her grave Her father King James the fifth died about the time of her birth when she was about six years old she was sent to France in great danger by winds and English ships there was an agreement 'twixt England and Scotland for a match 'twixt our King Edward the sixth and her which breaking on their part occasioned the Lord Protectors march with an English Army to Muscleborough field where much blood was shed and a Scotch Lord being taken prisoner and asked how he liked our wedding with Scotland said he liked the match well but not the woing to fetch a wife with fire and sword In France she was married young to Francis the Dolphin of France who died shortly after of a pain in his ear then was she Omnia fai nihil mihi profuit said Scverus the Emperor when he was dying and almost all the Roman Emperors untill Constantine and very many Popes after him got nothing by all their great advancement for the getting whereof they adventured life and limb and a better thing sed ut citius in tersicerentur as Aâ—ban a wedge to cleave him and garments throw him in great dangers by Sea in her returne back to Scotland where also she found the Scots in Armes she was there married to Henry Lord Darnley son to Matthew Stuart Earle of Lenox by whom she had King Iames her husband was murthered soon after King Iames's birth she was apprehended by the States of Scotland charged with the murther and imprisoned after she escaped out of prison fled to England where she was prisoner first in one place and then another above sixteen years and then beheaded at Fotheringay-Castle in Northamptonshire she desired to be buried in France but was buried at Peterburgh aged six and forty years and yet could not rest in a grave her body was taken up again by King Iames and buried at Westminster Every Crown of Gold is lined with a Crown of Thornes who almost would take up Crowns upon these termes but spirituall Princes their comforts in life death after death exceed their crosses they have that joy that no man can take from them that will support them at the stake in the Dungeon c. 2. There is no Nation where all the Subjects are temporall Princes but all Christs true Subjects in whose hearts their own Spirit which is one of the greatest conquests Prov. 16. 32. and over afflictions Rom. 8. 37. 9. Temporall Princes be not all of one Line no not in the same Kingdome as in England somtimes the Romans ruled here somtimes the Britains then Saxons then Daneâ— then Normans and since the Norman William somtimes his own Race ruled here then the Plantagenets then the Tudors then the Stuarts and of the four and twenty Kings since William the Conquerors death not above seven in England that could pretend legally to succeed their next Predecessors either by lineall or collaterall Title but the Saints are all of one blood borne of the blood of God Ioh. 1. 13. of the same spirit Joh. 3. 5 6 8. 10. Some other Princes were annoynted with externall oyle though it 's generally observed that all the Kings of Israel and Judah were not anointed with oyl though Saul David Solomon and some others were nor were the Kings of Judah anointed with the holy oyl where with the High Priests were anointed and which God commanded to be made Exod. 30. 23. 33. but with common oyl though laid up in the Sanctuary The Scotch Historians say that externall anointing of their Kings never began with them tiâ— Popery got footing there from which they say their Nation was free many years after Christ and kept much purity in Religion and that King Edgar was the first so anointed there Anno 1098. * The French Historians tell much of the holy oyl kept at Reims yet generally acknowledge that the first King of France that was anointed was Pepin and that none of the Merovignion Line were anointed and yet their former Kings were as much and as truly Gods anointed as the later but all the Saints are Gods Anointed Psal 105. 14 15. with a supernaturall and heavenly Oyl of Grace 1 Ioh. 2. 27. The Apostle tells us Hebr. 1. 9. That Christ was anointed with the oyl of gladnesse above his fellows which notes two things 1. That all the Saints are Chriâ—â—s fellows fellow-heirs fellow-sufferers fellow-conquerors c. 2. That they are anointed with the divine graces that Christ is only in their measure for of Christs fulnesse they receive grace for grace Ioh. 1. 16. Psal 133. â— The next thing is to shew you wherein they are Princes for as Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon concerning his brethren Judg. 8. 18. they each one resemble the children of a King and of this briefly 1. They are Princes by birth by the new and second birth born of the royal blood of Jesus Christ Joh. 1. 12 13. 2. They have the vast possessions of Princes * Abraham had little yet he was heir of the whole world Rom. 4 13 as before is proved Luther said that all the vast dominions of the Turk was but a scrap cast to a dog but the Saints dominions are higher larger c. 3. They have the power of Princes As a Prince hast thou power with God said Christ to Jacob Gen. 32. 