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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.
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Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.
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God saith Gregory in sinu Abrahae saith the Gospell Phil. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Paule they be with Christ Returne cannot be misery shall not bee vnto them Vse Whence I settle this observation Obs 3 that every man shall haue his passe in death but none his returne till the day of iudgement The Tearme of death hath no essoynes no returnes All must celebrat this Passover all must trusse vp their loines all must take vp their staues in their hands al must passe to their lower roomes all must lay forth their shrowds napkins to bind their heads annointings for their bodies to the burial I meane preparation meditation for their death that their names rot not but that their memories may remaine in the posterities that are to come None shal returne til the earths great Iayle delivery heavens great summons to the sessiōs A point that may be of much comfort to ease and mitigate the gripings of the pangs and fangs and iawes of death when our bodies lie vpō the altars of our beds for the sacrifice of our souls whē the Evening of our life is even at the ende and shutting vp this is a sweet smelling savour to remember that all our holy friends that we leaue behind vs shal follow vs all that are gone before shall meet with vs none faile for following none want for meeting Villand therefore not to feare death to be so horrid thinke thy sicknesse thy prison thy pangs of death thy last fits thou art vpō recovery thy Pantings be but the sem briefes the notes of division of the harmony that they ever haue in heauen the bells that call for thee be but to tole thee to the triūphant Church thy friends that weep greeue because they cannot go with thee Divels that gape vpon thee looke but for legacies leaue one thy pride another thy lust another thy ambition and so as sinne brought in death let death driue out sin Death is but a ferrey a boat a bridge to waft thee over into another place or a groome that lights a Taper into another Room thy soul like a Tritō lying in the water is presētly to be mounted vpon the waue Angels carry thee thou shalt hauing thy Nunc dimittis Chrys passe into Abrahams bosome Thus the Lord shall let his servants depart in peace according to his word and it will be their comfort that they haue run their race and fought their fight and finished their course and receaue the glory of the better life Conclus And now beloved for conclusion giue mee leaue to repeat the words of my Text and so end Our MASTER is dead wherefore should we now fast Can we bring him againe we shall go to him hee shall never returne to vs. But doe I aske wherefore should I now fast where fore should we now mourne shall I say there is no cause now of mourning for our Master I dare not say so Seneca Hectora flem us for his death is like an Ecclypse the event whereof appeareth many yeares after the future generations shall lament his losse and I feare out of the sides of their sorrow shall runne both water and blood I confesse it is in vaine to ad new showers to our late streames of teares the losse was such that if after all our sighes and groanes we should herein weepe out all the humours of our bodies and wast out all the marrow of our bones all were but vanity and vexation of spirit Yet there is a cause to draw the Cesternes of our sorrow dry and to make vs vow not superstitiously but religiously an everlasting lent of fasting and mourning and humbling our selues before God the reason is Cananeus non est occisus nec factus tributarius Greg. in Moral and this brought such plagues vpon Israel The Cananite is amongst vs the basphemous Traiterous Papist is neither exiled nor suppressed but hath more countenance and maintenance secretly then good men openly and more pleasure content in prisons then many holy men in their houses This snake lyeth close in the City this spider creepeth vp into the Court and hath feeding in our Church housing in our vniversities My thoughts be not bloody I shal hartily pray for them though they be our enimies though they reioice triumph at our present miseries though they haue evil wil at our Siō yet my wishes devotions shal be rather for their conuersiō thē confusion But for our selues let our praiers be daily howrely powred out that the Lord adde not so heavy and grievous a misery vnto this present so great an ecclipse of his glory and our good to this present clowde of both as that this his Church ever become an Egypt a Sodome a Rome a Babylon a prostituted stewes for all commers but that all good harts may be encouraged and all good lawes may be executed to bring al the people of this kingdom to the knowledge of the Lord. And for this purpose let vs fast and pray and weepe watch and cry betweene the porch the Altar Spare vs good Lord spare thy people and be not angry with thine inheritance Opē their eies that they may see the wondrous things of thy law Open thy hid treasures that we may receiue frō the hidden fountaines of thy loue Grace mercy and peace in our daies and the daies of our posterities from thee O God the father and from thy sonne Iesus Christ To whom both with the eternall spirit of thee holy Father bee all honour and glory in both worlds Amen FINIS SORROVV FOR THE SINNES OF THE TIME A SERMON PREACHED AT St. JAMES on the third Sunday after the PRINCE his death BY DANIEL PRICE then Chaplaine in Attendance EZEK 9.4 Go through the middest of the Citty through the middest of Ierusalem and set a marke vpon the foreheads of the men that sigh and cry for all the abominations that be done in the middest of her AT OXFORD Printed by Ioseph Barnes and are to be sold by Iohn Barnes dwelling neere Holborne Conduit 1613. TO THE RIGHTLY HONOVRABLE AND TRVELY RELIgious LADY the LADY CAREY wife to the Noble and worthy SIR ROBERT CAREY ELect Lady 2. Ioh. 1.2 for so S. Iohn styleth an Honourable Matrone to whom hee sent his second Epistle your holy sorrow for the losse of the former Illustrious and former service to the excellent gracious Prince CHARLES deserue much respect of all good harts VVith these another argument particularly doth incite me to offer this service a sacrifice of my sorrow to your worthy hands The grace and Countenance you afford Religion and her followers which will bring a blessing vpon you and your posterity as is already apparent in those fruitfull beautifull Oliue branches your sonnes of whom our ollege is much ioyfull because they are so truely hopefull adding to Nobility of birth Nobility of vertue Continue Noble Lady to bee a faithfull client for
