406 The HISTORY of the PuttrrANN* Chap; I,. Kingjamesl. them [Mary, eldeft daughter of kingCharles I.] was mother of the great c'l King WILLIAM 1H. the glorious DELIVERER ofthefe kingdoms from popery and flavery ; and another [Elizabeth daughter of king Yames I.] was grandmother of his late majefty king GEORGE I. in whom the proteftant fuccef3ion took place, and whofe numerous defcendants in the perfon and ofFfpring of his prefent majefty, are the defence and glory of the whole proteftant intereft in Europe. King james's King lames was thirty-fix years of age when he came to the Englifh i',Oviour in throne, having reigned in Scotland from his infancy. In the-ear 1589 Scotland. g g Y Y he married the princefs ANNE, filter to the king of Denmark, by whom he had three children living at this time, HENRY prince of Wales, who' died before he was nineteen years of age [1612.] ELIZAEETH married to the elector Palatine 1613. and CxARLks, who fucceeded his father Expet1ations in his kingdoms. His majefly's behaviour inScotland railed the expeEla- ef the purl- tions and hopes of all parties ; the puritans relied upon his education;. raps- upon bits_ fubfcribiog the Solemn league and covenant ; and upon various flemn repeated declarations ; in particular, one made in the general affèmbly át Edinburgh, 1596. when Branding with his--bonnet off, and- his hands lifted up to heaven, `°.he pr-ailedGodthat he was born in the Calder- " time of the light of the gofpel, and in Such a place, as. to be ing of wood's FFJI. ,< fah achurch, the fncerefi [pureft] kirk in the world. The church Scot- " of Geneva fa s he) keep pafche and yuln Ea er and Chri etas what " Q have they for them ?.they have no .inftitutihe. As for our neighbour " kirk of England, their fervice is an evil Paid mats in Englifh; they " want Nothing of the ma's but the liftings. I charge you, my goo minifiers, do tors, elders, nobles, gentlemen, and barons, to 'land to " your purity, and fo exhort the people to do the fame; and I for- booth, as long as I brook my life, (hall maintain the fame." In his lb. p. 418. fpeech to the parliament ;598. he tells them, " that he minded not to bring in papiftical or anglicane bithops." Nay, upon his leaving Scot- land, to take poffeffion of the crown of England, he gave publick thanks to God in the kirk of Edinburgh, That he had, left both kirk and 'kingdom that Rate which he intended not to alter any ways, his lb. 473 ' fobjeéls living in peace." But all this was Kingcraft, or elfe his ma- jelly changed his principles with the climate. The Scots miniflers did not approach him with the dithant fubmiflion and reverence of the Englifh bifllops, and therefore within nine months after he afcended the throne of England, he renounced prefbytery, and eflablifhed it for a maxim, rip bifhop no king. So loon did this pious monarch renounce his principles (if he had any) and break through the moll folernt:i vows and obligations ! When the long 'parliament addreffed king Charles 1. to let up prefbyterÿ in the room of epifcopacy, his majefty objected
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