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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

winning and neuer suffered themselues to be foyled or fully conquered Imperij fuerat Romani Scotia limes Romanae fuerit Scot-Anglus origo ruine But to conclude the Kinges most glorious and pompous Title of Triumph is to bee called DEFENDER OF THE FAITH because it is apparant he shewes himselfe more affectionate ardent and zealous to preserue exalt proclaime and communicate it to them which haue not as yet receiued it then any other King on the earth It is a Title which giues him more glorye and splendour then all his Scepters and Diadems It honoureth him so much as he should not thinke himselfe worthy to beare the name of King if hee had not that withall of Defender of the Faith It is a Tytle which maketh him as much beloued of all as that of King causeth him to bee feared It is a Title not as to day deserued and giuen to our Kings but it is more then an hundered yeares since it was giuen to his Maiesties great Grandfather Iames the fourth K. of Scots as the Chronicles of M. Chambres do testifie So that they deceiue themselues who thinke it is no longer then since the time of King Henry the eight of England A glorious and Hereditary title which you and we ought to esteem since it hath bin grauen in the fore-heads of the late Kings of either kingdom Yet a title not so much by succession as by merit acquisition of a King who fightes and beats down idolatry and Heresy more valiantly then all his Ancestors By a King who shal reforme the error not onely of Scotland and England an Angle of the earth but of the vvhole earth For beholde the dayes are comming when God will punnish the grauen Images of Babylon that hee will make all her Countrey ashamed and will cause al the wounds of death to fall in the midst thereof These tidings shall come this year and after this in the other there shall be violence on the earth and Ruler vpon Ruler Roma diu titubans varijs erroribus acta Coruet mundi desinet esse caput Wherfore Go forth of her all people to the end that you be not partakers of hir sins receiue not hir plagus Deliuer euery one his life out of the heat of the wrath of the eternal Hūble your selues vnder the mighty hand of God resist no longer his reasonable will through a rash kinde of zeale There is no one of you so ignorant but he knoweth most part of the abuses of the Romaine Church to be so euident as the fautors and fauourers of them can no longer denie them Seeke the truth turn ouer the leaues of the Scriptures which haue beene for so long time maliciously interdicted to you None hath more or greater intrest in your saluation then your very selues Yea euen thou who with shame and false Ensignes doest vsurp the Title of Holy Father Lieutenant of God Vicar of Christ Vice Deo Vniuersall Byshop Great Priest Soueraign high Priest Prince of Byshoppes Heyre to the Apostles And you who say of him that for Primate he is Abell For Gouernement Noah for his Patriarchate Abraham For Ordere Melchizedeck For Dignity Aaron For Authority Moses For Iudgement Samuell For Power Peter and for Vnction Christ Thou that seatest thy selfe in the Temple of God aboue God aboue all that is called God to make thy selfe honoured as God Thou that sayest thou hast power to bind Kings to tie them in Chaines of Iron to bereaue at thy pleasure take away their Crownes to breake their Scepters trample on their Crownes to giue their kingdomes as preyes or otherwise to dispose of them to disoblige their subiects from their oath of fidelity and obedience Repent thy self of this doctrine when both reason and Authoritie fayleth Content thy selfe at least with the power limited by our learned Barcklay cut off the disorders which like a crafty Serpent haue crept into the Church scratch and breake the head of those Vipers of thy Pastorall staffe cast off also the sin and corruption so much as may be not onely of thy Court but of Rome yet not of Rome alone but of all those places where thou art feared and reuerenced Let the Church recouer her first splendour againe that all abused may be beaten farre from her Thou hast a long time conuerted Lead into Gold by meanes of thy Buls which are but sorry meat to satisfie feeble spirits Thy Pardons are too pardonous and thy Indulgences haue too much indulgence keepe them to thy sourse thy selfe Acknowledge the power of them that haue giuen thee this power Reddendo Caesari quae sunt Caesaris et quae sunt Dei Deo And you also who will be Princes and Cardinals altogether You Prelates Bishops Cannons Priests Prebends all Romain Church-men of what order or name soeuer ye be learn that it is now no longer time to resist you must bend or break vnder the yoake of the Sonne of God and of his holy word There hath bin sleep enough Luxury enough Trafficke enough enough of disorderly walking in the house of God enough haue ye serued your bellies and idlenesse enough haue ye pild pold the very fattest sheepe in the flock enough haue ye chopped changed bought sold in the tēple of the Lord. Awake now preuent iudgement there is yet place for clemency and for mercy The Synagogne of the Iewes it is gone the Law hath giuen place to the Gospel by much more powerful reason then shold abuse make way for purity lying for truth inuentions and Traditions of men for the ordinances of God against which let time bee neuer so long it prescribeth nothing Nec poterit ferrum necedax abolere vetustas I beseech the Father of Lights to open the eyes and harts of Kings of Magistrates their people to the end that in giuing place to his Heauenly word they may take knowledge of Antechrist and detesting his yoake they may submit to that of Christ To whom with the Father and the blessed Spirit be Glory and Dominion eternally Amen FINIS

