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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

Psalme knappeth the speare in sunder casteth the arrowes in the fire I say why would he let the Archers shoot at King Iosias 1 King 22 It was the voyce of the King of Aram to his Captaines concerning wicked King Ahab fight ye neither against great nor small but against the King but that the Lord should direct that fatall arrow to be the death of his darling Iosias this arrow strikes vs with admiration I cannot but beare part with those mourners in Megiddo Alas for this great day Alas for that good Prince Alas that Iosias is smitten When Dauid numbred the people the people dyed they suffered for his sinne 1 Chro. 21 plectuntur Achiui and Dauid cryeth What haue they done it is euen I that haue sinned Is it not I that haue commanded to number the people but these sheepe what haue they done O Lord my God I beseech thee let thine hand be on me and on my fathers house and not on thy people for their destruction There the people were plagued for the offence of the Prince but heere the Prince is smitten for the offence of the people I finde especially two causes why Iosias was smitten First for the sinnes of the time The first cause of the death of Iosias the sinnes of those dayes I collect out of Zephany to be strange and horride In the front of the Prophecie you may see that he prophesied in the dayes of Iosias Zeph. 1.1 in the second verse of that Chapter there is a fearefull destruction pronounced such as in so few wordes is not to be found in all the Prophets It is a generall obseruation that where we heare some strange desolation threatned there is some strange abhomination committed Obserue both here first the desolation thretned I will surely destroy all things from the Land Zeph. 1.1.2 saith the Lord I will destroy man and beast I will destroy the fowles of the heauen and the fishes of the sea and ruines shall be to the wicked and I will cut off man from the land saith the Lord c. It is so terrible as if that in the Psalm were fulfilled Destructions are come to a perpetuall end Psalm 9. a deluge and Cataclisme a deuastation desolation vnspeakable The greatest plagues that euer came on the world were either the particular in the Iudgements on Egipt or the generall in the drowning of the World In Egipt beside● flyes and lice and frogs and darknesse there was the killing of the first-borne Murraine of Beasts death of Fishes by the water turned into bloud but I find no where that their fowle of heauen were destroyed In the drowning of the World all mankinde was not destroyed eight Soules were preserued and although the beasts of the field and fowles of the ayre perished yet I can no way collect the destruction of the fishes those watry creatures kept their Colonyes In Egipt beasts and fishes were destroyed not the fowles In the floud beasts and fowles not the fishes but in this Man and Beast Fish and Fowle all things threatned to be destroyed from the earth Secondly therefore consider the abhomination committed in those times you may at first sight collect them out of the following verses In the 4. verse Zeph. 1.4.1 there was a remnant of Baall in the land resembling our Papists Secondly Priests and Chemarims fit parallels to our Priests and Iesuits Verse 5 Thirdly in the 5. verse there were some that sware by the Lord and sware by Malcham equalling the false-harted halfe hollow-harted Hipocrites of two Religions in these dayes Verse 6 Fourthly in the 6. verse some that turned backe from the Lord like to our Ephraimitall Apostaticall reuolters Fiftly some that sought not the Lord nor inquired after him shadowing the Atheists of our land Verse 8 Sixtly in the 8. verse such as were cloathed with strange apparell the characters of the guls and gallants of our dayes Verse 9 In the 9. verse some that daunced vpon the threshold so proudly the note of the quaint Crane-paced Courtiers of this time Lastly those that filled houses by cruelty and deceit the brand of the sinfull and couetous Citizens of this Citie Now measure with the cubit of the Sanctuary whether desolation be not fitted to abhomination Runne to and fro through the streete of that Chapter and see and heare and feare and tremble Sinnes were the cause of that threatned destruction sinnes were the Cart-ropes Engines Pioners the Earthquakes Whirlewindes Thunderbolts finall downefall and funerall and deuastation of