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A10090	Vnto the most high and mightie prince, his soueraigne lord King Iames. A poore subiect sendeth, a souldiors resolution; humbly to waite vpon his Maiestie In this little booke the godly vertues of our mighty King are specified, with disscription [sic] of our late Queene, (and still renowned) Elizas gouernement: the Pope and papists are in their colours set forth, their purposes laid open, and their hopes dissolued, the happie peace of England is well described, and the long continuance thereof humbly prayed for.	Pricket, Robert.	1603 (1603)	STC 20343; ESTC S115229	27,405	47

your royall vertuous selfe to bee their righteous king millions of thousands in your England liues whose spirites by the instinct of nature giues themselues to loue the lawfull exercise of Armes they with ioyfull willingnes will waite vpon the summons of their kinges commaund and spend their liues their lands their goods in the performance of faithfull and obedient seruice your England hath for these many yeares obserued the maner of your neighbor bordering kingdoms gouernment with what prudēt wisedom your maiesty did protect the safety of your land the continued true report of your renowned vertues fed your Englands people with delightfull ioy and to their hearts it did a comfort giue when as they thought vpon that blessed hope which built it selfe vpon the well known right of your succession though in christian policie A publike note was taken from the vulgar view yet all the world may witnes that our late Queenerenownde Elizabeth did with her Lordes and honoured Councellers long ago decree to yeeld vnto your Maiestie the proper right of your inheritance and that the people of your kingdom did expect no lesse was certainely approued by that ioyful general applause whichal your Englands subiects gaue when as they heard king Iames proclaimde to be their Soueraigne And now most mightie Prince sith that in despite of Rome the God of heauen hath established your name on earth and made you greater then euer yet was any Christian king and hath in peace confirmed the regall seate of your imperiall throne I make no doubt but your Maiestie with a Christian constancie and religious care will confirme the strength thereof by the inuisible force of a prudent wise godly gouernment which doth vnto two speciall poynts direct it selfe which is vnto the well ordering of diuine and humane things wherein the obedience vnto God belonging doth challenge to it selfe a title Capital the celestiall dignitie whereof is first before all other things in the chiefest place to be preferred Diuine regiment doeth therefore take vnto it selfe the matter of Religion onely and the ordināces to be vsed in the church which in the time of the Law were commanded by God himselfe vnto his seruant Moses and hee by the appointment of God committed the principall charge thereof vnto Aaron and his sonnes and the tribe of Leui but now in the time of the Gospell they were taught and commaunded by Iesus Christ himselfe and by him left vnto his Apostles and from them the principall charge thereof is committed vnto the Bishops and Pastors of the Church And as in the time of the Law Aaron though he were the high priest vnto God and had chiefe authoritie in diuine things yet was not he the king Prince or supreme Magistrate ouer the people of God but that supremacie of kingly honour was giuen vnto Moses who was vnto Aaron in the stead of God and therefore next vnder God Aaron and his sonnes were accounted subiects vnto Moses So in the time of the Gospell though Bishops and Pastors haue the chiefe authoritie to deale with the administration of diuine and holy things yet they nor any of them are the kings princes or supreme Magistrates ouer the people of God and Church of Iesus Christ. But that supremacie of kingly honour is giuen vnto Kings and Princes in their seuarall kingdomes who are vnto Bishops and Pastors in the stead of God And therefore all Bishops and Pastors are to be accounted subiects vnto their seuerall Kings and Princes And as Moses in the diuine ordinances concerning the law of God did commaund nothing vnto Aaron and the tribe of Leui but that he had expresly receyued from the mouth of God So Kings and Princes in the diuine ordinance of the Gospel of Iesus Christ are not to commaund vnto their Bishops and Pastors any other thing then can bee expressely warranted by the doctrine of Christ himselfe or his Apostles Lastly as in the time of the Law the Kings and Princes of Israel and their Priests and Leuits did bring on them and their posterity the eternall curse of God when they fled from the obedience of the Law written by Moses in the old testament of God Euen so in the time of Gospel shall Kings Princes with their Bishops