this is a dissolution not a dispersion disperdere is not perdere with you you onely returne to your owne Families to drinke of your owne Vines and to eate vnder your owne fig-trees yet remember hereafter as the wise Egyptians did bestow more on their Tombes then Houses so hereafter dispose of more time for consideration of death then of prouision for the things of this life Let mortalitie be your meditation you are but earth your best cloaths earth wormes made them your best fed bodies earth wormes must eate them You may say Vidimus stellam we haue seene his Starre and vidimus gloriam we haue seene his glory you saw it rising and setting you will now beleeue that that GOD who hath called Princes Gods he qui homines coelestibus aequat hath made Princes but men quia sceptra ligonibus aequat You haue serued and therein your posteritie may reioyce the most religious gracious holy chaste vertuous valerous Prince of his growth that euer the Christian world enioyed yet you see HEE is departed season therefore this lumpe of luggage all worldly thoughts with the remembrance of death Embrace all holy acts of religion Psalm 37. keepe innocencie and doe that which is iust and seeke peace for this shall bring a man ioy at the last You are all of you I hope to serue another Prince I doubt not you are in Check-roll already mistake me not I meane no other Prince then the Prince of Peace spoke of in Esay I meane no other Roll but his booke of life Reioyce in this Esa 9 6. that your names be written in the booke of life that seruice is heritage instead of your white staues you shall haue Palmes in your hands and your entertainment will be Good seruants and faithfull you haue beene faithfull in a little I will make you rulers ouer much enter into your Masters ioy This ioy the Lord in mercy in his due time graunt vnto you You of the middle sort whose wound is not mortall and yet are ready to sinke vnder the burthen of this sorrow as hauing lost the most incomparable Prince that euer the World had you that setled your thoughts and hoping to haue seene him the Head ouer many Nations haue said to your soules vnder the shadow of his wings we shall be safe here wil we dwell for euer Let your dare-bought experience teach you the lesson that Dauid a great Prince gaue to his People Psal 146. Trust not in Princes for they be sons of men there is no health in them their breath departeth and euery one of them returneth to his earth Chriâ— Si dicendum sit aliquid mirabilâ— saith a Father If a man may speake any thing worthy of the greatest admiration it is this Trust not in Princes they themselues are not in safety their sublimitie is but sublunary they are within the verge the Earth hath prouided an Auello for euery of them to be laid in yeeld them faithfulnes and obedience but settle not in them your faith and confidence Yeelde them duty tribute yea your goods and liues but withall remember Psalm 146. Blessed is the man that puts his trust in the Lord and hath the God of lacob for his refuge liue honest holy religious liues but a while the end is at hand we shal all meete in aequalitie with our blessed Maister in glory You poore soules the poore silly sheepe of his flocke who was wont to giue you meate in due season you that like those in Ierusalem doe arise and cry in the night Lament 3. and in the beginning of the watch poure out your harts like water lift your eyes to heauen for your selues your wiues and children Take the counsell of Dauid Trust in the Lord Psalm â—7 and being good commit thy waies vnto the Lord waite patiently vpon the Lord hope in him and he shall bring it to passe Trust in the Lord and verily thou shalt be fed Heare Dauids example I haue been young saith he but now am old yet I neuer saw the righteous forsaken nor their seede begging their bread Honesty is the best patrimonie leaue but a good report of an honest life behinde you and your Children then haue sufficient Legacies All of you beloued that are in this valley of teares to heare mee this day repent you of your former liues turne from the wickednesse of your wayes or else yee may feare a more fearefull scattering The outrage of apparell surquedry in meate choise of new oathes new exchange of sins the sluce of vengeance that hell hath opened Since the yeeâ— â—â—â—â— haue brought many fearefull scatterings among vs within these few