her grave Her father King James the fifth died about the time of her birth when she was about six years old she was sent to France in great danger by winds and English ships there was an agreement 'twixt England and Scotland for a match 'twixt our King Edward the sixth and her which breaking on their part occasioned the Lord Protectors march with an English Army to Muscleborough field where much blood was shed and a Scotch Lord being taken prisoner and asked how he liked our wedding with Scotland said he liked the match well but not the woing to fetch a wife with fire and sword In France she was married young to Francis the Dolphin of France who died shortly after of a pain in his ear then was she Omnia fai nihil mihi profuit said Scverus the Emperor when he was dying and almost all the Roman Emperors untill Constantine and very many Popes after him got nothing by all their great advancement for the getting whereof they adventured life and limb and a better thing sed ut citius in tersicerentur as Aâ—ban a wedge to cleave him and garments throw him in great dangers by Sea in her returne back to Scotland where also she found the Scots in Armes she was there married to Henry Lord Darnley son to Matthew Stuart Earle of Lenox by whom she had King Iames her husband was murthered soon after King Iames's birth she was apprehended by the States of Scotland charged with the murther and imprisoned after she escaped out of prison fled to England where she was prisoner first in one place and then another above sixteen years and then beheaded at Fotheringay-Castle in Northamptonshire she desired to be buried in France but was buried at Peterburgh aged six and forty years and yet could not rest in a grave her body was taken up again by King Iames and buried at Westminster Every Crown of Gold is lined with a Crown of Thornes who almost would take up Crowns upon these termes but spirituall Princes their comforts in life death after death exceed their crosses they have that joy that no man can take from them that will support them at the stake in the Dungeon c. 2. There is no Nation where all the Subjects are temporall Princes but all Christs true Subjects in whose hearts their own Spirit which is one of the greatest conquests Prov. 16. 32. and over afflictions Rom. 8. 37. 9. Temporall Princes be not all of one Line no not in the same Kingdome as in England somtimes the Romans ruled here somtimes the Britains then Saxons then Daneâ— then Normans and since the Norman William somtimes his own Race ruled here then the Plantagenets then the Tudors then the Stuarts and of the four and twenty Kings since William the Conquerors death not above seven in England that could pretend legally to succeed their next Predecessors either by lineall or collaterall Title but the Saints are all of one blood borne of the blood of God Ioh. 1. 13. of the same spirit Joh. 3. 5 6 8. 10. Some other Princes were annoynted with externall oyle though it 's generally observed that all the Kings of Israel and Judah were not anointed with oyl though Saul David Solomon and some others were nor were the Kings of Judah anointed with the holy oyl where with the High Priests were anointed and which God commanded to be made Exod. 30. 23. 33. but with common oyl though laid up in the Sanctuary The Scotch Historians say that externall anointing of their Kings never began with them tiâ— Popery got footing there from which they say their Nation was free many years after Christ and kept much purity in Religion and that King Edgar was the first so anointed there Anno 1098. * The French Historians tell much of the holy oyl kept at Reims yet generally acknowledge that the first King of France that was anointed was Pepin and that none of the Merovignion Line were anointed and yet their former Kings were as much and as truly Gods anointed as the later but all the Saints are Gods Anointed Psal 105. 14 15. with a supernaturall and heavenly Oyl of Grace 1 Ioh. 2. 27. The Apostle tells us Hebr. 1. 9. That Christ was anointed with the oyl of gladnesse above his fellows which notes two things 1. That all the Saints are Chriâ—â—s fellows fellow-heirs fellow-sufferers fellow-conquerors c. 2. That they are anointed with the divine graces that Christ is only in their measure for of Christs fulnesse they receive grace for grace Ioh. 1. 16. Psal 133. â— The next thing is to shew you wherein they are Princes for as Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon concerning his brethren Judg. 8. 18. they each one resemble the children of a King and of this briefly 1. They are Princes by birth by the new and second birth born of the royal blood of Jesus Christ Joh. 1. 12 13. 2. They have the vast possessions of Princes * Abraham had little yet he was heir of the whole world Rom. 4 13 as before is proved Luther said that all the vast dominions of the Turk was but a scrap cast to a dog but the Saints dominions are higher larger c. 3. They have the power of Princes As a Prince hast thou power with God said Christ to Jacob Gen. 32. 