stirred all of all estates to the consideration of their states and did much affect his highnesse as appeared both by his great attention and commendation thereof Blessed Prince by this Esay 38 1. preparing as Hesekias was warned to set his house in order because he must die Learne hence yee Courtly Gallants yee that prorogue the tearme of your lifes as the Prophet spake Zephany yee that put farre from you the day of the Lord set your houses in order you must die an account must be made did yee but know what houre the theefe Death will come yee would watch if at that time the house bee not built by faith or built and not prepared by hope or prepared and not swept by repentance or swept for a time and not dayly set in order by meditation of mortalitie If there be no care of the spirituall Oeconomy at that day at that houre yee shall drinke the bitter cuppe of the dregges of destruction O then al of yee that eat as if yee did not care to liue and yet build as if yee did not thinke to die yee that preferre Hagar before Sara Bern. Gen. 16 3. Gen. 30.4 and neglect Rahel in regard of Bilha yee that respect not that poore pining fainting Inmate the soule stand in your watchtowers looke towards the vvest to the setting of the sunne dispose of your bodies your soules that your eyes may see your salvation One put his barnes in order and that night they tooke away his soule Achitophel put his house in order and that day he went and hanged himselfe Esay 38.1 but Hesekias set his house in order set his soule in order and so recovered health to body and soule Princes doe partake of a kind of omnipotency their braue followers potentate friends Beaux maiesticke roabes treasured vp riches delicate fare faire Palaces pleasures as if Paradise were recovered their delights as if heaven were come to dwell on earth as the nation of the Iewes cary with them a Savour of their stained stemme murtherous progeny so all these vanities cary a sent and shew of earthly perishing mortalitie Sorrow sicknesse death be Courtiers and of great command they haue their groomes in every office of the house To say no more If Salomon in all his royalty did remember his Creator in the daies of his youth before the evill dayes came Eccles 12.1 before the yea s drew nigh wherein hee might say I had no pleasure therein then linger no longer whosoever thou art in the morning sowe thy seed worke while it is day provide with Ioseph the barnes before the famine Gen. 41. Gen. 6.13 Luk. 15.11 Luk. 16.1 and with Noah the Arke before the flood Let the prodigall child vniust steward vnwise virgin serue thee as examples to terrifie thee But to incite thee to rowse vp that panting fainting breath of thy soule Remember the carefull resolution of this rare Prince whose mintadge may lend character to all the world 5 When the sunne of his Highnesse life was ascending to the meridian his and our Ecclipse began before the noone-tide of nature the night of death set vpon him When all the worlds Eccho of him was that which Antigonus spake of Pyrrhus maximum futurum si senesceret Pluz then did that great Tyrant death first beate then batter all the naturall forces all the principall parts of his bodily fortresse The besiege was not long but cruell when HEE forecasting the worst of events and encountering them before they came caried this character of the valiant D. Hall Char. of val often to looke death in the face and with a religious constancie to passe by it with a smile at once shewing both his content and contempt of death O you vaine froathy fondlings of the world who are enimies to God because strangers to goodnesse in whom custome of sinne hath left no sense of shame and desire of life no feare of death learne hence and tremble at the lesson what it is to walke early and dayly with your maker learne what it is to provide deaths paymēt before the day Shall he that was Natures mirrour the delight and delicacy of mankind being as deere to the world as heauen deare to him shall HE so ballace himselfe with holy wisdome that he provides to floate steddily in the midst of his tempestuous shipwrack shal he in the strength of nature heate of blood beautie of youth and glory of his time prepare so timely at once both to welcome and contemne death And will yee yee earthly Glowormes neglect so certaine vncertaine a point of state as the prevention of death by provision for death your daily surfets nightly riots hourely quarrels are attended not only with surquedry but mortalitie If ever place or age time or person had had a priviledge or immunitie frō death then yee might continue to flatter your selues and to betray your soules but whenas all that soiourne vpon the face of the earth must returne into the wombe and tombe of the earth that the Arkes of your bodies bee full of holes and yee take water at a thousand breaches when that art of offence the duell whereof the divell is the Master is so frequent that beyond the ancient but abhorrent māner of humane murthers as the infants of Bethlehem in the cradles Eglon in the parlour Saul in the mountaine Mat. 2.16 Iudg. 3.12 1. Sam. 26. 2. Chr. 32.21 Ishbosheth on his bed Zenaeherib in the Temple all other places whatsoever forraine and domesticke stream with the blood of single combat of which bloody issue your selues be the Authors the actors the abettors To which adde the namelesse and helplesse infirmities by outrages and sicknesses wherevnto yee are subiect And vpon this consideration turne your eyes inwardes into your owne Anatomies obserue whether yee need Cautions in this kind that seeing examples moue not precepts may prevaile 6 But whither goe I Blessed Prince he was both an apt scholler and an excellent Master his vnderstanding was illumined with the beames of divine truth God acquainted him with his word and in his word with his will Hee made sure for his soule accounted it no safety to bee vnsetled in the foreknowledge of his finall estate How were the devout and frequent observations of his morning religious offices without intercession privately continued as if with David he had vowed Psal 5.3 My voice shalt thou heare in the morning O Lord in the morning will I direct my praier vnto thee This our morning starre preventing the morning watch in his morning offring as if to him Omnis dies esset vltimus dies Iob. 1. Ps 55.18 Rupertus Vitriacus Bon avent Aust in Psal Vespere Dominus in cruce mane in resurrectione meridie in ascensione enarrabo vespere patientiā morientis annuntiabo mane vitam resurgentis orabo vt exaudiat meridie sedens ad dextram Patris Sanctuary
