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
three thou best deservest it and so bestowed it upon him a sumptuous Colledg at Lovain caused this inscription to be engraven upon it Utrecht where he was born planted me Lovain where he had his education watered me and Caesar who promoted him to the Popedom gave the increase under which a witty Passenger subscribed Hic Deus nihil fecit Here God did nothing Nay much rather say as Dan Cramerus Nil scio nil possum nil sum quoque quod tamen esse seire posse aliquid dicor id omne Dei est Or as holy Cruciger Omnia praetereunt praeter amare Deum And now Honorable Sir give me leave to acquaint you with the Reasons which moved me to presume to present this plain Discourse to Your Honor. 1. To give a poor yet humble and hearty acknowledgment to the world of the many favors and great undeserved respect which I have received freely from you and the kinde offers which you long since made to me upon your first taking notice of me as far above my deserts as desires the embracing whereof my other Obligations would not permit And secondly That seeing the love of this Common-wealth is deeply rooted in your heart deeper then the loss of Callice in Queen Maries or the love of his Country in A. Fulvius * Non Catilinae te genui sed patriae said Aulus Fulvius when he slew his own son with his own hands for Treason against the Common-wealth which publique frame of spirit is a thing most highly commendable though it be not true which Tully saith Omnes qui patriam conserverunt adjuverunt auxerunt certum est esse in Coelo and that God hath called Your Honor to a very high place and work for such work and so long a time as you have no president before you let me hear I beseech you take occasion to become a humble Petitioner to your Honor and by You to the Common-wealths Representative in a few partiticulars It hath been my lot for some time to be constantly at York Assizes not as having any suit at all but in attendance to some worthy friends where my heart even bled within me to see such rashness and carelessness in swearing too many offering to swear that but that the Judges were more careful and honest which after some discourse they were convinced to be untrue Oh that there could be found some other way then swearing of every man at the Assizes whether to punish false witnesses by pecuniary or corporal mulct as the new-converted Natives of America do punish the sin of lying for the first lye 5 s. for the second 10 s. for the third 20 s. or what other way shall seem to Your Wisdoms most convenient which perhaps would more restrain such careless and conscienceless persons from unjust witness-bearing then any their Oaths so might the Land be much freed from the burthen of Oaths under which it groans Jerem. 23. 10. and from that flying roll Zech. 5. 23. It is observable that the word in the Hebrew which the Scripture useth for swearing is always used in the passive a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 juratus fuit voyce to note say some that a man should not swear but when an Oath is layd upon him and he driven to it the word also hath the signification of seven b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as having reference say some to the seven Spirits of God before the Throne before whom we swear and therefore should swear in truth righteousness and judgment Jerem. 4. 2. Rev. 1. 4. 5. 6. and not rashly Eccles 5. 2. How scrupulous and tender was good Eliezer and how clear would he be ere he would swear Gen. 34. 4 5 6. Such a mans word is worth more then many mens Oaths When Lewis the French King was taken Prisoner by the Turks and after they agreed upon Articles for confirming whereof the Sultan offered to swear that if he broke any of the Articles he would renounce his Mahomet requiring K. Lewis to swear likewise that if he broke any of his Articles he would deny his Christ to be God which Oath Lewis detesting and offering rather to dye then to take it the Sultan wondering at his tenderness and constancy took his word without any Oath at all and so published the League I complain not against swearing as unlawful in it self nor yet against the manner used therein in touching or kissing the book though that godly sufferer William Thorp and some other eminent Worthies in England did mightily oppose this and suffered much for their Opinion herein above 240 years ago in the reign of our King Henry 4. onely I could wish if it were possible this common and rash swearing and for wearing might be prevented 2. I beseech you further what in you lies the suppressing of cursed Heresies and Fandamental Errors which are no small c See the Epistle of the Walachtian Churches sent to the Assembly of Divines at Westminster Quomodo omne geaus Haeresium in ultum permitti possit in illa Civitate quae tam expresso juramento sese devinxit ad omnia Scismata cyâ—â—â—enda blemish to our endevored Reformation It 's more then three years ago since a forreign Pen wrote to our disgrace in a Book published at Dantzick Anglia his quatuor annis facta est colluvies lerna omnia Errorum Sectarum nulla a condito orbe Provincia tam parvo spatio tot monstrosas Haereses protulit atque haec Epise porum tempora intra sexaginta annos non nisi quatuor sectas protulerunt eas plerunque in obscuro latentes c. I pray you help us really to confute his testimony I know when the Jews returned from Babylon to reform the Church and State they set up first the Altar then the Temple then the walls of the City as if we would say first Worship then Doctrine then Discipline but yet up the walls did go also at last The Lord help you and us against this dangerous flood of the Dragon which so hurts both broachers and receivers Austin saith of Arrius the Heretick that his pains are increased in Hell as oft as any one through his Heresie is seduced from the Faith and we finde it true that the itch of Error if not prevented oft-times breaks forth into the scab of Atheism We have publiquely humbled our selves in this Nation more then once for our Heresies I beseech you act what you justly may against them We hear what Laws our Brethren in new-New-England have made d Mr Thorow-good about three years ago against Anabaptists and others not for their Conscience which they may keep to themselves but for infecting and seducing others And we read e M. Weld rise growth c. that about thirteen years ago anno 1637. they convented at New-Town in new-New-England some of the principal Ring-leaders and not onely publiquely admonished and excommunicated but also