yeeres the death of nine Counsellers of State sixteene Bishops of the Church fifteene Iudges of the Law in one yeere in this one Citie thirty seauen thousand three hundred two stroken with the Plague of Pestilence Lady Mary Lady Sopâ—ia and which is more then al this three of his Maiesties Children the hope ioy to all true hearted Subiects Prince Henry who dyed in the nineteenth yeere of his his age the 6. of Nouember 1612 and was honorably buried at Westminster the 7. day of December following is taken away from among vs which equals all other losses Isaac is offered Ichabod our glory is departed Prince Henry is deceased whom if euer any of vs in his most obseruant reposed thoughts shall forget let his right hand rot and forget her cunning and the harpe of his Tongue hang vp for euer in the roofe of his mouth O God how hast thou plagued vs as * Lament 2.22 Ieremy complained euen in the solempne day In that Moneth thou once gauest vs Queene Elizaheth to take away Prince Henry In that Moneth thou gauest vs Noble Prince Charles the succeeding Charlemaine in that Moneth to take away his blessed Brother In the Moneth thou didst preserue vs from that furious sulphureous plot of our enemies in the same Moneth are wee to our great sorrowes insulted on by our Enemies Hadst thou not left vs a remnant we had ben like to Sodome and Gomorh Wherefore good Lord looke downe from Heauen behold and visit vs looke vpon that Vine thy right hand hath planted blesse the roote and branches of the Royall remnant let the light of thy Countenance shine euer in the Sunne and Moone and Stars of this Firmament let neuer be wanting one of this race to sit vpon the Brittish Throne till the Sunne hath runne his last race and the world hath finished his last course Say thou Amen thou faithfull witnesse of Heauen to the prayers of vs poore wretched afflicted miserable soules Say Amen thou Truth and witnesse of thy Father to our Petitions that come not out of fained lips and let Heauen and Earth seale it and say Amen Amen FINIS
LAMENTATIONS FOR the death of the late Illustrious Prince Henry AND the dissolution of his religious Familie Two Sermons Preached in his Highnesse Chappell at Saint IAMES on the 10. and 15. day of Nouember being the first Tuesday and Sunday after his decease By DANIEL PRICE Chaplaine then in attendance MICAH 7.8 Reioyce not against me O mine enemie though I fall I shall rise againe LONDON Printed by THO. SNODHAM for ROGER IACKSON and are to be sould at his shop neere to Fleetstreet Conduit 1613. TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE PRINCE CHARLES THE IOY OF OVR SORROW AND THE HOPE OF SVCCESSION ENGLANDS CHARLEMAINE DANIEL PRICE WITH THE DEDICATION OF THESE HIS TWO MITES WISHETH THE ACCRVMENT OF ALL HAPPINESSE WITH THE DOVBLING OF THE SPIRIT OF HIS BLESSED BROTHER VPON HIM TO THE HONOVRAble Religious and worthy Gentlemen the great Officers to the late renowmed Prince To the Ho. worthy Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber to his Reuerend Brethren the Chaplaines and to all the rest of the Gentlemen and Officers of that Princely familie THe importunity of some the expectation of many and the kinde acceptation of all of you hath caused me to cast these two Mites into the Treasure of the publike sorrow and to present that now to your hands which in my attendance in this woefull time J prouided for your hearts They are plaine both because sorrow dislikes descant and plaine stuffes are fittest for Mourners they are passionate for in my meditation by the riuers of sorrow I sat downe wept and hanged my Harpe vpon the willow trees for euer tuning it to comfort or melody againe and when ye required this song of mee in my heauinesse I knew not how to sing any song of the Lord but a song of sorrow in this strange land strange for the sinnes strange for the iudgements They are yours they once breathed with you and now euer shall liue with you a pledge of that hart that neuer reioyced in any sublunary obiect more then to see while our Sunne did shine such an happy friendly aspect of so many principall Planets and sweet plants in this place let Charity interpret me and none will be offended that vpon impetuous importunity I publish these last offices to the memory of that illustrious Prince our Maister for whom the sound of all tongues and applause of all hands testifie neuer was any more honoured in his life neuer any more lamented in his death that euer beheld the light of heauen in this land My best deuotion faithfulest seruices are presented with these and so I remaine Yours in all Christian dutie Daniell Price The first Sermon Matth. 