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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