for it as after David numbers the people 2. Sam. 24.14 the people die for it Secondly when the childe is sicke David sorroweth the childe being dead he riseth and eateth Hee wil bee no longer in paine then the childe is in perill Benoni is the sonne of sorrow at his birth this shal be no longer the subiect of sorrow then his death He is dead no hope no helpe no recovery it is impossible Revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras David cannot infuse life into him the childe is dead he is gone all the world cannot revine him David must follow the child must not returne Thus the wordes were occasioned thus opened thus they fall in sunder impart themselues vnto vs. Divisio Textus 1 Davids patient consideration in forbearing further sorrow Being dead why should I now fast 2. His wife resolution implying the impossibilitie of reviving him Can I bring him againe Thirdly his considerate acknowledgement of the inevitable stroake of death I shall goe to him he shall not returne to me I confesse there be many disproportions betweene this storie and our state our misery is without all paralell scripture doth nor yeeld a fitting example no king of Israel or Iuda had such a losse I had almost said nor such a sonne I am therefore constrained to choose not as I would but as I may though not so plentifully fitting the subiect yet sorrowfully fitting with our sable thoughts In these therefore I craue patient attentiō the rather because the 1. part offring it selfe to vs is Davids patient consideration in forbearing more mourning Some haue obserued that it was a custome in David to fast and pray 1. Part. Lor. in Ps Ps 35.13 and mourne for the sicknesse of his friend his owne words giue warrant Psal 35.13 when they were sicke 1 cloathed my selfe with sackcloath and humbled my soule with fasting And these both were vsed either in sorrow or repentance in sorrowe so the Orator testifieth sackeloath and fasting be moeroris insignia Tully the ensignes of sorrow in repentance so S. Hierome witnesseth they were Penitentiae arma the weapons of Repentance In this place by fasting David means all the Circumstances of mourning Aret. Flac. Illyr To mourne and weepe is common and commendable in sicknesse or death of friends profit there may be in it but you will thinke there is small pleasure yet saith the Poet Est quaedam flere voluptas There is pleasure in this paine of weeping to disburden the soule to open the sluces to discharge conchas in canales Bern. the Cesterns into conduit pipes to ecclipse the light of our etes with teares because those eies shall never behold those deere deceased friendes till we our selues passe into the Chambers of death This is naturall and common yet I may say Christian But to fast in these occasions is not so common as commendable and profitable for indeed in true sorrow there should be a neglect of all the offices of the body a sequestration of all contentment a forgetting and forsaking of ordinary food a shutting vp and imprisoning of the body from all pleasures of life thereby to pull downe the height and strength and pride of the soule that the soule heare not thinke not mind not mirth that the body see not touch not tast not meate such should be our sorrowes when we see Corporall punishments for spirituall iudgements Such was Davids diet it was a real hearty sorrow not coūtenanced with a heavie looke or with a solemne sigh blowne from the lips and lungs but it was a weeping watching fasting sorrow I hate excursions but seeing I meet in the words of my Text with so great a straunger as fasting giue me leaue to salute it It was the first precept that ever was given it is as ancient as Paradise Ieiuny canitiem sivelis Epise Lond. in Ion. perscrutare ieiunium prime homini coaevū The forbidding of that tree was the first rule of abstinēce The antiquity necessity perpetuity of it enforce it Nature law Gospel enioine it Divinity commands it Physicke commends it law prescribes it it is the life of the Saints and the food of the soule in the court of heaven there is no other dyet and in the Church on earth the children of the bridechamber must be acquainted with it as David was whose fasting daies I could easily cōiecture if I should looke but into the Galender of the Psalmes but my Text telleth me at this time hee did eate and drinke and therefore here he seemeth to bee as in the Psalme hee speaketh Psal 42.4 as amonge those that keepe holy-daie His fasting endeth the seaventh day and hee questioneth why should I now fast which words do bring forth this observation Obs 1 That as there is a time to sorrow so also a time to leaue of the act of sorrowing His example proveth this Nemo in lachrymis nemo in Cāticis no mā was more frequent in songs or sorrowes then David Lud. his meate were his Teares he mingled his drinke with Teares washt his bed and watered his couch with his