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A11825	A sermon, preached before the two high borne and illustrious princes, Fredericke the 5. Prince Elector Palatine, Duke of Bauaria, &c. and the Princesse Lady Elizabeth, &c. Preached in the castle-chappell at Heidelberg the 8. of Iune 1613. being the next day after her Highnesse happy arriuall there: by that reuerend and iudicious diuine, Mr. Abraham Scultetus, his Highnesse chaplaine. Together with a short narration of the Prince Electors greatnes, his country, his receiuing of her Highnesse, accompanied with twe u [sic] other princes, thirty earles, besides an exceeding great number of barons and gentlemen, and eight daies ent rtainement [sic]. Translated out of High Dutch by Ia Meddus D. and one of his Maiesties chaplaines.	Scultetus, Abraham, 1566-1624.; Meddus, James, d. 1632.	1613 (1613)	STC 22125; ESTC S117026	16,930	78

them as thou didst blesse thy best friends Abraham Isaac and Iacob that so their whole countrey may bee glad of them and that in time vnder their gouernment iudgement and righteousnesse may meet together in all parts of the Palatinate and loue kindnesse and faithfulnesse may kisse one each other in all houses Receiue likewise into thy protection and defence the Romane Emperours Maiestie the King and Queenes Maiesties of Great Britaine as also the Prince their Son all other Christian Potentates Princes Electors and other Princes of the Empire especially in our right gracious ioynt gouernment together with their beloued Ladies all that belong vnto them and so likewise all the whole Electorall and Princely family of the Count Palatines by Rheine blesse them all in bodie in soule in honour in goods Looke downe from heauen vpon the fruits of the earth and speake and spread out thy blessing ouer them that we may also therby acknowledge thee the Father and fountaine of all mercie and goodnesse Haue mercie vpon all persecuted afflicted and sorrowfull Christians cure that which sicke is binde vp that which is wounded strengthen that which is weake Lastly receiue vs and giue vs vnto thee so shall we be a blessed people here temporally and there eternally Amen TO THE INDIFFERENT Reader Considering indifferēt Reader how sinisterly some of ignorance and others of malice conceaue of the state dignity of the High and Mightie Prince Elector Palatine Duke of Bauaria c. of his Coūtry of his receauing his most honored Ladie the Princesse Elizabeth and entertainement of my Lords the Commissioners and accordingly make report thereof as also how desirous others are to be rightly informed of the truth I could not in my dutie knowing the place and hauing certaine aduertisements thence from honorable personages and others of great worth credit but add this short plaine yet true narration thereof as well for the easier stopping of intemperate mouthes as for the better satisfying of all honest mindes that bee desirous of the truth First therefore concerning the Prince Elector Palatines originall and state though those many pedegrees published here already of his Highnesse discent sufficiently shew his ancient and high blood rising from many great Emperors and Kings yet giue mee leaue to fetch it from the very beginning The Palatinate and Bauaria were once a kingdome yet subiect as other States vnto alteration and change Chron Charian lib. 4. Chronolog Func The Kingdome continued from Adelgerius the first King vntill Tassilo the last all in lineall discent 332. yeeres from the yeere of Christ his incarnation 556. vntill the yeere 788. This Tassilo the last King for that he would neither be subiect nor friend vnto Charlemaine was at length after much warre subdued by him taken prisoner and both he and his sonne Dedon depriued of their Kingdome and kept prisoners in the Monasterie of Lanceack neere vnto Heidelberg where they both ended their daies in miserie After this the posterity of Charles the great held those Countries vntill the seuenteenth yeere full or meane as is by some supposed It is in length about 200. english miles the lower and vpper Countrey In the lower the Prince hath 26. walled Townes besides an infinite number of good and faire Villages 22. houses and the land is very fruitfull of wine corne and other comfortable fruites for mans vse hauing the Rheine Neckar running throgh it The vpper Countrey hath not so many walled townes and princely houses but those that are be generally fairer then in the lower especially Amberg and New-market For her Highnesse receauing After that she had passed the low Countries the Dukedomes of Gulick Cleue and Mont the Bishoprickes of Collen and Trier with a part of the Landgraue of Hessens countrey in all which places she had so great welcome entertainement and honorable presents as truely expressed the loue and applause of the people the affection of friends and greatnes of those Princes through whose territories shee passed Shee came at last happily to Cowlsome where the Prince Elector Palatine met her highnesse post with a few horse and went together to Gauelshemi another very smale village of his the 1. of Iune 1613. inconuenient for the prouiding for and lodging and prouisions for such a traine which was occasioned by reason Coub Bachrahe and all other good townes of his thereabouts were infected Here the Prince Elector