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A10047	A heartie prayer, in a needfull time of trouble. The sermon preached at Theobalds, before his Maiestie, and the lords of the Priuie Councell, an houre before the death of our late soueraigne King Iames. On Sunday, March 27. / By D. Price, deane of Hereford, then in attendance, and now chaplaine in ordinarie to his Maiestie.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1625 (1625)	STC 20293; ESTC S115208	20,513	40

A HEARTIE PRAYER In a needfull time of trouble THE SERMON Preached at THEOBALDS before his Maiestie and the Lords of the Priuie Councell an houre before the Death of our late Soueraigne KING IAMES On Sunday March 27. By D. PRICE Deane of Hereford then in Attendance and now Chaplaine in Ordinarie to his MAIESTIE IER 30.7 Alas for that day was great so that none was like it it was euen the time of IACOBS trouble but he is saued out of it LONDON Printed by M. FLESHER for IOHN GRISMAND and are to be sold at his shop at the Signe of the Gun in Paules Alley 1625. TO THE KINGS MAIESTIE ROyall Master Your gracious aspect to my poore endeuors often presented in your religious presence hath encouraged mee to this Dedication of my last seruice to your blessed Father and first to your Maiestie for the whole world hath no greater Patronage of goodnesse then your selfe and our daily bread and hourely breath serueth vs to beseech the Almightie that you long be the gracious Patrone and Patterne of Religion That I presume to offer it vnto your Maiestie in this time of our iust cause of ioy wherein the Lillies and Roses the Oliue and Vine are conioyned I excuse it by the Pattern I see in Mount Thabor wherein our blessed Sauiour when he shewed his Disciples a glympse of his glory in his Transfiguration hee seasoned their Soules rapt vp in those vnspeakable ioyes with the remembrance of his Passion What this is is like Beniamin the birth of sorrow and of so much sorrow to me as had almost sequestred my Soule from my Body The hand of Heauen that hath wiped away our teares keepe vs long and long from such occasion of tears and Crowne your Royall Person and Gracious Queene with the blessings of Goodnesse which is the continuall Prayer of your Maiesties most humble Chaplaine DANIEL PRICE The Sermon at Theobalds an houre before the death of King IAMES PSAL. 118.25 Saue now I beseech thee O Lord O Lord I beseech thee send now prosperitie THE first fruits of Sinne are Shame and Sorrow and euer since Sinne brought in Death Death the lodge of all mens liues driueth out Sinne and triumpheth ouer Sinners Looke on the foure first Fathers of the World Adam signifieth earthy Abel mourning vanitie Enosh sorrow Kenan lamentation and euer since all times and all places were and are as this time and place representeth vnto vs a time of mortalitie and a Region of death in the shadow of Death Nonne haec est regio mortuorum saith Ambrose Ambr. vbi vmbra mortis janua mortis vincula mortis corpus mortis The present Cloud wherein wee are inueloped and stand all as an amazed poore flocke of sheep beholding a sauage Wolfe worrying our Royall Shepheard looking vpon the wrestling of our Royall Iacob he that is spiritus oris nostri Christus Domini the very breath of our nostrils the Lords Anointed now in Combat with the last enemy that shall be destroyed the contemplation of it striketh vs with a terrible terrour our sighes teares and prayers witnes it and vnlesse the tender mercy of our God whereby the day springeth from on high doe now visit vs to giue light to vs that sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death wee shall finde that our strange neglect of the Sabbath the Lords day doth portend our fatall flight vpon this Sabbath day But Lord whatsoeuer shall become of vs the poore sheepe of thy pasture O looke vpon thy Royall Seruant O hide not thy face from thine Anointed saue now and heare our gratious Soueraigne O King of heauen now hee calleth on thee now that the Angell of Death strugleth with him let the Angell of the Couenant blesse him and as the Angell of Death striueth with him so let the Angell of the Couenant striue for him and free his pretious soule from all paine all sorrow all aduersitie and present it to thy diuine Maiestie without spot or wrinckle O Lord God saue our King mercifully heare vs now we call vpon thee Pitifully behold the sorrowes of our hearts Fauorably with mercy heare our prayers Both now and euer vouchsafe to heare vs O Christ Gratiously heare vs O Christ gratiously heare vs O Lord Christ O Sonne of God O Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world mediate with thy blessed Father if it bee possible that this cup may passe from him or else that his gratious soule may be bound vp in the bundle of life to liue for euermore with thee in glory In the time of Ieremy it was the style of mourning for Royall Personages Alas Alas Ier. 22.18 for that noble Prince wee may take vp that Alas Alas How lately haue wee celebrated Dauids diem solennitatis Psal 77.2 our sacred Soueraignes Inauguration on which day Thursday before his Maiesties death hee that crowneth the yeare with good things crowned the Crowne of our Head our Royall King with an especiall measure of grace in manifesting his heartie and deuout profession of the Faith and Protestant truth which hee had liued in and maintained and resolved to dye in desiring vs all that were present to beare witnesse sealing that resolution with the blessed Sacrament after which diuine repast his soule was setled in so ioyfull a repose as that all worldly content could not compare with it But Alas that day dies solennitatis Psal 81.3 is become dies tribulationis and as Ieremy spake Lam. 2.22 in this solemne day our terrours are round about vs and this Lords day is the day of the Lords anger And therefore let euery sorowfull and faithfull heart pray heartily and cry mightily into heauen Saue now I beseech thee O Lord O Lord I beseech thee send now prosperitie We need not now to call for Sorrow before she come it is now the time that the Church hath allotted to eate the sowre hearbs of repentance in Lent that we may the more sauourly relish the sweet Passover of Easter it is the spirituall Seed-time which ought to bee waterish and wee are wont to be content with a wet Spring to be sure of a ioyfull Haruest Our true sorrow is Repentance which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an after-wit and after-wisdome wherein when wee see how we haue betraid our selues into the hands of Satan we may iustly wish that the Heauens aboue would weepe with vs the Earth lament the Rocks rend the Mountaines eccho groanes and riuers run with teares and indeed I had prouided by Gods good hand such a portion of food for this daily bread and would haue endeavored by his Spirit to haue watered this Gedeons fleece with that deaw of Heauen For as Ezekiel describing the Temple the Image of Gods Church calleth it Ezek. 48.35 Iehovah Shammah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lord is there So all our Prayers and preaching are onely to stir vp these graces of God in your holy deuotion

and conuersation that your light may shine before men to stop the mouths of any interloping Priest or Iesuited Proselyte that commeth to pry and spy that he may see that this place is Iehovah shammah the Lord is here though he doth not know it But as Saint Paul was called by an Angell in a Vision when about to goe to Bythinia one of Macedonia appeared vnto him and sayd O Paul come and helpe vs Act. 16.9 so when my intentions were setled on meditations of repentance the sad face of this sorrowfull family represented it selfe vnto me and diuers wise and religious desired the Conclusion of this text begun on Thursday last vnto which sudden motion I the rather yeelded because S. Paul had taught me encouraged me in that confidence that hee that beginneth euery good worke will performe it Phil. 3.6 and perfit it vnto the day of Iesus Christ The Text is like that Petition in the Lords Prayer Forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue Sola petitio orationis Dominicae cum repetitione There be two twins in the wombe of my Text. Gen. 38.30 Pharez and Zarah were twins but they were of an incestuous birth Gen. 24.22 Iacob and Esau were twins but there was a battle betweene them in the wombe before they were borne but these two twins two petitions are like Esayes two Zeraphins singing one with the other or like two fiery Cherubins taking wing together and flying vp to heauen in a needfull time of trouble to seeke diuine assistance In this later Petition obserue plainly as in the former 1. Cui to whom it is directed Lord. 2. Quis the person who it is by whō it is vttred I. 3. Quomodo the manner how earnestly inplored Lord I beseech thee I beseech thee 4. Quid the matter of the suit so required Lord I beseech thee send prosperity Lastly Quando the time so vrgently instantly importuned Lord I beseech