scholler in the world that if all Bookes were to be burnt and Plutarque also to beare them company yet could a man finde some footing and impressions of all Arts and Sciences of all kindes of Diuinitie Moralitie and Humanitie whatsoeuer within the Workes of our late Soueraigne But if we take Wisdome for that deepe reach required in a King for the gouerning of his people which Synesius calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Prince of all the Princely Vertues I will without blushing say of Him as Pliny did of another and appeale herein to my Noble Lords of his Priuie Counsell Nihil est omnium quod discere velis quod ille docere non potuit there was nothing in that kinde that a man would learne but was fully taught by our Great Master But alas I dare not launch into this vast deepe whereof the best Head where-euer it is in all Europe cannot sound the bottome Nisi sapiens non potest perspicere sapientem My wisdome I confesse is farre too short to giue you any character of his infinite Wisedome Some streames hereof you may hereafter find in the Histories of this Age the fourth Member of this Statue the Booke of the Acts of Salomon And the rest of the words of Salomon and all that hee did and his Wisdome are they not written in the Booke of the Acts of Salomon FOr although King Iames had no such Officers as Salomon had à Commentarijs appointed of purpose to write his Actions yet Dulce estoculis videre Solem the Sunne cannot shine in such a brightnesse but Eyes must behold it nor set in so lasting a night but the world will misse it Priuate Histories as Adrian said of Apers accusations are but Incke and Paper and may bee holpe in part with the golden pin-dust whereas Suffragia mundi nullus emit None can be honoured of all Europe but he that held the Ballance of all Europe and for the space of twentie yeares at the least preserued the peace of all Europe Christendome therefore will be the Booke Swords I feare will proue the Pennes and the Remembrance of the times past the Acts and Monuments of our blessed Salomon And if multitude of Writers could multiply his Fame the Israelite with his fifteene Pen-men for so Pineda makes his Boast must giue place herein to our British Salomon What Writer hath cause to speake of a King but praesently he falles vpon this King of Writers So that as Constantine the Great did nick-name Traian Herbam Parietariam a Wall-flower because his name was engrauen on euery wall so shall aemulous Posteritie terme King Iames Herbam chartaceam a Paper-flower when they reade his glory in all Writers And as one saith of Plinius and Tacitus that they were Literarum nomina non Hominum So will it be a quaestion amongst Critiques in the Ages to come whether this name of Iames doth more properly note an eminent King or an eminent Scholler And in that case if vngratefull posteritie should forget the King as beleeue me it will not for like one of Demetrius his Statues this King will shew better and better with time yet if it should Learning will neuer forget the Scholler In the world before the Flood though wee reade not of one King the Inuenters of the Arts are still remembred His History therefore like Herodotus his History shall be written and set out by all the Muses they all shall ioyne in the writing of his Booke the Booke of the Acts of our British Salomon IN the fifth place suruey we his Capitall Citie which enlarged and repaired in each corner thereof 1 King 9. 15. and refreshed within with a running water which Iosephus attributes to the Sonne of Dauid doth no more resemble that other then this Hierusalem where our Salomon raigned Hee raigned in Hierusalem Here for the space of two and twentie yeeres the Sacrifices were daily offered here Gods word was learnedly expounded here the Lawes were iustly administred here all the Tribes were vsually assembled here the three Kingdomes were conuened here Edenburgh and Diuelen were vnited like Iebus and Salem in one Hierusalem Whilst Salomon raigned in this Hierusalem And so much of this fifth Circumstance IN the sixt place suruay wee the bounds of his Empire and King Iames will proue a King Salomon in this as being the first King for ought we know that raigned here ouer all this Island Ouer all Israel Hee raigned in Hierusalem ouer all Israel There is a brute of one Brutus long before but it is no more then a meere brute King Iames is the first King of the Island that wee reade of in good Histories And surely Non sine numine Diuûm this came not to passe otherwise then by Gods direction from time to time When the two Daughters were so matched why should Scotland be preferred when a new race had gotten the Crowne why should the name within the space of 115 yeares be thus extinguished When many praetenses were made to this Land why should they all in this one King be concentred and vnited that of the Britaine 's by Cadwallo that of the Scots by Fargus that of the Picts by the Daughter of Hungus that of the Saxons by the Sister of Edgar that of the Danes by the Daughter of King Christian and that of the Normans by the Daughter of Henry the seuenth from all the which he was a Lineall Descendant Surely to let vs know that this was the Salomon whom God from the beginning had anointed King ouer all Israel and accordingly he raigned in