26.31 I will smite the Shepheard and the Sheepe of the flocke shall be scattered A Great Prince is falne in Israel 2 Sam. 3.38 1 Sam. 4.21 Zach. 11.2 Aust de Pas the ioy of the Christian world is deceased Ichabod the glory of Israel is departed Howle ye poore Firre Trees your Cedar is fallen Lachrimis non verbis miserationibus non orationibus opus est I know it is contrary to the grounds of Art presently at the first entrance to hoise vp sayles in such a sea of lamentation and sorrow But miserie obserues no rules of Oratory and therefore without any further Proeme wee should all take vp that Elegy of Dauid 2 Sam. 1. 2 Sam. 1. O noble Israel he is slaine vpon thy high places Tell it not in Gath nor publish it in Ascalon least the daughters of the vncircumcised reioyce O ye Mountaines of Gilboa vpon yee be neither dew nor raine there the shield of the mighty was cast downe Ionathan was lonely and pleasant in his life swift as an Eagle strong as a Lyon ye sonnes of Israel weepe for Ionathan which clothed you in Scarlet with pleasures and hanged ornaments of Gold vpon your apparell All of you of what condition soeuer heare with silence what you feele with sorrow the very thunderbolt of heauen I will smite the Shepheard and the sheepe of the flocke shall be scattered Take vp a lamentation Ierem. sayth the Lord to the Prophet A lamentation such as was not in the daies of our fathers Alas no lamentation will sit our losse a deluge of teares is little enough to beare the arke of our sorrow Austin is sayd to weepe a shoure of teares Ambrose a flood of tears but you will tell me Doct. Swale Rhetorie intur Patres I am sure Ieremy wished for a fountaine of teares and my sorrowing louing brother hath brought you a Saboath dayes iourney towards this Fountaine him I follow with paces of lamentation and loue and with as faithfull as sorrowfull obseruance to his memory for whom we are commanded to continue these our last accomplishments of attendance we shall both endeuor to teach you that last lesson of our Sauiour Weepe not for me but weepe for your selues I haue at this time setled the foundation of my meditations vpon the farewell of Christ to his Disciples A prophecy found in Zachary 400. yeeres before it was vsed heere Zach 13.7 Mark 14.28 Ioh. 16.27 repeated in Matthew in Mark and Iohn in all these places prophecying of the death of the lord of life Hypocrisie is a true Pharisie but griefe is a bad Scribe expect neither order nor matter sorrow hath deuided such shares among vs the scattered sheepe and flocke of this fold that our soules are euen deuided within vs. The words themselues without any descant be words of amazement and astonishment I will smite the shepherd and the sheepe of the flocke shall be scattered Rom. 1.16 Ier. 23.29 Heb. 4.12 Eph. 6.17 Euery word of the Lord is a power a fire a hammer a Pyoner to ouerthrow strong holds a sword to deuide the reynes and the marrow But this an extraordinary word it is the alarum to a battel the voice of a Trumpet an Earthquake shaking the Pillars of the Earth I will smite the shepheard and the sheep shall be scattered I will smite vox furoris doloris sayth a Glosse the voyce of fury in God Gloss Bern. Leu. 27. Deut. 28. Reu. 3.19 the voyce of misery to man It had beene more milde if as in Leuiticus I will punish or in Deuteronomy I will correct or in the Reuelation I will chastise But who is able to beare his blow who is able to stand before him if he be angry by the least of his blowes wee are cut downe dryed vp and withered I will smite the Shepheard not the sheepe of his Pasture not the Ewes great with yong not the Lambes of the Fold if the sheepe onely had bin smitten Psalme Dauids prayer had serued how long wilt thou proceed in anger against the sheep of this pasture But the stroke is greater more grieuous it is falne vpon the shepheard the guider the glory the Prince of the people I will smite the shepheard And the sheepe shall be scattered his poore followers haue no better phrase
