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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

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

my bounden duty in regard his Excell hath obliged vs so much vnto him I omitted that which I had in hand and presently I went with the same messenger that came for me Beseeching the Lord to strengthen me and to grant his blessing that it might bee for his honour and glory for the comfort of his Excell and for the edification of all good men Being come to the Court and hauing somewhat rested my selfe I was by the aforesaid Lord Secretary and the Chamberlaine brought into the Chamber where his Excell lay who very kindely entertained mee putting forth his hand and bid me welcome and made me to sit downe at his Beds side Whereupon the people dismissed the Chamber except the aforesaid Secretary Doctor Rumpf and the Chamberlaine who remained at the Beds-side to heare and take notice of all the speeches that happened although vnseene of his Excell his P. Excell demanded of me how I did what sickenesse I was troubled withall and whether I amended as also of my appetite meate drinke and sleepe Of which when I had satisfied him his Excell begunne to speake of his owne sickenesse demanding of me what Doctor Rumpf thought of it Which when I had told him his Excell answered I am of that opinion also Complaining of his Ague and hot Feuer which did much trouble him and it seemed his Excell bewayled them that were constrayned to vse much Physicke Whereupon I said we must looke vnto God without whose pleasure there cannot one hayre fall from our heads and in regard of his diuine decree our time cannot be shortened Whereupon his Excell answered I hold it to be so also and I am resolued Hereby I tooke occasion His Excell faith of Gods prouidence to shew vnto his Excell the misery which man is subiect vnto in this life and how happy we are that we haue that sure comfort which the Lord hath so abundantly reuealed vnto vs in his Gospell Whereupon his Excell said It is true Then I said further You may please to consider the great mercy God shewed vnto your Excell all the time of your gouernement making you an incomparable Prince of your time whose actions the whole world admires and specially in regard the Lord hath freed you from so many eminent perils and dangers and doth now so mercifully shew this great fauour and mercy vnto you in visiting you with so Fatherly a chastisement leading you as it were with his hand vnto a blessed end giuing you so long and moderate a sickenesse wherein hee doth continue your vnderstanding and perfect speech not onely to serue the Countrey as your Excell yet doth but also to practise that which is for your euerlasting saluation where to the contrary that good Lord of happy memory Count William Lodwicke of Nassau at the beginning of his sickenesse did loose his speech his strength and his vnderstanding whose last words were vpon the comfort which I spake vnto him Count Williams last words in his sicknes LORD be mercifull vnto me for thy beloued Sonnes sake which we miserable wretches doe not in due time consider Now I doe not doubt but your Excell doth make a good vse of this affliction that you may enioy the perfect fruits of the Christian Religion which your Excell hath so long maintained and propagated and this fruit is a comfort both in life and death vnto our consciences consisting herein that we wretched sinners may haue a reconciled and mercifull God If the fauourable countenance of a King be the life of the Subiects as Salomon saith how much the more said I is the mercifull fauour of God Then I said further considering his Excellencie did hearken so attentiuely vnto me Gracious Lord the reformed Religion doth most clearely and profoundly set forth vnto vs our misery and doth giue vs the onely and soueraigne remedy against the same with the onely way for our reconciliation with God through Iesus Christ his onely beloued Sonne our Sauiour who doth bestow all his benefits on them that lay hold vpon him in true faith and repentance of whom God doth testifie in the holy Scriptures Matth. 13.17 This is my beloued Sonne in whom I am well pleased Iohn 14.6 He is the way the truth and the life No man commeth to the Father but through him neither is there saluation in any other Acts 4.11 for there is no other name giuen vnder heauen whereby wee must be saued 1 Cor. 1.30 Who of God is made vnto vs Wisedome and righteousnesse 1 Cor. 3.11 Sanctification and Redemption For other foundation can no man lay then that which is laid which is IESVS CHRIST Acts 13.39 Rom. 3 24. Ephes 1.7 Col 1.14 Iohn 5.11 By him euery one that beleeueth is iustified By whom wee haue Redemption and reconciliation with God through his bloud euen the forgiuenesse of sinnes whereof Iohn witnesseth Hee that hath the Sonne hath life And therefore we can haue no other communion with God then through him and this is the onely ancient true and euerlasting Gospell which God himselfe hath reuealed vnto our fore-Fathers in Paradise and afterwards by his Patriarkes and Prophets hath published vnto his people by all the ceremonies in the old Testament and hath sithence in the new Testament so gloriously reuealed it vnto vs Gentiles which in fore times were not of the people of God and doe now through his infinite mercy so abundantly enioy it Hereupon I rehearsed vnto his Excell that the Memorable late Count William Lodowicke of Nassau in his sicknes receiued tydings that the Arch-duke Albertus being very sicke went vnto the shrine of our Lady at a place so called whereto many goe in pilgrimage Scherpenheuvel there to receiue according to the Popish custome remission of his sins wherat the Noble Count hartily laughed reioycing and praising God although in faint words that he had laid a better foundation in his heart and had receiued a better light Whereupon his Excell Notable words of his Excell said Count William had Scherpenheuvel continually with him His Excell thinking that I did not vnderstand him rehearsed them again more plainer I say said he beating two or three times vpon his brest Count Williā had Scherpenheuvel continually with him Iust said I Noble Lord Count William had no neede to goe to Scherpenheuvel for comfort for hee had his onely comfort Iesus Christ in his heart soe doe I meane too said his Excell After these speeches I shewed vnto his Excell the example of Hezekiah 2 Kings 20. Esay 38. whom God by his Prophet caused to be told That hee should put his house in order for he should dye not liue The King was deadly sick but yet did not dye for that was hidden in Gods diuine decree whereupon when the king had humbled himselfe before the Lord the Lord added fifteene yeares more vnto his life So said I if the Lord should tell your Excell so in this sicknesse which is a messenger