teares you would scarce beleeue that he ever enioied good day that ever the sunne shined on him he is so full of anguish and care and feate sometimes biding some times flying Psalm 32 10. still almost lamenting Yet how frequent be his ioyfull acclamations in the Psalmes Reioice in the Lord Ps 103.1 Be glad ô yee righteous Be ioyfull all yee that are true of hart Praise the Lord O my soule all that is within me praise his holy name Praise the Lord O my soule and forget not all his benefits how sweetly doth he exalt his exultation of ioyful praise Ps 145. I will praise the Lord my God I will praise his name for ever and ever every day will I praise the Lord and praise his name for ever and ever and againe Praise the Lord O my soule while I liue wil I praise the Lord I will sing praises to my God while I haue any breathing Looke vpon this good King at other times you would scarsly thinke that ever he could haue had ioy to cast his cies vp to heauen Psal you may find him on a couch nay more on the cold earth crying out I am at the point to die from my youth vp thy Terrors haue I suffered with a troubled soule Yet after al this you shal find him reioicing triumphing singing harping dancing making melody vnto God and calling for his consort Trumpets Timbrels Psalteries Harpes Organs Cymbals Ps 150.3.4.5.6 Pipe and string low and lowd instrument nay heaven and earth must beare a part nay every thing that hath breath must praise the Lord. Heere bee the passages through fire and water here he is brought from the wildernesse into a wealthy place Here be his fits good bad daies crosses and comforts ioies and sorrowes Dolor volupt as invicē cedunt Brevior voluptas
SPIRITVALL ODOVRS TO THE MEMORY OF PRINCE HENRY IN FOVRE OF THE LAST SERmons preached in St JAMES after his Highnesse death the last being the Sermon before the body the day before the Funerall BY DANIEL PRICE then Chaplaine in Attendance ECCLVS 49.1 The remembrance of Iosias is like the composition of the perfume made by the Apothecary AT OXFORD Printed by Ioseph Barnes and are to be sold by Iohn Barnes dwelling neere Holborne Conduit 1613. TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY VERTVOVS AND GRATIOVS PRINCE PRINCE CHARLES THE BEAVTY OF THE COVRT AND THE BLESSING OF THIS COVNTREY DANIEL PRICE VVITH HIS MOST DEVOTED OBSERVANCE OFFERETH THESE HIS LAST SERVICES TO BLESSED PRINCE HENRY PSAL. 90.15 Comfort vs now according as thou hast afflicted vs. HONOVRABLE mournefull worthy Auditory I stande heere as that amazed servaunt of Elias crying lamenting for my MASTER feeling the paine fearing the perill of his losse Ps 19.5 ô what a thunderbolt of astonishment is it to vs all that the sunne comming forth as a bridegroome out of his chamber and reioicng as a Gyant to runne his course should set even before the Meridian and mid-day it is a thought that beates the breath out of my body and makes my soule ready to fly from mee yet seeing it is your owne desire and expectation that wee should frequently gather to these sad and solemne exercises in this holy place of this house of mourning though my worthy Colleagues sicknesse and mine owne weakenesse might be Apologies I forbeare rather the excuse then the exercise seeing Apologies be as obvious as odious not only Heralds to blaunch but vshers to blame such delinquencie You haue heard how our Saviour his servants his disciples dayly waiters were scattered Mat. 26.13 in the same chapter I finde smal argument of comfort for these distressed dispersed soules but at the same time as may be collected out of S. Iohn our Saviour comforteth his servants thus Ioh. 16.22 Yee are now in sorrow but I will see you againe and your harts shall reioice which meditation now hath moved me Gen. 8. to bring you an Oliue braunch in these waues and waters of sorrow not thereby to wish an end to your mourning but to season it that it may be better and stronger Gen. 8 8. Mat. 3.16 and hereafter more for your pleasure more for your profit when the Arke was on the waters the Doue was sent out when Christ was in the waters the Doue was sent downe Greg. in Moral Columba est spiritus consolationis saith Gregory the Doue representeth the spirit of comfort and when the flood is come to full tide the Doue shall be sent that the waters may cease when sorrow is at full age sweet wood must be cast into the bitter waters Psal 85.8 peace shall come saith the Prophet Comfort shall haue a time worldly contentments may end in bitternesse Ioseph Antiq. Iordan may runne a long race sweetly and pleasantly and afterwardes fall into the dead sea and never recover it selfe againe but the ioy and comfort of Gods servants notwithstanding all ecclipses shall finally never be obscured Chrysost times twins day and night shal be changed the foure colours of the vaile of mans Tēple the Elements shal be consumed the soule and body of the world