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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

this is a dissolution not a dispersion disperdere is not perdere with you you onely returne to your owne Families to drinke of your owne Vines and to eate vnder your owne fig-trees yet remember hereafter as the wise Egyptians did bestow more on their Tombes then Houses so hereafter dispose of more time for consideration of death then of prouision for the things of this life Let mortalitie be your meditation you are but earth your best cloaths earth wormes made them your best fed bodies earth wormes must eate them You may say Vidimus stellam we haue seene his Starre and vidimus gloriam we haue seene his glory you saw it rising and setting you will now beleeue that that GOD who hath called Princes Gods he qui homines coelestibus aequat hath made Princes but men quia sceptra ligonibus aequat You haue serued and therein your posteritie may reioyce the most religious gracious holy chaste vertuous valerous Prince of his growth that euer the Christian world enioyed yet you see HEE is departed season therefore this lumpe of luggage all worldly thoughts with the remembrance of death Embrace all holy acts of religion Psalm 37. keepe innocencie and doe that which is iust and seeke peace for this shall bring a man ioy at the last You are all of you I hope to serue another Prince I doubt not you are in Check-roll already mistake me not I meane no other Prince then the Prince of Peace spoke of in Esay I meane no other Roll but his booke of life Reioyce in this Esa 9 6. that your names be written in the booke of life that seruice is heritage instead of your white staues you shall haue Palmes in your hands and your entertainment will be Good seruants and faithfull you haue beene faithfull in a little I will make you rulers ouer much enter into your Masters ioy This ioy the Lord in mercy in his due time graunt vnto you You of the middle sort whose wound is not mortall and yet are ready to sinke vnder the burthen of this sorrow as hauing lost the most incomparable Prince that euer the World had you that setled your thoughts and hoping to haue seene him the Head ouer many Nations haue said to your soules vnder the shadow of his wings we shall be safe here wil we dwell for euer Let your dare-bought experience teach you the lesson that Dauid a great Prince gaue to his People Psal 146. Trust not in Princes for they be sons of men there is no health in them their breath departeth and euery one of them returneth to his earth Chri● Si dicendum sit aliquid mirabil● saith a Father If a man may speake any thing worthy of the greatest admiration it is this Trust not in Princes they themselues are not in safety their sublimitie is but sublunary they are within the verge the Earth hath prouided an Auello for euery of them to be laid in yeeld them faithfulnes and obedience but settle not in them your faith and confidence Yeelde them duty tribute yea your goods and liues but withall remember Psalm 146. Blessed is the man that puts his trust in the Lord and hath the God of lacob for his refuge liue honest holy religious liues but a while the end is at hand we shal all meete in aequalitie with our blessed Maister in glory You poore soules the poore silly sheepe of his flocke who was wont to giue you meate in due season you that like those in Ierusalem doe arise and cry in the night Lament 3. and in the beginning of the watch poure out your harts like water lift your eyes to heauen for your selues your wiues and children Take the counsell of Dauid Trust in the Lord Psalm ●7 and being good commit thy waies vnto the Lord waite patiently vpon the Lord hope in him and he shall bring it to passe Trust in the Lord and verily thou shalt be fed Heare Dauids example I haue been young saith he but now am old yet I neuer saw the righteous forsaken nor their seede begging their bread Honesty is the best patrimonie leaue but a good report of an honest life behinde you and your Children then haue sufficient Legacies All of you beloued that are in this valley of teares to heare mee this day repent you of your former liues turne from the wickednesse of your wayes or else yee may feare a more fearefull scattering The outrage of apparell surquedry in meate choise of new oathes new exchange of sins the sluce of vengeance that hell hath opened Since the yee● ●●●● haue brought many fearefull scatterings among vs within these few yeeres the death of nine Counsellers of State sixteene Bishops of the Church fifteene Iudges of the Law in one yeere in this one Citie thirty seauen thousand three hundred two stroken with the Plague of Pestilence Lady Mary Lady Sop●ia and which is more then al this three of his Maiesties Children the hope ioy to all true hearted Subiects Prince Henry who dyed in the nineteenth yeere of his his age the 6. of Nouember 1612 and was honorably buried at Westminster the 7. day of December following is taken away from among vs which equals all other losses Isaac is offered Ichabod our glory is departed Prince Henry is deceased whom if euer any of vs in his most obseruant reposed thoughts shall forget let his right hand rot and forget her cunning and the harpe of his Tongue hang vp for euer in the roofe of his mouth O God how hast thou plagued vs as * Lament 2.22 Ieremy complained euen in the solempne day In that Moneth thou once gauest vs Queene Elizaheth to take away Prince Henry In that Moneth thou gauest vs Noble Prince Charles the succeeding Charlemaine in that Moneth to take away his blessed Brother In the Moneth thou didst preserue vs from that furious sulphureous plot of our enemies in the same Moneth are wee to our great sorrowes insulted on by our Enemies Hadst thou not left vs a remnant we had ben like to Sodome and Gomorh Wherefore good Lord looke downe from Heauen behold and visit vs looke vpon that Vine thy right hand hath planted blesse the roote and branches of the Royall remnant let the light of thy Countenance shine euer in the Sunne and Moone and Stars of this Firmament let neuer be wanting one of this race to sit vpon the Brittish Throne till the Sunne hath runne his last race and the world hath finished his last course Say thou Amen thou faithfull witnesse of Heauen to the prayers of vs poore wretched afflicted miserable soules Say Amen thou Truth and witnesse of thy Father to our Petitions that come not out of fained lips and let Heauen and Earth seale it and say Amen Amen FINIS