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Prince Henry his second anniversary· By Daniel Price Doctor in Divinity, of his Highnesse chaplaines
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Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.
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PRINCE HENRY HIS SECOND ANNIVERSARY ECCLESIASTICVS 50.6 VVho was as a morning star in the midst of a clowd BY DANIEL PRICE Doctor in Divinity one of his Highnesse Chaplaines AT OXFORD Printed by Ioseph Barnes and are to be sold by Iohn Barnes over against St Pulchers Church 1614. TO THE MOST ILLVSTRIOVS PRINCE PRINCE CHARLES Duke of CORNEWALL the happynesse of the present hope of posterity MOST Gratious PRINCE my vowed Annuall service to the memory of your blessed Brother craveth your shelter for vnder the shadow of your Princely Cedar I hūbly desire to spende my daies Not only the praise of the dead but also the profit of the living be my inducements to this worke both which I hope wil be acceptable arguments to your Highnesse I am encouraged the rather herevnto because I see your Princely spirit dare looke death in the face and can be content to hear that as your renowmed brother's fortunes so his fate also shall one day be yours Many and happy be your Highnesse daies that you may so long continue in the world as the world shall continue that goodnesse may guide and Religion may guard you both which will assure more safety to your precious soule then the Prevention of the world and presumption of the Court can afford you for these will sanctifie the Circumspection of the wise in helping you and terrifie the Circumvention of the wicked from hurting you So shall your Highnes remember your Creator in the daies of your youth and walke in the pathes of Abraham before God till you come to the passage of Henoch to walk with God In the mean time the great Palmoni the numbrer of times make your daies as happy as the daies of Henoch whose yeares were as many as the yearly daies of the sunne that in your felicity you may ride on prosperously because of truth of meekenesse and righteousnes and having ended your course in Grace you may begin never to end in glory Which is the dayly praier of your Highnesse most observant servant DANIEL PRICE Ex. Coll. Novemb. 6. the fatall day of Prince HENRIES decease PRINCE HENRIES SECOND ANNIVERSARIE 1 MIsprission may assaile and Envy seeke to silence the memorials of those gratious instruments of Gods glory who being delivered out of the burden of the flesh be in ioy felicitie but religious Pietie towards God and obsequious dutie towards man doe both warne and warrant our gratefull and faithfull remembrances of those Worthies of whom the world was not worthy Heb. 11.28 Rev. 14.13 who now rest in the Lord and are free from their Labours which may seeme to be the motiue of Salomons speech Eccl. 4. ◠Eccl. 4.2 I praised the dead which are already dead more then the living which are yet aliue and of the Reverend Practise of ancient times which did adorne the names of the good the wise the iust the valiant and not only honoured their Persons in their liues but bemoaned the worlds losse by their deaths and by their praises held out the light of their vertuous Lampe to lead others into those wayes which these worthies had walked in with comfort in which they had finished their race with Conquest Rude and polite Divine and Prophane history doth countenance the continuance of such Customes and therefore though Snakes may bite dogs may barke and nothing within the Circumference of heaven can be without the compasse of censure duty only being my Apologie with a patient content and contempt of gainesayers I proceed in my professed service to the Annuall remembrance of my blessed Master Prince HENRY S. Austins rule being my reason Nec laudantem movet adulatio Austin nec laudatum tentat elatio when neither he that praiseth is moved with flattery nor he that is praised can be tempted with vaine-glory when neither affection enticeth nor opinion entangleth it may be both lawfull and vsefull that the righteous may be had in everlastinst remembrance 2 It being now therefore the entrance of the third yeare * The fatall 6. of Novemb. since it pleased the Lord to deliuer the Princely first borne out of the misery of this sinfull world and that the Winter Sables of November doe now represent our former sorrowes it will be not vnseasonable to remember the holy passage of that heavēly soule which was freed from Adams body to