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A11825	A sermon, preached before the two high borne and illustrious princes, Fredericke the 5. Prince Elector Palatine, Duke of Bauaria, &c. and the Princesse Lady Elizabeth, &c. Preached in the castle-chappell at Heidelberg the 8. of Iune 1613. being the next day after her Highnesse happy arriuall there: by that reuerend and iudicious diuine, Mr. Abraham Scultetus, his Highnesse chaplaine. Together with a short narration of the Prince Electors greatnes, his country, his receiuing of her Highnesse, accompanied with twe u [sic] other princes, thirty earles, besides an exceeding great number of barons and gentlemen, and eight daies ent rtainement [sic]. Translated out of High Dutch by Ia Meddus D. and one of his Maiesties chaplaines.	Scultetus, Abraham, 1566-1624.; Meddus, James, d. 1632.	1613 (1613)	STC 22125; ESTC S117026	16,930	78

affliction for it is true that vnto the faithfull tribulation bringeth patience patience experience experience hope and hope maketh not ashamed This wee know and acknowledge with all Protestant Churches When faith is weake patience cold hope in a swounde then is there no better meanes to helpe and relieue the poore soule then that shee frequent the holy Supper of the Lord where we doe not onely see before our eyes what and how much Christ hath suffered for our sakes but wee also feele that our hungry and thirstie soules are fed with his crucified body and are quenched with his bloodshed which is done when wee ingraue and firmely presse into our hearts by true faith that Christ is giuen vnto death for our sinnes and his blood is shed for our transgressions whereby faith will be stronger patience warmer hope more liuely the whole man will bee in God more ioyful wil go home vnto his house with a ioyful hart praise-singing mouth singing Psal 23. The Lord is my good shepheard I shal heceforth neuer want any thing he feedeth me on the greene pastures of his word hee giueth me to drinke of the fresh watersprings of his spirit his goodnesse and mercie will follow me all the dayes of my life This lastly we know and acknowledge with all Protestant Churches That eternall saluation is prepared for vs after this life That is said the Lord sheweth his word vnto Iacob and reuealeth his grace and mercie only to Protestant Churches But hee sheweth vs not only the word of grace and mercie but he sheweth vs also his statutes and his iudgements Now these are Gods statutes and iudgements Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God Math. 22. with all thy heart with all thy soule with all thy strength and thy neighbour as thy selfe These be Gods statutes and his iudgments Let your light so shine before men Math 6. that they may see your good workes Luke 6. and glorifie your Father which is in heauen These be Gods statutes and his iudgments Loue your enemies doe good vnto them that hate you blesse them that curse you pray for them that hurt you These bee Gods statutes iudgments Take heede that your hearts be not oppressed with surfeting drunckennesse Luke 21. and with the cares of this life These are Gods statutes and his iudgments To doe well and to distribute forget not Heb. 13. These bee Gods statutes and his iudgments Follow peace with all men Heb. 12. and holines without the which no man shall see the Lord. But so O God doe few people at this day therefore Praise the Lord O Ierusalem praise thy God O Zion For as wee haue vnderstood out of this sermon there is nothing more precious then to praise our God such praise is pleasāt comely such praise is fitting to meete God the Lord with as hee that buildeth the wales of Ierusalem as hee that vseth his wisedome and power vnto the defence comfort of his Christēdome as he that yet sheweth vnto vs in Germany his sauing word and his holy statutes Who so acknowledgeth this who so laudeth and and praiseth this hee shall finde that vppon his praise singing life a praise singing death shall follow and hee shall by death bee ioyfully carried into that blessed life wherein all the faithfull meete together and shall sing Great is our Lord and great is his power hee maketh them that were low on earth to bee high in heauen them that on earth were proud and wicked hee abaseth and throweth downe vnto hell For if the honest subiects of the Electorall Palatinate did heartely so much reioyce yesterday when they saw that our right gracious and illustrious Princesse Electoresse was well and safely arriued here in good health and receaued with ioy of our right gracious Lord what thinke you will bee then there when wee and all other the faithfull who are Christs Bride that shall haue sailed ouer the deepe hideous terrible and tempestious Sea of this world yea the temporary death and shall haue arriued at the holy hill He alludeth to a hilat Heidelberg called