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A20739	A true relation of the right Christianly departure, or death, of the most Noble Earle Philippus Lodouicus Earle of Hanaw and Rieneck, Lord of Mutzenbergk, &c. Vncle to the Count Palatine. Who blessedly deceased, in the Lord, on Sunday the ninth of August 1612. betwixt eight and nine of the clocke in the morning, being returned from his great ambassage for England. Faithfully penned by Ioannes Appelius preacher at Alten-Hasell. Translanted out of the Germane tongue by S.R.	Appelius, Joannes.; S. R.	1612 (1612)	STC 712; ESTC S100203	16,541	36

dost not walke vprightly in thy wayes then art thou not happy Loue thy Brother and Sisters from thy hart Loue thy house doe good vnto the poore according to thy abilitie then shall the Lord blesse thee Beware of drinking dissolutenes and vncleane speaches as of fire Honour thy state Be industrious in all things Reade and practise continually the 119. Psalme Let thy Astrologians be the 28. Chapter of Deutronomium PHILIPPVS LODOVICVS Thy faithfull Father vnto death The eldest Daughter Lady Charlotte Loisa receiued her booke with these words FEare Honour and loue thy GOD from thy hart haue his Commaundements continually before thine eyes take thy delight therein Honour with a filiall obedience thy louing Mother Keepe thy mouth close with a locke Esteeme honesty and modesty aboue all the treasures of the world God blesse thee my louing Childe Thy faithfull Father vnto death The second Daughter Lady Amalia Elisabetha receiued her booke with these words HAue GOD before thine eyes Honour thy Mother with obedience Keepe honesty and modesty that will be thy best iewell and riches Thy faithfull Father vnto death The youngest Daughter Lady Catharina Iuliana receiued her booke with these wordes DEare Childe be vertuous Haue thy Creator before thine eyes Feare thy God all the dayes of thy life Loue thy Sauiour who shed his precious blood for thee Breake thy euill will Be humble and obedient Humilitie Honestie and Silence doe more adorne a Lady then either Pearles or other costly iewels Thy faithfull Father vnto death His Excellencie caused also the lately borne Lord to be brought before his bedde he sighed heartely ouer him touched him with his hand and prayed that the Lord would also blesse that Childe and giue it grace to be well and Christianly brought vp These Children being thus blessed by his Excellencie and committed vnto God I doe not doubt but that these sighes and prayers are pierced through the clouds and come vnto God yea are written in his booke and that we shall see in due time the effects thereof abundantly according to the true promise of God Esa 65. 23. My elect shall not labour in vaine nor bring forth in feare for they are the seede of the blessed of the Lord and their buds with them Also Psal 145. 19. The Lord will fulfill the desire of them that feare him he also will heare their cry and will saue them The Lord according vnto his great mercie grant vnto these blessed Children euen the same spirit by whom they must be blessed that they may alwayes haue before their eyes the zealous prayers and sighes of their father for to stirre them vp vnto true pietie and vertue not despising and leesing as wicked Esau did the blessing but kéeping it on them according to the promise I shew mercie on thousands that loue me and keepe my commandements His Excellencie being risen a while that his bedde might be made looked on his new Chamber-clarke stretched his hand out vnto him and said I haue not yet taken leaue of you I will doe it now Thinke on your Oath and calling hold God before your eyes be faithfull vnto him and you shall keepe a good conscience and no doubt be faithfull vnto me and mine The Lord giue thee grace therevnto Due of his Counselors comming into the Chamber as his Excellencie was to lye downe againe his Excellencie stretched his armes out and said with great affection Ecce Diuinum Miraculum Hominem iam mortuum viribus tamen adhuc integrum Loe a diuine miracle a man already dead yet hauing his full strength for his Excellencie did féele himselfe yet strong thence he feared a heauie departure His Excellencie caused diuers things to be read vnto him out of a little Song-booke Printed in Lubeck Anno 1607. which beginneth thus Ach Gott wenn sol ichs klagen Mein Angst vnnd Ellend schwer Ich mocht wol gar verzaghen Wann Herr dein trost nicht wer c. And tooke the same vnto him and in the margant wrote these words This song haue I vsed many yeeres and commanded as soone as hée should be departed to lay the same the booke being opened vpon his hart On the said day did his Excellencie call before him all the Ministers of the old and new Citie wherevnto were ioyned some Country Ministers with whom his Excellencie did discourse of the true faith and christian departure and told vnto them that he would not be in this his weaknesse without a Preacher His Excellencie did often sigh and pray from his hart for mitigation of his paines and shortning of the pangs of death as also for an vnderstanding end besides this vttered many excellent and comfortable speaches