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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20739	A true relation of the right Christianly departure, or death, of the most Noble Earle Philippus Lodouicus Earle of Hanaw and Rieneck, Lord of Mutzenbergk, &c. Vncle to the Count Palatine. Who blessedly deceased, in the Lord, on Sunday the ninth of August 1612. betwixt eight and nine of the clocke in the morning, being returned from his great ambassage for England. Faithfully penned by Ioannes Appelius preacher at Alten-Hasell. Translanted out of the Germane tongue by S.R.	Appelius, Joannes.; S. R.	1612 (1612)	STC 712; ESTC S100203	16,541	36

Princes where all things were costly and pompously prepared but the cheare of the Crosse of Christ as now it is set before the eyes of my Soule appeares more glorious vnto m● O my deare Preacher I protest before thee as the ordained Minister of Iesus Christ that I doe speake these wordes without hypocrisie from a true ioy and desire which I haue to enioy the body and bloud of Iesus Christ in Faith through the operation of the holy Spirit Afterward he continued his spéech thus I Praise and thanke my God that he hath created mee a man with reason and vnderstanding that hee hath preserued my body Soule and limmes vntill this houre deliuered me from many sorrowes and dangers bestowed on mee very much good exalted mee vnto great honour and chiefely that hee hath so directed the going out and in of my late Voyage that I am returned vnto mine in good health and disposition And whereas now a dayes many and diuers Religions are found in Europe I thanke my God that hee hath let me come vnto this Religion where I doe seeke my saluation onely in his mercy declared vnto vs in Iesus Christ For I know by experience and doe also testifie the same openly that I haue found in all my griefes and temtations a firme comfort in the confession of this my Faith being grounded onely on the Writings of the holy Prophets and Apostles of the old and new Testament I am therefore assured in my heart that this is the true Religion and Confession of God whereby sure saluation is to be found and hoped for I thanke likewise all those good men whom God hath imployed as meanes and instruments by whosecare seruice and diligence I was brought vnto this profession I will also that my Children be brought vp and perseuere therein Besides this I admonish you Pastors to be faithfull and diligent in your charge as hitherto you haue beene that so you may giue a good account vnto God And now I place my selfe before Gods face as a poore sinner that hath deserued Hell and eternall death but I beleeue firmely that Iesus Christ true God and Man is my Sauiour who as the Lambe of God hath boren my sinnes vpon the Crosse and deliuered me out of the power of Sathan and that he will before my end strengthen my weake faith with his holy Supper I testifie also before God and you his Ministers that I haue forgiuen and doe forgiue with my hart all those that haue offended me and I pray likewise for pardon for wee are men and the righteous man falleth seauen times a day And because many men haue thought that I beare an euill hart against my deere brother Count Albrecht c. I protest that I alwayes was truely and brotherly affected and my Conscience doth witnesse vnto me that concerning our controuersie vvhich I haue submitted vnto the Law I am not altered against him and I doe not in that regard feare the iudgement seate of GOD Haue you therefore a care to tell him thus much from me Pray and admonish him also to let the Law haue his course and to deale faithfully with my Widdow and Orphanes the Lord will reward him for it and he shall keepe a good conscience Finally I testifie by this holy Supper that if it please the Lord to restore vnto me my health vvhich I doe fully leaue to his good pleasure I will to his praise and honour amend my life endeauouring that which is good and shunning all wickednesse yet all this onely by his help grace and assistance Thus did his Excellencie giue a true and constant profession of his Faith not with one breath but at diuers times as his strength would permit The dutch Preacher of the old Citie before the Communion made a short Sermon some fouretéene did communicate the action was concluded with the accustomed thankesgiuing and prayers Munday about the Euening his Excellencies Steward came vnto him and conferred with him about matters that belonged to the Court and the education of his children but that night he could not sléepe therfore he caused godly psalmes to be sung and he himselfe sung also Tuesday the .4 of August hauing passed a heauy night he found himselfe reasonable well so that hee cloathed himselfe