thee send now prosperity The sad presence and representation of this day delighteth not in descant Our Royall Master is in his sad Passover and my meditations shall keepe the Passover The Lord Iesus who was our true Passover be present with vs. It was a wise speech Iustin Martyr doth cite out of Pythagoras in his booke de Monarchia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If any shall say I am God besides that onely one God let him create and make another world like to this that we may beleeue him And Tully in his 2. booke de legibus speaketh to this purpose Nemo separatim habuisset Deos neque novos neque advenas for God saith St. Bernard is not only vnus but vnissimus and as St. Gregory Deus est intra omnia extra omnia supra omnia infra omnia superior per potentiam inferior per sustentationem exterior per magnitudinem interior per subtilitatem creating all things disposing all things ruling all things directing all things and therefore God only to be invocated as the Psalmist admonisheth whom haue I in heauen but thee and in earth none in comparison of thee It is the Lords day and to bestow this pretious time impertinently were but to gather sticks vpon the Sabbath day In this religious assembly you may aske as hee did after a long Oration spent in the praise of Hercules Quis vituperavit who dare derogate from this great part of Gods seruice which indeed containeth the whole worship of God so Scripture expresseth it Gen 3. men began to call vpon the name of the Lord. I answer wee know and God knoweth that the Land mourneth for the apish Popish Idolatry of many who call vpon not onely imaginary saints but vpon Statues and pictures and medalls and Idolls creeping to Crosses bowing to Images like those who turned the glory of the invisible God Psal 106.20 into the similitude of a Calfe that eateth hay Giue me leaue therefore most briefly to put my Sithe into this Haruest not onely to cut downe those cursed tares but also to gather some sheaues for the present occasion of this distressed Family who when they see all helpe to be vaine may the more earnestly rely vpon the God of Iacob for their refuge It is enough to stifle and strangle this monster of Idolatrous Superstition that in all the Bible there is no one called vpon but God only the godly in all ages neuer knew any other and Rome hath no argument out of all the Scripture but of damned Diues in hell and let the wicked bee turned into hell with all the people that forget God The voice of the Church is Te Deum laudamus Wee praise thee O God wee acknowledge thee to be the Lord All the earth doth worship thee To thee all Angels cry aloud To thee Cherubin and Seraphin continually doe cry The glorious company of the Apostles the goodly fellowship of the Prophets the noble army of Martyrs the holy Church throughout the world doth knowledge thee Heare our Prophet Dauid for all the rest as collecting this from all the rest before him and commending this practice vnto all that shall be after him Thou Lord art the hope of all the ends of the Earth Thou art God onely to be feared Thou art God ouer all the Earth Among the Gods none is like vnto thee Thou art my rocke my refuge my shield my buckler my castle of defence my deliuerance in whom I trust O loue the Lord all yee that are his And let mee draw you with a threefold cord of this loue not easily to be broken twisted of the most pretious twines of his presence his omnipotence his beneficence For his presence he is a present help in trouble hee filleth Heauen and Earth and as there is no place where there is vacuitie so there is no place where there is not the presence of the Deitie Non est locus vbi non est Deus in the field with Isaac in the high-way with Iacob in the pit with Ioseph in the prison with Micheas in the dungeon with Ieremie on the dung-hill with Iob in the wildernesse with Iohn Baptist on the Sea with Peter in the Sea with Ionas in the nethermost hell with Dauid Thou hast brought my soule from the nethermost hell The Lord is nigh vnto all them that call vpon him so nigh as that hee prepareth their hearts to call hearkeneth to them when they call inclineth himselfe to receiue their call boweth downe his care vnto their call nay more boweth the Heauens and commeth downe vpon their call nay more he commeth into them stayeth with them suppeth with them lodgeth with them nay yet more will neuer bee absent from them but bee about their beds about their pathes about all their wayes will for euer dwell in their hearts by faith And as for his presence so for his Omnipotence He is Creator adesse Conseruator in esse Recreator in bene esse Glorificator in optimo esse He that measureth the Heauens with a span

