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A10047 A heartie prayer, in a needfull time of trouble. The sermon preached at Theobalds, before his Maiestie, and the lords of the Priuie Councell, an houre before the death of our late soueraigne King Iames. On Sunday, March 27. / By D. Price, deane of Hereford, then in attendance, and now chaplaine in ordinarie to his Maiestie. Price, Daniel, 1581-1631. 1625 (1625) STC 20293; ESTC S115208 20,513 40

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A HEARTIE PRAYER In a needfull time of trouble THE SERMON Preached at THEOBALDS before his Maiestie and the Lords of the Priuie Councell an houre before the Death of our late Soueraigne KING IAMES On Sunday March 27. By D. PRICE Deane of Hereford then in Attendance and now Chaplaine in Ordinarie to his MAIESTIE IER 30.7 Alas for that day was great so that none was like it it was euen the time of IACOBS trouble but he is saued out of it LONDON Printed by M. FLESHER for IOHN GRISMAND and are to be sold at his shop at the Signe of the Gun in Paules Alley 1625. TO THE KINGS MAIESTIE ROyall Master Your gracious aspect to my poore endeuors often presented in your religious presence hath encouraged mee to this Dedication of my last seruice to your blessed Father and first to your Maiestie for the whole world hath no greater Patronage of goodnesse then your selfe and our daily bread and hourely breath serueth vs to beseech the Almightie that you long be the gracious Patrone and Patterne of Religion That I presume to offer it vnto your Maiestie in this time of our iust cause of ioy wherein the Lillies and Roses the Oliue and Vine are conioyned I excuse it by the Pattern I see in Mount Thabor wherein our blessed Sauiour when he shewed his Disciples a glympse of his glory in his Transfiguration hee seasoned their Soules rapt vp in those vnspeakable ioyes with the remembrance of his Passion What this is is like Beniamin the birth of sorrow and of so much sorrow to me as had almost sequestred my Soule from my Body The hand of Heauen that hath wiped away our teares keepe vs long and long from such occasion of tears and Crowne your Royall Person and Gracious Queene with the blessings of Goodnesse which is the continuall Prayer of your Maiesties most humble Chaplaine DANIEL PRICE The Sermon at Theobalds an houre before the death of King IAMES PSAL. 118.25 Saue now I beseech thee O Lord O Lord I beseech thee send now prosperitie THE first fruits of Sinne are Shame and Sorrow and euer since Sinne brought in Death Death the lodge of all mens liues driueth out Sinne and triumpheth ouer Sinners Looke on the foure first Fathers of the World Adam signifieth earthy Abel mourning vanitie Enosh sorrow Kenan lamentation and euer since all times and all places were and are as this time and place representeth vnto vs a time of mortalitie and a Region of death in the shadow of Death Nonne haec est regio mortuorum saith Ambrose Ambr. vbi vmbra mortis janua mortis vincula mortis corpus mortis The present Cloud wherein wee are inueloped and stand all as an amazed poore flocke of sheep beholding a sauage Wolfe worrying our Royall Shepheard looking vpon the wrestling of our Royall Iacob he that is spiritus oris nostri Christus Domini the very breath of our nostrils the Lords Anointed now in Combat with the last enemy that shall be destroyed the contemplation of it striketh vs with a terrible terrour our sighes teares and prayers witnes it and vnlesse the tender mercy of our God whereby the day springeth from on high doe now visit vs to giue light to vs that sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death wee shall finde that our strange neglect of the Sabbath the Lords day doth portend our fatall flight vpon this Sabbath day But Lord whatsoeuer shall become of vs the poore sheepe of thy pasture O looke vpon thy Royall Seruant O hide not thy face from thine Anointed saue now and heare our gratious Soueraigne O King of heauen now hee calleth on thee now that the Angell of Death strugleth with him let the Angell of the Couenant blesse him and as the Angell of Death striueth with him so let the Angell of the Couenant striue for him and free his pretious soule from all paine all sorrow all aduersitie and present it to thy diuine Maiestie without spot or wrinckle O Lord God saue our King mercifully heare vs now we call vpon thee Pitifully behold the sorrowes of our hearts Fauorably with mercy heare our prayers Both now and euer vouchsafe to heare vs O Christ Gratiously heare vs O Christ gratiously heare vs O Lord Christ O Sonne of God O Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world mediate with thy blessed Father if it bee possible that this cup may passe from him or else that his gratious soule may be bound vp in the bundle of life to liue for euermore with thee in glory In the time of Ieremy it was the style of mourning for Royall Personages Alas Alas Ier. 22.18 for that noble Prince wee may take vp that Alas Alas How lately haue wee celebrated Dauids diem solennitatis Psal 77.2 our sacred Soueraignes Inauguration on which day Thursday before his Maiesties death hee that crowneth the yeare with good things crowned the Crowne of our Head our Royall King with an especiall measure of grace in manifesting his heartie and deuout profession of the Faith and Protestant truth which hee had liued in and maintained and resolved to dye in desiring vs all that were present to beare witnesse sealing that resolution with the blessed Sacrament after which diuine repast his soule was setled in so ioyfull a repose as that all worldly content could not compare with it But Alas that day dies solennitatis Psal 81.3 is become dies tribulationis and as Ieremy spake Lam. 2.22 in this solemne day our terrours are round about vs and this Lords day is the day of the Lords anger And therefore let euery sorowfull and faithfull heart pray heartily and cry mightily into heauen Saue now I beseech thee O Lord O Lord I beseech thee send now prosperitie We need not now to call for Sorrow before she come it is now the time that the Church hath allotted to eate the sowre hearbs of repentance in Lent that we may the more sauourly relish the sweet Passover of Easter it is the spirituall Seed-time which ought to bee waterish and wee are wont to be content with a wet Spring to be sure of a ioyfull Haruest Our true sorrow is Repentance which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an after-wit and after-wisdome wherein when wee see how we haue betraid our selues into the hands of Satan we may iustly wish that the Heauens aboue would weepe with vs the Earth lament the Rocks rend the Mountaines eccho groanes and riuers run with teares and indeed I had prouided by Gods good hand such a portion of food for this daily bread and would haue endeavored by his Spirit to haue watered this Gedeons fleece with that deaw of Heauen For as Ezekiel describing the Temple the Image of Gods Church calleth it Ezek. 48.35 Iehovah Shammah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lord is there So all our Prayers and preaching are onely to stir vp these graces of God in your holy deuotion
hereof Nihilrecte nihil prudenter nihil prouidenter homines sine Deorum immortalium ope consilio honore auspicari Let it not bee vnseasonable that I presse this at this instant now your Royall Father lyeth vpon the Altar of his Death-bed for the sacrificing of his blessed Soule to his Redeemer The Lord helpe him in this Day of trouble the name of the God of Iacob defend him I will not say that trouble is hard at hand and yet Corona gemmarum is but Corona spinarum but a great and weighty Charge is ready to fall vpon your Princely shoulders a great doore is opening to your Highnesse and there bee many Aduersaries vpon whom are all the hearts and eyes I say not of these Kingdomes but of the Christian World set but vpon your Highnesse and as Mordecai spake who knoweth whether you are come to the Kingdome for such a time as this is to be the glory of the Christian Ester 4.14 and enuy of the Antichristian World for since the Sauiour of the World went downe into Egypt vt qui populus persecutor fuit populi primogeniti fieret custos filii Primogeniti neuer was any Prince so deliuered out of the hands of his Enemies that hee might serue the Lord without feare neuer any Prince brought back from the imminent eminent emergent Iawes of death as your Gracious Person O let it neuer bee vnsauory to remember that miraculous safety of your Highnesse returne wherein the right hand of the Lord had the preheminence Psal 116. the right hand of the Lord brought mighty things to passe O let it bee your Religious care that euer your Soule may bee satisfied with the blessings of good things by prayer that your Sacred Person may bee as euer hitherto you haue beene a blessed Patterne of this holy practice for such as your Highnesse shall appeare to bee by example and proucation such will your Seruants bee by imitation For as all in Alexanders time did affect Chiualry because hee was a Souldier and Poetry in Augustus time because hee loued Poets and Musicke in Nero's time because hee was a Musitian and Fencing in Commodus time because hee