is the selfe same as if we feared that without Vnion the king would hold personall Courts in Cornwall or as if we doubted that such Courts when our former Kings were personally in France were not for all that kept a◠Westminster The sea◠of judgement is the sea◠of the house of David thither the Tribes goe up and there the peoples feet stand even in the gates of Ierusalem which Ierusalem is a City that is at unity in it selfe at unity concerning matters of religion at unity in matters touching publike justice and government therefore the King began his Psalme 122. I was glad when they said to me We will goe c. Lastly the exception taken against Vnion because of the Kings oath at his Coronation which is never iterated is grounded on the selfe same reason as if it were also alleadged that because his Majestie sweareth to maintaine ancient and fundamentall lawes therefore upon circumstance of time and occasion he might not alter any Law but let it be remembred that the Kings oath concerneth the Lawes and not the title and we know the Lawes may be preserved though the title be altered And as for Subjects I doubt not but they may without danger at the pleasure of the King sweare their allegeance and doe homage and obedience after restitution of title reformation of law and Vnion of Kingdomes And ancient Records doe no more leese their force by the change of England into Britaine then by change of King IAMES into King CHARLES And there is no more incertainty of pleadings instruments and writs than when a plaintife deceaseth after seven yeares suite his heire is put to begin commence his suite anew in other name The heart of objections against Vnion being halfe broken let us enter into the third consideration of matter of State inward where is objected a possibility of alienation of the Crowne of England to the Crowne of Scotland in case his Majesties Line should determine But blessed bee God our gracious Soveraigne King is blessed with a plentifull issue and hath yet much farther hope And I hope for which I pray night and day that his Majesties royall Issue shall not faile so long as the Sun and Moone endureth Neverthelesse if some will not labour of the common bane of good wits which is rather to dispute than obey and rather to reason beyond reason than yeeld to reason more magis quà m judicio they may herein also easily answer themselves that in uniting the two kingdomes the second place in stile may be rather drawne to the next of blood in our Land than the kingdome of England bee transferred to one farther off frō the Seem Which thing neither Henry the seventh nor Henry the eighth doubted the one seeking to marry his eldest daughter Lady Margaret to King Iames the fourth of Scotland hoping if his heire male failed by that meanes to unite Scotland to England And the other having his whole drift to match his Sonne Prince Edward to Queen Mary foreseeing in his providence the inestimable benefit of uniting the two kingdomes for which cause many of the Nobles of Scotland gave faith to doe their best endeavours But it is a strange doubt and cast beyond the Moone to imagine that Vnion of the two kingdomes doth so confound the State and change the tenure to bring it so into case of purchase as it will necessarily subject England to Scotland especially if his most excellent Majesty of his singular tenderness and love to this his Realme of England be pleased to effect and establish that in case his Royall Issue which Almighty God of his infinite mercy defend should faile that then by this happy intended Vnion the Realme of Scotland should for ever be and continue indissolubly united and annexed to the lawfull and rightfull inheritance and succession of the Crowne of England in the blood royall of the same Now touching matter of State forreine in answer to the first objection I am well assured that our forreine affaires were at worst in the opinion of all at the decease of our late Queen and our entercourse utterly decaied with many Princes so as we need a kind of present renewing which may be cōcluded as wel under title of King of all Britain as of England To the second it is easily answered that the King loseth no precedency of place as is imagined specially antiquity as in the Objections is alleadged guiding it and not greatnesse For the Successor to King Arthur of Britaine will bee worthy in the opinion of the whole world of better place then King Egbert of England To the third that if the name of England as is imagined be obscured the name of famous and great Britain will be illustrate memorable in times past to all the then knowne Nations of the earth Touching matter of Honour it is certaine and evident that the name of England though it hath beene worthily most famous and great yet is not equall to the title of great Britaine when