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A15453	Great Britains Salomon A sermon preached at the magnificent funerall, of the most high and mighty king, Iames, the late King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. At the Collegiat Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, the seuenth of May 1625. By the Right Honorable, and Right Reuerend Father in God, Iohn, Lord Bishop of Lincolne, Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England, &c.	Williams, John, 1582-1650.	1625 (1625)	STC 25723; ESTC S120058	36,498	80

of King Salomon AS Spartianus therefore reports of Traian that after his Death he triumphed openly in the Citie of Rome In Imagine in a Liuely Statue or Repraesentation inuented by Adrian for that purpose Soe shall this Salomon of Israel doe at this time in the Statue and Repraesentation of our Brittish Salomon Truly me thinkes Si nunquam fallit imago the resemblance is very liuely Sic oculos sic illemanus sic oraferebat All the Circumstances doe suit very well And therefore as a late Commenter vpon Philostratus tells vs that in Greece the Statuaries began with the making of their mould and then proceeded to the polishing of their partes Soe will I compare these two Kinges first as it were in one generall lumpe or mould that you may see by the odnesse of their proportion how they differ from all Kinges beside and then with a particular examination of the parts of my Text that you may obserue by the seuerall Members how well they resemble the one the other FOr the bulke or the mould I dare praesume to say you neuer read in your liues of two Kings more fully parallel'd amongst themselues and better distinguished from all other Kings besides themselues King Salomon is said to be Vnigenitus coram Matre sua the onely sonne of his Mother Prouerbs 4. 3. so was King Iames. Salomon was of complexion white and ruddie Canticles 5. 10. verse so was King Iames. Salomon was an infant King Puer paruulus a little childe 1 Chron. 22. 5. verse so was King Iames a King at the Age of thirteene moneths Salomon began his raigne in the life of his Praedecessor 1 Kings 1. 32. So by the force and compulsion of that state did our late Soueraigne King Iames. Salomon was twice crown'd and anoynted a King 1 Chron. 29. 22. So was King Iames. Salomons minority was rough through the quarrells of the former Soueraigne So was that of King Iames. Salomon was learned aboue all the Princes of the East 1 Kings 4. 30. So was King Iames aboue all Princes in the vniuersall world Salomon was a Writer in Prose and Verse 1 Kings 4. 32. So in a very pure and exquisite manner was our sweet Soueraigne King Iames. Salomon was the greatest Patron we euer read of to Church and Churchmen and yet no greater let the house of Aaron now confesse then King Iames. Salomon was honoured with Embassadors from all the Kings of the Earth 1 Kings 4. last verse and so you know was King Iames. Solomon was a maine Improuer of his home commodities as you may see in his Trading with Hiram 1 Kings 5. 9. verse and God knowes it was the daily study of King Iames. Salomon was a great maintainer of shipping and Nauigation 1 Kings 10. 14. A most proper Attribute to King Iames. Salomon beautified very much his Capitall Citie with Buildings and Water-workes 1 Kings 9. 15. So did King Iames. Euery man liu'd in peace vnder his vine and his Figge-Tree in the daies of Salomon 1 Kings 4. 25. And so they did in the blessed daies of King Iames. And yet towards his End K. Salomon had secret Enemies Razan Hadad and Ieroboam and prepared for a Warre vpon his going to his Graue as you may see in the verse before my Text. So had and so did King Iames. Lastly before any Hostile Act we reade of in the History King Salomon died in peace when he had liued about 60. Yeares as Lyra and Tostatus are of opinion And so you know did King Iames. You see therefore a Mould fitted for another Salomon in the Bulke and Generall I come now according to the Method in my Text to polish and refine the Members of this Statue in their diuision and particular TO beginne with his Reliquum verborum his wordes and Eloquence you know it well enough it was rare and excellent in the highest Degree Salomon speaking of his owne Facultie in this kinde diuides it into two seuerall Heads a ready Inuention and an easie discharge and expression of the same God hath granted me to speake as I would and to conceiue as is meet for the things spoken of Wisdome 7. 