intending to visit his wife but being ouer-wearied hée left it He caused diuers letters to be brought before him which hée sealed with his owne hand and went to take the ayre at the window toward night he felt himselfe againe weake The 5. of August hee caused his last Will and Testament which was sealed vp to be brought vnto him and did reade the same and willed something to be added thereunto concerning his Chamberlaine which being done he gaue the same vnto his Chamberlaine charging him to deliuer the same vnto his Counsell Next morning there came vnto his Excellencie the Noble Lady Emilia of Orange Sister of his wife from Heydelberg whom hée receaued with teares and said Many haue stood weeping about my bedde but none could breake my heart and prouoke my teares but your Ladyship About the same time came diuers of his seruants home from the Sermon made on the monthly prayer-day and his Excellencie would heare of euery one of them some good doctrine or comfortable sentence brought from thence which being performed by them hée heard it with great contentment His wife came also the same day againe to visite him whom hée receaued with kinde and comfortable words and shortly after she went from him The euening and night approaching his Excellencie became very heauy so that not onely the Phisitians with their Art but also the Diuines with their consolations had enough to doe at his Excellencies request diuers penitenciall Psalmes were sung namely the sixt thirty-eight and others I tooke occasion at the same time to comfort his Excellencie with the hope which yet wee had that God would prolong his life and make him ouer-goe by patience the smarting paines and weaknesses of his body but when as I perceiued by his words and countenance that such comfort was not acceptable vnto him I went on and said that his Excellencie had not onely to looke what were good for himselfe but also for his Country and poore people affirming we doe not enuie heauen and life euerlasting vnto your Excellencie but what if the Lord God would preserue you to be a comfort and protection of this Country and Church yet certaine yéeres as it happened in Ezechia would not you follow this will of God The King Ezechia himselfe required such prolongation chiefely for the Church and Countries sake The same night I propounded vnto him the words of our Sauiour Math. 11. 28. Come vnto mee all ye that are wearie and laden and I will ease you The Doctor rehearsed the sentence Ioh. 6. 37. Him that commeth to mee I cast not away Whereupon his Excellencie repeated often these words Come and Not cast away resisting therewithall his tentations and said finally

A TRVE RELATION of the right Christianly departure or Death of the most Noble Earle Philippus Lodouicus Earle of Hanaw and Rieneck Lord of Muntzenbergk c. Vncle to the Count Palatine Who blessedly deceased in the Lord on Sunday the ninth of August 1612. betwixt eight and nine of the clocke in the Morning being returned from his great Ambassage for England Faithfully penned by IOANN APPELIVS Preacher at Alten-Hasell Translated out of the Germane tongue by S. R. PSALME 146. 4. 5. Mans breath departeth and hee returneth to his earth then his thoughts perish Blessed is hee that hath the God of IACOB for his help whose hope is in the Lord his God LONDON Printed for NICHOLAS BOVRNE and are to be sould at the entring in of the Royall Exchange and at the signe of the Angell in Paules Church-yard 1612. To the Christian Reader WHereas other men haue laudably described the Art of well liuing and well dying I hope it will not be misconstrued if wee doe verifie the same by the examples of those whom wee haue seene depart Christianly Know you therefore louing Reader that the departure of my noble and gracious Lord of blessed memory is described by vs to the end that it might serue vnto my Noble and Gracious Lady and her deare Children as vnto a distressed VVidow and Orphans for a godly Instruction and Consolation vnto Patience considering also that particular examples moue the heart more effectually then generall Precepts or Rules and because the departure of my gracious Lord is full of Comfort and Edification we thought it not amisse being induced by many religiously-affected mindes to communicate the same also vnto others which no doubt will be taken in good part by all religious Christians as it is meant by vs. Farewell TITVS 1. 