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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10049	Lamentations for the death of the late illustrious Prince Henry: and the dissolution of his religious familie Two sermons: preached in his Highnesse chappell at Saint Iames, on the 10. and 15. day of Nouember, being the first Tuesday and Sunday after his decease. By Daniel Price, chaplaine then in attendance.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1613 (1613)	STC 20295; ESTC S115213	24,542	47

neer attendance vpon God Cypri serm de Nat. Chri. Saint Cyprian hath collected them and hath the Catalogue of them Abel Pastor outum fuit fuerunt et Patriarchae pastores suarum tandem familiarum principes Pastor fuit Moses Pastor Dauid c. In the beginning after the creation in the olde Testament God chose shepherds to be his seruants In the beginning of the time of redemption in the new Testament Christ chose fishers to be his disciples shepherds haue a solitary life fishermen a watry life In shepherds the ancients haue hierogkiphically obserued contemplation in fishermen lamentation A shepherds life saith Philo Phil. lib. 1. de vit Mois is praeludium ad regnum of which phrase Homer and other Grecians haue made vse and the old Testament hath none of more esteeme then shepherds Moses that kept Iethro his sheepe Iacob that kept Labans sheepe Ioseph was sent to Iacobs sheepe Amos a Prophet taken from the heard Moses a Priest and Prophet from the sheepe Dauid the Lords souldier and whoeuer had such victories as Dauid taken from the fold Elias the Lords Seer and you know what the spirit of Elias was yet he taken from the cattell But more then this God the Father is called a shepherd in the Psalmes Psal 80.1 Ioh. 10.11 O thou shepherd of Israell thou that leadest Ioseph like a sheepe God the Son doth name himselfe a shepheard in the Gospell God the holy Spirit is named a shepheard in Peter 1 Pet. 2. the Shepheard and Bishop of our soules I haue lead you so farre onely to shew in what honor the name function person of shepheards haue beene you may the more wonder at the words percutiam Pastorē Abel the first shepherd may be slaughtered but this shepherd by excellencie called the shepherd he that is bonus Pastor magnus pastor Princeps Pastorum Formosi pecoris custos c. He that was white and ruddy the fairest of ten thousand full of grace were his lips spetiosus suae filijs hominum he whose head was fine as gold whose lockes were curled who had cheekes as a bed of spices lips like lillies hands as rings of Crysolites legges as pillars of marble whose countenance was as Lebanon whose mouth as sweete things who was wholly delectable O my God is he striken yes and smitten with such a deadly blow that the Axeliree of heauen could not haue born it Esay called him vir dolorum and Ieremy expresseth his inexpressible griefe dolor non sicut dolor neuer sorrow like his sorrow Sorrow followed him from his birth to his buriall In his birth persecuted by Tyrants in his life tempted by diuels at his death apprehended by Traytors scourged spitte vpon by souldiers vile fied more then a murtherer crucified with Theeues a Crosse the curse of the Law to beare him and he to beare all the sinnes of the world his most blessed body to be mangled and goared his soule to drinke vp sorrow thus to giue vp the ghost Pastor Pellican Christus dilectus filius Populi Doctor super hunc excitantur persecutorum manus vpon Christ who was primogenitus nay vnigenitus the beloued son the Doctor of his people the Shepheard of his sheepe the Lambe of God the Lyon of Iuda the expresse Character of his Father the light of the Gentiles glory of his people Israel the hands of his persecutors are lifted vp and fall downe with this heauy heauy blow Obser 2 The obseruation hence is that the great height of sinnes bring downe so heauy weight of iudgements as that God will not spare his owne onely one his deare one his faire one his Son Christ Iesus I say no more in this but what Aquinas gathereth from that of Esay Aquin. in Esay Propt●r scelus populi mei percussi eum for sin he was smitten who had no sin and the blow was so heauy that the mountaines trembled Not onely was Christ taken away for sin but in fiercenesse of Gods wrath hee often giues the world such a shocke and stroke that it reeles and almost ouerwhelmes with the dart of vengeance that strikes into the heart of a kingdome by taking away the chosen seruants of God the chosen shepheards of the world such as are Kings Princes who as Christ communicated of mans miserie so these participate of Gods Maiestie yet in his furie he will smite these Witnesse Iosias the dearling of God the apple of his eye the signet on his right hand Prophecied of three hundred yeeres before his birth lamented among the posteritie of the Iewes after his death yet Iosias must be smitten Iosias Eccle. 49. whose remembrance is like the perfume that is made by the Apothecary sweet as hony in all mouthes and as musicke at a banquet of wine he that was a patterne of reformation to all succeeding Princes yet Iosias must be smitten he that destroyed the idolatrous Priests monuments of Baal the Sunne Moone Planets with all their high Places or Valleyes or Groues or Altars or Vessels and cut downe burnt to ashes beate to powder threw into the brooke and left no signe of them yet Iosias must be smitten 2 King 23. 2 Chro. 35 Iosias whose Epipoheneme and acclamation was like vnto him was no King before him whose Elegy and Lamentation was such as neuer the like before or after him all singing men and singing women lament him to his day and neuer the like mourning as that of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo yet Iosias must be smitten Non similis for his honorable reformation Non similis for his memorable lamentation yet the right hand of the Almighty spared not Iosias In the Chronicles of all the Kings from Saul to Zedekiah containing fourteene generations and forty Kings there was not one that gaue or tooke the like example of perfection For as among the bad Rehoboam did ill Ieroboam worse Omri worse then he Ahab worse then all so on the contrary though Asa did right in the eyes of the lord 1 King ●● his son Iehoshaphat walked in the wayes of Asa his father Amasiah did vprightly in the sight of the Lord 1 King 22 and Azariah his son did according to all that his father Amasiah did 2 King 14 2 King 15 Dauid was a man after Gods owne heart Salomon his sonne for his wisedome honor riches and happines exceeded his father Dauid 1 King 10 yet euery one of these had some scarre some blots some blemishes an eclipticke line ranne through each of their Zodiackes onely Iosias is without any noted spot or wrinckle like him was no king before him What then was the reason that this Rose of the garland must be blasted the diamond of the Crowne be darkened the Paragon of all the Kings of Israel and Iudah must be smitten that percutiam the word of my Text serued his execution so violently vpon Iosias Why would he that breaketh the bow