England and Scotland are reunited either by reason of honor or of power All Histories remembring unto us that the Britaines long time resisted the mighty force of Romaines Lords and Conquerours of the world And albeit some fathers can be content to disinherite their own daughters to continue their names as is inferred in the objections and therfore inforced shold be much more in States specially where the name hath beene famous yet for my part I account such parents unkind and unnaturall where self-love of their name maketh them forget themselves and forsake their owne flesh I will not urge here the law of God of nature and of most nations where daughters inherite names grow extinguished But this is a vaine respect only of name wherof is spokē to get a name on earth and to think their name should never be put out whereas so many countries so many people so many persons have either lost or left their former name and most willingly have been called by another name Gaudet cognomine terra Virgil Eneid lib. 6. That countrey rejoyced to be called by a new name how much more should our Land imbrace this name of Britaine and yet not new but indeed his old proper name renewed and as it were redivived and restored from the dead Or be it simply losse only of a bare transitory name yet as the Prophet Esay speaketh Chapter 56. ver. 3. Let not the Eunuch say Behold I am a dry tree my name shall perish with mee Let us rather regard that name which God promiseth to them that serve him saying Esay 65. ver. 5. Even unto them will I give in my house and within my pallaces a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters I will give them an everlasting name which shall not be put out The argument of Oblivion deserveth no answer but silence and forgetfulnesse and yet I doubt not but famous acts of Noble English men will as well
Estate domestique or inward or matter of the Law is divided into these three maine heads following The first that the alteration of the name of the King doth inevitably and infallibly draw on an erection of a new Kingdomâ— or estate and a dissolution and extinguishment of the old and that no explanation limitation or reservation can cleare or avoid that inconvenience but iâ— will he full of repugnancy and ambiguity and subject to much variety and danger of construction The second is an enumeration or recitall of the speciall or severall confusions incongruities and mischiefes which will necessarily and incidently follow in the time present As in the summoning of Parliaments and the recitals of Acts of Parliament In the Seals of the kingdome Jn the great Officers of the kingdome In the Lawes customs liberties and priviledges of the kingdome In the residence and holding of such Courts as follow the Kings person which by this generality oâ— name may be held in couâ—â—land In the severall and reciproque oathes the onâ— of his Majestie at his Coronation which is neveâ— iterated the other in the oathes of allegiance homage and obedience made and renewed from time to time by the Subjects All which Acts instruments and formes of policy and government with multitude of other forms of Records Writs pleadâ—gs and instruments of a â—eaner nature run now â—n the name of England â—â—d upon the change would 〈◊〉 drawne into incertainâ— and question The third is a possibiâ—â—ty of alienation of the â—rowne of England to the â—ne of Scotland in case 〈◊〉 Majesties line should determine which God of â—s goodnesse defend for if it be a new erected kingdome it must goe in tâ— nature of a purchase 〈◊〉 the next heire of his Majesties fathers side The matter of Stâ—forreine or matter of 〈◊〉 â—â—tercourse and commerâ—â— consisteth of these thâ—â—â— points following The first is the League Treaties forreine Fredomes of trade and trâ—fique forreine contraâ—â— may be drawne in quesâ—â—on and made subject quarrell and cavillation The second is that the Kings precedency before other Christian Kings which is guided by antiquiâ—â— of Kingdomes and not â—y greatnesse may be enâ—angered and his place turned last because it is â—h newest The third is that the â—lory and good acceptation of the English name and â—ation will be in forreine â—arts obscured The matter of honouâ— and reputation standeâ— chiefly upon these fouâ—â—maine heads or points following The first is that 〈◊〉 worldly thing is more deâ— to men then their name 〈◊〉 as we see in private famâ—â—lies that men disinheriâ— their daughters to conâ—nue their names mucâ— more in States and wheâ— the name hath been famous and honourable The second is that the contracted name of Briâ—aine will bring in oblivion the names of England and Scotland The third is that whereas now England in the stile 〈◊〉 placed before Scotland â—n the name of Britaine that degree of priority or â—recedence will