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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36566	The history of Scotland, from the year 1423 until the year 1542 containing the lives and reigns of James the I, the II, the III, the IV, the V : with several memorials of state, during the reigns of James VI & Charls I / by William Drummond ...	Drummond, William, 1585-1649.	1655 (1655)	Wing D2196; ESTC R233176	275,311	320

Intelligence far above time and even reaching Eternity it self into which thou art transformed for by receiving thou beyo●d all other things art made that which thou receivest The more thou knowest the more apt thou art to know not being amated with any object that excelleth in predo●inance as sense by objects sensible Thy Will is uncompellable resisting force ●aunting Necessity despising D●nger triumphing over affliction unmoved by pitty and not constrained by all the toyls and disasters of life What the Arts ●master of this Universe is in governing this Universe thou art in the body and as he is wholly in every part of it so art thou wholly in every part of the body By thee man is that Hymen of e●ernal and mortal things that chain together binding unbodied and bodily substances without which the goodly Fabrick of this World were unperfect Thou hast not thy beginning from the fecundity power nor action of the elemental qualities being an immediate master piece of that great Maker Hence hast thou the forms and figures of all things imprinted in thee from thy first Original Thou onely at once art capable of contraries of the three parts of time thou makest but one Thou knowest thy self so seperate absolute and diverse an essence from thy body that thou dispossessed of it as it pleaseth thee for in thee there is no passion so weak which mastereth not the fear of leaving it Thou shouldst be so far from repining at this separation that it should be the chief of thy desires ●ith it is the passage and means to attain thy perfection and happiness Thou art here but as an infected and leprous Inn plunged in a floud of humours oppressed with cares suppressed with ignorance defiled and destained with vice retrograde in the course of virtue small things seem here great unto thee and great things small folly appeareth wisdome and wisedome folly Freed of thy fleshly care thou shalt rightly discern the beauty of thy self and have perfect frui●ion of that all-sufficient and all-sufficing Happinesse which is GOD himself to whom thou owest thy being to him thou owest thy wel being he and happinesse are the same For if GOD had not happinesse ●e were not GOD because Happinesse is the highest and greatest good If then GOD have happinesse it cannot bee a thing differing from him for if there were any thing in Him differing from him he should be an essence composed and not simple more what is differing in any thing is either an accident or a part of it self In GOD Happiness can not be an accident because he is not subject to any accidents if it were a part of Him since the part is before the whole we should be forced to grant that some thing was before God Bedded and bathed in these earthly ordures thou canst not come near this Soveraign Good nor have any glimpse of the afar-off dawning of his uncessable brightnesse no not so much as the eyes of the Birds of the Night have of the Sunne Think then by death that thy shell is broken and thou then but even ha●ched that thou art a Pearl raised from thy Mother to be enchaced in Gold and that the death day of thy body is thy birth-day to Eternity Why shouldst thou be fear-stroken and discom●orted for thy parting from this mortal Bride thy body sith it is but for a time and such a time as shee shall not care for not feel any thing in nor thou have much need of her Nay sith thou shalt receive her again more goodly and beautiful than when in her fullest perfection thou enjoied her being by her absence made like unto that Indian Chrystal which after some revolutions of ages is turned into purest Diamond If the Soul be thee Form of the Body and the form separated from the Matter of it cannot ever so continue but is inclined and disposed to be reunited thereinto What can let and hinder this desire but that some time it be accomplished and obtaining the expected end rejoin it self again unto the Body The Soul separate hath a desire because it hath a will and knowes it shall by this re-union receive perfection too as the matter is disposed and inclineth to its form when it is without it so would it seem that the Form should be towards its matter in the absence of it How is not the Soul the form of the body sith by it it is and is the beginning and cause of all the actions and functions of it For though in excellency it passe every other form yet doth not that excellency take from it the nature of a form If the abiding of the Soul from the body be violent then can it not be everlasting but have a regress How is not such an estate of being and abiding not violent to the Soul if it be natural to it to be in matter and separate ●fter a strange manner many of the powers and facul●ies of it which never leave it are not duly exercised This Union feemeth not above the Horizon of natural Reason far less impossible to be done by God and though Reason c●nnot evidently here demonstrate yet hath she a misty ●nd groping notice If the body shall not arise how can ●he onely and Soveraign Good be perfectly and infinitely good For how shall he be just nay have so much justice ●s Man if he suffer the evil and vicious to have a more pro●perous and happy life than the followers of Religion and Virtue which ordinarily useth to fall ●orth in this life For 〈◊〉 most wicked are Lords and Gods of this Earth sleeping ●n the lee port of honour as if the spacious habitation o●●he World had been made onely for them