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england_n	henry_n	king_n	lancaster_n	5,263	5	11.7365	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01920	Enōtikon or A sermon of the vnion of Great Brittannie, in antiquitie of language, name, religion, and kingdome: preached by Iohn Gordoun Deane of Sarum, the 28 day of October 1604, in presence of the the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall	Gordon, John, 1544-1619.	1604 (1604)	STC 12059; ESTC S103340	32,572	56

hundreth yeeres or there about But in her declining age great diuisions did fall out by ciuill warres which did bring foorth a great desolation and dissolution of the which there did rise a multitude of other Kings and kingdomes according to the prophecie of Daniel during the perfection of this Monarchie Christ did establish his eternall kingdome which was the calling of all the nations of the Gentiles from their Idolatrie foretold by the Prophet Christ amongst all estates of the world did make choise of this vnited estate of all kingdomes vnder one King Monarche to begin his spirituall kingdom here amongst men Whereby we are taught that the onely son of God did loue the condition of the Vnion of many kings in one as being an Image of his heauenly kingdome aboue all other estates For the choise of Christs birth Incarnation vnder the estate of Vnion was a prophesie of the Vnion of Christs vniuersal kingdome which was to be ioyned with the earthly Monarchie The beginning of the foundation of Christs kingdome was in the age of a generall peace established by Augustus who as we learne by the Romane histories Toto arbe pacato Ianum clusit did close the Temple of Ianus the whole world being at peace We will lay before your eyes briefly the estate and progresse of this blessed vnion of the worldly Monarchie with the spirituall kingdome of God and shew you also what a great benefit God hath powred foorth vpon this Iland of great Brittannie in choosing it to be the holy place wherein this admirable vnion of God and man is conioined in the person of a Britaine King vniting the temporall and spirituall Monarchie in one We are taught by Ecclesiasticall histories and others that Christ Iesus the eternall son of his eternall father after his crucifying and ascension by sending of his Apostles through the world did propagate the true religion and adoration of the increated God in the whole Romane Monarchie for the space of fiftie yeares But Satan who was and as yet is a vigilant watchman a carefull searcher and a busie Bishop did not forget his diuellish attempts For knowing that the preaching of the Euangell would destroy his Temple which was full of Gentilique Idolatrie he did raise vp Nero many of his successors to excercise many bloody and cruell persecutions against Christs owne Apostles and Disciples for the space of three hundred yeares or therabout Hoping by such cruell murdering of Gods holy Saints to abolish the true adoration and religion of Christ and to maintaine the temples of his Idols and false Gods But that is true which antiquitie doth say Sanguis Martyrum est semen Euangelij The blood of the Martyrs is the seed of the Gospell So that in this case Satan was frustrated of his wicked expectation that he had to destroy the true religion by the shedding of the pretious blood euen as he was deceiued when he seduced the people of the Iewes to crucify the Lord of glory For if Satan had knowen that the crucifying of Christ Iesus and the shedding of the bloud of that immaculat Lambe should tend to the saluation of mankind and of his revnion with God he would not then haue instigated the Iewes to crucifie the Lord of glory and if he had knowen that the bloudshed of so manie holie Martyrs which were killed for the space of three hundred yeeres after Christ by the Romane Emperors and their lieutenants if he had imagined that all these things did more establish and confirme Christs Gospell then they did hinder the passage thereof he would haue left of to haue procured so many persecutions against the Christians All these persecutions being ended God did conciliat a marriage betwixt Constantius Chlorus who had to his part of the Romane Monarchie Germanie France Spaine and great Brittaine and Helena daughter to Coilus or Coelus who was King ouer that part of Brittaine that did resist the Romans by the which mariage Constantinus Magnus their sonne was borne in this Iland who after the death of his father that died at Yorke did enter into the full possession of this Iland of great Brittannie and so it was wholy vnited in his person where he did establish the true Christian religion and the true worship of the onely vncreated God From thence he did take his iourney by Fraunce to Rome where he ouerthrew in battell Maxentius that great persecutor of the Christians And hauing established there and in the whole occident the kingdome of Christ he went to the Orient where he did likewise ouerthrow in battel Licinius the which Licinius after he had been long a Christian did returne to gentilisme and became a persecutor And so by all these victories this Britaine King became Emperour King and Monarche of the whole world who did make Lawes for the abolishing of Gentilisme and establishing of Christian Religion We doe learne by this historie how the propheticall signification of the name Britannia was fulfilled in Constantinus daies in whose person both the temporall kingdome of the whole world and the spirituall kingdome of the true Religion of God was vnited Of this we collect that the restoring of this auncient and glorious name of Great Britannie into one kingdome vnder our newe Constantinus is to be embraced by all men with great congratulation and gladnesse Secondly we doe learne of this historie that as God did first procure the blessed Vnion of this Iland by the mariage of Constantius and Helena Euen so that same good God who is euer like himselfe did bring foorth three most happy Vnions within these hundred yeeres or there about by a mariage betwixt King Henry the seauenth and Queene Elizabeth heire of Yorke The first Vnion was of the two houses of Lancaster and Yorke the second Vnion did consist in the vniting of all the people of this Iland in the true Religion and worship of God and abolishing of Gentilisme which was brought in vnder the pretence of Christian Religion the third vnion was the vniting of England and Scotland together in the person of our gratious Soueraigne who is descended Lineally from King Henry the seauenth For it is notoriously knowen that by that happie mariage of King Henry the seuenth heire of Lancaster and Elizabeth heire of Yorke the cruell wars which were for many yeeres betwixt these two houses were extinguished and the Vnion in their royall progeny established out of which mariage came King Henry the eight who did begin to abolish Idolatrie in this Iland King Edward the sixt who did establish true Religion and Queene Elizabeth of happie memory who did embrace all the daies of her life the true auncient Christian Religion vnto whom lineally our Kings Maiestie succeeded in whose Royall person is made the revnion of this Iland in one kingdome as it was before in Constantinus Magnus daies Let vs all then call to memorie three great blessings