28. Paul can do all things through Christ Phil. 4. 13. All things are possible to him that beleeveth Mark 9. 23. They have power * Hic homo potuit apud deum quod voluit was said of Luther Saints are the blessings of to a place Isaiah 19 24 with God so as to stop Lions mouths quench fire binde 2 King 2. 8 14 up the Sea nay binde the hands of God Exod. 32. 10. And the Queen of Scots before mentioned said that she more feared the prayers of Mr John Knox then an Army of 20000 men So said Leolin Prince of Wales of another and the Elector of Saxony of the Archbishop of Magdenburgh c. 4. They conquer as mighty Princes Death 1 Cor. 15. 55. and Hell Rom. 8. 1. and afflictions Rom. 8. 37 38. Prince of darkness Eph. 6. 12. their lusts 2 Cor. 10. 4. their hearts Prov. 16. 32. Jam. 4. 7. Rev. 2. 26 27. a greater conquest then Davids over Goliah 5. They are clothed as Princes The Queen in the Psalm was clothed with gold of Ophir yet her best clothing was within Psal 45. 9 13. They have robes that none wear but Princes the perfect merits of Christ upon them They are clothed with the Sun Rev. 12. 1. Christs long white robe Revel 19. 8. and with the sincere garment of grace within them Ezek. 16. 8. to 14. The Scripture calls Christs merits the best robe Luk. 15. 22. none but Princes wear it 6. Fed as Princes not scraps but Childrens bread Angels food fed at the Kings own Table as Mephibosheth They have meat that the world knows not of as Christ
c. but were bound to tarry and witness the truth of God Others though very godly thought they might not with a good Conscience stay but should be wilfully accâ—ssary to their own death as Fox Juel Knox c. and when those godly men that fled did return some approved Church Government by Bishops others could not some conformed to the Ceremonies established others durst not yet many of both Opinions agreed in Grace and Glory Yea even Bishop Andrews could say in his Epistle to P. Moulin concerning those Churches that had not Bishops nor owned that Government Ferreus sit qui salutem eis neget nos non â—â—mus illâ— ferrei and yet alas in matters of smaller moment Sâ—udâ—um partium is magna pars studiorum You may through Gods blessing much conduce to a happy union however God will reward you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What a journey took Polycarp anno Christi 157. to reconcile that frivolous brabble 'twixt Romans and Asians about keeping Easter Where strife and contention is there is confusion and every evil work Jam. 3. 16. But where godly amity and unity amongst brethren there the Lord commands his blessing and life for evermore Psal 133. Let me call to minde one remarkable victory to this purpose About ninety years ago when Mary Queen of Scots Widow to James the fifth King of Scotland and Grandmother to King James of Great Britain would have forcibly established Popery in Scotland and had secretly received divers French into Leith for that end and garrisoned that place with them she was opposed by the Protestants in Scotland who being too weak prevailed with Queen Elizabeth to ayd them she sent over the Duke of Norfolk with an Army to assist the Scots the English with the Scottish Protestants layd siege to Leith from whence the French and the Queens Popish party of Scots sallied out and slew divers both English and Scotch and layd their dead bodies naked upon the top of their Works in the hot moneth of June anno 1560. against the Sun The Queen of Scots looked out of her window upon the Dead Bodies and said Yonder is the goodliest Tapestry that ever my eyes beheld I would the whole fields hereabouts were strawed with the same stuff After which words she shortly fell sick and dyed and the Popish party besieged in Leith were forced to yeeld and depart Scotland was quieted and the Truth of Religion hereby there established but ere our Army returned home it was desired that there might be a solemn Day of Thanksgiving to God kept at Giles's Church in Edinburgh in July 1560. where one prayer was then solemnly put up to Heaven and recorded in Scotland in perpetuam â—ei memoriam part whereof was in these words O Lord whereas thou hast made our Confederates of England instruments to set us at this liberty and to whom in thy Name we have promised mutual faith again let us never fall into that unkindness O Lord that either we declare our selves unthankful to them or Profaners of thy holy Name but confound O Lord the counsels of those that go about to break that most godly League contracted in thy name and retain thou us so firmly together by thy holy Spirit that Satan never have any power to set us again at variance or discord I add no more but fiat Amen and Amen c. 6. As I heartily beg of God for you and us that never any iniquity may be established by a