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A10059	Spirituall odours to the memory of Prince Henry in foure of the last sermons preached in St James after his Highnesse death, the last being the sermon before the body, the day before the funerall. By Daniel Price then chaplaine in attendance.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1613 (1613)	STC 20304; ESTC S115195	65,346	124

operation to stirre vp the powers and passions of sorrow in vs to set open those cesterns of our soules that rivers of Teares may flow from in this Hart-breaking yet well pleasing pensiuenesse For the nature of greefe doth vtterly exile all obiects of pleasure when true sorrow sits her downe in a stupid and stupendious manner and calleth for heaven aboue to weepe with her the earth beneath to lament Rockes to cleaue moūtaines to eccho grones Rivers to run with Teares of greefe the Israelites did not more loath then she doth delight to sit downe on the bancks of Babylon her musicke is Lachrymae or Doloroso she is as Rahell in hard labour she no sooner conceiueth but is delivered Gen. 35.16 and no sooner delivered but conceaues againe her throbs and throwes almost devide her soule from her selfe but that her solace being in division that which killeth others keeps her aliue emptinesse in the bowels blacknes on the back round about spectacls of misery al circumstances to make sorrow greater then her selfe Vse Is it so Be outward circumstances required to expresse inward sorrowes Downe then with all the signes and sailes of vanitie and in true sorrow and humilitie humble your selues before God It was one of our Saviours questions to his Disciples after their return frō the visitation of Iohn Baptist Luk. 7.24 whom went yee out to see one cloathed in soft arrayment he answereth himselfe they which are gorgeously apparelled and liue delicatly liue in Princes Courts Ahlas Beloued that tune is altered you that haue beene as Orient starres in this firmament now the darke and blacke colour of the night cloathes you It was a true speech of the Emperour sumptuousnesse of apparell is vexillum superbiae Nidus luxuriae the banner of pride nest of lust as true is that of another the worst apparell is natures garment the best but follies garnish The great sinne of the Assyrians was excesse in cloathing Ion. and therefore their great City Niniveh was therefore apparelled in sackcloath The great sinne of our land is excesse in the same kind and therefore God hath cloathed this our great City at this time in mourning garments Aske of the most ancient observer and Register of times whether either in mans memory or in records of antiquity the like example hath appeared as that which is obvious now in al parts of this City that almost the third man wee meete is a mourner The froth of ostentation that appeared lately I say not only in this house and in this City but in al this Land did prodigiously pretend an alteration It was not strange to see a man carry a whole house on his backe nay to see some more able to beare then Elephants carrying more then Castles lapping themselues in their land being the living sepulchers of their ancestors executors to themselues and theeues to their successors I acknowledge a free vse of all Gods good blessings Honour to whome Honour belongs and all the accrument of all honourable ensignes to them whom God hath lifted vp aboue their brethren but Nature and Nations haue ever vntil now made distinction as in other Circumstāces so in apparell betweene the Master and servant the Prince and Subiect It is the generality rather then the bravery of apparell I condemne Yet even in the brauery what a poore ambition is this that a Peacocke is more beautifully suited then thou or a Lylly of the field more glorious thē thy Colours feathers spangles pearles silkes and golden suits can make thee Be not deceaved my Beloved in the bravery of the world in the vanitie or opulency or voluptuousnesse of life hee that gaue a garment may giue a Rent hee that hath cloathed with beautie may cloath with leprosy Looke into the rifling of a wordrop in Esay Esay 3.18 The inventory is taken in the 3. Chapter the bravery of their Ornaments and chaines and bracelets and muflers and bonnets and Tablets and earings and rings and ornaments of the legs changeable suits of apparell and mantles and wimples and crisping pinnes and glasses and hoods c. But the destruction of all this feminine furniture is in the next verses It shal come to passe that insteed of a sweet smell there shall be a stincke insteed of a girdle a rent