I Must no otherwise paint Salomon this day, then as Apelles was wont to doe King Antigonus, which was Plutarchus in Eu [...]en [...]. ima­gine lusca, halfe-fac't, and of one side onely, to conceale the want of an eye, which hee had on the other. For if I should set him out in the full proporti­on, [Page 3] and leaue not so much as a wart, or a mole vndescribed, he would proue, but a foile, and a shadow, and not (as I de­sire he should) a liuely image, and reprae­sentation to decke, and adorn these prae­sent Funerals. His Vices can be no ble­mish to that King, that resembled him onely in his choisest Vertues. The Rule in Scripture doth differ much from that in the Painters shop. For here Coppies doe many times exceede the Originals. Salo­mon was a Type of Christ himselfe, and by consequence a Paterne for any Chri­stian. I doe therefore in these three Verses obserue three parts, the Happy Life, the Happy Raigne, and the Happy End of this great King Salomon. For the first part, his Life was happy in foure res­pects. First, for his Sayings, The rest of the Words. Secondly, for his Doings; And all that hee did. Thirdly, for his Wise­dome; And his Wisedome. And fourthly, for the Eternitie, and preseruation of all these, In a Booke of Annals of the Acts of Salomon; And the rest of the words of [Page 4] Salomon, &c. For the second part, his Raigne was Happy for three Circum­stances. First for a great Capitall Ci­tie, wherein hee resided, which was Hierusalem; Hee raigned in Hierusalem. Secondly, for a great Circuit of Ground in which he commanded, which was, all Israel; ouer all Israel. Thirdly, and lastly, for a great Space of time, wherein he flourished, which was forty yeares; And the time which Salomon raigned in Ierusalem ouer all Israel, was forty yeares. For the third part, his End was Happie in a threefold Circumstance. First, in re­gard of his death, which was not a sud­den, and violent dying, but an affected, and premeditated kinde of Sleeping; And Salomon slept. Secondly, in regard of his Soule at the time of his death, the which (Vid. Io. Mon­thol. i [...] Prompt. Iuris. verbo Salo­mon. how euer wanton, and vnru­ly wits haue made their disputes) went to no other place, then the receptacle of his Fathers; And Salomon slept with his Fathers. Thirdly, and lastly, in regard of his Body after his death, which was [Page 5] no way despised, or neglected, but so­lemnely interred in the Sepulchers of the Kings, in the Tower of Sion, and the Citie of Dauid his Father; And Salomon slept with his Fathers, and was buried in the Citie of Dauid his Father.

Nor doth this Text hang together like a rope of sands, but the parts there­of are chained, and linked very fast, in a mutuall cohaerence one with another. For first, A [...]nal. 1 [...]. Nullus magnam potentiam sine Eloquentia est consecutus, saith Tacitus, No glorious King, but was a For as Alexan­der tells his [...]a­ther Philip. Such Exquisitenesse in this kinde, as he his Father ex­pressed, is not required in euery King. [...], Dion. Chrys. orat. 2. [...]. Kinde of Speaker, and therefore here are Words; Reliquum verborum, as Saint Hierome reades it, the rest of the Words. Secondly, because they are not Words, but [...] ▪ Pyndar. Olimp. od. [...] [...] Nazianz. Orat. 30. Actions, that aeternize a King, here are Actions likewise; Quae fecit, All that hee did. Thirdly, because Actions from without are of small continuance, without a Well from within for a new supply, here is a Pond to feed them from time to time; Sapientia eius, His vnderstan­ding, and wisedome; And his wisedome. [Page 6] Fourthly, because this Wisdome would be soone forgotten (Iul. Capitol. in Antonino Philo­sopho. & Anton. de Gueuara. in [...]o­rol. p [...]n [...]. as M. Aurelius was wont to complaine) without a Histo­rie, here is a Historie prouided of the Acts of Salomon; The Booke of the Acts of Salomon. Fiftly, because a Historie written in an obscure place, of a little Countrey, and but a short time, is of no esteeme, and reputation, here are all things fitted for Fame, and aeternitie, A great Citie, to wit, Hierusalem; He raig­ned in Hierusalem. A great Empire, the twelue Tribes of Israel; ouer all Israel. A great, and a long raigne, for the space of forty yeares; The time that he raigned ouer all Israel was forty yeares. Sixthly, because such a long, and glorious life would be crown'd (S [...]ton. in eius [...] ▪ S [...]b [...] & suis [...] pre­ [...]. cap. [...]9. as Augustus was wont to say) with a faire, and an easie death, here is a dying compar'd to a slee­ping; Dormiuit (que) Salomon, And Salomon slept. Seuenthly, because the Soule, which cannot sleepe, must be prouided for, as well, as the Body, it is disposed of to his hearts desire, In the Societie of [Page 7] Dauid, and the rest of his Fathers; Cum Patribus suis, With his Fathers. Lastly, though this be enough for a Priuate Man, yet somewhat more would bee wished in a King. That Body, [...], Anton. Monach [...]. Datur hoc i [...]strium v [...] ­ [...]orum posicrit [...]ti, vt ex [...]qu [...] [...] [...] ­ [...]iscua Sepultura s [...] e [...]ur, &c. Tacit. Annal. 16. which so repraesented God himselfe, when it was aliue, must not bee neglected now it is dead. And therefore he is buried in the Sepulchre of the Kings, and the Citie of Dauid; in Ciuitate Dauid Patris sui, In the Citie of Dauid his Father. And the rest of the words of Salomon, &c.

But you will say, All these parts re­ferre to King Salomon, and that King IAMES is forgotten in the diuision. Most High, and Mightie, Right Ho­nourable, and Right Dearely Beloued; Our late Soueraigne shall be remem­bred in due time, and much to the ho­nour of King Salomon. King Salomon in his Funeralls had a glorious Tombe in deed, as Antiq. l. 7. c. 1 [...]. Iosephus describes it, but hee had no Statue at all caried before him. That was peraduenture scarce to lerable amongst the Iewes. A Tombe he proui­ded [Page 8] for himselfe, and so prophetically, as that (if wee may beleeue [...]. Salom. [...] 3. [...] Serli­ [...] Ar [...]. [...] Pineda, and others) there were iust as many Cells therein, as there were to be Kings of Iuda, that is twentie one. A Statue God Almighty hath this day prouided for him. Many of these twentie one Cells being neuer filled, because the 4 Reg. 21. 28▪ 2 Chron. 21. 20. 2 Chron. 24. 25. vn­worthy Kings were buried elsewhere, Salomon shall lend King Iames a Tombe, and King Iames shall lend vnto him a Statue. The Tombe you may obserue in the Exposition, and the Statue in the Ap­plication of this peece of Scripture. King IAMES shall first die in SALO­MONS Text, and Salomon shall then arise in King IAMES his VER­TVES▪ For as Lib. [...]. Herodotus reports of the Aegyptians, that by wrapping their dead in glasse, they praesent them aliue to all posteritie: so by that time I haue plated ouer the parts of this Text with the particulars of the Application, you that heare me this day, shall haue that happinesse Matth. 12. 42. of the Queene of the South, [Page 9] which is not onely to haue read in a Booke, but withall to haue seene with your eies, and to haue heard with your eares all the rarities, and perfections of the wise King Salomon. You shall then perfectly remember these Sayings, these Doings, this Wisdome, this History, this great Citie, this vnited Empire, this long Life, this happie Death, this Rest with his Fathers, and these solemne Funeralls, which are the Minutes of this Text. And the rest of the words of Salomon, &c.

I Begin with that part, wherof I finde in my selfe the greatest want, to wit, Eloquence, pointed at in the Entrance of my Text. Reliquum verborum, the rest of his words. For that Man had need of Salomons Words, that will speake of this first, or second Salomon. Eloquence in some reasonable proportion is so neces­sarie in a King, that a Musonius apud S [...]ob. s [...]rm. 4 [...] Philosopher calls it [...], one of the chie­fest of the Royall Vertues. Surely the want of this made Exod. 4. 10. Moses in a manner [Page 10] refuse all gouernment, though offered vnto him by God himselfe. And Ho­mer, that is, Solon (Octa [...]nus F [...] lib. de [...] for hee is supposed the Author of the Poem) is by [...] ▪ Plu­tarch made to say, that a ready Sword will not doe the worke, if it be not at­tended with this readinesse of Speech. Surely Pyrrhus, though a mighty vaun­ter of all his Actions, would often Plutarch. in P [...]. con­fesse more Cities conquered by Cyneas his tongue, then there were by his owne Speare. And although an Aaron may sometimes supply a Moses, and Elo­quence be borrowed from the tongue of a Minister, yet surely no great Monarchie was euer rais'd, but where the King him­selfe was a [...] Alexander thought it vnne­cessary in a King to bee exact in this kinde of learning. [...]. Dion. Ch [...]ys. Orat. 2. [...] And Ta [...]us requires in a Prince, [...] ill­ [...]um illum ex Sa­ [...]. De [...] Agricol. And Leo the Em­peror made vse of M [...] his Eloquence, [...] [...] in [...] Sid [...]. Apol­ [...] in Panegyr. competent Speaker. In the Romane Empire it is obseru'd by Annal. 15. Taci­tus, that the Princes of the first line, Iu­lius, Augustus, Tiberius, Claudius, yea and Caius himselfe (as blunt as he was) ne­uer borrowed a tongue to speake to the people. Nero is noted to bee the first Caesar, Qui alienae facundiae eguit, that euer vsurpt another mans Language [Page 11] And therefore no maruell, if in Salo­mon a great Monarch, and the second of his line, the Historie gaue a touch of his Oratorie, and Eloquence, Et reliquum verborum Salomonis, And the rest of the words of Salomon. Now when I looke vpon this world of Matter I am to runne thorow in a minute of time, the best Eloquence, that I can vse in set­ting forth the Eloquence of Salomon, is to say nothing, and to turne you ouer to his admirable Writings; the Prous. [...] Prouerbs, the In [...] Sa­lomon [...] Aqui­nas 2 q. 113. a [...]. 3. ad. 2. Booke of Wisdome, and Prior pars p [...]b­ [...] P [...]ed. d [...]. Sa [...] 1. Ecclesia­sticus, which were dictated; together with Ecclesiastes, the Canticles, and ma­ny of the Psalmes, which were pen­ned to a Syllable by King Salomon. And so I proceed from his Words vnto his Actions, the second part of his Life; Omnia quae fecit, All that he did. And the rest of the words of Salomon, and all that he did.