Law so would I beg that our Laws may be so framed according to Gods holy Word suitable wherto something is begun h I leave it to Your Honors to judg whether one Post in a weeke which needs not travel on the Lords day at all when no Case of necessity or extraordinary was not better then two who travel every Lords day all the day constantly for Lords-Day and against Adultery Incest Swearing c. as might cause our Lawyers and others more to read and study the Scriptures therein to know more fully and clearly the Law of our Land as Eleutherius long since wrote to K. Lucius but herein I submit as is meet to Your and the honorable Senates grave and wise Judgments humbly craving your pardon for this tediousness and bold Dedication I shall not fail right honorable Sir to bow my knees unto the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for you and the Heads of our Tribes that our onely wise and good God would give you a true sight of and repentance for what is amiss for I know you are far from i Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry Bishop Overton his minde who accused a faithful Minister k Mr Hugh Clark Vicar of Woolston in Warwickshire within his Diocess of Treason and committed him to Warwick Gaol for praying before his Sermon for Queen Elizabeth That God would forgive her her sins You are not such strangers to your own hearts and actions as Cardinal Bellarmine who could not finde any sin to confess save one or two in his youth I shall lap you round about in my poor prayers that God would more and more discover unto you his minde and work make you all spiritual Princes to Jesus Christ guide bless and carry you through in Gods work and for the Publique in such a manner as you may not onely do his work but have a share and comfort in it I add no more but Doctor Hollands Farewel which he used when he took his leave of the Fellows of Exeter Colledg in Oxford where he was Principal Commendo te dilectioni Dei odio Papatus omnisque superstitionis and humbly and heartily subscribe my self Your Honors most obliged and faithful Servant in the Service of God and the Publique JOHN SHAWE The Princes Royal OR A Sermon preached at the Minster in YORK on the Lords-Day morning in the Assize week March 24. 1650. Upon that Text PSALM 45. Vers 16. In stead of thy fathers shall be thy children whom thou mayst make Princes in all the Earth FOr the matter of this Psalm it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Song of Loves for the end of it it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to instruct saith the title of this Psalm Some think Psalmorum liber quaecunque utilia sunt ex omnibus continet said Basil and so Augustin The Book of the Psalms is a store-house of all holy Truths in other books severally dispersed the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth lillies points out the matter of the Psalm viz. the love 'twixt Christ and his Church who both are compared to lillies Cant. 2. 1 2. At marriages especially of great persons they used to have Epithalamial songs sung the principal matter whereof was the commendation of the Bridegroom and the Bride suitable hereto the Holy Ghost endites whosoever was the pen-man a divine Epithalamial Psalm relating to and setting forth nextly and immediately in the letter and shadow
reproved for it by Jehu 2 Chron. 19. 2. yet he again makes friendship with Ahaziah 2 Chron. 20. 25. and marries his son to Ahabs daughter 2 Chro. 21. 6. and yet the Lord saith of him 1 King 22. 43. that he turned not aside from doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord. How should this melting patience cause you to bless and act for this gracious God and to chronicle his mercies to posterity How often have I wished that Your Honor who have had during almost these ten years so perfect information of all the wonders of our God to and for his People in this Nation had Psal 107. 43. kept a perfect Diary thereof or if You have so done that You would communicate the same to the world which would be one of the rarest pieces of humane stories How wonderful and various have been the goings of our God in this Nation these ten years and still are like His dealing with His People of the Jews after their return from Babylon Zech. 14. 6 7. It was for a long time neither day nor night clear nor dark a man could not guess what a day it would be by the eye of sense but presently after a Sun-shine a Cloud and all this to shake off such as live by sense and not by Faith and serve themselves of God and the Publique as Jehu and Judas did and to let the Saints see that things are carryed on not by might nor by power but by the Lord of hoasts his own Spirit Zech. 4. 