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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46451	King Iames his iudgement by way of counsell and advice to all his loving subjects extracted out of his own speeches / by Doctor Willet ; concerning politique government in England and Scotland.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1642 (1642)	Wing J136; ESTC R15218	4,007	8

KING IAMES HIS Iudgment by way of counsell and advice to all His loving Subjects extracted out of His own Speeches by Doctor Willet concerning Politique governement in England and Scotland THese two Kingdomes of England and Scotland having beene long at variance and exercised in time past with long and bloody Battells were by him united in one his Majesty was the Corner stone that conjoyned these two walles together 2. By his Majesty King Iames of blessed memory the faith of the Gospell was truely professed and his Princ●ly ●ookes prote●ted still maintained 3. King Iames was a wise and judiciall King whose 〈◊〉 writings doe give him the prehe●i●●●ce before all his predecessors A●other Salomon a king and yet an Ecclesiaste● a learned Writer such an one as Gra●●● the Emperour was of whom Ambrose saith Scripsisti 〈◊〉 Epistol●● 〈◊〉 ac ipsa apices fidem tuam pietat●mque loqu●●●uit●● Epist. 26. ad Grat. You have writ not an Epistle onely but whole bookes with your hand 4. The doores of Protestant Churches were every where set wide open 5. Christians went hand in hand conferring freely and edifying one another 6. It was King Iames his godly Precept to his Princely Sonne T●ach your people by your example P. 24. And such was his practice in his owne Royall Person giving light by his Christian life to all his Subjects 7. Whereas many feared an alteration of Religion the Gospell set sure footing in the Church of England which as by his Majesty while hee lived so by his Royall Posterity walking in his steppes wee trust shall be continued to the end of the world wherein his Highnesse also delivered his sound judgement and constant resolution in his Med. on Revel. 20. p. 3. Art 8. 〈◊〉 the last estate when the Church is delivered from the thraldome of Anti-christ without any more generall motations the world shall still remaine to the Consumm●tion and end of the same 8. By Gods mercy men planted Vine yards and eate the fruites thereof built houses and dwell in them and increased in wealth 9. It was admirable to consider the generall Resolution of all English people and the conjunction of their hearts and affections both of high and low towards their Royall Soveraigne 10. Such was the 〈◊〉 betweene England and Scotland that not onely the externall ●arres 〈◊〉 then like to cease for ever betweene these two Nations but one uniforme Religion was also 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 them in perfect love and unity that neither the Church of Scotland should be jealous of the English Church as inclining in somethings to Popery nor the English Subject the other as affecting a popular parity but as loving sisters and fellow Tribes should hold one Worship of God and goe up to Ierusalem together 11. He caused Religion to be without mixture or tolleration as his Majestie most godly professeth in his Meditation upon the fifteenth of the first of Chronicles in the application Is there not now saith King Iames a sincere profession of the Truth amongst us in this Isle ●ppugned by the Nations about haters of the Holy Word and doe we not also as Israel professe one onely God ruled by his pure Word onely on the other part are they not as Philistims adorers of Legions of Gods and ruled by the foolish traditions of men And againe in his Meditations uppon the twentieth of the Revelations 3. P art 1. hee saith wee must feare to fall from the Truth revealed and professed by us that wee may be free from the like punishment c. 12. His zeale for Reformation of things amisse was great who in the Preface to the Reader in his Princely Treatise Queene Elizabeth then living thus writeth I doubt nothing yea saith he in her name I dare promise by the by past experience of her happy Government that no good Subject shall be more carefull to enforme her of any corruptions stollen into her State than shee shall be zealous for the discharge of her conscience and honour to see the same purged and restored to the ancient integrity and further during her time becomes me● least of any to meddle in it c. And that which his Majesty promised in behalfe of her God directed his wisedome to performe by himselfe the dealing wherein before as it pleased his Princely modesty to call medling so afterwards the whole managing thereof of right appertained to him 13. The Church of England was not then forced to hang their Instruments of prayse upon the willowes with the Israelites in Babylon and by the intermission of some changes onely to finde an occasion of thankesgiving unto God but had indeed as full and as great cause and as much l●berty as ever to sound out prayses England might then say with the Prophet David then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with joy Psal. 126 2. 14. The Courts of Iustice were not interrupted but the Laws and 〈◊〉 of Iudgement were open for every man and to revive the hearts of his Subjects he thus writeth to his noble son p. 90. 91. presse to draw all your Lawes and processes to be as short and as plain as you can c. weary not to heare the complaints of the oppressed aut ne Rex sis 15. King Iames was no stranger but of the Royall bloud of the Kings of this Land a Prince of the same linage of the same Island of the same English bloud Royall yea of the same Religion who as he was no forrainer so gave he counsell to his Princely h●ire p. 55. To heare ordinary Counsels and Iustice seates in every Kingdome of their own Countrymen 16. Whereas the peace of this Church had beene hindred by the opposition of strange and new Doctrines he restored the peace of the Church and brought it to one uniforme Doctrine whose advice Princely is Pag. 20. ● 1. That if any do urge to embrace their own fantasies in the place of Gods Word c. acknowledg them for vaine men c. and gravely and with authority redact them into order againe 17 He had externall peace with other Nations who to wound them with kindnesse who was a Prince that used al other Princes Pag. 56. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} As brethren honestly kindly and strove with every one of them in curtesie and thankfulnesse and when any performed to offend this Nation he was a couragious defendor who revenged and freed his Subjects from all forraigne injuries done unto them Pag. 55. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 18. There was domestick Peace and plenty for which we have cause to blesse God at this day for thereby we obtained godly education of our Parents who were then children whereas without it we might have beene distracted from our parents by the iniquity of unquiet times which was then in danger to have befallen this Land 19. He was a loving Prince who as the naturall Father and kinde Master of his Kingdomes thought his greatest contentment to stand