Prophesies bee vnderstoode The one of Cataldus Finius which is more then a thousande yeares since Iste solus Clare aperiet librum scriptū digito Dei viui He onely shall euidently open the book written with the finger of the liuing God As plainly appeareth by his Learned Preface The other of Sybilla on the destruction of Antechrist Miserum inde tempus quia linum ipsum perdet Miserable in time shall he be because linnen or a Lyne shall destroy him By Linnen his Maiesties Booke is vnderstoode the Paper whereof is made of olde decayed linnen Or else the Line or Cord is threatned thereby to hang him vp according to the example of Achitophel His Scepter which is in his right hand is not of wood made fast with Iron nayles as were the ancient Scepters in Homer Virgil nor yet of Juory such as the Kings of Rome carried and sent to their Kindred and friendes nor of Ebony like that of the Jndians nor of Iron Copper or Siluer but of fine Golde like that of Marke Anthonie in Florus and such as Ahasuerus stretched foorth to Hester in the Bible to shew vs that his is one of the verie Noblest Scepters in the world As His length plainly telleth vs that euen so shall his power extend it selfe and make it selfe to be felt very farre off It beareth on the top not any Eagle like that of the Tarquins nor a Crosse as that did of Constantines nor yet a Storke or the straunge beast liuing in the Riuer Nylns called Hippopotames as others haue caried nor yet a hand like to that of France But a Lilly or Flowerdeluce thereby to assure vs that his power and manner of gouernment is full of sweetnesse mildnesse and good order The most precious garment of his Trophies is a Royal Mantle or Cloake the onely sacred ornament of Kings for the more sumptuous decking of potent Maiesty made of Veluet Azure and Gold which are the onely sightly things that can be vsed in the habit of princes It traineth along vpon the ground after him to expresse the amplitude of his royall benignity being called of God to couer not onely the members of his owne estate from the Tiranny of Antichrist but likewise those people that are strangers and of other Countries His colours vnder are of Scarlet and white as the Spouse in the Canticles saieth That her Best-beloued is all white and Vermillion white in Innocency Red Vermillion in Charity For euery colour else looketh pale and deade or looseth his beauty being neere to these yea though it be Purple twice dipt in his tincture As in like maner the religion of Popery doth being compared with that which Our King embraceth as being without both sound and luster vanishing of it selfe away euen as dusky clouds do before the beames of the worlds greatest light The White of this Mantle royall is Ermins which are more perfect in faire luster then any other and those furies do testifie not the coldnesse of his Original countrey as some haue scornfully saide but his generous and resolued grauitie as full of bounty As the skin of little blacke spots Admonishing vs thereby that there is nothing so prosperous but sometime it meeteth with sinister accident as the Ermine which is white ouer all the body and yet directly on the top of his tail hath that smal touch or mark of blacknes Vnder this Mantle or Cloake he weareth the Palmata Toga or Dalmatian Vesture proper to some Ministeriall Office because the sleeue reacheth so far as the elbow only The which may teach and perswade vs that in despight of the Pope of Anabaptists of al haire-brain'd mutinous opiniotiue and frantique Preachers whome his Maiesty calleth and vnderstandeth to bee Puritanes onely hee is an absolute Monarch as well of the Spirituall as of the Temporall euen as in elder times the Caliphes were and that in him is verified the saying of the Poet Rex Anyus Rex idem hominem Phoebique Sacerdos King Anyus is the same man King and yet Apollos Priest For Kinges are the Coombes of the Estate belonging to God euen as well as of that appertaining to their kingdomes and their Authority is the bases and foundation which vpholdeth the Church in fauour and regard whereof they were at first established by God who had neuer created or preserued the worlde but for this respect onely They haue like power therin as Iosias had and like preheminence as Constantine who published himself Byshop of exteriour occasions They haue I say Soueraign iurisdiction ouer Prelates to keepe an eye vpon their Discipline on the manners or behauiour of the Clergy to take acknowledgement of their differences Which is very easie to be proued as wel by Testimonies and