Pastors bring vpō themselues their posteritie the eternall curse of God when they shall flie from the obedience of the Gospel written by the Apostles and Euangelifts and left vnto vs in the new Testament of Iesus Christ in which is contained the freedome libertie and iustification of our best esteemed and most blessed peace And from the obedience therevnto hath proceeded the long continuance of Englands peacefull quietnes and by the meanes thereof most mightie soueraigne your royall person and your Scotlands kingdome from euery threatned danger haue vntill this time most safely beene preserued And for from hence must spring the firme continuance of your royall state and kingdomes blessednesse your righteous soule no doubt will most desire that things diuine be chiefly lookde vnto and because there neuer was a church so rightly ordered but that some errors were therein remaining the reformation whereof did belong vnto the kings vnto whose charge the gouernment thereof in their seuerall kingdoms was principally committed it now therefore remaineth euident that your religious vnderstanding wise diuine and sanctifyed heart will in the beginning of your most happie raigne looke first amiddest your Englandes kingdome with godly care to beautifie the Spouses of Iesus Christ. My Soueraigne Lorde I doubt not but your highnesse will be pleased to obserue the order giuen vnto your princely son the happie comfort of your Englands hope and account it for your greatest honour to see the Church of God well gouerned I am a souldier my most mighty king and my dutie is when iust cause requires to fight for God and for his Church and for you my soueraigne next vnder God within the compasse of your kingdomes confines the onely supreme heade and gouernour Be then most mightie Prince vnder your captaine Christ a glorious instrument as to that ende you were ordained and aboue all things chiefly see his Church to be well ordered O then let your Maiestie vouchsafe with Salomon To walke downe into the Garden of Nuts The Sinagogues congregations in England and see the fruit of the valley see if the Vine buddeth and looke if the Pomegranets flourish Beholde what profite hath proceeded from the doctrine of the Law the Prophets and in many Congregations see nothing that your highnesse can take knowledge of but onely ignorance disobedience and rebellion The fearefull daunger of whose desperate estate is principally occasioned by the want of Pastors able to teach them to vnderstand that peace in whome the lawe and the Prophets is fulfilled and then from the loue of those vngodly guides which taketh vp the place bequeathed to better men let your diuine and heauenly soule as

meanes of heauens Elizabeth And when this glorious England seemed to feare if selfe being mourner-like wrapde vp in sable blackenesse and timerous mindes speaking to themselues that their best dayes were past and dangerous times were neare at hand the sillie Lambes that feared the tyrannie of the Romane Woolfe wept in their thoughts and did this question aske Where shall we sing our songs of Sionnow The Woolfes they met in flockes togither hoping that their long wishde for time was come when they againe should glut themselues with bloud the rich did feare to loose their wealth the poor did feare to loose their liues the vilder sort did hope to liue vp on their countries spoile And when this cloude of danger had brought it selfe euen vnto the strength of his supposde combustion then as a vapor into ayre dissolued were all the meateors that did seeme prodegious for the liuing mistres of our happines did in her life time bequeath her crowne to him whose right it was and when her soule was vnto heauen ascended forth with heauens God into the mouth of Englandes nobles put the name of him who by their Queene was named to be their soueraigne and they togither with vnited loue did vnto Englands commons straight praclaim that great King Iames was made their lawful king Then Englande did vnto her selfe retaine the vigor of her former strength and the beautie of her glorie was presently sequestred from all occasions that might diminish extinguish or in the least sorte eclipse the Sunne-shine of her precedent dignitie neuer was a land to God more bounde then England is for this aboundant mercie who hath vnto vs raysde a King not onely heyre vnto Elizaes Crowne but also an inheritor of all those gracious vertues wherwith her righteous soule is crowned And now my soueraigne Lord from saint Elisa to your godly selfe discended is her kingdoms gouernment and all the Saints on earth within the limits of your large and spacious confines doe humbly wayte vpon the assurance of your blessed hope And for your royall hand hath manifested that your princely heart obeyeth the precepts of heauens written worde