28. Paul can do all things through Christ Phil. 4. 13. All things are possible to him that beleeveth Mark 9. 23. They have power * Hic homo potuit apud deum quod voluit was said of Luther Saints are the blessings of to a place Isaiah 19 24 with God so as to stop Lions mouths quench fire binde 2 King 2. 8 14 up the Sea nay binde the hands of God Exod. 32. 10. And the Queen of Scots before mentioned said that she more feared the prayers of Mr John Knox then an Army of 20000 men So said Leolin Prince of Wales of another and the Elector of Saxony of the Archbishop of Magdenburgh c. 4. They conquer as mighty Princes Death 1 Cor. 15. 55. and Hell Rom. 8. 1. and afflictions Rom. 8. 37 38. Prince of darkness Eph. 6. 12. their lusts 2 Cor. 10. 4. their hearts Prov. 16. 32. Jam. 4. 7. Rev. 2. 26 27. a greater conquest then Davids over Goliah 5. They are clothed as Princes The Queen in the Psalm was clothed with gold of Ophir yet her best clothing was within Psal 45. 9 13. They have robes that none wear but Princes the perfect merits of Christ upon them They are clothed with the Sun Rev. 12. 1. Christs long white robe Revel 19. 8. and with the sincere garment of grace within them Ezek. 16. 8. to 14. The Scripture calls Christs merits the best robe Luk. 15. 22. none but Princes wear it 6. Fed as Princes not scraps but Childrens bread Angels food fed at the Kings own Table as Mephibosheth They have meat that the world knows not of as Christ
reproved for it by Jehu 2 Chron. 19. 2. yet he again makes friendship with Ahaziah 2 Chron. 20. 25. and marries his son to Ahabs daughter 2 Chro. 21. 6. and yet the Lord saith of him 1 King 22. 43. that he turned not aside from doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord. How should this melting patience cause you to bless and act for this gracious God and to chronicle his mercies to posterity How often have I wished that Your Honor who have had during almost these ten years so perfect information of all the wonders of our God to and for his People in this Nation had Psal 107. 43. kept a perfect Diary thereof or if You have so done that You would communicate the same to the world which would be one of the rarest pieces of humane stories How wonderful and various have been the goings of our God in this Nation these ten years and still are like His dealing with His People of the Jews after their return from Babylon Zech. 14. 6 7. It was for a long time neither day nor night clear nor dark a man could not guess what a day it would be by the eye of sense but presently after a Sun-shine a Cloud and all this to shake off such as live by sense and not by Faith and serve themselves of God and the Publique as Jehu and Judas did and to let the Saints see that things are carryed on not by might nor by power but by the Lord of hoasts his own Spirit Zech. 4. 6. nevertheless in the evening time it shall be light And I am in the midst of a cloudy day the more encouraged when I consider 1. That the work is in the hand of a good and wise Master-builder who ever the instruments be In all these turnings there is a Spirit in the Wheels and the Wheels are full of eyes Ezek. 1. Secondly God sees and aims further then the best Agents and Instruments that are used in the work The Apostles did not see in the work themselves were imployed in so far as Christ meant but he lets them see more and more by steps and degrees what he would have done Mark 4. 28. So Ezek. 47. 3 4. and God hath led us along with a Cloud and Fire and owned us in the Mount and midst of straits Thirdly The light of the Truth I mean not Satans delusions and mens phansies but true Light much spreads in America new-New-England in Wales in the North c. Poor Creatures flock like Doves to the windows and the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence And if it be said so do Profaneness and Heresies spread I answer it was always so in times of Reformation till things could be setled Satan more struggles and when God is giving physick the disease more breaks forth Hos 7. 1. When did cursed Doctrines and Practices more break forth in the Old Testament then in Malachi's time when the Jews were returned from Babylon to reform Church and State in Canaan Mal. 3. 