and the virtuous and good are but forlorn cast-awaies floting in the surges of distress seeming here either of the eye of providence not pittied or not regarded being subject to all dishonors wrongs wracks in their best estate passing away their daies like the Dazies in the field in silence and contempt Sith then he is most good most just of necessity ther● must be appointed by him another time and place of retribution in the which there shall be a reward for living well and a punishment for doing evil with a life where into both shall receive their due and not onely in their Souls divested for sith both ●he parts of man did act a part in the right or wrong it carri●th great reason with it that they both be a●raigned b●fore that ●igh justice to r●c●ive their own Man is not a Soul onely but a Soul and body to which ●ither guerdon or punishment is due This seemeth to be th● voice of Nature in almost all the Religions of the world this is that general testimony charactered in the minds of the most barbarous and savage people for all have had some rovi●g ges●es at ages to come and a dim duskish light of another life all appealing to one general Judgement Throne To what else cou●d serve so

actions to all men which they cannot go beyond Most then answered I Death is not such an evil and pain as it is of the Vulgar esteemed Death said he nor painful is nor evil except in contemplation of the cause being of it self as indifferent as birth yet can it not be denyed and amidst those dreams of earthly pleasures the uncouthnesse of it with the wrong apprehension of what is unknown in it are noysom But the Soul sustained by its Maker resolved and calmly retired in it self doth find that death sith it is in a moment of Time is but a short nay sweet sigh and is not worthy the remembrance compared with the smallest dramm of the infinite Felicity of this Place Here is the Palace Royal of the Almighty King in which the uncomprehensible comprehensibly manifesteth Himself in place highest in substance not subject to any corruption or change for it is above all motion and solid turneth not in quantity greatest for if one Starre one Sphere be so vast how large how huge in exceeding demensions must those bounds be which do them all contain In quality most pure and orient Heaven here is all but a Sunne or the Sunne all but a Heaven If to Earthlings the Foot-stool of God and that Stage which he raised for a small course of Time seemeth so glorious and magnificent What estimation would they make if they could see of his eternal Habitation and Throne and if these be so wonderful what is the fight of him for whom and by whom all was created of whose Glory to behold the thousand thousand part the most pure Intelligencies are fully satiate and with wonder and delight rest amazed for the beauty of his light and the light of His beauty are uncomprehensible Here doth that earnest appetite of the understanding content it self not seeking to know any more For it seeth before it in the vision of the Divine essence a Miroir in the which not Images or shadows but the true and perfect essence of every thing created is more clear and conspicuous than in it self all that may be known or understood Here doth the Will pause it self as in the center of its Eternal rest glowing with a fiery affection of that infinite and al-sufficient good which being fully known cannot for the infinite motives and causes of love which are in him but be fully and perfectly loved As he is onely the true and essential Bounty so is he the onely essential and true beauty deserving alone all Love and Admiration by which the Creatures are onely in so much fair and excellent as they par●icipate of his Beauty and excelling Excellencies Here is a blessed Company every one joying as much in anothers Felicity as in that which is proper because each seeeth another equaly loved of God thus their distinct joyes are no fewer than the copartners of the Joy And as the Assembly is in number answerable to the large capacity of the place so are the joyes answerable to the numberlesse number of the Assembly No poor and pi●tiful mortal confined on the Globe of Earth who hath never seen bu● so●row or interchangeably some painted superficial pleasures can righly think on or be sufficient to conceive the termless delights of this place So many Feathers move not on Birds so many Birds dint not the Air so many leaves tremble not on Trees so many Trees grow not in the solitary Forests so many waves turn not in the Ocean and so many grains of Sand limit not those Waves as this triumphant Court hath variety of delights and Joies exemp●ed from all comparison Happiness at once here is ●ully known and fully enjoyed and as infinite in con●inuance as extent Here is flourishing and never-fading youth without Age Strength without Weaknesse Beauty never blasting Knowledge without Learning Abundance without Loathing Peace without Disturbance Particip●tion without Envy Rest without Labour Light without rifing or setting Sunne Perpetuity without moments for Time which is the measure of Endurance did never enter in this shining Eternity Ambition Disdain Malice Difference of Opinions cannot approach this place and resembling those foggy Mists which cover those Lists of Sublunary things All pleasure paragon'd with what is here is pain all Mirth mourning all Beauty deformity Here one daies abiding is above the continuing in the most fortunate estate on the Earth many years and sufficient to countervail the extreamest torments of Life But although this bliss of Souls be great and their joies many yet shal they admit addition and bee more ful and perfect at that long wished and general meeting with their bodies Amongst all the wonders of the great Creator not one appeareth to be more wounderful replied I than that our Bodies