15. vers and this was eminent in our late Soueraigne His Inuention was as quicke as his first thoughts and his Wordes as ready as his Inuention God had giuen him to conceiue The Greeke word in that place is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to make an Enthymem or a short syllogisme and that was his manner He would first winde vp the whole Substance of his Discourse into one solid and massy conception and then spread it and dilate it to what compasse he pleas'd profluenti quae Principem deceret eloquentia as he said of Augustus in a flowing and a princely kinde of Elocution Those Speeches of his in the Parliament Starre-Chamber Councell Table and other publique Audiencies of the State of which as of Tullies Orations Ea semper optima quae maxima the longest still was held the best doe proue him to bee the most powerfull Speaker that euer swayed the Scepter of this Kingdome In his Style you may obserue the Ecclesiastes in his Figures the Canticles in his Sentences the Prouerbs and in his whole Discourse Reliquum verborum Salomonis all the rest that was admirable in the Eloquence of Salomon For beside his Prose Iter ad carmen nouerat hee made a Verse also when hee pleas'd and that as became Buchanans best Scoller Sanissimi coloris of a most dainty and elaborate composition An euerlasting honor to the Muses For as Alexander somewhat shie at the first was content afterward to be Burgesse of Corinth because Hercules had formerly accepted of the place Euen so the greatest Potentate of all the Earth may now without blushing stoope to a Verse being the vsuall Recreation of King Dauid together with this first and second Salomon For the King our Master neuer vs'd it but as Dauid did for the praise of God and his owne comfort Hee was in hand when God call'd him to sing Psalmes with the Angels with the Translation of our Church Psalmes which hee intended to haue finished and dedicated withall to the onely Saint of his Deuotion the Church of Great Britaine and that of Ireland This worke was staied in the one and thirty Psalme Blessed is he whose vnrighteousnesse is forgiuen and whose sinne is couered The very best meditation of all as Saint Austin thinkes in the Church Militant to prepare a Soule for the Church Triumphant Thus therefore in Prose and Verse in his Prouerbs and in his Canticles he was nothing short of the Eloquence of Salomon pointed at in this first circumstance Reliquum verborum Salomonis The rest of the words of Salomon FRom his Sayings I am come to his Doings Quae fecerit All that he did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Theocritus speakes a vast wood and world of matter fitter for the Annals and Historie of

Subiects in their Religion and Doctrine And so much for the first point FOr the second as hee patronized the Doctrine so did he also the Discipline of this Church I meane the Hierarchie of the Bishops and the vse of Chapters and Cathedrall Churches as a Gouernment receiued from Christ and his Apostles and the only Discipline that euer agreed with the Fundamentall Lawes of any Christian Monarchie For as that Musitian in Philostratus sent his young Scholler to a sort of Bunglers where he might learne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how hee should not pipe so God Almighty was pleas'd that this great King should be bred for a while in that new Discipline that hee might learne in times to come how hee should not Discipline the Church of Christ In that Discipline he learn't this Doctrine that one King may be lawfully surprised by three Earles 1583. That Ministers are not subiect to either King or Councell 1584. That they may deny the King to pray for his Mother 1586. That they may call Synods without the King and make Lawes too Ne quid Respublica detrimenti capiat That there be nothing done to the praeiudice of the State 1593. For these Aberrations therefore in the Discipline of that Church though hee honoured those Preachers to his dying day for the truth of their Doctrine in all other points hee first brought in the Iurisdiction Secondly the Name Thirdly the Cathedrals and lastly the Consistories and Reuenews of my Lords their Bishops such a Patron hee was of this most reuerend most auncient and most Apostolicall Discipline Lastly he was as great a Patron of the Maintenance of the Church as euer I read of in any Historie For beside his refusall of Sede-vacantes and that Law he enacted at his first entrance for the preseruation of the Reuenew of our Churches in England he might well say with Dauid for his other Kingdomes Zelus Domus tuae deuorauit me that the Endowing of Bishopricques the Erecting of Colledges the buying out of Impropriations the Assigning of Glebes the Repairing of the old and