and Princesse earnestly inuited my Lords the commissioners and others his Maiesties officers who had attended in the voiage to goe along with them vnto Heidelberg whereby they might not only haue a better view of some part of the countrey but also finde entertainement to their more content The commissioners condiscended vnto so gracious a ioint request and the rather to see her highnesse well arriue at her owne home But the other officers could not by any intreaty be perswaded to goe further desirous perhaps to make speedy report vnto their Maiesties and the state of her Highnesses safe arriuall in the Palatinate and soe re●●ued the next day for England And this is the cause they saw not any memorable thing worthy of praise in the Palatinate as my Lordes the commissioners did and will not forbeare to speake honorably thereof thogh some haue done otherwise for answering of whom and satisfying of others I haue thought good to touch this much by the way and noe more I am informed of Thence they rid the next day the 2. of Iune vnto the City of Mentz whither the Archbishoppe and Prince Elector thereof Chancelor of Germany had inuited their highnesses where they stayed two nights and were of him roially entertained with great and bounteous feasting sundry excellent Fireworkes the better to expresse their welcome and passe out the time in princely manner The 4. of Iune they rodd to Oppenheim an ancient City with a Castle therein of the Prince Electors and there lodged all night which the Troianes drew into the Citie in the night the Alarum was giuen Troy fired and the Greekes in triumph marched away Conquerours The next day the 7. of Iune the Princesse remoued towardes Heidelberg after shee had Passed the walled town of Ladeberg was met 3. miles from Heidelberg with the Prince Elector accompanied with 12. other Princes the rich coach 30. Earles one thousand gentlemen of the countrey richly attired and brauely set out with gallant horse armour and other habiliaments of war The horsemen attending the Princes were besides these two thousand more So that all the horse were three thousand and all great horse The Princes alighted and welcomed her Highnesse who ascended into her rich coach After a while shee was again encountered in three seuerall places with three regiments of foot 2000. in regimēt who first welcomed their Princesse with vollies of smal shot had after the thunder seconded with 20 peeces of great ordnāce Then they marched altogether orderly in good aray conducting her to Heidelberg where the Citizens

husbands from their wiues here and there throughout all the Babylonian gouernment and must undure to bee laughed at scorned and derided of euery man The people of God themselues giue witnesse hereunto when they say Psal 137.1 By the riuers of Babel we sate and there wee wept when we remembred Zion But farre greater miserie did our forefathers endure in poperie when many honest and wel-affected hearts were forced to bee kept pressed downe vnder the Popes tyrannie and to behold against their wils shamefull and horrible idolatrie But yet God did after seuen hundred yeeres space looke againe fauourably vpon his distressed seruant the Christian Church caused the Gospell to be cleerly expounded which was before obscured Antichrist that child of perdition to bee reuealed and our beloued fathers to be set againe into the libertie of conscience and which wee euer since enioy blessed bee his name for it Wherefore prayse the Lord O Ierusalem Prayse thy God O Zion It is true that Ierusalem is often grieuously afflicted and as it were euen rent asunder either by the assaults and inrodes of enemies souldiers or by the death of high and chiefe Gouernours who were the Churches Patrons and nureing fathers and mothers as this Jerusalem of our Palatinate hath sufficiently felt about three yeares since when Fredericke the fourth of blessed memorie departed this life But praysed be God who euer buildeth Ierusalem againe And this hee doth when as hee blesseth a countrey with Princely branches who wax and grow vp vnto his honour and their natiue countries benefit And this he doth also effect when hee leadeth as with the hand vnto young Princes godly and religious spouses with whom they may comfortably liue together in vnitie of faith and shine before their subiects in all good example of religious holinesse And therefore prayse thou the Lord O Heidelberg Prayse thy God O Palatinate But there might some man perhaps demaund Whether it be so much to be respected and bee so great a benefit to haue the walls of Ierusalem rightly builded in a countrey Whereunto I answer That euerie way it is much to bee regarded and is Gods exceeding great benefit when Ierusalem is well and rightly builded For in Ierusalem alone that is in the little flocke wherein God is truely serued is that done which is written in the next verse following He healeth those that are broken in heart verse 3. and bindeth vp their sores We poore miserable creatures were fallen indeede amongst theeues murtherers grieuously wounded of them who were set against vs by Sathan Should the Angles cure heale vs they could not Should other creatures helpe and releeue vs they could not Then God sent Christ vnto vs who commeth in the Gospell and where the same is preached there he powreth out