Heaven and earth shal be destroyed but the comforts of Gods children shal never be extinguished you may beleeue him without an oath but I haue sworne by my holynes saith the Lord Psal 89.25 1. Kings 19.12 I wil never forsake Dauid As he dealt by Elias to send first the whirlewind then the Earthquake then the fire but then the small still voice so hath he dealt with all his Prophets after all the threatnings and thundrings he sends messages of Consolation by Esay thus Comfort yee Comfort yee Esay 40.1 Ier. 31.13 my people will God say By Ieremy thus I will comfort them giue them ioies for sorrowes By Ezechiel thus Ezek 14 22. yee shall be comforted concerning all the evill I haue brought vpon you By Zachary thus The Lord will yet comfort Syon Zech. 1.17 as Christ spake so may COMFORT say of me all the Prophets bare witnes but among al Prophecies none so cōfortable none so watred with the dew of heaven as the booke of Psalmes this is the Spowses garden Cant. 4.12.13 here be the lilies and roses here be Apples and Pomegranats and sweet fruits here be the mirre aloes Cassia and sweet spices here be the fountains of the gardē wels of living water the springs of Lebanon sweet waters every Psalm is as the foūt of Bethel Basil in 1. Ps as Basil by experience speaks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 every Psalme is a message of Peace embassage of mercy Hence had the servāts of God in all ages the balme of Gilead to apply to their soares sorrows Euseb lib. 12. prep cap. 13. I need not tell you how many Prophets and Apostles in the old and new Testament haue vsed authorities hence Euseb or how Plato is by Eusebius reported to receaue instruction from this booke or howe Babilas the Bishop or Mauritius the Emperour seasoned the misery of their Martyrdome with a Cāticle of a Psalm or how many holy Martyrs all the ancient Fathers all the Saints of God haue made blessed vse of this book that begins with blessednesse In Maz. Cōcord and containes nothing but blessednesse being repeated in the Concreat 27. times in this one book which like the tree that beareth fruit every month twelue times a yeare Reu. 21. so the Church hath appointed every month that this booke bring forth fruit in due season Ps 1. and among all vses of Comfort our blessed Saviour hence commended his soule sent vp in a Psalme vnto his father Father into thy handes I commend my spirit This Psalme I haue taken vp for your vse in this sad and sable time it is the first of all the Psalmes in order though not in number it was made 300. years before David or this booke were extant for when Moyses the man of God Deut. 32. had passed the Meridian of his life Mart. in Is being now in the after-noone of his age seeing foreseeing the night of death approaching Gods heavy indignation encreasing Israell stil disobeying he entreth into the consideration of mans transitory station shewing how many waves are ready to devour this little I le of man how he is turned to destruction scattered and consumed cut downe Psal 90. dryed vp and withered our misdeeds saith Moses are before thee our sins are in the fight of thy countenance our yeares are a tale that is told our strength is but labour and losse so farre you see mans sunne is in the Ecclipse here is nothing but lachrymae suspiria teares sighes sobs sorrows deploration lamentation fit meditations for our soules But behold what
to make them sweet salsum in amarum saith one Lud. did he cast salt into bitter can salt make sweet Yes the sorrow which is as salt cast into the passages of our life which of themselues be bitter doth sweeten and relish our whole state in this life Wee never read that our Saviour tooke the booke out of the Priests hand in the Temple but once and then the Text hee opened was that of Esay the spirit of the Lord is vpon me Esay 61. 1. Luk. 4.18 because he hath annointed me to preach the Gospell to the poore hee hath sent me to heale the broken hearted and as it followeth in Esay to cōfort thō that mourne in Zion A great comfort it is that cōfort was the Embassage of Christ the only Text of Christ in his first sermon the second blessing pronounced by Christ in the day of iudgemet the assured retribution of Christ Mourners shal be marked and by this shall bee preserved examples to all posteritie and Saints hereafter in eternall glory Vse A Doctrine fitting vs the scattered flocke of this familie who mourne for losse of our service If we bee true mourners here is entertainement mainetenance Countenance and protection we are sure to bee defended in the perillous times and to be delivered in the day of adversity then if we heare of dangers or feares or rumors of warre we may lift vp our heads on high as knowing our salvation is neere at hand nay we shall be dearer to God then ever we were we shal be as the apple of his eie or as the signet on his right hand Tender as his