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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

Right Dearely Beloued Our late Soueraigne shall be remembred in due time and much to the honour of King Salomon King Salomon in his Funeralls had a glorious Tombe in deed as Iosephus describes it but hee had no Statue at all caried before him That was peraduenture scarce to lerable amongst the Iewes A Tombe he prouided for himselfe and so prophetically as that if wee may beleeue Pineda and others there were iust as many Cells therein as there were to be Kings of Iuda that is twentie one A Statue God Almighty hath this day prouided for him Many of these twentie one Cells being neuer filled because the vnworthy Kings were buried elsewhere Salomon shall lend King Iames a Tombe and King Iames shall lend vnto him a Statue The Tombe you may obserue in the Exposition and the Statue in the Application of this peece of Scripture King IAMES shall first die in SALOMONS Text and Salomon shall then arise in King IAMES his VERTVES For as Herodotus reports of the Aegyptians that by wrapping their dead in glasse they praesent them aliue to all posteritie so by that time I haue plated ouer the parts of this Text with the particulars of the Application you that heare me this day shall haue that happinesse of the Queene of the South which is not onely to haue read in a Booke but withall to haue seene with your eies and to haue heard with your eares all the rarities and perfections of the wise King Salomon You shall then perfectly remember these Sayings these Doings this Wisdome this History this great Citie this vnited Empire this long Life this happie Death this Rest with his Fathers and these solemne Funeralls which are the Minutes of this Text. And the rest of the words of Salomon c. I Begin with that part wherof I finde in my selfe the greatest want to wit Eloquence pointed at in the Entrance of my Text. Reliquum verborum the rest of his words For that Man had need of Salomons Words that will speake of this first or second Salomon Eloquence in some reasonable proportion is so necessarie in a King that a Philosopher calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one of the chiefest of the Royall Vertues Surely the want of this made Moses in a manner refuse all gouernment though offered vnto him by God himselfe And Homer that is Solon for hee is supposed the Author of the Poem is by Plutarch made to say that a ready Sword will not doe the worke if it be not attended with this readinesse of Speech Surely Pyrrhus though a mighty vaunter of all his Actions would often confesse more Cities conquered by Cyneas his tongue then there were by his owne Speare And although an Aaron may sometimes supply a Moses and Eloquence be borrowed from the tongue of a Minister yet surely no great Monarchie was euer rais'd but where the King himselfe was a competent Speaker In the Romane Empire it is obseru'd by Tacitus that the Princes of the first line Iulius Augustus Tiberius Claudius yea and Caius himselfe as blunt as he was neuer borrowed a tongue to speake to the people Nero is noted to bee the first Caesar Qui alienae facundiae eguit that euer vsurpt another mans Language And therefore no maruell if in Salomon a great Monarch and the second of his line the Historie gaue a touch of his Oratorie and Eloquence Et reliquum verborum Salomonis And the rest of the words of Salomon Now when I looke vpon this world of Matter I am to runne thorow in a minute of time the best Eloquence that I can vse in setting forth the Eloquence of Salomon is to say nothing and to turne you ouer to his admirable Writings the Prouerbs the Booke of Wisdome and Ecclesiasticus which were dictated together with Ecclesiastes the Canticles and many of the Psalmes which were penned to a Syllable by King Salomon And so I proceed from his Words vnto his Actions the second part of his Life Omnia quae fecit All that he did And the rest of the words of Salomon and all that he did HE DID Kings are anointed as Cassa●eus obserues vpon the Armes as well as vpon the Head and the Armes are the Instruments of Action and Doing That phrase of Scripture so applied to Kings that they must goe in and out before the people requires somewhat more then Elocution In the Genealogie of our Sauiour exprest by S. Mathew though many more be written downe yet none is call'd a King but Dauid Dauidem Regem Dauid the King Matth. 1. 6. verse because as Interpreters expound the place Dauid was as a King should be a Man of Warre and a Man of Action Nero could tune his Instruments well and yet as Apollonius said to VESPASIAN he was a meane Prince because hee knew not how to tune a People And on the other side Themistocles could neuer play on the Harpe but yet is famous in all Histories because hee could make a Citie greater Plutarque in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 speakes of two Men that were hir'd at Athens for some publique worke whereof the one was full of Tongue but slow at Hand but the other blunt in Speech yet an excellent Workeman Being call'd vpon by the Magistrates to expresse themselues and to declare at large how they would proceede when the first had made a long harangue describ'd it from point to point the other seconded him with this short speech 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ye Men of Athens what this man hath said in Words that will I make good in true performance And as hee was adiudged the better Artisan so is the Man of Action the better King vnlesse they come ioyntly as they doe in this Text VERBA ET FACTA Words and deeds And the rest of the Words of Salomon and all that hee Did. Now if you desire to know all that hee did I must turne you ouer to this Booke of the Kings which notwithstanding is but a Florus to that Liuie or rather a PHOTION to that DEMOSTHENES that first describ'd them Some of them I shall touch vpon when I come to the second Salomon and doe now hasten to the third part of his Life which is his Wisedome And the rest of the words of Salomon and all that hee did and his Wisedome HIS WISEDOME For indeed braue Actions are but the Fruit Wisdome is the Tree that beares them Actions are but Riuers Wisedome is the Head that feedes them And where this is wanting they are like Land-floods violent for the time but gone in an instant Here therefore you haue the fruit together with the Tree that brought them here you see the Riuers together with the Spring that sent them here you reade of Salomons Deeds ioyn'd with that Wisedome that first contriu'd them And the rest of the words of Salomon and all that Hee did and his Wisedome HIS WISEDOME