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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

and government of consanguinity to her her selfe still holding primacy over all as England and Scotland are chearefully looking one towards the other in the name of great Britaine and as the two Cherubins did looke one towards the other in one propitiatory And thy royall state O great Britaine is as the anointed Cherub Ezek. 28. And as in the heart of man is placed fortitude in his liver temperance and in his minde Iustice and yet all these with all other vertues are annexed to Prudence the common ligament of all so is great Britaine by uniting all his kingdomes principalities countries and honours the compleat proportioned forme of all and all in it both universally and particularly are fashioned and made fit on every side for happy conjunction and mutuall correspondence For this renowned name of great Britaine standeth in stead of a Loadstone drawing all into one chaining them together with links of love as Lisippus made an image of foure mettals mixed together gold silver brasse and iron expressing hereby absolute perfection of vertue putting in gold to signifie Prudence silver Iustice brasse Fortitude and iron Temperance whereof they are altogether ignorant as if they had never seene vertue so much as painted who to overthrow union in the name of great Britain bring no union of vertues even excellencies of many Countries to this so excellent worke But skilfull Zeuxes going about to depaint an absolute worke of a perfect virgin took not only view of one womans beauty but had variety of many the fairest to accomplish out of all these a more excellent and consummate forme of body Shall we not thinke the Kingdome of France containing Pickardy Normandy the Isle of France Champaigne Averne Dalpheny Bry Bloys Turin the Dutchy of An●ow Xanto●n Burgundy and uniting ●o it little Britaine to be more glorious in all these being made one then if but one only of all these were that Kingdome Doe we not see that the enlarging of the dominions of Spaine in uniting and establishing divers kingdomes and territories as those of Aragons Castile and that of Portugal with others hath so enlarged that Kingdome as that the like hath not befallen other Christian Potentates Hath not the King of Denmarke beside the Cimbrian Chersonese where Holsatia Theutomartia the Dukedome of Sletia Flensburgh Friesland and Iuthland doe lie other spacious Islands fifteen in number all comprehended under the name Denmarke and united to that Crowne Did not Iagello taking to wife in the yeare 1380. the Princesse Hedingee the last of the blood Royall of Polonia after he was enstalled King there unite all his owne principalities of Lithuania and Samotgathia Provinces of Russia to the Kingdome and Crowne of Poland Did not Ahasuerus Esther 1. raigne from India to Ethiopia over an hundred twenty and seven divers Provinces And was not he so mighty by reason of this variety subjected and united to his sole government that he was an hundreth and fourescore daies shewing the riches and glory of his Greatnesse to all his Princes and to the mighty men of Persia and Media But to take example of one only Rome for all How hath it been renowned through the whole world by joyning all Nations of the world into one even to it selfe Herehence it was called Terrarum dea gentiumque Roma communis patria mund● compendium As Propertius Omnia Romanae cedant miracula terrae Natura hic posuit quicquid in orbe fuit But the Majesty of this Empire grew so great by adjoyning other nations and bringing them all into one Haec est in gremium quae victos sola recepit Humanumque genus communi nomine fovit Matris non dominae ritu civesque ●ocavit Quo● domini nexuque pr● longinqua revinxit And againe Fecisti patri em diversis gentibus unam Dumque offers victis proprii consortia juris Vrbem fecisti quod prius orbis erat And so may we say of this renowned name of great Britaine comprehending us all of divers nations in one under our gracious King Hujus pacificis debemus moribus omnes Quod cunctigens una sumus I could set forth and confirme by sundry examples this uniting of many into one and thereby shew that the enlarging of dominion consisteth in uniting all together into one name and establishing divers Territories under one Soveraignty and government and that the greater States and Imperiall powers of larger extent and far spreading domination are the more durable and that the Monarchy of great Britaine is like to bee hereafter of more durance strength and honor as partly comming under our Kings government without conquest or constraint Nam errat longe mea qui dem sententia qui credat imperium stabilius aut firmius quod vi● adjungitur quam quod facilitate clementia so now especially it being united in the whole then heretofore divided in parts his contexture being of a greater frame than before holding by more then one naile an● upholding its owne greatnesse even as great build●ings endure and subsist by their owne weight as the Poet speaketh Pondere t● suo est But I thinke it here as needfull to lay open the great fault imputed to Con●stantine dividing the Em●pire among his Children whereby of one Empire he made three and withall a memorable diminution of of his authority and forces which part Brutus also played dividing this whole Empire of great Britain among his three Sons of which though two parts afterward namely England Wales were againe in good time united yet Scotland stood till now divided from the rest and the rest from it till God in speciall goodnesse restored to former name and government all into one againe for which Kings Iames may challenge more glory by uniting all into one then Brutus or Constantine dividing it from one and though Constantine the great was counted the glory of Britaine as being borne and made Emperour here yet may that commendation better fit King Iames than Constantine Tu nobiles fecisti Britanias quod illic ort● factusque es imperator The Platan tree hath many goodly Branches and boughes and leaves in one body and therefore Xerxes in Herodotus crowned him with a golden Garland doubtlesse there is a deserved glorious garland due to the name of great Britaine bringing forth many goodly boughes and branches like to the faire and well spread Platan tree or rather for the height of his honour like the ●all and goodly Cedar in whom the dreame of Nebuchodonosor hath been verified for he saw a tree in the middest of the earth great and strong whose height reached unto the heaven and the sight thereof to the end of the earth whose leaves were faire and the fruit thereof much Dan. 4. in which was meat for all yea the beasts of the field had shadow under it the fowles of the aire dwell in the boughes thereof and all flesh fed of it But Nebuchodonosor heard also a watch crying out mightily hew downe