the Holy hill not at Heydelberg but in heauenly Ierusalem where Christ will receaue vs euen the good Bridegrome who hath vndergone so far a iorney for our sakes as from heauen vnto the earth and hath giuen out his life a ransome for vs ioy fully will all sing there that can sing and all cheerefully giue piaise that can praise The Angels themselues will then assēble in troupes reioyce sing Halleluia praise ye the Lord the lambes wedding is come let vs sing reioyce Reu. 19 That which the Bride desired on earth that shee hath that she heareth that she seeeth that she feeleth now in heauē She hath the bridegrome she heareth Angels musick shee seeth the Father in the Sonne the Sonne in the Father and the holy Ghost in the Father and the Sonne God doth not so vnto any wicked nor letteth them see his glory nor suffereth them to feele his ioy Therefore praise here the Lord ye that would praise him there sing here vnto the Lord yee that would sing vnto him there Here must the beginning be made the full accomplishment and fruition of all will be found there Thankes be vnto the Father that so cleerly reuealeth his mercy vnto vs. Thankes be vnto the Sonne who hath purchased for vs peace ioy and life Thankes be vnto the holy Ghost that bindeth vs poore miserable wormes on earth in a permanent euerlasting loue with God in heauen Let all the people say Amen yea Lord Iesus Amen The Praier IT is a pleasant thing indeede to praise our God and to shew forth his mercie in the morning and his truth in the euening Therefore we returne our hearts and tongues vnto thee most mercifull God and Father and praise thy marueilous goodnesse which thou hast so plentifully and richly shewed vnto vs euer vntill this present It was thy goodnesse that our Lord and Prince Electors Highnesse went well and sound from hence into England three quarters of a yeare agoe It was thy goodnesse that his Highnesse purpose and designe came there vnto a happie end It was thy goodnesse that his Highnesse arriued here so well againe after the performance of that businesse And it is thy goodnesse that his Highnesse best beloued spouse arriued here safely yesterday to the great reioycing of all the people Blessed and praysed be thy high and great name for this thy maruellous goodnesse from this time forth and for euer We beseech thee gracious God and Father finish that work which thou hast begun and renew thy ancient mercie and louing kindnesse from day to day vpon this Princely new maried couple powre downe vpon them from heauen aboue thy heauenly goodnesse and blessing accomplish all their Highnesse designes heare them when they call vpon thee deliuer them when they bee in danger reioyce them when they be in sorrow blesse

them as thou didst blesse thy best friends Abraham Isaac and Iacob that so their whole countrey may bee glad of them and that in time vnder their gouernment iudgement and righteousnesse may meet together in all parts of the Palatinate and loue kindnesse and faithfulnesse may kisse one each other in all houses Receiue likewise into thy protection and defence the Romane Emperours Maiestie the King and Queenes Maiesties of Great Britaine as also the Prince their Son all other Christian Potentates Princes Electors and other Princes of the Empire especially in our right gracious ioynt gouernment together with their beloued Ladies all that belong vnto them and so likewise all the whole Electorall and Princely family of the Count Palatines by Rheine blesse them all in bodie in soule in honour in goods Looke downe from heauen vpon the fruits of the earth and speake and spread out thy blessing ouer them that we may also therby acknowledge thee the Father and fountaine of all mercie and goodnesse Haue mercie vpon all persecuted afflicted and sorrowfull Christians cure that which sicke is binde vp that which is wounded strengthen that which is weake Lastly receiue vs and giue vs vnto thee so shall we be a blessed people here temporally and there eternally Amen TO THE INDIFFERENT Reader Considering indifferēt Reader how sinisterly some of ignorance and others of malice conceaue of the state dignity of the High and Mightie Prince Elector Palatine Duke of Bauaria c. of his Coūtry of his receauing his most honored Ladie the Princesse Elizabeth and entertainement of my Lords the Commissioners and accordingly make report thereof as also how desirous others are to be rightly informed of the truth I could not in my dutie knowing the place and hauing certaine aduertisements thence from honorable personages and others of great worth credit but add this short plaine yet true narration thereof as well for the easier stopping of intemperate mouthes as for the better satisfying of all honest mindes that bee desirous of the truth First therefore concerning the Prince Elector Palatines originall and state though those