insteed of well set haire baldnesse and insteed of a stomacher a girding of sackcloath and burning insteed of beautie The gates shall lament and mourne That story sheweth how our state is so we sinned so we are plagued It is observed that among the Iewes whosoever were present where blasphemy was committed Thalm. they presently rent their cloathes in detestation of the blasphemer Were it an iniunctiō among vs we should never be in a whol suit of cloathes there be so many blasphemies daily committed In all the olde Testament I finde but foure blasphemers Shelomiths sonne in Leviticus Corahs murmuring was a kind of blaspheming Corah in Numbers Golias in the 1 of Samuel and Zenacherib in the 2 of Kings The first one of the commōs the 2 a Priest the 3 a souldier the 4 a King none of all these escaped without vengeance to shewe that if in the Cōmunalty or Clergy or military men or in the very throne of Maiestie blasphemy bee found without great mercy there will be great iudgement executed In our weaknesse oathes doe fal from the best of Gods children Humanitie and infirmitie those two twinnes both dwell in vs and therefore let vs pray Enter not Lord into iudgement with thy servants for in thy sight no flesh shall be iustified keepe vs from the cursed custome of oathes and keepe vs from being either principals or accessaryes in blasphemy Lastly to close vp this first part In your mourning garments see that yee cloth mourning minds and truely sorrowfull soules None of you can condole so much as yee ought and therefore farre be it that among any of you there should lurke vnder the sable habit of a mourner any falsehearted Pharisaicall Hypocriticall Popish masker whose soule is not robed with either the Nuptiall or funerall wedding or mourning garment To such J say not friend but foe how camst thou to this mourning garment Epiphanius mentioneth some Hereticks that were called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that continually went in sackcloath and yet were rotten painted sepulchers Epiph. Haer. 80. I feare mee if due inquisition were made wee might find Hereticks in sackcloath even in these solemnities The pressing in of Papists into those places which our Gracious Master honoured with the accesse of his Person this last Summer will never out of many good mens mindes who saw and pittied to see the boldnesse of these blood suckers No wonder that there is masking in mourning when there is such common masking in beleeuing that many a one that commeth to these assemblies may be asked noster es an adversariorum as Ioshua once questioned Ios 5.13 But the

good holy iust godly men But in this kind also these blessed seruāts of God are not without example Dauid shall speake for all in his Elegies for Saul Ionathan Absolon Abner c. Nay our Sauiour as before I mentioned wept for his friend I find that name bestowed onely vpon his friend Lazarus and I find our Sauiour weeping onely for Lazaru for no one particular but his friend Lazarus and that was so obserued by the Iewes as that their speech was behold how hee loued him Ioh. 11. Our Sautour raised vp as S. Austin noteth Aust three especially and particularly inhis life but he wept only at one of them The circumstances of his raising these differ much the first was dead but an houre the second dead a day the third dead foure dates the 1. dead but not taken out of the bed the 2. dead and laid in the coffin but not in the graue the 3. dead and laid in the graue dead 4. daies and began to sauour he touched the hand of the first the coffin of the second but the third he touched not at all At the first few persons were present and Christ charged them not to speake of it at the second many were present and it was noised farre abroad at the third a number of Iewes present and they obserued it At the first there was no publike weeping Ioh. 11. at the raising of the second the mother wept at the raising of Lazarus the friends and sisters and Iewes wept fleuit Iesus fremuit turbauit seipsum Iesus wept and groaned in the spirit and was troubled and againe hee groaned and was troubled and cried with a lowd voice thē said the Iewes behold how he loued him Et quare fleuit Iesus nisi hominem flere docuit and why did Christ so weepe but that hee hereby taught man to weepe he opened 2. fountaines of passion and compassion and therefore those that carry his name are to conforme themselues in some measure and though there bee no proportion betweene finite iufinite yet in the best manner we may precept and example and promise doe enforce this blessed practice It