Hierusalem ouer all Israel And so much of the sixt Circumstance THe seuenth Circumstance is the time of his Raigne the which though it falls short in a diuided yet in a compounded sense exceeds the patterne For though he raigned not so long ouer all Israel yet in all hee raigned 58. yeares A long and a blessed raigne wherein he was married to one Queene and as he said of Tigranes to a thousand Vertues A Raigne like that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or golden chaine in Homer whereof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the seuerall linkes were seuerall blessings with the one end fastened to his Cradle and the other dropping into his Graue And surely God Almightie to let vs know that it is by him that Kings doe raigne makes them sometimes to gouerne States and that very well before they be able to gouerne themselues Varanes his childe was crowned King while he was yet in his Mothers wombe Fredericke the second when he was but three yeares old Ioas when hee was but seuen Salomon as some Rabbins thinke when hee was but ten Charles the ninth when hee was but eleuen St. Lewis when he was but twelue And our late Soueraigne aged little more then so mamy moneths Thus God stockes those Kings with Daies whom he meanes to stocke with Goodnesse Thus our Deare Master who raigned better raigned also longer then King Salomon whose Raigne in Hierusalem ou●r all Israel was no more then fortie yeares And so much of the seuenth Circumstance AND hitherto Most High and Mightie most Honourable Worshipfull and welbeloued you may imagine I haue offered vnto your thoughts not only a Statue of King Salomon but withall as the Graecians did in their Hercules and Xenophon in his Cyrus an Idaea or Repraesentation of all the perfections requir'd in a King But out alas those Statues of theirs are as the Soule that frames them lasting and immortall but this of ours made of Flesh and Bloud Maiore nostrûm damno quam suo as hee said of Titus to our losse but his great Aduantage is proued Mortall I but did you not know before will some men say that the King was mortall I did indeed And I know withall the state of Christendome doth require that such a King as this of these Sayings and Doings and Wisedome and Experience of 58. yeeres should haue beene immortall Verum oneranda mihi non sunt memoranda recepi Fata Our onely comfort is this that as he liued like a King so he died like a Saint He did rather as Saint Hierome said of Nepotian migrare quam mori or as Saint Bernard writes of Hubertus abire quam obire hee did not dye but fall asleepe Dormiuitque Salomon And Salomon slept Neuer haue you read of any King that left this world more resolued more prepared as though hee had vnbrac't himselfe for his Bed rather then for his Graue And it was his fashion so to doe when hee was summoned by any sicknesse God dealt with this Blessed Prince as he did with Ezechia for certaine yeeres before his Death hee was call'd vpon by his sicknesse at Royston to set his House in Order Lord what a Speech hee then made to his Sonne our praesent Soueraigne O Verba Bracteata Not a syllable in all the same but deserues to be written in letters of Gold How powerfully did hee charge him with the care of Religion and Iustice the two Pillars as hee tearm'd them of his future throne How did he recommend vnto his loue the Nobilitie the Clergie and the Communaltie in the generall How did he thrust as it were into his inward bosome his Bishops his Iudges his neere Seruants and that Disciple of his whom he so loued in particular And concluded with that heauenly Aduice to his Sonne concerning that great Act of his future marriage To marrie like himselfe and marrie where hee would But if hee did marrie the Daughter of that King hee should marry her Person but hee should not marry her Religion But now at this sicknesse more shaken with the fits of a raging Feuer the neerer Death drew vnto him the more he prepar'd himselfe for it All his Latter dayes hee spent in prayer sending his thoughts before into Heauen to bee the Harbingers of his happy Soule Some foure dayes before his end he desired to receiue the Blessed Sacrament Viaticum Aeternitatis as it is tearm'd in the Ancient Councels a blessed Bait that the deuout soule vseth for the most part to take in this life when it is ready to trauaile for the other life Being demanded if hee was prepared in point of Faith and Charitie for so great a Deuotion He said hee was and gaue humble thankes to God for the same Being desir'd to declare his Faith and what he thought of those Bookes he had written in that kinde Hee repeated the Articles of the Creede one by one and said hee beleeued them all as they were receiued and expounded by that part of the Catholique Church which was established here in England And said with a kinde of sprightfulnesse and viuacitie that what euer hee had written of this Faith in his life he was now ready to seale with his Death Being questioned in point of Charitie He answered presently that hee forgaue all Men that offended him and desir'd to be forgiuen by all Christians whom hee in any wise had offended Being told that Men in Holy Orders in the Church of England doe challenge a power as inhaerent in their Function not in their Person to pronounce and declare Remission of sins to such as being paenitent doe call for the same And that they haue a forme of Absolution for that very purpose set down in the Booke of Common Prayers He answered suddenly I haue euer beleeu'd there was that power in you that be in Orders in the Church of England And that amongst others was vnto me an euident demonstration that the Church of England is without all quaestion the Church of Christ And therefore I a miserable sinner doe humbly desire Almighty God to Absolue of my sinnes and you that are his seruant in that high place to affoord me this heauenly comfort And after the Absolution read and pronounced hee receiued the Sacrament with that Zeale and Deuotion as if hee had not beene a fraile Man but a Cherubin cloathed with flesh and blood And some houre after he said vnto his Sonne the Duke and others that stood about him that they could not imagine what ease and comfort he found in himselfe ●ithence his receiuing of the blessed Sacrament O saith hee that all my Lords would doe but thus when they are visited with the like sicknesse Themselues would bee more comforted in their Soules and the world lesse troubled with quaestioning their Religion From this time to the houre of his death the sicknesse preuailed more and more vpon his Body and his Sense and Memory not much