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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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Barwick bridge OR ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND COVPLED 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 ESAY 19. 23. In that day there shall be a path from Aegypt to Ashur and Ashur shall come into Aegypt and Aegypt into Ashur c. LONDON Printed by EDWARD GRIFFIN for William Aspley 1617. TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY JAMES BY the grace of God King of great BRITAINE FRANCE and IRELAND c. REnowned and Beloued of God and man As the Wisemen followed the starre in the East so haue wee followed your Maiesty into the North at your appointment wee haue preacht and now at your command I haue put my selfe into the presse To which I might haue answered as one of the sons in the Gospell yea as one of your Presbyterian spirits lately answered you Nolo in flat terms I will not obey you for why should so many men the choise of two famous Churches of so much greater learning of more and more excellent gifts whom you haue heard not with attention only but with admiration too why I say should such and so manie escape the publishing I only to be set vpon the stage yet I aske it not of your Maiestie but of my selfe and I thinke I haue found the reason of it for as Izaak could not but know that Iacob was better then Esau and yet loued Esau for the meat which hee brought him so your Maiesty knoweth that there be in our society who like Rebecca can make better venison of a kid then I haue done of venison yet you haue thus designed on me therfore it was not I but the argument euen the peace I spake of which so affected you especially to heare of peace in Scotland but more especially to heare of peace betwixt England Scotland the very meat vndoubtedly which your soule loueth and therefore while I seeme to publish my Sermon I print vnawares your Maiesties praise and make knowen to the world how highly your Highnes apprizeth peace yea we haue lately seene it with our eies that Iustice Peace are met in you we haue seen you sitting in Parliament ten daies together we are witnesses that once you sat from one at noone to ten at night so much is Iustice beholden to you And we haue hard from your Maiestie nothing here sounding but loue peace you haue in your open Parliament professed your loue to our English Nation you haue proclaimed great punishment on such as should abuse the meanest of our nation you haue been of nothing more carefull then of our entertainment such as haue kindly entertained vs you haue openly thanked you haue knighted honoured them for it that as the Babylonians said of Cyrus The King is become a Iew so your Maiestie at this time hath been whollie English but it is your loue as in England to cherish Scots so in Scotland to tender vs and euerie where to be kinde to strangers it is your wisdom so to loue vs both that your example might worke loue peace in both And since we are returned in peace first with Iacob we set vp a piller of thanks to him who hath kept vs in our iourney next to your Maiestie we giue at least we repay the thankes which you your selfe vouchsafed your owne Subiects in our behalfe for those your Subiects we reioice to thinke that in all this time of our intercourse abode amongst them we haue had no combate but of kindes with them in kindnes we confesse they haue euercome vs yea from the great Lo Chancellor of Scotland to the Colledge hals Burgers houses we are debters prisoners for entertainment of that quality as if anie man shall depraue it he is like those men which raile on the Sun like the dogs which bark at the moone yea if any man shall embase what wee haue found so honourable if hee were partaker of the iourney I say he is wilfully malicious but if he speak by heare-say his heare-say is heresie he is falsly vncharitably credulous yea if Scotland were as barren as some report which haue not seen it we might report it for a wonder that God hath prepared vs a table in the wildernes for euery where we haue found cheerfull welcome willing attendance and of all things such abundance as nothing could bee complained of but excesse or if any thing were worse then that excesse wee our selues brought it with vs it was our owne vnthankfulnes yea if our beasts could speake they would acknowledge fulnes of the crib say out of the Prophet Esay we haue eaten cleane prouander winnowed and fanned and shew themselues more thankfull to their benefactors then many of their owners haue beene to God That God who hath euery where abundantly fed vs who hath kept vs abroad brought vs safely home that God make vs thankfull to himselfe louing to them who haue well deserued of vs and vpon your Maiesty we beseech him so to deriue the peace-makers blessing heere as you may bee called eternally the sonne of God heereafter Your Maiesties euer most obliged and dutifull Chaplaine Robert Wilkinson THE PRAISES OF PEACE A Sermon preached at Saint ANDREWES in Scotland PSAL. 133. 1. Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in one Most Excellent RIght Honourable Right Reuerend Beloued and Christian Brethren we are heere assembled a mixt and great assembly of two great Kingdomes for which cause I haue taken a text of congratulation and we are met among other reasons as I coniecture to giue thankes that wee may thus meet to reioyce in God and to be mutually merry and for that cause I haue chosen a text out of a Psalme yea I haue chosen a text out of a Psalme which as Austin saith is notus nominatus a Psalme well knowen to euery man and much spoken of in euery mouth and he saith of the text that it is sonus ita dulcis so sweet a sound as many which knew not the Psalter yet could sing the verse diuers which could not reade yet had it by rote Ecce quam bonum c. Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together The Psalme was penned by Dauid and at that time as it is thought when after long warre betwixt the two houses of Saul and Dauid some of the Tribes taking one part and some another they all came in at last and swore fealty to Dauid and made him King the sweet sense whereof makes him to write this Psalme and to breake out into this exclamation Behold how good and pleasant it is c. And it is as if he had sayd Compare the time present with the time past and see what a change is made while you had two Kings you had them as two swords reuelling