to both Ye see now what I meane that if the people of the South withdrawe the commoditie of their heat from the North and on the other part if these of the North withdraw the refreshing of the heat of the South There is no doubt I say but if such diuision were suffered by Reason our king it would bring forth ere it were long such a distemperature amongst his subiects that in the end in place of vnion there should be nothing but miserable desolation and confusion which is the fruite of Diuision spoken of in our text Now let vs come to the opening of the matter contained in our text hauing alreadie amply enough spoken of the mysticall doctrine collecting the same out of the literall sense Christ in these words euery kingdome doth teach vs that there is diuersitie of kingdomes to wit the kingdome of God in heauen the kingdome of Satan in hell and the kingdome of men in earth And againe the kingdome of men may be subdeuided into the kingdome of God the kingdome of Satan amongst men This kingdome of God is composed and made of the elect number of true beleeuers which are predestinated and preordained to life euerlasting before the foundation of the world was laied The kingdome of Satan in earth is made of the whole number of the reprobate who are set downe more particularly by S. Paul in the 13 to the Rom. and in the 5. cap. to the Galat. vers 19. as adulterers all vncleane persons Idolaters all contentious and seditious persons murtherers drunkards gluttons c. and in a word all other wicked offendours who as S. Paul teacheth vs shall neuer enter into the kingdome of God The kingdome of God in heauen doth consist of Archangels Angels Cherubins Seraphins Vertues Thrones and all other sorts of spirits called by S. Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ministring spirits who doe praise and worship continually their Creator with hymnes and spirituall songs surpassing the intelligence of man in this earth liuing in an incomprehensible and vnspeakeable felicitie and happinesse in an inaccessable light who are guided by the euerlasting wisdome and prouidence of the eternall omnipotent and onelie good God This celestiall kingdome was from the beginning established in vnion But Satan who was created in all perfection and for his brightnesse by the auncient Fathers called Lucifer did fall away from his Creator drew with him innumerable legions of Angels and in so doing by his apostasie defection from God did make a diuision amongst the Angels in the kingdome of heauen For the which he was throwen downe from that heauenly habitation to the bottomlesse pit of hell prepared for him and his Angels before the beginning of the world as we may read in the Gospell of Saint Matthew where they are tyed with chaines of eternall darknesse as Saint Peter and Saint Iude doe teach vs from this originall diuision made by Satan in the beginning in the kingdome of heauen came an eternall and endlesse desolation vpon him and all the rest of the Angels of iniquitie according as it is here said in our Text Euery kingdome c. Although Satan will admit no diuision in his owne kingdome as we are taught in this Chapter yet he is the very fountaine welspring of all diuisions both in the kingdome of God and man from the beginning of the world to the end thereof For the better vnderstanding of this word Diuision which is in my Text you must know there be three kinds of Diuision viz. a diuision betwixt God and man a diuision betwixt man and man and a diuision betwixt countrey and countrey The diuision betwixt God and man doth come by Idolatrie and sinne the diuision betwixt man and man is partly by diuersitie in Religion and partly by ambition in hunting after dignities honours and preferments of which also doth come the diuision of countries and lands As we haue shewed you how many kindes of Diuision there be now it followeth to shew how many kindes there be of Desolation There is a desolation of mens goods which doth fall out by robbing stealing forraing spoyling burning ship wrake and all other meanes that may be to the preiudice of mens goods There is a second desolation of mans body which doth fall out by plagues pestilence or by the sword in ciuill or forraine warres There is a third desolation of mans soule which doth fall out by Idolatrie apostasie and blasphemie of the which all other sinnes doe proceede Hauing shewed you what Diuision and desolation is and their kinds I purpose by God his grace for the better exposition of my Text to set summarily before your eyes as in a painted table the most notable examples of the Division of Kingdoms Cities and houses in all ages together with their desolation which doe follow on the other as the effect the cause Moreouer we shall see that diuision is a punishment and a curse of God laid on mankind as by the contrarie Vnion is a great blessing of God amongst all estates and conditions of men which we shall doe to this end that laying before you the good