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A15375 Barvvick bridge: or England and Scotland coupled In a sermon tending to peace and vnitie. Preached before the King at Saint Andrewes in Scotland. Anno Domini. 1617. Iulij 13. By Robert Wilkinson Dr. in Diuinitie, and chaplaine to his Maiestie. Wilkinson, Robert, Dr. in Divinity. 1617 (1617) STC 25652; ESTC S102764 18,298 50

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so warre depopulates and destroyes all we neede not seeke farre for witnesse witnesse in our Scottish and English borders the woods and forrests wasted the fields yet vntilled the townes yet vnbuilt and for townes and houses meere kennels for dogs shrowdes fit for beasts but farre vnfit for men and yet we see in our trauels no great superfluity of beasts neither onely they were beasts which made this desolation and whosoeuer were captaines and souldiers the Diuell on both sides was leader of the field Nay let it be but a suit in Law and it is wonderfull to see how a man wasteth by it one Lawyer must bee feed Ne noceat that hee doe no hurt and another takes a fee and doth in truth a very little good and money runnes while all be run out and the fees of the suit exceede many times the benefit of the sentence and many a man becomes poore at the victory who had beene rich if hee had forborne the combate but in peace men plant and build and sow and reape and grow exceeding rich and as in the peaceable daies of Salomon Euery man sits vnder his vine and his fig-tree and there is none to make afraid Fiftly and lastly peace is pleasant to the taste too I speake it in the sense of Dauid Psal 34. O taste and see how gracious the Lord is the taste and relish of a good conscience for hee that is not in peace hath his conscience full of horror If he but see another prosper he is afflicted at it but if hee see it continue hee plotteth and practiseth how to impeach it yea Saul was more troubled at Dauids rising then at all which the Philistims did against him yea Haman was not ashamed to confesse that his riches his children and his honours and all the grace the King had done him yet did nothing auaile him so long as Mardochai was in his eye Ester 5. oh how ill tasted is that which takes away the taste of all other pleasures from vs but the peaceable minded man is free from all this hee tasteth pleasures in his prayers he tasteth pleasure in his sleep yea he lies him down sleeps in peace Psal 4. hee enuieth no man but saith with Dauid we haue wished you good luck euen to the ten Tribes that were against him Psal 122. he asketh not the death of his enemy much lesse contriueth it but though he haue Saul in the cane yet he loseth his aduantage and letteth him goe and hee that can doe thus when hee dieth shall finde it true which Abigail sayd to Dauid It shall bee no greefe of minde to thee that thou hast not auenged thy selfe The fourth poynt generall is that peace is not onely commended good but admired behold How good and How pleasant for as Di●nysius sayth of God appearing in a vision hee that thinketh hee hath seene God non vidit Deum sed aliquid Dei he did not see God but some glimmering of him so that peace whose goodnes a man may limit and determine it is not the true peace but some shadow of it for that peace passeth all vnderstanding and indeede to bee good is the meanest commendation that can be giuen to any thing for God made nothing but what was good and that which is not good is of the Diuell but the poynt is heere How good and How pleasant which is spoken by way of admiration may admit a four-fold interpretation first with a reference to the story for when wee see a thing come to passe which passeth common power yea and our expectation too wee fall a wondring straight euen so doth Dauid heere that Ruben and Simeon and Gad and Asher and Zebulon and Nepthali and all the Tribes should come in to Iudah and tenne submit themselues to one or two this was good indeede but How good A Domino factum est istud this was no wit nor policy nor power of man but a worke wrought by the hand of God and to draw this to our selues and our owne vse when God at any time hath composed any trouble in the state any faction or persecution in the Church or hath made any peace which wee expected not how can we do lesse then lift vp harts and hands and eyes to God and wonder at it or secondly this strange demonstration behold How good is but an excessiue kinde of praise and the highest stile of praise is to professe our vnability of expressing euen as the Psalmist vseth to speake of God O how excellent is thy name and how great is thy goodnesse he could not comprehend the one nor was hee able to expresse the other so since we cannot sufficiently set out the praise of peace wee will onely aske how good it is and praise it by saying nothing of it Or thirdly this admiration comes in by way of obiurgation as if hee sayd Oh yee that know not how good peace is beholde and consider how good it is for wee commonly wonder at those things which are vnwonted to vs and since wee are such strangers to peace it is spoken with a kinde of checke that wee should learne to know that with admiration whereof we cannot be ignorant but to our great shame Or else fourthly and lastly this admiration is mysticall for as Dauid was a figure of