HE DID.

Kings are anointed (as [...] Cassa [...]eus obserues) vpon the Armes, as well as vp­on [Page 12] the Head; and the Armes are the In­struments of Action, and Doing. That phrase of Scripture, so applied to Kings, that they must Numb. 27. 17. goe in and out before the people, requires somewhat more then E­locution. In the Genealogie of our Saui­our, exprest by S. Mathew, though ma­ny more be written downe, yet none is call'd a King but Dauid; Dauidem Re­gem, Dauid the King. Matth. 1. 6. verse; because (as Interpreters expound the place) Dauid was, as a King should be, a Man of Warre, and a Man of Action. Nero could tune his Instruments well, and yet, as [...]. Philostrat. de vita Apoll. lib. 5. c. 10. [...] Apollonius said to VESPA­SIAN, he was a meane Prince, be­cause hee knew not how to tune a Peo­ple. And on the other side, Themistocles could neuer play on the Harpe, but yet is famous in all Histories, Plut. in Themi­sto [...]e. because hee could make a Citie greater. Plutarque in his [...], speakes of two Men, that were hir'd at Athens for some publique worke, whereof the one was full of Tongue, but slow at [Page 13] Hand, but the other blunt in Speech, yet an excellent Workeman; Being call'd vpon by the Magistrates to expresse themselues, and to declare at large how they would proceede; when the first had made a long harangue, & describ'd it from point to point, the other secon­ded him with this short speech, [...], ye Men of Athens, what this man hath said in Words, that will I make good in true performance. And as hee was adiudged the better Artisan; so is the Man of Acti­on the better King: vnlesse they come ioyntly, as they doe in this Text, VER­BA ET FACTA, Words and deeds, And the rest of the Words of Salomon, and all that hee Did. Now if you desire to know all that hee did, I must turne you ouer to this Booke of the Kings, which notwithstanding is but a Florus to that Liuie, or rather a PHOTION to that DEMOSTHENES, that first de­scrib'd them. Some of them I shall touch vpon, when I come to the second [Page 14] Salomon, and doe now hasten to the third part of his Life, which is his Wise­dome; And the rest of the words of Salo­mon, and all that hee did, and his Wise­dome.

HIS WISEDOME. For indeed braue Actions are but the Fruit, Wisdome is the Tree that beares them. Actions are but Riuers, Wisedome is the Head that feedes them. And where this is wan­ting, they are like Land-floods, violent for the time, but gone in an instant. Here therefore you haue the fruit toge­ther with the Tree, that brought them; here you see the Riuers, together with the Spring that sent them; here you reade of Salomons Deeds ioyn'd with that Wisedome that first contriu'd them. And the rest of the words of Salomon, and all that Hee did, and his Wisedome. HIS WISEDOME. How necessary in a King, Salomons choice hath taught all Kings. For being praesented by God himselfe with a Pandora of royall gra­ces, although braue Actions call'd in [Page 15] that [...] place the life of his Enemies was in the Boxe, yet tooke he out nothing but Wisedome to gouerne his people, 1 Kings 3. 9. verse. He tooke out nothing, but Wisedome said I? Nay, rather in taking out Wisedome (as God tels him in the next verse) hee left nothing behinde. Omnia assunt bona, quem penes est virtus. How can he want these golden Apples of Princely Actions, that hath this gar­den of the Hesperides, wherein they grow? For although Kings (as I said before) be anointed on the Armes, the Instruments of Actions, yet are they crown'd onely on the Head, the s [...]at of Wisedome. For as in the naturall; so in the ciuill Body, the spie and discouerie of all the members is plac't aloft in the watch-tower of the Head. Here are the Eyes, that see for all. Here are the Eares, that listen for all. Here are the Nostrils, that smell out for all. Here are the Braines, that sweat for all. And here is the Wisedome, that prouides for all. And therefore what can a tongue, or an Arme [Page 16] doe a Man good, if they be not guided by somewhat in the Head? Sayings, and Doings are of little worth, if [...]. Syne [...]. de regno Wisedome follow not, as it doth in this place; And the rest of the words of Salomon, and all that hee did, and his Wisedome. WISE­DOME. Whither this Wisedome of Salomons was vniuersall, and embrac't all Sciences, as Nullis Circum­s [...]iptam terminis sapientiam adeptus est. de reb Sal. l. 3 c. 9. Pineda; or a Prudence reaching to the Practique onely (because of those words, To gouerne my people) as Libr [...] in Genes. q. 4. vt & Abu­lens. 3 Reg. 3. q. 10. Pererius thought; the Latin translati­on Sapientia being for the first, the Greeke [...] for the second, the He­brew [...] for both the opinions; Al­so whither Salomon did surmount as I [...] 3 Reg 3. q. 11. Tostatus, or fall short of Adam in the pitch of his Wisedome, as Tom. 1. disp. 7. q. 2. pun [...]. 1. Gregorie de Valentia thinkes, are such doughty Frayes, as I haue no leasure to part at this time, being now in the fourth place to speake of that Booke, which (if extant) would peraduenture end part of the quarrell; the Booke of the Acts of Salo­mon. And the rest of the Words of Salo­mon, [Page 17] and all that hee did, and his Wise­dome, are they not written in the Booke of the Acts of Salomon?

THe Booke of the Acts of Salomon. C [...] lib. 5. Alexander vpon the Conquest of Persia in a deepe contempla­tion of his late Victories, being told of one, that brought him some newes, re­plied hastily thereupon, What newes can any Man bring vnto Mee, vnlesse it be that Homer is aliue againe? As who should say; All these Actions of mine will vanish into ayre, if there be not a Scholler to write, and record them. And surely little had now remain'd of the Sayings, the Doings, and the Wisedome of Salomon, if they had not beene of Studia praestant. vt etiam [...]er. [...]. Quin [...]l. [...] Orat. l. 12. c. 4. Re­cord in this Booke. The Booke of the Acts of Salomon. For although God suffered this Booke to be burnt by Sanctius. proem. in 1 R [...] Nebuzara­dan, and ordered not Esdras to renue the same, because it was but a Iournall of Salomons Actions, of a Ciuill rather, then a Religious vse, and fitter for a Clo­set, [Page 18] then for a Temple, yet was so much thereof plac't in the Canon, [...] Paralip. [...] [...]rum, [...] [...]m, [...] re­p [...] [...] Sanctius [...] 1. as might be vsefull for Gods Church, being cull'd out of this Iournall either by San [...] Hieremie, or Esay, or Esdras, or Ezechias, or (as I thinke) the Seruants of that King, who without quaestion collected his PRO­VERBS, Prouerbs 25. 1. verse. And therefore as this Text is but an Epitome of the 11. first Chapters of the first Book of the Kings: so are these Chapters but an Epitome of this [...], or Iournall of SA­LOMON. The Booke of the Acts of Sa­lomon. And surely Dignum laude vi­rum Musa vetat mori, as there was ne­uer any King, that deserued; so was there neuer a King in Scripture, that hath ob­tained more Writers of his Acts, then this King Salomon. For whereas Saul had neuer a one, Dauid in his long raign had no more then [...] two, besides what Sa­lomon in his Ecclesiastes hath written of himselfe (as many of the [...] Caesars, Iulius, Augustus, Tiberius, and Adrian are noted to haue done) three great Prophets, [Page 19] famous in their times, 2 C [...] Nathan, Ahias, and Addo had their seuerall pens in these Acts of Salomon; the Booke of the Acts of Salomon. And indeed Bookes, especially such as these, written by Pro­phets, and Honest men, are most necessary both for the [...] [...] Annal 3. applauding of the good, and the terrifying of ill-deseruing Prin­ces. Non potest humile, aut abiectum quid cogitare, qui scit de se semper loquendum, saith Mamertinus in his Panegerique. He had need be carefull of all his Acti­ons, that is to bee the subiect of future Histories. For although I allow not a Priuate man to feed vpon Glory, and haue preach't against it (with all my heart) not many weekes sithence: yet was I euer of Panormitans opinion in the life of Alphonsus, that it is Cibus Re­gum, a very fit dish for the repast of a King, and due vnto him from the after Ages. Plinius [...] lib. 3. [...]p 20. [...] ma [...], &c. Multi famam, pauci verentur conscientiam. Some few peraduenture referre it to God, but most Kings desire, as Augustus did, to be applauded by [Page 20] Men. Then for the bad Kings a Histo­rie is the true Aretine of the world, Fla­gellum Principum, the Lash, and scourge of all wicked Princes. They haue no Schoolemaster (on this side Hell) vn­lesse it be this one, to keepe them in awe. And in very truth, if hee comes but Fama liberrima principum Iudex. Senec. Detestantur malos principes etiam qui malos faciunt. Plin. Panegyr. one day after their Raigne, as Tacitus did to the Caesars, hee laies about him, like an Orbilio, or as that Vsher in Octauian. Fer­rar. lib. de sermon. Exoter. The­on, [...], fetching bloud at euery stroake, for ve­ry small, and petty offences. And yet as humorous as they are, what Historie did euer commend Nero, or discommend the Emperor Traian? I except Cardan the Phantastique, who writing a Booke de morte Gulielmi, of the death of Will his foot-boy, thought good to ioyne it with another peece, which hee was pleas'd to stile the Encomium of Nero. To conclude this point, it is calld [...] in the Greeke, [...], which signifies to fixe, and settle. All these sayings, and doings, and wisdome of [Page 21] Kings, would scatter away, like quicke Mercury, if they were not fixed in such a Booke as this; The Booke of the Acts of Salomon. And so much of the first part of my Text, which I call'd Salomons Life, comprehending the words, the deeds, the wisdome, and the Iournalls of Salomon. And the rest of the words of Sa­lomon, and all that he did, &c.

