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A01924	England and Scotlands happinesse in being reduced to vnitie of religion, vnder our invincible monarke King Iames. Written by I: Gordon.; Panegyrique of congratulation for the concord of the realmes of Great Britaine in unitie of religion, and under one king	Gordon, John, 1544-1619.; Grimeston, Edward.	1604 (1604)	STC 12062.3; ESTC S117967	22,135	50

England and Scotlands Happinesse In being reduced to vnitie of Religion vnder our invincible Monarke King Iames. Written by J Gordon Printed at London by V. S. for William Aspley and are by him to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard 1604. A Panegyrique of Congratulation for the concord of the realmes of great Brittaine in vnitie of religion vnder one King AN auncient writer saith that the ground and maintenance of all Monarchies and Empires is concord their ruine and subuersion is discorde The Histories of things past for sixteene hundred yeeres since the eternall Sonne of God and Monarke of all Monarkes became man to redeeme such as should beleeue in him shew vs many fayre and admirable blessings which God hath powred vppon the Ilands of great Brittaine and the planting of Christian truth in them the which I will represent vnto your Maiestie to shew plainly that the cōcord vnion of the people nations ouer whom God hath made you King is the accomplishment and perfection of all the precedent benefites which his diuine bountie hath bestowed vppon the people vnder your most happie gouernment The Apostle Saint Peter in his first Catholike Epistle the second Chapter sayeth that Christians are a chosen race a royall Priesthoode a holy nation a people purchased to God as his owne The which is very fitly applied to the people vnder your commaunde seeing that God hath first vnited them vnder this royaltie and Priesthoode of Christian veritie and afterwardes hath vsed this vnion of their soules as a Mother to bring foorth the vnion of three Realmes vnder your Maiestie in one royaltie The sayde Apostle in the same place doth teach vs to what ende God hath placed vs in this happie concorde That is To the ende sayeth he that you shoulde declare his vertues who hath called you out of darkenesse to his admirable light The which should mooue vs to preferre the wonderfull workes of God before all worldly things who hauing freede and redeemed vs from darkenesse from inuocation and adoration of deade men and from Pagan Idolatrie wherein our predecessours haue beene so long abused worshipping Images and the visible formes of Creatures as the Creator himselfe and the creature insteade of the Creator hath since and in this latter age called and inspired vs to worshippe him the onely Creator of all things Moreouer the Apostle in the same place doeth shewe vs what man was before that is Before you were no people and now you are the people of God you had not obtayned mercie but now you haue obteyned mercie The people SIRE of the Ilands of great Brittaine were not vnited in religion in peace in concorde in like affections and will vnder one King but they haue beene long banded one agaynst an other in a Sea of discordes discentions and cruell warres against the decree and lawe of God for that they were out of Christian charitie hauing no other obiect in their soules but hatred and malice with a desire of reuenge and so by consequence they were not Gods people but cast-awayes by reason of their Idolatrie and spirituall fornication wherewith they were poluted and so vnworthy to obtayne mercie But now that the light of the Gospell the true worshippe of one God hath taken liuely and sure roote in their hartes vnder the fortunate raygne of the deceased Queene and vnder your happy and lawefull succession in these Realmes they are become of one heart of one affection and finally beeing made the true people of God they haue obtained blessing grace and mercie The comicall Poet sayth A King is the image of the liuing God Christian diuinity teacheth vs that in God there be three persōs vnited in one deytie essence and power Saint Augustine compares the Trinity to the three partes of a mans soule which are distinguished in opperations and functions vnited in one and the same essence I beseech God SIRE so to worke in the hartes of your subiects and in the three realmes vnited vnder the power and commaund of your royall Maiesty that beeing bound together they may represent the three persons of the Trinitye in one deity and that agreeing in one will vnder your Monarchy they may be made the true image of the heauenly that all may bee one in Christ as Christ is one with his father It was neuer seene in any age that the nations of the Ilands of Brittanie were vnited in hart and affection vnder one King as the admirable power of God hath lately brought them vnder your maiesty whereof the true and onely cause is the purity and truth of Christian religion the which God of his especial grace hath miraculously planted in your realmes and sence continued in you causing you to be borne the lawfull and vndoubted heire of these three auncient Imperiall Crowns of the west to raigne Christianly peaceably and happily as vndoubtedly you shall seeing that God hath indued