fruits of Vnion and the miseries and calamities that doe flow from diuision of kingdomes countries and houses that all these things may serue for your instructions who haue now in hand the consideration of the blessed Vnion of this Iland of Great Britannie into one kingdome which is alreadie vnited in our head our dread Soueraigne the King his Maiestie The first diuision that euer we read of after the creation of the world was inuented by Satan that old Serpent by the which there came a miserable desolation vpon all mankind For soone after the creation of Man and woman who was created in an angelicall nature Vnited with God and hauing the visible communication of Gods presence was placed in a habitation of vnspeakable ioy and felicitie But Satan vpon hatred and enuie did seduce and deceiue the womans mind by lying and false perswasions and by the woman the man with a conceite of vaine glory that they thought to be like God in knowledge so being thus waies seduced by Satan they brake and violated Gods commandement of the which came the first diuision betwixt God and man and after the diuision followed a miserable and lamentable desolation vpon the whole race of mankind which dayly in our owne persons by dolefull experience we find to be true For being created immortall they became subiect both to the death of the soule and the death of the body and were cast out of that place of vnspeakable ioy and felicitie which in the originall language is called Gan-heden a Garden of pleasure into to a most barren and infertile soile wherein he should labour hardly and purchase his bread by the swet of his face till he returne againe to the earth Vpon the other part God who is the fountaine of charitie loue and Vnion yea charitie
of Iaphets posteritie and progenie he doth name in the end of his Catalogue Britanni Scoti Hispani Insulae verò ipsorum Brittannia Sicilia Rhodus c. so that we see heere that this Iland of great Brittannie is first named amongst all the Ilands of the world by all appearance at that time as the greatest Whereby we may collect that this name of Britannia or Brettania commeth from the name of such a one of the posteritie of Iaphet that did first deuide the Isles of the Gentiles vnto whom by lot this Iland did fall Therefore it is most certaine that as the rest of the names of the kingdomes of Europe did take their originall name out of the Hebrew language from the sonnes of Iaphet euen so wee must seeke the Etymologie of Britannia out of the Hebrew language which is Brit-an-iah and doth consist of three words Brit signifieth foedus a couenant an ibi there iah Dei of God Which three being conioyned in one doe signifie that there is the couenant of God that is in this Iland the couenant of God was to be established The proper names of men and places in the renued world was propheticall for they did contain mystically within them prophecies of things that were to fall out afterward or else they were imposed for a memoriall of notable things already come to passe As for example the name of Abram which is made of the Hebrew word Ab Pater Father Ram excelsus high that is to say a high Father was altered changed by God himselfe in adding thereto one other word hamon which signifieth a multitude and so ioyning all these three words together per synaeresin he was called Abraham pater excelsus multitudinis a high Father of a multitude in which name was contained a prophecie into the which change of his name God did make a promise to him that a multitude of Kings and people should come of him for this same cause God changed the name Sarai which signifieth a particular Lady into a more general name Sarah which signifieth a great and generall Lady because a great number of Queenes and Ladies were to come of her In like manner Iacob did impose a newe name to the place where God did appeare to him and called it Bethel the house of God which before was named Luz that is a Nutte tree to be a perpetuall memoriall that in that place God and his Angels did appeare to him ascending and descending a Ladder In the same manner also Iacobs name was changed by God and was called Israel that is a prince to God to be a continuall memoriall of his wrestling with the Angell who bare the figure of a man For the Text sayeth Strenue egit cum Deo cum hominibus that is he played the part of a valiant wrestler both with God and man And Iacob named that place Peniel the face of God because in that place he saw the face of God vnder the shape of a man Euen so we may say and that not without reason that the name of Brit-an-iah is a propheticall name from the beginning foreshewing that the couenant of God should be established in this Iland at the appointed time by God The couenant betwixt God and man doth consist in the true worship and adoration of the onely increated God which is most plainly set downe to vs in the new Testament of the Gospell of Christ Iesus As the generall name of the whole