many pedegrees published here already of his Highnesse discent sufficiently shew his ancient and high blood rising from many great Emperors and Kings yet giue mee leaue to fetch it from the very beginning The Palatinate and Bauaria were once a kingdome yet subiect as other States vnto alteration and change Chron Charian lib. 4. Chronolog Func The Kingdome continued from Adelgerius the first King vntill Tassilo the last all in lineall discent 332. yeeres from the yeere of Christ his incarnation 556. vntill the yeere 788. This Tassilo the last King for that he would neither be subiect nor friend vnto Charlemaine was at length after much warre subdued by him taken prisoner and both he and his sonne Dedon depriued of their Kingdome and kept prisoners in the Monasterie of Lanceack neere vnto Heidelberg where they both ended their daies in miserie After this the posterity of Charles the great held those Countries vntill the seuenteenth yeere full or meane as is by some supposed It is in length about 200. english miles the lower and vpper Countrey In the lower the Prince hath 26. walled Townes besides an infinite number of good and faire Villages 22. houses and the land is very fruitfull of wine corne and other comfortable fruites for mans vse hauing the Rheine Neckar running throgh it The vpper Countrey hath not so many walled townes and princely houses but those that are be generally fairer then in the lower especially Amberg and New-market For her Highnesse receauing After that she had passed the low Countries the Dukedomes of Gulick Cleue and Mont the Bishoprickes of Collen and Trier with a part of the Landgraue of Hessens countrey in all which places she had so great welcome entertainement and honorable presents as truely expressed the loue and applause of the people the affection of friends and greatnes of those Princes through whose territories shee passed Shee came at last happily to Cowlsome where the Prince Elector Palatine met her highnesse post with a few horse and went together to Gauelshemi another very smale village of his the 1. of Iune 1613. inconuenient for the prouiding for and lodging and prouisions for such a traine which was occasioned by reason Coub Bachrahe and all other good townes of his thereabouts were infected Here the Prince Elector and Princesse earnestly inuited my Lords the commissioners and others his Maiesties officers who had attended in the voiage to goe along with them vnto Heidelberg whereby they might not only haue a better view of some part of the countrey but also finde entertainement to their more content The commissioners condiscended vnto so gracious a ioint request and the rather to see her highnesse well arriue at her owne home But the other officers could not by any intreaty be perswaded to goe further desirous perhaps to make speedy report vnto their Maiesties and the state of her Highnesses safe arriuall in the Palatinate and soe re●●ued the next day for England And this is the cause they saw not any memorable thing worthy of praise in the Palatinate as my Lordes the commissioners did and will not forbeare to speake honorably thereof thogh some haue done otherwise for answering of whom and satisfying of others I haue thought good to touch this much by the way and noe more I am informed of Thence they rid the next day the 2. of Iune vnto the City of Mentz whither the Archbishoppe and Prince Elector thereof Chancelor of Germany had inuited their highnesses where they stayed two nights and were of him roially entertained with great and bounteous feasting sundry excellent Fireworkes the better to expresse their welcome and passe out the time in princely manner The 4. of Iune they rodd to Oppenheim an ancient City with a Castle therein of the Prince Electors and there lodged all night which the Troianes drew into the Citie in the night the Alarum was giuen Troy fired and the Greekes in triumph marched away Conquerours The next day the 7. of Iune the Princesse remoued towardes Heidelberg after shee had Passed the walled town of Ladeberg was met 3. miles from Heidelberg with the Prince Elector accompanied with 12. other Princes the rich coach 30. Earles one thousand gentlemen of the countrey richly attired and brauely set out with gallant horse armour and other habiliaments of war The horsemen attending the Princes were besides these two thousand more So that all the horse were three thousand and all great horse The Princes alighted and welcomed her Highnesse who ascended into her rich coach After a while shee was again encountered in three seuerall places with three regiments of foot 2000. in regimēt who first welcomed their Princesse with vollies of smal shot had after the thunder seconded with 20 peeces of great ordnāce Then they marched altogether orderly in good aray conducting her to Heidelberg where the Citizens