spoile and ouerturne Hom. Odys He is not Iupiter inermis as one thought but as another spake his weapons be innumerable his hands vnresistable The religious Saints of God acknowledged this Dauid shal speake for all O Lord thy anger thy heauy displeasure Psal 38. thy arrowes sticke fast in me thy hand presseth downe sore The rebellious children of Israel acknowledged this when Ierusalem as we finde in the old Testament had bin 7. times assailed by Shishak King of Egipt in Rehoboams dayes 1 Kin. 14. 2 Chro. 25 23. Isa 7.1 2 Kin. 18. 2 Chro. 33 2 Kin. 33. 2 Kin. 25. by Ioas King of Israel in Amaziahs time by Rezin King of Aram in the raigne of Ahaz by Zenacherib King of Ashur in the time of Hezekias by the captaines of the Assyrians who tooke Manasses captiue by Pharaoh Necho that carried away Iehoas prisoner lastly by the Chaldeans who burnt the Temple and defaced the Citie and that they had enemies round about them on the East the Moabits Ammorites Assyrians on the west side the Philistines on the North the Syrians on the South the Aegiptians Arabians and Idumeans all most infestuous to them yet still cry out in their vexations vnto God thou hast couered vs with wrath thou hast made vs the off-scouring of the people Nay superstitious heathens haue acknowledged this Lam. 2.43 Exo. 8.19 the Enchanters that the plague of Lice was the finger of God Tiberius that Thunder was the power of God Homer that the plague was the arrow of God Hip. in prog Hypocrates that a great plague among them was a punishment sent from God Nay blasphemous reprobates haue confessed this for the damned at what time the storme fell vpon them in the Reuelation they blasphemed God Reu. 16.24 because of that plague of Haile Vse A doctrine to confute those that put the iudgements of God farre from themselues by putting them far from the true author of them God himselfe Naturall beastly men who make naturall causes the reasons of supernaturall euents who to the wantonnesse of wit adde wickednesse of will Psal 73 9. and belike to those spoke of in the Psalmes that talke presumptuously and set their mouth against Heauen making the power of God to be circumscribed by the power of reason who because they beleeue no more then they see and feare no more then they feele they goe no further then the presence neuer goe into the priuy-chamber of Gods iudgements second causes must remoue it from the first author But I aske as the Apostle doth O thou man who art thou that disputest with God or rather who art thou that deniest the prerogatiue of God seeing he hath sayd I doe strike I will smite Applic. In this our incomparable losse of which though I shall neuer thinke or speake without an indiuidual companion sorrow sorrow attended with the vtmost remembrance and reuerence limited vnder heauen I may vrge this one part of my Text vnto them who neuer looking vp to heauens vnresistable stroke doe complaine that eyther the want of care or skill in the Phisitians shipwrackt all our hope in that blessed Arke the Prince I stand not heere to dawbe with vntempered Morter neither to feare nor flatter any I doe beleeue that they were both sorrowfull beholders and faithfull helpers so far as Art Vigilance and diligence could extend But when ego percutiam is once proclaimed no Phisitian can cure Asa his legs or lay a plaister vnto Fzekias botch or cure the Shunamites child crying my head No balme in Gilead can help the feuers dropsies or bloody issues which Christ healed though the patient Patients bestowal they haue vpon those honorable instruments for so the son of Syrach calleth Phisitians And therefore as those in the Prophet cryed a Conspiracie a Conspiracie so these Poyson Poyson How probable soeuer that may be let them looke vnto the poyson of their owne soules the onely infection that brought this heauy affliction vpon vs. And whatsoeuer second causes there might be let vs leaue the consideration thereof to them to whom they belong and let vs which doth only concerne our selues with feare and reuerence and humilitie confesse it was Gods hand Greg. Mar. lib. 1. as both Gregorie confesseth vpon the affliction of Iob Ambrose before him of all such punishments Cum Diabolus vulnerat Domini sunt sagittae Whatsoeuer the second causes be yet the supreme rule of all is in Gods hand But while I am thus informing others my owne soule becomes a sceptick and questions thus Could God forget to be gratious would he in displeasure so