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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 God and a fore-runner of death and death will follow but the Lord in his mercy hath hidden from vs the time when Whereupon when his Excellence had giuen mee to vnderstand that hee felt hee should dye of this sicknesse His Excel is of opinion that hee should dye of this sicknes and doth desire to be prepared for it I exhorted him to reconcile himselfe with God with whom at this present hee had to doe that hee might then with a quiet Conscience expect whatsoeuer the Lord should dispose of his person Whereupon his P. Excell answered So I doe then I said further it is requisite that aboue all things we doe humble our selues before the Lord by reason of our sinnes which are contrary vnto the most holy commandements of God And in their nature are abhominable in the sight of the Lord who are the occasion of Gods wrath and of all plagues temporall Eternall for which the sonne of God suffered so much on the Crosse Wee must haue an vpright hatred of them condemne them and be ashamed of them according to the example of the Saints confesse them before the Lord. And the strickter wee are in this perticular and the more wee powre out our hearts before the Lord the more capable wee shall be with ioy and thankefulnesse to receiue the riches of Gods mercy And when I had shewed vnto his Excell some parts of Scripture wherein is promised mercy and forgiuenesse of sinnes vnto them that shall truly repent his Excell opened his mouth and said I haue Sinned and presently after with a more vehemency that the very teares stood in his eyes hee said I haue Sinned grossely Whereby I was much moued declaring vnto him that this was an acceptable offering vnto the Lord Psal 51. Such a broken heart will the Lord not despise Shewing him the abundant ioy and comfort all repentant sinners haue in the Lord Iesus Christ who is the onely and perfect attonement for our sinnes Hee is our Righteousnesse who can onely stand before the Lord and he is our life which I had a little before more largely insisted vpon but hauing shewed a few more as Esay 53.1 1 Iohn 2.1 2 Hebrewes 10. I demanded of his Excell if in his heart hee did not comfort himselfe with them Whereupon his Excell with his hands closed confessed his faith saying I take my refuge vnto the great mercy of God His Ex doth confesse his faith and confidence in Christ Iesus Phil. 1.6 And I beleeue that Iesus Christ died for mee on the crosse in whom I put all my trust and these words hee said twice together Whereupon I said this is a true christian faith the Lord from whom all good gifts commeth be praised that hee hath giuen vnto your Excell so great a gift as this faith is and grant to fulfill this worke in you Then I said further in such a heart as this is doth the Holy Ghost worke all desire and loue vnto righteousnesse His Ex earnest desire to serue the Lord better then he confessed to haue done Psal 130. Whereupon his P. Excell said It repenteth mee that I haue not serued the Lord better then I haue done I confesse I haue not serued him enough I will pray him to strengthen mee This said I is most Christianly spoken and so must all faithfull Christians doe If thou O Lord saith Dauid marke mine iniquities O Lord who shall stand But mercy is with thee that thou mayst bee feared If there were no mercy with God no man were able to serue him but now the forgiuenesse of sinnes is an Article of our christian Faith we are all miserable sinners before the Lord and doe all stand in need of his mercy It is true said his Excellencie Then I spoke vnto his Excell comforts from the word of God that his Excell might patiently take this crosse vpon him not doubting but that it would bee for the comfort and saluation of his soule saying that his Excell would doe well to delight himselfe in the meditating vpon that great worke of God which hee did for vs in suffering his Sonne not to be an Angell for Angels but to be man for to redeeme many whose manhood doctrine miracles obedience bloodshedding death resurrection and assention to heauen is all for our good onely in faith constantly beleeuing them as if they had here happened before our eyes and as if wee with the Apostles had seene the word of life with our corporall eyes 1 Iohn 1.13 whereof Iohn speaketh 1 Iohn 1.1.3 The selfe same IESVS doth now sit at the right hand of God desiring and expecting that all those that beleeue in him to be with him and to behold his glory of which glory in regard of our soules after death as also in regard both of soule and body at the day of iudgment Iohn 17.24 I rehearsed vnto his Excell certaine places of Scripture Whereupon when his Excell had spoken these words His Ex words of the ioyes of heauen We cannot conceiue this it is aboue apprehension I said the Angels themselues cannot conceiue this great wonderfull worke of God but doe delight in the contemplation thereof We must beleeue and admire it giuing thankes vnto the Lord that he hath revealed so much vnto vs as doth against the misery which wee haue in this life in some measure giue vs a taste of the ioyes of the life to come and thereupon I rehearsed vnto his Excell what ioy and gladnesse the Apostles had vpon the Mount when they did but onely see a glympse of the heauenly glory and so I alluded also that many times in my sicknesse I was there-with so reioyced and comforted that I felt a taste of the heauenly ioyes within mee Whereupon his Excell enquired for some places of Scripture which I had mentioned vnto him especially of those that spoke of the Prayer of Christ and of the ioyes of the life to come which I repeated vnto him telling him that hee should not disturbe himselfe too much and if hee could not endure much speech to imploy his minde with good thoughts or if he could to let some body reade by him that which should fall into his Excell minde for the word of God is fruitfull and so here with I thought to haue taken my leaue excusing my selfe fearing least I should haue beene ouer-trouble-some vnto his Excell but his Excell detained mee longer with these questions There bee some said he that haue much in their mouthes but they haue no deeds their words and their deeds doe not agree and such there be many Whereunto I answered that those kinde of people were of two sorts some are but hipocrites which doe not meane with their hearts what they say but doe onely seeke to please men those bee but like painted tombes of whom Christ speaketh The Gospell is like vnto a net which catcheth both good and bad fishes In the Lords field groweth both wheate and