Iland doth containe vnder it selfe all the people that dwell therein Euen so the significations of all the names of these people are contained within the significatiō of the generall name Brit-an-iah The people of this Iland are diuided into foure sundry countries according to the diuision of the earth and the places where they dwell For Angli doe inhabite the South East side Scoti the North East Walli the South West and Hiberni or Heberni Hebrides Insulae the North west And frō the people the places of their habitation are called Anglia Scotia Wallia Hibernia Vndoubtedly all these foure names haue their auncient originall from Iaphets posteritie as Epiphanius and others doe write So that we may gather that the etymologie of their names is to be searched out of the Hebrew language whose signification hath a great correspondence with the generall name Brit-an-iah And therefore it is fit they be knowne Angli Saxones Viti were the three ancient nations that came out of Sueuia and Germania into great Britannie as Beda doth witnesse and diuers other Historiographers from thence the name of Anglia did come who in their owne countrey were called Angles before they came into South Brittannie as Balaeus writeth And therfore we must not seek the Etymology of England neither from Hengist neither any Queene named Angla neither from angulo or angelo but we must search the deriuation of Anglia out of the originall language seeing we may see clearely they are descended of the posteritie of Iaphet Wherefore An-gli-iah in Hebrew is ibi Reuelatio Dei there is the Reuelation of God Scotia is also a most ancient kingdome in this Iland For in the booke of collections out of Ioseph Bon-gorion written in Hebrew Vespasianus speaking to Nero doth make mention of Scotia so doth Flauius Iosephus in an Oration which he had to the people of Ierusalem which Hegesippus doth testifie Quid attexam Brittannias interfuso mari a toto orbe diuisas a Romanis in orbem terrarum redact as tremit hos Scotia quae terris nihil debet Of this name also Epiphanius beareth record when hereckoned the posteritie of Iaphet as I shewed you before and therefore we must in like maner seeke the deriuation of Scotia out of the Hebrew which is Skot-iah quies Dei the rest or peace of God Hiberni or Heberni are descended also of Iaphets posterity And therefore in Hebrew Heber-nin-iah and by a contraction Hebernia is Transitio filij Dei the passing ouer of the Sonne of God Euen so Wallia doth come from Gallia from whence Walli had their progenie who as yet doe speake the old language which was in Gallia before the Romane conquest and in this Wallia were the old auncient schooles of the Gentilique religion of the Druides The name then of Wallia or Gallia Galli-iah in the originall is flumen Dei Gods Riuer or reuelatio Dei the Reuelation of God So that ye may see all these names are propheticall and doe foretell that the couenant of God signified by the generall name Brit-an-iah should make this happy and blessed Vnion in one Religion and one Kingdome The prophecie of all these names was accomplished immediatly after Christ his ascention and the sending downe of the holy Ghost vpon his Apostles and Disciples For we read in Theodoretus Metaphrastes and Nicephorus that S. Paul S. Peter Ioseph of Arimathaea and Simon Zelotes did
desire of vaine glory in their harts that they were about to build a tower which should reach to heauen all this was attempted by them vt acquirerent sibi nomen That thereby they might purchase themselues a name But God did punish this their vaine glory by the diuision and confusion of their tongues being all before vnius labij of one lippe and of one language This diuision of tongues was the cause that the heads and gouernors of families that were of one language did separate and diuide the whole earth amongst them as we said before where by the way we haue to obserue that diuision of languages was sent vpon mankind as one of Gods curses for there is nothing more forceable to maintaine Vnion and peace amongst men then conformitie in language as on the other part we see diuersitie of tongues doth ingender hatred and enuy amongst the nations of the whole world This being considered it followeth that diuision of lands in sundry countries is a rod and punishment of God which being conioyned with the diuision of tongues hath begotten sundry fearefull and cruell warres betwixt countrey and countrey nation and nation Therefore seeing diuision of languages is a curse of God it followeth necessarily that the Vnion of diuers Kingdomes in one language and one Kingdome is a speciall blessing of God Wherefore briefly we intend to bring in for all your instructions some examples out of the foure Monarchies where we shall see as in a glasse how these two doe follow the one vpon the other In the first Monarchie of the Assyrians the Assyrian language was then a common language vsed in the whole Monarchie and from thence came to