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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

Right Dearely Beloued Our late Soueraigne shall be remembred in due time and much to the honour of King Salomon King Salomon in his Funeralls had a glorious Tombe in deed as Iosephus describes it but hee had no Statue at all caried before him That was peraduenture scarce to lerable amongst the Iewes A Tombe he prouided for himselfe and so prophetically as that if wee may beleeue Pineda and others there were iust as many Cells therein as there were to be Kings of Iuda that is twentie one A Statue God Almighty hath this day prouided for him Many of these twentie one Cells being neuer filled because the vnworthy Kings were buried elsewhere Salomon shall lend King Iames a Tombe and King Iames shall lend vnto him a Statue The Tombe you may obserue in the Exposition and the Statue in the Application of this peece of Scripture King IAMES shall first die in SALOMONS Text and Salomon shall then arise in King IAMES his VERTVES For as Herodotus reports of the Aegyptians that by wrapping their dead in glasse they praesent them aliue to all posteritie so by that time I haue plated ouer the parts of this Text with the particulars of the Application you that heare me this day shall haue that happinesse of the Queene of the South which is not onely to haue read in a Booke but withall to haue seene with your eies and to haue heard with your eares all the rarities and perfections of the wise King Salomon You shall then perfectly remember these Sayings these Doings this Wisdome this History this great Citie this vnited Empire this long Life this happie Death this Rest with his Fathers and these solemne Funeralls which are the Minutes of this Text. And the rest of the words of Salomon c. I Begin with that part wherof I finde in my selfe the greatest want to wit Eloquence pointed at in the Entrance of my Text. Reliquum verborum the rest of his words For that Man had need of Salomons Words that will speake of this first or second Salomon Eloquence in some reasonable proportion is so necessarie in a King that a Philosopher calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one of the chiefest of the Royall Vertues Surely the want of this made Moses in a manner refuse all gouernment though offered vnto him by God himselfe And Homer that is Solon for hee is supposed the Author of the Poem is by Plutarch made to say that a ready Sword will not doe the worke if it be not attended with this readinesse of Speech Surely Pyrrhus though a mighty vaunter of all his Actions would often confesse more Cities conquered by Cyneas his tongue then there were by his owne Speare And although an Aaron may sometimes supply a Moses and Eloquence be borrowed from the tongue of a Minister yet surely no great Monarchie was euer rais'd but where the King himselfe was a competent Speaker In the Romane Empire it is obseru'd by Tacitus that the Princes of the first line Iulius Augustus Tiberius Claudius yea and Caius himselfe as blunt as he was neuer borrowed a tongue to speake to the people Nero is noted to bee the first Caesar Qui alienae facundiae eguit that euer vsurpt another mans Language And therefore no maruell if in Salomon a great Monarch and the second of his line the Historie gaue a touch of his Oratorie and Eloquence Et reliquum verborum Salomonis And the rest of the words of Salomon Now when I looke vpon this world of Matter I am to runne thorow in a minute of time the best Eloquence that I can vse in setting forth the Eloquence of Salomon is to say nothing and to turne you ouer to his admirable Writings the Prouerbs the Booke of Wisdome and Ecclesiasticus which were dictated together with Ecclesiastes the Canticles and many of the Psalmes which were penned to a Syllable by King Salomon And so I proceed from his Words vnto his Actions the second part of his Life Omnia quae fecit All that he did And the rest of the words of Salomon and all that he did HE DID Kings are anointed as Cassa●eus obserues vpon the Armes as well as vpon the Head and the Armes are the Instruments of Action and Doing That phrase of Scripture so applied to Kings that they must goe in and out before the people requires somewhat more then Elocution In the Genealogie of our Sauiour exprest by S. Mathew though many more be written downe yet none is call'd a King but Dauid Dauidem Regem Dauid the King Matth. 1. 6. verse because as Interpreters expound the place Dauid was as a King should be a Man of Warre and a Man of Action Nero could tune his Instruments well and yet as Apollonius said to VESPASIAN he was a meane Prince because hee knew not how to tune a People And on the other side Themistocles could neuer play on the Harpe but yet is famous in all Histories because hee could make a Citie greater Plutarque in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 speakes of two Men that were hir'd at Athens for some publique worke whereof the one was full of Tongue but slow at Hand but the other blunt in Speech yet an excellent Workeman Being call'd vpon by the Magistrates to expresse themselues and to declare at large how they would proceede when the first had made a long harangue describ'd it from point to point the other seconded him with this short speech 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ye Men of Athens what this man hath said in Words that will I make good in true performance And as hee was adiudged the better Artisan so is the Man of Action the better King vnlesse they come ioyntly as they doe in this Text VERBA ET FACTA Words and deeds And the rest of the Words of Salomon and all that hee Did. Now if you desire to know all that hee did I must turne you ouer to this Booke of the Kings which notwithstanding is but a Florus to that Liuie or rather a PHOTION to that DEMOSTHENES that first describ'd them Some of them I shall touch vpon when I come to the second Salomon and doe now hasten to the third part of his Life which is his Wisedome And the rest of the words of Salomon and all that hee did and his Wisedome HIS WISEDOME For indeed braue Actions are but the Fruit Wisdome is the Tree that beares them Actions are but Riuers Wisedome is the Head that feedes them And where this is wanting they are like Land-floods violent for the time but gone in an instant Here therefore you haue the fruit together with the Tree that brought them here you see the Riuers together with the Spring that sent them here you reade of Salomons Deeds ioyn'd with that Wisedome that first contriu'd them And the rest of the words of Salomon and all that Hee did and his Wisedome HIS WISEDOME