their Kingdom is not of this world 1 Cor. 2. 6 8. True it is that godly men as David c. may be temporall Princes but not Quatenus godly men and Christs seed And we had need to clear this for great temporall Monarchs are very fearfull of any claime to their Kingdomes or medling with their Titles Our Chronicles mention one Burdet a Merchant of London dwelling at the sign of the Crown in Cheapside in the dayes of our King Edward the fourth Anno 1483. who jestingly said to his Son that he would leave him heire to the Crown meaning the sign of the Crowne where he lived for which he was apprehended and within four hours hanged drawne and quartered for so saying Kings love not that men should Pulcheria the vertuous and discreet sister of Theodosius the second seeing her brother the Emperor to signe many writings without reading them caused a writing drawn and tendered wherein he consigned into her hands his wife Eudoxia formerly before Baptisme call'd Athenais a poor woman daughter of Leontig who seeking at the Court for Justice in a private cause took the Emperors affections was baptized and married him Eudoxia said it was too great a game to jest and play upon Diadems though the good Emperor much reformed by it jest with their Crowns how fearfully startled was Herod when he heard tell of some Wisemen asking for one that was borne King of the Jewes Mat. 2. 1 2 3 indeed worse afraid then hurt the Saints are not by vertue of their birth from Christ temporall but spirituall Kings though carnall men mens slander is very common that Gods people rebell and aime only to be temporall Kings Nehem. 6. 6 7. But know that it 's far better to be a spirituall Prince with God then meerly a temporall Prince over men Which will appear 1. Because the greatest Kings on earth have usually more crosses on earth then externall comforts there is a great vanity in the chiefest person and places on earth Psal 62. 9. The world hath now stood above 5000. years and the greater half of this time was spent ere the Jewes had any setled King at last about the year of the world 3761 God gave them a King Saul by name and there were but three Kings that governed and ruled over all the twelve Tribes viz. Saul David and Solomon and one of these viz. Saul came to a violent death slew himselfe though perhaps the Amalekite helped to dispatch him * If so then Saul who had been cruell to David 〈…〉 cruell to him self and he that spared the Amalekites and never prospered after is at last slain by an Amalckite 1 Sam. 15. 14 23. See Lightfâ—â—â— on that place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is onely used it 2 Sam. 1. 9. and signifies both 〈…〉 tremor vel argustre when his coat of male somewhat hidered his own spear from making that speedy end which he desired as the words in the Hebrew may be read 2 Sam. 1. 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 After these three Kings deaths the twelve Tribes were divided into two Kingdoms two Tribes clave to Rehoboam Solomons Son and Hâ—â—â— and made up the Kingdom of Judah and ten Tribes to Jâ—â—oboam Solomons Servant and made up the Kingdom of Israel Now after this division which began about the year of the world 2969. untill the captivity of Babylon and destruction of Jerusalem by Neâ—uchaâ—â—â—zzar there were but twenty Kings of Judah and of there eight suffered a violent death and of Israel before their lasting captivity 2 King 17. 6. there were but nineteen Kings whereof not one feared God among them all and of these nine died a violent death besides others imprisoned cruelly used c. In England since the coming in of the Norman William which is usually stiled the Conquest there hath been five and twenty Princes of whom nine came to a violent death and many more of those 109. Kings of Scotland I say it for this â—ad to shew what crosses and calamities do oft times attend great persons and places which cause their troubles to exceed their comforts which made Solomon complain of the vanity of vanities in all conditions Eccl. 1. before him his Father David say that he had seen an end of all perfection Psalm 19. 96. Nay see how somtimes Gods heavy hand goes out against a whole great Family or â—ine thus we find Ahab and Jezabel guilty of blood of godly Nabathe blood see what became of all that race â—nd line Ahab was shot to death by a man that shot at â—venture and timed not at him more then any other 1 King 22. 34. as he went up against Ramoth-Gilcad but it was purposely levelled fore-told and directed by God against Ahab 1 King 21. 19. as Elijah had told the King ere he went up thither so also Micaiah 1 King 22. 28. and Jezabel who was wife mother and daughter to a King even she was slain 2 King 29. 33. King Ahaziah son to Ahab never recovered of hâ—s fall through the Lettice 2 King 1. 2 16 17. then Ahabs other son Jehoram was King of Israel 2 King 3. 1. he goes against Ramoth-Gilead and takes it which his father Ahab could not do and having received some wounds in that service he leaves Jehu one of his Captains Commander in chief over his Army â—t Ramoth-Gilead and goes himself to be cured at Jezreel presently Jehu by Gods appointment 2 King 9. 1 2 3 7 8. c. drawes all the Army against King Jehoram his King his Master and his Master Ahabs son and slew him 2 King 9. 24 25. and that the blood of Naboth which Ahab had a hand in was a maine cause of all this appears because it 's expressed that in the same place where Naboths blood was shed both Ahabs and Iehorams blood was spilt 1 King 21. 19. and 2 King 9. 25 26. and so of Iezabel 2 King 9. 36 37. Athaliab the daughter of Ahab was married to Jehoram King of Judah 2 King 8. 16. 17 18. she was slaine 2 King 11. 16. her husbands bowells fell out 2 Chron. 21 18 19. none prospered that medled with that Line their elder sons were slain or carried captive by the Philistins and Arabians 2 Chron. 21. 17. and 22. 1. Ahaziah King Ahabs grandchild and some think he married againe into that stock 2 Kings 8. 27. he joyned with Jehoram in that war and after to visit him 2 King 8. 28 29. he was slaine 2 King 9. 27. and 42. of Ahaziahs brethren or kindred of Ahabs stock were slaine 2 King 10. 14. and seventy more of Ahabs sons and grand-children by severall wives were slaine 2 King 10. 1 7. so as none remained of that line and family 1 King 21. 21. see the like of Baasha another King of Israel his line 1 King 16. 11. Who hath not read the continued succession of calamities that attended Mary Queen of Scotland mother to the late King James 〈◊〉 her cradle to
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