Cosmologia Sacra

Princely Endowments, meeting in Your Royal Person as their centre. How much a greater conqueror was Your MAJESTY than the first William; when England, renowned for her beauty, having made her court to You; You came not to force, but to embrace her with Your arms. And being then pleased to take upon You the safeguard of our estates, our liberties, and our lives; and of what is dearer to us than all these, our BIBLES: Your MAJESTY, by Your wisdom and valour, hath abundantly answered this sacred trust. For whereas some princes, through their unhappy birth, education, or counsels, apprehend they cannot be great without being cruel; that their crowns look but dull, unless they are varnished with blood: it eminently appears, besides the native goodness of Your royal mind, Your MAJESTY considers, that one of the princes of the empire, upon whom the senate bestowed the title of Maximus, was also the best. That,