Britaine And so William the Conqueror for the good successe he likewise had in Scotland is recorded King of all Britaine and Henry the second surnamed Curtmantle is also for like successe recorded King of all Britaine And if they be renowned and honoured with name and stile of Britaine which by rightfull descent or by conquest were inheritours but to one part only though by their fortunes in war they also claimed the other what rightfull title must we then acknowledge most justly now to belong to his most excellent Majesty in the imperiall crowne of both who by lineall descent inheriteth both Here I wish I had as many eyes as Argos to looke into their devises who seeke to divide England from Scotland and Scotland from England renouncing the name of great Britaine lest joyned in one they might as the forenamed stars appeare together shine together and bring joy together I would then not spare to lay open as Cneius Flavius did reveal to the world the tricks and misteries of Lawyers of that time and therefore was said to put out their eyes and to cut their purses how also these Adamants hinder the naturall power and vertue of the Load-stone whom I call Adamants aswell for repugnant qualities as that they be truly Adamants even Sons of Adam practising rather in disobedience dissention and ruine of all to lay hands upon that is forbidden then to draw the Iron nay golden chaine of linkes of love in obedience to the King and for common peace and preservation of men But herein such imitate the devise of Q. Fabius Labeo seeking to have the ship of common weale divided in parts as when by compact of league with Antiochus he ought to receive halfe part of Antiochus ships cut them all in the middest craftily so to defraud Antiochus of his whole Navy or else imitate they Cyrus dividing great Rivers into many little Brookes till they be not only passable but even dryed up for so these seek to stay the maine and mighty Streame of great Britaine by dividing it and in dividing to make it of sundry kindes unlike it selfe Such dividing into parts is disjoyning of the parts by disjoyning dismembring and by dismembring spoiling making the stone Scyros which whole and firmely compacted doth swim and floate above the waters to sinke and be drowned because it is divided But our two famous kingdomes with all their provinces shires and countries united into the name of great Britaine are like the goodly and pleasant river Danubius which passing by many Countries keepeth his name till it enter into Illiricum where receiving into it sixty other rivers of divers other names leeseth not only his owne and all their other names of parts but is called Ister one for all containing all Here I require both of English and Scottish is either of them now as a people disjoynted one from the other Or as Sand without Lime Or scattered straw without binding Or as Sampsons Foxes running divers and contrary waies with fire brands of dissention among them Nay here in the glory of great Britaine is renowned that King Iames with our gracious King Charles and his Royall issue doe gather together that which was scattered and unite that which was divided and restore that which was lost and save that which was endangered even by this meanes uniting all in one name of Britaine as it was said of Rome uniting so many Countries into it selfe all parts which disagreed heretofore are now well agreeing Hereupon Rome was said to be anchora fluctuanti mundo and as he saith in Tacitus regna bellaque per Gallias semper fuere donec in nostrum jus concederetis So happily doth this universall conjunction of all under one head take away all discord and maintaine conjunction of love for everlasting continuance Only they which will be alone and not contained under one name of great Britaine are not bound up with the sheaves nor carried home into the Barne and therefore are like gleanings after harvest left behinde in the field subject to storme they come not two and two into this Arke and whatsoever remaineth alone Extra arcam perit Such are not unlike that Captaine whom Xerxes rewarded with a garland for escaping alive when all other souldiers were slaine and yet because he came alone without the rest he hanged him and as the the Athenians in the warre with the Aeginetae when one returned without his fellowes ranne upon him and killed him asking where were the rest And what can such I pray you as separate themselves from the happy union of all Britaines answer for themselves if they be called to account Can any be English and not Scottish can any be Scottish and not English Let that outcry against the Romans be ingeminated against such saying Quintilius Varus restore us our Legions where are our Souldiers what is become of them Where are the English where are the Scottish let all restore themselves and each one the other to the name of Britaines And so I say to all and every one of both nations Cedo alterum For I feare lest this name Cedo alterum mentioned in Taci●us be in scarely found among many but I call aloud where art thou Cedo alterum give us thy selfe bring in thy friend yea yet another and another bee not wanting to the weale publique una navis bonorum omnium all good Subjects are contained in one Ship of common Weal numerū non habet illa suū one is not perfit without the other for Britaines Subject ought maintaine mutuall society for common good As for others disclaiming us and disjoyning themselves only I wish they may all be of the same consort and society with us for victrix causa dii placuit though victa Catoni And albeit many great and mighty Potentates on earth make a great shew of Copia verborum by copious recitall of many Provinces and Kingdomes as if his Majesty should entitle himselfe by all the severall shires under his dominions and not by one honourable Title of great Britaine comprehending all to shew how this misliked some it is recorded when the Emperours Embassador comming to the French King rehearsed the Emperours stile at large which consisted of many dominions and names of countries the French King willed his Herauld to repeate and say over the name of France as many times as the other had rehearsed the severall titles of his Masters dominions intimating that one name of France well compacted and united of many particulars into one generall name was better then divers particular names of many countries And when Quintius Flaminius heard how his army was terrified at the recitall of many his enemies forces of their diversity of names of countries of Armour and of multitudes Dahae Medi Cadusij Elemei Cataphracti c. Spearemen Horsemen Footmen Archers c. Oh saith he what a doe is here with numbers and diversity of numbers all these are but onely Syrians and make a great shew like