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cause_n	justice_n	king_n	law_n	4,449	5	4.8812	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14936	A pithie exhortation to her Maiestie for establishing her successor to the crowne Whereunto is added a discourse containing the authors opinion of the true and lavvfull successor to her Maiestie. Both compiled by Peter Wentworth Esquire.	Wentworth, Peter, ca. 1530-1596.	1598 (1598)	STC 25245; ESTC S119716	85,250	228

enviers giue a like revenge when abilitie and opportunitie serveth Whither were it good policie wisdome or naturalnesse to kindle a fire in his neighbours house the which hee is assured will set his owne house in fire or rather to quenche that fire with all his power Whither Scotland were able to resist the malice of the Spaniard if hee were King of Spaine Flanders England Ireland c. Whither the Scottish King desire or seeke the crown of England by conquest or by good right and title therevnto after her Maiesties decease If by right and good title what preiudice or offence were it vnto him to haue it iudged and established by act of Parliament whereby he may come by it and enjoy it with peace and with the loue good-will of all your nobilitie and commons of this land For God forbid that he should not haue it willinglie yeelded vnto him if it be his right for god would accurse this land for their iniurie and iniustice if they should wrongfullie detain it from him If he haue no right or title thereunto would it not be a great benefite vnto him to haue his expectation and opinion opened and satisfied by large argumentes yea and iudged by Parliament thereby to keep this Realme his also in peace loue and quietnesse avoiding open hostilitie the which by manie bloodie battailes would so weaken both the Realmes as they were like to become a praie to the enemie and thereby also to nourish entertaine and continue that loue amitie which is now betweene both the Realmes to both their preservations here after and great comforts and also to the preservation of the holie Religion of Iesus Christ now established preached openlie professed and taught in both these blessed Realmes the onely cause of all the malice to both by the Princes of the league If the successor were setled by Parliament and the title of the crowne given from the Scottish king lawfullie to another hee having the fore-knowledge of the Parliament and of the intent of the calling thereof and beeing required eyther to bee present thereat or to send his learned counsell thither and allowed to haue and retaine Lawiers learned in our Englishe lawes to pleade and defend his title I say if this true iustice be duelie vprightlie weighed in an equal ballance and this kindnes offered vnto the Scottish King what cause hath he to become our enemie or for revenge sake to let in or aide the Spaniard to subvert our state consequentlie to endanger his own And all because her Maiestie should by godlie lawfull and the most peaceable meanes that could be possiblie devised seeke and indevour to preserue both the Realmes of England Scotland Both which beeing fast linked and chained together with the strong and godlie linkes and chaines of true loue and Religion and with the sure amitie thereof God will so take their parts and strengthen them that they should not neede to feare the malice and enemitie of anie Princes of the earth And I doe perswade my selfe that the christian Scottish king and his christian nobilitie haue such a naturall loue and care to the preservation of their common-wealth that if they were conferred with they would yeeld willinglie to haue his title to the crowne quyetlie vprightlie and lawfullie iudged and determined by Parliament to the preservation of both the realmes Sure I am that both godlines and wisdome woulde it shoulde be so in respect of both their safeties I astlie if it so fall out that he will of will be offended for setling of the successor yet it will betoken in vs a more godlie regarde and truth to the state rather to offend him by preserving of it then to please him either be perilling of it or suffering this worthie realme to be vtterlie subverted For it will be farre an easier matter to recover his favour beeing lost then to recover the state being overthrowne And the state is and ought to be a Iewell of greatest price and of most account with vs next vnto the Gospell of Iesus Christ Sure I am and in reason it cannot be avoided but the time will come and the wisest knoweth not how soon that if this title bee not quietlie determined and setled by authoritie of Parliament in her Maiesties life the which God long lengthen that both the realmes of England and Scotland will dolefullie rue it For they both are like to become through their vngodlie dissension prayes for a strange people O wofull cruel lamentable time Let such as sit at the helme rule the stearns of the ships of both these our common-wealths with great care haue dutiful regard vnto this weighty service in time if there be in thē either loue naturall care to posteritie or pitie and compassion to avoide the shedding of so much innocent blood by manie bloodie battailes as may make rivers to runne Let such eftsoones I say as rule the stearns of both the common-wealthes of England Scotland lovinglie kindlie conferre consult and prevent the overthrowes of both Church and common-wealthes in both their countries that spedily for the holy Ghost saith whatsoever Ezra 7. 23. is by the commādement of the God of heaven let it be done speedilie for the hous of the God of heavē for why should he be wroth with the king and his children And I thinke it no presumption to affirme that princes and magistrates are ordained and commanded of God to preserue both Gods Church and Gods people as the text saith and that speedilie even when they see them in vnavoydable perill without their helpes and much the more sithence that perils may come vnexpected and sodainlie And sithence that the wisest knoweth not how soone let wise magistrats and counsellors beware of that wofull counsellor Had I wist who ever cometh to late and is alwaies a repentant coūsellor remedilesse My simple capacitie iudgeth it to be a fearefull presumptuous sinne yea and a tempting of God in both English and Scottish magistrates to hazard the pretious pearles of the imperiall crownes of both these noble realmes vppon the vncertaine life of one albeit never so much wished desired to be drawne on length by all true and faithfull English hearts yet not to be attained for God hath appointed the certaine time though it bee vncertaine and vnknowne to anie And when that dolefull time shall once come no earnest wailing wishing or sighing can recover it againe And so I recommend this simple labour to your honors wise graue iudgements deeming that the preservation or ruine of the realme of England in this case will be the same vnto the realme of Scotland and therefore to be carefullie considered of both And so to conclude I may affirme in my simple iudgement that the setling of the successor by Parliament equity authoritie will be an especiall good meane to increase and long to continue true faithfull loue and amitie betweene our Christian Queene her