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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

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

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