be lost The fourth is that the change of name seem harsh at the first in the popular opinion and something unâ—leasing to the Countrey THese precedent objections and many other pretended against the happy uniting of these two famous kingâ—omes of England and â—cotland the Reader shall finde sufficiently answered in the ensuing Treatise by the Author to his full satisfaction and content THE â—E-MARRIAGE Of two famous Kingdomes ENGLAND and SCOTLAND â—â—duced into one Great Brittaine â—y the providence of one God the â—iety of two Kings the unity of â—oth Nations By way of answer 〈◊〉 former Objections BY IOHN BRISTOL IT was long before the Objections against the â—ntended happy union of both the Realmes came to my hands bâ— having read them 〈◊〉 could not hold mâ— hand from writing 〈◊〉 remove cleare them esteeming them only 〈◊〉 great shew of big loâ—â— laid in the way bâ—â—tween the two emineâ—â— markes shot at by tâ— soveraign Vnitor namely honour and happinesse the one inseparably inherent in his mâ— royall person the otheâ— assuredly intended 〈◊〉 Subjects benefit whiâ—â—â—hings in apparant utiâ— or urgent necessity â—e Objectors desire to â—e shewed them for whose satisfaction I have briefly examined and answered every obâ—â—ction The Objectors finde â—o president at home â—or abroad of uniting 〈◊〉 contracting of the names of two severall Kingdomes or States â—nto one name where the Vnion hath growne â—y marriage or blood and say that the examples which may bee alleged are but in case 〈◊〉 Conquest But I remember that Charles 〈◊〉 France the eighth 〈◊〉 Comineus mentioneth taking to wife the heiâ— of little Brittaine annexed it to the Crowneâ— France ruled it 〈◊〉 lawes customes aâ— priviledges of Franâ—â— and gave the Noble thereof place in Parliament in France 〈◊〉 union is a strong keep of Imperiall Soveraignty and is the very siâ—ewes of Weale pubâ—â—que But as Tacitusâ—ith By divers lawes â—er diverse Nations â—â—bject to one King â—uicquid est authoritatis â—ebis destruitur contraâ—â—ctionibus Charles the fifth uniâ—â—d in the common â—ame of Spaine divers â—ther his kingdomes â—hereof two of them â—amely Aragon and â—astile descended to him in right of blood For he well knew that the most emineÌ„t in dignity is most honored 〈◊〉 Vnity and that this truly called Prudence even the electing or rejecting the continuing or changing of formeâ— and uniting kingdome according to time plaâ—â— or persons which greâ—â— vertue is not alwaiâ— contained in certaiâ— and the same bound but altereth it selfe 〈◊〉 occasion serveth in respect of forenamed circumstance But the Objectors acknowledge uniting of Kingdomes in case of Conquest I marvell they doe it not much more by right of blood for in that Vnion of constraint there is ever doubt and dread for continuance thereof as is well said Malus cuâ—tos diuturnitatis metus but in this by right of â—lood God giveth blesâ—ing to natures work First in the great majesty of the high at supreame Governouâ— where one mighty Monarch is of more command and power the a King of divers distiâ—guished Kingdomes Secondly in 〈◊〉 more facility of the government where people under like law are more easily rule than under divers law And thirdly in tâ— more security of the gâ—â—verned who being with like equity of â—wes will one love and strengthen the other but being divided â—oe oftentimes underâ—ine and practise subâ—ersion one of the oâ—her Vires imperii in â—onsensu sunt obedientiâ—m tolle unitatem â—mnis imperii contextus in â—ultas partes dissidet Which consideration made King Henry the â—ighth rightfully assuming the title of King of Ireland by voluntary Vote in Parliament oâ— the Lords and Comâ—mons of that Kingâ—dome albeit the King of England were beâ—fore that time but calâ—led Lords of Irelandâ— yet now changing hiâ— Stile to endeavour bâ— just lawes to cause the Irish change as welâ— their apparell as lanâ—guage and divers theiâ— old formes and formeâ— lawes and to reducâ— them into forme oâ—
A DISCOVRSE SHEWING THE GREAT HAPPINESSE that hath and may still accrue to his Majesties Kingdomes of ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND BY RE-VNITING them into one Great Britain In two parts BY JOHN BRISTOL LONDON Printed by R. H. for CHARLES DUNCOMB dwelling in Little-Britain 1641. