PRINCE HENRY HIS FIRST ANNIVERSARY.  HEB. 11.38. Of whom the world was not worthy. 
BY DANIEL PRICE Doctor in Divinity, one of his highness Chaplains.  
AC: OX   printer's device of Joseph Barnes 
AT OXFORD, Printed by Joseph Barnes. 1613.   

TO THE RIGHT REVEREND Father in God, his Honourable Diocesan, the Bishop of EXETER, and Visitor of Exeter College.  
RIght Reverend Father, my duty hath often incited me to perform some due observance to your Lordship. Your honourable care of our flourishing College, hath been my remembrancer, & pleaded with me as the Elders did with our Saviour, for the Centurion. He is worthy that thou shouldst do this to him, he loveth us, 
Luk. 7.5.  and his predecessor built our synagogue. Your LP. hath been long, a painful, careful father, to the Church, to our tribe, to our College, and God hath extraordinarily blessed you, that before your eyes, your two eyes, your two learned, worthy sons, in your days, and in your Church, serve at the Altar.  
The reason, that I presume to present this to your Honour, is, because you truly honoured him, whom it concerns, that was the excellent ornament of his age present, and true mirror to posterity. Your especial observance of him, in his life, being made known to his Highness, by the worthy Gentleman, my ever honoured friend, Mr Richard Connock, had been as truly rewarded, as it was graciously received, h●d he lived. But he is translated, and now reigneth in heaven, not for a day as Adontah, or for a week, as Zimri, for a month as Shallum, for six months as Zachary, for two years as Elah, for three years as Asa, for forty years as David, or fifty five as Manasses, but forever and ever, where in time, you shall meet him, to remain with him without all time.  
Myself, with my best devotions shall ever rest, at your honourable disposal, while I am  
DANIEL PRICE. Exeter Coll. Decemb. 7. The fatal day of Prince Henry's funeral.   

PRINCE HENRY'S FIRST ANNIVERSARY.  
WHeresoever the Gospel shall be preached, mention shall be made of Mary Magdalen, 
Mark. 14.9.  not only, for loving her Lord in life, when she came to weep, to wash, to wipe his blessed feet, but also for that when he by whom she lived, was dead, and she, for whom he died, enforcedly left alive, she provided her ointments, for his dead bodies ornaments, to pay him the last tribute of external duties, of sepulchral obsequies. Her former action in the house, perfumed the house only, her later affection, manifested at the grave, hath presumed her memory through the world. 
Chris●●.  A sinner to anoint her Saviour? It is strange: often doth the heaven, bathe the earth, but never did the earth bathe the heaven, till magdalen's tears, yet more strange, that though the life, yet the love of her Master could not languish, in her cold breast, though she miss his heavenly word, to kindle it, and his bodily presence to cherish it, yet she followeth through the shadow of death, at the cross, and passeth to the chambers of death at the grave, post funera funus, after Nichodemus and joseph's odours, 
joh. 19.38.  prepared by art, and applied by devotion, she casts into the rich treasury, her two mites of love and lamentation, and gives the world a check, who performeth duties of love only in life, and makes eye Service, the most hearty observance.  
A meditation, that since I conceived, hath laboured so far with me that I presume to bring forth, this hasty but hearty manifestation of my boundless desires, & endless duties to the memory of that late gracious, now glorious Prince, beyond all titles in his worth, all sorrows for his death, whom no eye with judgement, ever beheld, without ravishment; lest therefore the remembrance decay, with the loss, or the moth of neglect, infest the Princely vesture of great HENRY'S memory, seeing Pharaoh had his Pyramid, 
joseph. 2. Sam. 18.18.  and Absalon his pillar, and that, in the bad made, worse kept vow of jeptha, the daughters of Israel, went yearly, to lament the daughters of jeptha. 
judg. 11.29.  Why should PRINCE HENRY'S anniversary, be an eye sore to any, that are pleased with worse objects? Why should not the remembrance of our josias be like the perfume made by the art of the Apothecary, 
Ecclas. 49.1.  sweet in all mouths, pleasing in all minds. In favours done, our memories ought to be frail, but in benefits received eternal, Right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints, 
Psal.  how much more in the eyes of his Saints▪ the death of this Prince, aught to be precious, who living was virtues child, Religion's friend, the Church's advocate, commonwealths hope, the poors Master, and Gods dear servant.  