his practise much more Among many others this one remarkable monument shall rest with renowne vpon his memorie he abhorred an oath laying besides the Obeliske of imputation a pecuniary mulct vpon those his followers and family who were found faulty in swearing which monies were duly distributed to the poore Neither can I here omit his religious answer made vnto one that wondred at his sports to obserue his highnesse freedome from oathes hee answeres I never knew any sport worth an oath This holinesse so early began ended not sicknesse diseased it not sorrow disordred it not He shewed his owne care of serving God then in his daily calling vpon him commanding in the entrance of his sicknesse that the ordinary howres prayers in his Closet should be duly observed as if hee had derived pietie as well as royaltie from Ioshuah his example whose speech was Iosh 24.15 I and my house will serue the Lord besides the prayers which often he desired to bee vsed at his highnesse bed-side wherein a learned and Reverend n = * D Milborn Deane of Rochester Deane then assisting fearing to distemper his pained head with any lowd voice his highnesse earnestly calleth and willeth him to speake more openly such was his happy and harty respect to his religious prayers As also his desire and delight to receaue those heavenly plentifull instructions and to partake in those holy powerfull devotions of the most Reverend Archb. who daily did both visit and perfect that good worke in him so that neither the dulnesse of the disease drowsinesse of his head dimnesse of his eies or disturbances of his whole afflicted body could hinder the divine part from her great solace in so great sorrow Learne hence yee profane vnseasoned soules who never name God but in oathes never thinke vpon him but in extremitie yee sencelesse gracelesse Gallants to whom will is a law appetite a Lord reason a servant and religion a drudge a time will come when you shall not knowe how to thinke vpon God because yee beginne to learne but then the Apostle questioneth you how can yee call vpon him in whom yee haue not beleeued Rom. 8. Thinke you to liue with him whom yee haue reiected from liuing with you because this is the ende of all knowledge entertaine yee this knowledge only in the end of your liues How many great ones haue slept their sleepe and found nothing when lying vpon the altar of their death beds to sacrifice their bodies for the sinne of their soules the hart like a peece of dead flesh hath beene without sense of loue of feare of care of paine from the deafe stroakes of a wrath revenging cōscience These harts surbated with cares surfeted with riots as they haue no naturall traduction of goodnesse so no celestiall infusion of grace Mercury hath gouerned their braine Iupiter their liver Mars their gall Saturne their spleene Laur. Anat. but Sol the sunne of righteousnes had never any power over never any place in their harts O stony steely hardnes of hearts which no blowes can breake to whom nothing shall be granted though it may bee required because nothing was performed which was commanded O loathsome soule poore and bare and naked can al thy compassing friends infuse no one teare into thine eyes one drop of comfort into thy hart one repentant sighe from thy soule one graine of faith into thy spirit one mite of mercy one iot of ioy into thy conscience O dumbe dumpe shall the world Eccho thy sinnes hell eccho thy sorrowes Art thou in thy passage and knowest that no sooner is thy candle out but the large history of thy life shall be openly read Is the impostume of thy lies lusts oathes oppressions now breaking the vaile of hypocrisie now to be remoued and thy memory to become as odious to all men as thy life was tedious to good men hast thou beene vnhappy in thy birth vngodly in thy being and must thou bee vngratious in thy end Consider this ô all yee that forget God least he suddainely take yee away when there shall be none to helpe you strike of all delaies which haue already devoured too much of the good time Cast anker see if you may shun the dāgers as eminent as imminēt shake of the viper avoid the enimy the avēger fly frō the indignatiō like to fall vpō you least that time which yet yee may take overtake yee and then yee haue neither power to resist nor patience to beare nor place to avoid Let not hoary sinnes bring home heavy horrours season your selues bath and embalme your soules least your bodies be their sepulchers and you their murtherers begin early if the sixt houre be past overslip not the ninth if the ninth be past foreslow not the eleventh stay not til the last houre for he that doth somtimes doth not all times giue a daies wages for an houres worke Qui promisit poenitenti veniam non promisit omni peccanti poenitentiam Looke vpon that Princely patterne of goodnesse who in young yeares being holy and devout stedfast in faith ioyfull through hope rooted in charitie hath passed the waues of this troublesome world and is finally come