to the ioy and admiration of the assistants which were not remembred nor noted because no body did thinke that death was at hand yet whereas many of them were repeated by him the Friday ensuing I haue set them downe in writing On Friday the 7. of August when his Excellencie no doubt did féele that the houre of death did approach and that his hart was full of Godly comfort his Excellencie began againe to speake with a singular zeale of the miserie of this life of the death of a Christian and of eternall saluation I was present at that time and did admit no other then my selfe from that time forward the chiefest speaches which I noted were these Should I not kéepe that which I haue promised vnto my God I haue promised to follow him when and whether soeuer hee doe call me He calleth mée now I am now vpon the way should I turne backe againe Should I thrust my selfe againe into such vnquietnesse I thanke God that I am thus farre deliuered thereof Should I polute my selfe againe with sinne from the which my Lord Iesus Christ hath fréed me Ah my deare friends thus he spake vnto vs the assistants how well should your matters stand if they stood as mine doe Ah louing Sirs I haue seene the glorie of God what care I for this world I haue kissed the hem of the garment of my Lord Iesus Christ I doe now clime on the Ladder of Iacob vnto heauen toward my God and Sauiour should I be so sottish as to take a péece of wood for a péece of Gold What if many millions of Gold were giuen vnto mee to spend I would account it nothing worldly things doe perish Whilest his Excellencie was speaking these things hée cast his armes from him and said all things doe now stincke vnto mee tell this vnto my Children and chiefely vnto their Steward that they doe not endeauour for worldly matters but that they put their trust on God Ah my deare people how much trouble haue you with mee miserable creature I will thanke you all in heauen some of you will shortly follow mée My wife gaue mée leaue to trauaile into England why should shée not giue me leaue to goe vnto my louing God yea said I into that Celestiall Engelland where the holy Angels

praise God as they did at Bethlem And when I would comfort his Excellencie with the hope of recouerie of his health hee answered very earnestly these words My louing Minister can you counsell me with a good conscience that I should thrust my selfe againe into this wicked and troublesome world On Friday Morning his Excellencie charged to shut all the doores and to admit no man vnto him that hée might not be séene vncouered because of the excéeding great heat But about the Euening beginning againe to speake very comfortably of eternall life hée cryed twise with a loude voyce Open all the doores let all my people come in that they may sée how ioyfully I dye that they all may be comforted by my example Hee thought also on his Wife in Childe-bed and said How well and wisely doth the Lord ordaine all things hee hath deliuered my Wife from the pangs and labour of Childe-birth that shée should not haue two griefes at once shée will the sooner passe ouer the griefe of my departure The Phisitians counselled his Excellencie not to ouer-weary himselfe by too much speaking wherevnto he answered Should I not speake of my louing God he hath giuen mée a tongue to that end They did likewise disswade him from taking the fresh Ayre by opening of a window his Excellencie answered Should I not behold the faire heauens whether I shal come anone When his Excellencie did sée through the window his new built Turret and spake of it I said This is a fayre Turret but your Excellencie knoweth well which is the spirituall Turret of our soules from thence shall you receiue helpe and consolation his Excellencie said héerevpon Good-night and caused the window to be shut and looking on his bed said Christ hath suffered for me at the fearefull Crosse I am not worthy of this ease I answered your Excellencie is worthy of it and seeing God hath giuen you the same receiue it thankfully Lying on his bed he stretched his right legge on the side stoke his hand on it and said O you deere legge you haue had a long time no rest your rest draweth néere One of his Exceilencies seruing-men going out of the Chamber his Excellencie commended vnto me his diligence and faithfulnesse His Excellencie did lift vp to heauen his hands and eyes very often and said O thou great and strong God Thou almightie God Thou holy God Thou good and true God and added alwaies therevnto some short and feruent prayer Docter Luther calleth such prayers Stossgebete that is thrusting or thronging prayers because they come from the zealous heart with force and are cast out before the mercie seate of God according vnto the speach of the 55. Psalme Cast thy burthen vpon the Lord. His Excellencie did also often repeate these sentences Psalme 50. verse 15. Call vpon mee in the day of trouble so will I deliuer thee and thou shalt glorifie mee Psalme 91. 15. Hee shall call vpon mee and I will heare him I will be with him in trouble I will deliuer him and shew him my saluation Philip. 1. 23. I desire to be loosed and to be with Christ Psalme 27. 