for Thee Mat. 17. one for Moses one for Elias Moses Tabernacle was dissolued hee must haue none hee had no commission to make a new one Elias was taken vp into heaven he rested on the holy hill more glorious thē to abide in a Tabernacle hee needed none Christ would not enioy so much as a hole to hide his head on earth much lesse a Tabernacle on a hill hee would haue none It had beene glorious to be present at the maiestie of that meeting where in body were represented Elias from heaven Moses from the graue Peter and others from the world nay where Pater in voce filius in carne spiritus sanctus in nube where the blessed Trinitie as at the Baptisme before so now againe at the Transfiguration were all present the Father in the voice the Sonne in the flesh the holy spirit in the cloud as the ancients haue collected Vpon this short shewe of the glorious presence of Christ Peter was in an extasie faciamus Tabernacula yet this felictie had bin but momentary if made Tabernacles had served though S. Peter had made them for Saint Paule telleth vs Non manufactum Tabernaculum it is not a Tabernacle made with handes will serue but the true Tabernacle which the Lord hath pitcht and not man Heb. 8.2 and which David asked of in his 15. Psalme Psal 15.1 Lord who shall dwell in thy Tabernacle who shall rest vpon thy holy hil The Monarches of the earth that shall enter hereinto may cast away their crownes as Elias left his cloake and repent of nothing saue that they came no sooner hither It was as it seemeth an honourables and a Commendable ambition in the Disciples that there was a strife among them who shoulde bee the greatest in the kingdome of heaven Mat. 18.1 Their other ambitious thoughts were not so law full It was I confesse a monstrous sight to see the Saviours servants who should not haue savoured of earthly things disputing who should be the greatest among them as in Marke 9.34 a much more prodigious spectacle to behold a contentiō among them in an ambitious manner at the Lords table in the time of the Passeover Luk. 22.24 nay of the last Passeover that ever Christ did eate with thē which he had desired with such a desire to eate with them it was much to dispute it more to striue for it much to question in the way contention for it at the Table much to doe it when their Lord heard them not as in Marke when no danger neere their Lord more now when their Lord heard them and they saw him in sorrow when it was but the day before his death bitter Passion then his comfort a quarrell of his Disciples this Passover was truely eaten with bitter hearbes Both these contentions were grievous in common men more grievous in the lights and fathers Chariots and horsemen of Israel But the question propounded in S. Mathew 18.1 may seeme tolerable Mat. 18.1 for our Saviour had taught them Primum quaerite Regnum Dei first seeke the kingdome of God and now they desire but to learne Quis primus in regno Dei who should be the first and greatest in the kingdome of God And in the answer to this seeming tolerable and Commendable question Christ not only teacheth but taxeth thē for the swelling ambition of that question and answereth thē that vnles they were converted would become as little children they could not enter into the kingdom of heaven Mat. 18.4 He instanceth in a little child thus Whosoever therfore shal humble himselfe as this little child the same is greatest in the kingdome of heaven teaching thereby that Humility is the gate to heaven that though the childrē of God must lead an inoffēsiue kind of life yet they thinke meanely of themselues and the more holy a man is the more hath he sense of his owne corruption Hee must walke with God yet humble himselfe vnder the mighty hand of God No opinion in his own wisdome no confidence in his owne power no hope in his owne works he must deny himselfe if he professe Christ And here by the consequence of the instance he reproveth his disciples that did confound the good motion by the swelling disposition of their minde not content to bee inheritours of the kingdome of heaven but tooke vpon them to striue for superiority in that kingdome where the meanest inhabitant shall be a king the meanest reward a Crowne and all shal be like the Angels of God Where our New-borne Prince now is and enioyeth a permanent triumph most glorious among them that follow the Lamb whither so ever he goeth among those which are redeemed from among men and are the first fruits vnto God and to the Lamb having there the Royalty of happynesse as he had here the right of inheritance 9 Ambition could not tempte him nor slaunder staine him that ever his thoughts did seeke that which was not lawful neither in his intentions did he approue nor in his actions did appeare any shew of vniust acquisition * Fas. Fas was the limitation of all his resolutions The ancient revenewes which his Royal progenitors had designed in his Principality and Dukedome he regained frō the vniust possessors for the Patrimony of Prince Priest hath been is intruded vpon but such Princely clemency herein appeared that law having restored their landes and revenevves vnto his Highnesse his gracious bounty restored the possessours vpon small considerations vnto that which without right they formerly had detayned Hereby giving a taste as well of Provident managing of his state as of his benigne regarde of any that had any tenure vnder him as if his lawe had beene rather Ius Praetorium then Ius Censorium and he had affected the rules of Chauncery more thē the kings bench what Equity did yeeld him his Clemency moderated and law in his breast was attended as Virgo in heaven as with Leo on the one side the power of a Prince so with libra on the other side scales to try the weight of right wherein as in the divine scales of omnipotency so in his weights the worth of mercy outweighed the right of Iustice. So farre was he from gathering the Treasures of wickednesse by the balance of deceit from countenancing Lawes to bee snares to good mindes or quirkes to mercenary wits from denying the Kings measure to any man or turning Iudgement into wormewood that in many things he desisted from acquiring his own right when the right hand of aequitie led him thereto though the heathen observed that Iustice is a vertue in nature so conioyning with the heart of man that there is no greater sympathy betweene the Loadstone Iron then betweene Iustice and the heart So that in a Prince especially absolute Iustice in its rigour cannot seeme deformed that of Heraclitus being most true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Prince the Image of God Heracl
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