bee translated to Abrahams bosome and his spirit to returne to God that gaue it So in our observance running with Peter and Iohn to the Sepulchre now our eies haue lost him our feet cannot followe him our spirituall ambition may lead our contemplation where he is and season our soules with ioy to knowe what he is For what other is he if we dare looke vpon the sacred blaze of aeternitie then a Celestiall spirit and glorious Saint a Piller in the Temple of God one of those fed with that Manna cloathed with the white robe called by the new name carying the triumphant Palme in his hand following the Lambe whether soever hee goeth An immortall glorious Creature Partaker with the best most blest of Saints more beauteous then the starres equall to Angels A Divine separated soule refined and enflamed by beholding Gods vnvtterable maiestie in inioying whereof the Angels are insatiable and incessant in the Loue and Lawd thereof A fixed star whose lustre is as full of beautie as glory A substance more pure thē the heavens more orient then the rising of the Sunne How excellent is HEE in thy Tabernacles O Lord of hosts where being delighted with all maner of satietie satiety breeds no maner of dislike where now HEE hath the endowments of an heavenly inhabitant and knows the difference betweene the conditions of a momentary eternall life and though the Immortalitie of his body haue not yet enioyed the rights of that world eternall blisse of the soule shal one day entertaine the body with eternall beautie 3 It was Davids precept to Solomon his sonne 1. Chr. 28.9 Solomon my sonne knowe thou the God of thy father and serue him with a perfit heart and willing minde and it was Iosiahs practise that in the eight yeare of his raigne when he was yet a child 2 Chr. 24.3 he began to seeke after the God of David his father where as Alexander was incited by Achilles example and Caesar by Alexander So David moveth Solomon and Iosias is enflamed by Davids religious profession These Renowned worthies began early Psal 19.5 and gloriously came forth as a bridegroome out of the Chamber and reioyced as Giants to runne their course Prince HENRY was the true representation of these In him God had set a Tabernacle for the sunne Wisdome Religion Vallor did shine in his blooming his first fruits shewed that the Lord had showred vpon him the gratious dewe of his inheritance Esay Mat. 6.33 he did first seeke the kingdome of God and the righteousnes there of referred the administration
of other things to the hand of Providence Iudgement did master opinion and by earely accustoming his taste to the truth of spirituall pleasure hee contemned the false and abhorred the filthy pleasures of the worlde lust or pride could not fasten vpon him a desire to spend nor avarice a thirst to spare feare or favour could not cause him to preferre shaddowes or neglect draw him from rewarding the meanest deservers Ambition drew him not to hasty adventures nor daunger ever put him to distrust the sunne beames of his morning were most radian yet his thoughts calme and a heavenly peace in all his passions his blessed minde was never racked with desire or feare nor ever troubled with the sad burthens and consuming CANKERS of this life never afflicted with the surbate of cares or surfet of riots froathy praise he avoided as infectious goodnesse was his aime which being the cause led him on in the course of all those most honourable actions he entended in all which he was free from the taint much more from the staine or sting of ill Sophocles his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sophoc Xenoph. or Xenophon in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nay with al reverence to holy records Salomō or Iosias so soone did not so much the later and the better of these began but in the 16th yeare of his age in the 8 yeare of his raigne 2. Chron. 