to the land of everlasting life 9 And sweet Prince how willingly did HE submit himselfe both to his visitation to the end therof his death when lifting vp his minde to heaven he discovered that so bright and beautifull glory and contemned al things on earth enfolded in a mistie darknesse Divine Eagle piercing beyond the orbe of the sun when neglecting in paines the body which was to be a nest of wormes he desireth in ioies to satisfie his soule which was to be a Companion of Angels Heroicall spirit who willingly entred the Combat with the last enimy that is to be destroied Death when vpon the Vigil of his departure being visited by that most Reverend Prelate the Archb. his Grace and religiously questioned by his Grace whether he could willingly submit himselfe to the will of God so far as the stroak of death his highnes replyed yes willingly with all my heart and though not with so great liberty of tongue as loue in heart manifested hereby that he was not so sure to dy as to be restored so outfaced his death with his resurrection with his ever-living loue of ever-lasting life O heroicall nay more O Angelicall spirit fined and polished in this furnace of his affliction that so freely so faithfully is readie to forsake all and to follow the Lambe whither soever he goeth Rev. 7. who with white hands and a cleane soule was fit to serue and to attend his Saviour yea even then to sing with Simeon Luk. 2.28 Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace Then I say when the earth partaked so much of the beauty of heaven so many delights so many pleasures so many Triumphant magnificent Tropheys for the ioyning of those two royal Virgin riuers Thames and
PRINCE HENRY HIS FIRST ANNIVERSARY HEB. 11.38 Of whom the world was not worthy BY DANIEL PRICE Doctor in Divinity one of his Highnesse Chaplaines AC OX AT OXFORD Printed by Joseph Barnes 1613. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND Father in God his Honourable Diocesan the Bishop of EXETER and Visitor of Exeter College RIght Reverend Father my duty hath often incited me to performe some due observance to your Lordship Your honourable care of our flourishing College hath been my remembrancer pleaded with me as the Elders did with our Saviour for the CeÌ„turion Hee is worthy that thou shouldst doe this to him he loueth vs Luk. 7.5 and his predecessour built our synagogue Your LP. hath been long a painefull carefull father to the Church to our tribe to our College and God hath extraordinarily blessed you that before your eyes your two eyes your two learned worthy sonnes in your dayes and in your Church serue at the Altar The reason that I presume to present this to your Honour is because you truly honoured him whom it concernes that was the excellent ornament of his age present and true mirrour to posteritie Your especiall observance of him in his life being made knowne to his Highnesse by the worthy Gentleman my ever honoured friend Mr Richard Connock had beene as truly rewarded as it was gratiously receaued hâ—d he liued But he is translated and now raigneth in heaven not for a day as Adontah or for a weeke as Zimri for a moneth as Shallum for six months as Zachary for two yeares as Elah for three yeares as Asa for forty yeares as David or fifty fiue as Manasses but forever and ever where in time you shall meet him to remaine with him without all time My selfe with my best devotions shal ever rest at your honourable disposall while I am DANIEL PRICE Exeter Coll. Decemb. 7. The fatall day of Prince Henries funerall PRINCE HENRIES FIRST ANNIVERSARY WHeresoever the Gospell shall bee preached mention shal be made of Mary Magdalen Mark 14.9 not only for loving her Lord in life when shee came to weepe to wash to wipe his blessed feete but also for that when he by whom shee lived was dead and shee for whom he died enforcedly left aliue shee provided her ointments for his dead bodies ornameÌ„ts to pay him the last tribute of external duties of sepulchral obsequies Her former action in the house perfumed the house only her later affection manifested at the graue hath persumed her memory through the world Chrisâ—â— A sinner to annoint her Saviour It is strange often doth the heaven bath the earth but never did the earth bath the heaven til Magdalens teares yet more straÌ„ge that though the life yet the loue of her Maister could not languish in her colde brest though shee missed his heaveÌ„ly word to kindle it and his bodily presence to cherish it yet shee followeth through the shadow of death at the crosse and passeth to the chambers of death at the graue post funera funus after Nichodemus and Iosephs odors Ioh. 19.38 prepared by art and applied by devotion shee casts into the rich treasury her two mites of loue and lamentation and giues the world a checke who performeth duties of loue only in life and makes eie Service the most harty observance A meditation that since I conceived hath laboured so farre with me that I presume to bring forth this hasty but harty manifestation of my boundlesse desires endlesse duties to the memory of that late gracious now glorious Prince beyond all titles in his worth all sorrowes for his death whom no eie with iudgement ever beheld without ravishment lest therfore the remembraÌ„ce decay with the losse or the mothe of neglect infest the Princely vesture of great HENRIES memory seeing Pharaoh had his Pyramis Ioseph 2. Sam. 18.18 and Absolon his piller and that in the bad made worse kept vow of Ieptha the daughters of Israel went yearely to lament the daughters of Ieptha Iudg. 11.29 Why should PRINCE HENRYES Anniversarie bee an eie sore to any that are pleased with worse obiects Why should not the remembrance of our Iosias be like the perfume made by the art of the Apothecary Ecclas 49.1 