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A10049	Lamentations for the death of the late illustrious Prince Henry: and the dissolution of his religious familie Two sermons: preached in his Highnesse chappell at Saint Iames, on the 10. and 15. day of Nouember, being the first Tuesday and Sunday after his decease. By Daniel Price, chaplaine then in attendance.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1613 (1613)	STC 20295; ESTC S115213	24,542	47

then the sheepe of his flocke silly simple innocent creatures Wolues haue dens Foxes holes Birds of the heauen nests but Sheepe wander out of the way in the wildernesse Errant in montibus agni they haue no Citie to dwell in If the seruants of our Sauiour had no more misery then they may collect out of the condition and consideration of being called sheep it is much Poore creatures when they are strongest together they haue no meanes to withstand the incursions inuasions of the Wolues but the Text stirreth vp more sense of sorrow The sheepe shall be scattered Be scattered it were as if they were scattered consumed Be dispersed it is as if they were destroyed Lorinus Psal 119. di-sperdere is bis-perdere they shal be as Dauid speaketh either gone astray like the sheep that perished or as Christ speketh as sheepe prouided for the slaughter Scattered they must be I wil smite the shepherd the stocke shal be seattered Diuisio The parts are two Part. 1 first the death of the Shepheard secondly the dispersion of the sheepe The death of the shepheard plainely in these words I will smite the Shepheard wherein because I will not trouble you with vnnecessary fractions Looke vpon first The person smiting I will smite secondly The person smitten I will smite the Shepheard Secondly in the dispersion of the sheepe in these words and the sheepe shall be scattered obserue first the denomination of Christs Seruants The sheepe secondly the desolation of these sheep The sheep shall be scattered I will smite Nazianzen Non nisi coact us percuitis saith Nazianzen it is neither the Nature nor pleasure of God to be smiting Abaddon Apolluon be the names of Sathan in the Reuelation Reuelat. but the Lord is a gratious God and mercifull slow to anger and of great kindnesse repenteth him of the euill Gloss Ord. Ioel 2. Exod. 34.6 Benignus affectu misericors effectu saith the Glosse vpon the second of Ioel Moses in the thundring and lightning heard no other attributes vpon the Mount Dauid in his sorrowes acknowledged no other Ionas in the belly of the Whale bottome of hel among all the waues and surges remembreth no other Ioel in his day of darkenesse and blacknesse repeateth no other affections of the Lord Ioel 2. but these the Lord is gracious and mercifull slow to anger and of great kindnesse repenteth him of the euil Psal 145. The Psalmist giues God these titles the Lord is strong and patient there is hony in the Lyon sweetnesse in strength he is not onely strong and patient but strong in patience he doth foreslow his vials and forbeare his vengeance till the cart-roapes of sinne doe hurry downe his iudgements It may be he will vpon long expectation cut away the lappe of our garment as Dauid did by Saul but it is a rare example that hee proceedeth againstany as Satans motion was against Iob to stretch out his hand Iob 1.11 August touch all that he had There were foure ages of the Iewes in all foure the people continued sinfull the iudgements expected were fearefull In the first age of the Patriarkes he promised a blessing to their posteritie in the second age of Iudges he setled their Common-wealth and Policy in the third age of Kings he built them a Citie to dwell in in the fourth of Prophets he built them a temple to pray in hee might haue blasted them in their Spring but he suffereth them to come to their Autumne nay further hee endured them till their owne loosenesse brought them to the fall of the leafe It is the most vile and base condition of man that when as God hath no other Fountaine then the fountaine of Grace in Zachary Zach. 4. nor other riches then the riches of his mercy in the Psalmes nor other bowels then the bowels of compassion and that the vnlimited extent of his gracious affection is beyond all imaginable proportions yet notwithstanding man will vnsheath Gods sword will violently force him to his armory to put on his habergion and brigandine as Esay speaketh to whet his sword 〈◊〉 59 1● to bend his Bow and to prouide him deadly weapons to ordaine his arrowes against them that persecute him as the Psalmist threatneth Psal 7.13 that