14 15. See Israel through the Wilderness Fourthly Compare former times impartially with these we shall finde thirteen fourteen or twenty years ago traps of several kindes layd for consciencious Ministers and Christians men durst not meet together to seek Gods face humble their Souls Sermons on Lords days in the afternoon weekly Exercises c. restrained the very face of piety discountenanced and they that wrought wickedness and most zealous against Puritans were exalted dumb dogs non-residents sports on Lords day c. favoured But how are godly men and godliness countenanced in good measure what happy alteration in our Vniversities for advance of piety though still more is to be wished And though too many Errors in some Members of our Armies yet see heretofore every Town generally sent such out to be Souldiers who were of the basest sort for drunkenness and villany that knew nothing compare our Army now with those here formerly and then judge without prejudice Fifthly Though mens â—ims were but little and strait at first as Luther said that when he first began he meant no more but to withstand Popish a Occasione â—â—â—dinatioâ—â—s indulgentiarum pretio numerato Lutherus initio fuit permotus ad hoc quod suscepit Reformationis opus c. Pardons and selling of Indulgences yet neither would God nor his Enemies let him alone till he resolved with Moses not to leave a hoof neither root nor branch of Popery So God and our Enemies heighten Your spirits Sixthly We hear what God is still working in bringing in many poor Natives in America whether they be the Posterity of the Jewish ten Tribes as Peter Martyr of old and b Mr Thorowgood others of late give very probable conjectures and if so Mr Brightman and others may well be owned for Prophets who above fourty years ago foretold the Calling of the Jews to begin about the year 1650. or whether they be Gentiles to embrace the Gospel with tears prayers marvelous zeal and Reformation And how have we seen the finger of God all along restraining the rage of men letting the Enemy vent onely so much fury as might conduce to Gods praise Psal 76. 10. He that stills the noise of the Seas stills the tumules of the People Psal 65. 7. The great God swaddles the mighty raging Ocean like a little Infant yea more easily then any Midwise can do the least childe in swadling bands Job 38. 9. and the Original word c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fraenum Capistrum used Mark 4. 39. for Christs stilling the winds and Sea signifies his putting a bridle in the mouth of the winds and Sea whereby he turns them about when most blustering and raging more easily then any man can do the nimblest horse He gathers the winds in his fist Pro. 30. 4. nods d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 men to death Psal 80. 16. with a blast Job 4. 9. And how may all these experiments stir You up to trust God for the future and be sincerely active for God against Your own and the Nations sins and distempers as Henricus Auceps when he fought against the Hungarians made this Vow to God that if the Lord would give him a victory over his Enemies he would purge his Country from e Commonly so called else buying livings was not Simons sin Act. 8. 18 to 20. though usually called Simony Simony which then much raigned therein And I beseech you return the praise and glory of all not to Your selves or Armies but to the free mercy and goodness of God alone Pope Hadrian having built K. W. Rufus when two Monks came to him to buy an Abbots place each outvying other in great sums of money for it the K. asked a third Monk that stood by what he would give who answered never a peny for that it s against my Conscience said he to give any thing then said the King of all the
imprisoned and after banished them Luther fore-told above one hundred years ago that the Familistical Errors which he then in their bud opposed would hereafter rise up with more subtilty and danger in the days of more light of the Gospel and sure now Satan is busie in sowing Tares 3. I beseech you encourage and further as blessed be God you have begun a glorious work that way a godly orthodox painful Ministry in England Ireland Wales c. that God that hath always payd so well for nursing his children and counted that done to him which is done to them will not forget Matth. 25. Acts 9. Mat. 10. 40 41 42. Zech. 2. 8 any pains and care for his faithful Ministers and propagating his Gospel advancing piety and learning with all due and needful encouragements thereto Satan every way opposeth them and Gods work by them Elijah was called the Troubler of Israel 1 King 18. 17. Amos charged for conspiracy Amos 7. 10. Paul counted a f 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pestilent fellow a very post a mover of Sedition and Ring-leader of a Sect Acts 24. 5. and Christ himself a Teacher of New Doctrines Mark 1. 27. as well as Paul Acts 17. 