was a strange lawe that the Athenians made an edict to prohibit mourning at funcials fit for heathen not Christians to imitate For they that haue been honourable commendable in their liues are to be followed with the best testimony of affection that the iust may be had in euerlasting remembrance yet with this warning in mourning that as we proue not without charitie in not lamenting their deaths so also not without hope to forget the good estate of their soules when we so ouermuch lament the death of their bodies In the 9. of Numbers when the cloud was taken vp Num. 9 the children of Israel iournied when it abode the children of Israel pitched so when sorrow commeth sit downe with sorrow and mourn when ioy commeth returne and reioice yet neuer to bewray a want of faith when we would manifest an abundance of loue Vse Hence then wee see our warrant for bewailing the irrecouerable losse that the Church Common-wealth and Protestant world hath now sustained by the sad spectacle before vs we may rent garments and put on sackcloath and mourne Mourne then ye children of the bride-chamber the bride-groome is taken from you Mourne ye sonnes of Eli Nebility and Gentry the Arke of God is gon from among you Mourne ye Priests of the Lord betweene the porch and the Altar Iosias is dead and slaine among you Howle yee poore fir trees your shelter is downe the Cedar is fallen and lieth here before yee Let the house of Dauid mourne lugeat Domus Iacobi let S. Iames mourne Zach. let the inhabitanes of Ierusalem mourne and to vse the words of Zacharie let them mourne as for their only sonne and lament as for their first borne In that day shall be a great mourning in Ierusalem as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo and the land shall bewayle euery family apart mourning shall bee in all the ends of the land complaining in the streets of euery City crying in the chambers of euery house Alas for the day of the Lord is come it is come all the orders and Companies I say not of this house only but of all this Realme from the honourable Counsellour to him that draweth water from the man of gray yeeres to the young child shall plentifully water their cheekes and giue iust occasion to the Chronicles and Prouerbes of our posterities to be remembred And we especially of this Collegiate society that shall this night end our watching shall to morrow haue a new occasion not only of increasing but renewing our weeping Hitherto we haue mourned for the departing of his soule out of his body now vvee must lament for the departing of his bodie out of this place so long as his herse his vrne remained we had a Master though wee could not inioy him aliue yet it was some solace in sorrow to attend him dead though we heard not his words so full of grace nor enioyed his presence so full of glory yet his ashes his effigies gaue a glimse to vs sitting in darknesse and now wee must loose this and this vnhappinesse will admit no helpe Gen. 50.10 When Iacob was carried from Goshen to Canaan the Egyptians mourned with a great and very sore lamentation and that mourning was so wondred at by the Canaanits that they call the place Abal-Mizraim to this day Egyptians gaue the cause of the name Canaanits gaue the name of the place mourning the cause of both both these strangers nay in themselues infestuous enimies to the Israelites If Egyptians and Canaanits strangers haue done this for Iacob what shall the seruaunts doe and attendants in familia Iacobi pro filie Iacobi let vs crie mightily vnto heauen that after our bodies lie buried in the dust our lamentation may be remembred Ah the Prince ah our glory ahlas for the day of the Lord is come for Abner lyeth dead before vs My last part Mourne before Abner Coram not Claàm not priuately but openly Math. Many acts of deuotion are to bee performed priuatly when thou giuest almes saith our Sauiour doe it priuately when thou prayest enter into thy chamber doe it priuately when thou repentest saith Dauid commune with thine owne heart and in thy chamber Psal 4 and be priuat Priuacy is a speciall circumstance in all these and sure if many would but vndergoe the catechising of their soules in priuate Laer. tit 3. de Jra they would not be obserued so much for their sinnes in publike Laertius mentioneth Pyrrbus Eliensis which was wont to consult himselfe daily in some secret place and being obserued to talk to himselfe hereupon being questioned the cause hee answered Meditor bonus vt sim And Seneca mentioneth Sextius in this kinde who euery night would priuatly examine himselfe Quod bodiê maesum