Heauen shall afford millions of Angels Hell legions of wicked spirits Orbs and Arches of Heauen Stars to fight in their order Elementary regions Haile Frost Snowe Stormes Tempests Mildew Blastings and the earth his great artillery-yard to send out Lice Mice Flyes Wormes the very Nissets Palmerwormes Locusts Caterpillers Cankerwormes small creatures yet great armies as he calleth them in Ioel hereby causing Iordan to runne backe Ioel 2.25 his mercy to retire yea constrayning him to alter his owne desire and nature and tenor of speech as in this place I will smite not onely so but as before they cause the stroke so afterwards they neglect the stroke Pliny as if the iudgements of God were like to those Bruta fulmina among the Romanes which because they fell vpon the beastes neuer came to obseruation So wicked and beastly men neuer obserue neither why hee striketh nor who it is that striketh A father hath no ioy in the continuall chiding or scourging or cursing of his sonne nay his very bowels yearne within him for sorrow his affection can be no lesse Prou. 31.1 then of the mother of Lemuel O my sonne O the son of my wombe O the sonne of my desires The compassion of the Lord can be no lesse whose mercies be aboue all his works yet if a man will not turne he will whet his sword and bend his bow Chrysost in Psal 7. acerbitatem poenae gladius celeritatem designat arcus saith Chrysostome In vaine doe any attribute the inuentions of swords to the Lacedemonians Plin. lib. 7. Nat. Histor Ludolph or of bowes to the Scrythians God hath prepared them eius sunt arma cuius sunt verba ego percutiam Obseruation First The obseruation collected from the words I will smite is this that in all iudgements we ought truly to iudge of the true author he that being asked his name by Moses answered I am that I am Exod. 3.14 he it is that afterwards threatens I will bring famine I will bring the sword I will bring the pestilence In the ten plagues of Egipt in the beginning of them his words be In this thou shalt know that I am the Lord Exod. 7.17 Exod. 15.3 I will smite He is a man of War in the same booke Nay the Lord of hosts and armies often called in his own booke Murraine of cattell is called his hand Pestilence his sword Exod. 9.3 1 Chro. 21 Psal 91. sicknesses his arrowes his bow hangeth in the cloud his sword is euer in his hand his axes hammers be in readines he it is that doth hurt and shoot wound and strike and

will be many before I am deliuered of this part which will part vs all the dispersion of the Sheepe I will smite the Shepherd and the sheepe shall be scattered The sheepe Silly simple creatures yet decent innocent creatures quietly feeding in the Field hearing the voyce of the Shepherd yet fearing their rauenous Enemies though they be together though they haue both a shepherd and a fold but when they shal be scattered their case is more miserable hauing no defence no hope no helpe no safetie Put both together a shepheard but he smitten Sheepe and they scattered then you will say this Text and our state is the same that the Proclamation was in the Army after the death of the King of Israel Get euery man to his Citie 1 King 22. and euery man to his own country for the shepherd is smitten and the sheepe shall be scattered The parts be already opened In this remainder of the former worke these two particulars fall in sunder First the denomination of Christs seruants sheepe Secondly the dispersion of these sheepe they shall be scattered And first for sheepe they be creatures neither noysome nor fulsome I will borrow but one authoritie for them out of the list and limit of the Sanctuary Tonsa tacet Carne iuuat pelle vellere lacte fimo In Sacrifices no creature so frequently offered in the Sinne offring Peace offring Burnt offring Passe ouer Saboth offring and especially in the daily offring euery day they offered a Lambe at morning Num. 28.9 Lorinus in 8 Act. Apost and a Lambe at euening Lorinus obserueth it out of Chrisostome Euthimius dustine Origen Cyrill and others Aug. 4. tract in Ioan. Orig. hom 24. in Num. Chris hom 37 in Math. mact abant agnum iugis nostri sacrificij typum And so not onely these but Gaudentius Paulinus and Cyprian giue that common knowne reason why a Lambe was so continually offered namely as a type of the offring of Christ who in 28. seuerall places of the Reuelation is called the Lambe of God For the name of Sheepe Notatissima est dicendi forma saith a Writer In the 34. of Ezekiel the Prophets are 13. Buc. Ezek. 34. times called shepherds and the People 21. times also