Kingdome of God within vs. And here I exhorted his Excell to continue so vnto the end rehearsing certaine promises wherein the Lord doth promise the helpe and continuation of his mercy vntill the end Wee poore sinners are bound to vse the meanes which the Lord hath ordained but without the holy Ghost this worke cannot be vndertaken nor continued His Excell said So doe I hold it to bee also It must all come from God and I will pray him to strengthen mee His Ex christian declaration of Gods mercy Hereby I tooke courrage to speake thus vnto his Excell Gratious Lord your Excell hath spoken very religiously saying that it must all come from the Lord and that you will pray vnto the Lord to strengthen you The Lord will bee prayed or his mercies and that honour doth onely belong vnto him and wee ought to doe it with a willing mind and with all chearfulnesse and that in regard hee doth so gratiously promise to heare vs. The Apostle Iames doth also exhort vs to this duty If any bee sicke among you saith he let him call for thee elders of the church Iames 5.14 and let them pray for him May it therefore please your Excell that we doe al loyntly call vpon the name of the Lord and you to pray with vs as much as is in your power His Excell answered when you please His Ex is desirous to haue payers said at his beds side Whereupon we all fell vpon our knees before the Lord and prayed with teares Prayer being ended I set my selfe downe againe to comfort his Excell as the Lord should put it into my minde amongst other things speaking of the pleasant fruits of affliction and of the difference betweene the death of the Saints and the wicked and of the profitable change which they doe make who in true faith end their pilgrimage out of this vale of misery leauing these earthly tabernacles and goe to dwell with the Lord and how happy and how precious death is vnto them because it endeth their misery and doth transport them vnto the desired hauen of rest euen the Kingdome of glory At these speeches his Excellencie harkened with an extraordinary attention turning himselfe vnto mee and looking very stedfastly vpon mee which made me to admire it at length with great reioycing hee approued my words saying So doe I beleeue also I am resolued then I said vnto his Excell It pleased GOD to let mee administer his holy word vnto his Excell of happy memory Count William of Nassau in the time of his sickenesse and so God hath ordained that I should doe vnto your Highnesse although in great weakenesse I doe therefore in all humility beseech your Highnesse graciously to ponder this my meane seruice vnto you trusting that it will not goe without a blessing from the LORD for I know with what heart I haue done it whereupon his Excell said I thanke you for troubling your selfe so much with my person and presently after because I did not well vnderstand his Excell hee said You haue done me very good seruice And when I thought herewith to haue taken my leaue of his Excell his Excell kissed his hand and reached it forth vnto mee so that it made the teares to runne downe my eyes saying your Excell may please to bee of good comfort and and without doubt the LORD will giue you a happy issue from this affliction And so I withdrew my selfe hauing taken my leaue of the said Princesses In this action although I was very weary of body yet I reioyced in GOD and so did both the said Princesses Praysing the Lord in the midst of their sorrow for the Religious and Christian behauiour of his Excellencie The fourth Visitation Being on Wednesday the 13. of Aprill in the forenoone about 10. of the clocke which was his Excell dying-day AT this time was I fetched againe to come vnto his Excell whom I found to be much altered and be was not likely to liue long although when I asked his Excell how he felt himselfe he said It is much alike as it was yesterday And whereas I perceiued his Excell to be very weake I comforted him with these places of Scripture 1 Cor. 10.13 Heb. 4.15.16 Rom. 8.28.38.39 Whereupon his Excell answered I am resolued and there is nothing in the world that troubleth me Very religious words of his Excell before his death onely this whether my Repentance be as sufficient for my sinnes as it ought to be I am sorry that I cannot serue the Lord as I would doe The Lord strengthen me I am at rest With these words his Excell gaue sufficiently to vnderstand that he was at rest in his minde Wherefore with all my power and ability I sought more and more to strengthen his Excell in this particular whereunto I found my selfe much addicted and to this end I put his Excell in minde of all the speeches which hee had spoken and first I put him in minde of his repentance for his sinnes secondly of his faith in Iesus Christ and thirdly of his religious purpose to amend his life all which speeches I approued with the word of God and thereupon I told his Excell that we were commanded to them that were thus prepared to lay open vnto them the whole treasure of Gods mercy and his faithfull promises in Christ Iesus Wherefore your Excell must make a good vse of this affliction and by the fruits thereof shew and acknowledge the loue of God according to his word for he correcteth him whom he loueth Pro. 3.12 And your Excell shall finde that death is life according to Gods promise He that beleeueth in me Heb. 12.6 it passed from death vnto life I desire saith Paul to be loosed and to be with Christ for death vnto me is aduantage Psal 1.23.21 1 Cor. 5.1 If our earthly tabernacles be destroyed we haue a building giuen vs of God in the heauens And thus I exhorted his Excell to set himselfe at peace reioycing in his Sauiour Iesus Christ in whose name I as a seruant of Christ did pronounce vnto his Excell forgiuenesse of all his sinnes which he did from his heart repent of which the Lord himselfe doth promise to ratifie and approue Your Excell Matth. 18 18. said I hath euer beene a sincere Prince hating all falshood and lyes and your Excell hath also meant it with your heart whatsoeuer you haue said in the premisses for your Excell knoweth that this is not a time to flatter any body in so weighty a matter as this is whereon your Excell saluation dependeth Therefore your Excell may please to bee stedfast in the onely comfort wee haue both in life and death and wherein your Excell hath beene so long resolued to liue and dye in with the children of God without whom I doe here protest before the Lord to know no other saluation for my selfe His Excell last words Of his contentednesse in the true comfort

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