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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10401	A sermon preacht at St Maries in Oxford, the 5. of August: 1624. Concerning the kingdomes peace. By Iohn Randol B: in D: of Brasen-nose Colledge	Randal, John, b. 1594 or 5.	1624 (1624)	STC 20685; ESTC S102398	25,895	35

which in a Theologicall modesty we can be permitted to declare vnt'ce other there are more politicall which if yee knowe them happy are yee if yee doe them For if a kingdome bee divided against it selfe that kingdome can neuer stand And if yee doe them receaue a word of consolation to your soules all you that are not guilty of this Nation-falling sicknes this kingdome-killing sinne you haue neither taken pension to betray the kingdome nor for reuenge encouraged others to make a faction in the land yee haue not for schisme sake engendred any other religion then that which is the maine orthodoxall of the state sollace your selues you can be no causes of the kingdomes fall But yee say yee haue beene discontented at the present state and that yee feare is diuision you haue sometimes spoken a word against the disorders of the Realme and that is diuision yee seare yee haue said 't were good we had warres is not that diuision too No I beseech yee marke but the emphasis if diuided against it selfe there is a diuision that makes for the good of the whole so the mouthes of Disputants are many times diuided in pursuit of deliberatiue argument for finding out the truth and yet they accord well enough in the vnitie of the same conclusion all at last and such a diuision is like a diuision of notes in musicke it is not diuided against it selfe it makes the sweeter sound Your discontented eies gush out with teares because men keepe not the law this is not to make but marre the diuision of a land your tongue reports vnto the Church some disorders you haue seene but in words of sweetest charity in the abundance of louely desires not in any bitternesse doe yee report the same and so peraduenture yee procure the euill to bee taken away by man or pardon'd by God because yee are so zelous against the sinne in all such estates of causes the division is not against it selfe but for the whole such a kingdome is not diuided against it selfe you desire warres but forraine not ciuill warres and that 's no diuision against it selfe but a firmer vnion of the whole And many other cases there are wherein it is not onely lawfull but most necessary to be diuided for the publicke good and one mans tongue to moue one way and anothers in a second path as the Orbes doe in the Firmament The primun mobile runnes West the next particular Spheares East the lower Planets obliquely take another course yet all tempering sweetly together for the commodity of the whole otherwise if they should run all one may they would hurry the earth and all to peeces and spoyle the naturall growth of all So runnes the King our Primum Mobile in motions all aloft the Nobles as the next Spheares seeme another way the Clergie and Courts of equity like the neerer Planets take a third course but all working sweetly for the commodity of the whole otherwise if all one way the Commons which are terra Reipub would be hurryed all to peeces it would spoile the publique growth of all You know how Lucan describes the ouer-whelming of a Ship dum nimium pugnax while they ranne all to one side topsy-turvy by vnequall poyse they ouer-weigh'd the Ship they must diuide themselues therefore that meane to preserue the Common-wealth that floating Ship but still they must agree in managing such a diuision very circumspectly for the well-fare of the whole If any man hath bin guilty of indiscretion to the contrary let him hereafter temper himselfe in a wiser kind if hee 'll endeauour to make vs sing the 133 Psalme in a pleasanter tune then euer we did before O how pleasant a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in vnity then shall his presence bee as acceptable to our eyes as Musick it selfe is to our eares O how beautifull is the presence of them that preserue peace among vs Musicke is no musick to be compared with that sweet reciprocall conversation of body and soule of flesh and blood which is most liuely displayed euery houre betweene each other in time of Peace Musicke onely glorifies the eare but this the whole body of a Kingdome doth adorne T is like the precious oyntment on the head which runneth downe to the skirts of all the Kingdome Musicke preserues from Melancholy onely for a while but this for euermore for there the Lord promised his blessing and life for euermore Musicke cannot make a litle town a great City but small and contemptible beginnings haue growne into great Kingdomes by concord whereas mighty Empires by diuision haue bin ouer-turn'd who then not honour those that doe preserue our peace to them the cōfort Yee haue pray'd against diuifion and there 's no signe in that of diuiding a Kingdome against it selfe ye haue hated the Societies of the seditious as the King himselfe commands Prov. 24.21 and that 's no signe of diuiding the Kingdome against it selfe yee haue scorn'd pension allyance reuenge ambition all to preserue the Kingdome in vnity with it selfe you haue preseru'd the vnion of the Kingdome and the vnion of the Kingdome shall preserue you you shall not be guilty of this foule Kingdome-killing sinne But you say there are other destructions of a Kingdome from without 't is true yet I neuer loue to wander from my Text my Text concernes onely dissipations within If a Kingdome be diuided against it selfe that kingdome can neuer stand Wherefore to summe vp all whether Princes be diuided against themselues or Subiects against themselues or Prince and People one against another whether about superioritie or any other pretensiue matter of pleasure profit or reuenge whether the subtilty of any other kingdome instigate or they be the beginners of it themselues whether it arise frō the Clergy and so proceed to the Laitie or from Laitie to Clergy howeuer it bee if it bee absolutely diuided against it selfe it can neuer long subsist for it will turne the Physutian against the Patient Sonne against Father Seruant against Master Flocke against Minister it turnes tongues and pennes hearts and hands swords and speares of one against another makes them betray murther each other behind their backes disgrace the meetings solemnities orders attributes of each other and therefore it can neuer stand a kingdome diuided against it selfe can neuer stand Now to refresh yee with another word of speciall application to the time and so an end To day is this Scripture doubly fulfill'd in all your eares had the Court with them or the Clergy with vs bin absolutely diuided against the Kingdomes good the Kingdome had perisht then the glory of it now yee had bin both destitute of such a King and such a glorious celebration of the day the one well knowne among our selues the other all abroad For as on this day Gowrie and his brother set both vpon the King But GOD gaue the victory determin'd the question sent his seruants to rescue him and