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE the ESTATES now assembled in both houses of the high Court of Parliament THE sacred Mottoes upon the Coins of our late Soveraigne and Solomon King James Faciam eos in gentem unam and Quae Deus coâ— junxit nemo separetâ— might have deterreâ— some turbulent spiâ—rits of England and Scotland from vioâ—lating their peace cutting off the bridâ— from Twede and hindering that inâ—tercourse of amity which to Heavens and Britaines glory we no lesse happily than long enjoyed but Tongues and Pens I wish I could not say Swords have beene too busily imployed to untie that Gordian-knot which a good God and a pious King had made so firme Some in these Earth-quakes of State have laboured to underprop the houses of both Realmes others to pull them downe saying as of Jerusalem Downe with it downe with it even to the ground Nay I feare the same hand that hath held a Spade pretending to build a Wall hath held a Sword to kill a Subiect Wee need not send to Ireland for poyson to kill two kingdomes we have too much within our selves Poetry and Oratory such is the corruption of wit can make Candida de nigris de candentibus atra like Dogs they can either bite the sore or licke it or like Knives that can both spread a plaister for a wound and make a wound for a plaister The Poet Juvenal speaking of Alexander the great comming to see Diogenes Sensit Alexander testa cum vidit in illa Magnum habitatorem c. takes away the title of Magnus from the King and gives it to the Cynicke and have not we those that strive to make great Britaine Little putting Alexander from his Bucephalus and setting beggars on horse-backe I feare we have There are too many Empiricks among us whose delight is rather to kill than cure but You who are the Colledge of Physitians for the preservation of the body Politicke will make no Anatomies but of condemned persons by Law executed and by inquiry into the bad labour for the safety of the good Let it not be said that this day a Tribe is wanting in our Israel What though as judicious Weemes saith the Scots and English be as Samaritans and Jewes We have no Rehoboam why should we have a Jeroboam We have no rigor why should we have a revolt There may bee a good Samaritan which may take charge of the wounded man when a Priest and Levite may passe by on the other side Let not the Union of Britaine be cut off if it may bee preserved binde up the bones that are broken and make them whole so shall God binde up your souls in the Rowle of the living I doubt not but much good may bee gotten by a serious perusall of this ensuing Tractate Sure I am it will not be wholly uselesse to candid pious unprejudiced mindes who shall finde it as fit as necessary for these times I say no more but with heart and hands lift up to heaven pray that as you are Treasurers of the Weale-publique God will be pleased to crowne your publique endeavours to the everlasting peace and welfare of this Church and Common-wealth that his sacred Majesty and Royall Off-spring may ever bee glorious and that all his Kingdoms and Provinces may flourish to the terror of Foes and the endlesse comfort of all true loving Subjects THE EPISTLE to the READER IT was no blessing but a curse when the ten Tribes revolâ—ed from Rehoboam Division is good iâ— Musicke ill in Kingdomes and if confusion of Tongues ruinâ— a Babel confusion 〈◊〉 Hearts will ruine Bethel Scotland maâ— say to England 〈◊〉 Lot to Abraham We are brothers yeâ— when love cannot continue except their bodies discontinue the â—e of necessity must â—e to Sodome a 〈◊〉 and destinated for â—ire and Brimstone â—ingle Kingdomes â—ke fooles bolts are one shot away but â—njoyned as in a â—eafe not easily broâ—en It was the hapâ—inesse of our late Soâ—eraigne King James 〈◊〉 blessed memory to a bridge oveâ— the Tweed not 〈◊〉 Wood or Stone bâ— of English and Scoâ—â—tish hearts cementeâ— with strong affection It was indeed a haâ—â—pinesse to make twâ— spots of Earth twâ— little Kingdomes oâ— Great Britain the in building a secoâ— story makes a Hov◠〈◊〉 House though there â—e neither painted â—or carved Image in â—t no fretted roofe no â—old nor ivory Caâ—or and Polluxâ—rung from one Egge â—nd their signe is one Gemini Thus is â—e Vnity of Brethren â—xalted even to a â—onstellation That â—hich some years since was a motion breâ— some few moneth since a commotion namely a necessity 〈◊〉 separation between England and Scoâ—â—land which diffâ—â—rence might betteâ— have beene decidâ— with an Olive branâ— than a Sword as 〈◊〉 hope time ere long wiâ— make manifest Whâ— happinesse hath the Vnion of two Houses brought forth in this â—ne Kingdome and â—f there bee such hapâ—inesse in the Vnion of Houses what will there be in the Vnion of Kingdomes a thing which might bee â—s easily continued as compassed if some turbulent spirits did not disturbe the peacâ— of Sion This ensuing Treatise I could not bâ— publish as knowing to be so soveraigne Medicine for the Maladies of these Times Wherein Gentle Reader â— thou finde as much benefit as I delightâ— Thanke God and the Author I have my reward Farewell SVNDRY OBIECTIONS against this ensuing Treatise THE Objections pretended against this Treatise are divided into foure severall natures or kindes The first objection iâ— matter of generality 〈◊〉 common