the Law the worke of the Prince and Iustice the end of the Law yet such a sweet match was in the temper of the absolute Prince that as hee never passed over the Line of Iustice in wresting any thing from the true owner so did hee not neglect the exercise of much clemency even vnto those that vniustly some of them vnmanerly had intruded into and continued long in the Rights of Princely demaines As all that had occasions to negotiate with his Highnes worthie officers of Revenewes in the setling of estates cannot but confesse out of a due consideration if any sparke of truth and integritie be in them as I acknowledge much in many of them contemning the viperous tongues of malignant and mad Detractors Right was the levell and square that ruled him kingdomes or Empires were not forcible enough much lesse the possession of some small Cantons or Countries able to withdrawe his eye and heart and hand from a iust proposal or his foot from the path of lawfull proceeding His soule abhorred the speech of Polynices in the Tragedie Imperia precio quovis constant benè kingdomes in his opinion were not to be bought at any rate Sen. Trag. He esteemed Power without Iustice our of course as a Lion broke from his cage furious vnsatiable vniust suits he held blots of the Courts and enimies of Conscience vniust warres abuse of force the vsurie of fraud vniust claymes Contentions fire and Opinions falshood vniust possessions as Ahabs vinyard though the acts of power yet the dwellings of horror Iniustice in any case was not only distasted but detested by him hee yeelded no countenance no encouragement to such acquisitions Rapine durst never fly for shelter vnder his shadow it feared nay it fled his countenance neither his practise nor protection yeelded favour to that horrid Pyoner Monster of the Palace Iniustice Fas est was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Aristotle calleth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as S. Iames tearmeth it an vnwritten yet a Royall law to him The Portion of the Levite hee esteemed sacred sacriledge he accounted as neighbour to blasphemie the Church was as happy by him as he by it holy he wisht the Arke and Aaron their dignitie and dues not the meanest of that tribe but had from him vpoÌ„ any occasioÌ„ more respect then from the most of that time and for their maintenance by his Religious Arithmetique hee intended rather addition to it then substraction froÌ„ it whatsoever to the contrary was thought by some hot spirits Herostratus heires who thinke to get honour by setting fire on the Temple No place complained of any Iniustice in him much lesse Gods house or the maintenance thereof The Temple was his high way to heaven and righteousnesse his guid felicitie the Patrimonie he expected and yet violence the meanes by which he sought it Was violence the meanes Sacred Prince he was another Moses the meekest that ever his name stiled great Anger was a stranger and Passion an exile with him his pulses equall speeches temperat his countenance as the sunne in it selfe alwaies faire his entendments iust and actions iuditious Where then had violence either dwelling or lodging in him Nec irritabilis nec implacabilis hee was not easily angred yet easily pleased a storme could not smite him nor the violence which shipwrackt others shake him Coelum non patitur this celestiall creature was not subiect to the passiue motions of distempers the change of the moone had not power nor the violence of Planets predominancy in his Nativitie In all his sayling hee was in a calme hee had learnt the lesson which was taught to Traian Nec minus se hominem esse quà m hominibus praeesse Pliny His practise was as much in the Politikes to obey as in his Oeconomicks to rule and how then was violence the meanes of his acquisition I say again Violence was the meanes to obtaine his felicitie even that holy sanctified violence which our Saviour exhorteth vnto Mat. 11.22 Mat. 11.12 The kingdome of heaven must suffer violence and the violent take it by force The Saints of God shall drinke of the Flood of life Ps 36.9 The holy spirit descended in a fire Acts 2. And what more violent then a flood or fire In what is so much earnestnesse shewed as in a race or a Combat yet these be the tearmes of Scripture to incite to a more vrgent violent pace in our passage towardes heaven Which Course as this Peerelesse Creature knew so did he with his best affections bend towards it Spirituall pride and carnall securitie were rockes on either hand him which hee avoided a continuall remembrance of his Creator the Lord that directed him and as if his vessel had beene more speedy then ordinary hee happily passed through the waues of this troublesome world and ankor in the haven of heaven vnto which hee had the heigth of inheritance 10 Learne from this Holy patterne all yee that torture Iustice and extend the limits of right to your own ends vsing the Law as a Law of libertie blaÌ„ching of bad darkning of good courses changing the face speech of Iustice making her pronounce as the heathen Oracles often ambiguitie if not falsities Behold a Prince whose power might haue betrayed his will and his will corrupted the Law but hee walketh vpright before his maker violence or crueltie had no place in his habitations all his intentions were weighed with how lawfull not how gainefull they were the kingdome of heaven to which he had right by adoption is his ayme is his desire to seeke other things if this were any hindrance to this atchieument he forbore hereby teaching the vnrighteous Ahabs of this time who seeke for all things else but heaven by all means else but right how great their offence is who in the placing of their officers be like Nero Eras Apoth whose speech was to his servaÌ„ts scitis quibus mihi opus hoc agamus ne quis quid habeat as if his treasures should haue beene the Ocean into which the rivers of privat mens states should haue emptied themselues Vox praedone quaÌ„ principe dignior a speech fitter for a Pyrat Lang loc Com. then a Prince as one censureth him Where if such would bee content to prey onely on the great ones the fault were lesse as Tibullus telleth the great theeues of his time At vos exiguo peeori furesque lupÃque Tibull Farcite de magno praeda petenda grege It caused Davids anger to be greatly kindled against the rich man in Nathans parable who tooke away from the poore man 2. Sam. 12. the one and onely little ewe Lambe which he had bought and nourished vp and David sentenceth it thus As the Lord liueth the man that hath done this thing shall surely die and he shall restore the Lambe fourefold because he did this thing and because he had no pity 2. Sam. 12.6 And not to heape