NOw to come to the second part of this Text, which is Salo­mons raigne, and to begin with the first Circumstance thereof, his Ca­pitall Citie, it is true what [...]. Plutarch. in vita Demost. Be­ate victuro ante alia conuenit patri­am esse glorios [...]m. Amm [...]anus Mar­cell. lib. 14. & tamen [...]. Arist. apud La [...]rtium. lib. 5. Euripides said of old, [...], it is requisite for a Man, that would be glorious to haue his a­bode in a famous Citie. This Booke of the Acts of Salomon had scarce beene worth the taking vp, if his Words, his Actions, and his Wisdome had not beene praesented on this great Theatre, the Ci­tie of Hierusalem; And the time that Sa­lomon raigned in Hierusalem. A City is an [Page 22] Abstract of a whole State. For as Cain being guiltie of the Murther of his Bro­ther, built the first Citie we reade of in the world, Gen. 4. vers. 17. [...], as [...]. 3. Iosephus speaks, to make himselfe strong with his people about him: So most of the Monarchs to this ve­ry day, guilty of oppressing, or being op­pressed by their neighbour Princes, Or­bem in vrbem contrahunt, doe contract their people to this short Epitome, which we call a Citie, as the twelue Tribes are said to be fetcht to Hierusalem, Psa. 122. And the time that Solomon raigned in Hie­rusalem. Now Hierusalem was not on­ly a Citie by it selfe (as it is in that Psalme) but a Type, and Figure of all other Cities. 'For as Hierusalem was an vnion of two Cities, Masius in Ios. [...]. 15. n. 63. Iebus, and Salem, and an vnion of [...]a [...] Montan. [...] Ios. 18. 20. Ruper [...]us lib. 2. in Deut. c. 18. V [...]. [...]om. 3. [...]. ch. p. 1. lib. [...]. two Tribes, Iuda, and Beniamin, and an vnion of all Israel, as it followeth in my Text: So are other capitall Cities in their proportion. So that as a Citie seated vpon [...] 14. a Hill cannot be hidden; no more can a King seated in [Page 23] such a Citie. All his Words, his Actions, and his Wisdome are still vpon record▪ God Almightie therefore being thus resolu'd to make Salomon glorious, as a type of our Sauiour far more glorious, plac't all his sayings, his doings, and his Wisdome, longè pulcherrima vrbium Or [...] ­entis, as [...] Plinie calls it, On the goodli­est Theatre of all the East, the Eye of the world, and the Queene of the Na­tions, the Citie of Hierusalem. And Sa­lomon raigned in Hierusalem. And so much for the first Circumstance of Sa­lomons Raigne, which is his capitall Citie Hierusalem. Hee raigned in HIERV­SALEM.

THe second Circumstance of his Raigne is his Empire, or Domini­on, which is very large, and with a Reference, and a Difference withall from the [...] Reg. 2. [...]. beginning of his Fathers, and from the [...] Reg. 12. 16. middle of his sonnes Raigne, said here to be ouer all Israel. He raig­ned in Hierusalem ouer all Israel. Ouer [Page 24] All. For as Orat. d [...] l [...]g [...] A­g [...]. contra [...]ul­ [...]um. Tullie saith, that the Romans held no true Cities, but these three, Car­thage, Corinth, and Capua, which they call'd [...], the three Cities that troubled their Common wealth, because these three only had Territories, and Dominions belonging vnto them: so Hierusalem, confined to her Walls, might peraduenture put forth a Maior, but was no seat for a glorious King, without the annexation of this great Empire of all Israel. He raigned in Hie­rusalem ouer all Israel. [...] Aristot. [...]. 7. [...]. 8. In multitudine populi dignitas Regis, In the multitude of the people is the Kings glory, Pro­uerbs 14. 28. verse. And behold a peo­ple not to be numbred for Multitude, 1 Kings 3. 8. verse. As the sand of the sea, 1 Kings 4. 20. As the dust of the earth, 2 Chron. 1. 9. Euen the King­domes from the riuer vnto the lands of the Philistins, and vnto the border of Aegypt, 1 Kings 4. 21. For these were the bounds of all Israel. He raigned in Hie­rusalem ouer all Israel. I will not sinne [Page 25] with Dauid in numbring this people, which Vilalpanda in his second Part. 2. [...]. [...]. d [...]sp 3. c. 5 [...] Tome vpon Ezechiel▪ labours to doe, and makes vp a Totall of 6624. millions. Nei­ther will I compare Salomon either with Arphaxad, a King of many Nations, Iu­dith. 1. 1. vers. or with Assuerus a King of twentie seuen Prouinces, Esther 1. 1 verse. or with Nabuchadnasor a King of all the earth, Iudith. 2. 3. verse, or with Alexander, that would haue beene King of more; I must leaue Imperij amplitu­dine, longo inter­uallo su [...]erabatur ab alijs imperato­ribus tum prio­ribus, tum [...] ­oribus. Tosta [...]. in 2 Chron. 1. q▪ [...]1. Dionys. Ca [...]thus. [...]n [...] [...]. c. 3. Tostatus, and [...]go [...]re si [...] seo, vt [...], i [...] gl [...]ria, a [...]qu [...] a [...] gl [...]riae o [...], populique mul [...], Salomonem sur erasse al [...]o [...]m n [...]s [...]i [...]e pr [...]r [...]s [...]i [...]e [...]s orbis dominatores. Pineda d [...]r [...]b. [...]a­lomonis. lib. 6. c. 2. Pineda, two Spaniards, in a hot skirmish about this question: It sufficeth me, that God gaue Salomon as many people, as hee tooke to him­selfe in those daies, to wit all Israel. He raigned in Ierusalem ouer all Israel; And so much of the second Circumstance of his Raigne, the largenesse of his Empire and Dominion.

I Come now to the third Circum­stance, the Continuance of the same, which was a faire, and a large scope [Page 26] of time, aequalled onely by one, or two, but exceeded by none of the Kings of Iuda, to wit, forty yeares. His raigne in Hierusalem ouer all Israel was forty yeares. Forty yeares. For, Salomon was not brought vpon the Stage, as Cato stole into the Theatre, vt exiret, to take a turne, and goe out againe, Ostentatus, raptusque simul Solstitialis velut herba, solet, As the Poet speakes of Mineruius: But that his sayings, his doings, and his great Wisdome, irent in saecula, might make an impression vpon the Ages to come; God gaue him a long, and a stir­ring part in this Scene of Glory, which was a raigne of forty yeares. Hee raig­ned in Hierusalem ouer all Israel for forty yeares. Forty yeares. For although we commend not a Musitian for playing long, but for playing well vpon the Lute; yet occultae musicae nullum enco­mium, without competent triall hee is not at all commended. This life, saith In Sententijs la [...]ici [...] quater. [...] [...]ersibus com­ [...]. Nazianzen, is a Faire, or a Mart, wherein good men may bee furnisht [Page 27] with vertues. Although hee that buyeth most in this Faire, is a better Chapman, then he that staieth most, yet common reason must allow a time for a man to make his market. Shall [...]. Hippocrates with his Ars longa, vita breuis, com­plaine for a time to study Hearbes? and [...] &c. [...] [...]ce [...] [...]us [...]ul. quaest. l. 3. [...]. D [...] g [...]. La [...]us [...]ib. [...]. Theophrastus fall out with Nature for a further respite to study Trees? and In [...]e A [...]. [...] [...]xigen [...], [...], &c▪ S [...]n [...] d [...] B [...]e vi [...] ▪ c. 1. Aristotle vexe himselfe for a longer life to studie Motions? And may not Kings expect more fauour in this kinde, to studie out those Aegyptian Hierogly­phiques of the Hearts of Men? and to per­fect that Art of Plin S [...]d. l [...]b. 3. [...] 1. [...] Caluis [...]um. & A [...]n [...]rum [...]u­do d [...] s [...]en [...]i­am. Iob 32. 7. Crescit inse [...]ibus. Hieron. ep. 2. ad N [...]po [...]an. Vesticius Spurinna, Solā senectute prudentiam, a wisedome taught onely by multitude of yeeres? Surely God is very carefull herein. That life, saith Non [...]a [...]le [...] plenus dierum ponitur, nisi is, euius per [...]andem scripturam vita lauda [...]r. Grego [...]. M [...]nus in Iob. vlt. Nemini dedit D [...]s spacium peccandi. Ecclesiasticus 15. 22. Saint Gregorie, which is commen­ded in Scripture, doth commonly end with a plenitude of Dayes. When God lends these extraordinary Qui pau [...] multatalenta lucri secit ben [...] viuendo. Chrys. in locum. Quaeris quid sit ampl [...] spacium? vs (que) ad Sapientiam viuere. Sene. talents to [Page 28] any man in place, Post multum temporis, it is a long time after that hee reckoneth with them, Matth. 25. 19. verse. And therefore Salomon trusted with all this stocke of Sayings, and Doings, and Wise­dome, and a Citie, and an Empire ouer all Israel, had a raigne of forty yeeres to em­ploy the same. And Salomon raigned in Hierusalem ouer all Israel forty yeeres. And so much of the Second generall part of my Text, the most happy raigne of King Salomon.