that State In the time of the Iudges Iudg. 20.44 the Lord almost extinguished the Tribe of Beniamin eighteen thousand at one time 1 King ●2 In the time of the Kings ten Tribes fell from Israell But this misery is more Roote and Branch head and tayle as the Prophet sore-told Man Beast Fish and fowle are destroyed For sinnes he doth stretch out his hand vpon Iudah and vpon all the inhabitants of Ierusalem for sinnes he doth worry the Sheepe and smite the Shepheard This is the first reason why Iosias is smitten The second cause of smiting Iosias The second reason that Iosias was smitten was that hee might not see the misery threatned to be brought vpon Israell his eyes should not see that euill Euill must come but not in the dayes of Iosias The word of the Lord is good saith Hezekias onely let peace be in my dayes The Israelites must be bond-slaues in the land of Egipt Genesis but not till the Patriarkes sleepe in peace Tenne Tribes shall be diuided from the twelue yet Salomons eyes shall first be shut Ierusalem shall be destroyed but not till they who mourne in Zyon be marked Ezek. 9.4 Al Italy grieuously troubled but Ambrose must first be at rest Africa shal be spoiled but not till Austine decease Germany was distracted but Luther first must peaceably honourably be buryed England was persecuted and fiered but blessed King Edward must first be receiued into Abrahams bosome God reserueth his iust determinate plagues and stayeth his Vyals till his appointed times All the States of the World haue their Criticall dayes and Climactericall yeeres beginnings setled stations declinations and dissolutions at Gods appointment Certo veniunt ordine Parcae Seneca It was a speech that commands admiration from vs that God should say to Lot Get thee hence I can doe nothing till thou art gone hence Was the power of God limited by himselfe he did actiuely limit his power it was not passiuely limitted by Lot God did limit his wil Genesis or rather both were determinated then limited or terminated It exceedes our thoughts that he in so fauourable a Compassion will forbeare for his loue to some particular Seruant the great wrath he hath laid vp in store for a Nation Gen. 39 5. Gen. 30.27 He doth not onely blesse Potiphar for Ioseph and Laban for Iacob but hold his hand stay his Vials forbeare his

spoile and ouerturne Hom. Odys He is not Iupiter inermis as one thought but as another spake his weapons be innumerable his hands vnresistable The religious Saints of God acknowledged this Dauid shal speake for all O Lord thy anger thy heauy displeasure Psal 38. thy arrowes sticke fast in me thy hand presseth downe sore The rebellious children of Israel acknowledged this when Ierusalem as we finde in the old Testament had bin 7. times assailed by Shishak King of Egipt in Rehoboams dayes 1 Kin. 14. 2 Chro. 25 23. Isa 7.1 2 Kin. 18. 2 Chro. 33 2 Kin. 33. 2 Kin. 25. by Ioas King of Israel in Amaziahs time by Rezin King of Aram in the raigne of Ahaz by Zenacherib King of Ashur in the time of Hezekias by the captaines of the Assyrians who tooke Manasses captiue by Pharaoh Necho that carried away Iehoas prisoner lastly by the Chaldeans who burnt the Temple and defaced the Citie and that they had enemies round about them on the East the Moabits Ammorites Assyrians on the west side the Philistines on the North the Syrians on the South the Aegiptians Arabians and Idumeans all most infestuous to them yet still cry out in their vexations vnto God thou hast couered vs with wrath thou hast made vs the off-scouring of the people Nay superstitious heathens haue acknowledged this Lam. 2.43 Exo. 8.19 the Enchanters that the plague of Lice was the finger of God Tiberius that Thunder was the power of God Homer that the plague was the arrow of God Hip. in prog Hypocrates that a great plague among them was a punishment sent from God Nay blasphemous reprobates haue confessed this for the damned at what time the storme fell vpon them in the Reuelation they blasphemed God Reu. 16.24 because of that plague of Haile Vse A doctrine to confute those that put the iudgements of God farre from themselues by putting them far from the true author of them God himselfe Naturall beastly men who make naturall causes the reasons of supernaturall euents who to the wantonnesse of wit adde wickednesse of will Psal 73 9. and belike to those spoke of in the Psalmes that talke presumptuously and set their mouth against Heauen making the power of