CERTAIN CONSIDERATIONS TOUCHING 

 THE BETTER PACIFICATION AND EDIFICATION 

 . OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. 



DEDICATED TO HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. 



THE unity of your Church, excellent Sovereign, is 

 a thing no less precious than the union of your 

 kingdoms ; being both works wherein your happi 

 ness may contend with your worthiness. Having 

 therefore presumed, not without your majesty s 

 gracious acceptation, to say somewhat on the one, I 

 am the more encouraged not to be silent in the 

 other : the rather, because it is an argument that I 

 have travelled in heretofore.* But Solomon com- 

 mendeth a word spoken in season ; and as our 

 Saviour, speaking of the discerning of seasons, saith, 

 &quot; When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say 

 it will be a shower :&quot; so your Majesty s rising to 

 this monarchy in the west parts of the world, doth 

 promise a sweet and fruitful shower of many bles 

 sings upon this Church and commonwealth; a 

 shower of that influence us the very first dews and 

 drops thereof have already laid the storms and 

 winds throughout Christendom ; reducing the very 

 face of Europe to a more peaceable and amiable 

 countenance. But to the purpose. 



* Vide page 28. 



