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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

THE GODLY AND CHRISTIAN DECEASE of the Illustrious and High-borne PRINCE MAVRITIVS of NASSAV 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 LONDON Printed by T. S. for Nathanael Newbery and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Starre in Popes head Pallace and vnder Saint Peters Church in Cornehill 1625. WEe here vnder-written professors of Diuinity in the Vniuersity of Leyden hauing read and examined this Relation of the Christian decease of the Illustrious and High-born Prince Maurice of Nassau Prince of Orange written by the worshipfull Doctor Iohn Bogerman being the very words which his Princely Excell being deadly sicke spoke doe declare by these presents that we doe hold this Relation to be very necessary to bee published in Print not doubting but it will be very acceptable vnto all impartiall Readers and will bee read with great edification of all persons both high and low and will not onely serue them for a patterne but also as a motiue to stirre them vp vnto hearty Repentance and true faith in Iesus Christ to the glory of God and the saluation of their owne soules Datum 26. Maij 1625. IOH. POLIANDER ANT. WALaeVS ANDREAS RIVERTVS ANTONIVS THYSIVS To the High and Mighty Lords THE ESTATES GENERAL of the vnited Prouinces AND To the High-borne Prince FREDERICK HENRY Prince of Orange And also To the Illustrious Lord ERNEST CASIMIR Count of Nassau Catzenelnbogen c. MOst High and mighty and most gracious Lords I doe present vnto your Excell and by you vnto all faithfull Inhabitants of these vnited Prouinces the description of the Christian decease of the Illustrious and High-borne Prince Maurice of Nassau Prince of Orange c. Both whose life and death shall be of immortall memory This is a small matter in regard of my selfe and my labour but very great in respect of that great Prince who doth here speake his last words in a matter of greatest moment and who doth here fight the greatest fight that can befall and so doth finish the greatest worke that can be done on earth and after his labour is ended wee see him goe from misery into ioy and rest leauing the whole world in a tumult of vnrest It hath beene alwaies held a commendable custome to make knowne the last words and actions of great personages that it might serue for an example vnto others therefore all impartiall people shall vnderstand that it is more then reason to publish and make knowne vnto the world the last words and deeds of the High-renowned Lord the Prince of Orange especially since it is both of high and low so much desired and longed for that all true-hearted people who haue receiued the spirit of impartiality may iudge whether among all the words of his Excell any be to be found that are not very religiously spoken and ought of euery of vs to be followed We may well say the Lord hath loued this Prince vniill the end In his life he hath made him a patterne of all heroicke and Militarie actions and Politicke wisedome in his death hee hath in an extraordinary manner made him an obiect of his mercy and an example of Christian Piety and Godlinesse In his life time he gaue him the victorie ouer his bodily and outward enemies and at his death he made him extraordinarily victorious triumphing ouer his spirituall enemies So guiding him by his holy spirit that with an extraordinary resolute courage hee did despise all earthly things saying many times I will not be troubled with any worldly matters So that leauing the world and the heauy burthen of his weighty affairs together he did wholly apply himselfe to fight this spirituall fight as wisely and couragiously as euer hee did in temporall combats For in all his spirituall actions he did most looke at that whereat we most stumble when wee haue to doe with the Lord Our Sinnes which being put quite from vs wee obtaine free accesse vnto the Lord yea we become familiar with him as the child with the father Blessed is he that getteth the practise of this In this worke his P. Excell hath followed the steps of the most Valiantest Champions which haue beene among the people of God As Dauid Daniel Esay Ieremy and others Whereof we haue speciall examples in the Psalmes where we see that Gods children hauing to doe with God doe so often looke vpon their sinnes and so humble themselues therewith that thereby afterwards they come to receiue in their hearts a filiall faith feare and obedience His P. Excell did know that our spirituall enemy which wee beare about vs was ouercome and that death had lost her sting and hell her victory This enemy Sinne we doe ouercome First by true repentance and doe hate him as our deadlyest enemie Secondly when we by true faith cast them vpon the shoulders of that vnspotted Lambe Iesus Christ who can only beare them carry them away thirdly when on the contrary we become louers of righteousnes and whatsoeuer is acceptable vnto the Lord. These three perticulars may euery one finde that is any thing experienced in holinesse that the Holy Ghost hath in aspeciall manner wrought in this Prince His Excell knowing that there is but one way to heauen for the greatest potentate and the meanest subiect hath not flattered himselfe nor sought to iustifie his sinnes but hath as one of the least of Gods seruants with an humble hart and vnfained repentance confessed them before the Lord and hath in true faith taken his refuge onely to Iesus Christ in whom his soule found rest And thereunto hee so often declared his hearty desire to serue the Lord better then he confessed to haue done as the Lords great benefits vnto him did require And this is the speciall mercy of God which all good christians may boast of that the Lord who knew the good desire of his Excell hauing freed him from all worldly hinderances for a crowne vnto all his laudable deeds hath suffered his Excell to vse such a solemne and holy action as this is not onely for the rest and saluation of his owne soule but also for the edification of all good christians And therefore I doe not without cause say once more that the Lord hath loued this Prince vnto the end For I do from my hart confesse that in all the times I visited his Excell His Excell did so behaue himselfe that I did not once goe from him without being edified not doubting but it will doe the like to all good christians that shall happen to reade it Wherefore I doe comfort my selfe and doe praise the Lord that within this my weakenesse of body wherewith I did not thinke to haue done any more publike seruice he hath so strengthned mee to doe this spirituall seruice vnto this famous Prince and through him vnto

