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Prince Henry his first anniversary. By Daniel Price Doctor in Divinity, one of his Highnesse chaplaines
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Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.
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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