the Iewes by the captiuitie of Babylon and to this day all the Christians of Asia doe vse it in their diuine seruice And it is euidently knowen that the Monarchie of the Greekes did spread the Greeke tongue throughout all Asia and Egypt yea and it did remaine in the beginning of the Romane Monarchie when all men studied to the vnderstanding of the Greeke language and the Romanes hauing obtained the vniuersall Empire did establish therein their owne language Euen so when Christ came into the world to establish his kingdome by the preaching of the Gospell he sent downe vpon his Disciples the knowledge of all tongues which was a spirituall Vnion of them And therefore God conuerted the curse that came by the diuersitie of language into a great blessing by giuing his Apostles the gift of the vnderstanding of all tongues So God did begin the Vnion of this Iland by the Vnion of one language in both these nations which came to passe by a conquest Yet God would not performe this Vnion of these two kingdomes by conquest which is a kind of violent Vnion but in the time appointed by his incomprehensible wisdome hath vnited vs not by a violent but a free and voluntary Vnion So that long after the Vnion of the language of the South and the North he did vnite vs in the couenant of God which is signified by our generall name Brit-an-iah and afterward vnited vs vnder one soueraigne head and King The which Vnion of one language one Religion and one King maketh the Vnion of the two countries ipso iure naturali For as we haue prooued that the first diuision of lands did come from the diuersitie of languages as also the diuersitie of chusing Kings to gouerne sundry people according to the diuersitie of their languages Euen so by the generall rule deficiente causa deficit effectus the cause of the diuision of kingdomes being taken away the effect and diuision of them should be taken away ipso iure ipso facto For so they returne to be one nation one people and one land as they were before the diuision By this it is most euidently shewed to vs that our great Britaine being in our daies vnited in one language in one religion and vnder one head one King and supreame gouernour we cannot by any law be any more two nations or two kingdomes but only one The second example of the Vnion of sundry Countries Kingdomes and Lands being before diuided is manifest in the posteritie of Abraham For the Land that was promised by God to the Israelites which since was called Palestina was diuided into diuers Kings and Kingdomes as the historie of the Bible doth teach vs all these diuided Kings and kingdomes were vnited by God in one kingdome of the Israelites in the person of Dauid and Salomon in the time of which Vnion was the most happy estate of any kingdome we read of before that age So that we may gather seeing the cause of this Vnion of many kingdomes was the vnitie and singularitie of the head euen so the like Vnion and singularitie of the head in our great Britaine doth vnite ipso iure ipso facto the kingdomes that were seuerall and separated before Therefore let no man imagine that we are two kingdomes or two nations but vnus grex vnum ouile sub vno pastore ac vno Rege as Homer did call the King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Pastour and Sheapheard of the people In this blessed Vnion of many kingdomes in the person of Dauid and of his sonne Salomon was established the kingdome of God in earth which was ioyned with the vnited estate of the temporall and worldly kingdome For the temple of Ierusalem was builded for the exercise of the true worship of God But Satan continuing in his accustomed malicious practises did cast in the seede of diuision first by diuision of Religion and of the spirituall kingdome and then by the diuisions of earthly and temporall kingdomes by the which diuisions in the space of 300. yeeres or thereabout the whole kingdome of the Israelites was brought to a lamentable desolation according to the doctrine of Christ Iesus in our Text. Satan to establish his kingdome in the middle of the people of God did deceaue the wise Salomon by the filthie loue and desire of forraine women afterward he seduced him to erect Idols and false Gods in the high places of that holy Land retaining neuerthelesse the temple of Ierusalem the true Sacrifice worship and adoration of God by the which maintenance of true Religion on the one part and false Religion on the other there did proceede a diuision so odious vnto God that for this cause he did poure foorth his curses and maledictions vpon the posteritie of Salomon and rent away the ten Tribes and parts of the kingdome of the holy land from Roboam his sonne which he gaue to Ieroboam his seruant leauing onely to Roboam the two Tribes which did remaine By this we learne how displeasant this diuision of Religion made by Salomon was to God and what a miserable desolation it did bring by succession of time vpon his posteritie Let this punishment which was laid by God on Salomon be an example to all