all good people in generall who I trust in their sorrow which without doubt they haue for the losse of this Valiant Champion will finde themselues comforted when they shall heare from his Excell mouth so many Christian speeches and shall see him dye the death of the Righteous Whereby I hope that we may so say hee shall haue left and pronounced a blessing ouer the church of God and this state As also in perticular vnto his Excell Illustrious successor which we with true repentance according to the example of his Excell will expect from the mercifull God beseeehing him in the meane time for Christ Iesus sake mercifully to pardon our crying sinnes and plentifully to powre into our hearts the grace of repentance and not yet leaue his Heritage nor to let the Rod of his affliction to lye too long vpon our backes This may comfort all good Christians in their affliction who at this present liue in griefe and persecution that this famous Prince did beare such affection vnto them saying when he heard any good newes from abroad That will be good for gods children Which his Excell declared likewise to beare vnto the church of God and to the preseruation of the true religion which he hath sufficiently shewen vnto the whole world by many actions agreing with that which the Lord Embassador of his Maiesty of Great Brittaine Sir Dudley Carleton was pleased in his speach to relate vnto your H. Dignities from the very mouth of his P. Excell which his Excell also was pleased to communicate vnto mee which words were these These be two great Maximies the preseruation of the reformed Religion and the warres against Spaine Vpon which two heads his Excell did meane that the welfare of the countries depended I haue in this relation exactly set downe the very words of his Excell as hee spake them which when I came home I set downe vpon a peece of paper and haue conferred them with those that were present when his Excell spake them That which I spake I haue set downe as I thought best for edification at the first visitation I did not intend to haue troubled his Excell so much as hauing experience of the disability of a sicke person but his Excell detained mee partly with extraodinary attention hee had to here the word of God and partly with his questions which hee propounded The other visitations were not so long in regard his Excell grew euery day more weaker and weaker and therefore when hee could not speake any longer wee betooke our selues vnto prayers expecting a blessed end I thought good to direct this worke vnto your High and Mighty Dignities with whom his Excell during the time of his gouerment hath conuersed who are witnesses of his laudable actions and partakers of his immortall praises and who his Excell hath instituted Executors of his Princely will and testament soe that of right it doth belong vnto your honours and without doubt not onely this but also the perticulars of the religious decease of this most excellent Prince will be pleasing vnto your honours with whom your Highnesses haue euer liued in such a neere correspondencie and haue yet by your honnors Committies namely by the Honorable Lords Henric of Essen from Gelderland Nicholas van-Bouckhorst Lord of Nortwich from Holland Rienck van-Burmania from Freesland Assueer van-Harsolte from Ouer-Isse visited and remained with his Excell vntill his end Concerning your P. Excell Gracious Lord who hath a speciall interest in this labour as being the onely brother vnto the deceased Prince whom hee hath loued with a brotherly loue as is manifest and besides heire of his Princely dignity and his successor in that great and waightie calling being a little before his Excell death to the comfort and ioy of his Excell and vnto all true christians vnited in matrimony with the Illustrious Princesse Amelia Princesse of Orange Countesse of Solms who with her Excell the Princesse of Portugall were both together with his Excell the day before he dyed and were witnesses of his Princely and christian carriage Wherein her Excell did take such pleasure that she did ioyfully glory therein vnto the other Lords saying That it was a blessed thing for euery Christian to dispose himselfe so well at the time of his death The like did her Excell the Princesse of Portugall your Excell sister That such a christian carriage came from God and was his gift which the Lord Agathius Lord of Dhona rehearsed vnto me from the mouth of her Excell Your Excell shall not onely finde in this relation the christian and religious decease of this worthy Prince but also that which may serue your P. Excell and other Lords for an example of imitation and comfort in the matter of saluation being of more value then all the transitory goods of this world Therefore I doe humbly beseech your high and mighty P. Excell graciously to accept of this my meane labour and I will pray vnto the Almighty God to preserue your High and Mighty P. Excell in vnion together to gouerne you with his Holy Spirit and so to blesse and prosper you in this time of trouble of the whole christian world that you may happily and couragiously preserue the free liberty of the Gospell in these countries and so to supply the places of the deceased Prince and Count William c. who are now both at rest with the Lord and herewith I turne my selfe to the relation of that which happened before and at the death of his Excell Remaining euer more Your high and mighty P. Excell most obedient seruant in the Lord Ioannes Bogermanus At the Hage the 16. of May 1625. A TRVE RELATION OF The Godly and Christian decease of the Illustrious and High-borne Prince MAVRITIVS of NASSAV late Prince of Orange of happy Memory A Relation Of that which happened at the first visitation of the Illustrious Prince of Orange on Munday the 14. of Aprill Anno 1625. in the afternoone about foure of the clocke WHereas diuers persons of quality did often times request mee to visit the Illustrious Prince of Orange in the time of his sicknesse which I feared to doe in regard of my weakenesse yet not to incommodate my selfe and specially his Excell I thought the more because I very well knew his Excell did yet sometimes reade Letters and because I had vnderstood by the Worshipfull Doctor Walleus professor of Diuinity in the Vniuersity at Leyden that his Worship comming from thence at the request of some of the Lords of the Councell had visited his Princely Excell whom after many religious and godly speeches he had left very well prepared with a briefe and short Letter of exhortation and comfort in stead of a parley in presence to haue taken my leaue of his Excell But as I was busie herewith Master Secretary Iunius sent for me to come vnto his Excell who was very desirous to haue me come vnto him Considering that it was Gods will and knowing it to be