delighted in Fencers so all were forward in Christianity in Constantines time because hee loued Christians of whom as the powerfull examples of other ages in Hercules fortitude Guevar Epist Marcus Aurelius his wisedome Antonius Pius his care of the Common-wealth Aristotle his learning Cato his Seuerity Scipio his Continency and Laelius his Amity were Presidents to all succeeding Ages so was Constantine of deuout Piety who the better to instruct his People in Deuotion by his owne example ordained that his Image which we know Princes doe vse to coyne vpon their money should bee stamp'd with the resemblance of him praying And to say no more herein Euseb de vita Constan C. 15. Cyp. de coena Dom. I close this with Cyprian Quoties in conspectu Domini video aliquem suspirantem toties Spiritum sanctū non dubito inspirantem As often as I see any one in Gods fight sighing out prayers so often I doubt not God is present breathing his Spirit vpon such a holy suppliant Diuinity buildeth vpon this Christianity doth require it necessity doth enforce it and no faithfull man maketh doubt of it and hee that shall bee frequent in it shall be sure to finde fauour of the Almightie O did they consider this that dote vpon Courtly fauour the Courts diety Ambitions Darling vpon fauour that flower vapour meteor palea festuca vmbra pluma spuma that shadow that dust that mote that feather that froth vpon fauour that ebbeth as the Sea passeth as a winde and droppeth downe as the leaues in the fall they would learne Dauids lesson to seeke fauour and familiarity with God for that shall bring a man peace at the last Psal 37.37 would make this their dayly suit as Dauid a King being Master of Requests for himselfe here doth I beseech thee O Lord O Lord I beseech thee and so I haue done with the second step I beseech thee 3. the manner how hee prayeth Deuotion delayed or lingred is soone quenched but when heated and hastened when the passions are liuely and strong when an earnest Zealous impetuous Petition is offered to God not drawn from the lips or lungs but from the inwards of a contrite confident Soule it neuer wanteth successe for not only the Body but the Soule hath a mouth and language and as the heart giueth aspiration to the arteries so doth the conscience to the affections and as we breathe in the ayre so grace is breathed into vs from Heauen the motions of Gods Spirit are the lungs knowledge and deuotion are as the lips faith as the tongue zeale as a string that passeth from the heart vnto the tongue Prayer is the language of Canaan the holy Tongue for shee was bred in the holy Land and the elegance of this Tongue is the eloquence of importunity Chrys Quam grata apud Deum importunitas how gracious and gratefull is importunity in the eares of God Non importunus neque impudens Aug. de verb. Apost saith S. Austin it is not a sawcy or a shamelesse part in thee to aske any thing of God with great importunity hee bids thee aske and seeke and knock and knocke not only til he heare but till hee answer and open and grant thy request Dauid hath a double supplication it is like the former and the latter raine the ingemination noteth an vnremoueable and constant affection to the suit hee desireth mans impatience in prayer can neuer offend Gods patience the Musicke of Angels doth not more delight the Lord then the redoubled obsecrations of his Seruants wherby he doth suspend their desires in expectation extend them by the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their earnest importunity Note only the Parables of a friend called vp at mid-night the most vnseasonable and deadest time wherein any would bee loth to be troubled the doores shut the children asleep the sable mantle of the silent night couering all the World yet vpon importunity the friend riseth at midnight answereth openeth granteth Luk. 11. the request tendreth and giueth because of the importunity so also that Parable of the vniust Iudge that cared neither for God nor man yet because of the constant continuall Solicitation of the poore woman he heard her and granted her suit wee cannot hold a meaner opinion of God then of a common vulgar Friend which were too base to conceiue or a more vnrighteous iudgement of him then of the most vnrighteous Iudge then which Aqu. Cat. Aug. what can bee thought more blasphemous they both were woone non amicitia non iustitia compulsi sed taedio Famous is the importunity of the poore woman of Canaan miserere fili Dauid 1. She cryeth and calleth and followeth our Sauiour vouchsafeth not an answer not a word not a looke yet shee surceaseth not but calleth