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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07822	Salomon or A treatise declaring the state of the kingdome of Israel, as it was in the daies of Salomon Whereunto is annexed another treatise, of the Church: or more particularly, of the right constitution of a Church.	Morton, Thomas, of Berwick.	1596 (1596)	STC 18197.7; ESTC S112936	159,289	238

paire of smale pigeons as a couple of great oxen and that the most maiesticall and stately monarches as namely our gratious soueraign inferiour to none in maiesty state haue as willingly stouped to a homely dish of fruit to a smale posie of three or foure flowers to a sheet of paper contayning in it no great mysteries as to great and fruitfull orchardes to the most faire and pleasant gardens or to great and huge volumes mirrours of wit and storehouses of all profound learning Yea we knowe that as God himselfe so also wise princes by his example doe often more willingly admit meane and simple then great and rich oblations as not carying with them any shewe of merite nor making the receauer beholden and indebted to the giuer In the which respect as we doe beare in our mindes vnfained loyaltie and loue of the greatnes whereof as there are many degrees of it we haue nothing to say but onely that it is farre lesse than it ought to be to her Maiesties state and person so we haue thought it meete to testifie the same vnto thee good reader by this meanes which now we vse Let not we pray thee the great wantes which thou mayest easely espy or rather can'st not but see in these treatises being for quantitie smale and contemptible for stile base yea rude for matter barren yea altogether void of that deepe learning which aboundeth in euerie booke and place breede in thy minde any suspition of want of affection or make thee thinke them altogether vnfit for this purpose We doe not goe about to make eyther comparison or contention betweene the excellency of the gift and of the receauer and thou art not ignorant that pence and halfe pence doe as decently cary about with them the name armes and image of the prince as the greatest peeces of gold or siluer and are as euident testimonies of the loyall subiection of the people amongest whom they are currant Howe then will some man say are all to be accounted vnduetifull subiectes who doe not by some such meanes testifie their good affection toward their prince or is it meete that euery three halfe penny pamphlet come foorth in her Maiesties name No surely the one is neyther needfull nor conuenient for it would be troublesome and tumultuous the other is not to be allowed Onely we meane that no man should be wanting as in bearing in his heart so in testifying vnto others his loue and loyalty towardes his prince when occasion is offered and doth so require And that the smalnesse or meannesse of the present especially in this kinde wherein it is after a sort commendable for we cannot thinke that great princes haue leysure to peruse many great volumes ought to make vs thinke it vnmeete for this purpose if that in other respectes it doe agree And whether this be a sufficient defence for our doing or no yet we trust that thou gentle reader to whom onely this booke although dedicated to her M. is to be offered and presented will not reiect it for the meannesse of it but take it in good part insteed of a better Thus we hauing penned and being about to publish these two treatises the one of the state of the kingdome of Israel the other of the right constitution of a Church seemed both to our selues and also to others to haue good o●casion offered of perfourming the aforesaid duety and that the arguments of these treatises did euen lead vs by the hand to this dedication It were rashnesse folly for any man to think that euery flower in his garden were a fit present for a prince although if there were any necessitie that he should of a suddaine testifie his submission the meanest would serue his turne to a gracious prince as Iacob bid his sonnes take with them a present to the ruler of Aegypt of such thinges as were readiest in the house yet if happelie his garden brought forth a flower of that kinde whereof the poet speaketh inscripti nomina regum wherein the name picture or armes of his prince were liuelely engrauen by nature her selfe who would not pardon his boldnesse in presenting it to him yea although it were not in any respect so faire pleasant and fragrant as many other Yea and if he should be drawen by affection or hope of gaine which h● perhaps would hope for rather at a meaner mans handes as hauing leasure to mind and remember the perfourmance of that duetie bestow it vpon any other iudge him an vnduetifull and vnthankefull subiect Thus our poore garden hath yeelded this treatise of the kingdome of Israell wherein nothing is worthy to be eyther commended or mentione● but onely that it is if we be not deceaued a most true and liuely picture of her Maiesties state and crowne There are many fourmes of gouernment beside Monarchies and diuers kindes of kingdomes but as a base pr●uerbe saith one egge is not more like to another then was this state to that gouernment vnder which we liue Neyther is there at this day any christian kingdome in the world that commeth so neare vnto it or rathen doth so match it in great power and surpassing maiesty yea in all other respectes of any moment Yea we neede not heere except tha● notable prerogatiue wherewith this kingdome was endued and adorned in that it was Gods kingdome founded established maintained and repaired by God himselfe for who knoweth not that God hath from time to time and doth at this day so watch ouer this kingdome and maintaine it against all aduersarie power wha●soeuer that it may truly be called Gods kingdom It is recorded of one Brightwold a Monke of Glastenburie that studying of the succession which at that time troubled him and many others he had reuealed vnto him in a dreame that Edward should be king and that he being not so content but asking further who should succeede him in the kingdome he receaued this answere or rather this reproofe Take thou no thought for such matters for the kingdome of England is Gods kingdome What credit is to be giuen to the author or what account is to be made of this dreaming prophet let others iudge yet as we finde it recorded in our Chronicles so we haue thought it not vnfit to be remembred in this place Besides we knowe that these powerfull and maiesticall kingdomes haue beene a●d are at this day oppugned by many yea vtterly reiected as vnlawfull and therefore this treatise presuming to giue his sentence on their side as being most lawfull gouernementes could not more fitly shrowde it selfe vnder any patronage then vnder that for the which it is like to be reiected by some Againe we haue annexed to this treatise of the kingdome of Israell a treatise of the right manner of framing or building the Church as it were ioyning the Church and the commonwealth into one bodie vnder one head as we are perswaded that they are not two but one onely bodie the which also