2 Hune tantum terris fata ostendere, Honourable, and renowned plant as the first flower of the figtree, in the prime, and blooming of his age, he was translated into heaven, and why did not heaven and earth remove their stations, sun and moon lose their motions, and summer and winter period their seasons at this cause of sorrow? What in the world shall make show to sense of stability, what creature is a fixed star, if such a Prince must die, whom besides the by & earthly healps of drugs and amulets, the divine hopes of virtues, prayers, tears, & plaints, could not keep alive: yet he is alive on earth in all good men's thoughts, in heaven in all God's joys, & though our eyes cannot now behold him, because HE is to bright a sun, for our weak sight, our looks must be limited to a meaner light, & we must rather humble ourselves to the twilight of inferior things then celestial spirits. To follow him in the pace that nature lent him, his life or to the place where nature left him, his death, deserveth a various & curious tract, & were rather an Annall than an Annual remembrance, to think hereby, to add to him reputation, that smoking vapour, drawn from earthly honour of popular admiration, were frivolous, neither profit to him dead, or approved of the wise alive. To excuse the cause of doing this, were to accuse the manner of doing it, and therefore without apology, let this testify that I am a perpetual votary, to the honoured memory of blessed PRINCE HENRY, that whatsoever any other wants be, I may not be censured for want of duty, that so while I shall run the race of my sinful days, and continue the passage of my fleeting pilgrimage, higher powers not otherwise disposing or displeasing hereat, 
judg. 11.  I may as the daughters of Israel once a year, bestow some odours or ointments upon my Princely Master's monument, and burn some incense to his memory's excellence.  
3 All the world were sat, to see, & hearken, how his highness hopeful, youthful age should be employed, for in HIM, a glimmering light of the Golden times appeared, all lines of expectation met in this Centre, all spirits of virtue, scattered into others were extracted into him, 
Pliny. Epi. Xenoph. Cy. rop. Fox. Acts & monuments 2. Vol.  so that if either Pliny his testimony of trajan, or Xenophons' description of Cyrus, or Polidor of K. Edward the 6. had been applied to HIM, these all, and all whatsoever had been but scanning & kenning of those high borne, highly-blessed virtues in Prince HENRY: His Magnetic virtue drew all the eyes, and hearts, of the Protestant world, upon him who in their strictest observation, found how HE hated sin, more for the indignity thereof, then for the temporal danger, how he stood like a Centre, unmoved, the circumference of his estate, being drawn above, beneath, about him, how he lived without the compass of an adversary, his Person being as a Saint, his Court as a Temple, there was nothing, but he desired to know but most and first himself, and not so much, his own strength as his own weakness, all ingredients of beauty, 
Nine hundred sixty & nine years. Gen. 5.27.  concurred to the making up of his body, in which, a soul might have contented itself to live an age, yea, were it Methusulah's: and for his soul, as if the tincture and tainture of original sin, had not much infected it, it was the Tabernacle of all virtue, in which Piety had her Oratory, Religion her Sanctuary, Prayer her Censor, all Acts of devotion their altar, & his altar, the plentiful daily offering, of almsgiving. Future ages declining, as well in their being, as understanding will stand amazed, at his story, whosoever shall build it, that a Prince so noble and so humble, so valiant, and so patiented so Heroical in his exercise, and so Angelical in his prayers, so abundantly liberal in his bestowing, & so honourably frugal in managing his estate, so like to live, and so content to die, so faithful to his God, dutiful to his royal parents, merciful to poor, grateful & graceful to all, either should have been so soon, so good, or be so soon, so forgot. There is no honest subject that ever saw him, but will forever care to carry the resemblance of his Princely feature in their best composed memory, his piercing eye, gracious smile, grave frown, and divine face composed of modesty and majesty. How slow he was to anger, quick to apprehend, how speedy to pardon, how magnificent in building, munificent in entertaining, how constant in his studies, & paramount in all rare inventions.  