reason The second is matter of Estate domestique anâ— inward or matter â— Law The third is matter 〈◊〉 Estate forreine or maâ—â—ter of intercourse 〈◊〉 commerce The fourth is matter 〈◊〉 Honor or reputation The matter of generaâ—lity or common reason as concerning all in generall is also divided into two parts First that there is nor can be pretended no cause â—f the change Secondly that there is â—o president of like change neither ancient nor moderne forreigne or domestique The first Objection therefore is that in constituting or ordaining of any innovation or change here ought to bee considered either a generall necessity or evident utility but that we finde no grief in our present estate anâ— foresee no advancemenâ— to a better condition by this change and desire that it may be shewed untoâ— us The second Objection that we finde no presidenâ— at home nor abroad oâ— uniting or contracting of the names of two several Kingdomes or States intâ— one name where the Vnion hath growne by marriage or blood And that those examples which may be alleadged as far as wee can finde or understand are but in the ease of Conquest Matter of
by Chronicle bee remembred to posterity as the glory of renowned Britaine Record remaineth to this day neither will either be forgotten to the worlds end The Stile of England now placed before Scotland doth no way prejudice the Vnion by losse of precedency for when all is one there is no subsequence onely Honor is due to him who is to be honoured and much honour to him that is much to be honored which thing in the Vnion may easily bee provided for and other pretended inconveniences prevented Lastly the Prejudicating the popular opinion to whom as is objected change of name will be harsh and unpleasing is in mine opinion a wrong done and imputation laid upon the people who I know for the most part being a wise nation and I am sure most loving subjects to the Kings Majesty have learned obedience and duty and will therefore rather joy in the content of their good and gacious King then any way murmure at his demand knowing that the Empire as Livie speaketh is firmissimum when eo gaudent obedientes who doubtlesse with one voice and heart submit themselves and say to their Soveraigne Esto nobis solus arbiter rerum jure nomine regio And as for Harshnesse of the strange name use will easily make it familiar As Horace saith Multa renascentur quae jam cecidere cademque Quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula si volet usus This pretended unpleasing harshnesse is no more than the nicenesse of a Virgin who is as loth and maketh it dainty to leave her fathers name yet afterward married to a husband taketh greatest comfort in the name of her husband in whom shee glorieth and by whom shee enjoyeth all her worldly joy And yet need not England be so nice as if she were a virgin who like a widdow hath so oftē changed her name but may take pride as widows do to bee called by her most honourable and most glorious name Thus having briefly run over the objections and withall carried in open view in mine answer due consideration both of evident utility and urgent necessity I will be bold with additions of more reasons yet a little farther to proceed in the perswasion of this desired happy Vnion God alwaies blessed and to be honoured for evermore who is Trinity in Vnity and Vnity in Trinity three persons and but one God doth by influence of his holy Spirit give divers gifts and graces to beleevers of what country or condtion soever they be governes them by holy Law and uniteth them in the same faith though diversly scattered among all the Nations of the Christian world that hereby the gods on earth whom he hath placed to rule over many and divers kingdomes upon earth might learne by the same Lawes in things humane and same religion in matters divine to preserve Weale publike and Christian Society among men But the ambition and frowardnesse of many desirous rather to be distracted into divers names and countries and to be ruled by divers lawes and customes doe oft times hazard the Common good and peace of the Weale publike where two kingdomes so divided under one Soveraigne are not unlike the rich treasures of pearle and gold laid up in one Ship by contrarieties of divers windes to be driven upon rocks with extreamest danger as is said in Tully of dividing and distinguishing desires into severall parts and members in such diversities and differences Hoc est dissipare non distinguere frangere non dividere Which thing is to be feared by not uniting but keeping the two kingdomes still in parts when upon every discontent in Scotland as at a backe doore passage may be given for a forreine enemy soone to weaken a divided power as Cyrus the Persian soone emptied that great and deep river otherwise unpassable for his