I Was now concluding with that 2 Chron. 1. 12. that there was no King before or after to be compar'd for hap­pinesse with our King Salomon. His Say­ings, his Doings, his Wisedome, his Fame in Histories, his Citie, his Empire, and his long Raigne, far surmounting all Kings in Scripture; when loe a [...]. Aristot. E­thic. l. 1. c. 11. Philosopher (who must also bee heard when hee speakes the truth) puls me by the sleeue with an Ante obitum Nemo supremáque funera, that before I presume to com­mend [Page 29] a King, I consider well his death, and his Funerall. Verily I haue done so both now, and heretofore, and that with more then ordinary diligence. I haue read all that Peraldus, Cognatus, Vi­lalpanda, Pineda, Delrio, Suarez, and some others haue said of this Theme. I know that Basil. [...] P [...]. n [...]m vitae [...]. p. [...] non glorio [...]um. Saint Basil saith in one place, he di­ed not so well, and Parte. 2 de prae­dict. c. 27. Prosper plainly, that he died ill. No doubt but he sinned a­gainst his God, for hee was not Christ, but his Type onely. Yet I know on the other side, the whole Armie of the Fa­thers, Schoolemen, and Commenters vpon the Scripture, doe bring him with Faith, and Repentance to his Graue, moued principally with the end of my Text, that his Soule departed (as the Soules of the Saints are said to doe) by a sweet sleeping, that then it rested in the socie­tie of his Fathers, and that his Body was buried with the better Kings in the Ci­tie of Dauid his deuout Father. And Sa­lomon slept with his Fathers, and was bu­ried in the Citie, &c.

THe first happinesse of Salomons end is this, that his Death is resem­bled to slumbring and sleeping. And Salomon slept. It is obser [...]'d by one, [...] Quod Hebraei, Homines in stat [...]perditio­nis mortuos, Sanctos autem do [...]ientes vocent, that the Hebrues say of Wicked Men, that they dye; but of the Saints, that they fall a sleepe. I cannot tell, whe­ther the Rule be generall; but [...] Chrysa­stome saith directly, that without Christ, [...], death is still death, and Hell in the bargaine, and they are onely said to sleepe, that dye in him. Surely it is the godly dying, that most resembles slumbring, and sleeping. For first as wee praepare our selues vnto the one before it comes, by setting aside the traffique of the World: so are the godly disposed to the other. Looke vpon Salomon at his deaths bed (for then saith [...]n 1. cap. [...] & lib. 2. con [...]ra Iouinia­num. Hierome this Booke was penn'd) Two things haue I prayed of thee, denie mee not before I dye, Take away from mee Vanitie, [Page 31] and Lyes, Prouerbs 30. 7. Verse. Second­ly, as wee willingly yeeld to Nature in the one▪ so doe the [...] quod [...] P [...]lanus, [...] [...] 39. Saints to the God of Nature, when he cals vpon them, in the other. Listen to Salomon in his Ecclesiastes written not long before his death; The Righteous, and his workes are in the hand of God, Eccles. 9. 1. vers. Last­ly, as Men lay by their cloathes with an expectation to vse them againe in the one: so doe the Saints their bodies, with an expectation of Iudgement in the o­ther. So ends the Sermon of this Royall Preacher. God shall bring euery worke vn­to iudgement, Eccles. 12. and the last vers. And therefore this praeparing, and com­posing of our selues ouer-night, with a full Resolution to awake in the mor­ning, is no bitter dying, but a gentle slee­ping. Dormiuitque Salomon. And Sa­lomon slept. And so much of this first happinesse.

THe second Happinesse is in regard of his Soule, which is said here [Page 32] to remaine with his Fathers, Dormi­ [...]tque Salomon cum Patribus suis, And Salomon slept with his Fathers. His Fa­thers. Nonotiosè scriptum est hoc, sed per­pensè, & examinatè, saith Saint Ambrose in his first Booke of Caine, and Abel. This is no phrase light on by chance, but to be well weighed, and considered. It cannot be expounded of his dead Body; for none of the kindred were entombed with Salomon, but Dauid onely. Vnde claret, non ad Sepulturam corporis, sed ad consortium vitae relatum, as hee saith of Isaac; and therefore, we must conclude, that Salomons sleeping in this place, was not to rot with his Fathers in the graue, but to liue with them in the Kingdome of Heauen. And so Salomon slept with his Fathers. Idem est apponi ad populum suum, ac apponi ad Patres, saith Burgen­sis. To sleepe with his People, Gen. 25. 8. is the same thing as to sleepe with his Fathers. And to sleepe with his People is expounded by Sup. Genes. 26. 8. S. Augustin, to rest in the society of the Angels with Abraham, [Page 33] Isaac, Iacob, & Dauid, who praeceded Sa­lomon in this Faith, and Repentance, as spirituall Fathers. And Salomon slept with his Fathers. And so much likewise of his second Happinesse.

THe last Happinesse at his End, or rather after his End, was this, to be solemnly interred as a great Prince in the Citie of Dauid his Father. And was buried in the Citie of Dauid his Father. Af­ter his End I say. For I will not straine this note, as some haue done. Tom. [...] Bachiari­us, a Writer as auncient as Saint Augustin, makes it an Argument of his very Sal­uation, that he was buried inter Reges iu­stos, in the Sepulchers of the better Kings, in the Citie of Dauid. It is true indeede, that those wicked Princes, 1 Reg. [...]. [...]. A­mon, 2 Chron. 21. [...]. Ioram, and 2 Chron. 24▪ [...]. Ioas were not: and it is as true, that 3 Reg. 14. [...]. Rhehoboam, 2 Chron. 2 [...] ▪ [...]. Amasias, and 3 Re [...]. [...] ▪ [...]. Abiam, as wicked as they, were all bu­ried in the same place. Leauing there­fore his Soule in blis [...]e with his Fathers, these Funerals shall serue for a double [Page 34] vse; first, for an honor to this Body al­ready dead; and secondly, for a Com­fort to all Bodies as yet aliue. For the first, the Bodies of Saints must bee re­spected, as Phidias his Images were wont to be; not for the Stuffe, but for the Makers sake. [...]um, [...] ad [...] est [...] August. de [...]tate Dei. lib. [...]. c. [...]3. Non contemnenda sunt spiritus sancti organa, saith Saint Augustin. This Body of his, so glori­fied by God while hee was aliue, must bee glorified in some proportion, al­though hee bee dead. Amongst other magnificencies of his owne, hee [...] [...]phus Antiq. [...]. built this Sepulchre of Dauid his Father, and therefore was rightly interred in the Se­pulchre of his Father. In the Citie of Da­uid his Father. And as Funerals doe ho­nor the Bodies that be dead; so doe they comfort the Bodies that are aliue. Sepul­tura Spiritualiter prodest viuentibus, in quantum per hanc astruitur resurrectionis sides, saith Thom. in 4. Sent. [...]si 4 [...]. q. 2 [...] 3 Aquinas writing vpon the fourth of the Sentences. The Buriall of the Dead is a [...] August. [...] lib. [...]. c. 5. lesson to the Liuing, to put them in minde of the Resurrection. In­deede [Page 35] if I were of Heraclitus his Faith, I should be iust of his opinion, as Origen quotes it in his fift Booke against Cel­sus, that dead Bodies are to be neglected, as dissolued for euer to dust, and ashes. But we Christians must bee more care­full, where we lay these cloathes, being to weare them againe in the Resurrecti­on. I beseech you remember in [...] vpon [...] Herodi­an, and Xiphiline, what costly beds the Emperors lay in, when in their [...], they were to be burn't, and chan­ged to Gods. With what cost doth the Phoenix consume her selfe, because shee knowes she shall be reuiued? Had not Salomon beene to rise with Dauid; he had neuer prouided in this sort to be buried with Dauid, In Ciuitate Dauid Patris eius, In the Citie of Dauid his Father. And so I haue done with the parts of my Text, the Obit, and the Funerals per­form'd of old; I come now to what I promis'd to adde to the same, which is a liuely Statue of King Salomon.

