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Show A Difcourfo of t 1·' J e V lifO. It ''-.:o1'~1~' ~E~n-g.l.a.n:d_' -a-nd- S:c-ot-la-n-d-. 1 ._ ___.:~S-- -=-on-e~mA: ---U~Lr Oll.l.l Jl a tri·"~~ m ' nrore:;r .n, u. e te,.?ebant, Vetr1m1t e eft N omen t:' rit.' Commixti Corpore tantHnJ.> \ SHbfe'dentTcuc •i, Morem, Rit1{tpte Sacr~nmJ, . :r . . ftuiaflfque 01111teJ 1tnO ore LatJno.r. AH_d/lC~:;~r Aufonio miftt~m, quotlfongHinejitbrget) me H mt. nes fiu pra z·r e Deos , pietate vtd.: u . .11 . , • S1tpra o J k" d f Partition or D lu n ouu- Wherein, Jupiter, mak~~~ ~hemLa~1t,,ge, and :he La~es; 1roy on; That, IJa!y !hou_ld gf en and fome Religi01u RrtcJ; And iliould give a Mrxtm e, o .Jt;f ' f t . bo~ h People, {hou ld meet t•u _ o ne Nf atmhee, C oit y Loaf Rtftoems.e , the People o f Soon afrer the Foun1atwn,. o, d u on equall Terms.Where - I the Romans,and the sabzner,~nng.e ;t:at (as Livy notet h,) the in the InterchJnge, went o ~v~~' e the other tot he 1'copfc.For o~e Natio1t gave tbeName,tobt c hacp;ople were called J!2.!!_iritei 1 · d the Namt: ut t e f · RIJme contlnue . d' d : d of cures .the Countr ey g 'J a-which was the sabme wor ' enve ' . tiui. . . . fl. be noted in the whole Contim~- Eut that, whtch IS chH: y tot. they ~ere fo liberall, of then ance, o~ tl~e R.onum~ Go;;;;m:b.e' made perpetuall .Afi:JC_tHres. For . Naturalr! .. aftons, as, 10 e 'h r..Y ne not o nely to parfzCIIlar per-the manner was, to granJ t .e at s? And not ondy fo, but to . onJ, but toFamilieJ, an. Lt~ea~~ 'in the end it C3Ine to that, whole Cities, and cou~tnts . . 0 as ~ome of the civiliani call it. Communu ratrza, l•l • l D d that Rome was . 1 f . h had been beaten wltn l \..O s, So we read of Samt Pau ha ~;;c; with the violation, of . the and theJieupon ch~r~ed t ef 'f:nre? T.he capt1lin faid to lu~ 1 Priviledge, ofaCltttz-enJ ~b t rri~iledge hath coft 11Jedc,zr. f o A1't tho~e then a Ronza~1ed. 1 Eat I waJ JO. boru And yet, in a no· whom Saint ~aul rephe r~feffeth himfel~ th~t he was a Je~, by ·. ther place~ S~t~t P~tul,·[ ft that fume of his Ancefiors, :w t·~: ~!aTribe: So as It ts m.am e ' r d to him and their other Dc-turalized; and fo tt was conve}e > fcendant s. . of the firfi Defpite5_, that was So we read, that tt w~s on~, she hado) tained N.-J.turaln:.a- . done, to ]uliJu ~£far; T at w efreha e Cih was beaten with RodJ, . tz.o n, c1 0r a Cit1./l tn Gau!e, one e l ..., i of the Conful ~i~r.cc~m. h t in the Empermsr Claudius time~ the . I So we read, to TactttH, t a l . . h is called Comata, the wllder , 1 Natiw of Gaule~ (that ~~~; ~~de capable; of the honou·, of 1 pa1 t ) were Suttours, ,.n; f R His words are tht:fe: 1 ' and oJJuers o ome. . I being Satatours' . ' p 'morefqueGaUi£ q1t£ comata \cum de jitpple~do ~~~~u ~g~:;e;;;,a:~m pridcm ajfec1t;i, Jur a~ipif I appe!latur, fte era_ 7Vt a ~~ t. multus ea fuper re, vanufquc 'tenclorum in urbP- Ho~orum, e"PdJ~e~ ' ·pem c;rtabatur. And in the :Rumor, C ftudiis dtverjif ~ ap, rtndT th~ fhould be admitted. I end, after long debate,hit ~as r1eN? bola~ JUatchiavel!, feemeth I I Solikewife, the Aut honty o .. IC the Caufes. of the Grow { h~_ ·not to be contemned; w o,enquumg ;, ot 11.. ... ___._ ...._I_ _ _ _ _:_--=-'---:-- --+----------,.