owne bowels he will water vs with the dewe of heaven keepe vs in the quiver of his providence and cover vs with the wings of his protection we shall then no longer sit by the waters of Babell or drinke of the waters of Marah O what an honour wil it be to be Gods servants to be chosen by him to be set apart by him to bee his priviledged men honoured and remembred by the posterities that come after His servant Moyse shall bring Manna from heauē Exod. 16.16 1. King 18.41 Numb 25.11 Gen. 19 22. his servant Elias bring Raine from heaven Phinehas stay a plague Lot shall haue such power as that God can do nothing while he is in the citty to these he promiseth that he will destroy none of all Ierusalem till they bee marked Who so is wise saith the Psalmist wil ponder these things and will consider the loving kindnesse of the Lord. Psal But alas we are givē to affect Courtship and the service of court so much Iob. to seeke the face of the ruler as Iob in his time spake or as Elisha is there any thing to be spokē to the king or to the Captaine of the host ever we seeke great preferments and desire continuance in the blandishments of Court 2. King 4.13 O it is a braue thing to be counted a Courtyer and yet a matter no happier then Salamons spider the wormes and moathes of greatnesse do hang vpon many here Prov. it may be some haue vipers hanging on their hands and the beholders do daily expect their downefull Acts. 27. At the best Courtship is but splendida miseria enuy may eate Bern or slaunder bite thee ambition may breake thy hart or pride break thy necke Pro. or at best ease slayeth the foolish I haue already remembred you of the kings speech in the Psalme I will ingeminate it for it is penned for this purpose Ps 146.5 the misery and vncertainety of our Courtly dependances Blessed is he that hath the God of Iacob for his refuge whose help is in the Lord his God To this refuge we may haue recourse he is not as Baal is said by Elias to be busie or slumbring he that keepeth Israell neither slumbreth nor sleepeth To this refuge we may fly as the Grecians did to Themistocles or as travailers in a storme to a shelter Thuc. Secondly therefore let vs examine our selues whether we are marked to be his seruants or no marks we haue yet not his Caine had a marke set on him Gen. the marke of murther Edom had the marke of Horror Esau the marke of shame Ieroboam the brand and mark of his sin never to be removed There be marks of dānation as wel as of preservation God hath devided betweene Iacob and Esau in the same womb betweene Pharisie Publican in the same Temple betweene Ephraim Manasses in the same place No doubt many men of Note at this time in Ierusalem were without this Note of preservation And so now in the world if such another seale-day came among vs many great mē the magnificoes of this age would beare part in the Commō desolation having no part in this Patent graunted only Christi fidelibus How many be there whose mouthes serue only to breath out the vnsavory speches of the soule corrupting not the Company only but the aire they are in whose eyes are the windowes whose eares the doors of their own destructiō whose vnderstanding represents their will whose wil is a common Curtizā of pollution whose memory a treasury of corruption Nay among our selues how many of vs haue but laid aside in this mourning time our common sinnes with our common garments our ordinary sinnes in these extraordinary iudgements It was an honest dutifull speech of Vriah when David bid him goe home and eate 2. Sam 11.11 and drinke and sleepe he answered The Arke and Israel Iuda abide in tents and my Lord Ioah and the servants of my Lord lie in the fields shall I then goe into my house to eate to drink to lie with my wife As the Lord liueth and as thy soule liueth I will not doe it He denieth to take his honest ease I pray God none of vs haue presumed to take vnhonest courses since our misery hath beene so eminent and our dangers so imminent This now should be our meditation our blessed MASTER lyeth now in his sheet and Sindon Terras reliquit Astroea our sunshine is darkned that place of Iob seemeth to be pend for vs Iob. 21.18 WHERE IS NOW THE HOVSE OF THE PRINCE the sunne of our glory is gone downe the Philistins reioice the Popish vncircumcised triumph what shall I doe Shall I be vnmindfull of my Saviour vnfaithfull to my presēt sorrow vngratefull to the memory of that my deceased Master continue in Lyes lusts oathes aspiring proiects or malitious trapps No I will make and obserue this vow I will not suffer mine eies to sleepe nor mine eie-lids to slumber I will neither continue my tongue to betray my brother nor my body to betray my own soul I will endeauour to liue a iust and holy and sober life this I desire for this I hunger and thirst this I vow for this I pray the Lord heare and grant mee this petition Vse 3 Lastly examine