AS Imaginem Tra­ian [...] [...]urru trium­phal [...] [...]xit, vt op­tim [...] imperator ne post mortem qui­dem triumphi a­ [...] dignita­t [...]m. Spart. in Adrian. 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.

All the Circumstances doe suit very well. And therefore, as a late Blaise de Viege­nere sur le premier liure des tableaux de plat-pemture de Philost. 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 [Page 37] 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 For his [...]ate Maies [...]ie neuer approued of the president, as is toucht in some place, by Camb­den, and Thuanus. force, and compulsion of that state, did our [Page 38] 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 [Page 39] 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 [Page 40] 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 [Page 41] he pleas'd, profluenti, & quae Princi­pem deceret eloquentia (as Tacitus Annal. lib. 13. 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, Plin. Secund. lib. 1. ep. 20. 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. Plutarch. i [...] Alexand For as Alexander, somewhat shie at the first, was content afterward [Page 42] 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 [...] St. Am­brose of Dauid. 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 Aug [...]. 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 [Page 43] 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 Idyll [...] Theo­critus speakes) a vast wood, and world of matter, fitter for the Annals, and Hi­storie of the Time, then for a fragment of a Funerall Sermon. Euery Action of his sacred Maiestie was a Vertue, and a Miracle to exempt him from any paral­lel, amongst the moderne Kings, and Princes. Not a particular of his life, but was a mysterie of the Diuine Proui­dence, to keepe, and praeserue those ad­mirable parts, for the setling, and vni­ting of some great Empire. Why was the Queen his Vna [...]arum in omni [...] Lam­pido Lacedae [...] ­nia r [...]p [...]ritur, quae regis filia, regis vxor, regis mater fuit. Plin. Hi­stor. nat. l. 7 c. 41. Mother barren in France then growne a greater, and yet fruitfull in Scotland, a lesser Kingdome then this of ours? Why was A [...]roci, & hor­rendo scelere, quod boni omnes [...] detestati. Cambd. Eliz. pag. 11 [...]. the Father killed in his Bed, and yet the Sonne at the same [Page 44] time spared in his Cradle? Why was hee put (like another Postquam con­spexit angueis ille alter pue [...], [...] cu­nis exilit, facit re­cta [...] angucis im­petum, &c. Plau­tus in Amphitru­one. Act. 5. [...]. Hercules) to strangle Serpents in his swadling clouts, and to fight, before he could lift vp his Arme, with the Cambden. Eliz. pag. 121. Husband of his Mother, for a iust reuenge of the Death of his Father? Why were those worthy Guardians of his Sacred Person so swept away, Cambden. Eliz. pag. 172. Murray, Idem. ibid. pag. 203. Lenox, and Mortonius An­glis addictissimus ab Arranio l [...]s [...] Maiestatis accusa­tus, in carcerem [...] Cambd. Eliz. pag. 314. Ex delator [...]m in­uidia. pag. 315. ob­trun [...]atus. pag. 317. Morton killed, and Prae moerore, post­quam tredecim me­ses praefu [...]sset, [...]atis concessi [...]. Cambd. Eliz. pag. 204. Marre tormented, and vexed to death, and yet this Infant, without his Protectors, from time to time miracu­lously protected? How was his Youth freed from the Faction of Cambd. Eliz. pag. 316. France, and his Riper yeares from that of Summa consilij erat, vt rege inter­cepto, externas co­p [...] ad religionem Romanam restau­randam, & An­gliam [...]uaden­dam admitterent. Cambd. Eliz. part. [...] pag. 500. M. S. Spaine? the which two, like Sampsons Foxes, tied by the tailes, agreed in nothing but their End, which was to poison his Religion, and Succession. Why did Gow [...]es conspi­ [...]acie. fol 6. Gowries Man, prepar'd to Kill him, tremble in his prae­sence, and begin to adore him? Lastly, (for no praeseruation can be nam'd after this) when the Match, and the Powder, not farre from this place, was so fitted, and praepared, why was this King so [Page 45] diuinely praeserued? Surely for no o­ther End then this, that as Cambd. Eliz. part. 2. pag. [...]6. M. S. Perez was wont to call himselfe Monstrum Fortu­nae, the Monster of Fortune: So this Prince might appeare in the world, Monstrum Prouidentiae, a Monster, as it were, of the Diuine Prouidence; (taking the word, as Scaliger applies it to In Poetice. Vir­gil, Monstrum sine Labe, a Monster for want of Imperfections,) and be esteem'd for his Quae fecerit, what he should doe, in time to come, a Miracle of Kings, and a King of Miracles. I leaue the multi­tude of his Actions to fill vp Chronicles, and will instance onely in those foure Vertues; which it seemes doe now a­dorne his Hearse, and speake the same vnto your Eyes, which I would doe vn­to your Eares; that is, the Actions of his Religion, his Iustice, his Warre, and his Peace, foure principall Members in this Statue of Salomon. First for the Actions of Religion, it is true what S^t. Vt terrestre reg­num coelesti regno famuletur. Greg. ep. 62. ad Mau [...]i­tium. Gregory saith, that God doth therefore giue Princes their Kingdomes to fit, and prae­pare [Page 46] men for his Kingdome. Hence our Churches come to be builded, and our Church-men to be thus maintained. Now as Salomon of all the Kings of Israel: So our Late Soueraigne of all Christian Kings, that euer I read of, was the most constant Ing [...] [...]aesar, & p [...]r gloria tua, [...]iue [...]ud post [...], si [...]e [...]nt. P [...]m. [...] Paneg. Patron, of Churches, and Church-men. This Patronage extended to three seuerall Braunches, to the Do­ctrine, to the Discipline, and to the Main­tenance of Gods Church. And of his Af­fection to these three he gaue a full de­monstration, by that he had spent three Moneths in this Kingdome. To the Do­ctrine, by the Now read in our Churches. Translation of the Bi­ble, against the Papists. To the Disci­pline, by the Conference at Printed by command 14. Ia­nuary 1603. and now reprinted by King Iames his new command, [...]diatly be­fore his death. [...]. Hampton Court, against the Nouellists. And to the Maintenance, by remitting all Sede-va­cantes, and disabling The Act. of [...] 1 [...]ac. Church-men to make Leases to the Crowne, against the Courtiers, and Statists of those worser times. Yee House of Leui praise yee the Lord, quoniam misericordia eius in Saecu­lum, For this Mercy of his endureth for [Page 47] euer. But this Ipsa initia plan­tare debent Prin­cipis nominis sa­mam. Theodori­cus. beginning amongst vs was but a Mappe of his whole Life, as many times a little Ring, receiueth the image of a great Colossus; Because, from the very cradle wherin he was crown'd, all his life was a continued Patronage of the Doctrine, the Discipline, and the Maintenance of the Church. For the first, I will speake it boldly, Et dicam v­niuersa audiente Graecia, in the praesence here of God, and Men, that I beleeue in my soule, and conscience, there neuer liued a more constant, resolute, and set­led Protestant in point of Doctrine, then our late Soueraigne. The first Letter that euer he wrote to Queene Elizabeth of famous memory, vpon his taking of the Gouernment to his owne mana­ging, was for Assistance against those Men, Per Dunfer [...]i­linium. Cambd. Eliz. pag. [...]. Qui verae Religioni aduersaban­tur, that were Opposers of this true Re­ligion; And this was in the yeare 1578. In the same blessed minde he still remai­ned, when he made that profession to Secretary Edinburg [...]. Cambd. Ehz pag. 341. Walsingham; Se Religionem [Page 48] receptam constantissimè defensurum, that he would most constantly defend his receiued Religion, in the yeare 1583. In the same Resolution he continued, when hee put it to [...] [...]ham de [...] c. [...]a [...] Eliz. [...] 2. pag. 513. [...]. Queene Elizabeth to choose him a Lady, who recommended vnto him at the first [...] Ma [...]g [...]i­ [...] [...] regis [...] regi [...] Ca [...]d Eliz. part. 2. [...] [...]. 3 M S. Madam Marga­rite, Aunt to our now Queene (whom God long blesse, and praeserue) and af­terward our late Queene [...] idem. [...] Anne, a most blessed Ladie in many respects, and yet in none more then this, that she was the Mother of our praesent Soueraigne. In the same Faith he perseuer'd, when hee made his Rodes (as they call it) to the Cam [...]d. Eliz. [...] 2. pag. 561. M. S. North of Scotland against the Papists, in the yeare 1594. or there abouts. Hee grew in this Faith from strengh to strength, when he wrote his Sed his alij, li­br [...] longe prae [...] Basilicon Do [...]on. &c. Incre­ [...], quo [...] h [...]m [...] ­num animos & [...] sibi con­ci [...], &c. Id. in Eliz. part. 2. pag. 65 [...]. M. S. Basilicon Doron, which made the Romanists de­spaire of him, and set on Id [...]b [...]d. pag. 562. M. S. Parsons to forge Titles, Speedes▪ Chro. p. 9 [...]. Clemens Octanus to publish Bulls, and the whole Conclaue to oppose his Succession, as we may now reade at large in the Letters of L [...]re s [...]pti [...]sme 131. A [...] Roy & [...] 8. 162. A [...] de Ville­ [...]oy. & Liure 7. 132. A Mons. de Villeroy. Cardinall D'Ossat. [Page 49] And vpon his happie Arriuall to this Crowne, a Protestant he was deem'd by Speedes Chro. p. 912. Watson the Prologue, and, that without any hope of Change, by Faux the Epi­logue of the Powder Treason. To con­clude, he defended this Doctrine of ours with his penne, his Lawes, and his Sword, the whole Progresse of his Life; and seal'd it with the blessed Sacrament at the time of his Death. Sic illi visum est vi­uere, sicque mori. I am bound in con­science out of Zeale to the Truth, and my dutie to my dead Master, to adde a word more, ere I close this Point. This blessed King, in all the time I seru'd him, did neuer out of deepe, and iust reason of State, and the bitter necessities of Christendome in these latter times, giue way to any the least Conniuence in the world, towards the person of a Pa­pist (for to his Doctrine he neuer did, he neuer would doe, nor was there any For they them­selues will needs (as the Romans said of the Iewes) make themselues as remote from vs, as the Indians▪ [...]. Philostrat. in vita Apollon. l. 5. c. 10 Consideration vnder heauen could haue forc't him thereunto) but hee strictly guided himselfe in the same, by some [Page 50] notable Praesident of Queene Elizabeth, (the Load-starre of all his greatest Acti­ons) and that in the very point; and bath'd his fauours with showers of Teares (I speake it in the praesence of Al­mightie God) least these Intendments of his for the apparant good of the State, might scandalize for all that, (in an oblique line) his weake, but well meaning 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 [...]. lib. 2. and his word was, No Bi­shop, no King. Confer. at Hampt. Court. pag. 36. only Discipline that euer agreed with the Fundamentall Lawes of any Christian Monarchie. For as that Musitian in [...]. Philostrat. in vita Apoll. l. 5. c. 11. Philostratus sent his young Scholler to a sort of Bunglers, where he might learne, [...], how hee [Page 51] should not pipe: so God Almighty was pleas'd, that this great Howeuer he li­ued amongst Pu­ritanes, and was kept as a Ward vnder them, yet since he was ten yea [...]es old, hee euer despised their opinions. Confer. at H [...]mp [...]. Court. pag. 20. 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 Cambd. Eliz. pag. 342. one King may be lawfully surprised by three Earles, 1583. That Cambd. Eliz▪ pag. 361. Ministers are not subiect to either King, or Councell, 1584. That they may Cambd. Eliz. pag. 444. deny the King to pray for his Mother. 1586. That they may call Synods without the King, and make Lawes too; Cambd. Eliz. part. 2. pag. 550. N [...]c exp [...]ctata Re­gis authorit [...]te, Barones, & Bur­genses Con [...]oca­runt (Ministri) ad consultandum ne quid detrimenti relligio, aut respub. caperet. M. S▪ 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 Cambd. Eliz. pag. 362. 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 [Page 52] 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; Psal. 68. 10. 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 [Page 53] 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 de regno. 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 [Page 54] 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 [Page 55] 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 (Cicero in Bruto. 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 Aristot. Politi [...]. l. 1. c. 1. 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 [Page 56] beleeue the Rex ipse difficil­l [...] i [...]meris mole­stus confl [...]ct [...]tus, per asp [...]rrimo [...] [...]ont [...]s in illa parte con­t [...]dit, &c. Camb. Eliz. pa [...] 2. [...]ag. 5 [...]1. M. S. 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;

