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spirit_n	holy_a	person_n	trinity_n	8,176	5	10.0802	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71100	A discourse shewing the great happiness that hath and may still accrue to His Majesties kingdomes of England and Scotland by re-uniting them into one Great Britain in two parts / by John Bristol.	Thornborough, John, 1551-1641.; Bristol, John Digby, Earl of, 1580-1654.	1641 (1641)	Wing T1042A; ESTC R32805	52,904	330

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