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A20739	A true relation of the right Christianly departure, or death, of the most Noble Earle Philippus Lodouicus Earle of Hanaw and Rieneck, Lord of Mutzenbergk, &c. Vncle to the Count Palatine. Who blessedly deceased, in the Lord, on Sunday the ninth of August 1612. betwixt eight and nine of the clocke in the morning, being returned from his great ambassage for England. Faithfully penned by Ioannes Appelius preacher at Alten-Hasell. Translanted out of the Germane tongue by S.R.	Appelius, Joannes.; S. R.	1612 (1612)	STC 712; ESTC S100203	16,541	36

Lord Iesus Christ was when hee was in the agonie Luke 22. 44. the said Lord Christ hath ouer-wonne he calleth now vnto himselfe all those that are wearie and laden Mat. 11. 28. hee is the Captaine in this combat follow you him with patience and faith and no enimy shall be able to hurt you His Excellencie did not feare death for he was ready and willing to die but onely the terror of it setting death before his eyes by the weakenes of the flesh as a fearefull Tyrant and as the Gyant Goliah who terrified the Israelites But I comforted him immediately as followeth Death indéed was terrible because of our sinnes but she is no more horrible vnto those that are in Iesus Christ for he as the true Dauid hath vanquished death Did not your Excellencie hetherto pray for a blessed end Hath not Christ promised that he will giue whatsoeuer we doe pray for vnto the Father in his name Ioh. 16. Doeth not the 145. Psalme say that God doth what the good demaund and the 12. God heareth the sighes of the faithfull and the 34. God deliuereth the righteous out of all feare Your Excellencie will not tread vnder féete your prayers and déepe sighes for they are pierced through the cloudes I will saith the Lord vp and set him at liberty Psal 12. Besides I propounded vnto his Excellencie the comfort of the 1 Cor. 15. 55. O death where is thy sting O graue where is thy victorie Hence I tooke occasion to shew to compare the death of the faithfull vnto a bold and proud Souldiour who hath no weapons and whose threatnings are in vaine These words tooke away that feare of his Excellencie after diuers gronings kéeping himselfe quiet he said One combat is now past which words I heard with great ioy and thanked God for it The Satterday drawing neare his Excellencie was desirous to speake againe with his wife and the Lady of Orange They came presently and with them the Lady Charlotte Loyse hee spake with them in order and they with comfortable speaches and aboundance of teares tooke their leaue againe of him he said vnto his daughter Charlotte Well my deare daughter remember mee thy father who alwayes intended to doe thée good feare the Lord be vertuous and honest and no good shall faile thée On Satterday the 8. of August did some of his Councill aske what they should say vnto his louing Brother Count Albrecht if it would please God to take his Excellencie vnto himselfe hée answered Tell him good night and let him know that I haue alwayes meant well and brotherly though he and some others could or would not alwayes acknowledge the same It néedes not to write of this matter any further His Excellencie charged them also to say farewell in his name vnto the Archbishop and Prince Elector of Ments the Abbot of Fulda the Count Wolffgang E●●est of Henburgk c. and told his Chamberlaine by whom and on what occasion this should be performed On this Satterday his Excellencie caused for a time all the assistants to void the chamber and I remained alone with him hée beganne to enter with mée into an holy discourse of the estate of the soules of the righteous in heauen and how farre wée are bound and able as long as wée are in the militant Church to pray for our selues and our brethren yea for all men I made along discourse hereof vnto his Excellencie wherein hée had a very good liking The greatnesse of his paines made him to complaine yet by my comfort did gather courage and said in Latine Mors mea gloriosa erit my death shall be glorious as if hée would haue said What doe I trouble my selfe all will be well and glorious On Satterday night the Sunday approaching and the houre of death drawing néere a very great conflict was séene in him and said in his lamentations Ah God hath forgotten mée it is vnpossible that I should be succoured I cannot hold fast your consolations thus turned himselfe from mée complained of an vnspeakable heate and cold how hée stood with one foote onely vpon a high mountaine and was to leape ouer a water that sprung out of the mountaine These wordes did much moue the hearts of the assistants and of mée likewise