soldiers by drawing it into divers channels And why should not we feare such and greater evils if as Virgil laid infamy upon us calling us toto divisos orbe Britannos so we be content to adde greater infamy to our selves and become toto in orbe divisi divided within our selves in the sight and view of the whole world But I hope and wish for better things that by Vnion in name of Britaines we may leave to be any longer divided into English and Scottish as rivers of divers names meeting in the Sea receive one and the same name the rather because the elements of fire and water of earth and aire being of repugnant qualities yet joyned in one body doe agree in one forme as in a Medium uniting and mixing them together much more divers kingdomes oft times heretofore at war and discord yet now being united into one body of one name and nature qualified by equall mixture of Law Manners Honors Marriages and such like may be made perfect in one forme and have a beeing not as English and Scottish but as Britains knit together in that third and renowned name that the Maxime may be verified in us Qua in aliquo tertio conveniunt optime conveniunt I confesse that some lawes of ours may bee thought too streight for them and some liberties of theirs unfitting us but let all be wrested alike pulling some up and letting some downe and in pleasing harmony we shall find as Tully saith Commune aequabile inter omnes jus where will be no strife as was betweene Esau and Jacob undermining and deceiving one the other of blessing and patrimony but all love and unity and concord and content as if all were not twins but one man even one heart in one body And now if Iphicrates that valiant Leader were againe living and asked whether he were under the now imperiall Majesty this or that English or Scottish or among or over 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 under him whom I serve to command and governe all these as if they were but one man Vnius Ducis imperium simul sentiunt omnes copiae Thus in warre and tumult much more in quiet peace may it be said Divers subjects ad nutum unius Regis ejusdem legis omnes simul respondent So powerfull is the force of Vnion that una Via being director for law and Cor unum performer for obedience the law enjoyning obedience and obedience executing Law the Prince cannot command what the people will not obey and the people will obey what the Prince commands and Vnity among them will uphold all Vnum imperii corpus unius animo regendum videtur so likewise Ejusdem juris esse debent qui sub eodem Rege victuri sunt But rule of two kingdomes without uniting them is to give occasion to either part to look backe for an olde grudge Vbi antiqui odii pertinacia in publicum stimulat exitium which I feare would be as the going backe of two Rammes more fiercely
in these our happy daies And that by no meanes that of the Poet may be imputed to us either by disobedience to our head or disagreeing among our selves Humanâ— capiti varias iâ—ducere formas Grammarians doe observe that Metallum is so called quasi {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that is post {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that is aliud because there is scarcely found no veine of Mettall where is not more of that sort adjoyning to it so among English and Scottish they are not to bee thought of the true metalline Mine but as drosse and canker corrupting and consuming each other which joyne not in the universall name of great Britaine so to continue and dwell together to grow up and agree together seeing nature hath made them all of one kinde forme complexion habit and language growing together And verily divine is the mistery of union whether the provident wisdome of nature from God hath ingendred it or the skill of mans reason hath observed it where one of and in it selfe doth out of it selfe poure forth innumerable formes of things as Brittaine doth even two kingdomes and the principality of Wales with many Shires Rivers Islands and people and yet containeth them all within it selfe one having many many making one where one of many is not divided against it selfe and the many in one make no division to overthrow the whole but all are the same whether we respect union or division And this doubtlesse is a divine power or celestiall vertue not only for our purpose but compassing and passing through the whole world making things either simple or conjunct but one subsisting by and under the divine essence which is one and consisting in all his members and parts united but one where each and every part of this universall world respecteth the whole otherwise innumerable but brought by union to a number without number even beginning of numbers which is but one And this is most agreeing to the conceit of wisest Philosophers