sweet in all mouthes pleasing in all minds In favours done our memories ought to bee fraile but in benefits receaued eternall Right deare in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Psal how much more in the eies of his Saints the death of this Prince ought to be pretious who living was vertues child Religions friend the Churches advocate Common-wealths hope the poores Master and Gods deare servant 2 Hune tantum terris fata ostendere Honourable and renowned plant as the first flowre of the fig-tree in the prime and bloming of his age hee was translated into heauen and why did not heauen and earth remoue their stations sunne and moone loose their motions and summer and winter period their seasons at this cause of sorrow What in the world shall make shewe to sence of stabilitie what creature is a fixed starre if such a Prince must die whom besides the by earthly healps of drugges and amulets the divine hopes of vertues prayers teares plaints could not keep aliue yet he is aliue on earth in al good mens thoughts in heauen in all Gods ioyes though our eies cannot now hehold him because HE is to bright a sunne for our weake sight our lookes must be limited to a meaner light we must rather humble our selues to the twilight of inferior things then celestiall spirits To follow him in the pace that nature lent him his life or to the place where nature left him his death deserveth a various curious tract were rather an Annall theÌ„ an Annuall remeÌ„brance to think hereby to add to him reputation that smoaking vapour drawne from earthly honour of popular admiration were frivolous neither profit to him dead or approved of the wise aliue To excuse the cause of doing this were to accuse the manner of doing it and therefore without Apollogie let this testifie that I am a perpetuall votarie to the honoured memorie of blessed PRINCE HENRY that whatsoeuer any other wants be I may not bee censured for want of duty that so while I shall runne the race of my sinfull daies and continue the passage of my fleeting pilgrimage higher powers not otherwise disposing or displeasing hereat Iudg. 11. I may as the daughters of Israel once a yeare bestow some odors or ointments vpoÌ„ my Princely Masters monument and burne some incense to his memories excellence 3 All the world were sate to see harken how his Highnesse hopefull youthfull age should be employed for in HIM a glimmering light of the Golden times appeared all lines of expectation met in this Center all spirits of vertue scattered into others were extracted into him Pliny Epi. Xenoph. Cy. rop Fox Acts monuments 2. Vol. so that
Rhene when the Gratious vertuous Princesse Psal 45. his highnesse sister was al glorious her cloathing of wrought gold when shee was to be brought to her Illustrious Palatine in rayments of needle worke the Virgins that were her fellowes to beare her Companie when with all ioy and gladnesse shee was to be brought to enter into her Princes Palace that in steed of her Parents shee might haue children whom shee might make Princes in forraine lands Then when righteousnesse looked downe from heaven and all the Christian world resulted with ioyfull acclamation some fewe Curs of Antichrist excepted Then that even then this blessed Prince to be willing to leaue the world and his happy soule to be contented to be loosed from the fetters of the flesh How should it amaze those subterranean Moles who desire to haue their portion still in this life crying faciamus his tabernacula Who when Death serveth the execution vpon them are most vnwillingly drawne Math. 17. and pulled from worldly delights as beasts from their dennes with malevolence violence roaring out as lamentable a farewell to their soules as Adrianus the Romane Emperour who cryed out Animula vagula blandula c. That his fondling and darling soule was now fleeting he knew not vnto what darknesse danger it should passe where now shoulde be hits lodging now that it was to loose hits former delight and sporting he knew not the pace the place the passage the entertainment how farre was he from him whose motto was Nec pudet viuere nec piget mori frō all the Saints of God that know they are but translated dissolued gathered to their fathers fallen a sleepe their life is hid for a time that they lay downe their tabernacles lie downe in peace sleepe in the Lord rest in hope wait their change that death is only a ferry a boat a bridge to convay them into another place or as a Groome that lights a taper into another roome But ô humane witchcraft that so enchanteth those two divinely polished tables of the soule the wil vnderstanding cheating the affections in the one checking the meditations of the other Why do not the gallant walking Ghosts of this godlesse-age provide more willingly to entertaine the divorce dissolution of their earthly frame why so dayly do they incur the death of both parts when as their defluxion and consuming course is daily manifested every minute they liue being a steppe vnto death every action pulling away some part of their beloved life when like a candle continually burning they are howrely dying and yet as vnwilling to die as weake to resist death the head a skull the breath smoake the eie water the braine dirt the hart dust the body a house of clay Scal. Exer. 148. and men themselues are not men but peeces and fragments of men as Scaliger told Cardā and no waies to passe to life but by the gate of death as the Israelits could not passe to Caanan but by the dead sea and as an ancient compareth our body disposed into the fower humors vnto the veile of the Temple composed of the 4. Colours as this vaile must be removed before the entrance can be obtained into the Sanctū Sāctorum so must the body put of mortality to indue it selfe with immortality