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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68445	The triumphs of King Iames the First, of Great Brittaine, France, and Ireland, King; defender of the faith Published vpon his Maiesties aduertisement to all the kings, princes, and potentates of Christendome, and confirmed by the wonderfull workes of God, declared in his life. Deuoted, dedicated, and consecrated to the most excellent prince Henry Prince of Wales.	Marcelline, George.	1620 (1620)	STC 17309; ESTC S111857	40,901	114

Spouse of Iesus Christ thou being the glorie of his Victories thou being the Victorie of his Triumphes and thou being the triumph of his iust fights Come ô come descend from Libanon looke downe from the Mountaine top of Amana from the height of Shamit and Hermon Come sweete Empresse of the world and work so graciously that the homagers of thy Faith may at the least bring victorious Palmes and lay them before his feete whom God hath heer established vpon earth and hath made choise of at this instant for thy deliuerance out of the handes of cruell Antichrist And see how Heauen hath confirm'd his throne Induitur chlamidem regnique insigne vetusti Gestat laeua decus cinguntur tempora vitta Albente ac lateride more accingitur ensis In this maner is it that the true Church prepareth the triumphal Arche of MY KING euen of all the Sacred Orders which hee hath in his Royall Parliament of England and on that very day when he deliuered vs from the dreadful fire the Flames whereof would haue reached vp to the Starres and the Ashes vnto the center of the earth in the yeare of Grace MDCV. and in this yeare also the day of his birth in Scotland Which Nation also being desirous to eleuate their piety vnto the Heauen of his glory hath imitated the Emperour Macrinus who to deify Antoninꝰ erected him a Statuē sitting in his Throne adorned in all his Royall Ornaments This is the magnificent furnishment which the reformed religion hath prouided for him as being due to the Preseruer of her Sacred priuiledges and to the Guardian of her intire purity To the end that he shold be acknowledged through the whole world for Defender of the Faith and appeare dreadfull to his enemies as the ouer-commer of Monsters Let vs go on then to his fights march on to his allarums search into his victory to attaine vnto his Triumphes where we shal first of all beholde that it is not a single fight or Combate of man to man but the encountering of one man halfe an Angell with the darke and infernall powers of Hell For the Enemy both of God and of Kings presumeth into his presence to search into to dispute the sence of the Gospell in the brightnes of Flames and in horrible exploites of seuerity and cruelty His Squadrons are prepared and consiste of Furyes Scolopenders Stellions Phalanges and Philemons more mad and enraged then those of Orestes more furious then those of Hercules much more frantick then that Aiax whom Sophocles produceth in his Tragedy The Keyes serued thē as Courtle-Axes not to open shut the heauens but to gripe and graspe vp all the Gold and Siluer yea all the wealthy abundance of Great Brittaine The Sheepe-hooke Crosier or Pastorall Staffe serued to catch vp the fattest Sheepe in all the Lords flocke And the Watch-word was nothing else but Kil Burn and Massacre As for the followers they were fully armed from head to the foote with fury rage and malice hauing their harts filled with Sulpher and Brimstone to burn spoile and desolate all Their pieces of Ordinance carried six and thirty barrels of Gun-powder beside Billets and Faggots and great sharpe-pointed bars of Iron And the sound of their Trumpets was Pereant amici modo inimici O good God what kind of armes are these The Church the onely daughter of Heauen the Virgin feated on the hill of Sion was shee euer a Murdresse Was she euer taxed with any cruelty Or did she euer drowne the world in bloud Alas hath not much rather persecution bin her legitimate legacy in the world Hath not infinit store of afflictions bin hir patrimony and inheritance And the crown of martirdom hath not it bin hir only triumph Contrariwise for MY KING hath not hee contented himselfe to encounter his enemies alone the edge of his sworde being rebated the point broken off his match not fyred his powder wet his Ordinance out of carriage their mouths empty of fire or Salt-Peter only to fight against them with the Armes of Iustice And where was the field for battail but in Court of Parlament And in the most eminent place of the plain were all the Monarks Kings and Princes of Christendome euen as Homer feigned his Iupiter on the Dardanian mount where he beheld Troyan bandes and squadrons of the Greeks And what was the shocke of battell but the fire discouered the bloud and death of some few knowne Traytors where Rebellion was taken captiue to be tied both by hands and feete to the Chaire of King JAMES Loyalty euermore singing with a chearefull voyce and resounding in praise of his victory this Triumphant IO or Liue King Iames. That he may liue as triumphant euen in Rome as victorious in Great Brittaine as much admired of all the worlde for his Mercie as feared for his Valour and cherrished and honoured of his people both for his Piety and Justice For as Learning and Knowledge are written in great Letters on his Royall for-head as knowing how to instruct stout Rebels giuing them lessons of dutie and apprehensions how to liue acording to his Lawes so in like maner may be seene shining in his Eyes Clemency and Mildnesse Vertues apt and proper to MY KING And therefore wee see him not running like Aratus with a drawne sword in his hand vpon the Wals of Rome and to the Tyrants gate to take reuenge in his iust displeasure but seated Seated in signe of Royall power and Soueraignty of his owne right Iustice Sitting on his Throne in signe that Iehu shall raigne and that is according as the Wise man approueth it when he saith The King that is seated vpon his Throne chaseth all euill out of his sight In like manner heere doe I see my selfe rauished in spirit and rapt vp to Heauen the heauen of the most high maiesty of Great Brittain the Epicicle most eleuate of his Royalty That is to the Daix or State of his Throne-royall where I see the God of our Worlde ruling all all the Motions the Aspects the influences the Coniunctions of all the starres in his heauen discerning the fixed from erring and Commets from Plannets to the end that all may shine the better and enioy at length the Heauen of God which is the maine end of all his trauailes and shall be the Crowne of his faire Trophees Hee is seated to bee as yet peaceable the Sword hanging but by his side to declare therby that he would not force the faith that slaughtery butchery and all their massacres with the Phalarian and Neronian torments are to him most horrid and hateful and that their foule treason hath but onely drawne out of his breast a very small spark of Diuine fire Finally that he hath not caused Scaffolds Jibbets and Helles to be erected to handle and punish Traitors according vnto their merits To how many hath hee giuen pardon as that graue and sweete Authour of Tortura Torti as truely as