men impediments or hinderance whatsoeuer that Satan may cast in mens minds to trouble this his holy worke to stay the building of Gods house let all men be assured that God will powre downe his blessings vpon all those that shall further this worke and will send his curse and punishment on all them and their posteritie that shall let or stay the progresse of the same holy Vnion We will ende here praying all in the vnitie of our harts and soules that the eternall Vnion of all the subiects harts in this Ilan◠〈◊〉 be an Image of the Vnion of Christs Elect members in hiâ— their head who is the fountaine of all 〈…〉 with the Father in the Vnion of the 〈…〉 three persons in one Deitie be all honâ—â—â— praise and glory now and for euer Amen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diuision bringeth destruction Vnion preseruation All estates of societie are contained in three words The mysticall signification of the Hebrew words man and woman 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Strom. 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The mysticall signification of the word house 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—zechiel cap. 9. â—he mysticall â—â—gnification of 〈◊〉 word Citie 〈◊〉 Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The mysticall signification of the Hebrew word Melech a King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iohn 4. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The mysticall signification of the word diuision in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The mysticall signification of the word Vnion in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Man is a type of a little world and of a little kingdome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Image of a kingdome in the outward man The Image of a kingdome in the inward man Claud. Paneg. Cons 4. Hon. â—luâ— sorts of kingdomes The kingdome of God in heauen Matth. 25. 41. 2. Peter 2. 4. Iud. v. 6. Three kinds of Diuision Sundry sorts of Desolation The first Diuision inuented by Sathan Gen. 3. 15. Desolation came by Diuision in Adams house and in his posteritie Genes 6. 11. Diuision of â—â—â—guages and diuersitie of â—â—uernours did bring forth diuision of lands and countreys Gen. 10. The antiquitie of the name of Brittannia in the first diuision of countreys 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Proper names of men and places propheticall or memoriall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gen. 32. 30. The signification of the auncient names Anglia Scotia Wallia and Hibernia Beda lib. 1. cap. 15. An-gli-iah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hegesippus lib. 5. cap. 15. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The accomplishment of the propheticall name of Britannia Theodor. de Cur. gree Serm. de leg 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Tertul. ad Iud. The restitution of the auncient name of Britannie is a testimonie of the Vnion of language kingdome and religion The first diuision of countries and languages Gen. 11. 4. Diuision of languages a curse of God Examples shewing Vnion to be a blessing of God Vnion of kingdomes a blessing of God Homer An example that diuision of kingdomes is a curse of God and that for Idolatrie The application of the diuision that was in Salomons kingdome Diuision of kingdomes bringeth diuision of religion The example of Ieroboam Dan. cap. 2. 21. Worldly commodities cause of Diuision in Religion An example of Desolation comming by Diuision 2. King 17. 24. The Vnion of language Religion kingdome in great Britannie Vnion of kingdomes in the 1. Monarchie was the beginning of true Religion amongst the Gentils Dan. 2. Dan. 4. 31. The Vnion of Kingdomes in the 2. Monarchie was a meane to call the Gentils Dan. 5. By the Vnion of kingdomes in the 3. Monarchie true Religion established Ioseph antiq lib. 11. cap. vlt. Ibidem Christ himselfe made choise of the vnited state of the 4. Monarchie to ioyne his vniuersall kingdome with the kingdome of men vpon earth Dan. 7. 7. The wonderfull blessing of God shewed on great Britannie in the Vnion of religion and all the kingdoms thereof in a Monarchie in the person of a Britain Emperour Euseb in Eccles hist Sulp. Seuer alij God did vnite great Britaine in one kingdome and one true religion by the mariage of Constantius Chlorus and Helena Euseb in vit Const Bal. cent Eutrop. lib. 9. Gallic in Panig Euseb lib. de vita Constantini Balaeus The Vnion of great Britannie in one kingdome and one true Religion by the meanes of a second mariage Three blessings vpon Great Britanny aboue all other nations which doe come by meanes of Vnion The miseries and calamities that did fall out in Britannie by the diuision thereof into sundry kingdomes Bed Hist Ang. lib. 1. cap. 15. An exhortation to the performance of this happy Vnion The Conclusion