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B07402	The godly and Christian decease of the illustrious and high-borne Prince, Mauritius of Nassau, Prince of Orange, of happy memory. For the comfort and edification of all true Christians. / First written in Dutch, by master Iohn Bogerman, minister of the word of God, at Leeuwarden: and now translated into English..; Het christelijk overlijden van den prince Mauritius van Nassau. English	Bogerman, Johannes, 1576-1637.	1625 (1625)	STC 3204.5; ESTC S91125	20,527	33

THE GODLY AND CHRISTIAN DECEASE of the Illustrious and High-borne PRINCE MAVRITIVS of NASSAV Prince of ORANGE of happy Memory For the comfort and edification of all true CHRISTIANS First written in Dutch by Master IOHN BOGERMAN Minister of the word of God at Leeuwarden And Now Translated into English LONDON Printed by T. S. for Nathanael Newbery and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Starre in Popes head Pallace and vnder Saint Peters Church in Cornehill 1625. WEe here vnder-written professors of Diuinity in the Vniuersity of Leyden hauing read and examined this Relation of the Christian decease of the Illustrious and High-born Prince Maurice of Nassau Prince of Orange written by the worshipfull Doctor Iohn Bogerman being the very words which his Princely Excell being deadly sicke spoke doe declare by these presents that we doe hold this Relation to be very necessary to bee published in Print not doubting but it will be very acceptable vnto all impartiall Readers and will bee read with great edification of all persons both high and low and will not onely serue them for a patterne but also as a motiue to stirre them vp vnto hearty Repentance and true faith in Iesus Christ to the glory of God and the saluation of their owne soules Datum 26. Maij 1625. IOH. POLIANDER ANT. WALaeVS ANDREAS RIVERTVS ANTONIVS THYSIVS To the High and Mighty Lords THE ESTATES GENERAL of the vnited Prouinces AND To the High-borne Prince FREDERICK HENRY Prince of Orange And also To the Illustrious Lord ERNEST CASIMIR Count of Nassau Catzenelnbogen c. MOst High and mighty and most gracious Lords I doe present vnto your Excell and by you vnto all faithfull Inhabitants of these vnited Prouinces the description of the Christian decease of the Illustrious and High-borne Prince Maurice of Nassau Prince of Orange c. Both whose life and death shall be of immortall memory This is a small matter in regard of my selfe and my labour but very great in respect of that great Prince who doth here speake his last words in a matter of greatest moment and who doth here fight the greatest fight that can befall and so doth finish the greatest worke that can be done on earth and after his labour is ended wee see him goe from misery into ioy and rest leauing the whole world in a tumult of vnrest It hath beene alwaies held a commendable custome to make knowne the last words and actions of great personages that it might serue for an example vnto others therefore all impartiall people shall vnderstand that it is more then reason to publish and make knowne vnto the world the last words and deeds of the High-renowned Lord the Prince of Orange especially since it is both of high and low so much desired and longed for that all true-hearted people who haue receiued the spirit of impartiality may iudge whether among all the words of his Excell any be to be found that are not very religiously spoken and ought of euery of vs to be followed We may well say the Lord hath loued this Prince vniill the end In his life he hath made him a patterne of all heroicke and Militarie actions and Politicke wisedome in his death hee hath in an extraordinary manner made him an obiect of his mercy and an example of Christian Piety and Godlinesse In his life time he gaue him the victorie ouer his bodily and outward enemies and at his death he made him extraordinarily victorious triumphing ouer his spirituall enemies So guiding him by his holy spirit that with an extraordinary resolute courage hee did despise all earthly things saying many times I will not be troubled with any worldly matters So that leauing the world and the heauy burthen of his weighty affairs together he did wholly apply himselfe to fight this spirituall fight as wisely and couragiously as euer hee did in temporall combats For in all his spirituall actions he did most looke at that whereat we most stumble when wee haue to doe with the Lord Our Sinnes which being put quite from vs wee obtaine free accesse vnto the Lord yea we become familiar with him as the child with the father Blessed is he that getteth the practise of this In this worke his P. Excell hath followed the steps of the most Valiantest Champions which haue beene among the people of God As Dauid Daniel Esay Ieremy and others Whereof we haue speciall examples in the Psalmes where we see that Gods children hauing to doe with God doe so often looke vpon their sinnes and so humble themselues therewith that thereby afterwards they come to receiue in their hearts a filiall faith feare and obedience His P. Excell did know that our spirituall enemy which wee beare about vs was ouercome and that death had lost her sting and hell her victory This enemy Sinne we doe ouercome First by true repentance and doe hate him as our deadlyest enemie Secondly when we by true faith cast them vpon the shoulders of that vnspotted Lambe Iesus Christ who can only beare them carry them away thirdly