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A11933	A godlie and learned commentarie vpon the excellent book of Solomon, commonly called Ecclesiastes, or the Preacher in the vvhich commentarie are briefly and plainly layde downe the methode, sense, and vse of that most profitable sermon, on the which, yet there hath neuer bin set forth any exposition in the English tong before this time, in such large and profitable manner. VVritten in Latin by Iohn Serranus, and newly turned into English by Iohn Stockwood, school-master of Tunbridge.; Commentarius, in Solomonis Ecclesiastes. English	Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598.; Stockwood, John, d. 1610.	1585 (1585)	STC 22247; ESTC S117199	256,809	478

Kings Kingdomes He concludeth therefore that in great personages there are euident and notable tokens of great vanitie This sayth he is altogether vanitie c. namelye that honourable and great personages borne of a certaine proper metall by themselues as it were and seuered from the common rable of other men are yet notwithstanding subiecte vnto the pleasure of the people To see these ebbings and flowings of the peoples fauoure in that common welth especially where the people beare the chiefest sway in is in deede vsuall yea and in a Monarchie or kingdome howe muche the people maye doe the Example of Israell hath taughte when Roboam the sonne of Solomon was thruste oute Roboam the Example of the Romanes hath taughte dryuinge oute their Kinges The Romans and recouering their libertye the moste often chaunges almoste in all Nations haue taughte vs. Hee speaketh therfore of most free nations among whom the king had no more autority ouer the people then the people ouer the King as Caesar speaketh of the antient French-men and the causes of these chaunges do most often lye in the Princes themselues For the people loueth him of whome they are well handled hateth him of whom they are euill intreated and his yoake the which they cannot beare they do in the ende cleane shake off So Roboam himself the sonne of a most wise father swaruing from the lessons and manners of his father procured the displeasure of the people against him and was turned out of his Kingdome So the Romanes draue out Tarquinios superbos waxing insolent proude with immoderate rule and gouernmēt for these causes they slue diuers Emperoures which were indeed rather monsters then men being wearie of their tyrannous rule bearing as Commodus Heliogabalus c. albeit that they also sometimes raged against good Princes as against Alexander Mammea c. Such namely is the violēce of the People whom Princes ought to winne vnto them by gentle moderate gouernment for they hate him whom they feare and whom they hate him they wishe to perish The loue therefore and good will of the people toward the Prince is the sound foundation of kingdomes The doctrine 1. God the autor and gouernour of the societye and fellowship of men hath appointed vnto himselfe the magistrate as an Embassadour by whose ministerie and seruice he woulde preserue and maintaine the same societie God preserueth the societie of mankind by Magistra●es in the necessarie and wholesome difference of rulers and subiects Their dignitie and excellencie therfore is singular whome God maketh ministers of so worthie and weightie matters and he will also haue thē enioy most great notable priuileges aboute the condition of other men Yet wee must not thinke that the life of great personages is in all pointes blessed and happie but rather that experience it selfe doeth abundantly teach that it is beset with many and great encumbrances the whiche are both inward through the blame and fault of the magistrates themselues and also outwarde by reason of manye alterations and chaunges the which are wont to be rife in the ofte ebbing and flowing sea of this world 2. The kingly dignity and power is both more auntient How the kingly power is both the best and the worst and also better then all other kindes of publike gouernments if it be limited and bounded with good lawes and get a good and a wise gouernour for it is the image of a fatherlye rule then the whiche there can bee none on the earth founde out eyther more honourable or more profitable but if it haue an euill gouernoure and a foole then is it of all other the worst And it commeth to passe by reason of the power of Kinges which is not to be corrected and through the allurements of a lose life that their minds are many times corrupted both vnto the hurte of themselues and of their subiectes Let kinges therefore learne whiche séeke happinesse in a milde Gouernemente to begge Wysedome of GOD and equitye in gouernmente for foolishe and vniust rulebearing as it is hurtefull vnto the Subiectes so is it also vnto the Rulers A wise gouernment is of God 3. A wise and happye Gouernmente is of GOD that the people maye learne to praye for a good and Wise Magistrate at his hande Truelye a good Prince is a certayne moste rare Phenix 4. God doeth constantlye gouerne all the alterations and changes of all common wealths God is the gouernour of al common wealths neyther is there here any place lefte vnto fortune neyther yet vnto the industrie or witte of man the which wholy is fitted by the prouidence of God For Promotion commeth neyther from the East nor from the Weast nor from the North. Because as the Prophet sayeth GOD is the Iudge hee throweth downe one and setteth vp an other Hee effectuallye ruleth the beginninges the middle the increase the decrease the full poyntes and endes of all Gouernementes The Scripture setteth foorth this true and certayne cause of chaunges whilest hée stirreth vp Kinges otherwyse deafe and dull to sette forth the power of GOD. For the thinges themselues albeit Kinges otherwise eyther holde their peace or also repine agaynste it doe witnesse the singular Maiestye and prouidence of God the cheefe King of all kinges 5. God doubtlesse hath ordayned gouernementes whiche come by inherytaunce Gouernments that come by inheritaunce are ordained by God as it is manyfeste by the Kingdome of Dauid neyther truelye coulde it come to passe wythoute the power of GOD that so manye millions of people shoulde willinglye obey an Infant newe borne and one man This notwythstandinge is true in Gouernementes that come by inherytaunce that the power of Kinges doeth depende vppon the power of the people and therefore that Kynges oughte to desyre of GOD that hée woulde frame the myndes of the people vnto obedyence and because that the Worde of GOD is the rule of this Obedience A good lesson for Princes that they oughte to employe all their diligence that the people maye bee instructed in the true knowledge and obedyence of God They ought moreouer by a iust and mild gouernement the which is sette downe by lawes to bynde the hearts of the people vnto them the which doubtlesse loueth him by whome they are well intreated And they must call to minde that they reigne not ouer Beastes but that they being men are appointed by God to gouerne men vnto whome they shal giue accounts of their gouernment And fynally they are to thinke that it is a dangerous thing to haue the patience of the people tried and teazed the whiche being often hurt is wont to turne into madnesse A rehersal of that which hitherto hath bene taught 6. Hitherto the preacher hath taught that happinesse is not in worldly thinges the whiche hee hath plentifully prooued by sufficient reckoning vp of the partes firste examining the generall trades of liuing and then the speciall And hee