solid Reasons as by the examples and effectes of all most venerable Antiquitie Finally Our King in signe of diligence that he shal very shortly triumph in all trueth Iustice and power euen as far as that proude Tarpeiane Tower To kil the Dragon and deliuer the male childe from his throat as manifestly appeareth by the Angell mounted vppon the white horse to whom was giuen the Crown of victory He is circkled with a Girdle of Golde hanging before his breast which is The Collar of Saint George which was not forgotten by the Romaines themselues of the round Table speaking of the two Dragons white and red deliuered out of prison by Merlin in the time of k. Vter Pendragon father to King Arthur who after a long deadly fight the white at length ouercame the red And now we may see a second surprize them That reiected Esau otherwise called Edom which signified the Red Dragon that old vsurper that Tyraunt ouer so many Nations the Pope himselfe commeth to the succour of his vanquished Legions with two Breeues and a Letter from the Cardinal Bellarmine which are Gerions with three bodies or Cerberus with three heads and throats casting fire out at the eyes the nose the mouth They would faine fasten on Our white King Iames the Childe of Blessednesse euen in his Cabinet and pursue him thence to his Bed-chamber in seeking to set free all his Subiects from their obedience to him yea and to turne his very housholde Seruants from their duty Monarchy being not so pleasing to his tast as Aristocratie Order as Anarchie Behold how Our King dealt in this manner with them as others haue done in the like To day for him to morrow for them And their to morrow should haue bin much neerer if they coulde haue attained to what they pretended But his Maiesty stopt their way with a Mattock and a Wedge as the Romaine Captaine said or in applying Triplici nodo Triplicem Cuneum in cleauing a Triple knot of Iron with a Triple wedge of Brasse or in cutting The Gordian knot with the sword of Alexander His Apologie verily and of good right ought to be helde for the support defence Rampant and Fortresse of all the Kings Monarkes

and Soueraigne Princes of Christendome whom at the third voyce of his Triumph hee awaketh and exhorteth to maintaine and defend themselues altogether with him against the attentates and vsurpations of the Pope in aduising each one of them according to the rule of reason and common fence grounded vppon custome and deriued from the Pagan Poet to learne of the wise saying Ecquid Ad te post Paulo ventura periculis sentis Nam tuares agitur paries cum proximus ordet What perilles in short time may come are they vnto thee knowne No when thy Neighbours house doth burne be carefull of thine owne Monarkes Soueraignes Chiefe Iudges of the World to whom the Iustice of heauen hath giuen absolute power and Scepters to gouerne the wide Vniuerse Earthly Deities Liuing Jmages of the Eternal true Lieutenants and Vicars of God Fathers of the people and Tutors of his Church kneeling on the earth so imitate him in a resounding Eccho with her permission and your owne waken your selues at the voice of My King HOW much more pleasing should this be vnto you then that of the trumpet which called them to enter the Listes who presented themselues at the Games of Olympus O Princes are your heads so loaden with vapours and the Conduites of your vitall spirits so stopt that by no agitation or motion you can bee awaked from this Leaden slumber Doe not you knowe that the last Iudge of the Hebrew people because hee did sleepe in the lap of his Mistris lost first his strength next his sight and soone after his life While you sleepe so profoundly do not you Dreame what may happen and much more what hath beene already past Will you still slumber or doe you dissemble it when they that shoulde watch for you and feeke to preserue your Crownes in safety are readyer to bereaue you of them It is you Great-Soueraignes whom this case concerneth You can be no longer assured safely neither in your Pallaces Cittadels nor of the faith of your houshold seruants or those you put most trust in if this Article may bee graunted to publique murders and assasinates to wit That they haue power to dispence and free your Subiectes from the Oath whereby they haue vowed faith vnto you and may cause you to be murdered were it by a Monke and then to Cannonize or glorifie him when the deede is done Arise then Kings and prouide for those affayres which the Great God hath put into your hands The Church is in tutelage and protection of kings and you are annointed and Sacred by God to shew by this exterior note that the care of spirituall things appertaineth vnto you Make of vs one heritage that this seame-lesse Garment of our Lord may no more be torn in peeces Cast off the yoak of Antechrist who cowardly abuseth the Authority to you committed It is you that haue giuen your power to the beast to fight against the Lamb. It is you also that shold rather hate him and eate his flesh And what hinders you from doing it Hath not the light of the Gospell already sufficiently enough discouered the frauds of this man of sinne The Spirit out of the mouth of Iesus Christ breathed