the supling and healing oyle of grace into euerie repentant sinners heart and bindeth vp all their wounds that is he taketh away all the great anguish and trouble of conscience which ariseth out of the sence and feeling of Gods wrath against sin and feare of euerlasting damnation And here I know that many men esteeme not so highly of this benefit and I meane them who vnderstand not what sinne is what Gods wrath is against sinne and what euerlasting damnation is But I know this also that they who are assaulted with the fiercenesse of Gods wrath and haue daily combate with their owne weakenesse and infirmities esteem nothing so highly in this world as that Christ healeth their broken hearts through the gracious forgiuenesse of their sinnes and bindeth vp the pinching griefe of their consciences in so much that they may boast with the Apostle Saint Paul Rom. 8. there is no condemnation vnto them whose hearts are healed whose wounds of conscience are bound vp and plastered Hereupon they liue hereupon they die that for Christ his sake God is become their mercifull father and they his deare and louing children Therefore sing vnto the Lord one with another with thankes and praise our God vpon the harpe euen yee that doe feele and acknowledge this benefit of God vnto your soules But the Lord God will not suffer it to rest there that he buildeth the wals of Ierusalem but though he be the wholly wise and almightie Lord yet he abuseth not the same vnto tyranny and suppressing of the godly honest but he vseth his wisdome and omnipotencie first and chiefly for the good of man and then next for the benefit of all other creatures For Verse 4 5. He counteth the number of the starres and calleth them all by their names Great is our Lord and great is his power his wisdome is infinite or his gouernement is not to bee vnderstood and comprehended He surely must needes be a wise and omnipotent Lord. The star-gasers labor also and weary themselues very much that they might tell the number of the starres But yet themselues confesse that they onely know the chiefest the greatest and the brightest the tale of the rest they must leaue will they nill they vnto God who both numbreth all the starres and calleth them by their seuerall names and carrieth a goodly gouernement ouer them where the Sun like a King swaieth in his glorious Lordship but other starres as seruants and attendants on him must at seuerall times some at his rising and others at his setting performe their seruice vnto him Now as he doth wisely gouerne the starres so doth he also powerfully vphold them insomuch that the Prophet saith not without cause Great is our Lord and great is his power which is the more comfortable for vs to vnderstand and lay hold on seeing the text further teacheth that God vseth his wisdome and omnipotencie for the good of man and all creatures The Lord saith the Prophet relieueth the needie and abaseth or rather throweth downe the wicked to the ground Which is as much to lay God so vseth his might and wisedome that hee aduanceth the humble and punisheth the proud And this is and euer hath bin Gods custome Go and search throughout all the histories of the old Testament go and search throughout all the histories of the newe Trestament and it will appeare that humility was neuer left vncrowned pride neuer left vnpunished Pharaoh was proud and high minded he must needes perish in the water Moses was humble hee must needs be aduanced Saul was high minded hee was brought downe lowe Dauid was humble hee was aduaunced Sebna was high minded the keies of the house of Dauid were taken from him Eliakim is humble the ●eies were giuen vnto him Humble Hezekim had his life preferued whereas proud Senacherib was robbed of his life and had it at ken from him Hither unto appertaine Gods other benefits which are here recited as namely that he giueth peace vnto his people that hee blesseth them will children and satisfieth them with the flower of wheate and not that only but that he also vseth his omnipotēcy ingenerall for the

which we ought to laud praise God wherein it will euidently appeare that we haue at this day euen as great weighty cause to praise him as euer the people of Israell had in the old Testament Of the first As concerning the first point the Prophet exhorteth vs vnto thankesgiuing not once nor twice but thrice when as he saith Praise yeethe Lord. Psal 147. verse 1.7.12 Sing vnto the Lord with praise sing vppon the harpe vnto our God Praise the Lord O Ierusalem praise thy God O Zion And hee concealeth not the reason for he saith It is good and a pleasant thing to sing praises vnto our God Whereunto agreeth that of the Prophet Dauid Psalme 92 saying Psal 92. It is a good thing to praise the Lord and to sing vnto thy name O thou most highest The children of the world thinke it is a good thing to liue euery day riotously to sing to play to skip to daunce to laugh and shout or else to rise vp early in the morning to drunkenesse and surfeting and to run vp downe vntill the euening to scrach and scrape something vnto themselues These are the vnwise men that know not Psal 6. and the fooles that vnderstand not Gods workes as Dauid there speaketh But the holy Ghost saith by the Prophet in the same place that this is a good thing to declare Gods louing kindnesses in the