and cryeth out still 2. The Disciples her back-frinds they would haue her sent backe Send her away she cryeth after vs and yet shee is not retarded but continueth her calling 3. Our Sauiour answereth her and reiecteth her as not capable of any good from him I am not sent but to the lost sheepe of Israel shee a Canaanite yet neither Disciples nor Master can beat backe her Faith shee followeth and falleth downe and worshippeth and cryeth Lord helpe me 4. Our Sauiour replieth in the most bitter Phrase that euer hee vsed to any poore Suiter It is not meete to take the childrens bread and to giue it to dogs Mat. 6. The daughter possessed with a Deuill the mother accounted a dog and holy things not to be giuen to dogs this had bin enough to haue blasted her hope and rooted vp her faith and haue confounded her confidence and wounded her distressed soule and silenced her importunity yet behold she that had all these discouragements replieth and by her reply crowneth her confidence with a blessed conquest Truth Lord but the dogs eate of the crummes that fall from their Masters table She wrought a miracle vpon her Sauiour made the deafe eares to heare and the dumbe tongue to speake to tongue and eares shee cryed as Christ to the eyes of the blind Ephata bee opened heare and answer my petition and grant my request O how well pleased is the Lord with the importunity of his seruants when they cry day and night and double their ingeminated obsecrations Looke vpon blessed Hezekias his manner of Prayer Isay 37.17 Encline thine eares O Lord and heare open thine eyes O Lord and see heare and when he lay vpon his death-bed chattering like a swallow mourning like a Doue I am depriued of the residue of my yeares I said I shall not see the Lord euen the Lord in the Land of the liuing hee knew that no balme in Gilead no vnguent of the Apothecaries no skill of Physitians no fruits of the fields no flowers of the garden no mineralls of the ground Esay 38. could giue the least allay vnto his sicke and sorrowfull soule but onely the Lord whom therefore hee remembreth and sixe times in his Prayer repeateth that sacred name of the Lord. It is obserued that God himselfe doth seeme to be pleased to vse often an ingemination of the names of those he best loued in Scripture Gen. 22.11 Exod. 3.4 1 Sam 3.10 as when he called Abraham Abraham Moses Moses and Samuel Samuel in a like manner we ought to be well pleased and much delighted in the blessed remembrance and inuocation of his name And sure when the hart is full of God the tongue will not refraine to talke of him they that rarely thinke on God shew how miserable their estate of grace is If the Lord be not in our hearts wee are godlesse if in our hearts without ioy we are hopelesse If wee reioyce in him and speake not of him we are shamefully thanklesse If he be in our harts in our tongues in our ioy coldly and perfunctorily we are negligently faithlesse and therefore as wee must thinke on the Lord alwayes so speake on him often and when we pray to him doe it earnestly and zealously in faith without wauering in confidence without doubting in perseuerance without desisting crying out as Ionas Mariners Ion. 1. Wee beseech thee O Lord wee beeseech thee or as Dauid here I beseech thee O Lord O Lord I beseech thee To land this point remēber that the Church hath appointed vs to pray in al time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the houre of death In all time of our tribulation we are ready to pray but in the time of our wealth and prosperity we are strangers to deuotion yet in the time of thy wealth and health remember tribulation remember in the daies of thy peace thy visitation remember thy houre of death for when ryot hath beene master of mis-rule and turned sobriety the good steward out of doore and Intemperance an vnbidden guest hath got in and defiled all the roomes of thy body Nature like a good-huswife would willingly cleanse the house and desires the helpe of Physicke as a Scauinger to make cleane the roomes but alas she findeth that sinne lyeth like a dog at the doore and death the cruell Serjeant threatens to serue an extent vpon the whole house there is no such meanes to quit thee of thy disease and of thy direfull enemy as prayer it is Dauids