Whilst such as make uncharitable applications parallel this to the plague of the Israelites, "which slew the wealthiest of them," Psalm lxxviii. 31, we will only conceive, that God, intending to plant-in queen Elizabeth, first cleared the ground by removing such as probably would oppose her. Neither was it a small advantage unto her, that the parliament sat at her sister's death; after which they only continued so long as jointly and publicly to proclaim Elizabeth queen, and then they were dissolved, Nov. 18th.* Now, though her title was free from doubt, yet it was not so clear from cavils, but that one, considering the power of the English papists at this time, and their activity at all times, will conclude they might have (though not hurt) troubled, and (though not hindered) disturbed her succession. Whereas now, being so solemnly proclaimed, it gave much countenance and some strength to her right, being done by the whole state in so weighty a manner that it crushed in pieces all hopes of private oppositions. Thus those whom God will have to rise shall never want hands to lift them up.

HOLINSHED, page 1170.

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TO THE

GEORGE BERKELEY,

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

GEORGE BARON OF BERKELEY.

I HAVE ever dissented from their opinion who maintain, that the world was created a level champaign, mountains being only the product of Noah's flood, where the violence of the waters aggested the earth, gored out of the hollow valleys. For we read how in that deluge "the mountains were" (not then as upstarts first caused, but as old standards newly) "covered," Gen. vii. 20.

As much do I differ from their false position who affirm, that, "all being equal in the loins of Adam and womb of Eve, honour was only the effect of human ambition in such whose pride or power advanced themselves above others." Whereas it was adequate to the creation, as originally fixed, in eldership or primogeniture, and afterwards, by Divine Providence, (the sole fountain thereof,) conferred on others; either out of love, by nothing less than his express commission, for their good; or [out of] hatred, by somewhat more than his bare permission, for their ruin.

The three sons of David serve us for the threefold division of honour: 1. Absalom said, "O that I were made judge in the land!" 2 Sam. xv. 4. 2. Adonijah exalted himself, saying, "I will be king," 1 Kings i. 5. 3. Solomon said nothing; but David said, (and God'