aboundantly in so many places and yet continuing hath it not already foyled him euen in the most signall parts of his Dominion There is not any Prince or Common-wealth but is weary to see this Tyraunt faire from all obligation of Lawes Equity and Justice to gurmundize and deuoure vp all the Estates of Christendome The Pope seemes to sollicite Heauen and earth euen to his owne ruine and Coniures all Europe to make but one Aesopes Crow All the world is in a shiuering so highly is it offended at his Tyranies and desireth nothing else with vs but one iust Conference and which also is the aduise of Our wise and Learned King Jt is necessary that a good free and lawfull Counsell should bee called and assembled by you Princes and Soueraigne Estates to compound all these dissentions and differences in Religion as being at all times the onely ordinary meanes to abolish Schismes disanull Heresies and to reforme whatsoeuer is amisse in Ecclesiasticall Discipline This is the onely way to restore the wanderers to winne their harts more sensibly and to consolidate the languishing members to the great body of the Church and to revnite the willes of your subiects scattered into factions Such sickly and diseased Spirits doe require a milde and gentle cure the keene edged sword of the worde is that which pierceth into the Soule and the Church instructeth not to persecute but to admonish and informe such as are in error And it seemeth that this way is desired wished and requested by many who do offer to submitte themselues to that which thereby shall be defined concluded and ordained Such a notable occasion is not any way to be contemned Non oportetsi quod omnibus votis petendum erat vltro offertur fastidire An adboue all at this time hauing a Const antine amongst your selues capable to preside as the other did in the Nicene Assemblies the presence of whom is able to dispose of differences to soften the sharpest to restore place peace and concord among all good Fathers not passionate or interessed in strange opinions and to make them happily finish such a desseign worthy of your best furtherance If this happen not in our dayes let vs neuer flatter our selues with any humaine hope of compassing it heereafter Our last ankor is cast hauing such a Prince Vertuous Wise Learned Eloquent Experimented Conquering Victorious wel obeyed Absolute in his kingdome and beyond all this nourished and educated in pietie and in the true seruice of God And now see him among all other Kings in his second Triumphall Chariot like to the Lyon among the other beasts Where wee may see this Lyon in the Armes of MY KING which is the note of his second victory as all they do which behold this Great Salomon vpon his Throne round engirt with Lions These Images do giue them a sudden apprehension as appearing terrible and dreadful to them But when they approach neerer they see that the Lyons are of Golde and as they mount to the feete of the Prince the same Lyons do serue as a guarde and defence In like maner seemeth it to them which a farre off do behold the Lyon Rampant of Scotland that he breatheth forth nothing else but punishments death and desolation but when they com neerer and consider him aduisedly they finde nothing but purity and perfection which is verie solid and most pure and perfect Gold And if they should yet stand in neede of the clemency of My Prince this generous Lyon will serue them as a prop supply and support thereto It is a Lyon Rampant to represent vnto vs the Maiesty of his Maiesty who in strength and furie is a true Lyon when the presumptuous boldnesse of men shall bee such as willingly to reiect his clemency Leo vngiet

Emperour who haue beene so acceptable to the Gods as they haue chosen me for their Lieutenant on earth It is I that second them It is by my mouth that they pronoūce their determinations immoueable and the good or euil fortunes of men For beside the authorities and prerogatiues in common which his maiesty hath with other Kinges that they are rich in quantity hauing this quality as being happy in hauing this quality as being happy in hauing this contentment to say I will and it is doone I desire and the desire is accomplished That the very winke of the eye makes them to be vnderstood the least changing of their lookes procureth execution of their will and that they can wish nothing more in earth because he that is a King is All according to the aunswere of King Porus yet ouer and aboue these perticuler aduantages which GOD hath giuen him as making the Kings of Persia by the right of their eldest children this word KING doth shew vs his faith pure and cleane towards God by his Charitie fatherly loue vnto his Subiects and his prouidence in the affaires of his Crowne For in our French Language it consisteth of 3. Letters ROI and also in Latine REX as the primordials and Radicall Letters of the Haebrewes and of one Syllable which simbolizeth in some sort with the most holy and Sacred Ternarie or Trinity First for the Letter R. according to the considerations which concern Socrates in the Cratylis of Plato it signifieth vnto vs his continuall action and exercise of duty for the acquitting of his