Antidote but thou must take it fasting and bee sure to take it warme it must bee feruent prayer and take it not onely morning and euening but take it as a continuall Cordiall and cry mightily Haue mercy haue mercy Spare me O Lord spare me O Lord I beseech thee to heare me good Lord I beseech thee to heare me And so being stedfast and vnmoueable and alwayes abounding in this worke of the Lord thou shalt finde that thy labour shall not be in vaine in the Lord. And so I haue ended my third step the manner how hee earnestly implored I will mend my pace for it is the day of our Royall Iacobs wrestling and I feare as Elisha heard the sound of Iehorams feet following the bloody messenger sent to take away his life so my heart trembleth to thinke it and my cares tingle to heare the heauie and sad approach of pale Death entring into this Kingly Palace O that we could with Elisha looke heedfully now this messenger this murtherer commeth 2. Kings 6.32 and that we could by our prayers shut the doore and hold him fast at the doore and this prayer might preuaile O Lord I beseech thee saue now O Lord I beseech thee send now prosperity Send Prosperity Praeuentions of Paliticians presumptions of the foolish circumspection of the wise circumuention of the wits are all Arts Cobwebs and experience paper Castles the Silk-worms worke and the fooles wonder Prosperity is only the gift of the father of lights The old Speech is that wise men cause prosperous times But alas Policie trippeth vp sacred Wisedome for Policie and Wisedome differ as much as Scripture and Apocrypha and Policie is often as offensiue to true Wisedome as Hagar to Sarah and sometimes as iniurious as Elimas the Sorcerer was to Peter or Alexander the Copper-smith to Paul Laertius tels vs of certaine young men of Ionia Diog. Laer. de vit Philos standing on the shore agreed with certaine Fisher-men for the next draught in which there being a rich and precious peece of Plate they not agreeing whose by right it was they went to consult the Oracle the Oracle enioyned them to send it to the wisest man aliue they thereupon sent it to Thales hee disclaimed it and sent it to another who also refused it till hauing passed through many who all denyed that attribute of the wisest to belong to them at length they bring it to Solon

and hee wished them to send it to the Temple at Delphos and to present it to God as being the most wife according to that of S. Paul To God only-wise And surely as God is called by the name of Wisedome so men come neere to God in nothing more then the study of Wisedome wherein all the Politicians of the World out of their Chymical limbiques with al their extraction can neuer doe good vnlesse their wisedome bee seasoned from aboue It is God only that can both make wise men and prosperous times and therefore our Prophet directeth his Prayer aright O Lord send prosperity The Hebrew readeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hosanna which was sung before Christ is now sung before Dauid a word that is variously interpreted by the Ancients and Moderne signifying saith Euthymius a Hymne or Song or the branches of Oliues and Palmes born before Christ as Caninius or the redemption of the house of Dauid as Ambrose or grace and glory as Chrysostome it is interiectio gaudentis obsecrantis as Austine and as much as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 processus successus a voyce and vote of happy successe It is like that in the first Psalme Omnia quaecunque faciet prosperabuntur All the foure Euangelists mention this Iubilation at the comming of our Sauiour to Ierusalem wherein Disciples and followers and young and old men women and children bare a part It is a frequent acclamation in Scripture God saue the King not onely to Salomon the good but to Saul the bad and to Adonijah the Vsurper 1 Kin. 1.39 1 Sam. 10.24 1 Kin. 1.25 but Hosanna onely sung to Dauid and to the Soune of Dauid Christ Iesus I will not striue to enter into the meaning or mystery of this word of Iubilation Alas it is a word out of season and all our Instruments are out of tune and wee are here as they that sate weeping at the waters of Babylon wee haue hang'd vp our harps vpon the willowes this is not a time to sing the songs of Sion none may require this song of vs in our heauinesse Lorinus obserueth Lor. in Ps 116. that of all other the Euangelists S. Luke omitteth this word Hosanna Qui Graeci sermonis eruditissimus videns se proprietatem sermonis transferre