But the fleeting Meteors of this fond age neglect the Contemplation hereof and being no more able to abide death then quiet in thinking on the feare of death they wish to fly even from thēselues and to be discharged frō being guided by so ill a guest as their owne soule they wish their portion to continue in this life they can be cōtent to stay here for ever The base wealth false pleasures vaine hopes lying promises fained friendship short glory fading beauty of this dull and dungeon-like life yeelds them sufficient satisfaction otherwise to be sequestred from these itching toies bewitching ioies and to leaue the world they are most loathsomly loath they answere they know where they are whither they shall goe they know not and herevpon in the instant of their trāsmigration they are so vnwilling to leaue the world hence is it that they begin to feele the flames of Hell before they goe downe to the graue before them horror behinde them terror on the one side sinne on the other shame fire in the hand a serpent at the heart terrors of the night sting of conscience feare of hell torture them and their vnwillingnes to die is most willing to torment them But I proceed my subiect is sorrow whom I follow 10 How sorrowful a day was this Vigil of his death How watry that day the 5. of November which should haue beene the day of feare and fire and fury if that Tragedy which Antichrist and hell plotted had been acted How was this day the day of Ioy and Iubile for deliverance I say how was the glory and beauty thereof changed by this Ecclipse of the Princely sunne The Lord even then visiting vs Lament 2.22 as Ieremy complaineth in the Lamentations Lord thou hast called vs in a solemne day and now terrors are round about vs. A day that at the institution thereof did occasion more cause of ioy to vs thē any ordinary day of deliuerance to the Iewes our deliverance greater our enimies more cruell their snares more fearefull the mischeefe more miserable the misery more generall and the proiect more horrid and terrible then ever any we read of among Iewes or Gētiles Graecians or Barbarians or the history of any estate hath read heard or registred in times Chronology A day wherein they cryed of Zion downe with it downe with it even to the ground Wherein the Oracles of our wisdome the Chariots of our Israell the sacred Reverence of our Clergy had beene devoured the learned Guardians of our Iustice the whole estate of our weale-publike by a publicke woe had beene blasted and blemished and consumed A day that should haue been mother to the fowlest monster and monstrous plot that ever was purposed or performed facinus tale quod nec Poeta fingere nec Histrio sonare nec mimus imitari poterat even in that day wherein wee were freed and delivered by a miraculous hand from this hell-borne horror intended against vs. O how was this daie altered by the publicke sorrow for vertues sicknesse This fift day feare possessed City and Court a day that though Pythagoras and Hesiod count to bee most infortunate yet was never ominous or inauspitious to vs witnes the gracious preservation of the Lords Annointed on the 5 of August and this 5 of November Now many hearty prayers were in fiery Chariots sent vp to heauē to implore divine maiestie that this day we might not be led into the temptation of such a tempestuous shipwracke as the losse of our Prince Hesiod Virgil. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Hesiod and Quintam fuge is Virgils caution and Rhodiginus giveth the reason Coel.
if either Pliny his testimonie of Traian or Xenophons description of Cyrus or Polidor of K. Edward the 6. had beene applyed to HIM these all and all whatsoever had beene but scannings kennings of those high borne highly-blessed vertues in Prince HENRY His Magnetique vertue drewe all the eies and hearts of the Protestant world vpon him who in their strictest observation found how HEE hated sinne more for the indignitie thereof then for the tēporall danger how he stood like a Center vnmoved the circumference of his estate being drawne aboue beneath about him how hee lived without the compasse of an adversarie his Person being as a Saint his Court as a Temple there was nothing but hee desired to knowe but most and first himselfe and not so much his owne strength as his owne weaknesse al ingredients of beauty Nine hundred sixtie nine yeares Gen. 5.27 concurred to the making vp of his body in which a soule might haue contented it selfe to liue an age yea were it Methusulahs and for his soule as if the tincture and tainture of originall sinne had not much infected it it was the Tabernacle of all vertue in which Pietie had her Oratory Religion her Sanctuarie Prayer her Censor all Acts of devotion their alter his altar the plentifull daily offering of Almes-giuing Future ages declining as well in their being as vnderstanding will stand amased at his storie whosoever shall build it that a Prince so noble and so humble so valiant and so patient so Heroicall in his exercise and so Angelicall in his prayers so abundantly liberall in his bestowing so honorably frugall in managing his estate so like to liue and so content to die so faithfull to his God dutiful to his royall parents mercifull to poore gratefull gracefull to all either should haue beene so soone so good or be so soone so forgot There is no honest subiect that ever saw him but will forever care to carry the resemblance of his Princely feature in their best composed memory his piercing eye gratious smile graue frowne and divine face composed of modesty and maiestie How slow he was to anger quicke to apprehend how speedy to pardon how magnificent in building munificent in entertaining how constant in his studies paramoūt in all rare inventions Learne then from hence all yee