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 V [...]nam meis tem­pori [...]us e [...]en at, [...]t militum stipendi [...] in Doctor [...]s Artium absuma [...]tur. Leo Graecanicus. 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 Histor. l. 4. ini­tio libri. Ad laud [...]m reg­nant [...] tra [...]itur, si a [...] omnibus p [...] ametur. Cassio­dorus. [...]pist. l. 1. ep. 23. A deepe point of policie. [...]. Artist. polit. l. 8. c. 14. Tacitus, any Phaethon will serue to fire the world, but none beside the God of Wisedome [Page 57] 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 of learning highly improued, manufactures at home daily inuented, Trading abroad excee­dingly multiplied, the Borders of Scot­land peaceably gouerned, the North of Ireland religiously planted, the Nauy Royall magnificently furnished, Virgi­nia, New-found-land, and New-England peopled, the East India well traded, Per­sia, China, and the Mogor visited, lastly, all the ports of Europe, Afrique, Asia▪ and America to our red Crosses freed, and o­pened. And they are all the Actions, and [Page 58] true-borne Children of King IAMES his Peace. And so much, or rather (for want of time) so little of the Quae fecerit, and what he did; The rest of the words of Salomon, and all that he did.

THe third member of this Statue, is his Wisedome, fitly resembled to that of Salomons. For if the patterne seeme to excell in the Intellectuals, I am sure the Statue exceeds in the Morals. If we take this Wisedome for an Vniuersali­tie, clasping in her Armes all Arts, and Sciences; shee cannot be denied in that large sense, to haue built her a house in that sacred bosome. For, as In vita Budaei. Id [...]m narratur de Theodoro Gaza. Sphynx. Philos. cap. 25. Budaeus being ask' [...] by Francis the first, if all the Bookes in the world were to bee burn't, what one hee would saue, to preserue Learning, made answer, that he would saue the Workes of Plutarque, because they had impressions of all the Sciences: so say I, and appeale herein to any Schol­ler in the world, that if all Bookes were to be burnt, and Plutarque also to beare [Page 59] them company: yet could a man finde some footing, and impressions of all Arts, and Sciences, of all kindes of As [...] is called [...]. S [...]d [...]s in P [...]lolog. & [...] ­piph. lib d [...]m [...]n­su [...] [...]. Di­uinitie, Moralitie, and Humanitie whatso­euer, within the Workes of our late So­ueraigne. But if we take Wisdome for that deepe reach required in a King, for the gouerning of his people, which [...] ▪ Synes. de regn [...]. Synesi­us calls [...], the Prince of all the Princely Vertues; I will with­out blushing say of Him, as Pliny did of another, and appeale herein to my No­ble Lords of his Priuie Counsell, Nihil est omnium quod discere velis, quod ille doce­re non potuit, there was nothing in that kinde that a man would learne, but was fully taught by our Great Master. But (alas) I dare not launch into this vast deepe, whereof the best Head (where­euer it is) in all Europe cannot sound the bottome: Plin. S [...]undus l. 1. epist. 10. Nisi sapiens non potest per­spicere sapientem: My wisdome, I confesse, is farre too short to giue you any cha­racter of his infinite Wisedome. Some streames hereof, you may hereafter find [Page 60] in the Histories of this Age, the fourth Member of this Statue, the Booke of the Acts of Salomon. And the rest of the words of Salomon, and all that hee did, and his Wisdome, are they not written in the Booke of the Acts of Salomon?

FOr although King Iames had no such Officers as Sanctius in. 1. Reg. proleg. 1. Salomon had, à Commen­tarijs, appointed of purpose to write his Actions; yet Ecclesiastes 11. 7. Dulce estoculis videre Solem, the Sunne cannot shine in such a brightnesse, but Eyes must behold it, nor set in so lasting a night, but the world will misse it. Priuate Histories (as Spartianus in Adriano. Adrian said of Apers accusations) are but Incke, and Paper, and may bee holpe in part with the golden pin-dust; whereas Sidonius. Me [...]s omnibus quam singulis cre­ditur. singuli enim decipere, & decip [...] possunt: nemo om­nes, neminem om­nes [...]e [...]ellerunt. Plin. Secund. in Panegyr. Suffragia mundi nullus emit, None can be honoured of all Europe, but he that held the Ballance of all Eu­rope; and, for the space of twentie yeares at the least, preserued the peace of all Eu­rope. Christendome therefore will be the Booke, Swords, I feare, will proue the Pennes, and the Remembrance of the [Page 61] times past, the Acts, and Monuments of our blessed Salomon. And if multitude of Writers could multiply his Fame, the Israelite with his fifteene Pen-men (for so De reb. Salom. lib. 1. cap. 1. Pineda makes his Boast) must giue place herein to our British Salomon. What Writer hath cause to speake of a King, but praesently he falles vpon this King of Writers? So that as Ap [...]d Euseb. Constan­tine the Great did nick-name Traian, Herbam Parietariam, a Wall-flower, be­cause his name was engrauen on euery wall: so shall aemulous Posteritie terme King Iames Herbam chartaceam, a Pa­per-flower, when they reade his glory in all Writers. And as one saith of Pli­nius, and Tacitus, that they were Nos [...]i m [...]? & quidem ex s [...]d [...] ▪ [...]s. Ad ho [...] [...]l [...]um. Ta­citus [...]s, [...]n Plini­us? Exprim [...] non poss [...]m quam sit iu­ [...]ndum mihi, quod nomina nostra qu [...] ­si litera [...]um pro­pria, non [...]omin [...], lit [...]ris reddunt [...]r. Plinius Secund. lib. 9. ep. 23. Litera­rum nomina, non Hominum: So will it be a quaestion amongst Critiques in the Ages to come, whether this name of Iames doth more properly note an eminent King, or an eminent Scholler. And in that case, if vngratefull posteritie should forget the King, (as beleeue me it will not; for like one of [...]. Plu­tarch. re [...]p. ge­re [...]d. praecept. So [...]um [...] [...]m [...] ­dat, a [...]g [...]tqu [...] t [...]m­p [...]r [...]s spat [...]. Plin. in Pan [...]g. Demetrius his Sta­tues, [Page 62] this King will shew better and bet­ter with time) yet if it should, Learning will neuer forget the Scholler. In the world before the Flood, though wee reade not of one King, Genes. 5. the Inuenters of the Arts are still remembred. His History therefore, like Whereof the seuerall bookes are assigned to seuerall Mus [...]s. Qu [...]m [...]e [...]ren [...] mu [...], viuet. Tibul. li. 1. [...]l [...]g. 4. [...]. Pynd. Olymp. Hymn. 7. Herodotus his History, shall be written, and set out by all the Muses; they all shall ioyne in the writing of his Booke, the Booke of the Acts of our British Salomon.