1.3 but blessed PRINCE HENRY as if he had beene consecrated from the wombe in the morning watch of his life was a morning starre in his lustre and considered that the Feare of God which the preacher made to bee the ende of all things in the end of his Ecclesiastes the same is the beginning of wisdome in the beginning of his Proverbs Eccles 12.13 Prov. 1.7 Neither differring nor dissembling had place in him or power over him no excuses no refulals staid him he Remembred his Creator in the daies of his youth he thought it good for him to beare the Lordes yoake in his youth Lam 3.27 he studied wherewith a young man might cleanse his waies louely Isaac loving Ioseph Princely Iosiah true harted David beloved Daniel holy Samuel faithful Timothy were his patternes Psal 119.9 to consecrat his first best endeavours to God Not only his Martiall Scholastical exercises did honour him with that title which Livy gaue to M. Cato Si arma sumpsisset in armis natū crederes T. Livius Dec. 4. lib. 1. si se ad studia convertisset inter liter as educatum but his dayly holy conversing with God in the path of goodnesse his spirituall progresse in grace and favour testified that from his youth vp his conversation was in heaven this was the grace of his childe hood and garland of his youth this blessed his life cōforted him at death and shall commende him to all posterity 4 Learne hence yee young Gallants that put farre from you the day of the Lord yee that neither in the morning nor meridian of your liues Prepare your selues to meete the Lord or care that when he commeth he may finde you watching and working To die well is a long art of a short life and a speedy beginning is the shortest method to this longest art Salomon telleth of a time Eccl. 3.2 2. Cor. 6.2 Eccless 3.2 Tempus mortis But as if that were too generall Paul confineth that time to a day 2. Cor. 6.2 dies salutis and Christ limiteth the time of that day to an howre Mat 25.13 Mat. 25.13 Hora acceptationis In the Revelation Babylon is lamented that in one howre her iudgement is come Rev. 18.10 that in one howre so great riches came to naught vers 17. and that in one howre shee was made de solate vers 19. But times daies howres are scantled yet shorter 1. Cor. 15.52 by the Apostle Iudgement shall be in a moment in the twinckling of an eie in the last trumpe that as God gaue his law with the sound of a trumpet Exod. 19.16 So hee shall call for account of it with the sound of the Trumphet Ex 19.16 1. Cor. 15. Hieron 1. Cor. 15.52 How shrill should this trumpe be still in our eares as S. Hierome witnessed of his owne ever sounding and ecchoing this that the surest way to a good life is to beginne betimes considering that though Gods mercies oftentimes affords vs many yeares to repent yet his Iustice affordeth not an howre to sinne Greg. Peccanti Crastinum non promisit saith Gregory hee promiseth not to morrow to the offendour who is alwaies ready to receiue the penitent How should this consideration draw vs on Trahit enim non cogit Deus Austin lead vs along by the waters of comfort and admonish vs all if hitherto we haue neglected to fasten vpon the first opportunity of seasoning our souls with that blessed spirit of Janctification while they be fit for impression and that by a gracious meditation we consider the race we are to run and the many encombrances which alwaies crosse vs That delay augmenteth difficulties and more do perish by this Temptation then by al the toiles guiles of Sathan the longer we persist in sin the more God plucketh his grace and assistance from vs our good inclinations are the weaker the vnder standing more darkned the will more perverted the appetite more disordered the passions are more strengthned that at length the stupid and benummed soule may loose the spirituall light of grace naturall light of reason and retaine only the sensuall twylight of affections common with bruit beasts so the the youth being il spent Sathan wil plead possession in age therefore the dawning springing morning time of life must bee consecrated to God it was not only the piety of Iob to rise vp earely in the morning of everie day to facrifice and sanctifie his sonne Iob. 1.5 Iob. 1.5 But his owne practise in his owne young yeares in the morning of his life in the daies of his youth the secret of God was vpō his Tabernacle Iob. 29.29.4 For this is the time as S. Ambrose describeth it Iob. 29.4 Ambros wherein the elemēt of fier predominateth in the sonnes of men calore corporis feruente estu sanguinis vapor antis ignescente viribus invallida consilijs infirma vitio calens illecebrosa deliciis est Adolescentia This is the spring of life and how easily may a spring-tide drowne all the summer hopes of youth the time of strength and beauty both easily inflamed by heate of vanity the time of growth activity both soone nipped with the frost of mortality Aug. now visus acutior auditus promptior incessus rectior vultus iucundior now the sunne of the vnderstanding doth most appeare and the starres of the senses most gloriously shine then the 4. humors resembling the 4. Elements the liver as the sea the veines as the rivers are in their most