wandring Drones whose life is a continuall sleepe or worse a sleeping death of whom no memorie or monument shall remaine but as that of beasts fuerunt yee whose sole knowledge is only the Philosophy of Epicurisme Plut. yee whose memory shall rot among the posterities yee who are entised by the subtiltie and entrapped in the snares of Sathan who vseth every of you for some end and leadeth all of you in the end to finall destruction How apparant is it to all that the Drunkard is his butler the Glutton his Cooke the Adulterer his Chamberlaine the Slanderer his Lawyer the Vsurer his Treasurer the Iesuit his Chaplaine and shall the same inticements beguile you Be there so few good as that when but 4 in the world a Caine when that number doubled and eight were in the Arke a Cham when that number trebled in twelue Apostles a Iudas seeing the Divell knowing his time short hath provided his factors in all places for all occasions Popish traitours and apish flatterers often about Court Hypocrits and Loiterers about the City buyers and sellers of the Temple in the Temple every where swarming Locusts and the childrē of darknesse so wise in their generatiō so busily imployed and taking such paines to goe to hell How should these thoughts drawe and driue yee out of that as hatefull as harmefull neglect of doing wel stirre yee to striue to do some good acceptable to God profitable to man available to your owne soules that not only in the day of retribution a recompence but in this world there may be a remembrance of you as in every place there now is of this wonder of his time and mirror of Princes 4 Whose Religious soule did so truely entertaine the Patronage and protection of religion that as HEE hated Poperie with a perfect hate so his loue vnto truth and learning as it shined outwardly so did it burne inwardly in his owne practise in which besides his vnfained zeale to God and loue to good men he was ever carefull of Moyses and Davids lesson to number his daies never desiring to liue long nay Psal 90. often vsing contemptible speeches of the world of life of bravery of beautie accounting long life not only vanitie but miserie and on the contrary many and holy and heavenly were his frequent meditations vpon the certaintie of salvation immortalitie of the soule resurrection of the dead and ioy of the blessed as those neere about his Highnesse can testifie by those his wise and divine Apothegmes which will never be razed out of their most and best reserved memories Wherein I cannot omit his especiall regard of honest Sermons for that was the title he attributed to sharp and sound sermons which neither favored of flattery or Poperie among which as none ever passed without his reverent attention and remarkeable observation so especially in two preached before his Highnesse though some yeares in distance yet in the same month of his finall and fatall sicknesse The first at Richmond in October 1608. vpon that text which afterwards Psal 82. v. 6.7 was as a box of spikenard to annoint his body at the buriall chosen by the most Reverend father the L. Archb. his grace at the funerall Psal 82.6.7 I haue said yee are Gods and yee are all childrē of the most high But yee shall die like men and fall like one of the Princes which Text being entreated on at Richmond by one of his highnesse Chaplaines thē waiting and the Text called the Fall of the leafe howsoever the Chaplaine were one of the meanest youngest of that name number yet it pleased his highnesse to require a coppy thereof and as with Princely patience to heare so with godly diligence to recall some passages therein that Cedars of Libanon Roses of the field Lillies of the Vallyes Princes starres Angels had fallen that humanity and mortallity were twinnes that all flesh was as a flowre and the grace thereof as the grasse of the field c. The other Sermon as if it were provided against the day of his preparation by that all guiding eie of providence M Wilkinsō vpon Octob. 25. 1612. was learnedly powerfully delivered in S. Iames chappell by a Reverend divine Chaplaine to the kings Maiesty vpon the Sabaoth day of his highnesse sickning the Text being taken from Iob. 14.1 Iob. 14.1 Man that is borne of a woman is short of daies and full of troubles wherein by the miserable entry of man into the world his miserable and speedy passage out of the world and his miserable pilgrimage and indurance while he is in the world he
Rodig lib. 8. cap. 9. that vpon the fift day the furies doe governe it being the day of their birth The fift day the Gyants began their warres against heaven shipwracks earthquakes tempests devastations being even proper to this day and the Brumalia being kept in the same month of NoveÌ„ber and about the 5 day had the dedication à sonitu tonitrus fulminis Yet neither this month nor this day Hosp de origine Fest Novemb. were ever yet vnhappy to vs til now and now beganne we to tremble though we had scaped the fift daies furies and the Brumalia the Winters feast which was intended yet now the Ioy of our heart was humbled Lam 5.15 and feare was on every side But Thou continuest holy O thou worship of Israel O Lord let it never be forgotten that thou didst please to spare and forbeare the great iudgement of this day and this day didst not so overshadowe vs with sorrow as to take away our Iosias in the celebritie of our preservation to extinguish our ioy vtterly by Hadadrimmons lamentation A meditation that should stirre vp al those vnfaithfull vnthankfull soules among vs who neglect the Lords favour and the remembrance of his holinesse in the deliverance of this day It was his infinite mercy that this day he let not our enimies laugh vs to scorn or to triumph over vs but deferred Prince HENRYES death one day further Yet certainely hee