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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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truth your sex in scripture hath had honourable examples this age hath a holy example of you Painted sepulchers shall rot and Popish Hypocrites shall rise to sorrow when after many and happy yeares in this world you shall appeare with ioy before God with Sara Rebecca Debora Davids Abigail Salomons Sulamite and the Noble Sunamite in the better world And so with my devotions for your Noble husband your vertuous selfe all yours wishing you all the blessing of both Testaments and both liues I rest In all Christian duty to be commanded DANIEL PRICE EZEK 9.4 Set a marke vpon the foreheads of them that sigh and that cry for all the Abominations IErusalem the largest Mappe of misery that ever eye beheld having beene often threatned often battred and her visitation growing neerer and greater then before Salem being to become a tributary City Lam. 1.4 Ierusalem to become a solitary widdow the waies of Zion to mourne her streets to be empty her gates desolate her feasts vnfrequented her Priests to sigh her Virgins to be afflicted shee her selfe the obiect of this sight and subiect of this sorrow to weepe day and night and the teares to runne downe her cheekes continually Lam. 1.2 her Plagues growing mighty because her sinnes were waxed many Many committing them few mourning for them The Lord now sendeth sixe to destroy this City commāding them to spare none to take no pity Ezek 9.6 but to destroy young old the maids and children women yet to touch none that had the Marke and what this marke is my Text telleth you A Publike Notarie is sent to take the list of the Mourners their sorrow is their safety their lamentation the cause of their preservation Exod. 12. houses marked in Egypt are deliuered because marked mē marked in Ierusalem marked that they may bee delivered Mercy hath her lodgings taken vp in all Cities or Countries bee the Iudgements never so great mercie cannot Gen. 7.1 Gen. 19.22 Exod. 12. will not bee excluded The Saints are priviledged men they haue speciall immunities an Arke a Goshen a Zoar a City of refuge shall be ever prepared or if the breaches of the City be many yet some shall be marked to be deliuered the meeke Mat. 8.5 or mercifull or peacemaker or persecuted or poore in spirit or pure in heart or those that hunger thirst for righteousnesse These onely shall not bee blessed Mourning shall haue a part Iudg. 1.15 Acsaph cannot want a blessing shee shall be endowed with springs aboue springs beneath the godly may sow in teares but shall reape in ioy thousands shall fall before them and ten thousands at their right hand but the plague shall not come nigh them My Text is the patent of the priviledge granted to Mourners set a marke vpon the foreheade of them that mourne and crie for all the abhomination But were any in Ierusalem to bee marked there was a time there were none to bee found In another Prophecie you shall find Ierusalem without a man The Philosopher through Athens was not more careful to find a wise-man then Ieremie in Ierusalem to finde one good man Ier. 5.1 A wonder it was Inventus est vnus in Sodoma non iustus inventus est vnus in Civitate sancta Sodome yeelded one Lot but Ierusalem yeelded not one iust man then At this time the state was better though not many some there were these seeke and finde they loose not their labour some children of the bride-chamber mourned their sight was bestowed intromittendo extramittendo they saw and shed teares to see the abhominations Mourning was as the Shiboleth be tweene an Ephraimite and a Gileadite mourning is the Marriage garment Eccl. 3.4 Ps 126.6 Ps 90.11 Mat. 5.4 Ecclesiastes appointeth a time for mourning David mentioneth the fruit of mourning Moses prayeth for comfort in mourning Christ promiseth blessednes for mourning but a mark for mourning a seale a character an embleme an ensigne is never found before never after I knowe in the life to come mourning shall not be vnrewarded Revel 1. all Teares shall be wiped away but in this life where the 12 fountaines of Elim doe continually flowe in this vale of miserie in this valley of Teares in this way of the wildernesse full of stony waies and bitter waters that not only Consolation but preseruation is assured to Mourners may seeme strange yet is true my Text giveth evidence Set a marke vpon those that mourne and cry for all the abhominations Spices cannot preserue the dead by embalming as Teares will preserue the living by mourning who thé is not desirous to sow in teares Ps 126.6 that he may reape in ioy and to go on his way weeping and bring this good seed that he doubtlesse may come again with ioy bring his sheaues with him That not a sigh is sent out but is heard in heaven not a Teare but is kept not a groane but commeth before God he that seeth him in secret to reward him openly These poore soules to be rewarded with ioy in their teares when the wicked that were in ioy before their faces wallow in their blood Ps 101.1 This is an extraordinary song of iudgement mercy set a marke vpon the foreheads of them that mourne cry for all the abominations Divis Which words in an easie kindly distribution thus divide themselues 1. The Priviledge of mourning set a marke vpon the foreheads of them that mourn 2. The spirituall cause of true mourning for all the abhominatiōs In the 1 there is a separatiō distinction not as the Prophet distinguisheth them marshalling the inhabitants of Ierusalem thus Ier. the strong man and man of war Iudge and Prophet prudent and aged Captaine of fiftie Honourable man and Counsellour Artificer Eloquent man but whosoever of any state of life any age any sex that mourned are all preserved Gedeon divideth and separateth his company by lapping of waters Iudg 7.1 God distinguisheth his Saints here by shedding of watry teares set a marke vpon those that mourne and cry in Ierusalem Secondly as no man saved but the mourners so no mourning is approved but that which is for the abhominatiōs of the time though their friends neighbours the wiues of their bosome their childrē the fruit of their bodies were slaine before their face that no Myrmidon no savage Barbarian could abstaine from weeping at such Ruthfull wofull spectacles Aencad lib. 4. that standers by woulde brand thē with the cursed character of hard-harts with a Quis temperet à lachrimis Yet their mourning is not allowed vnlesse it be for the abhominations The desolation is spirituall because the abhomination is spirituall all the lamentation must be no other must be no lesse Set a marke vpon the foreheads of them that mourne and weepe for the Abhominations But 1 of the Priviledge of mourners Pars. 1 It might well haue beene the question 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