14. Hope in the Lord be strong comfort thine heart and trust in the Lord. I depart in peace and in ioy should not I be glad I haue obtayned of my God what I demaunded yea more then I requested His Excellencie could not be satisfied with the 23. Psalm The Lord is my shepherd hée caused mée to reade the same thrée times and as once I read these words yea though I should walke through the darke valley his Excellencie said that darke valley is now vnto me reasonable light O Lord stay thine anger from me that I may be refreshed before I goe hence Hée made likewise very good vse with the two last verses of the 38. Psalme Forsake mee not O Lord bee not thou farre from me my God Haste thee to helpe me O Lord of my saluation Hence it appeareth that man consisteth of flesh and spirit that the old and new Adam dwelleth in him and that these two are alwayes in combat one against another as long as man liueth héere And when man is cast by the Counsell of God into the Ouen of misery and is tempted by the heate of the Crosse then Soule and Body Flesh and Spirit fight one against the other The worldlings haue no féeling of such a Spirituall combat but Gods children féele the same euery day and pray O Lord Leade vs not into temptation yet leade vs according vnto thy will but deliuer vs soone from the Euill-one and from all that might hinder our saluation Hence it commeth that the true beléeuers when they féele such a combat betwixt the Spirit and the Flesh or sée and heare it in others that they hould it for a good token according vnto the saying of Saint Iames Cap. 1. 2. My Brethren count it exceeding ioy when you fall into diuers tentations Also verse 12. Blessed is the man that endureth tentation The vnbeléeuing worldlings and Hipocrites who know not how wonderfully God dealeth with his Saints hold it for an euill signe or token and speake with derision of it which they would not doe if they vnderstood the example of our Sauiour Iesus Christ who was tempted thrée times by the Diuell Also if they knew that all things doe turne good vnto those that loue God Also that they must be made like vnto the Image of his Sonne Rom. 8. Hence it fell out that his Excellencie besides these excellent speaches of consolation feeling in his heart the testimonie of Gods holy Spirit did vtter sometimes words of complaint and sorrow by the frailtie of his sinnefull siesh and of old Adam yet sought finally the victorie Hée complayned sometimes of the miserie of this life of the manifold sinnes wherevnto the corrupt nature is subiect of the fearefulnesse of death of the paines of hell and said Ah I miserable sinfull man O Lord hast thou forgotten mée wilt thou shew no more mercy Is thy mercy turned to anger c. euen as Dauid speaketh in the 77. and 88. Psalmes Also my paines are too great I can suffer them no longer And whereas these words did séeme to come from vnpatience against the gracious helpe of God his Excellencie was comforted and admonished by me and other assistants with many good and holy sentences vnto Christian patience it is not néede to set them downe here His Excellencie did receiue this comfort and did correct his former vnpatience with these words Ah I doe prouoke my God vnto anger by my vnpatience I will doe it no more If I haue receiued from God good things I will beare patiently the euill hée will not forsake me he hath not forsaken me yet I will prescribe vnto him no measure forsake me not O Lord that I forsake not thée Besides went on thus Ah what a heauy battell is before me wherevpon I told him your Excellencie is now in the estate wherein your

Lord Iesus Christ was when hee was in the agonie Luke 22. 44. the said Lord Christ hath ouer-wonne he calleth now vnto himselfe all those that are wearie and laden Mat. 11. 28. hee is the Captaine in this combat follow you him with patience and faith and no enimy shall be able to hurt you His Excellencie did not feare death for he was ready and willing to die but onely the terror of it setting death before his eyes by the weakenes of the flesh as a fearefull Tyrant and as the Gyant Goliah who terrified the Israelites But I comforted him immediately as followeth Death indéed was terrible because of our sinnes but she is no more horrible vnto those that are in Iesus Christ for he as the true Dauid hath vanquished death Did not your Excellencie hetherto pray for a blessed end Hath not Christ promised that he will giue whatsoeuer we doe pray for vnto the Father in his name Ioh. 16. Doeth not the 145. Psalme say that God doth what the good demaund and the 12. God heareth the sighes of the faithfull and the 34. God deliuereth the righteous out of all feare Your Excellencie will not tread vnder féete your prayers and déepe sighes for they are pierced through the cloudes I will saith the Lord vp and set him at liberty Psal 12. Besides I propounded vnto his Excellencie the comfort of the 1 Cor. 15. 