UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. 



branches and passages of them, as an original or 

 first mode], whence to take and describe a copy and 

 imitation for government. 



After this manner the foresaid instructors set 

 before their kings the examples of the celestial 

 bodies, the sun, the moon, and the rest, which have 

 great glory and veneration, but no rest or intermis 

 sion ; being in a perpetual office of motion, for the 

 cherishing, in turn and in course, of inferior bodies : 

 expressing likewise the true manner of the motions 

 of government, which though they ought to be swift 

 and rapid in respect of dispatch and occasions, yet 

 are they to be constant and regular, without waver 

 ing or confusion. 



So did they represent unto them how the heavens 

 do not enrich themselves by the earth and the seas, 

 nor keep no dead stock, nor untouched treasures of 

 that they draw to them from below ; but whatso 

 ever moisture they do levy and take from both ele 

 ments in vapours, they do spend and turn back again 

 in showers, only holding and storing them up for a time, 

 to the end to issue and distribute them in season. 



But chiefly, they did express and expound unto 

 them that fundamental law of nature, whereby all 

 things do subsist and are preserved ; which is, that 

 every thing in nature, although it hath its private 

 and particular affection and appetite, and doth follow 

 and pursue the same in small moments, and when it 

 is free and delivered from more general and common 

 respects ; yet, nevertheless, when there is question 

 or case for sustaining of the more general, they 