and beautified you with learning in aboundance and so great wisdome as I may iustly say these vertues surpasse the greatnes of your royall maiesty If we examine the order of Histories we shall obserue that this most happy vnion of English and Scottish vnder one King hath beene long before foreseene by the diuine prouidence to be finally effected in our age by the establishment of the ancient Christian religion in your Ilands and the abolishion of the new religion of Arrius Nestorius and Eutichius brought in by the Stratagems of the olde serpent the spirite of errour and darkenesse through the ministry of Popes who since sixe hundred yeeres vnder the name of Christianity haue built vp againe this pagan idolatry hauing changed the Bishops and pastors of the Church into worldly power vsurping vpon the Kings of the Westerne Empire in whose soules through superstition and ignorance of the Christian truth they haue planted a more insupportable tyrannye then that which auncient Rome had conquered by force of armes The great God of armies hath in your Maiesties person begun this happy vnion and concord betwixt two nations which had for so many ages beene in cruell and bloudy warres that you might imploye the valour of their armes for the deliuery of his church from the barbarous tyranny wherewith shee hath beene long oppressed by Popes And as Constantine the great the protector and restorer of the auncient Christian Church was borne in great Brittaine and there beganne his Empire obtayning afterwardes admirable victories against fowre Romaine Tyrantes persecutors of the Church of God by meanes whereof he did abolish Gentilisme and planted Christian Religion at Rome and throughout the Empire In like sorte the same God hath raised your Maiestie to the height of greatnesse to be successor vnto Constantine in the saide Realmes and to chase out of the same Rome the idolatry and abhomination of the Gentiles the which Sathan hath sence brought in vnder the name of Christ which is the true meanes to purchase you the iust title of protector and defender of

we haue neither Temples nor Aulters for what Image shall I make of God If thou hast thy right sences thou shalt finde that man is the true Image of God And a little after he saith But the God whom we worship we neither shewe nor see If the auncient Christians had beene like vnto the Romish Christians of this age the Gentiles could not haue obiected that they had neither Aultars nor Images for in truth they haue more Aulters and Images then the Gentiles had Neither should they haue obiected vnto the Christiās that they concealed what they worshipped for the Romains shew in the eleuation of the Host the God which they worship cause the people to worship it the which they not onely shewe in Temples but also in the streetes and in generall processions and other solemnities they shew forth what they worship against the vse of the first Christians Tertulian in his booke of Idolatrie confutes with many reasons the making of all sortes of Images to roote out all matter of Idolatrie and after he had cited the second commaundement whereby it is defended to make the likenesse of anie thing that is in heauen or earth hee saith It is forbidden throughout all the worlde for the seruants of God to vse such making of Images seeing that Enoch had foretoulde that the Diuell or the Angels of darkenesse should turne all the Elements into Idolatrie and all that is conteyned in Heauen and Earth that all these things might bee consecrated for God against God himselfe And so mans errour doth worshippe all things except the Creator of all things Their Images were Idols and the consecration of Images is Idolatrie And whatsoeuer Idolatrie commits must necessarily be attributed to the maker of the Idol That which Origen speaketh vpon the Epistle to the Romaines is to be considered to make Christians wholy to reiect Idolatrie For after that he hath refuted the Errours of the Gentiles in that they might know God by the visible Ellementes yet they had fallen to the worshippe of the visible Images of Creatures concluding thus To the ende that in fewe wordes wee may speake the truth wee houlde it an abhominable impietie to worshippe any thing except the Father Sonne and holy Ghost And a little after hee saith They wrong themselues that serue Images and worshippe the Creature leauing the Creator But we Christians which worship and adore the Father Sonne and holy Ghost onely and no other Creature as we doe not erre in the diuine worshippe so doe wee not offend in our actions and conuersation It is most certaine that the Host offred vp in the Romaine Lyturgie is not consubstantiall with the Father Son holy Ghost much lesse vnited in consubstantialitie with the Trinitie as it is well noted in the sermon de Caena Domini inserted among the workes of Cyprian who liued in the third age where it is saide That the diuine essence is infused in the visible Sacrament after an vnspeakable manner that there might bee more deuotion and reuerence giuen to the Sacraments and a more holy accesse to the truth of him of whose bodie they bee Sacraments and to the participating of the spirite not to the consubstantialitie of Christ but to this brotherly