morning and his truth in the euening For what is a better thing then to praise God who onely is worthy of all praise whom also all the vnreasonable creatures euery one according to his kind doe laud and praise What is a better thing then to praise the Lord from whom all good gifts come and descend What is a better thing then for euery one to exercise and acquaint himselfe daily in the seruice wherein all elect Angels and men will exercise themselues in that blessed life of glory Such men as thus exercise themselues haue already begunne and entered into that euerlasting life and seeing they lead a well sauoured and praise-worthy life so doth God also vouchsafe vnto them at the last a praise-worthy death according as the example of King Dauid sheweth who for that he alwaies had this saying in his mouth I will praise the Lord so long as I haue any being hee also at the last yeelded vp his soule with a praise-singing mouth as is to be seene both in 1. Chron. 30. and 1. King 1. Such praise is pleasant and comely as the Psalme further saith For as nothing is more foule loth some then vnthankfull ingratitude so there is not any thing more pleasant then a thankful soule which knoweth what benefits shee hath receaued of her God and doth yeeld to him again that which is due to him namely obliged thankfulnes Herehence it is Deut. 32.19 that our Lord God termeth vnthankfull people not children but shamespots And the Prophet Ieremie teacheth that man hath an vnfaithfull and rebellious heart which saith not once I will now feare the Lord God Ier. 5.23 24. that giueth raine both early and late in due season and safely preserueth the haruest at the appointed time Yet neuerthelesse it is not here to be omitted that God will nor be praised of euery one For as any great Lord or Prince cānot at al endure to haue his worthy and valiant acts to be writtē by a lewd varlot so will not the Lord God by any meanes endure at all to bee praised of wicked persons whence our Psalme saith Praise the Lord O Ierusalem Psal ●3 1 Praise thy God O Zion that is as is elsewhere expounded Reioice in the Lord O yee righteous for it becometh vpright men to be thankefull Now the reasons are knowne why God will not be praised of wicked people For such people will not Vnderstand the Lords benefits but as the Prophet saith Though mercie be shewed to the wicked yet he will not learne righteousnesse Esa 26.10 in the land of vprightnesse will he doe wickedly and will not at all consider the maiestie of the Lord. Besides the offering cannot be acceptable vnto God which is offered vnto him of an impenitent soule but the sacrifice which a wicked man who hath chosen his owne waies Esa 66.3 and his soule delighteth in his abhominations offereth it is euen as much as if hee slew a man as if he cut off a doggs neck and as if hee offered swines blood The cause hereof is beecause wicked men are of an impenitent heart and therefore will only praise God with their mouth whom they shame and dishonor in their heart yea throughout all their whole life and conuersation Of the second But sufficient of the first 2. Point Now let vs consider of the second point wherefore it is that the Prophet will haue vs sing praises vnto God The Prophet commendeth here three especiall benefits of God as first that he buildeth Ierusalem Secondly that hee vseth his wisedome and power for the benefit of all his creatures but most especially for mans good And then thirdly that he cleerely reuealed his word his statutes and his commaundements vnto the Iewish people Hee saith The Lord buildeth vp Ierusalem Verse 2. and gathereth together the dispersed of Israel Here is to bee obserued that this Psalme was written after that the people of the Iewes were brought againe to Ierusalem other places in Iudea from the Babylonian captiuity Now when the Prophet sawe that Ierusalem was againe by little and little repaired the Citizens come againe together that were here there before dispersed abroad and the true seruice of God established anew he hartily reioyced yet not so much for the faire and goodly buildings as for that they were come thither againe euen vnto the place whereunto God had bound himselfe in the old Testament and couenanted with them and that the people did iointly againe with one consent serue God Rom. 9.4 Vnto whom appertaineth the addoption and the glory and the couenants and the giuing of the Lawe and the seruice of God and the promises And in such ioy of his heart he beginneth admonisheth all beleeuing Israelites to sing laud vnto the Lord one with an other and to praise our God vppon the harpe If now the godly forefathers did so heartily reioyce before Christs birth earnestly exhorted vnto the praising of God after they were deliuered but from their seauenty yeres Babilonian captiuity and were again returned into their beloued Countrey how much more then ought wee whose forefathers were pulled out of popish Babilon not after seuenty but after seuen hundred yeers of captiuity and brought againe together into their old country sing laud praise and thankes vnto almighty God for it The vulgar man considereth not what a glorious benefit this is To compare them a little together Was not that a miserie vpon misery when the parents were dispersed from their children the brethren from their sisters the