God to be circumscribed by the power of reason who because they beleeue no more then they see and feare no more then they feele they goe no further then the presence neuer goe into the priuy-chamber of Gods iudgements second causes must remoue it from the first author But I aske as the Apostle doth O thou man who art thou that disputest with God or rather who art thou that deniest the prerogatiue of God seeing he hath sayd I doe strike I will smite Applic. In this our incomparable losse of which though I shall neuer thinke or speake without an indiuidual companion sorrow sorrow attended with the vtmost remembrance and reuerence limited vnder heauen I may vrge this one part of my Text vnto them who neuer looking vp to heauens vnresistable stroke doe complaine that eyther the want of care or skill in the Phisitians shipwrackt all our hope in that blessed Arke the Prince I stand not heere to dawbe with vntempered Morter neither to feare nor flatter any I doe beleeue that they were both sorrowfull beholders and faithfull helpers so far as Art Vigilance and diligence could extend But when ego percutiam is once proclaimed no Phisitian can cure Asa his legs or lay a plaister vnto Fzekias botch or cure the Shunamites child crying my head No balme in Gilead can help the feuers dropsies or bloody issues which Christ healed though the patient Patients bestowal they haue vpon those honorable instruments for so the son of Syrach calleth Phisitians And therefore as those in the Prophet cryed a Conspiracie a Conspiracie so these Poyson Poyson How probable soeuer that may be let them looke vnto the poyson of their owne soules the onely infection that brought this heauy affliction vpon vs. And whatsoeuer second causes there might be let vs leaue the consideration thereof to them to whom they belong and let vs which doth only concerne our selues with feare and reuerence and humilitie confesse it was Gods hand Greg. Mar. lib. 1. as both Gregorie confesseth vpon the affliction of Iob Ambrose before him of all such punishments Cum Diabolus vulnerat Domini sunt sagittae Whatsoeuer the second causes be yet the supreme rule of all is in Gods hand But while I am thus informing others my owne soule becomes a sceptick and questions thus Could God forget to be gratious would he in displeasure so smite Him that was our ioy hope Yes that he might more fully settle our hope vpon the true obiect God himselfe But would he so smite as to take him away in the Sunne-shine of his time yes that he might bestow farre greater brightnesse vpon him Alas he was in the flower and splendor of his youth he was lesse taynted lesse blemished His death was the vndoing of many his poore seruants but God is able to prouide for them better then he could Psal 37. Let them trust in the Lord and verily they shall be fed He was taken away in this solemne expectation of Nuptiall-ioy and triumph He is gone to greater ioy to the Marriage of the Lambe to those ioyes triumphs Angels Quire Songs to which no burden nor no end belongs He was taken away as it were somewhat sodainly and vnexpectedly yet not so sodainely as the fiery enemies of God and the King entended in that furious sulphureous plot to haue blowne him vp 2 King 23. neither so sodainely as Iosias the dearling of God who had no more warning then while an arrow made a doore in his breast for Death 2 Chro. 35.20 But our Iosias was taken away in a seasonable comfortable visitation when he was full of beautie full of glory full of pietie full of Religion full of admiration full of lamentation Beloued in a word as the Apostle speaketh Comfort your selues one another with these words Iob 1. Ionas 2. The Lord gaue him and the Lord hath taken him and as Ionas Marriners acknowledge Thou O Lord hast done as it pleased thee As it followeth Thou hast smitten the Shepheard Cir. 2 To haue smit a Wolfe deuouring the sheepe had bin mercy to haue smitten one sheepe of the fold had bin iudgement with mercy but to smite the shepheard may seeme iudgement and fury In this houre time of mourning now we sit as in the shadow of death it is fitter for you to feed on the tree of life then on the tree of knowledge therefore I desire to confine my speech only vpon meditation but the word shepheard leades me forth further then I thought besides the waters of comfort A shepheard was the first tradesman though the second son of all the children of Adam Gen. 4.2 and after Abel many shepheards were in