the Founding of new Churches hath consumed and taken vp all or the farre greater part of his Reuenews in Scotland and Ireland I haue no time to dwell vpon particulars but in the generall thinke you of whom you please of Constantine of Rome of Charlemaine of France of Alphonso of Spaine or to come home to our owne Island a Soile more fertill in prodigious Founders of Lucius of Offa of Alfred of Saint Edward of any King before or since the Conquest and I will say of my deare Master as he said of Traian Tu melior peioriaeuo though the times be farre worse yet was he farre the greater Founder And therefore to conclude this point imagine Discipline to be the Wals Maintenance the roofe and couer true Doctrine the sweet perfume and Incense of the Temple and you haue Salomons first Act before your eyes the Building of Gods House and his Quid fecerit what he did by Actions of Religion FOr the Actions of Iustice in this King they were so ordinary that being repeated they would proue as taedious for the praesent as in the Ages to come they will be admired For as Synesius saith of that glorious Planet that it is nothing for the Sunne to shine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it being of his Essence to glister and shine so were it frigidissima laudatio very poore Oratory to commend our King for being iust there hauing beene made ouer all Europe for the space of forty yeeres no more quaestion of his being Iust then of his being King If wee looke at home in his owne Dominions neuer were the Benches so grauely furnished neuer the Courts so willingly frequented neuer poore and rich so aequally righted neuer the Ballance so euenly poized as in the Raigne of our late Soueraigne I could tell you that that will neuer be beleeu'd in future times of a Lord that died for a vile Varlet of a Peere condemned for a sorry Gentleman nay of a deare Sonne vnrelieued for a time against a Stranger for feare of swaruing the breadth of a haire from the line of Iustice If wee looke abroad into forraign Countries Quae tam seposita est quae gens tam barbara Those very Princes that haue done him none haue beene forc't to confesse his Vprightnesse and Iustice I leaue you therefore to resolue with your selues of the which of these Salomons that Text is most true The Wisedome of God was in Him ad faciendum iudicium to doe Iustice 1 Kings 3. last verse And so much of the Actions of his IVSTICE THe third sort of Actions which are those of Warre are also obseruable in the peaceable Raigne of our late Salomon For although it be a fashion amongst men vt nolint eundem pluribus rebus excellere as the Orator speakes that they cannot endure that one Man should bee thought eminent in many qualities as the same Prince in the managing of Peace and Warre yet surely nothing but the malice of some people that would place their wheeles in Princes as Daedalus did in his Statues to pull them to combustions at their owne pleasure can denie this Laurell to our late Soueraigne For besides that occasioned in Scotland to make his roades into the North a●ter the defeat of the Earle of Arguile hee shewed himselfe in person not onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 resolute enough but if wee may beleeue the Story as Plutarque said of Tiberius Gracchus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 somewhat too forwardin those vnapproachable places scattering his Enemies as much with his example as he did with his forces dum magnos tolerare labores Ipsa Ducis virtus cogit I say beside these Aduentures of his person he was vnto his people to the houre of his death another Cherubin with a flaming sword to keepe out Enemies from this Paradise of ours wherein aboue al neighbouring Nations grew in abundance those Apples of peace which now I am to gather in the last place ANd surely Actions of Peace what euer debauched people say to the contrarie set out a Prince in more orient colours then those of War and great combustions In turbas discordias pessimo cui que plurima vis Pax quies bonis Artibus indigent saith Tacitus any Phaethon will serue to fire the world but none beside the God of Wisedome can keepe it in order And this is most euident in the Booke of God When Israel is to be chastized with Warre and Desolation any furious Iehu will serue the turne But for the managing of a long and a continued Peace no lesse is required then the Wisedome of Salomon Now of these Actions of King Iames his Peace though many others haue made whole Bookes yet will I make but a short Index You may finde in those volumes the Schooles of the Prophets newly adorned all kinde