9. g Jeremy was layd by the heels for a Traytor to the State Luther called a trumpet of rebellion and Beza a seedsman of sedition Unicum crimen eorum qui crimine vacabant as Lipsius out of Tacitus Therefore they stand in more need of your further encouragement so shall you be not titulary but real defenders of the Faith The Pope sent over to James the fourth King of Scotland a Sword with this Title Protector of the Faith and presently after another Sword to our King Henry the eighth with this Title Defender of the Faith but the meaning was to protect the Popish Faith and not Christs pure Gospel and accordingly both those Kings afterwards caused several godly men to be burned for the Truth in their Dominions and great ignorance followed men wholly studying Popish fancies and neglecting Gods Word so as George Creichton Bishop of Dunkel confessed that he had lived Bishop many years yet never knew any thing of the Old and New Testament 4. I beseech you while you sit in that Honorable Senate forget not poor Prisoners in the Gaol but let there be in every County some provision made for their Souls so that they may not be made in their Prisons ten times more the children of Hell then before and most unfit to dye when most unable to live How much good did that learned and holy Mr Perkins that way in his time One Malefactor amongst others crying out upon the Ladder to Mr Perkins that he feared Non metuo mori sed damnari not Death but a worse thing was even melted into tears at Mr Perkins his Prayer and dyed joyfully What a blessed work would this be to provide some able man and means for him to preach to and catechise these poor Souls that so they may not be in bondage to Satan but Christs free men that when the Justice of the Law will not suffer them to live the Mercy in the Gospel may fit them for death A reuerend Minister of this Nation now with God said that one shilling a quarter of every parish one with another in the County of Somerset which is no burthen to any man would encourage some godly man to this work so might we perhaps through Gods mercy see more penitent theeves 5. Contribute I beseech you your best skill and help for the joynting of godly and faithful men who agree in the same Fundamentals of Doctrine and truth of practice towards God and the State and shall agree in the same Heaven at night Tragediae Lutheranae mihi ipsi etiam calculo sunt molestiores said Erasmus The Differences among godly men more troubled Erasmus then the stone It 's a thousand pities to see what strangeness in Opinion Affection and Conversation a few years of peace have bred in too many who agreed mourned and wept together in times of Trouble like sheep run of a heap in a storm but spread up and down the mountain in a Sun-shine How do the Philistins hereupon triumph publish it in Gath and raise up their hopes And I fear there are some cursed spirits that do purposely heighten our Divisions to ruine us both I have often sadly thought of that passage of Oecolampadius to the Lutherans when the fire of contention grew hot 'twixt the Zuinglians and them as they were called and the subtil Jesuites and Papists joyned themselves with the Lutherans in the Sacramentary quarrel and stroked them on the head eos laudabant in pretio habebant c. purposely to make the breach wider and irreconcileable to ruine both Error condonari potest saith Oecolamp discordiam neque si sanguinem fundamus expiabimus and as our Divisions bring scandal so danger as Machiavils rule was by being divided in minutula frustula Cambden observes that the low Countries suspecting the friendship of the English anno 1587. stamped money with two Earthen Pitchers swimming on the Sea with this Motto Si collidimur frangimur If we dash one against another we are both broken I wish that England and Holland England and Scotland England and England would timely consider this whom to cement and glue firmly was worth the study and labour of another Constantine the great nay of an English Parliament but lieth onely in the Power of the Almighty In the Raign of Henry the eight anno 1536. fourty thousand Yorkshire men rose up in Arms to uphold the Popes authority their old Traditions Latine Service though alass whether it was cursing or praying they knew not their Beads Crosses and other Church-ornaments as they called them which they thought Cromwel would then have pulled down This Rising they called the Holy Pilgrimage on their Colours they had the five wounds of Christ with the letters JESUS in the midst The King sent down a great Army against them both Armies drew neer to one another the place day and hour of battel was set but that night before the battel should be fell a small rain which so raised a little brook that was betwixt the Armies that neither Army could come at the other all the next day the neighboring Inhabitants having never seen that brook swell neer that height which the day before a man might have gone over dry-shod though they had often seen far greater rain both Armies looked at it as Gods miraculous hand forbidding their fighting and so treated agreed and departed quietly How happily was the effusion of blood prevented Alass how do we see sincere godly men ready through different apprehensions and remnant of corruption like Abraham and Lot Paul and Barnabas to fall out In Queen Maries days of persecution some godly men after Martyrs thought that they might not with a safe conscience fly away though they had fair warning and opportunity as Latimer Taylor Bâ—adford