and indiuisible vnitie for the Sonne onely is consubstantiall with the Father the substance of the Trinitie may not bee deuided our coniunction and that of Christ doth not confounde the persons nor vnite the substances but doth onely consociate the affections and binde the willes If in the person of Iesus Christ consisting of three natures in one person worshiped with one onely worshippe the deuine nature had beene onely infused in the humanitie of Iesus Christ after his birth as Nestorius did teach and not vnited personally in the virgins wombe Cyrillus and the other Orthodoxes did rightly mainetaine agaynst him that to worshippe one Christ carrying God in him had beene an Antropolatrie or Pagan Idolatrie With greater reason the infusion of the Diuinitie in the Sacrament and in the elements of Breade and Wine cannot attribute vnto it the dignity to bee worshipped as God himselfe for as that text doth teach vs this infusion which is made in the sacrament is not consubstantiall with the deity of the Sonne of God the which is onely consubstantiall with the father and the holy spirite for that it dooth affect a most straight and mutuall coniunction betwixt God and vs. Saint Iohn in his seuenteenth Chapter speaketh of this coniunction and vnion where our Sauiour prayes to his father for all those that shall beleeue in him That all may be one as thou O father art in me and I in thee that they may be one in vs. If this vnion should make that sacrament of the Lords supper to be worshipped then those which are vnited in Christ and by him in God the father should worship one another for our Sauiour saith in the sixt of Saint Iohn Hee that eates my flesh and drinks my bloud remaines in me I in him That we might know saith Cypriā that our abiding in him is a true eating and the drinking an incorporation with a duty of obedience ioyning of willes and vnitie of affections The eating therefore is a certaine greedinesse in vs and a desire to remaine for euer in Christ We learne by these authorities that euen as Christs abyding in vs by our eating of the sacrament makes vs not capable of worship for that by this coniunction wee are not personally vnited with the deity of Iesus Christ In like sort the infusion of the deuine essence in the sacramentes whereof Saint Cyprian speakes makes not the sacrament to be worshipped if it were so the said adoration were in idolatrye like that of Nestorius who worshipped man carrying God in him as is said before We may therfore say with good reason against those that worship the creatures and the images of Iesus Christ his sepulcher and the wood of the crosse that which Origen speaketh against the Gentiles of his time God is the vertue which gouernes all things and the diuinitye which filleth all things making themselues thereby inexcusable that whereas God hath giuen them the grace to know him yet haue they not honoured him as they ought neither haue they giuen him due thankes but haue sought in the vanity of their owne imaginations the images of God As those of the Romish Church doe in the Masse for in their hoast they make figures and images They haue lost in themselues the Image of God they which vanted to haue the spirite of wisedome are fallen into the obscure darkenesse of ignorance For what is there more abhominable thē to turne the glory of God to the corporall and corruptible image of mans nature the which is done at this present throughout all the Romish Church as it is saide So as they haue conuerted God the Creatour of all things into a corporall and corruptible forme whome they thought to worship vnder those visible

formes wee will therefore conclude our discourse of the proofe of the true and onely adoration of God obserued throughout all the habitable world during the first periode of three hundred yeares with the testimonye of Arnobius writing against the Gentiles obiecting to the Christians that they would not worshippe any but the first and the greatest of all the Gods and not the inferiour Gods according to the manner in those dayes to whome hee aunswereth saying And wee may say in that which concernes the worshippe and honour of the diuinity that it sufficeth vs to haue one onelye God God I saye the father of all things who hath created and gouerneth all things In worshipping of him wee worshippe all that we ought to worshippe when wee honour him wee honour in him that which hee requires at our handes what the duety of worshippe dooth exact that we performe by our worshippe For seeing wee holde the chiefe of all diuinitye of whome all diuine thinges depend wee thinke it superfluous to seeke to priuate persons And a little after hee saithe As in earthlye kingdomes wee are not constrained to worshippe and honour euerye priuate man of the Kings house but in the honour wee doe vnto Kings those which belong vnto them are sceretly honored with them So the Christians of that perfect age did not worshippe nor call vpon any thing vnder God as the Romanistes of our age doe which worship the blessed virgin the Angelles Michael and Gabriel Saint Iohn Baptist the Apostles and Martyrs their reliques Sepulchers and Images So as it is most apparent that the Religion planted at this present in the Ilandes of great