when on the contrary we become louers of righteousnes and whatsoeuer is acceptable vnto the Lord. These three perticulars may euery one finde that is any thing experienced in holinesse that the Holy Ghost hath in aspeciall manner wrought in this Prince His Excell knowing that there is but one way to heauen for the greatest potentate and the meanest subiect hath not flattered himselfe nor sought to iustifie his sinnes but hath as one of the least of Gods seruants with an humble hart and vnfained repentance confessed them before the Lord and hath in true faith taken his refuge onely to Iesus Christ in whom his soule found rest And thereunto hee so often declared his hearty desire to serue the Lord better then he confessed to haue done as the Lords great benefits vnto him did require And this is the speciall mercy of God which all good christians may boast of that the Lord who knew the good desire of his Excell hauing freed him from all worldly hinderances for a crowne vnto all his laudable deeds hath suffered his Excell to vse such a solemne and holy action as this is not onely for the rest and saluation of his owne soule but also for the edification of all good christians And therefore I doe not without cause say once more that the Lord hath loued this Prince vnto the end For I do from my hart confesse that in all the times I visited his Excell His Excell did so behaue himselfe that I did not once goe from him without being edified not doubting but it will doe the like to all good christians that shall happen to reade it Wherefore I doe comfort my selfe and doe praise the Lord that within this my weakenesse of body wherewith I did not thinke to haue done any more publike seruice he hath so strengthned mee to doe this spirituall seruice vnto this famous Prince and through him vnto

of the children of God nor for any other Christian whereupon I demanded his Excell of this comfort out of the first question of the high-dutch Catechisme His Excell answered This is my onely comfort I know none other and this is my onely refuge whereby I purpose to remaine which sweet words of his Excell were as a Crowne to this holy worke and a certaine signe that the spirit of God had throughly wrought in his heart Then I said vnto his Excell your Excell may now expect ouer and aboue the Lawrell wreath wherewith the Lord hath crowned you here in this life to be crowned with all those Kings and Princes that with true faith haue kissed the Sonne of God as your Excell hath done with an immortall and euerlasting Crowne of glory in the world to come After these words were ended his Excell said though with great trouble I cannot well speake any more whereupon I left his Excell wishing him a happy end which I saw to draw neare At this Visitation were present the chiefest Officers of his Excellencie The last Visitation When his Excellencie lay a dying and departed this world IN the afternoone about foure of the clocke I was by two Sergeants requested to come vp vnto his Excell Being come into the Chamber I found his Excell His Excell cannot speake any more but hath his perfect vnderstanding to be toward his last end his speech hauing left him and was not able once to cast vp his eyes I spake at his Excell eare Being your Excell speech doth now faile you thinke now in your heart which the Lord doth behold and search thorow vpon your Sauiour Iesus Christ who is now the onely life and comfort of your Excell And when I did perceiue his Excell gaue sufficient signes that he vnderstood me I did at the request of the Princesse of Portugall who stood by mee and with weeping eyes beheld his Excell say prayers Prayers is said there being likewise present the Comitties of the High and Mighty the Lords Estates generall the Lord Vosbergen and other Lords to me vnknowne also the chiefest seruants of his Highnesse with two Doctors Doctor Rumpf and Doctor Valentius who did all fall vpon their knees before the Lord and prayed with bitter teares for his Excell After prayer was ended I spake againe at his Excell eare saying If your Excell hath vnderstood me and that you are yet comforted in the Lord His Excell gaue a sign to shew that hee did vnderstand it and that he was well contented I pray let me know by touching my hand whereupon his Ex presently hold me so fast by my hand that I could scarce get it out vntill such time as the strength of his life went from him and then I spake once more these words vnto him Lord Iesu receiue my spirit Lord Iesu haue mercy vpon me His Excell did yet sufficiently shew that hee vnderstood it whereupon we once againe went vnto prayers and prayed with such feruency as any Christian might imagine Prayer is said once more And afterwards betweene 5. and 6. of the clocke this noble Prince rested in the Lord in the prayers of the beholders so sweetly as euer I saw man dye without the least motion of his body and without any interruption of his breath His Excell pleasant death And thus dyed this famous Champion Prince Maurice c. in the 58. yeare of his age hauing Gouerned little lesse then 40. yeares Hee was held of all true-hearted Patriots a precious and chosen Instrument of Gods glory specially for Gods Church and these Countries He will be by some more lamented after his death An Exhortation vnto all the Inhabitants of this Land then he was beloued of them in his life But I pray and exhort all faithfull Inhabitants of this Land to take to heart these few ensuing