Subiects in their Religion and Doctrine And so much for the first point FOr the second as hee patronized the Doctrine so did he also the Discipline of this Church I meane the Hierarchie of the Bishops and the vse of Chapters and Cathedrall Churches as a Gouernment receiued from Christ and his Apostles and the only Discipline that euer agreed with the Fundamentall Lawes of any Christian Monarchie For as that Musitian in Philostratus sent his young Scholler to a sort of Bunglers where he might learne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how hee should not pipe so God Almighty was pleas'd that this great King should be bred for a while in that new Discipline that hee might learne in times to come how hee should not Discipline the Church of Christ In that Discipline he learn't this Doctrine that one King may be lawfully surprised by three Earles 1583. That Ministers are not subiect to either King or Councell 1584. That they may deny the King to pray for his Mother 1586. That they may call Synods without the King and make Lawes too Ne quid Respublica detrimenti capiat That there be nothing done to the praeiudice of the State 1593. For these Aberrations therefore in the Discipline of that Church though hee honoured those Preachers to his dying day for the truth of their Doctrine in all other points hee first brought in the Iurisdiction Secondly the Name Thirdly the Cathedrals and lastly the Consistories and Reuenews of my Lords their Bishops such a Patron hee was of this most reuerend most auncient and most Apostolicall Discipline Lastly he was as great a Patron of the Maintenance of the Church as euer I read of in any Historie For beside his refusall of Sede-vacantes and that Law he enacted at his first entrance for the preseruation of the Reuenew of our Churches in England he might well say with Dauid for his other Kingdomes Zelus Domus tuae deuorauit me that the Endowing of Bishopricques the Erecting of Colledges the buying out of Impropriations the Assigning of Glebes the Repairing of the old and the Founding of new Churches hath consumed and taken vp all or the farre greater part of his Reuenews in Scotland and Ireland I haue no time to dwell vpon particulars but in the generall thinke you of whom you please of Constantine of Rome of Charlemaine of France of Alphonso of Spaine or to come home to our owne Island a Soile more fertill in prodigious Founders of Lucius of Offa of Alfred of Saint Edward of any King before or since the Conquest and I will say of my deare Master as he said of Traian Tu melior peioriaeuo though the times be farre worse yet was he farre the greater Founder And therefore to conclude this point imagine Discipline to be the Wals Maintenance the roofe and couer true Doctrine the sweet perfume and Incense of the Temple and you haue Salomons first Act before your eyes the Building of Gods House and his Quid fecerit what he did by Actions of Religion FOr the Actions of Iustice in this King they were so ordinary that being repeated they would proue as taedious for the praesent as in the Ages to come they will be admired For as Synesius saith of that glorious Planet that it is nothing for the Sunne to shine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it being of his Essence to glister and shine so were it frigidissima laudatio very poore Oratory to commend our King for being iust there hauing beene made ouer all Europe for the space of forty yeeres no more quaestion of his being Iust then of his being King If wee looke at home in his owne Dominions neuer were the Benches so grauely furnished neuer the Courts so willingly frequented neuer poore and rich so aequally righted neuer the Ballance so euenly poized as in the Raigne of our late Soueraigne I could tell you that that will neuer be beleeu'd in future times of a Lord that died for a vile Varlet of a Peere condemned for a sorry Gentleman nay of a deare Sonne vnrelieued for a time against a Stranger for feare of swaruing the breadth of a haire from the line of Iustice If wee looke abroad into forraign Countries Quae tam seposita est quae gens tam barbara Those very Princes that haue done him none haue beene forc't to confesse his Vprightnesse and Iustice I leaue you therefore to resolue with your selues of the which of these Salomons that Text is most true The Wisedome of God was in Him ad faciendum iudicium to doe Iustice 1 Kings 3. last verse And so much of the Actions of his IVSTICE THe third sort of Actions which are those of Warre are also obseruable in the peaceable Raigne of our late Salomon For although it be a fashion amongst men vt nolint eundem pluribus rebus excellere as the Orator speakes that they cannot endure that one Man should bee thought eminent in many qualities as the same Prince in the managing of Peace and Warre yet surely nothing but the malice of some people that would place their wheeles in Princes as Daedalus did in his Statues to pull them to combustions at their owne pleasure can denie this Laurell to our late Soueraigne For besides that occasioned in Scotland to make his roades into the North a●ter the defeat of the Earle of Arguile hee shewed himselfe in person not onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 resolute enough but if wee may beleeue the Story as Plutarque said of Tiberius Gracchus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 somewhat too forwardin those vnapproachable places scattering his Enemies as much with his example as he did with his forces dum magnos tolerare labores Ipsa Ducis virtus cogit I say beside these Aduentures of his person he was vnto his people to the houre of his death another Cherubin with a flaming sword to keepe out Enemies from this Paradise of ours wherein aboue al neighbouring Nations grew in abundance those Apples of peace which now I am to gather in the last place ANd surely Actions of Peace what euer debauched people say to the contrarie set out a Prince in more orient colours then those of War and great combustions In turbas discordias pessimo cui que plurima vis Pax quies bonis Artibus indigent saith Tacitus any Phaethon will serue to fire the world but none beside the God of Wisedome can keepe it in order And this is most euident in the Booke of God When Israel is to be chastized with Warre and Desolation any furious Iehu will serue the turne But for the managing of a long and a continued Peace no lesse is required then the Wisedome of Salomon Now of these Actions of King Iames his Peace though many others haue made whole Bookes yet will I make but a short Index You may finde in those volumes the Schooles of the Prophets newly adorned all kinde