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world. He hath maintained it not only with sceptre 

 and sword, but likewise by his pen ; wherein also he 

 is potent. 



He hath awaked and re-authorized the whole 

 party of the reformed religion throughout Europe ; 

 which through the insolency and divers artifices and 

 inchantments of the adverse part, was grown a little 

 dull and dejected: He hath summoned the fraternity 

 of kings to enfranchise themselves from the usurpa 

 tion of the See of Rome : He hath made himself a 

 mark of contradiction for it. 



Neither can I omit, when I speak of religion, to 

 remember that excellent act of his Majesty, which 

 though it were done in a foreign country, yet the 

 Church of God is one, and the contagion of these 

 things will soon pass seas and lands : I mean, in his 

 constant and holy proceeding against the heretic 

 Vorstius, whom, being ready to enter into the chair, 

 and there to have authorised one of the most pesti 

 lent and heathenish heresies that ever was begun, his 

 Majesty by his constant opposition dismounted and 

 pulled down. And I am persuaded there sits in this 

 court one whom God doth the rather bless for being 

 his Majesty s instrument in that service. 



I cannot remember religion and the church, but 

 I must think of the seed-plots of the same, which 

 are the universities. His Majesty, as for learning 

 amongst kings, he is incomparable in his person ; so 

 likewise hath he been in his government a benign 

 or benevolent planet towards learning: by whose 

 influence those nurseries and gardens of learning, 



