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A10047	A heartie prayer, in a needfull time of trouble. The sermon preached at Theobalds, before his Maiestie, and the lords of the Priuie Councell, an houre before the death of our late soueraigne King Iames. On Sunday, March 27. / By D. Price, deane of Hereford, then in attendance, and now chaplaine in ordinarie to his Maiestie.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1625 (1625)	STC 20293; ESTC S115208	20,513	40

to pray of all other times at their first entrance to their Gouernment Dauid and Salomon begun their Rule with the rule of Prayer The goodnesse of a priuate man is his owne of a Prince the whole worlds his words are Maximes his actions examples his examples rules Dauid both priuately alone and publikely in the Congregation prepareth himselfe to prayer in this Psalme and the people prouoked by their Kings example pray for the continuance and long life of their Prince and Prosperity That God may distribute to the King gifts proportionable to his greatnesse that the head may enioy all the senses of the whole body that the Church and Common-wealth the King and Iudges Heraclit and Lawes all may flourish for as Heraclitus obserueth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The King is the Image of God the Iudge is the Image of the King the Law the worke of the Iudge and Iustice the end of the Law And Dauid had especiall reason to pray at this his Inauguration for hee knew a great and dangerous warre was in hand the Philistins were his deadly enemies hee had beene among them and knew them and was now to make prouision against them And therefore as Numa Lor in Ps 44. p. 915. when a rumor of Warre was raised Sacrificabo saith hee I will sacrifice so when Dauid foreseeth this feare of forraigne enemies hee betaketh himselfe vnto prayer But I must leaue Dauid at his Prayer and conclude with our times Time is the conclusion of all things Lord send now prosperity And if wee looke vpon our times vpon this sad swift speedy time feathered with flying houres vpon this fatall Yeare Senec. Epist 18. Mensis olim December saith Seneca nunc annus est This whole Yeare hath beene composed of the fall of the leafe and Winter O yee Mountaines of Gilboa how many noble and valiant haue fallen this yeare D. of Richmond E. of Dorset D. of Lennox E. of Notingh E. of Southampton and his Son L. Belfost M. Hamilton they that were louely and pleasant in their liues swifter then Eagles stronger then Lyons How many noble Families haue beene like the naked twigs of Winter shiuering all for cold and dropping downe their teares abundantly How many of the choyce Peeres and Pearles hath Death stolne out of the Coronet of our Nobility How many poore Firre-trees may mourne for their Cedars bee fallen And is not this an ill boading prodigious time wherin with hearts and tongues and teares and prayers wee had need to crye Lord now send prosperity Cast your watry eyes vpon the fatality of this bloody Moneth and not to looke vpon the ancient Triumph of Funerall Solemnities in March March 24. remember how in this Moneth wee were depriued of blessed Queene Elizabeth the Paragon of mortall Princes the Woman after Gods own heart the Virgin-Queene of the Earth the glory of the Christian the enuy of the Infidell World who came so neere vnto the blessed Virgin Mary that shee was borne vpon the Vigil of her birth and dyed vpon the Vigil of her Annunciation Remember the sable time since the Death of the Royall Vine of this Kingdome Martij 20. 1618. die Martis Queene Anne in this very moneth a Queene not superstitious not factious not tyrannous but religious to her God and most gracious to all the Subiects of this Land and her well deseruing seruants Not a Lionesse hunting for the prey as Iezabel or a Typer greedy of the spoile as Athaliah but a sweetly tempered Royall Lady whom Grace and Peace crowned and Glory hath made Conqueror and God Martij 23. 1618. die martis in this Moneth not many yeares since tooke from vs as one of whom the world was not worthy of Inter foelices foelicissima quondam Regis enim Conjux Eilia Mater erat Remember the fatall sicknesse at Royston when that acute and violent disease seazed vpon our Royall Soueraigne in this very moneth when our feares encreased with the minuts and euery messenger was as one of the Chorus in a Tragedie as Iobs messengers euery one adding to the sorrowes of those sad times and when Duxisset mox fila secanda sorores Non sic est visum Sceptris Our Royall Hezekias recouered miraculously to Gods glory Lam. 4.20 the good of the Church and State and great comfort of all his good Subiects But alas our sinnes haue fought against our good and now Death the ledge of all mens liues that sets vpon men with stealing steps insensible degrees threatens a final arest vpon our Royal Master The breath of our nostrils the Anointed of the Lord is taken in the snare of whom we said Lam 4 20. Vnder his shadow we shall liue The Crowne is falling from our head woe vnto vs that we haue sinned for this Lam. 5.16 our heart is faint for these things our eyes are dimme O thou God of Iacob defend him send him help from thy Sanctuarie strengthen him out of Zion for thou Lord remainest for euer and euer thy Throne from generation to generation Lord we