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A10059	Spirituall odours to the memory of Prince Henry in foure of the last sermons preached in St James after his Highnesse death, the last being the sermon before the body, the day before the funerall. By Daniel Price then chaplaine in attendance.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1613 (1613)	STC 20304; ESTC S115195	65,346	124

infirmity in some others of them wee ought to craue the assistant power of Gods spirit in all sorrowes so to season and sweeten them and to direct them to right ends that we looke not only vpon the power of God herein as to forget his favour we so much consider not the greatnesse of the afflictiō as the goodnesse of his affection that hath laid it on vs for our good and therefore so to cast anchor in al stormes of our life Pet. Martyr Common places as that this Passion of sorrow as Peter Martyr cōpareth it may direct our sailes as a prosperous wind to the hauen not rend our souls and sinke our ships that the masts of our faith be shaken the anchors of our hopes broken that we shew our selues wise men not mad men not distracting our spirits not distrusting our God but with David here temper our soules or rather tune them to that song of his Ps 121.1 I will lift vp mine eies vnto the hils from whence commeth my helpe Helpe shall come from the Lord which hath made heauen and earth Hence also we may learne to stay our carnall and to encrease our spirituall sorrow bodily labour availeth not bodily sorrow profiteth not Fasting spoken of in the Text of it selfe is but an outward ceremony Externum signum saccus ieiunium Hier. true abstinence consisteth in holynesse of life mistake me not as if I derogated from fasting that venerable daughter of repentance one of the best mothers in Israel I would we might imitate either Patriarchs or Prophets herein or even at this time the French and Dutch Churches in this citty who in consideration of Gods iudgment vpon vs lament with fasting and praying as may be seene in their congregations weekely But I say fasting is but the outward countenance it is the inward motions that God is pleased with And in them none more acceptable vnto him then an humble obedience to his wil when his hand hath given the stroake the Lord hath done what pleased him Ion. 2. a sweet and comfortable carriage of our afflictions wil be pleasing vnto him and a blessing to vs. Priamus in Homer bewailing his sonne Hector Homer fasteth and mourneth after his death Dauid doth this before his sonnes death when it is past he riseth washeth eateth worshippeth doth cōfort himselfe How did the Patriach Iacob carry al those pressures laid vpō him with a holy calme disposition Gen. yee never finde him tempestuous yet who ever endured so successiue storms In al the daies of his pilgrimage scarse any faire weather he is rent from his fathers family flyeth for the feare of his brother he is cheated by his vnckle his place vile and servile Gen. 31.40 in the day the drought consumed him in the night the frost the sleepe departs from his eies serues for Rahel seauen years and a bleere eied Leah is given him serues seauen more for Rahel and shee is barrē at length a childe shee shal haue but the childes life is the mothers death when his children increase his sorrowes increase not Beniamin alone but almost every one of them is Benoni the sonne of sorrow Incestuous Reuben Adulterous Iuda Levi that is to be consecrated to God in his Church is bloody Er and Onan strook dead before him Ioseph lost Simeon imprisoned Bēiamin endangered his only daughter young Dinah his dearling ravished by an alien from Israell Yet you never finde in all these perils among his owne that he staggereth These meditations be best fitting the practise and imitation of these examples wil be fruitfull And as the Apostle speaketh giue no place to wrath so say I giue not place to sorrow especially to worldly sorrow 2. Cor. 7.10 for Godly sorrow worketh repentance to saluation not to be repented of but the sorrow of the world worketh death yet cannot redeeme from death as it followeth in Davids words Can I bring him againe His wise resolution implying the impossibility of his reviving him Part. 2 The first speech was drawne ab invtili there is no profit no hope no helpe no means by fasting to recover him Being dead why should I fast this second is ab impossibili from the improbability and impossibility of recalling him Can I bring him againe David was not ignorant of the reduction restitution resurrection of the body there bee no lesse then 13. places that may bee collected out of the Psalms to this purpose Thou shalt not leaue my soule in hell Ab●lens nor suffer thy holy one to see corruption Thou O Lord shalt raise me vp at the last I shall see the Lord in the land of the living c. These other frequent places be commonly noted to this purpose The Resurrection as it is most certaine so also most cōfortable Iob had nothing to sweeten his dunghill but the hope of the resurrection Iob. 11. and Paule had no other doctrine to preach to the devout Greekes at Thessalonica Act. 17.3 Act. 17.32 Act 23 6. Act. 26.23 to the Stoickes at Athens to the Pharisies at Ierusalem to Festus the Governour at Cesarea nay almost in every place he preacheth the resurrection of the deade and our blessed Saviour of all other mysteries of our redemption maketh none more plaine then this points and though it seeme a doctrine so far beyond al sense yet he hath so sensibly proved it to all the senses by his owne rising that al the world may with S. Paule confesse 1. Cor. 15. Christ is risen frō the dead and become the first fruits of them that sleepe Christ is risen and wee shal rise and this is the manner how He manifested himselfe by sight C. proueth his resurrection by the 5. senses when he shewed his wounds by hearing in his salutation Peace be vnto you by tasting he did eate of the broiled fish with them by touching Thomas put his fingers into the print of the nailes by smelling for he breathed vpon thē Here be the senses They that haue seene this haue beleeued and blessed saith Christ are they that haue not seene and yet beleeued But because our Saviour foresaw that vpon his resurrection the ground of this point would for ever be setled He as Luke speaketh shewed himselfe to be aliue by many infallible arguments by necessary true evidēt proofes such as the Philosopher calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act 1. Arislot in Rhet. c. 2. He left no circumstance of time place persons vnmanifested that this might bee beleeued he appeareth after his resurrectiō earely in the morning late at night in both the times of the day to the disciples abroad and gathered togither in the house in both the places to the souldiers Apostles both conditions of men to the Iewes and Gentiles both religions of men to men and women both the sexes to the liuing in the world to the dead in the graue both states to