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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15453	Great Britains Salomon A sermon preached at the magnificent funerall, of the most high and mighty king, Iames, the late King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. At the Collegiat Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, the seuenth of May 1625. By the Right Honorable, and Right Reuerend Father in God, Iohn, Lord Bishop of Lincolne, Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England, &c.	Williams, John, 1582-1650.	1625 (1625)	STC 25723; ESTC S120058	36,498	80

Hierusalem ouer all Israel And so much of the sixt Circumstance THe seuenth Circumstance is the time of his Raigne the which though it falls short in a diuided yet in a compounded sense exceeds the patterne For though he raigned not so long ouer all Israel yet in all hee raigned 58. yeares A long and a blessed raigne wherein he was married to one Queene and as he said of Tigranes to a thousand Vertues A Raigne like that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or golden chaine in Homer whereof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the seuerall linkes were seuerall blessings with the one end fastened to his Cradle and the other dropping into his Graue And surely God Almightie to let vs know that it is by him that Kings doe raigne makes them sometimes to gouerne States and that very well before they be able to gouerne themselues Varanes his childe was crowned King while he was yet in his Mothers wombe Fredericke the second when he was but three yeares old Ioas when hee was but seuen Salomon as some Rabbins thinke when hee was but ten Charles the ninth when hee was but eleuen St. Lewis when he was but twelue And our late Soueraigne aged little more then so mamy moneths Thus God stockes those Kings with Daies whom he meanes to stocke with Goodnesse Thus our Deare Master who raigned better raigned also longer then King Salomon whose Raigne in Hierusalem ou●r all Israel was no more then fortie yeares And so much of the seuenth Circumstance AND hitherto Most High and Mightie most Honourable Worshipfull and welbeloued you may imagine I haue offered vnto your thoughts not only a Statue of King Salomon but withall as the Graecians did in their Hercules and Xenophon in his Cyrus an Idaea or Repraesentation of all the perfections requir'd in a King But out alas those Statues of theirs are as the Soule that frames them lasting and immortall but this of ours made of Flesh and Bloud Maiore nostrûm damno quam suo as hee said of Titus to our losse but his great Aduantage is proued Mortall I but did you not know before will some men say that the King was mortall I did indeed And I know withall the state of Christendome doth require that such a King as this of these Sayings and Doings and Wisedome and Experience of 58. yeeres should haue beene immortall Verum oneranda mihi non sunt memoranda recepi Fata Our onely comfort is this that as he liued like a King so he died like a Saint He did rather as Saint Hierome said of Nepotian migrare quam mori or as Saint Bernard writes of Hubertus abire quam obire hee did not dye but fall asleepe Dormiuitque Salomon And Salomon slept Neuer haue you read of any King that left this world more resolued more prepared as though hee had vnbrac't himselfe for his Bed rather then for his Graue And it was his fashion so to doe when hee was summoned by any sicknesse God dealt with this Blessed Prince as he did with Ezechia for certaine yeeres before his Death hee was call'd vpon by his sicknesse at Royston to set his House in Order Lord what a Speech hee then made to his Sonne our praesent Soueraigne O Verba Bracteata Not a syllable in all the same but deserues to be written in letters of Gold How powerfully did hee charge him with the care of Religion and Iustice the two Pillars as hee tearm'd them of his future throne How did he recommend vnto his loue the Nobilitie the Clergie and the Communaltie in the generall How did he thrust as it were into his inward bosome his Bishops his Iudges his neere Seruants and that Disciple of his whom he so loued in particular And concluded with that heauenly Aduice to his Sonne concerning that great Act of his future marriage To marrie like himselfe and marrie where hee would But if hee did marrie the Daughter of that King hee should marry her Person but hee should not marry her Religion But now at this sicknesse more shaken with the fits of a raging Feuer the neerer Death drew vnto him the more he prepar'd himselfe for it All his Latter dayes hee spent in prayer sending his thoughts before into Heauen to bee the Harbingers of his happy Soule Some foure dayes before his end he desired to receiue the Blessed Sacrament Viaticum Aeternitatis as it is tearm'd in the Ancient Councels a blessed Bait that the deuout soule vseth for the most part to take in this life when it is ready to trauaile for the other life Being demanded if hee was prepared in point of Faith and Charitie for so great a Deuotion He said hee was and gaue humble thankes to God for the same Being desir'd to declare his Faith and what he thought of those Bookes he had written in that kinde Hee repeated the Articles of the Creede one by one and said hee beleeued them all as they were receiued and expounded by that part of the Catholique Church which was established here in England And said with a kinde of sprightfulnesse and viuacitie that what euer hee had written of this Faith in his life he was now ready to seale with his Death Being questioned in point of Charitie He answered presently that hee forgaue all Men that offended him and desir'd to be forgiuen by all Christians whom hee in any wise had offended Being told that Men in Holy Orders in the Church of England doe challenge a power as inhaerent in their Function not in their Person to pronounce and declare Remission of sins to such as being paenitent doe call for the same And that they haue a forme of Absolution for that very purpose set down in the Booke of Common Prayers He answered suddenly I haue euer beleeu'd there was that power in you that be in Orders in the Church of England And that amongst others was vnto me an euident demonstration that the Church of England is without all quaestion the Church of Christ And therefore I a miserable sinner doe humbly desire Almighty God to Absolue of my sinnes and you that are his seruant in that high place to affoord me this heauenly comfort And after the Absolution read and pronounced hee receiued the Sacrament with that Zeale and Deuotion as if hee had not beene a fraile Man but a Cherubin cloathed with flesh and blood And some houre after he said vnto his Sonne the Duke and others that stood about him that they could not imagine what ease and comfort he found in himselfe ●ithence his receiuing of the blessed Sacrament O saith hee that all my Lords would doe but thus when they are visited with the like sicknesse Themselues would bee more comforted in their Soules and the world lesse troubled with quaestioning their Religion From this time to the houre of his death the sicknesse preuailed more and more vpon his Body and his Sense and Memory not much