beseech thee saue now Lord we beseech thee send now prosperitie It was a diuine Canticle of a sweet Singer of Israel vpon his Maiesties last recouery D. Goodwine Deane of Christ Church why this Moneth was so infestuous to our King Tu Martem odisti Mars odit pacis amantem Hinc tantae clades hinc tot conamina Martis It was about this very time of the yeare say some that the first foundation of Venice was layed Hosp de Orig. F sure I am we stand here vpon a watry foundation the water-Springs of our owne teares are able to sinke vs The computation of some is approued who hold that the world was created about this very time and I remember the first worke in the Creation was that the Spirit of God moued vpon the face of the waters We are now labouring vnder a new Creation the same blessed spirit of God moue vpon our watry faces dry vp the teares of our eyes It is the Liturgie of our Church that teacheth vs that in the midst of life wee are in death But blessed be our God in the midst of death we are now in life there is present a gracious Doue with an O liue branch that shall bring comfortable newes to our world and the waters shall cease I neuer was like to that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that base flatterer who is In vita Constan as Aurelius Victor well obserued sorex tinea Palatij I know his Princely disposition hath euer hated a Parasite as the worst Traitor God keepe two mischiefes euer from within the smoake of his Court Flatterie and Treacherie the Inquitie of the times may make vs feare these not his gracious inclination but this I may say before God and men and Angels seldome euer haue those yeares promised seldome haue performed so much and we haue seen enough to make vs think we can neuer be enough thankfull to God for him I remember an obseruation of an Historian concerning Charles the Fift Knolls in the Ger. Histor who being borne vpon Mathias day and hauing an Elder brother aliue his Grandmother applied by a Phrophecy that of Mathias election vnto Charles the new borne Prince that as the Lot fell vpon Mathias though last in place so the Lot of the Empire should fall from the Elder brother vpon Prince Charles though last in birth The like Lot is now falling vnto your Princely Highnesse and my prayers be that all your dayes may bee like the two Saints daies of this moneth Foelix and Perpetua that when your Royall Father shall passe à Corona ad Coronam as it was one of the Diuine meditations proposed this morning to his Maiesty by that most honorable Bishop and that he shall exchange this mortall for a Crowne of immortalitie The Lord Keeper that the spirit of your gracious Father may be doubled vpon your Highnesse as the spirit of Elias was vpon Elisha that true Religion may florish vnder you and that you may ride on in Maiesty prosperously because of truth and meekenesse and righteousnes That you may ride on in truth for State without truth is like Pride without Power an vmbrageous Pageant for sight not for seruice That you may ride on in truth and Maiestie for truth without Maiestie is like a Talent hid in a banke or a Candle vnder a bushell That you may ride on in truth and Maiestie and meekenesse for Maiestie without weeknesse is like greatnesse without goodnesse the Politicians Character but the Peoples curse That you may ride on with truth and Maiestie and meekenesse and prosperitie for Maiestie without prosperity is like Heauen without a sun or the Summer without a Haruest That you may ride on in Maiesty truth meekenesse and prosperity and righteousnesse for Maiestie without righteousnesse is like beauty without honestie a wanton dead soule in a painted sepulcher but when your Canopie of Maiestie is supported by truth and meeknesse and prosperitie and righteousnesse Blessings and prayers will be showred vpon you God euen your owne God shall giue you his blessing and God euen our owne God shall send vs prosperitie Which the Lord grant for his mercie for his promise for his Zion for his Sonnes sake Christ Iesus Amen FINIS

and cryeth out still 2. The Disciples her back-frinds they would haue her sent backe Send her away she cryeth after vs and yet shee is not retarded but continueth her calling 3. Our Sauiour answereth her and reiecteth her as not capable of any good from him I am not sent but to the lost sheepe of Israel shee a Canaanite yet neither Disciples nor Master can beat backe her Faith shee followeth and falleth downe and worshippeth and cryeth Lord helpe me 4. Our Sauiour replieth in the most bitter Phrase that euer hee vsed to any poore Suiter It is not meete to take the childrens bread and to giue it to dogs Mat. 6. The daughter possessed with a Deuill the mother accounted a dog and holy things not to be giuen to dogs this had bin enough to haue blasted her hope and rooted vp her faith and haue confounded her confidence and wounded her distressed soule and silenced her importunity yet behold she that had all these discouragements replieth and by her reply crowneth her confidence with a blessed conquest Truth Lord but the dogs eate of the crummes that fall from their Masters table She wrought a miracle vpon her Sauiour made the deafe eares to heare and the dumbe tongue to speake to tongue and eares shee cryed as Christ to the eyes of the blind Ephata bee