chiefely because his Excellencie said that hée could not receiue my consolations Héerevpon I tolde him that hée was to beare those suffrances that made him complaine as our Sauiour did vpon the Crosse My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee and the Prophet Dauid Psalme 18. The sorrowes of death compassed mee about c. And whereas his Excellencie had turned himselfe from me and could not receiue comfort I went to the bed fell about his necke and spake in great earnest these words My gracious Lord I beséech and admonish your Excellencie to take to your heart my consolations which I shall draw out of Gods holy word as from the Minister of Christ It is now Satterday the Sunday is at hand then doe wée speake in the Church in the exposition of the Catechisme of the crucified Lord Iesus Christ let vs now also speake of him These words moued his Excellencie to turne himselfe againe towards me and to giue eare vnto those comfortable grounds and sentences which I did alledge out of Gods holy word as the Lord at that time did put into my heart and I did chiefely draw some meditations from the 23. Psalme in which Psalme his Excellencie did much delight as wée said before saying your Excellencie shall now bée brought vnto those gréene Pastures and swéet waters that refresh the soule whereby your soule to the praise of God shall also be quickned It is true that the way vnto those blessed Pastures and springs is a darke valley of death full of thornes the doore also is very narrow But your Excellencie be of good chéere for you haue hetherto courageously ouercome the thornes of sinne and the darknesse of the terible death through Iesus Christ who is the light the way the truth and the life Goe on fight on in Iesus Christs name you are almost at the end there remaineth but two steps and two blowes then all is woone Your Excellency setteth now his right foote out of the darke and thornie valley into the pleasant pastures of God Iesus Christ our Sauiour who also went this way yea a farre painefuller standeth in the middest of these pastures and the holy Angels with him they wincke at you and call you vnto them and doe long to receiue you into their companie There is prepared a Table for your Excellencie to sit at with Abraham Isaac and Iacob you shall drinke there the ouer-flowing Cuppe of Heauenly Ioy your head shall be annointed with the true oyle of gladnesse séeing you haue fought and ouer-come so valiantly in Iesus Christ By these zealous spéeches and other was taken away the tentation and feare of Hell through the grace of our Lord Christ who permitteth vs

Princes where all things were costly and pompously prepared but the cheare of the Crosse of Christ as now it is set before the eyes of my Soule appeares more glorious vnto m● O my deare Preacher I protest before thee as the ordained Minister of Iesus Christ that I doe speake these wordes without hypocrisie from a true ioy and desire which I haue to enioy the body and bloud of Iesus Christ in Faith through the operation of the holy Spirit Afterward he continued his spéech thus I Praise and thanke my God that he hath created mee a man with reason and vnderstanding that hee hath preserued my body Soule and limmes vntill this houre deliuered me from many sorrowes and dangers bestowed on mee very much good exalted mee vnto great honour and chiefely that hee hath so directed the going out and in of my late Voyage that I am returned vnto mine in good health and disposition And whereas now a dayes many and diuers Religions are found in Europe I thanke my God that hee hath let me come vnto this Religion where I doe seeke my saluation onely in his mercy declared vnto vs in Iesus Christ For I know by experience and doe also testifie the same openly that I haue found in all my griefes and temtations a firme comfort in the confession of this my Faith being grounded onely on the Writings of the holy Prophets and Apostles of the old and new Testament I am therefore assured in my heart that this is the true Religion and Confession of God whereby sure saluation is to be found and hoped for I thanke likewise all those good men whom God hath imployed as meanes and instruments by whosecare seruice and diligence I was brought vnto this profession I will also that my Children be brought vp and perseuere therein Besides this I admonish you Pastors to be faithfull and diligent in your charge as hitherto you haue beene that so you may giue a good account vnto God And now I place my selfe before Gods face as a poore sinner that hath deserued Hell and eternall death but I beleeue firmely that Iesus Christ true God and Man is my Sauiour who as