Brittaine is the true auncient Religion and the only worship of one God incōmunicable to the Creatures the which hath continued during the first periode of the three hundred yeares of Christianity So as it is a meere slander what the aduersaries of the trueth saye that your Maiestye hath banished the true auncient Christian Religion out of your Realmes to plant a newe Religion pretended to bee begunne by Martin Luther Iohn Caluin and other great Personages in the puritye of the true Christian Doctrine But contrarywise it is an immortall glorye which shall increase in your raigne and continue to posterity seeing that your Maiesty is the author of the restoring of the true Christian religion in your realmes hauing restored it I saye to that beauty and sincerity as it was in oulde time planted by Lucius your fore-runner the first Christian King of great Brittayne who became so affectionate and zealous of the aduancement and propagation of the trueth and so great an enemie to Idolatrie and the worship of Creatures and visible formes that of a King he became a Preacher as some Histories say And as during the persecutiō of the Christians vnder Dioclesian and Maxentius which were the most bloudie of all God vsed your Ilands and kingdomes as a refuge for the true Christians which fled from the saide persecutions Euen so the same God hath made your most happie raigne to be a safe harbour for the Christians of our age who haue been forced to abandon houses goods and inheritances rather then to bow to the Romish worship God the protector of his true Church hath continued his admirable graces ouer your Ilands in the second Period of Christianisme the which begun with the most happie Empire of Constantius Chlorus for during the last persecution God raysed vp this wise and warlike Emperour in the westerne parts of Europe in the which England Scotland and Ireland are conteyned where the saide Emperor tooke to wife Hellen borne in your said realmes who receiued into his protection all the Christians which fled from other prouinces to auoyde the cruell persecution which was made against them by his other associates in the Empire SIRE we must here obserue a notable pollicie of this wise Emperour to trie the fidelitie of his seruants and ministers in the gouernment of his Empire which will much auaile for the preseruation of your royall estate He did publish a fayned edict commaunding all the subiects of his Empire to sacrifice to the false Gods and whosoeuer should refuse so to doe to departe out of his armies and Empire This proclamation beeing made a great number of Christians did sacrifice vnto the false Gods to preserue their estates dignities and goods but the true Christians desired rather to leaue all then to serue them wherevpon the Emperour discouered himselfe presently and discharged all such as had worshiped these false Gods saying How can they be faithful vnto the Emperour that are faithlesse vnto God And as for the true Christians which had left all hee called them home and made them guardiens both of his person and estate as Eusebius saith I desire not your Maiestie should make such counterfeite proclamations but that the same God which hath made you successor to Constantius Chlorus will giue you the grace to make such an election of your subiects as in your most important affaires you admit not any but such as are knowne to be well grounded in the true Christian religion For euen as a modest woman ought not onely to be chast but free from all suspition euen so those which are imployed in the affaires of true Christian Princes as your Maiestie is should be free from all suspition of false religion The said Constantius died at Yorke in England after that hee had instituted Constantine the great his sonne the which was an other especiall grace which God hath poured vppon your realmes And euen as vnder King Lucius It was the first part of the world which did banish the Pagan Idolatrie euen so God hath raised out of the same Iland the said Constantine the great who expelled the same Romish Idolatry out of all the other Prouinces of the habitable world whereof your Maiestie hath a familiar example to imitate in this restorer of the Christian religion This great Constantine your predecessor and countrieman in the beginning of his Empire Hee studied what God he should choose as the same Eusebius saith that his Father had condemned the Error of Idolatrie and al his life had worshiped one onely God the protector guardien of the Empire the free giuer of all good Vppon this resolution he made choise of the true God to serue beleeuing that the onely cause of Kings and Emperours felicitie proceeded from him alone as the same Authour saith He worshiped the same God that is aboue all things And in his ordinarie praiers beeing alone he spake to God alone Whereby it appeareth that the religion which your Maiestie hath established in your realmes is conformable to that of your predecessour Constantine who worshiped as I haue saide but one onely God the Creator of all things and not the Crosse and Images of Iesus Christ In his ordinarie praiers hee did not call vppon the blessed Virgin Saint Peter Saint Paul nor the other Apostles and Martires neyther haue we