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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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come Rev. 20.6 That divine speech of Iohn in his revelation should rap vs vp into heaven with Paule Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrectiō for on such the second death hath no power The Godly only die once but rise twice they die only the death of the body but rise in soule and body the wicked they die twice rise but once they rise in body but die the death of soule and body a part they haue in the second death of the damned but no part in the second resurrection of the iust or if any part such a part as Iudas had in the Sacrament a sop that poisoned his soule or such a parte as Simeon and Levi had in their fathers legacy Beaux in Harm Partē habent nō redemptionis etiamsi resurrectionis a part not of redemption though of resurrection O then who wil cause his eies to be the Pander for his lust if with these eies he hope to behold God who wil cause his body to be the curse of his soule if hee hope in his soule and body to attend God for euer more When that all that haue beene kept fast and fettred in the chaines of death from al the ages of the world shal meete their bodies cursing their souls crying against them that either the soule should please the body that loathsome lumpe or the body should be the snare and prison for the soule either to abuse it or abase it to perdition by subiection What shal then be the comfort of the Godly who shal rise to ioy and immortality and be restored to glory I say to more glory then the bounds of imagination can containe that the Lord shal shew them the pathes of life and in his light they shall see light and shall bee filled with the ioy of his countenance for evermore That they shal rise to the resurrection of the iust to the everlasting length of daies Aquin. to the beholding of Gods glorious face in which blessed vision omnis sit a est beatitudo al blessednesse consisteth as the schooles determine al this ioy Christ hath purchased with his bloud and is gone to possesse in his body Heb. 12.1 Wherefore beloved to vse the exhortation of the Apostle to the Hebrewes lay aside every waight of sin the sinne which hangeth on run with patience the race which is set before you The holy Patriarches haue runne it now be with Christ whom they haue longer expected then yet enioyed the blessed Prophets haue run this race though through a sea of bloud the Apostles Martyrs Saints this race victoriously haue run in the sunnes course with more light then the sunne vp Vp then and the Lord shal be with you 1. Cor. 15. pray fast watch weepe endeavour labour and your labour will not be in vaine in the Lord. You shal laie downe your bodies in grace and peace resume them againe in ioy and glory You must goe this iourney the decree of this Taxe is come our it is as the lawe of the Medes and Persians not to be revoked Everie one of vs may say of our Master as David of his sonne I shal go to him he shall never returne to me which leadeth me to my third and last part the acknowledgement of the inevitable stroake of death I shall goe to him hee shall not returne to me In the 3. of Genesis Pars 3. Gen. 3. you may finde mans Exodus Thou shalt dye it is the first Text of mortality in Scripture al Comments doe concur to the exposition of this The caus of Adams death was the breach of dyet God forbad him fruit of one tree this he hungreth for and taste it he wil though it cost him his life S. Austin bringeth our first parents thus disputing in a dialogue concerning that fruit if this fruit be good Aug why may I not eat of it if it be not good why groweth it in Paradise Domine dedisti hortum negâsti pomum Lord haste thou given vs the garden and denied vs the apple therefore saith Austin God hath given thee the benefit of Paradise because thou maist know his favour and mercy and therefore hath hee denied this one fruit to thee because he may find thy obedience and dutie This duty and obedience neglected by our Grand-sire ever since death the lodge of all mens liues commeth with insensible degrees vpon the children of men no wisdome shall appease no policy prevent no riches correct it The impartial hand of death is ever destroying the insatiable throat of the earth ever devouring death the vsurper of Kingdomes and the intruder into Countries breaketh the studies of the learnedst interrupteth the enterprises of the wisest croppeth of the hopes of the fairest in a calme a tempest overtakes them and sinkes them delay may repriue them but death wil serue the execution of that sentence vpon them It is a statute statutum est omnibus semel mori It is appointed that all men must die David knewe this and therfore his words be I must goe to him he shall not reture to me It is the conceit of some Thalmudists that if ever any had escaped this fatall generall sentence Miscel Thalm. Moyses and Christ had beene freed Moses saw God spake with him asked him answered him beheld him and a kind of cōmunicatiō of some divine lustre was imparted to him his face did shine never face to face did man behold God as Moses did yet Moses must die hee must ascend the Mount and there expire The oracle of Israel Terror of Egypt discoverer of Canaan Prophet Priest Captaine Guider leader of his people must yeeld to death though hee lived to behold the God of life Though Moses died and yeelded to death yet Christ might haue beene freed hee was equal to the father touching his Godhead and concerning his manhood his body was not begot in sinne not conceaued in sinne yet the death of this sonne of God if ever any one was so sealed and ratified as farre as either the iustice of the father or the engins of Tyrannie of men could devise this Virgin sonne of the Virgin mother Lyon of the Tribe of Iuda lambe of God gaue vp the Ghost Every true Hebrewe must celebrate this Passover every man may say for his Master Father neighbour brother friend child as David here I must goe to him hee shall never returne to me They cannot come from that ioy and glory they are in a Cloud of witnesses giue testimony of the blessed state of their abode No returne no comming backe no passage from them as Abraham told Dives in the Parable they bee in refrigerio in that sweet refreshing saith Austin Aust de Sanctis Ambr. Chrys Hom. Greg. they bee in gaudio in ioyfull rest saith Ambrose they bee in atrio Domint saith Chrysostome in the Court of the Lordes house they be in manu Dei in the hand of
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