IN the fifth place, suruey we his Ca­pitall Citie; which See the Procla­mations for buil­dings. [...]. Philostratus de vitis Sophist. l [...]. 1. enlarged, and re­paired in each corner thereof, 1 King. 9. 15. and refreshed within with a Which a man might call, as the Aegyptians doe N [...]lus, [...]. Philost. de [...]i [...]. Apol. l. 5. c. 10. run­ning water (which De bello Iudaic. l. 6. c. 6. Iosephus attributes to the Sonne of Dauid) doth no more resemble that other, then this Hierusa­lem, where our Salomon raigned. Hee raigned in Hierusalem. Here for the space of two and twentie yeeres the Sacrifices were daily offered, here Gods word was learnedly expounded, here the Lawes were iustly administred, here all the [Page 63] Tribes were vsually assembled, here the three Kingdomes were conuened, here Edenburgh and Diuelen were vnited, like Iebus, and Salem, in one Hierusalem. Whilst Salomon raigned in this Hierusa­lem. And so much of this fifth Circum­stance.

IN the sixt place, suruay wee the bounds of his Empire, and King Iames will proue a King Salomon in this, as being the first King (for ought we know) that raigned here ouer all this Island, Ouer all Israel. Hee raigned in Hierusalem ouer all Israel. There is a brute of one Brutus long before, but it is no more then a meere brute. King^a Cambd. in sua Brit. pag. 5▪ Iames is the first King of the Island, that wee reade of in good Histories. And surely Non sine numine Diuûm, this came not to passe otherwise, then by Gods di­rection, from time to time. When the two Daughters were so matched, why should Scotland be preferred? when a The name of the T [...]ddo [...]s. new race had gotten the Crowne, why [Page 64] should the name within the space of 115 yeares be thus extinguished? When many praetenses were made to this Land, why should they all in this one King be concentred and vnited? [...] by the [...] Ea [...]e of N [...]ton, in [...] speech for the [...], made in [...] ­ment. 3. l [...]c. 26▪ Ma [...]j. M. S. that of the Britaines by Cadwallo, that of the Scots by Fargus, that of the Picts by the Daughter of Hungus, that of the Saxons by the Sister of Edgar, that of the Danes by the Daughter of King Christian, and that of the Normans by the Daughter of Henry the seuenth, from all the which he was a Lineall Descendant. Surely to let vs know, that this was the Salomon, whom God from the beginning had anointed King ouer all Israel, and accor­dingly he raigned in Hierusalem ouer all Israel. And so much of the sixt Circum­stance.

THe seuenth Circumstance is the time of his Raigne, the which, though it falls short in a diuided, yet in a compounded sense exceeds the patterne. For though he raigned not so [Page 65] long ouer all Israel, yet in all hee raigned 58. yeares. A long, and a blessed raigne, wherein he was married to one Queene, and (as he said of Tigranes) to a thou­sand Vertues. A Raigne like that [...], [...]a [...]. [...] or golden chaine in Homer, whereof [...], the seuerall linkes were seuerall blessings, with the one end fastened to his Cradle, and the other dropping into his Graue. And surely God Almightie, to let vs know that it is Pr [...]. [...] ▪ [...]. by him that Kings doe raigne, makes them sometimes to gouerne States (and that very well) before they be able to gouerne themselues. [...] Varanes his childe was crowned King, while he was yet in his Mothers wombe. [...] of [...] Poly [...] Fredericke the se­cond, when he was but three yeares old. 4 [...] Ioas, when hee was but seuen. Salo­mon, (as some Ra [...] Da [...]d Kim [...]a [...]d [...]y­ [...]am Sal [...] d [...]ce [...]m in [...]tio [...] [...] ­am. Although all the Gr [...]ke and [...]at ne Fathers, make him to be 12. yeares old. Rabbins thinke) when hee was but ten. [...]nuent [...]r of France▪ in Ca [...]. 9. [...] Charles the ninth, when hee was but eleuen. I [...]d [...]i [...] su [...] fectus est I [...]do [...]icu [...] [...] duo [...]m [...]a [...]u [...] Gaguinus. Comp [...]ndij sui libr. 7. S^t. Lewis, when he was but twelue. And our late Soueraigne aged little more then Regn [...]m [...]ssit [...] vix [...]redecin▪ m [...]s [...]s [...]ato. Cambd. Eliz. pag▪ 119. so ma­my moneths. Thus God stockes those [Page 66] Kings with Daies, whom he meanes to stocke with Goodnesse. Thus our Deare Master, who raigned better, raigned also longer then King Salomon, whose Raigne in Hierusalem ou [...]r all Israel, was no more then fortie yeares: And so much of the seuenth Circumstance.

AND hitherto, Most High and Mightie, most Honourable, Wor­shipfull, and welbeloued, you may imagine I haue offered vnto your thoughts, not only a Statue of King Sa­lomon, but withall, as the Graecians did in their Hercules, and Xenophon in his Cyrus, an Idaea, or Repraesentation of all the perfections requir'd in a King. But, out alas! those Statues of theirs are (as the Soule that frames them) lasting, and immortall, but this of ours made of Flesh and Bloud, Maiore nostrûm damno, quam suo (as Su [...]ton. in Ti [...]o. Non mem [...]ni me [...]e­ [...]sse m [...]la morte [...]ortuum, qui li­b [...]nter opera pieta­ [...] exe [...]cuit. Hi [...] ­ [...]on. dist. 13. hee said of Titus) to our losse, but his great Aduantage, is proued Mortall. I, but did you not know be­fore (will some men say) that the King [Page 67] was mortall? I did indeed, And I know withall, the state of Christendome doth require, that such a King, as this, of these Sayings, and Doings, and Wisedome, and Experience of 58. yeeres, should haue beene immortall,

