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Show touchz.n g t I.r .~e V Rz.o n ~.J. r England ' and·S cotland. ; .CERTAIN A JtTIC L ES, OR, CON SID ERA TIONS~ TOUCHING THE ·UN I 0 N, OF THE K 1-N G D 0 .M E S, O!F EN G'L AND' and S C 0 1 .. L AND; rolleCted, and difperfed, ~or His : y _MAJES11ES bctterServtce. . . R. lVf: • ~a being (I d.o not doubt,) , --==::::!::::::~:7,~~~0 U · :4Jt;J~d nd~Cted by a better directed' antha~o which ~as given for Oracle, then '. h' Peregrination;. Light to A!ne~u, tn 15 ) h th a ( / uam exquirite Matrem; a ~!!-dJ.q d indeed art HeroicaJJ, De fire, . . Roya.d, a~ ;hefe tw~ Ki1tgdemes, of Eng-tlaonrde uc · h Unity o and Scotlttnd, tnto t e ' . . thei~ Ancient Mother Kingdom: d~ B:Jt= . Wherein as I would g a y p ..n taJn.f i aloud th' at Hymn.e ,or An themen.-.' plaud unto your MaJ.eJq,or In~oft and fubmilfe:) voice, Imuuf.:, Sicihlrad.Aflra; So, tn a more ' nece . I ~ Article~, touching .tbe Vn~on, of England; imd Scotia.~d~j -:.. ;. necelfJrily, rem~mber, unto your M>ajejiy, that Warning; or .Ca~ ~ veat:; Ard11a, qu.e P~tfciJr .1:; It is an Action, that requireth, yea •. Jnd needeth much, not only of your .lvLzjeftiu tf/ijedome~ but of vour Feli'clty. In this Argument, {pre fumed, at your lv.lttjeji!eJ firfr Entrance, to write a few Lines)ndeed Scholaft.ical~y, and Specu-latively3 and not Actively; Ot Po1itick1y' as.I held it fit for me; at that time' when neHher your .!Uajeji;,was, in th:Hyour defire,- declared; Nor my feJf~n that ServJce, u(ed, or trufted. But now that both your Majejiy, hath open~d your ddire, and purpofe, with much Admiration, even ofthofe., who give it not, fo full an Approbation~ ' And •that my [elf, wa.s, by r.he Commvn.r, graced~ with the firft Yote~ of all the Commo1H; Seleltcd~ for that Caufe; Not in any Efiimarion of my A biliry, (For thet~ein fo wife an AjjemMy could not be fo much deceived,)but in an acknpwledgemtnt, of my Extream Labours, ~.nd Integrity, in t)1at Bulindie; 'thought my felf, every wayes bound; Both in Duty to your Majefiy; And in trufi; to that Ho1~{e of Parliament' And in Confent to the Mauer it {elf; And in Conformity,to mine own Travailes, and Beginnings; Not to neglect, any pairie~~that may tend) to the furtherance, offo ex:cellent ~work: Wherein I will endeavour, that that, which I ~hall fet down, b.e Nihil mi- NHJ' qttl{m verba: For Length, and Ornament, of Speech, are td be ufed , for perfwafion of Mnltit~tder, and not for Inforn1ation of Kin._e,r: efpecially, fuch a Kin,~; as is the only infbrice, that ever I knew, to ~nake a Ma11 of PldtojJ Opinion; '1 hat aU Knowledge i1 but Remembrance; And that the .A-lind of ll/.lan; knoweth aU Things, and demandeth only, to have her own No1io11.r, excited, and awaked~ Which your MajeftieJ r:are, and ind€ed fingular, Gift, and faculty, of fwift ApprehenfionJ and infinite Expanfi-on, or Multip1icatio!1, of another Mans Knowledge, by ydur own, as I have often obferved, fo I diJ e)ttreamly admire in GoodwinJGauje, Being a matter fullofSecrets,and Myfter'ies,.of · our Lawes, .meed y new unto you , and guite out of the Path of your Education, Reading, aod Conference: W he'rein, never.: rheldle, upon a Spark of Light given, your kla)Pjiy took in fo Dexterouily, and Profoundly, as if you had been indeed Ahif/Ja Lef..iJ; Not oniy in Execution,but in underfianding:The R.emem-bJ. ance whereof, as it will never be out of my mind, fo it wtll al- l wayes be a warning to me, to feek rather to excite your Judge ment brieHy, then to tnfonn it ted1ouily; And if in a Matt~!, of that Nature, how much more in this, wherein 'our i)rhiCely Co~itations have wrought themfe.lves, and been co~verfant ;- Atld wherein, the princi pall Light. proceeded fi·om yout f€1£ And, therefore, my Purpofe is, onely to break, this Matter; of '.the 'Vnion,into certain ihort Articles,anq !!2.!!efl;on.r; And to make, a certain kind, of A11atomy,or Analyji.t, of the Parts,and Merob~rs thereof; Not that I am ofO-pinionl that all the ff2.!!eftiens, whi~h }I now lhaU Open, were fit to he, in the; Confulution, of the Com- ~ ·- ~··- ~- . . - . - . miffioners, - ,. .... . I lo |