Christ so Dauids peace was a figure of the peace in heauen euen of that peace which eye hath not seene eare hath not heard and which hath not entred into the heart of man but as Austin saith of it Facilius est consequi quam ennarrare it shall be easier to attaine it then to define it therfore since we can only aske questions of it How good and How pleasant but cannot answer when we haue asked our way is onely to beleeue it and so to liue as they that expect and looke for it And so we come to the last point Behold which though in ranke order of words it stand first yet arising out of the Text as an vse out of the doctrine it cōmeth in good method to be handled last for peace being so good so pleasant how can we do lesse then looke vpon it Behold how good c. Behold how why Behold in contemplation of minde or behold in experience behold in vnderstanding or behold in sense Behold it that is search or seeke to know it or else behold it that is onely looke out and see it Behold it with the minde first for it is true in euery thing Quantum intelligitur tantum diligitur wee loue things so farre as we know them but no man can extend his loue beyond his knowledge The sonnes of God saw the daughters of men and then became enamoured of them but if they had not seen them they had neuer loued them and Dauid where hee professeth to loue the Law sheweth the reason of it for it was his continuall meditation Psal 119. that is hee did nothing but study it and it
is the cause of all profanenesse in the world that men doe not extend their consideration to behold the goodnesse of God and the beauty of vertue The timbrell pipe and wine are in their feasts saith Esay but they consider not the works of the Lord. Esa 5. But if thou knowest the gift of God saith Christ to the woman of Samaria Ioh. 4. and againe had they known the mystery of the Gospell they would not haue crucified the Lord of glory 1 Cor. 2. yea and for peace Oh if thou hadst knowne saith Christ the things that belong vnto thy peace Luc. 19. for if men did behold Peace in her perfect beauty and consider of what accompt it hath euer beene in the Church they would not breake the peace as they doe that is they would not fall out for trifles nor forsake the vnity of the Church for their owne fancies nor write nor raile nor preach one against another nor spurne against authority as they doe for the holy Apostles strained farre to keepe peace and saluafide became all things to all rather then to breake the peace and in the primitiue Church they professed it lesse hainous to sacrifice to Idols then to breake the peace but now as S. Paul sayd to the Church at Corinth we haue all knowledge and know all things 1 Cor. 8. wee know how to gouerne the Church and wee know how to make combustion and to stirre vp sedition and to set both Church and Common-wealth on fire but no man beholds or knowes how good how pleasant peace is Againe beholding heere is not onely considering but Dauids meaning is to behold it in sense for Ishbofeth and he sought both for a kingdome but they sought it with their swords and so lost peace but now they haue recouered it especially Dauid for his part and to that point he speaks and he speakes it with his finger Ecce Behold in sense how good peace is for indeed to behold it in speculation onely that is to behold it and not to haue it what a beholding call you this yea to behold peace as the beggerly Philosophers did write their politiques speculate of Kingdomes as poore Mathematicians turne heauen and earth about in a globe and then want money to buy a loafe of bread this is a colde contemplation yea thus to behold peace that is to see the goodnesse of it and then to want it oh it is one of the plagues of hell but Behold it saith Dauid that is behold and see how God hath sent it euen as Luc. 10. Blessed are your eyes for they see And this beholding is with thankes which if it be not an onely cause yet ought it to be one vse of our meeting in this kingdome and all the curses of vnthankfulnes shall light vpon vs if thus beholding peace we be not thankfull for it and what cause haue we of thankes I refer it to you Lords Knights and Gentle-men Beloued and Christian brethren of both Kingdomes Two things in this Iland hath bin much long affected one especially by vs English that God would at length combine together the two disagreeing Families of Yorke Lancaster by whose schisme and contention such effusion of blood so many yeeres was made The other that God by some good meanes would reduce and bring together these two great Kingdomes into one The former though done before our dayes yet still we enioy the goodnes pleasure of it but the other these golden daies of ours haue seene the doing of it But oh how many consultations were there before it could bee done It was seene in both Kingdomes for many reasons good that is we beheld it good in speculation and many motions and meanes were made and much endeauour was to doe it but the Diuell who breakes off all good purposes and we our selues still backward enough to better things found means euermore to stand aloofe and to mischieue one another and when truces were taken yet were they but the binding of Sathan for a time for time still vndid what time had done but now it is done and wee behold peace in sight and see peace not