non posse melius arbitratus est tacere quam id ponere quod legenti faceret quaestionem and therefore I will content my selfe as it is here rendred Lord send prosperity It was an vsuall forme of Morning Prayer among the Iewes Prosper vs O Lord O Lord send vs now prosperity prosper thou the worke of our hands vnto vs O prosper thou our handy worke It was the Religious care of Abrahams Seruant when being sent to solicite for a Wife for Isaack and knowing that it was not to bee enterprised vnaduisedly or lightly hee prayed in his Iourney Gen. 24.12.21 O Lord God I beseech thee send mee good speed or prosperity this day And when hee came vnto the Well he stood wauering in contemplation whether the Lord had made his iourney prosperous or not and when the Match was concluded Hinder me not saith hee seeing the Lord hath prospered my way Prosperity is not the faire Gale of temporall carnall security puffing vp the superstitious sailes of pride and ambition If thou hadst Aug. saith Austin the wise dome of Salomon the strength of Sampson the beauty of Absolon the long life of Methushelah the riches of Diues the dyet of the Glutton who fared deliciously euery day Quid prosunt haec cum caro datur vermibus Anima Daemonibus Looke vpon Dauids two trees the Bay-tree and the Oliue-tree and then obserue the difference between true and seeming prosperity I haue seene the wicked in great power Psal 37.36 and spreading like a greene Bay-tree yet hee passed away loe he was not I sought him but hee could not bee found Here is that inticing trap sugred poyson venomous pill stupifying perfume that golden net and goodly Babylonish garment like that Fruit which our first Parents tasted Pro. 1.31 Pulcher in visu mollis in tactie dulcis in gustu mortifer in effectu The prosperity of fooles shall destroy them possessing them with irreligious prophanesse and so infatuating them that their hearts are as dead peeces of flesh without sense of feare or loue or care or paine from the deafe strokes of a reuenging conscience This drew that strange expostulation from Ieremy Ier. 12.1.2 Righteous art thou O Lord when I plead with thee yet let me talke with thee of thy Iudgements Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper wherefore are they happy that deale trecherously Thou hast planted them and they haue taken root and grow and bring forth thou art neere in their mouth but far from their reynes pull them out like sheepe for the slaughter prepare them for the day of slaughter But now if you please looke vpon Dauids Oliue-tree or rather Dauid as an Oliue-tree I am like a greene Oliue-tree in the house of my God for euer Psal 52.9 not as Nebuchadonozors tree hewed downe or as the wicked mans Bay tree fel'd downe or as Iohn Baptists tree cut downe and cast into the fire but the greene pleasant fragrant flourishing Oliue-tree Gen 8.11 Noahs Doue came to him with an Oliue branch in her mouth and that branch was the Embleme of a blessing St. Chrysostome giueth the reason why an Oliue branch not only because the leaues thereof are most beautifull but that they liue vnder water as it is certaine the Oliue-tree continued in the great Cataclisme and Inundation of Waters And indeed the Spirit of God of all trees maketh especiall mention of the Oliue-tree that whereas Iob compares the Rich-man to the Palm-tree and Salomon the Old man to the Almond-tree and Esay the Great man to the Cedaer and Ezekiel the Poore man to the Firre-tree Dauid compareth the wicked man to the Bay-tree and the good man to the Oliue-tree among the rest and aboue the rest euer flourishing It was the conceit of the Iewes that the Doue brought this Oliue branch from Paradise surely whencesoeuer or howsoeuer it came it was a blessed token and euer since the Oliue branch hath beene the Embleme of a blessing and happy is that man that may beare an Oliue branch in all the waues of this troublesome world that may be as an Oliue tree stedfast in faith ioyfull through hope and rooted in charity and can thinke his Prosperity enough to liue out of the noyse of the world as farre from staruing as burning and when heauenly contentments haue possessed his Soule hee looketh downe vpon the earth displeasedly as the region of his sorrow and banishment still praying for the prosperity of Ierusalem and peace vpon Israel as our Royall Prophet now doth Now the last Circumstance This Psalme was made by Dauid when hee was first inuested into his Kingdome Of all other persons it concernes Kings