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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68818	A discourse plainely prouing the euident vtilitie and vrgent necessitie of the desired happie vnion of the two famous kingdomes of England and Scotland by way of answer to certaine obiections against the same.	Thornborough, John, 1551-1641.	1604 (1604)	STC 24035; ESTC S107314	12,497	44

cecidere cadentque Horace Quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula si volet vsus This pretended vnpleasing harshnesse is no more then the nicenesse of a virgin who is as loth and maketh it daintie to leaue her fathers name yet afterward maried to a husband taketh greatest comfort in the name of her husband in whome she glorieth and by whom she enioyeth all her worldly ioy And yet need not England be so nice as if she were a virgin who like a widdow hath so often chaunged her name but may take pride as widdowes do to be called by her most honorable and most glorious name Thus hauing briefly run ouer the obiections and withall caried in open view in mine answer due consideration both of euident vtilitie and vrgent necessitie I will be bold with additions of more reasons yet a litle farther to proceed in the perswasion of this desired happie Vnion God alwaies blessed and to be honored for euermore who is Trinitie in Vnitie and Vnitie in Trinitie three persons and but one God doth by influence of his holy Spirit giue diuers gifts and graces to beleeuers of what countrie or condition soeuer they be and gouerneth them by one holy law and vniteth them in the same faith though diuersly scattered among all the nations of the Christian world that hereby the gods on earth whom he hath placed to rule ouer many and diuers kingdoms vpō earth might learne by the same lawes in things humane and same religion in matters diuine to preserue VVeale publike and Christian Societie among men But the ambition and frowardnesse of many desirous rather to be distracted into diuers names and countries and to be ruled by diuers lawes and customes do oft times hazard the common good and peace of the VVeale publique where two kingdoms so deuided vnder one Soueraigne are not vnlike the rich treasures of pearle and gold laid vp in one shippe by contrarieties of diuers winds to be driuen vpon rockes with extreamest danger as is said in Tully of deuiding Defin. and distinguishing desires into seueral parts and members in such diuersities and differences Hoc est dissipare non distinguere frangere non diuidere VVhich thing is to be feared by not vniting but keeping the two kingdomes still in parts when vpō euery discontent in Scotlād as at a backe dore passage may be giuen for forreine enemie soone to weaken a deuided power as Cyrus the Persian soone emptied Herodot 1. that great and deepe riuer otherwise vnpassable for his souldiers by drawing it into diuers chanels And why should not we feare such and greater euils if as Virgil laid infamy vpon vs calling vs toto diuisos orbe Britannos so we be content to adde greater infamie to our selues and become toto in orbe diuisi deuided within our selues in the sight and view of the whole world But I hope and wish for better things that by Vnion in name of Britains we may leaue to be any longer deuided into English and Scottish as riuers of diuers names meeting in the sea receiue one and the same name the rather because the elements of fire and water of earth and aire being of repugnant qualities yet ioyned in one body do agree in one forme as in a medium vniting and mixing them together much more diuers kingdomes oft times heretofore at warre and discord yet now being vnited into one bodie of one name and nature qualified by equall mixture of law manners honors mariages and such like may be made perfect in one forme and haue a being not as English and Scottish but as Brittaines knit together in that third and renowned name that the Maxime may be verified in vs Quae in aliquo tertio conueniunt optimè conueniunt I confesse that some lawes of ours may be thought too streight for them and some liberties of theirs vnfitting vs but let all be wrested alike pulling some vp and letting some downe and in pleasing harmonie we shall find as Tully saith Commune aequabile inter omnes ius where will be no strife as was between Esau and Iacob vndermining and deceiuing one the other of blessing and patrimonie but all loue and vnitie and concord and content as if all were not twins but one man euen one heart in one bodie And now if I phicrates that valiant Leader Plut. were againe liuing and asked whether he were vnder the now imperiall Maiestie this or that English or Scottish or among or ouer them an horseman an archer or a Leader he might truly answer as sometimes he did in like case No not any of these but I am he who knoweth vnder him whom I serue to commaund and gouerne all these as if they were but one man Vnius Ducis imperium simul Sen. Epist sentiunt omnes copiae Thus in war and tumult much more in quiet peace may it be said Diuers subiects ad nutum vnius Regis eiusdem legis omnes simul respondent So powerfull is the force of Vnion that vna Via being director for lawe and Cor vnum performer for obedience the lawe enioyning obedience and obedience executing law the Prince cannot commaund what the people will not obey and the people will obey what the Prince commandeth and Vnitie among them will vphold all Vnum imperij Tacit. An. 1 corpus vnius animo regendum videtur and so likewise Eiusdem iuris esse debent qui sub eodē Rege victuri sunt Q. Cur. 10. But rule of two kingdomes without vniting them is to giue occasion to either part to looke backe for an old grudge Vbi antiqui odij pertinacia in publicum stimulat exitium which I feare would be as the going backe of two Rammes more fearefull to butt at and beate one the other where held both together in like yoke one cannot easily offend or force the other Sic enim immensa multitudo authoritatis Seneca quasi spiritu regitur And where it is of the nature of man not to indure all seruitude nor all libertie but to striue to shake off the one and to be wearie of the other it is certaine that equitie and equabilitie of like lawes to a diuers people vnited in one will make them which otherwise feare seruitude to enioy freedome and those which seeme most free by former priuiledges and immunities to feare seruitude if they transgresse their bounds for such Vnion and equitie is communis custodia principatus reipublicae But faction and ambition are the father and mother of intestine calamitie ciuill warre and deadly feud VVho so loueth this will neuer like that neither is he of the bodie but of the toes and feet of that image which Nabuchodonosor Dan. 2. dreamed of whose head was of fine gold whose breast and armes of siluer whose belly and thighs of brasse whose legs of Iron and whose feet part of iron and part of clay Siluer brasse and iron are mettals easily mixed but iron and clay will not by any meanes melt and ioyne together Kingdoms deuided are prefigured in the iron and clay they are partly warlike and well gouerned and partly weake factious and seditious they agree not to the king their goldē head and though they as the Text saith mingle themselues with the seed of men yet ioyne vers 43. not one with another but are as iron and clay which will not be mixed together The Poets call this latter age Ferrea let vs which liue in it proue them Poets and not Prophets that so being ioyned to our golden head in all obedience and dutie in all loue and zeale to our countrie and in Vnitie among our selues we may liue a blessed life in the golden age of this our happy time and shew our selues well tempered not of brittle but of better clay Queis as the Poet saith meliore luto finxit praecordia Titan. Therefore let Aristides and Themistocles ioyned in one Commission consult vpon the point some for England some for Scotland and for the VVeale publike say one to the other Vis vt hîc deponamus inimicitias why do Plut. we striue together for we are brethren and they cannot but conclude that the VVeale publique was neuer well administred without Vnion and amitie namely Vnion in the gouernment and amitie among the gouerned Joh. Bristol FINIS