Our onely comfort is this, that as he liued like a King, so he died like a Saint. He did rather (as Saint Hierome said of Nepotian) migrare, quam mori; or (as Saint Bernard writes of Hubertus) abire, quam obire, hee did not dye, but fall a­sleepe, Dormiuitque Salomon, And Salo­mon Faelix s [...]mnu [...] [...] requ [...]s volu [...]tate, [...] vol [...]ptat [...], vol [...]pt [...] cum [...]tern [...]ta [...] Petius Damia­nus de Stephano. Dulcis sim [...]l & beatus [...]. Gregor. Nyss [...]n. de c [...]. slept. Neuer haue you read of any King, that left this world more resolued, more prepared, as though hee had vn­brac't himselfe for his Bed, rather then for his Graue. And it was his fashion so to doe, when hee was summoned by any sicknesse. God dealt with this Bles­sed Prince, as he did with 4 Reg. 20. 6. Ezechia, for [Page 68] certaine yeeres before his Death, hee was call'd vpon by his sicknesse at Roy­ston to set his House in Order. Lord, what a [...] M^r. [...] and shewed and approued [...]y the [...] in his lifetime M. S. Speech hee then made to his Sonne our praesent Soueraigne? O Verba Brac­teata. Not a syllable in all the same, but deserues to be written in letters of Gold. How powerfully did hee charge him with the care of Religion and Iustice, the two Pillars (as hee tearm'd them) of his future throne? How did he recommend vnto his loue, the Nobilitie, the Clergie, and the Communaltie in the generall? How did he thrust, as it were into his in­ward bosome, his Bishops, his Iudges, his neere Seruants; and that Disciple of his whom he so loued in particular? And concluded with that heauenly Ad­uice, to his Sonne, concerning that great Act of his future marriage, To marrie [...]. Solon apud Plutarch. like himselfe, and marrie where hee would. But if hee did marrie the Daughter of that King, hee should marry her Person, but hee should not marry her Religion. But now at this [Page 69] sicknesse more shaken with the fits of a raging Feuer, the neerer Death drew vnto him, the more he prepar'd himselfe for it. All his Latter dayes hee spent in prayer, sending his thoughts before in­to Heauen, to bee the Harbingers of his happy Soule. Some foure dayes before his end, he desired to receiue the Blessed Sacrament, Viaticum Aeternitatis, as it is tearm'd in the Ancient Councels, a bles­sed Bait, that the deuout soule vseth for the most part to take in this life, when it is ready to trauaile for the other life. Be­ing demanded, if hee was prepared in point of Faith, and Charitie for so great a Deuotion; He said hee was, and gaue humble thankes to God for the same. Being desir'd to declare his Faith, and what he thought of those Bookes he had written in that kinde, Hee repeated the Articles of the Creede one by one, and said hee beleeued them all, as they were receiued and expounded by that part of the Catholique Church which was esta­blished here in England. And said with [Page 70] a kinde of sprightfulnesse, and viuacitie, that what euer hee had written of this Faith in his life, he was now ready to seale with his Death. Being questioned in point of Charitie; He answered present­ly, that hee forgaue all Men that offen­ded him, and desir'd to be forgiuen by all Christians, whom hee in any wise had offended. Being told, that Men in Holy Orders in the Church of England doe challenge a power, as inhaerent in their Function, not in their Person, to pronounce and declare Remission of sins, to such as being paenitent doe call for the same; And that they haue a forme of Absolution for that very purpose, set down in the Booke of Common Prayers; So his Maiestie had done before, sying, that it was Apost [...]all,, and a very good ordinance, in that it was giuen [...] name of [...] th [...] de [...] it, and vpon the clea­ring of his con­ [...]e Con [...]er▪ at [...]. Court. pag. [...] it is re­ [...] in the [...]sions of [...], Bohem, [...] Saxon. He answered suddenly; I haue euer be­leeu'd, there was that power in you, that be in Orders in the Church of England. And that, amongst others, was vnto me an eui­dent demonstration, that the Church of England is without all quaestion the Church of Christ. And therefore I a miserable sin­ner doe humbly desire Almighty God to [Page 71] Absolue of my sinnes, and you, that are his seruant in that high place, to affoord me this heauenly comfort. And after the Ab­solution read, and pronounced, hee re­ceiued the Sacrament with that Zeale, and Deuotion, as if hee had not beene a fraile Man, but a Cherubin cloathed with flesh, and blood. And some houre after, he said vnto his Sonne, the Duke, and o­thers that stood about him, that they could not imagine what ease, and comfort he found in himselfe, [...]ithence his receiuing of the blessed Sacrament. O, saith hee, that all my Lords would doe but thus, when they are visited with the like sicknesse. Themselues would bee more comforted in their Soules, and the world lesse troubled with quaestioning their Religion. From this time, to the houre of his death, the sicknesse preuailed more and more vp­on his Body, and his Sense, and Memory not much impaired, Prayers were mul­tiplied accordingly from houre to houre, for the comfort of his Soule. And as In ei [...] vita. Nazianzen saith of Saint Basil, that [Page 72] he did desire to dye [...], with some sentence of pietie in his mouth: so there were selected in Eng­lish, and Latine, some short sentences of Deuotion to raise, and lift vp his Soule in­to Heauen, before it came thither. With this he was so rauished, and Comforted, that as all his Seruants (neuer sufficiently commended for Diligence, and Est magnisicum, quod te ab omni cognatione vitio­rum reprimis, ac re­uocas; sed magnifi­centius, quod tuos. Quanto enim ma­gis ard [...]um est, ali­os praestâre quam se; tanto laudabil [...] ­us, quod cum ipse sis optimus, omnes circa te similes tui effecisti. Plin. sec. de Traiano in Paneg. [...]. Plu­tarch. de Cato­ne Maiore. Deuoti­on) can beare witnesse, when he groaned now vnder the pangs of Death, yet was hee euer still, and as quiet, as a Lambe, when these Eiaculations were infused into Him. To one of them, to wit, Me­cum eris in Paradiso, he replied presently, Vox Christi, that it was the voice, and promise of Christ. And another, Veni Domine Iesu, veni citò, hee twice, or thrice repeated. And a while after, his hastning on forward towards his End, hastned vs also to that Prayer vsually said at the houre of Death; the which was no sooner ended with that sen­tence, In manus tuas Domine Commendo spiritum meum, but his Lords, and Ser­uants [Page 73] kneeling on the one side, his Arch­bishop, Bishops, and other of his Chap­laines on the other side of his Bed, with­out any pangs, or Conuulsion at all, Dor­miuit Salomon, Salomon slept. And so much of this eight, a most bitter Cir­cumstance.

ANd yet this Bitternesse is like the bitternesse of Myrrhe, very vnpleasing vnto vs, but very praeseruatiue vnto him. Cui peregrinatio dul [...]is est, non a [...]a [...] patria [...]. August. in Psal. 93. Cur [...]an [...] vitam adeo amamus, vbi quanto [...]iutius quis [...]u [...]rit, tanto ma [...]o­r [...] oneratur Sarci­na p [...]ccator [...]m? Ambros. [...]e bono mortis. cap. 2. Nam [...]ur [...]o [...]t [...]m adeo detr [...]ct [...]mus? Ne videa [...]us ni­mirum descripta in Apocalypsi Io­annis. Cypr. lib. de mortal. Sect. 17. Mors ianua vi­tae. Si tamen [...]as [...]st aut [...]lere, aut omni­no mortem voca [...]e, quâ tanti viri mor­talitasmagi [...] [...]inita, quam vita [...]st. De Verginio. Rufo. Plin. sec. l. 2. ep. 1. He had no way, but by this Mor­talitie, to cloath himselfe with Immorta­litie. Were it not for this Sleeping, how had hee obtain'd this aeternall Dormiun [...] [...]ort [...], non solum p [...]opter f [...]cilita [...]em r [...]susci­tandi, sed [...]tiam [...]pter iucund [...] insomnia, quae ani­mae à cor [...]o [...]bus s [...]paratae ha [...]ent, dum Deum [...]c [...]e ad [...]aciem, &c. Salmer. tom. 6. tract. 44. Drea­ming? which his Soule seuer'd from the dregges of the Bodie, doth now enioy in the praesence of God, enuiron'd no more with Lords, and Knights, but with troupes of Angels, and the Soules of the Blessed, call'd in this Text, his Fore-run­ners, or Fathers; And Salomon slept with his Fathers. And therefore as Thebaid. 4. Papinius Statius reports of the old Arcadians, that [Page 74] mourning all night for the setting of the Sunne, they were comforted not­withstanding at the breake of day, when they saw him in his Spheare againe. And as the people enraged at the death of Romulus, were quieted by and by with Plin. secund. de viris illustribus. c. 2. Proculus his newes, that he saw him in glory riding vp to Heauen: Much more must we Christians remain full of hope at the death of a So the Aegypti­ans mourn'd for Iacob 70. daies; Ioseph but 7. daies. Gen. 50. 3. & 10. So of the bles­sed Virgin at the death of Christ: Stantem lego, flen­tem non lego. Am­bros. in Luc. Saint, that is gone to his Fathers; Dormiuit (que) Salomon cum Pa­tribus suis, And Salomon slept with his Fa­thers. And no more of this ninth Cir­cumstance.

ANd I must say lesse of the Last of all, praeuented therein by the Magnificence of his Maiestie: Be­cause, for any thing wee reade in the Scriptures, the Funeralls of the first, came nothing neare the Stately Funerals of our second Salomon. Shall I say there­fore of my praesent Master, that he is a great, and a hopefull King? All that is true; but I leaue it to another, that hath [Page 75] time to enlarge it. I will onely say, as S^t. Orat. Funebr. de Morte Theo­dos. Imperat. Ambrose said of Theodosius, Summam votorum complexus est, pius est; He hath shew'd himselfe, as we desir'd he should, a pious Sonne of a most pious Father. He layes, with all possible solemnity, the Bo­die of his Father in the Sepulchre of the Kings, erected by Henry the seuenth his great Grandfather, Tanquam in Ciuitate Dauid Patris eius; Iust as this other Salo­mon was, In the Citie of Dauid his Fa­ther. And yet, with due reuerence to his Maiestie, I must be bold to say, that all this is nothing to that Honour, which God hath done to the Funeralls of his Father. So Psal. 115. 15. deare in the sight of the Lord is th [...] Death of his Saints. For God hath prouided another Statue yet to adorne the Exequies of our Late Soueraigne. I doe not meane this Artificiall Reprae­sentation within the Hearse; for this shews no more then his outward Body; or rather the Bodie of his Bodie, his cloathes and Ornaments. But I meane that Statue which (beyond all former [Page 76] praesidents of Pietie) Te ad sydera tollit humus. Plin. se­cund. in Pane­gyr. walk't on foot this day after the Hearse, one of Myrons Sta­tues, Qui paenè Hominū animas effinxerit, which came so neare to the Soules of Men, [...] Cyrus Prodrom. in sua [...]: in Gregor. Theol. A breathing Statue of all his Vertues. This God hath done for Him, or rather for Vs. For as he hath made a liuely Repraesentation of the Vertues of Salomon, in the Person of King Iames: So hath he done a like Repraesentation of the Vertues of King Iames, in the Person of King Charles our Gratious Soue­raigne.

I will therefore conclude these Exe­quies of Salomon, with a saying spoken by that imitator of Salomon, Ecclūs. 30. 4. Mortuus est Pater, & quasi non est mortuus, Simi­lem enim reliquit sibi post se. Though his Father be dead, yet is he, as though hee were not dead, for he hath left One be­hinde him most like himselfe. Whom God long prosper, and praeserue.

The Grace of our Lord &c.