as our neigbours the States nor as the Churches in France nor as the poore Churches in Greece who see peace abroad and want it at home and are forced either to stand vpon their guard and to sleepe with their swords vnder their pillowes or to prostitute themselues to slauish conditions but wee haue such a peace as our selues desired and God hath so establisht as onely our selues shall bee able to impeach it and vnlesse as Hierome sayd of his owne time Nisi nostris peccatis Barbari fortes facti vnlesse our sinnes and vnthankfulnesse giue victory to our enemies the gates of hell shall not preuaile against vs And we must so behold our peace as wee see God in it Peace indeede is like a precious oyntment but it is also like the deaw vpon the mountaines the oyntment is powred on by the hand of a man and our peace is well promoted by inferiour meanes but the deaw comes from heauen and it is God that sendeth it and from God in heauen comes this our peace and vnion Who would haue sayd to Abraham that Sarah should haue borne him a sonne Gen. 21. and who of late when he saw in England a King with a sonne and two daughters all like enough to liue and leaue a royall issue who would haue sayd to England that Scotland euen in that age should haue bred and brought them vp a King but God that God by whom Kings raigne hath thus deuolued it for our good and if God haue coupled vs who then shal put asunder what God hath ioyned together yea what man either for his owne or for the common good would haue this vnion sundred while we were diuided into parts that some followed Tibui and some followed Omri that some were for Saul and some for Dauid and one part English and another Scottish we were not strangers only but enemies too and our very names were mutually odious our borders were like the piller which Iacob and Laban pitcht vp as a barre to keepe the one from the other a barre indeede to keepe out peace but what could then debarre vs from mischeeuing one another but God the God of peace hath now sounded a retraite for where before the very ground of one was still a snare to the other our houses now are become mutuall harbours our Colledges are reciprocally conferring their honours yea and our pulpits open each for other ours of late for you and yours now for vs for our Prelates and for our Preachers and for me also now the meanest of ten thousand to commend and plead for peace and let the hugest of these mountaines drop downe vpon his head which openeth his mouth to speake against it Oh you that haue trauelled far seen in your trauels the confines and diuisions of other Countreyes Tell mee did yee euer see in any two Kingdomes so little cause of diuision yea of distinction as in ours There are no huge Pyrenean hils or mountains to diuide vs as betwixt the two Kingdomes of France and Spaine vnlesse pride of heart stand vp as a hill betwixt vs nor are we seuered with wilde forrests or Herculean woods as Bohemia is from Germany vnlesse our selues grow wood-mad with enuy and enuy creepe vp and downe as a wild beast betwixt vs nor are wee walled asunder as China is from Asia vnlesse some Hiel or Bethelite shall arise and build againe the walls of Iericho nor is the confusion of Babel falne vpon vs to make vs different language onely one saith Sibboleth and the other Shiboleth very meane and insensible differences and I hope we shall not be so mad as Ephraim and Gilead to fight a field for these yea if the Diuell doe not put more oddes in our hearts then God hath done in our mouths we shall need no French comment or interpreter to stand betweene vs wee shall with little helpe vnderstand each other we shall speake and talke and conuerse familiarly and loue and liue together Lastly there is no raging Ocean or sea to sunder vs as betwixt vs and the Indies vnlesse we rage in hatred one against another onely there runnes a pleasant Siloam or Kedron betwixt vs you call it Tweade I thinke it came from twayed because by it we are made vnkindly two but when the bridge is finisht Twayed shall then be Tyed and we shall all be one wee are not the sonnes of Hamilcar who swore Hannibal yet a childe that hee should neuer bee at peace with the Romans which oath hee tooke at the altar and kept to the end but wee are not so Popish ignorance of olde time made vs enemies and the Pope who makes warre and peace as best may serue his purpose he I thinke did little good to make vs friends but we haue now shaken of him as the Prince of contention and darknesse and being better instructed we haue done better and better knowledge hath brought forth better fruits and it will euer be spoken in the ages to come that one and the same age hath both freed vs from the tyranny of the Pope knit vs both into one Kingdome A Domino factum est istud this peace is like the deaw and distilled euen from the hand of God Blessed be that God that sent it blessed bee the man that makes it blessed be they all which do embrace it God Almighty makes vs all so to dwel liue together here that we may liue eternally in the Kingdom of Christ Iesus heerafter to whom for our meeting at this time for our ioyfull meeting in this Kingdom for all the blessings seuerally and for the peace now iointly bestowed vpon vs to him I say with the father the holy Ghost be all thanks praise now for euer Amen FINIS