the Lambe of God hath boren my sinnes vpon the Crosse and deliuered me out of the power of Sathan and that he will before my end strengthen my weake faith with his holy Supper I testifie also before God and you his Ministers that I haue forgiuen and doe forgiue with my hart all those that haue offended me and I pray likewise for pardon for wee are men and the righteous man falleth seauen times a day And because many men haue thought that I beare an euill hart against my deere brother Count Albrecht c. I protest that I alwayes was truely and brotherly affected and my Conscience doth witnesse vnto me that concerning our controuersie vvhich I haue submitted vnto the Law I am not altered against him and I doe not in that regard feare the iudgement seate of GOD Haue you therefore a care to tell him thus much from me Pray and admonish him also to let the Law haue his course and to deale faithfully with my Widdow and Orphanes the Lord will reward him for it and he shall keepe a good conscience Finally I testifie by this holy Supper that if it please the Lord to restore vnto me my health vvhich I doe fully leaue to his good pleasure I will to his praise and honour amend my life endeauouring that which is good and shunning all wickednesse yet all this onely by his help grace and assistance Thus did his Excellencie giue a true and constant profession of his Faith not with one breath but at diuers times as his strength would permit The dutch Preacher of the old Citie before the Communion made a short Sermon some fouretéene did communicate the action was concluded with the accustomed thankesgiuing and prayers Munday about the Euening his Excellencies Steward came vnto him and conferred with him about matters that belonged to the Court and the education of his children but that night he could not sléepe therfore he caused godly psalmes to be sung and he himselfe sung also Tuesday the .4 of August hauing passed a heauy night he found himselfe reasonable well so that hee cloathed himselfe intending to visit his wife but being ouer-wearied hée left it He caused diuers letters to be brought before him which hée sealed with his owne hand and went to take the ayre at the window toward night he felt himselfe againe weake The 5. of August hee caused his last Will and Testament which was sealed vp to be brought vnto him and did reade the same and willed something to be added thereunto concerning his Chamberlaine which being done he gaue the same vnto his Chamberlaine charging him to deliuer the same vnto his Counsell Next morning there came vnto his Excellencie the Noble Lady Emilia of Orange Sister of his wife from Heydelberg whom hée receaued with teares and said Many haue stood weeping about my bedde but none could breake my heart and prouoke my teares but your Ladyship About the same time came diuers of his seruants home from the Sermon made on the monthly prayer-day and his Excellencie would heare of euery one of them some good doctrine or comfortable sentence brought from thence which being performed by them hée heard it with great contentment His wife came also the same day againe to visite him whom hée receaued with kinde and comfortable words and shortly after she went from him The euening and night approaching his Excellencie became very heauy so that not onely the Phisitians with their Art but also the Diuines with their consolations had enough to doe at his Excellencies request diuers penitenciall Psalmes were sung namely the sixt thirty-eight and others I tooke occasion at the same time to comfort his Excellencie with the hope which yet wee had that God would prolong his life and make him ouer-goe by patience the smarting paines and weaknesses of his body but when as I perceiued by his words and countenance that such comfort was not acceptable vnto him I went on and said that his Excellencie had not onely to looke what were good for himselfe but also for his Country and poore people affirming we doe not enuie heauen and life euerlasting vnto your Excellencie but what if the Lord God would preserue you to be a comfort and protection of this Country and Church yet certaine yéeres as it happened in Ezechia would not you follow this will of God The King Ezechia himselfe required such prolongation chiefely for the Church and Countries sake The same night I propounded vnto him the words of our Sauiour Math. 11. 28. Come vnto mee all ye that are wearie and laden and I will ease you The Doctor rehearsed the sentence Ioh. 6. 37. Him that commeth to mee I cast not away Whereupon his Excellencie repeated often these words Come and Not cast away resisting therewithall his tentations and said finally