K Richard 8 Arthur sonne to Hen. 8. No more created but those Ed. 6. not invested by Patent nor created For if the Romans called the heire apparant Princeps Inventutis Prince of the youth and Prince Edgar the last heire male of that blood royall was long after called Englands dearling and when Prince Arthur died the Poets then complained that Arcturus was vanished in the heavens what can we say of him that would haue beene subiect for all pens and obiect for all eies as if the worthines of all the eight created Princes of Walles of the English blood and of the eight Henries his Highnesse Royall Auncestors had met in him as in the Confluence I will say of him as S. Paule to the Hebrewes spake of those with whome our Master is nowe in Company Prince HENRY was hee of whom the world was not worthy Yet beloued let me still say as my Text God may Comfort vs even according to the greatnes of our losse his power is not weakned his arme is not shortned It was a blasphemous speech in the Governour in the daies of Elisha that doubted whether there might after that great dearth bee so great plenty though 2. Kings 7.3 saith he God would make windowes in heauen Hee is able to doe whatsoeuer in faith we are able to beleeue Wee haue yet the sunne and moone and starres of a Royal firmament and though we haue lost the morning starre yet we haue Charls-waine in our Horizon wee haue a Prince if starres be of any truth like to be of long life great learning most hopefull for his time most fruitful for his hopes we hope that God hath said to our Iacob Gen. as Iacob said of his Iudah sceptrum non auferetur à Iuda so the scepter shal not be taken from our Iacob til Shiloah come againe into the world Let this Comfort serue vs so long as wee are Gods servants so long hee will be our Lord. Send out Comfort in ambush against all feares al enimies and when she returneth with conquest Iudg. 5. say to thy soule as Debora did to hers thou hast marched valiantly O my soule Thinke not that our Master is dead Musa vetat mori saie as Christ said of Lazarus He is not dead but sleepeth Ioh. 11.3 In a word after all these Cloudes be past the sunshine will appeare or we shall appeare before God our selues sure I am this Text will be vncontrouled for ever Heauen and earth shall passe but no iot of this word shall passe Act. 1. After the Lord hath afflicted vs he will comfort vs. Let vs therefore with the Apostles who staid at Ierusalem expecting the Comforter continue in holy deuotions hearing praying fasting falling downe before his presence for he is holy And thou O Lord that seest all hearts vnto to thee let our crie come and let comfort descend vnto vs in this house of mourning and valley of teares Now like poore distressed sinners we beseech thee then with thy Saints and Angels we shall glorifie thee Lord grant this for thy promise for thy mercy for thy Zyon for thy sonnes sake CHRIST IESVS Amen 2. SAM 12.23 Now he is dead wherefore should I fast can I bring him againe I shall goe to him but he shall not returne to me THE story sheweth you David the king in a sorrowfull case weeping mourning crying for his sonne lying all day and night on the earth Hewept wept and would not be comforted S. Bernard mentioneth Bern. in Passione Dom. Heb domadam dolorum a week of sorrows David had no lesse the child died the seaventh day 2. Sam. 12.18 the 7 day David arose from his low lamentable lodging his meditation could be no other thē this O who shal deliver his soul from death His cause of mourning was non propter vitam sed propter animam Chrys non propter animam non propter filium sed propter adulterium not so much for the life as for the soule of his childe not so much for his sonne as for that sinne by which his mother conceived him The childe was messis in herba life was spes in messe but the soule of the childe was gloria messis the ioy and glorie of the harvest this is the cause that David mournes bitterly There is a strange sentence in the former verses Non Morieris thou shalt not die Davids sinne is acquitted sed Morietur filius but thy childe shall die the innocent babe is punished 2. Sam. 12.13 I need not to vncover the nakednes of this father further then scripture takes away the vaile from him he committed adultery heaven sees it God sends Nathan 2. Sam. 11 4. Nathan wounds David through the sides of one of his owne subiects David sentenceth himselfe in another thus He that hath done this shall die and pay fourefold At hoc iustum est iniustum iudicium This iudgement is both iust vniust The trespasse is but a lambe to pay fourefold is satisfaction enough for a lambe if it be the life of a man to die for it is the satisfactiō required enough for a Mans life but suppose it what it may bee to die and pay pay and pay fourefold is iniustice it is to much Therefore God tooke one part of Davids sentence against himselfe though Non morieris stood as God had promised 2. Sam. 28. yet David shal pay fourefold as himselfe had sentenced 1. Hee paid the life of Ammon his sonne 2. Sam. 18.9 by the sword of Absalon here is one satisfaction 2. he paid the life of Absalon hanging in the Oke by the sword of Ioab the 2 satisfactiō 3 the life of Adoniah by the sword of Iehoiada 1. King 2.25 the 3 satisfaction and fourthly the life of a childe here by the sword of God the fourth satisfaction For the life of one Vrias no lesse thē foure of his own children must die the death vers 14. The first of this Tragical Chorus is this childe sentenced in the 14 verse in the 15. ye find him sicke poore infant silly innocent after his panting and striuing for breath he is deceased in the 18. verse ver 15. vers 18. while he was sicke David did sorrow wept and fasted prayed and lay on the ground but being dead riseth apparelleth washeth worshippeth eateth herevpon his servāts expostulate What thing is this that thou dost ver 21. thou didst fast and weepe for the childe while it was aliue but when the childe was dead thou dost rise and eate David answereth and the best part of his answere is this my Text Being dead why should I now fast Can I bring him againe any more I shall go to him but he shall not returne to mee These two be points very remarkeable that vsher the meditations of my Text the first the punishment of the childe for the father David commits adultery the childe dies