should arise having suffered so many changes and nature denying a return from privation to a Habit. Such power said he being above all that the Understanding of Man can conceave may well work such wonders For if Mans Vnderstanding could comprehend all the secrets and counsels of that Eternal Majesty it must of necessity be equal unto it The Author of Nature is not thralled to the Lawes of Nature but worketh with them or contrary to them as it pleaseth him What he hath a will to do he hath a power to perform To that power which brought all this All from nought to bring again in one instant any substance which ever was into it unto what it was once should not be thought impossible for who can do more can do less and his power is no less after that which was by him brought forth is deca●ed and vanished than it was before it was produced being neither restrained to certain limits or instruments or to any determinate and definite manner of working where the power is without restraint the work admitteth no other limits than the Workers will This world is as a Cabinet to God in which the small things however to us hid and secret are nothing less kept than the great For as he was wife and powerful to creat so doth his knowledge comprehend his own Creation yea every change and varity in it of which it is the very Source Not any Atom of the scatter'd Dust of mankind though daily flowing under new forms is to him unknown and his knowledge doth distinguish and discern what once his power shall waken and raise up Why may not the Arts-Master of the world like a Molder what he hath framed in divers shapes confound in one mass and then severally fashion them out of the same Can the Spargirick by his Art restore for a space to the dry and withered Rose the natural purple and bluth and cannot the Almighty r●ise and refine the body of man after never so many alterations on the Earth Reason her self finds it more possible for infinit power to cast out from it self a finit world and restore any thing in it though decaied and dissolved to what it was first than for man a finit piece of reasonable misery to change the form of matter made to his hand the power of God never brought forth all that it can for then were it bounded and no more infinit That time doth approach O hast ye times away in which the dead shall live and the living be changed and of all actions the Guerdon is at hand then shall there ●e an end without an end time shall finish and place shall be altered motion yielding unto rest and another world of an age eternal and unchangeable shall arise which when he had said me thought he vanished and I all astonished did awake To the Memory of the most Excellent Lady JANE Countess of PERTH THis Beauty which Pale death in dust did turn And clos'd so soon within a Coffin sad Did passe like Lightning like to T hunder burn So little Life so much of Worth it Had. Heavens b●t to shew their Might here made it shine And when admir'd then in the Worlds disdain O Tears O Grief did call it back again Lest Earth should va●ut she kept what was Divine What can we hope for more What more enjoy Sith ●●irest Things thus soonest have their End And as on Bodies shadowes do attend Sith all our blisse is follow'd with Annoy Yet she 's not dead she lives where she did love Her Memory on Earth Her soul above To S. W. A. THough I have twice been at the Doors of Death And twice found shut those Gates which ever mourn This but a lightning is Truce tane to Breath For late-born Sorrows augurre fteet return Amidst thy sacred Cares and Courtly toils Alexis when thou shalt hear wandring Fam● Tell Death bath triumph'd o're my mortal spoils And that on Earth I am but a sad Name If thou e're held me clear by all our Love By all that Blisse those Ioyes Heaven here us gave I conjure thee and by the Maids of Jove To grave this short Remembrance on my Grave Here Damon lies whose Songs did somtime grace The murmuring Esk may roses shade the Place On the Report of the Death of the Author I● that were true which whispered is by Fame That Damons light no more on Earth doth burn His Part on Phoebus physick would disclaim And cloth'd in clouds as erst for Ph●eton mourn Yea Fame by this had got so deep a wound That scarce She could have power to tell his death Her Wings cut short who could her Trumpet sound Whose blaze of late was nurs'd but by his Breath That Spirit of his which most with mine was free By mutual traffick enterchanging store If chac'd from him it would have come to me Where it so ost familiar was before Some secret Grief distempring first my Mind Had though not knowing made me feel this losse A Sympathy had so our Souls combind That such a parting both at once would tosse Though such Reports to others terrour give Thy Heavenly Virtnes who did never spy I know thou that canst make the dead to live Immortal art and needs not fear to dye Sir WILL. ALEXANDER FINIS

Conspiracy a Rebellion and in general by them all they were ready in Arms to maintain their factions and if upon suspition the King should attach any being secretly joyned in a league He could hardly have medled with their persons without a Civil War which in regard of his Engagement with England he endeavoured to spare perplexed pensive sad he cometh to Perth stayeth in the Covent of the Dominicans named the Black-Friers a place not far from the Town Wall endeavouring so secretly as was possible to finde out the Conspiracy But his close practising was not unknown to the Conspirators as that there was more peril to resolve then execute a Treason a distance of time between the Plot and execution discovering and overthrowing the enterprise Hereupon they determine to hazard on the mischief before tryal or remedy could be thought upon The Conspirators were Robert Graham Uncle and Tutor to Miles Graham Robert Stuart