admonitions wherewith I will conclude this my Narration The Lord hath within these few yeares taken from vs that faithfull Prince Count William Lodowicke of Nassau c. and hath sithence visited this Land with heauy plagues famine high-waters strong-warres as is yet at this time besides the extraordinary besieging of the City of Breda and now moreouer smites vs for our sinnes with this deepe wound and that in such a time when all the world would iudge we stood in most neede of this great Prince Will the Lord then vtterly forsake vs and goe from vs It seemeth so and certainely this is no vaine imagination but the King of all Kings and the Lord of all Lords whose iudgements are iust and whose wayes are vnsearchable can and will according to his infinite mercy who hath so many times miraculously saued these Countries for his holy name and welbeloued Sonnes sake keepe vs if wee as well Rulers as Subiects doe hate our sinnes betimes turne vnto him and doe vprightly walke before him in his holy lawes which are not vnknowne vnto vs. And this is that which wee must doe if wee will make a good vse of Gods iudgements that he may turne them from vs and if wee desire to haue the Lord to blesse this Countrey and State otherwise wee all see if wee are not blinde in heart how the LORD doth threaten vs and which certainely once will come vpon vs if wee remaine snorting in our carnall security and then wee shall not finde any mercy with the LORD It is not any inward nor outward meanes will bee able to saue vs if the LORD turne from vs And therefore those are the best people who aboue all things seeke to appease the wrath of the most Highest who ruleth the hearts of all Kings and so labour to obtaine his fauour that with a good conscience they may both liue and dye in his feare and thereunto they vse all possible meanes according to their vocation to employ it for the seruice of the common good and this confirmeth a State and bringeth the blessing of God ouer the whole Countrey but here I take leaue with the Prophet Ieremie to say O earth earth earth Ier. 22.29 heare the word of the LORD What word the word of the Sonne of GOD Remember from whence thou art fallen and repent and doe thy first workes or else I will come against thee shortly and will remoue your Candlesticke out of his place except thou amend I pray the Lord this may bee well practised That all higher powers and those of meaner sort would take example of the Religious and godly decease of this Noble Prince of Orange whose soule vndoubtedly is now in glory with the Lord Iesus Christ waiting for the blessed resurrection of the dead which the Lord of his mercy grant vnto vs. Vnto whom as most due is bee all honour prayse and glory for euermore Amen For as much as concernes those that harden themselues in their sinnes by the abusing of Gods mercy and by example of those Saints that haue fallen and are risen vp againe for such there euer hath beene and yet are must know if they haue not a desire of their condemnation Quod non sint exempla cadendi nec in peccatis iacendi sed cauendi si cecideris resurgendi that is to say that those be no examples to fall nor yet to lye still but take heed wee doe not fall or if wee bee fallen that wee rise vp againe Who is so foolish that will goe breake his owne shinnes because hee seeth his fellow by a fall hath broken his and is whole againe Rom. 6.12 shall wee continue still in sinne that grace may abound God forbid they that are led by the spirit of GOD are afraide of such thoughts for so much as concerneth the diuell with all his wicked complices and vncleane spirits who cannot endure and doe nothing but scorne and deride the children of God in whom the Angels doe reioyce Wee must not stumble at these for Christ himselfe saith in the Gospell that their iudgement will bee hard enough for them to beare and therfore it is needlesse here to speake any more of them and therefore I end Beseeching the Lord to restraine the diuell and mercifully to saue his people in this great tempest wherein the whole Christian world doe so fearefully striue with one another So be it FINIS

all good people in generall who I trust in their sorrow which without doubt they haue for the losse of this Valiant Champion will finde themselues comforted when they shall heare from his Excell mouth so many Christian speeches and shall see him dye the death of the Righteous Whereby I hope that we may so say hee shall haue left and pronounced a blessing ouer the church of God and this state As also in perticular vnto his Excell Illustrious successor which we with true repentance according to the example of his Excell will expect from the mercifull God beseeehing him in the meane time for Christ Iesus sake mercifully to pardon our crying sinnes and plentifully to powre into our hearts the grace of repentance and not yet leaue his Heritage nor to let the Rod of his affliction to lye too long vpon our backes This may comfort all good Christians in their affliction who at this present liue in griefe and persecution that this famous Prince did beare such affection vnto them saying when he heard any good newes from abroad That will be good for gods children Which his Excell declared likewise to beare vnto the church of God and to the preseruation of the true religion which he hath sufficiently shewen vnto the whole world by many actions agreing with that which the Lord Embassador of his Maiesty of Great Brittaine Sir