6. nevertheless in the evening time it shall be light And I am in the midst of a cloudy day the more encouraged when I consider 1. That the work is in the hand of a good and wise Master-builder who ever the instruments be In all these turnings there is a Spirit in the Wheels and the Wheels are full of eyes Ezek. 1. Secondly God sees and aims further then the best Agents and Instruments that are used in the work The Apostles did not see in the work themselves were imployed in so far as Christ meant but he lets them see more and more by steps and degrees what he would have done Mark 4. 28. So Ezek. 47. 3 4. and God hath led us along with a Cloud and Fire and owned us in the Mount and midst of straits Thirdly The light of the Truth I mean not Satans delusions and mens phansies but true Light much spreads in America New-England in Wales in the North c. Poor Creatures flock like Doves to the windows and the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence And if it be said so do Profaneness and Heresies spread I answer it was always so in times of Reformation till things could be setled Satan more struggles and when God is giving physick the disease more breaks forth Hos 7. 1. When did cursed Doctrines and Practices more break forth in the Old Testament then in Malachi's time when the Jews were returned from Babylon to reform Church and State in Canaan Mal. 3. 14 15. See Israel through the Wilderness Fourthly Compare former times impartially with these we shall finde thirteen fourteen or twenty years ago traps of several kindes layd for consciencious Ministers and Christians men durst not meet together to seek Gods face humble their Souls Sermons on Lords days in the afternoon weekly Exercises c. restrained the very face of piety discountenanced and they that wrought wickedness and most zealous against Puritans were exalted dumb dogs non-residents sports on Lords day c. favoured But how are godly men and godliness countenanced in good measure what happy alteration in our Vniversities for advance of piety though still more is to be wished And though too many Errors in some Members of our Armies yet see heretofore every Town generally sent such out to be Souldiers who were of the basest sort for drunkenness and villany that knew nothing compare our Army now with those here formerly and then judge without prejudice Fifthly Though mens â—ims were but little and strait at first as Luther said that when he first began he meant no more but to withstand Popish a Occasione â—â—â—dinatioâ—â—s indulgentiarum pretio numerato Lutherus initio fuit permotus ad hoc quod suscepit Reformationis opus c. Pardons and selling of Indulgences yet neither would God nor his Enemies let him alone till he resolved with Moses not to leave a hoof neither root nor branch of Popery So God and our Enemies heighten Your spirits Sixthly We hear what God is still working in bringing in many poor Natives in America whether they be the Posterity of the Jewish ten Tribes as Peter Martyr of old and b Mr Thorowgood others of late give very probable conjectures and if so Mr Brightman and others may well be owned for Prophets who above fourty years ago foretold the Calling of the Jews to begin about the year 1650. or whether they be Gentiles to embrace the Gospel with tears prayers marvelous zeal and Reformation And how have we seen the finger of God all along restraining the rage of men letting the Enemy vent onely so much fury as might conduce to Gods praise Psal 76. 10. He that stills the noise of the Seas stills the tumules of the People Psal 65. 7. The great God swaddles the mighty raging Ocean like a little Infant yea more easily then any Midwise can do the least childe in swadling bands Job 38. 9. and the Original word c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fraenum Capistrum used Mark 4. 39. for Christs stilling the winds and Sea signifies his putting a bridle in the mouth of the winds and Sea whereby he turns them about when most blustering and raging more easily then any man can do the nimblest horse He gathers the winds in his fist Pro. 30. 4. nods d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 men to death Psal 80. 16. with a blast Job 4. 9. And how may all these experiments stir You up to trust God for the future and be sincerely active for God against Your own and the Nations sins and distempers as Henricus Auceps when he fought against the Hungarians made this Vow to God that if the Lord would give him a victory over his Enemies he would purge his Country from e Commonly so called else buying livings was not Simons sin Act. 8. 18 to 20. though usually called Simony Simony which then much raigned therein And I beseech you return the praise and glory of all not to Your selves or Armies but to the free mercy and goodness of God alone Pope Hadrian having built K. W. Rufus when two Monks came to him to buy an Abbots place each outvying other in great sums of money for it the K. asked a third Monk that stood by what he would give who answered never a peny for that it s against my Conscience said he to give any thing then said the King of all the