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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04317	Lucta Iacobi: or, A bonefire for His Maiesties double deliuerie, from the deluge in Perth, the 5. of August, 1600. And the doomesday of Britaine, the 5. of Nouember. 1605. Seene and allowed	Univocè-catholicus.	1607 (1607)	STC 14426; ESTC S121041	22,942	72

LVCTA IACOBI OR A BONEFIRE FOR HIS MAIEsties Double Deliuerie from the Deluge in PERTH the 5. of August 1600. And the Doomesday of BRITAINE the 5. of Nouember 1605. ECCLES 10.20 Curse not the King no not in thy thought c for the foule of the heauen shall carrie the voyce and that which hath wings shall declare the matter Serò sed seriò Seene and allowed LONDON Printed by T. C. for William Welby and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Churchyard at the signe of the Gray-hound 1607. TO THE MOST happie Prince IAMES the first by the grace of God King of Great Britaine France and Ireland c. YOur Maiesties most blessed deliuery by the power of God from that bloodie Diluge of PERTH and this Fierie Doomesday of BRITAINE being to all your people a cause of Gods euerlasting praise their present ioy as the multitude made shewe by their Bonefires whose earthly smokes in great measure ascended the heauenly regions It hath kindled such a Bonefire in the furnace of my breast as must needes bee knowne to your Maiestie whose Builder is an inward worker whose Fewell is Affection whose flames may well warme but neuer harme you and the more you anneere them the more temperate shall you finde them comforting such as loue you and consuming such as hate you whose gleames I haue made first to glance on your Maiesties selfe secretly and vnsigned as being vnworthy though they should euen please you to present them much lesse to come in your presence if they should offend leauing to your Maiesties most royall and vpright iudgement as you finde my Fire well built to set it where you will haue it seene or being fallen from his grounds more formally to reedifie it or if of too grosse materialls to purge the drossie errors of it or if nothing of it like you by a breath of your Maiesties mouth vtterly to extinguish it Doe as you please Sir for so long as I liue shall I euer loue you Your Deliuerer be alwaies with you From towards the confines of your Maiesties Canaan Tuesday Doomesday 5. Nouember 1605. Your Maiesties most loyall and louing subiect without any Acquiuocation Vniuocè-catholicus TO BOTH SORTS as well Vniuo-catholique as Aequiuo catholique Readers NO man lighteth a candle to put it vnder a Bushell and no man buildeth a fire of publike ioy and shutteth it vp in priuate chimnies Those Reasons haue ouercome my priuate resolutions and howsoeuer the iust feare of my owne infirmities did awe mee yet seeing my betters perswade me my dutie bindeth me to let it goe And since the royall eyes both of Clemency and Knowledge haue once looked vpon it what care who passe by it That it was not then so early as others take it not to haue beene my slownesse in beginning for mine eares no sooner heard then my heart reioyced and my hand set it selfe a worke Neither was it my long somenesse in building it for my whole bodie is but a chest of such fewell Nor yet was it my feare it should quickly die for vntill the memorie of the fact die my Fire shall alwaies liue But thus it is whilst vpon the point of such a practise all mēs tongs wagged most pens walked the whole world wondred it was not then necessary my Fire should haue appeared being fitter to awake men now from the slumber of forgetfulnesse then to haue accompanied the triumphs of their ioyes That it goeth out thus namelesse doe not impute it to any feare of party bloodie or firie howsoeuer I must confesse my selfe much younger in Treatises then yeares for who shall feare to defend his Country so gratious a King so glorious a cause No my Fire hath no feare and in this could I willingly say Meme adsum qui feci c. But thus it is I finde that as the grauitie and greatnesse of Authors bring often credite to bad causes and make Paradoxes passe for probable so meane and obscure instruments darken most graue true argumēts then while as no man knoweth the Author all men will take them to the matter Wouldst thou then haue mee leaue my Treatises I beseech thee leaue thy Treasons fire not our Parliament and I shall not foile thy profession To you then of the Vnivoque sort true Christians loyall subiects let my fire serue to quicken your memories comfort your hearts confirme your hopes and encrease your thankfulnesse calling backe your mindes to those Parliament mines so that that day which was once thoght so admirable may be held euer memorable Forget neuer then these two restlesse Arch-aequiuocators the Diuelin an Oracle and a Iesuite in an Oath As for you of the vocation of Aequiuocation halfe tongued hollow hearted and disloyal Subiects for what serue faire words in so foule warres where no quarters are kept To you I say could I wish my fire as a flame of your dreamed Purgatory to diuide not your soules from your bodies as you doe with vs but that seede of Sedition from your soules that as you are the naturall breede of our soile so ye might proue the loyall subiects of our Soueraigne Let your submissiue Parere meete his sacred Imperare and not dresse a Perire for him his posteritie and whole state by a Popish Antichristian Aequiuocating Conspiracie But what talke I of Antichrist seeing the Iewes and Iesuites iumpe in one the Iewes looking still for Christs comming haue lost Christ come And the Iesuites as all Romish Catholiques looking for Antichrists comming hanging him on the hornes of their Altars and harbouring him in their hearts yet are lost by their ouer looking him God almightie either seperate that Religion from you or else both you and your Religion from our Region Amen without Acquiuocation Yours as free as his Fire is Vnivo-catholicus Errata Pag. 47. Aetnian reade Aetnaean Pag. 49. penult In reade I. Pag. 52. 18. here it is no reade here is no. Pag. l. 22. them reade their LVCTA IACOBI OR Iacobs VVrestling HAuing both often and earnestly craued of the eternall God that some happie occasion should present it selfe whereby I might testifie to the world a part of such graces as he hath bestowed on me Not worthy of the least of all the mercies Gen. 32.10 which hee hath shewed vnto mee to the glorie of his name who created mee and for the weale of my King and Country to both which both by my birth and benefites hee hath bound me The two miraculous deliueries of our soueraigne Lord King IAMES from those late wee hope last and most of all foule and fearefull attempts haue occurred which as they are to all a matter full of endlesse praise so doe they draw mee to a more deep meditation then to be smothered vnder the bushell of my onely breast And therefore haue I though hardily yet most humbly published the same vnder the title of the VVrastling of Iacob with which as they haue many dissimilitudes and of these