skilfull in natures Secret teaching all whatsoever is to be but one and that in the universall nature of things there is an agreeing amity and intermixed affinity where all the parts of the whole world accord by one transfused continuate spirit among them being compact together with one and the self-same agreeing force and forceable agreement of nature proceeding from one beginning continued by one meane and referred to one end every particular being knit together with the whole universality and diversity of things and wrapt up in one round orbe together that as parts of this world they may dwell in one Center or Circle together To shut up many things in few and to shew how certainly all things are contained in one and one doth comprehend all verily in Schooles of Philosophers it is an infallible Maxime that all things are communicated in one Vnum hoc praeque omnibus unum This one is all in all Ruunt autem omnia ubi unitas non firmamentum diffluunt ubi non coagulum The demonstration in our intended purpose is plaine Many villages make one Shire many Shires one Kingdome many Kingdoms one Imperiall Monarchy all which is Britaine and Britaine all these and the Kings Majesty possessing and governing Britaine possesseth and governeth all these and the Subject knowing Britaine knoweth all and every of these for all these are one and this one is all these That as this excellent workmanship of Vnion sheweth it selfe in the mighty Masse and fabricke of the whole world so much more particularly and plainly doth it appeare in a modell of the same even in the name and honour of great Britaine where every Subject ought clearely to see in himselfe that though hee be termed the little world and compact of infinite variety and multiplicity of things yet is he not two but one man Here let the neare neighbourhood and conjunction of man and man in mutuall society and participation of profits which man hath with man where two friends are but one and not parting meum and tuum confesse that though they are in person two yet indeed doe with idem velle and idem nolle enjoy the fruition of heaven with the same aspect and the commodities of the earth with the same minde where all things are common to both and yet proper to each one All which things are alleadged to shew that as every kingdome and State of the world is upheld with one and the self-same power and life wherewith the universall world consisteth So now it concerneth all and every one Subject both of England and Scotland to participate in the common obedience transfused into all under the government of one Where sacred unity is guide and director there even from distinct nature use of mutuall society and good of weale publique many are knit together inseparably and great and infinite numbers of all sorts of people are contained in one narrow compasse of neere conjunction for so the most populous and powerfull Kingdomes though two or moe under one Soveraigne seeme to bee but as one whole body And the whole body of Weale publique in subjection and obedience but as one man Sic enim omnes aequo jure parent omnibus imperaturo And as in all things so specially in this are we bound to render all praise and thanksgiving to that thrice sacred Vnity from whom as from the first author and fountaine is sowen abroad in the world that fruitfull seed of constant unity whose force draweth many of one houshold to be of one minde and is ever doing good in its owne nature keeping Israel together like a flock of sheep Neither is it an hard matter to unite and keep them together who live under the same climate of heaven and are of like language manners countenance lawes customes forme of body fashion of behaviour yea and religion à religando Rightly called the chiefest band of hearty union For though the Island Salamis be controverted between the Athenians and Megarenses yet must it be adjudged to the Athenians because they lived after the same fashion and lawes as now the skilfull in the lawes of this land easily acknowledge what congruity and affinity is between most of the ancient lawes of both our Kingdomes more then is to be found between those of any other two nations And albeit the Towne Sidas bee controverted between the Athenians and Boetians yet Epaminondas will adjudge it to the Boetians and not to the Athenians because the Athenians called an apple Malum punicum but the Boetians called it Sidas There is between English and Scottish small or no difference nay now none at all in union all being Britaines not so much as between Gileadites and Ephraimites in pronouncing Shibboleth for Sibboleth but all are of one language and even of one Canaan language only a little River Twede is common limit or rather imaginary bound to both and all from Twede Southward is Britaine within Twede and all from Twede