---- ··--::·----- A Dijcourfe, of the Vnion, of England, ttnd Scotland. _ 10 3 of the Rom,tne Empire, doth give Judgement; There w~ s not one greater then this; That the State, did fo eaGly compol:lnd, and incorporate with {hangers. It is true, that molt Eftates, and lCingdomes, have t <iken the other Courfe. Of which this effect hath followed:; 1 hat the Addition, of further Empire, and Territory,bath been> rather, matter ofBunheo, then matter ofStrength, unto them: yea and further, it hath kept alive, the Seeds, and Roots, of R.evolrs, and Rebellions, for many Ages : As we may fee, in a fi·efb, and notableExample, oftheKingdome, of Arap;on: WhichJ though it were united, to Caftile, by Marriage, and not by Conqueft; And fodefcendcd in Hereditary Union, by the fpaceot more then an 1 oo. years; yet becaufe it was continued, in a divid~d Government, and not well Incorporated, and Cemented, with the other Crowns; Entred iritoa Rebellion, upon point of their Fueros, or Liberties, now of very late years... , Now to fp~ak briefly, of the feverall parts, of that form, where~y States, and Kingdomes, are perf-::Qly united; They are, (betides the Soveraignty it felf,) four in Number: Vnion in Name; Vnion in Language; Vnion in LaweJ; Vnion in Employ. nte1ztr. For Name, though it feem, but a fuptrficiaii, and Outward Matter, yet it car.deth much Jm preffion, and Enchanttileh t: The GeneraJJ, and common Name, of Grecia made the Gree~,alwaies apt to unite1 (though othttwife fuH of Di11ijons, amongfr themfelves,) agaiuft ot er Nations, whom they· called Barbaraui J The Hel·oetian Name , 1s no fniall 'Hand, to knit together, theit · Leagues, and Confederacies, the falter_. The' common ~.:une of spain; (no doubt,) hath been> a (pec1all mf;~nes, ofthe better union, and Congluti ration_, of the feveralJ KingJomes, of Caflile; Ardg01z, Granada, Navarre, Valentia.~ -<=~ataf~nia, a_nd the refi; Coin· prehending alfo now lately Portug;all. · ForLtjn,~teage,it is not needful toinfift~1pon it; becaufeboth_ your Majeflie~ Kingdo!_»es, are o~ one' Language, though of feverall D'ialells; And the Dlffercnce, IS fo fmall, between them, as pro. mifeth, tat her an inriching, of one1i!aflguttge, then a continuance of two. Far Lawa, which ate the Prindpall Sinn ewes of Government, they be of three Natures~ Jura, which I wiU term FreedomesJ or .Abili'tier'; Legc1; and Mores. . For Abilities, and FreedomP.I, they were amongll: the Romans, of four Kinds, o.r rather Degrees. Jui Connubii; Jur Civit~tiJ; Jtu ~~~lfragii ;_ and Jus PefitioniJ, or Honoru"!· JHJ Connubii, ts a thm.g In thefe ttmes~ out ofUfe: For Marriage Is open=> between aJ1 01- ver~tiesrof Natio'!l, ]1!! ~ivitati.r, anf ~~reth to th~t, we call J?en_iz. atron, or N.ttHraltz.~fiJn. Jui suffragrt, anfw.ereth to the Tote~ td P~trlia_ment. Ju.r PetitioniJ", 'an[ werethjto place in qonnfell, or offide. And the Rontans, did, many times; fever thefe Ftqedomer,gtanting == . . . P d 2 • , , ]_w........,.....,.~_._- |