15. Vnto the pure are all things pure but vnto them that are defiled and vnbeleeuing is nothing pure but euen their mindes and consciences are defiled A TRVE RELATION of the Christianly departure of the Noble Earle Philippus Lodouicus c. Vncle of the Count Palatine THE Noble Earle of Hanaw and Reineck hauing happely ended aiourncy of great waight and being by Gods grace returned vnto his Dominions did take againc in hand the carefull gouernment of the same The Ayre being very hot his Excellencie towards the euening went diuers times in his Coach into the Woods to recreate himselfe It happened the 29. day of Iuly last past that his Excellencie went with some of his Co●nc●● and Seruants from his Court to a Pond called Krebsbach where Lobstars are fedde and féeling himsclfe some what ill did take his rest a little in the fields The next day notwithstanding hée went to the accustomed Wéeke-Sermon and vnto publicke Prayers at the Church in the old Cittie but the Sermon being ended hée felt himselfe not well and went to rest on his bedde The 31. of Iuly and first of August the weather being very hot and hée féeling great heate in his body was led into diuers roomes for to rest and take the fresh ayre The 2. of August by the counsell of Phisitians hée was let bloud and tooke Phisicke whereby hée found himselfe so restored that he put on his garments and went to visite his louing Wife lying in Childe-bed who some few dayes before was deliuered of a goodly Sonne On the same day his Excellencie called to him one of his Counsellours and reasoned with him about diuers matters but chiefly concerning the Church of Hanaw The third day of August being Munday his Excellencie fell sicke againe and began to prepare himselfe for a blessed and Christian departure with a wonderfull constancy and courage giuing an account of his faith with a singular zeale in the presence of his Wife and Children who were called to him for that purpose And although hée had comforted his wife in very good sort admonishing her also vnto Christian patience yet notwithstanding shée being retyred hée tooke his leaue of his Children and others that were about him in the presence of diuers of his Counsellours and Courtiers in a very religious manner he spake vnto euery Childe in particular praying ouer them and giuing his blessing vnto them adding thereunto his fatherly admonitions vnto true pietie and vertue thus committed them vnto the protection of Almightie God through Iesus Christ Euen as wée read Genesis 49. of the holy Patriarch Iacob All this hée did with such comfortable words and resolute minde that the whole roome was filled with the sighes and teares of the beholders who wondred at the same and thankhd God for that rich measure of his spirit bestowed on him The heauinesse of our sorrow made that wee could not remember the very words of his prayers and admonitions but the Christian Reader may partly vnderstand what they were by that which followeth and happened the Thursday following The spéech vnto his Children being ended hée spake vnto his Councill in generall and vnto euery one in particula● of those things that concerned the Church and Schoole the Country and Subiects and so tooke his leaue of them The Councill being retyred diuers Gentlemen Courtiers came vnto him at his request and with many teares and sighes taking their deare Lords hand went with a sorrowfull heart from him Diuers Citizens dwelling in the old and new Towne came at his citation also before his bed hée spake very comfortably vnto them and stretching his hand out vnto them with much sorrow they tooke their leaues of him this being done his Excellencie asked whether there were any body else to take leaue of him The Preachers of both the Cities were likewise called for and hée declared in their presence that his singular desire was to receiue yet once before his end with his house the holy Supper of our Lord Iesus Christ euen as the Lord Iesus had ordained the same shortly before his death and Passion Hée added hereunto a farther exposition of his demaund that his request was not grounded on Superstition or on that error that ex opere operato the same were meritorious but whereas hée had béene a certaine time in forraine Countries and had not found the fit occasion to receiue the same in the Church and Congregation of the faithfull his request was to receiue for the strengthening of his weake Faith and to testifie his Profession yet once againe before God and the World The Preachers had nothing to reply vnto such a reasonable and religious request and therefore performed the same out of hand The Confession which his Excellencie at that time vttered with Christian attention was after this manner viz. I Thanke my GOD from the bottome of my heart in the Name of my Lord Iesus Christ that I haue liued vnto this day in which I am able to receiue yet once againe before my departure out of this world the holy Supper of my Lord Iesus Christ I neuer had a more ioyfull banquet then this I haue sitten at the Table of great Kings and