opened heare and answer my petition and grant my request O how well pleased is the Lord with the importunity of his seruants when they cry day and night and double their ingeminated obsecrations Looke vpon blessed Hezekias his manner of Prayer Isay 37.17 Encline thine eares O Lord and heare open thine eyes O Lord and see heare and when he lay vpon his death-bed chattering like a swallow mourning like a Doue I am depriued of the residue of my yeares I said I shall not see the Lord euen the Lord in the Land of the liuing hee knew that no balme in Gilead no vnguent of the Apothecaries no skill of Physitians no fruits of the fields no flowers of the garden no mineralls of the ground Esay 38. could giue the least allay vnto his sicke and sorrowfull soule but onely the Lord whom therefore hee remembreth and sixe times in his Prayer repeateth that sacred name of the Lord. It is obserued that God himselfe doth seeme to be pleased to vse often an ingemination of the names of those he best loued in Scripture Gen. 22.11 Exod. 3.4 1 Sam 3.10 as when he called Abraham Abraham Moses Moses and Samuel Samuel in a like manner we ought to be well pleased and much delighted in the blessed remembrance and inuocation of his name And sure when the hart is full of God the tongue will not refraine to talke of him they that rarely thinke on God shew how miserable their estate of grace is If the Lord be not in our hearts wee are godlesse if in our hearts without ioy we are hopelesse If wee reioyce in him and speake not of him we are shamefully thanklesse If he be in our harts in our tongues in our ioy coldly and perfunctorily we are negligently faithlesse and therefore as wee must thinke on the Lord alwayes so speake on him often and when we pray to him doe it earnestly and zealously in faith without wauering in confidence without doubting in perseuerance without desisting crying out as Ionas Mariners Ion. 1. Wee beseech thee O Lord wee beeseech thee or as Dauid here I beseech thee O Lord O Lord I beseech thee To land this point remēber that the Church hath appointed vs to pray in al time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the houre of death In all time of our tribulation we are ready to pray but in the time of our wealth and prosperity we are strangers to deuotion yet in the time of thy wealth and health remember tribulation remember in the daies of thy peace thy visitation remember thy houre of death for when ryot hath beene master of mis-rule and turned sobriety the good steward out of doore and Intemperance an vnbidden guest hath got in and defiled all the roomes of thy body Nature like a good-huswife would willingly cleanse the house and desires the helpe of Physicke as a Scauinger to make cleane the roomes but alas she findeth that sinne lyeth like a dog at the doore and death the cruell Serjeant threatens to serue an extent vpon the whole house there is no such meanes to quit thee of thy disease and of thy direfull enemy as prayer it is Dauids Antidote but thou must take it fasting and bee sure to take it warme it must bee feruent prayer and take it not onely morning and euening but take it as a continuall Cordiall and cry mightily Haue mercy haue mercy Spare me O Lord spare me O Lord I beseech thee to heare me good Lord I beseech thee to heare me And so being stedfast and vnmoueable and alwayes abounding in this worke of the Lord thou shalt finde that thy labour shall not be in vaine in the Lord. And so I haue ended my third step the manner how hee earnestly implored I will mend my pace for it is the day of our Royall Iacobs wrestling and I feare as Elisha heard the sound of Iehorams feet following the bloody messenger sent to take away his life so my heart trembleth to thinke it and my cares tingle to heare the heauie and sad approach of pale Death entring into this Kingly Palace O that we could with Elisha looke heedfully now this messenger this murtherer commeth 2. Kings 6.32 and that we could by our prayers shut the doore and hold him fast at the doore and this prayer might preuaile O Lord I beseech thee saue now O Lord I beseech thee send now prosperity Send Prosperity Praeuentions of Paliticians presumptions of the foolish circumspection of the wise circumuention of the wits are all Arts Cobwebs and experience paper Castles the Silk-worms worke and the fooles wonder Prosperity is only the gift of the father of lights The old Speech is that wise men cause prosperous times But alas Policie trippeth vp sacred Wisedome for Policie and Wisedome differ as much as Scripture and Apocrypha and Policie is often as offensiue to true Wisedome as Hagar to Sarah and sometimes as iniurious as Elimas the Sorcerer was to Peter or Alexander the Copper-smith to Paul Laertius tels vs of certaine young men of Ionia Diog. Laer. de vit Philos standing on the shore agreed with certaine Fisher-men for the next draught in which there being a rich and precious peece of Plate they not agreeing whose by right it was they went to consult the Oracle the Oracle enioyned them to send it to the wisest man aliue they thereupon sent it to Thales hee disclaimed it and sent it to another who also refused it till hauing passed through many who all denyed that attribute of the wisest to belong to them at length they bring it to Solon