called sheepe and in the last verse the Lord expresseth himselfe thus Ye my sheepe ye the sheepe of my pasture are men Ezek. 34.31 and I am your God saith the Lord God The 23. Psalme is plaine to this purpose Lor. in Psal a Psalme truely called Dauidis Bucolicon there you haue shepherd sheep greene fields still waters wayes pathes vallyes shadowes yea the rod and shepheards crooke The Lord is my shepheard Psal 23. hee shall rest me in greene pastures he leadeth me by the stil waters bringeth me into the pathes of righteousnes c. The Chalde Paraphrase vnderstands this Psalme of Israels deliuerance out of Egypt Cald. Par. Athanasius Athanasius of their returne out of Babilon here prophesied some interpret this leading resting guiding feeding to be the power of the Word so Lyranus some of the sacraments so S. Austine Lyranus Aug in Ps Athanas some of the Ascension of Christ so Nyssenus Athanasius wisheth Marcellinus when he did enter into consideration of the Lords gracious direction bountiful feeding then thankefully to sing this Psalme And Saint Ambrose much grieued in his time Ambros lib. 5 de Sacra cap. 3. that men not considering the blessing they receiued by being named the sheepe of Gods flocke did so often heare and so little regard the blessing of this Psalme I leade you further then may seeme necessary in this Psalme but it is the sweetest Pasture and the aptest proofe in Scripture for my purpose Eli. Scho. Nazian in Orat. 2. de Filio A Scholiast vpon Nazianzen expoundeth those greene fields to be the Church the grasse the Word the waters the Sacraments the Pastor God the flocke the people the rod and staffe instruction and correction denique as hee concludeth Deum esse Pastorem amissos reducentem confractos obligantem correptos corroborantem God is that Shepherd bringing backe the lost as Paul strengthening the weake as Peter binding vp the broken in hart as Matthew that followed him Magdalen that annointed him the Theefe that confessed him Gods sheepe sometimes feeding as in this Psalme sometimes trauelling as Iacobs flocke sometimes suffering as our Sauiour foretold as sheepe appointed for the slaughter The sheepe in my Text be the Disciples Matthew implieth so much Ioh. 16.32 Marke expresseth it but S. Iohn more plainly thus yee shall be scattered the speech being appropriated to the Disciples whom in that Gospell he calleth his sheepe his flocke his fold yet it is but pusillus grex a little little flocke little indeed because so few the number but twelue as of Patriarkes and Prophets as of the twelue Tribes of Israel twelue fountaines of Elim twelue foundations of Ierusalem twelue signes of Heauen They be Pauci pauperes pusilli Poore sheep poore silly soules to be sent our among those rauenous blood-seeking blood-sucking Wolues It was the last Sermon that euer Christ preached on earth to his Disciples it was as his farewell the night before he suffred the last glimpse of a Candle is often most bright the last glance and lustre of the Sunne somtimes most cleere They should now haue expected some ioyfull newes all their life before was sorrowfull now they might looke for some Legacie that Christ would haue blessed them as old Iacob did But our Sauiour who had formerly told them there was no comfort for them in the world because they were not of the world that they were but as sheepe among Wolues giueth them no other title in his last Legacie but sheepe Obser 1 Whence this obseruation ariseth that the seruants of Christ ought to be cleane quiet simple and peaceable in the world for they are but sheepe Origen In sheepe saith Origen is described Cogitationum munditia cleane honest sanctified cogitations ought to be in Christs seruants In sheepe saith Gregory is obserued Actionum innocentia Greg. righteous religious innocentactions ought to proceede from Christs sheepe I could multiply and increase fathers sonnes for the manifestation of this point but this onely reason shall serue Christ himselfe was such a sheepe and therefore such ought we to be He was not ouis but tanquam ouis for he was agnus Dei saith Lorinus Lor. in Act. Ap. And another wondereth hereat Hoc mirum est Christum et agnum esse et ouem esse et pastorem esse Christ indeede was so and neuer any other so Which is easily made plaine for though wee should not speake without admiration nor thinke without adoration of all the mysteries of our Redemption yet in the deepe well of this mysterie euen hee that hath nothing to draw may vnderstand it As in the Kingly Priestly Propheticall offices of Christ hee did communicate