smite Him that was our ioy hope Yes that he might more fully settle our hope vpon the true obiect God himselfe But would he so smite as to take him away in the Sunne-shine of his time yes that he might bestow farre greater brightnesse vpon him Alas he was in the flower and splendor of his youth he was lesse taynted lesse blemished His death was the vndoing of many his poore seruants but God is able to prouide for them better then he could Psal 37. Let them trust in the Lord and verily they shall be fed He was taken away in this solemne expectation of Nuptiall-ioy and triumph He is gone to greater ioy to the Marriage of the Lambe to those ioyes triumphs Angels Quire Songs to which no burden nor no end belongs He was taken away as it were somewhat sodainly and vnexpectedly yet not so sodainely as the fiery enemies of God and the King entended in that furious sulphureous plot to haue blowne him vp 2 King 23. neither so sodainely as Iosias the dearling of God who had no more warning then while an arrow made a doore in his breast for Death 2 Chro. 35.20 But our Iosias was taken away in a seasonable comfortable visitation when he was full of beautie full of glory full of pietie full of Religion full of admiration full of lamentation Beloued in a word as the Apostle speaketh Comfort your selues one another with these words Iob 1. Ionas 2. The Lord gaue him and the Lord hath taken him and as Ionas Marriners acknowledge Thou O Lord hast done as it pleased thee As it followeth Thou hast smitten the Shepheard Cir. 2 To haue smit a Wolfe deuouring the sheepe had bin mercy to haue smitten one sheepe of the fold had bin iudgement with mercy but to smite the shepheard may seeme iudgement and fury In this houre time of mourning now we sit as in the shadow of death it is fitter for you to feed on the tree of life then on the tree of knowledge therefore I desire to confine my speech only vpon meditation but the word shepheard leades me forth further then I thought besides the waters of comfort A shepheard was the first tradesman though the second son of all the children of Adam Gen. 4.2 and after Abel many shepheards were in
vengeance vpon Israel for Iosias sake holy and reuerend be his name for euer I haue numbred and weighed the words hastily and in the Scales of sighes and sorrow let vs see what measure of them commeth to our share Vse And first was sinne the cause of smiting the Shepheard Indeede Sinne is the ouerthrow of Iudgement the staine of Conscience the roote of all peruersitie infection of all actions affections but is it so harmefull to vs so hatefull to him that is the all-seeing all-being all-pure and sacred Maiestie that not onely his owne Sonne blessed for euer and euer was smitten Esay propter scelus populi as Esay speaketh but also those excellent and choise and blessed Instruments of his glory Kings and Princes are often-times taken away for the sins of the people Let vs all then looke into the Calender of these dayes wee haue seene and found and felt their effects and let vs obserue whether the sinnes of this Land and especially this Citie and Court be not equall to any of any Land see whether the sins now be culpable or damnable winckt at onely by the eyes of men or crying in the eares of Heauen You shall finde them to be aspiring mounting towring sinnes Sinnes of the highest eleuation and those sins now committed which in times past durst not be named Men like women women like Diuels common to salute and stab kisse and betray common cheating whoring drinking swearing as common as breathing Neuer were such varnishes put vpon rotten causes or Lawes made such quirkes for mercenary wits or goodnes so deformed Iustice so guilty Vertue so needy Religion so scorned or Whoredome so painted In a word to let passe the Couetousnesse of the rich idlenesse of the poore want of age wantonnesse of youth prophanenesse of all I aske the honest Religious Soule that mourneth for the misery of Zyon Is it not strange that after so long preaching of the Gospel there should be such an inundation of Popery this generation of Vipers seeming to multiply in our time as the Arrians did encrease in the time of the ancient Fathers who preached and wrote against them Ezekiels Prophecie may seeme fulfilled the Idol of indignation is among vs there be some Ancient Idolaters some idolatrous women some idolatrous