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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07402	The godly and Christian decease of the illustrious and high-borne Prince, Mauritius of Nassau, Prince of Orange, of happy memory. For the comfort and edification of all true Christians. / First written in Dutch, by master Iohn Bogerman, minister of the word of God, at Leeuwarden: and now translated into English..; Het christelijk overlijden van den prince Mauritius van Nassau. English	Bogerman, Johannes, 1576-1637.	1625 (1625)	STC 3204.5; ESTC S91125	20,527	33

of the children of God nor for any other Christian whereupon I demanded his Excell of this comfort out of the first question of the high-dutch Catechisme His Excell answered This is my onely comfort I know none other and this is my onely refuge whereby I purpose to remaine which sweet words of his Excell were as a Crowne to this holy worke and a certaine signe that the spirit of God had throughly wrought in his heart Then I said vnto his Excell your Excell may now expect ouer and aboue the Lawrell wreath wherewith the Lord hath crowned you here in this life to be crowned with all those Kings and Princes that with true faith haue kissed the Sonne of God as your Excell hath done with an immortall and euerlasting Crowne of glory in the world to come After these words were ended his Excell said though with great trouble I cannot well speake any more whereupon I left his Excell wishing him a happy end which I saw to draw neare At this Visitation were present the chiefest Officers of his Excellencie The last Visitation When his Excellencie lay a dying and departed this world IN the afternoone about foure of the clocke I was by two Sergeants requested to come vp vnto his Excell Being come into the Chamber I found his Excell His Excell cannot speake any more but hath his perfect vnderstanding to be toward his last end his speech hauing left him and was not able once to cast vp his eyes I spake at his Excell eare Being your Excell speech doth now faile you thinke now in your heart which the Lord doth behold and search thorow vpon your Sauiour Iesus Christ who is now the onely life and comfort of your Excell And when I did perceiue his Excell gaue sufficient signes that he vnderstood me I did at the request of the Princesse of Portugall who stood by mee and with weeping eyes beheld his Excell say prayers Prayers is said there being likewise present the Comitties of the High and Mighty the Lords Estates generall the Lord Vosbergen and other Lords to me vnknowne also the chiefest seruants of his Highnesse with two Doctors Doctor Rumpf and Doctor Valentius who did all fall vpon their knees before the Lord and prayed with bitter teares for his Excell After prayer was ended I spake againe at his Excell eare saying If your Excell hath vnderstood me and that you are yet comforted in the Lord His Excell gaue a sign to shew that hee did vnderstand it and that he was well contented I pray let me know by touching my hand whereupon his Ex presently hold me so fast by my hand that I could scarce get it out vntill such time as the strength of his life went from him and then I spake once more these words vnto him Lord Iesu receiue my spirit Lord Iesu haue mercy vpon me His Excell did yet sufficiently shew that hee vnderstood it whereupon we once againe went vnto prayers and prayed with such feruency as any Christian might imagine Prayer is said once more And afterwards betweene 5. and 6. of the clocke this noble Prince rested in the Lord in the prayers of the beholders so sweetly as euer I saw man dye without the least motion of his body and without any interruption of his breath His Excell pleasant death And thus dyed this famous Champion Prince Maurice c. in the 58. yeare of his age hauing Gouerned little lesse then 40. yeares Hee was held of all true-hearted Patriots a precious and chosen Instrument of Gods glory specially for Gods Church and these Countries He will be by some more lamented after his death An Exhortation vnto all the Inhabitants of this Land then he was beloued of them in his life But I pray and exhort all faithfull Inhabitants of this Land to take to heart these few ensuing admonitions wherewith I will conclude this my Narration The Lord hath within these few yeares taken from vs that faithfull Prince Count William Lodowicke of Nassau c. and hath sithence visited this Land with heauy plagues famine high-waters strong-warres as is yet at this time besides the extraordinary besieging of the City of Breda and now moreouer smites vs for our sinnes with this deepe wound and that in such a time when all the world would iudge we stood in most neede of this great Prince Will the Lord then vtterly forsake vs and goe from vs It seemeth so and certainely this is no vaine imagination but the King of all Kings and the Lord of all Lords whose iudgements are iust and whose wayes are vnsearchable can and will according to his infinite mercy who hath so many times miraculously saued these Countries for his holy name and welbeloued Sonnes sake keepe vs if wee as well Rulers as Subiects doe hate our sinnes betimes turne vnto him and doe vprightly walke before him in his holy lawes which are not vnknowne vnto vs. And this is that which wee must doe if wee will make a good vse of Gods iudgements that he may turne them from vs and if wee desire to haue the Lord to blesse this Countrey and State otherwise wee all see if wee are not blinde in heart how the LORD doth threaten vs and which certainely once will come vpon vs if wee remaine snorting in our carnall security and then wee shall not finde any mercy with the LORD It is not any inward nor outward meanes will bee able to saue vs if the LORD turne from vs And therefore those are the best people who aboue all things seeke to appease the wrath of the most Highest who ruleth the hearts of all Kings and so labour to obtaine his fauour that with a good conscience they may both liue and dye in his feare and thereunto they vse all possible meanes according to their vocation to employ it for the seruice of the common good and this confirmeth a State and bringeth the blessing of God ouer the whole Countrey but here I take leaue with the Prophet Ieremie to say O earth earth earth Ier. 22.29 heare the word of the LORD What word the word of the Sonne of GOD Remember from whence thou art fallen and repent and doe thy first workes or else I will come against thee shortly and will remoue your Candlesticke out of his place except thou amend I pray the Lord this may bee well practised That all higher powers and those of meaner sort would take example of the Religious and godly decease of this Noble Prince of Orange whose soule vndoubtedly is now in glory with the Lord Iesus Christ waiting for the blessed resurrection of the dead which the Lord of his mercy grant vnto vs. Vnto whom as most due is bee all honour prayse and glory for euermore Amen For as much as concernes those that harden themselues in their sinnes by the abusing of Gods mercy and by example of those Saints that haue fallen and are risen vp againe for such there euer hath beene and yet are must know if they haue not a desire of their condemnation Quod non sint exempla cadendi nec in peccatis iacendi sed cauendi si cecideris resurgendi that is to say that those be no examples to fall nor yet to lye still but take heed wee doe not fall or if wee bee fallen that wee rise vp againe Who is so foolish that will goe breake his owne shinnes because hee seeth his fellow by a fall hath broken his and is whole againe Rom. 6.12 shall wee continue still in sinne that grace may abound God forbid they that are led by the spirit of GOD are afraide of such thoughts for so much as concerneth the diuell with all his wicked complices and vncleane spirits who cannot endure and doe nothing but scorne and deride the children of God in whom the Angels doe reioyce Wee must not stumble at these for Christ himselfe saith in the Gospell that their iudgement will bee hard enough for them to beare and therfore it is needlesse here to speake any more of them and therefore I end Beseeching the Lord to restraine the diuell and mercifully to saue his people in this great tempest wherein the whole Christian world doe so fearefully striue with one another So be it FINIS