suffered this heavy iudgement to fall vpon vs so neere to this time because we are so forgetfull of his marvailous deliverance from the dangerous engins prepared against that time It is not vnworthy the observation Ioseph that most of the great iudgements fell vpon Israel vpon the daies of their solemne feasts surely for the prophanesse and vnthankfulnesse of them for those blessings receaued which occasioned the institution of those feasts And why should wee not forever hereafter stand in awe trembling and fearing how the Lord hath afflicted vs so neere our solemn feast day And though he had delivered vs from the violence and malevolence of meÌ„ Divels yet if we turne not he caÌ„ whet his sword bend his bow as he did by that arrow that strook Israels Iosiah 12 It is as true as terrible iudgement may be prolonged but when the mouth of the Lord hath spoken by no power it can be avoided The sixt day ensued which as if it had had a divine dispensation to breake the sixt coÌ„mandement slew our PRINCE A day that hath beene Principibus infesta infausta witnesse the death of Richard the first the sixt of Aprill 1199 Henry the second the 6 of Iuly 1189 Edward the first the 6 of Iuly 1307 our last Edward blessed K. Edward the 6. on the 6 of Iuly 1553 as also this 6 day of November wherein our Iulium sydus Prince HENRYES sunne did set Divine soule how readily did it moue to its Center how constantly all the stormes could not shipwrack the arke of his faith all the surges could not sinke his pretious soule He continued victoriously Constant is assured to see the Lord in the land of the living The beames of his faith did reflect vpon him and kept life beyond life in him when the last symptomes the harbingers of death appeared in that dismall period of that fatall day the violence of convulsions and fury and extremity of the disease appearing then most terribly because it was never to appeare againe In that sparke of life his last best Physitian the most Religious most Reverend Archb. his Grace being his highnesse heaveÌ„ly remembrancer by many hearty holy exhortations to assure him with assured Constancy of Gods mercy to lift vp his hart to prepare him to meete the Lord and calling more earnestly and lowdly because the organs of speech and hearing were deprived of vse his highnesse being earnestly moved to manifest by signes his apprehension of these divine exhortations and his assent herevnto he lifted vp his holy hands vnited afterwards his eies bent to heaven froÌ„ whence not long after appeared in his deliverance his salvation Learne hence all yee vnmindfull vnfaithful vnconstant weather-beaten worldlings who like reeds tossed of the winde never coÌ„tinue in one stay whom the least blast of affliction doth so amate and amaze as that God is forgotten and being vnbeleeving Scepticks beleeue no more then yee see and feare no more then yee feele and therefore are sure to want the Continuance of Constancie at your deaths because you were never acquainted with it in your life When all your members and faculties are surprised all paines perplexities enlarged when the sorrowes of death compasse yee about the floods of wickednesse make yee afraid then how horrid will it be that out of all your former lifes extraction no one drop either of Comfort or CoÌ„stance may be distild When the aking head panting hart faultring tongue shortning breath beating veines crazed minde and crackt memory shall disturbe and distract all your facultâ—es and not only your heavenly but even earthly cogitations when the dumbe mouth numbed hands stiffe ioints pale lips vanishing strength and expiring life be the forerunners of a dolefull fearefull death and the want of a religious settled constant memory shall then bring the woe of a wanton minde and yee shall by a scourge of Conscience receiue a beginning in this life of your full torments in the flames of hell the eternall iustice making you executioners of your owne faults the hart hope of life being but a bubble a smoake a lie a fury Wâ—sd 5. Esay 28. Prov. 11. Iob. 11. as Salomon Esay and Iob haue described it wanting the sweet solace of the soule and that assurance which the Saints haue in all your anguishes and extremities neither obtaining acceptance with God nor repentaÌ„ce from God a Graue-stone lying vpon your harts sealed with the sense of Gods iudgements pressed downe with the rubbish and ruines of the decayed monuments of ancient transgressions your foundation laid not vpoÌ„ the rocke but on the sands and in the sea where waues and windes beat on every side wheÌ„ all those old friends but new enimies lie in ambush the corrupters of iudgement seducers of will Traitors of vertue flatterers of vice Pyoners of Courage murtherers of Comfort the extinguishers of all peace in conscience or ioy in spirit Whereas to a resolved soule to a Constant Christian even in the pangs of death he then chiefly seemeth to be the liuely and louely image of his maker having his reason and vnderstanding cleere his will and affections ordinate his sensuall faculties not only restrained from evill but constrained to be serviceable to do good and howsoever his corporall state be in an Ecclipse wanteth as much in sense as it aboundeth in sorrow yet his soule is triumphing reioycing in God his Saviour ready to sing his Nunc dimittis as this Princely Saint
