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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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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
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