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Show ----~--~------,------------------~--------------- ~ 0 4 A Difcou~(e, of the V1tion, o{Engl11nd~ a1zd Scotland. J'~s connubii, fine Ci.;~t~te? And. civita.tem, fine jujfrag_io; And (ujfrat,i1tm,jne jure Petttzonu, whtch was:> commonly) wuh them, the lafC. · For thofe, we called Lego, it is a Matter ofCuriqfity:~a!1d In-conveniency, to feek,either to extirpate all particular Cufiome~5 Or to draw all subjeiJs, to one Place, or refort, of Judicttture) and sejfiun. Itfufficeth, there be an Uniformity,in the Principall, and Fundamentall Lawes,. bothEccleftaflicall, and Civil!: For in chis Point, the Rule holdeth, which was pronounced by an Ancient Fat.her, touching the Diverfity, of Ritu, in the C}Jurcb: Fur finding the Vejiure, of the ff2!1een, in the Pfalm, (which did prefigure the church,) was of divers Colours; And finding again, that Chrifis Coat, wa without a [earn , he concludeth well; In veftc variet-as jt, Scijfura non fit. ' , , For Manners, a Confent in them, is to be fought indufrrioufiy, ·but not to be enforced: For Nothing amongft People, breedeth [o much pertinacy, in holding their Cufromes, as fudaain~ and violent, offer to remove them. · And as fur E,ploymu?ts,it is oo moie,but in indifferent Hand, .tnd Execution of that Verje; 'Iros, Tjrhifque mih.i nullo difcrimineagetHr. There' remalneth,. only, toretnembe~, out of the Grmmds of Nature, 'the two Conditions, of Perfc8 mixture; W.ltereofthe formeris Time. For the Naturttli Phpofophers fay well; that Compojitio is' opus f.Iominfr ; and 1Jf1Jizo op~u Natui·~. For it is the! Duty of lllan, to make a fit A ppli~pticp, of Bodies together: But the\ , perfect _Ferment'!t/on, .and Inc9rpqration, of ~hem, rnufr be l.eft to' Time , an<l Nature; And ih;t~atu.rall Hafting thereof, doth difiurb the work' and not difpatc;h, it. So we fee, after f.he Gr<tft, !-s~P.~~ into the.Stoc~, and bound., it mufi: be left to Time?, aad Nat-u(e,. .to ~ake ~bat Continuum, which~ at the firft, was but contiguum,.' And it is .not any c'ontinuall pref. fing,or Thrufting together~ t'hat. will prevent Nat~tres feafon, but rather hinder it. An_d"Co in Li'l.llf~rs~thof~ Cqmmixtures,,whic:A are, at the firft,~roub~ep,gro~ after~~lear)and-fe_t:Ied, by the b;fn<:fit,of R..eft, and Time. The Second Conditio11o.is; Tlwt the gr~ter.~raw theletle. So w_e f~e,~hen two Lights do meet, tpe g~e~ter,.~oth_dar~ nn~, <hm the Ieffe. And when a rinaller River, runneth toto a greater, it loofeth both his.,Name0 and stream. ~d hereof, to conclude, weLt:~ ~n excellent Examp~eo.~ theKing4o'!~es,ofJudah~apd Ifr~el. The Kzngdom of' 1udah, contained Two Trtbes; The K1.ngdom,of . Ifrael, contained 'ten: King , David, raigned, over '?f}_ab ·' for certain years; And after the-De~th of lib.afo:ath~ the S~n.Of S.tul, , 1 obtai.ned, li,kewi(~t the Kingd~,pf Ijraelt Tbis-Hnion c&ati~ued · ~in him~ & likewife tn his SPp~Jqmon, by:.t~e-'f_pace of 7.o.iear~, at leafi.hetween tP~m b~th: ~qt yet,becau~e the Seat,q( -the~:!: . \ A Difcourfe, of the VnioN, DfEngl~nd, ~~J~d Scotland~ · was kept frill in Judah, and fo the Ieife fo h greater;upon thefirfioccafion offered theKing~~m t ~otraw •.he and fo continued ever after. ' ' . . es ra e agatn; ~bus having, in all Humh1ene1Ie' tn~de Oblation· . :{a;ef!y, of thefe fi~p.le Frui!s, of my Devdtio11, and Sttt~!~u~ o wifh, and do wtfh tt, nottn the Nature of I . ·' (~o my Apprehenfion ;) That this ha Vnio~~ o mpoffibih~y, 'flzes two Kingdomes:of f::ngland, and Sco~!'ld may be~~~ur ~a;eHoure, and under the l1ke Divine Provide11c: as that wa bgoo an the Romans .. and the sabines . ' ~ etween ~ ' ' .· (' " |