Nephew to Walter Earl of Athole and one of the Kings sworn Domesticks But he who gave motion to all was the Earl of Athole himself the Kings Fathers Brother whose quarrel was no less then a pretended title and claim to the Crown which he formed and alledged thus His Brother David and he were procreated by King Robert the second on his first wife Eupheme Ross daughter to the Earl of Ross and therefore ought and should have been preferred to the succession of the Crown before King Iohn named Robert and all the Race of Elizabeth Moor who was but his second wife and next them but Heirs to King Robert the second They were the eldest sons of King Robert after he was King Iohn and Robert being born when he was but in a private State and Earl of Strathern for it would appear that as a Son born after his Father hath lost his Kingdom is not esteemed for the Son of a King so neither he that is born before the Father be a King These reasons he thought sufficient the King taken away to set him in the room of State But considered not how sacred the name of King is to the Scots Nation how a Crown once worn quite taketh away what defects soever and that it was not easie to divest a King in present possession of a Crown who had his right from his Father and Grandfather with the Authority of a Parliament approving his Descent and secluding all other less came it in his thought that those children are legitimate and lawfull which cannot be thrust back and rejected without troubling the common Peace of the Country and opening Gates to Forreign Invasions Domestical disturbances and all disorders with an unsetled course of Succession the Common errour making the Right or Law Athole animated by the Oracle of a Sooth-sayer of his Highland Countrey who had assured him he should be crowned in a Solemn Assembly before his Death never gave over his hopes of obtaining the Crown and being inferiour and weak in power and faction to the other Brothers to compass his designs he betaketh himself to treacherous devices It was not in his power to ruine so many at once for mischief required there should be distance between so many bloody Acts therefore be layeth his course for the taking away of his kindred one by another at leasure he soweth jealousies entertaineth discords maintaineth factions amongst them by his counsell David Duke of Rothesay the Kings eldest Brother was famished in the Tower of Falkland neither had Iames then a child escaped his treachery if far off in England he had not been preserved He perswaded the Earl of Fi●e that making out of the way the King his brother he should put the Crown on his own head He trafficked the return of King Iames and he being come he plotted the overthrow of Duke Mordock by ●it instrument for such a business proving the Crimes laid against him in the Attaindor he himself sat Judge against him and his Children Thus stirring one of the Kinsemen against another he so enfeebled the Race of Elizabeth Moore that of a numerous off-spring there only remained Iames and his Son a childe not yet six years of Age upon whose Sepulchers building his designs with a small alteration of the State he thought it an easie step to the Crown Robert Graham had been long imprisoned at last released but being a man implacable once offended and cruel whom neither benefits could oblige nor dangers make wife and enemy to Peace Factious and Ambitious alike by many wicked Plots afterwards and Crimes against the Laws of the Country driven to an Out-lawry and to live as banished he had ever a male-talent against the King since the adjudging of the Earldom of Strathern from his Nephew Miles Robert Stuart was very familiar with the King and his access to his Chamber and Person advanced the Enterprise being a riotous young Man gaping after great matters neither respecting Faith nor Fame and daring attempt any thing for the accomplishing of his own foolish hopes and his Grandfathers ayms and ambition These having associated unto them the most audacious whom either fear of punishment for their misdeeds or hopes of preferment by a change of the Government would plunge into any enterprise in the Moneth of February so secretly as was possible assembled together where the Earl spake to this sense unto them These engagements which every one of you have to another and which I have to every one of you founded on the strongest grounds of consanguinity friendship interest of committed and received wrongs move me freely here to reveal my secret drifts and discover the depths of my hidden purposes and counsels The strange Tragedies which in the State and Government have been acted since the coming of this English man to the Crown are to none of you unknown Mordock with his children hath been beheaded the Earl of Lennox his Father in Law had that same end the Nobility repine at the Government of their King the King is in jealousie of his Nobles the Commons are in way of Rebellion These all have been the effects of my far-mining Policies And hitherto they have fallen forth as fortunately as they were ingeniously plotted For what more ingenious and cunning Stratagem could be projected to decline the rank growth of these Vsurp●rs then to take them away by handles made of their own Timber And if there was any wrong in such proceedings in small matters wrong must be done that justice and equity may be performed in great My fear was and yet is that the taking down of the Scaffold of Mordock should be the putting up of ours Crowns suffer no corrivals the world knows and he himself is conscious to it that the right and title of the Crown by descent of blood from Robert the second my Father was in the person of David my Brother and is justly claimed now by me and our Nephew As for an Act of Parliament confirming the right of that other Race and for oaths of Allegiance no