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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71100	A discourse shewing the great happiness that hath and may still accrue to His Majesties kingdomes of England and Scotland by re-uniting them into one Great Britain in two parts / by John Bristol.	Thornborough, John, 1551-1641.; Bristol, John Digby, Earl of, 1580-1654.	1641 (1641)	Wing T1042A; ESTC R32805	52,904	330

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 quasi spiritu regitur And where it is of the nature of man not to endure all servitude nor all liberty but to strive to shake off the one and to be weary of the other it is certaine that equity and equability of like lawes to a divers people united in one will make them which otherwise feare servitude to enjoy freedome and those which seeme most free by former priviledges immunities to feare servitude if they transgresse their bounds for such Vnion and equity is communis custodia principatus reipublicae But faction and ambition are the father and mother of intestine calamity Civill war and deadly feud Who so loveth this will never like that neither is he of the body but of the toes and feet of that image which Nebuchadnesar dreamed of Dan. 2. whose head was of fine gold whose breast and armes of silver whose belly and thighes of brasse whose legs of Iron and whose feet part of Iron and part of Clay Silver Brasse and Iron are metals easily mixed but Iron and Clay will not by any meanes melt and joyne together Kingdomes divided are prefigured in the Iron and Clay they are partly warlike and well governed partly weak factious and seditious they agree not to the King their golden head and though they as the Text saith verse 43. mingle themselves with the seed of men yet joyn not one with another but are as Iron and Clay which will not be mixed together The Poets call this latter age Ferrea let us which live in it prove them Poets and not Prophets that so being joyned to our golden head in all obedience and duty in all love and zeale to our Countrie and in Vnitie among our selves God may still showre down his wonted favours upon Church and Common-wealth and that wee may still bee thankfull returning him the glory FINIS A SECOND PART to the precedent TREATISE THE State of England and Scotland may bee resembled to the condition of Israel and Iuda not only for emulation who have most right to the Royall person of the Kings Majesty for their defence and government but also for that the two kingdomes were at first both but one Besides God as he speaketh by his Prophet Hosea Chapter 11. did also at first alike leade both them and us With Cords of a man even with Bands of love And as it pleased God for sinne of people to breake those Bands even both the Staffe of bands and of beauty to dissolve the brotherhood of Israel and Iuda as saith the Prophet Zach. 11. so for the iniquity of our forefathers God brake the Staffe of bands signifying mutuall love and also Staffe of beauty signifying order of government and brought in upon them and upon their posterity even to these our later daies as Esay saith Chapter 9. A staffe of division and yoke of burden upon theirs and our shoulders which now for all that out of the riches of his mercy he hath also broken in pieces making all one againe as hee spake by his Prophet Ezekiel concerning Israel and Iuda Chapter 37. saying I will make them one people in the land upon the mountaines of Israel and one King shall be King to them all and they shall be no more two peoples neither be divided any more henceforth into two Kingdomes This foundation laid as project of our whole purpose The truth sheweth it self how two kingdoms severed in place not much differing in lawes nor dissonant in language but only disagreeing heretofore in neighbourhood may be comprehended under notion of one name specially seeing when one ruleth both and both become Subject to one they are no more two but one body linked in like duty and knit together in one band of obedience To doubt this is in Strangers ignorance but in Subjects a great offence For who so considereth that many Shires with the principality of Wales heretofore made one England cannot but confesse that likewise England and Scotland with all their territories Islands Shires and Countries make now one great Britaine and all the people of both the mighty Nations Britaines and that the Kings Majesty hath done as princely an Act in uniting both the kingdomes into one name as he did in uniting the Armes of both the Realmes into one Scutchion having a like right in both For all great Britaine being his Majesties inheritance all his Subjects within that continent are Brittaines Iust and reasonable was the demand of Annius chiefe Governour of Latines in uniting Romanes and Latines saying Ex utraque gente unum oportet esse populum unam fieri rempub eandem imperiisedem idemque omnibus nomen And albeit the Latines were content for sake of Weale publike to prefer Romanes before themselves and be called by their names as the History there farther reporteth Quoniam ab alter utra parte concedi necesse est quod utrisque benè vertat sit haec sanè patria potior Romani omnes vocemur neverthelesse the case not standing so with us that Scottish should be called by our name nor we by theirs methinkes a third name of great Britaine might easily and equally please both otherwise as King Deiotarus cut off all his children saving one because he would leave the kingdome but to one so should English swallowing up name of Scottish or Scottish drowning name of English prove such a Vine which to bring but one grape to ripenesse is content that all branches be cut off but one But the question here is not which of the branches should best prosper but how all the branches may flourish which abide in the Vine and verily the question carrieth in it selfe his answer Abide in the Vine This Vine is but one though of many branches and much fruit And thankes be given to God that his Majesty K. Iames of blessed memory by publique Proclamation divulged the inserting and fast grafting of each branch and all fruit into his owne Royall person as into a fruitfull and flourishing Vine even into the head of the whole body of how many soever parts consisting Wherein his Highnesse laid the first stone as he was the true and only foundation of happy union and yet as yet like Apelles fashioning only the exquisite and most excellent beauty of Venus in the head but I hope also and will pray for perfection in the rest that the saying may be true Rex velit honesta nemo non eadem volet● and that an universall union may be as happy in successu as it is most just by Proclamation in inceptu That the head going before the whole body may follow after in imitation to worke out perfection of the desired happy union That it may be verified quod diu parturivit tandem peperit and what God had in his providence long purposed is fulfilled