charge as the toong remoueth strongly without any stay in the pronouncing it O denoteth the roundnes which he equally vseth towards euery one which as it is round equal euen without any points or corners to carry it out abroad so it sheweth that Our King is perfectly round seeing that his words and actions do concord and that both to one other he goes in full rotundity plainnesse and sincerity speaking euermore with a round mouth As J doth also represent his lenity and mildnesse by a facile and very gracious prolation And according to the Traditions of the Cabalists the Letter RESH doth infer that hee is King by succession and instructeth vs that Hereditary kingdomes are much better instituted then those which bee elected where the combustions of suites and partialities do often times cause them to turne their backes on their enemies with extreame affliction and ruine of the people O is as the eie which he lendeth to al and ouer all in imitation whereof the Egiptians in their Hierogliphicks did represent royalty by an Eye placed vppon the top of a Scepter I wherof al the Hebrew Letters are composed and which by the same means constituteth the number of ten the perfection resting place and accomplishment of all other numbers doth signifie thereby that all the parts and members of his kingdome do depend intirely vpon him wherefore al ought to bee referred to his safety and preseruation Thus passing these mystical Interpretations and significations of these three Letters to that which might result frō their diuers Anagrams Metathesis and Renuersements according to the Tmurah and Siruphs of the Haebrewes Our King as Philo saieth in the life of Moyfes is a Soule-like Lawe and his Law is Our Iust-King they are so bound by the girdle of the Graces and ioyned together by Iustice Iustitiae cupidus recto non deuius vnquam Desire of Iustice neuer swerues from right For although Cato was woont to say that a King was a rauenous Beast that hee liued not but by his prey and on Venison or wilde food yet can not it so be said of Our King seeing hee contents himselfe with a small circumference not insulting vpon his Neighbors or Strangers Neuer did any man hear in him that ouerbold wish of the Emperor Maximilian by the report of Phillip de Commines to bee a God And that his Sonne might be King of France His desire and the chiefest degree of his Title is to be called King of Great Brittain which is the kingdom of the Church of God his part and portion which he hath chosen in earth the kingdome which succeedeth to the Kingdome of Iuda This is the Christian kingdom wherein euen to the very least or vulgar cannot else-where bee found a people more deuout and Religious Piety and Religion are there so zealously and so often exercised In breefe It is the Land of Promise which God reserued to himselfe in Christendome where he hath so long time kept the Booke open and the Reuelation of his Prophetick and Euangelicall Mysteries God himselfe Husbanded the Garden of that Country and tooke thee euen measures thereof hauing enguirt it with the great Ocean As concerning the forme of the Island according to the opinion and descriptiō of Caesar it is triangulare whereof one way is opposit and faceth France and containeth on that side about sixe score and fiue leagues or miles in length Another looketh towardes Spaine and that longitude is an hundered and sixty miles The third is opposed to the North drawing most part towardes Germanie and it is thought that this way it containeth well tvvo hundred good miles So that the whole Isle may haue some fiue hundred miles in circuite It hath a very serene and faire Hauen and the habitation there is much more temperate then in France and the colds are lesse sharp violent Gallia trieme frigidior by the iudgment of Petronius and in mine vnderstanding so it is at this instant In that Countrey are not to bee seene the intollerable heats of Egypt no more then the Ices of Sarmatia all is temperate all is cultiue and all thinges are fruitfull there in aboundance Non illic Aries verno ferit aëra cornu nec Gemini praecedunt cornua Tauri Sicca Lycaonius resupinant plaustra Bootes It hath a copious Sunne Corne Cloath Wools Waters Beastes Fish Foule and all kindes of wilde flesh in most great facility and felicity Shee hath euen in her selfe her India and her Peru not onely of Time and of Iron as in the time of Caesar but likewise of Golde and Siluer therefore she vseth not any money of Copper Brasse or Annelets of Iron added to euen poize but all fine Gold and Siluer And such is hir abounding in al kinds of riches and in all thinges necessary for man as in due right she is confirmed by the Maister of Treasures to be the first and principall of the fortunate Islands She hath made plaine and smooth the backe of Thetis by the number of her goodly great Shippes and Vesselles which doe serue her as bornes as limits as ramparts and as wals And she is called Great not for the extendure of her Landes Countryes and Prouinces not so much for infinit multitude of people for the great number of her Cities Towns Borroughs and villages as for the greatnesse of courage in her Inhabitants who neuer leaue