Priests in our Land These be causes why our Iosias was smitten our sinnes opened that Vena Basilica Secondly would no other Sacrifice serue but the death of Iosias No. Zeph. 1.7.8 The former Prophet Zephany maketh it plaine in his 1. Chapter 7. and 8 verses The Lord hath prepared a Sacrifice and in that day of the Lords Sacrifice he will visit the Princes and the Kings Children No other sacrifice will serue but the branches of the Oliue tree the blossomes of the Figge tree the beautifull young Cedar the glory of the Forrest the beauty of the Garland the Coronet of succession the Patron of Religion the ioy of the olde hope of young comfort of all Nothing would serue but that precious Iewell which Nature only shewed the world and so put vp againe that happy New Starre new eye of Heauen of whose station and influence while we argued it went out againe Nothing must serue but Iosias Si sic in viridi quid fiet in arido what shall become of the negligent ignorant windy emptie shadowy Creatures who liue to eate and eate to play the Beasts He was taken from the euill to come vpon such to the ioy he enioyes Hee is gone to rest with more tokens of Gods fauour then euer Iosias had his precious Soule is bathed in the precious bloud of his blessed Sauiour Patience did here comfort him Confidence did hence crowne him annointed Cherub blessed Angell gracious Master thou art now in glory though wee poore scattered sheepe haue lost thee Teares blind me and sighes chooke and here I cease sorrow doth silence me Correct vs no more in thy fury O Lord let not thine arrowes sticke so fast in vs northy hand presse vs so down lest we be consumed and brought to nothing Magnifie thy arme of Mercy as thou hast exalted thine arme of Iudgement and let neuer the like losse come vpon vs againe till thy Sonne our Sauiour come to vs againe Amen The second Sermon Matth. 26.31 The Sheepe of the flocke shall be scattered WHen Elias was departing the Whirlewinde mouing the fiery Chariot mounting and Elias in his transmigration neque inter viuos nec mortuos as Bias spake of Saylers being not gone vp into the aire as Moses on the Mount or rapt vp into the third heauens for a time as Saint Paul in his Vision but as Henoch before so he vnder the Law caught vp into the heauens for euer 2 King 2.14 Elisha the Prophet lamenteth Elias with the same wordes that afterwards Ioash the King lamented Elisha 2 King 13.14 O my father my father the Chariot of Israell and the horse-men thereof A lamentation sitting our losse who haue lost our Father our Maister the Cedar of Lebanon and Chariot of Israel In the 16. of Numbers it was an heauy Numb 16.49 weighty iudgement that in so small a time so great a number as 14700 should die Moses then cryeth out as if with sorrow shaking his head wringing his hands There is wrath gone out from the Lord the plague is begun Wee will borrow the words of him it is miserable men that we are I say it is our case Wrath is gone from the Lord the plague is begun Now is a time of mourning of cloathing our selues in sacke cloth and ashes nay in dust and ashes and in the shadow of death that as we spent our first dayes in sinne so wee may spend our last dayes in sorrow Is not wrath come from the Lord when our Lilly of the vallyes is blasted our Rose of the field is blemished I say not that our Oliue branch is cut off but the Doue with the Oliue branch is fled from vs. We are the men whom Ieremy mentioneth in his Lamentations we haue seene the affliction in the rod of indignation the breath of our nosthrils the blessed of the Lord is taken from vs our daunce is turned into mourning and the crowne of our head is fallen Lam 5.15 Woe vnto vs that euer we sinned our heart is heauy and our eyes are dimme because this Mount of Zion shall be desolate My Text doth epitomize what euer my sorrow can conuince The Shepherd is smitten and the sheepe of the flocke shall be scattered I haue gathered so much dew of Meditation from the first part as a day and night could yeeld my sorrowfull head and heart to receiue that was our Maisters part this next ours The sheepe shall be scattered In speaking whereof as that wonder of misery the vnhappy Mother in the besiege of Ierusalem hauing eaten one part of her Childe could not thinke of eating the other without vnspeakeable sorrow so assure your selues my sobs and throbs and throwes