Dudley Carleton was pleased in his speach to relate vnto your H. Dignities from the very mouth of his P. Excell which his Excell also was pleased to communicate vnto mee which words were these These be two great Maximies the preseruation of the reformed Religion and the warres against Spaine Vpon which two heads his Excell did meane that the welfare of the countries depended I haue in this relation exactly set downe the very words of his Excell as hee spake them which when I came home I set downe vpon a peece of paper and haue conferred them with those that were present when his Excell spake them That which I spake I haue set downe as I thought best for edification at the first visitation I did not intend to haue troubled his Excell so much as hauing experience of the disability of a sicke person but his Excell detained mee partly with extraodinary attention hee had to here the word of God and partly with his questions which hee propounded The other visitations were not so long in regard his Excell grew euery day more weaker and weaker and therefore when hee could not speake any longer wee betooke our selues vnto prayers expecting a blessed end I thought good to direct this worke vnto your High and Mighty Dignities with whom his Excell during the time of his gouerment hath conuersed who are witnesses of his laudable actions and partakers of his immortall praises and who his Excell hath instituted Executors of his Princely will and testament soe that of right it doth belong vnto your honours and without doubt not onely this but also the perticulars of the religious decease of this most excellent Prince will be pleasing vnto your honours with whom your Highnesses haue euer liued in such a neere correspondencie and haue yet by your honnors Committies namely by the Honorable Lords Henric of Essen from Gelderland Nicholas van-Bouckhorst Lord of Nortwich from Holland Rienck van-Burmania from Freesland Assueer van-Harsolte from Ouer-Isse visited and remained with his Excell vntill his end Concerning your P. Excell Gracious Lord who hath a speciall interest in this labour as being the onely brother vnto the deceased Prince whom hee hath loued with a brotherly loue as is manifest and besides heire of his Princely dignity and his successor in that great and waightie calling being a little before his Excell death to the comfort and ioy of his Excell and vnto all true christians vnited in matrimony with the Illustrious Princesse Amelia Princesse of Orange Countesse of Solms who with her Excell the Princesse of Portugall were both together with his Excell the day before he dyed and were witnesses of his Princely and christian carriage Wherein her Excell did take such pleasure that she did ioyfully glory therein vnto the other Lords saying That it was a blessed thing for euery Christian to dispose himselfe so well at the time of his death The like did her Excell the Princesse of Portugall your Excell sister That such a christian carriage came from God and was his gift which the Lord Agathius Lord of Dhona rehearsed vnto me from the mouth of her Excell Your Excell shall not onely finde in this relation the christian and religious decease of this worthy Prince but also that which may serue your P. Excell and other Lords for an example of imitation and comfort in the matter of saluation being of more value then all the transitory goods of this world Therefore I doe humbly beseech your high and mighty P. Excell graciously to accept of this my meane labour and I will pray vnto the Almighty God to preserue your High and Mighty P. Excell in vnion together to gouerne you with his Holy Spirit and so to blesse and prosper you in this time of trouble of the whole christian world that you may happily and couragiously preserue the free liberty of the Gospell in these countries and so to supply the places of the deceased Prince and Count William c. who are now both at rest with the Lord and herewith I turne my selfe to the relation of that which happened before and at the death of his Excell Remaining euer more Your high and mighty P. Excell most obedient seruant in the Lord Ioannes Bogermanus At the Hage the 16. of May 1625. A TRVE RELATION OF The Godly and Christian decease of the Illustrious and High-borne Prince MAVRITIVS of NASSAV late Prince of Orange of happy Memory A Relation Of that which happened at the first visitation of the Illustrious Prince of Orange on Munday the 14. of Aprill Anno 1625. in the afternoone about foure of the clocke WHereas diuers persons of quality did often times request mee to visit the Illustrious Prince of Orange in the time of his sicknesse which I feared to doe in regard of my weakenesse yet not to incommodate my selfe and specially his Excell I thought the more because I very well knew his Excell did yet sometimes reade Letters and because I had vnderstood by the Worshipfull Doctor Walleus professor of Diuinity in the Vniuersity at Leyden that his Worship comming from thence at the request of some of the Lords of the Councell had visited his Princely Excell whom after many religious and godly speeches he had left very well prepared with a briefe and short Letter of exhortation and comfort in stead of a parley in presence to haue taken my leaue of his Excell But as I was busie herewith Master Secretary Iunius sent for me to come vnto his Excell who was very desirous to haue me come vnto him Considering that it was Gods will and knowing it to be