12 And now death Natures midwife began her final act of dissolution this fatall day friday a day which long before his highnesse accounted dismall proved to be the day of blacknesse and darknesse a day of clowds gloomishnes there never was since the time of Christ the like and Lord let never be the like any more after it even to the yeares of many generations Now the infallible signes of vnsatisfiable death approaching the disiointing Cōvulsions trembling agonies came vpō him Nature wasting like a dying Lampe in that day his starres begin to be darkned the keepers of his house to tremble the strong men to bow themselues the grinders to cease they that looke out of the window to be darkened Now the siluer Cord is ready to be loosed the golden pitcher breaking at the fountaine and the wheele breaking at the Cesterne Now now HEE is going to his long home and the mourners go about in the street O miseram faciem orbis O wofull countenance of a Court that now appeared the Eccho and reclamation of sighes sobs the throwes of sorrow of outcryes and vnspeakeable Lamentation sounded not only in that wofull house and therein in the Chambers of death but in all the Court all the city men passing along by each other as if they had bin come out of the graues Teares groanes heavy lookes dissheveld lockes and lamentations filling all places speach life seeming to be strangers to men the saddest time sablest world that ever our Country knew It exceeds invention to imagine it and is able to cast a perpetual dampe vpon the vnderstanding that shal conceiue it my hand pen heart all my faculties sinke vnder this burden I lacke Agamemnons vaile The delight of mankinde expectation of nations is expiring where how whence is Comfort to bee had I shal never forget ever to pity those poore souls with wringing hands breaking harts whose shrikes and outcries are able to pearce Adamāt Are sins more prevailing then prayers Where is the power and violence of praier which opened and shut and sealed vp heaven brought downe fire and staied the sunne in the firmament No hope no helpe all miracles ceased No balme in Gilead nothing in the strength and extracts of nature no Elixir in Art to recover to repaire this irrecoverable consumption It was providence that disposed it and doth silence question But was the charge so strict as that the great Tyrant Death would smite neither small nor great but Israels Prince the Ioshua Iosiah Maiesties first borne Religions second Must the Rose be blemished before it was fully bloomed or the fig tree blasted before it was time to bring forth fruit O crueltie of that savage monster Death O Death thou child of sinne and father of confusion hast thou not already triumphed enough in funerall solemnities thy applause in the cries of widdowes and orphans by the disorder and desolation of thy vniversall dominion that as many ages as haue beene since the world was created so many conquests hast thou obtained and yet thy all devouring throat the graue vnsatisfied But againe I see the finger of providence imposing silence forbidding question Yet my eares tingle with the dolefull tune of that wofull time The bell now calleth him to the triumphant Church by day Death durst not approach by night he vndertakes this deed of darknesse The redoubled sound of that solemne but sorrowfull knell strooke all hearts with a chilling killing feare now hope was without helpe the ayer was troubled with the scriching outcries and all knees bowed all faces plentifully bedewed the world in an extasie as if some especiall part of nature were dissoluing Now were the last prayers of the family who without intercession were all that day assisted by many honourable and infinite lamentably sobbing soules whereof the Chappell vestry entry and whole Court were ful all ioyning with strong cries weeping eyes bleeding hearts did commend his blessed soule to be bathed in the pretious blood of his Saviour And so not long after quietly patiently blessedly he expired and yeelded his spirit into the hands of his immortall maker Even then when that inauspicious aspect of the planets did portēd some ominous disaster when only Saturne and Iupiter appeared aboue and Sol Mars Mercury Venus and Luna lay hid below not daring to be witnesses of that heavie and horrid effect of that horrible coniunction Learne hence all yee firre trees that Cedars may fal and Princes the Gods of the earth may die They are men helplesse men mortall men corruptible men in the frames of their bodies and in the cogitations of their minds Happy therefore is he that hath the God of Iacob for his refuge Happy is hee whose hope is in the Lord his God! And blessed be our God who in the vnconceavable wisdome of his divine wil hath freed blessed Prince HENRY from the fetters of the flesh Who when he had shewed him the world to loath the world enfranchised him from this earthly prison and dungeon and possessed him now with greater libertie Where being exalted in greatest glory hee is nowe in his presence where there is fulnesse of ioy and at his right hād pleasure for euermore Where there is an immortall immarcessible crowne wherewith already hee is adorned in that kingdome of continuance where sorrow shal never be felt sicknesse never be feared where ioy cannot be touched with sadnesse nor health tainted with sicknesse where there is all good without any evill and all trouble all punishment and all feare is done away And finally blessed bee that God who hath out of his fountaine of goodnesse once againe opened the windowes of the mornings mercy and restored a new light to those sorrowfull soules who sate in darknesse and in the shadow of death and hath restored the voice of ioy and gladnesse vnto our most gracious K. IAMES and the family of St IAMES by the setling of that house and the happy shining of our day starre CHARLEMAINE the apparant heire of his blessed Brothers vertues and titles the Parallel of former and absolute patterne of future Princes whose stemme and stock long may it florish vnder the branches of those Royall Cedars his renowned Parents that so with much happinesse his Highnesse may bring forth his fruit in due season to all good mens good and Gods great glory Amen