55. O death where is thy sting O graue where is thy victorie Hence I tooke occasion to shew to compare the death of the faithfull vnto a bold and proud Souldiour who hath no weapons and whose threatnings are in vaine These words tooke away that feare of his Excellencie after diuers gronings kéeping himselfe quiet he said One combat is now past which words I heard with great ioy and thanked God for it The Satterday drawing neare his Excellencie was desirous to speake againe with his wife and the Lady of Orange They came presently and with them the Lady Charlotte Loyse hee spake with them in order and they with comfortable speaches and aboundance of teares tooke their leaue againe of him he said vnto his daughter Charlotte Well my deare daughter remember mee thy father who alwayes intended to doe thée good feare the Lord be vertuous and honest and no good shall faile thée On Satterday the 8. of August did some of his Councill aske what they should say vnto his louing Brother Count Albrecht if it would please God to take his Excellencie vnto himselfe hée answered Tell him good night and let him know that I haue alwayes meant well and brotherly though he and some others could or would not alwayes acknowledge the same It néedes not to write of this matter any further His Excellencie charged them also to say farewell in his name vnto the Archbishop and Prince Elector of Ments the Abbot of Fulda the Count Wolffgang E●●est of Henburgk c. and told his Chamberlaine by whom and on what occasion this should be performed On this Satterday his Excellencie caused for a time all the assistants to void the chamber and I remained alone with him hée beganne to enter with mée into an holy discourse of the estate of the soules of the righteous in heauen and how farre wée are bound and able as long as wée are in the militant Church to pray for our selues and our brethren yea for all men I made along discourse hereof vnto his Excellencie wherein hée had a very good liking The greatnesse of his paines made him to complaine yet by my comfort did gather courage and said in Latine Mors mea gloriosa erit my death shall be glorious as if hée would haue said What doe I trouble my selfe all will be well and glorious On Satterday night the Sunday approaching and the houre of death drawing néere a very great conflict was séene in him and said in his lamentations Ah God hath forgotten mée it is vnpossible that I should be succoured I cannot hold fast your consolations thus turned himselfe from mée complained of an vnspeakable heate and cold how hée stood with one foote onely vpon a high mountaine and was to leape ouer a water that sprung out of the mountaine These wordes did much moue the hearts of the assistants and of mée likewise chiefely because his Excellencie said that hée could not receiue my consolations Héerevpon I tolde him that hée was to beare those suffrances that made him complaine as our Sauiour did vpon the Crosse My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee and the Prophet Dauid Psalme 18. The sorrowes of death compassed mee about c. And whereas his Excellencie had turned himselfe from me and could not receiue comfort I went to the bed fell about his necke and spake in great earnest these words My gracious Lord I beséech and admonish your Excellencie to take to your heart my consolations which I shall draw out of Gods holy word as from the Minister of Christ It is now Satterday the Sunday is at hand then doe wée speake in the Church in the exposition of the Catechisme of the crucified Lord Iesus Christ let vs now also speake of him These words moued his Excellencie to turne himselfe againe towards me and to giue eare vnto those comfortable grounds and sentences which I did alledge out of Gods holy word as the Lord at that time did put into my heart and I did chiefely draw some meditations from the 23. Psalme in which Psalme his Excellencie did much delight as wée said before saying your Excellencie shall now bée brought vnto those gréene Pastures and swéet waters that refresh the soule whereby your soule to the praise of God shall also be quickned It is true that the way vnto those blessed Pastures and springs is a darke valley of death full of thornes the doore also is very narrow But your Excellencie be of good chéere for you haue hetherto courageously ouercome the thornes of sinne and the darknesse of the terible death through Iesus Christ who is the light the way the truth and the life Goe on fight on in Iesus Christs name you are almost at the end there remaineth but two steps and two blowes then all is woone Your Excellency setteth now his right foote out of the darke and thornie valley into the pleasant pastures of God Iesus Christ our Sauiour who also went this way yea a farre painefuller standeth in the middest of these pastures and the holy Angels with him they wincke at you and call you vnto them and doe long to receiue you into their companie There is prepared a Table for your Excellencie to sit at with Abraham Isaac and Iacob you shall drinke there the ouer-flowing Cuppe of Heauenly Ioy your head shall be annointed with the true oyle of gladnesse séeing you haue fought and ouer-come so valiantly in Iesus Christ By these zealous spéeches and other was taken away the tentation and feare of Hell through the grace of our Lord Christ who permitteth vs