what should I say but certainly resolue your royall selfe descending from a race of Kings and from that mightie King whose euerconquering arme at first did breake the heade of Romes vsurpde authoritie that now the mightie God of heauen whose wrath hath alwayes threatned the destruction of that Babilonian Whoore hath raysed vp your regall Maiestie to breake the necke and backe of that soule deuouring beast so as the Dragon and his Angels shall no longer rule in Christendome nor shall the nations of the earth continue to be deceiued with the infectious Locusts of their lyes and heresies but his kingdome shall bee razed to the earth and the worlde shall wonder at his destructions ouerthrow sure I am this truth must come to passe before the second comming of the king Christ Iesus since whose being vpon the earth vntill this present time there neuer was a true beleeuing king remooued from the Popes authoritie and yeelding to the gouernment of Christ that was of so absolute a power to bring to passe the prophecies against the Citie of Rome as is your maiestie vndoubtedly my soueraigne Lord this relying age is leaning to the latter ende of time and all the signes forerunniug the day of iudgement haue put themselues into a perfect view the reuolution of the heauens being so shaken as that the planets are remoued from their wonted stations one hauing stept into an others place and this massy globe of earth hath oft with fearefull earthquakes trembled the seuenth and last Angell in the Reuelation specified hath as it well was calculated by a reuerend and learned minister in your Scotlands kingdome beene sounding the last generall summons for this already fiftie fiue yeares past and time it selfe hath almost brought his course vnto a whole vnited period whereby is threatned more then ordinarie change And at this present your kingly selfe hauing as it were by miracle been vntil this time preserued and now being created Gods great Lieutenant vpon earth and the onely warriour and chiefe Champion for his Iesus Christ why should not euery Christian souldier then resolue that your magnanimious spirit and glorious race from you proceeding shall be the guard vnto the Church of God bring confusion vpon all her enemies For as from the roote of righteous Iesse did proceede the liniall race whence Christ himselfe descended so vnto me it seemeth that heauens eternall King in his secrete wisdome knowing the worlde is measured with a little length hath raysde you vppe most mightie Prince that from your righteous selfe might spring a glorious ranke of godly and religious Kinges and Queenes that might vnto the Nations of the earth maintaine the glorie of his heauenly name vntill himselfe shall in the Cloudes appeare and summon all the world vnto a generall iudgement Worlds peerelesse Prince and my renowned Soueraigne the consideration of these things before discribed haue compasde me within a heauen of ioy And though I am the vnwoorthiest of manie thousandes that in your Englande liues and farre vnfitte to vndertake this waightie businesse hauing beene alwayes trayned vp in the exercise of Armes yet for I know there is nothing dignifieth a Souldiers sword so much as well to vnderstand the iustice of the cause for which hee fights I haue in the hope of your Maiesties acceptance aduentured to make this little worke the armour of a Christian Souldiers Resolution and doe resolue for God and for his truth in life and death to vow my selfe a faithfull seruant to you my soueraigne Lord the earths most godly and chiefe Christian king And so much the more haue I tasked my weake and shallow vnderstanding muse to this performance because I must confesse vnto your Maiestie that in a zealous loues affection to your highnesse I haue before this time aduentured to let a little Pamphlet passe vnto a publike view which hath drawne vnto it selfe a partial iudgement from some opinions as I thinke not worthy any great respect for by the idlenes of their inuectiue wordes they seeme to proue that I deserued blame because I dealt so roundly with the sea of Rome which vaine imagination found some shewe of cause to ground it self vpon the present times incertaintie feeming as if they desired to make a doubt whether Religion should stand in that same forme which now it doth or whither it should be brought vnto a more neare affinitie with Gehenna the Antichristian church of Rome When this I heard I could not choose my soueraign Lord but secōd that my foregoing work with this my named Resolution For when I with my self considered how Rome was figured by your owne disoription and sawe with what feruencie of spirite your diuine and sanctified heart did oppose it selfe against that worldes disceiuing irreligious pernicious blasphemous monstrous Pope I could not but in my soule