Learn then from hence all ye wandering Drones, whose life is a continual sleep, or worse a sleeping death, of whom no memory or monument shall remain but as that of beasts, fuerunt, ye whose sole knowledge is only the Philosophy of Epicurism, 
Plut.  ye whose memory shall rot among the posterities, ye who are enticed by the subtlety, and entrapped in the snares of Satan, who useth every of you for some end, and leadeth all of you in the end to final destruction. How apparent is it to all, that the Drunkard is his butler, the Glutton his Cook, the Adulterer his Chamberlain, the Slanderer his Lawyer, the Usurer his Treasurer, the jesuit his Chaplain, and shall the same enticements, beguile you? Be there so few good, as that, when but 4 in the world a Cain, when that number doubled, and eight were in the Ark, a Cham, when that number trebled in twelve Apostles a judas, seeing the Devil knowing his time short, hath provided his factors, in all places for all occasions, Popish traitors, and apish flatterers often about Court, Hypocrites and Loiterers about the City, buyers and sellers of the Temple in the Temple, every where swarming Locusts, and the children of darkness, so wise in their generation, so busily employed, and taking such pains to go to hell. How should these thoughts, draw and drive ye out of that as hateful, as harmful neglect of doing well, & stir ye to strive to do some good acceptable to God, profitable to man, available to your own souls, that not only in the day of retribution, a recompense, but in this world, there may be a remembrance of you, as in every place there now is, of this wonder of his time and mirror of Princes.  
4 Whose Religious soul, did so truly entertain the Patronage and protection of religion, that as HE hated Popery with a perfect hate, so his love unto truth and learning, as it shined outwardly, so did it burn inwardly in his own practice, in which, besides his unfeigned zeal to God, and love to good men, he was ever careful of Moses and David's lesson to number his days, never desiring to live long, nay, 
Psal 90.  often using contemptible speeches of the world, of life, of bravery, of beauty, accounting long life not only vanity but misery, and on the contrary, many, and holy, and heavenly were his frequent meditations upon the certainty of salvation, immortality of the soul, resurrection of the dead, and joy of the blessed, as those near about his Highness can testify, by those his wise, and divine Apothegms, which will never be razed out of their most and best reserved memories. Wherein, I cannot omit his especial regard of honest Sermons, for that was the title he attributed to sharp, and sound sermons which neither favoured of flattery or Popery, among which, as none ever passed without his reverend attention, and remarkable observation, so especially in two preached before his Highness, though some years in distance, yet in the same month of his final and fatal sickness. The first at Richmond, in October 1608. upon that text which afterwards, 
Psal. 82. v. 6.7.  was as a box of spikenard to anoint his body at the burial, chosen by the most Reverend father, the L. Archb. his grace at the funeral: Psal. 82.6.7. I have said ye are Gods and ye are all children of the most high, But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the Princes, which Text being entreated on, at Richmond by one of his highness Chaplains, them waiting, and the Text called the Fall of the leaf, howsoever the Chaplain, were one of the meanest & youngest of that name & number, yet it pleased his highness to require a copy, thereof, and as with Princely patience to hear, so with godly diligence to recall some passages therein that Cedars of Libanon, Roses of the field, Lilies of the Valleys, Princes, stars & Angels had fallen, that humanity and mortality were twins, that all flesh was as a flower, and the grace thereof as the grass of the field, etc. The other Sermon, as if it were provided, against the day of his preparation by that all guiding eye of providence, 
M Wilkinson upon Octob. 25. 1612.  was learnedly & powerfully delivered in S. james chapel by a Reverend divine, Chaplain to the king's Majesty upon the Sabaoth day of his highness sickening the Text being taken from job. 14.1. 
job. 14.1.  Man that is borne of a woman, is short of days and full of troubles, wherein, by the miserable entry, of man into the world his miserable and speedy passage, out of the world, and his miserable pilgrimage and endurance while, he is in the world he stirred all, of all estates to the consideration of their states, and did much affect his highness, as appeared both by his great attention and commendation thereof. Blessed Prince by this, 
Esay. 38 1.  preparing as Hesekias was warned to set his house in order, because he must die.  
Learn hence, ye Courtly Gallants, ye, that prorogue the term of your lives & as the Prophet spoke, 
Zephany.  ye that put far from you the day of the Lord, set your houses in order, you must die, an account must be made, did ye but know what hour the thief Death, will come, ye would watch, if at that time, the house be not built by faith, or built and not prepared by hope, or prepared and not swept by repentance or swept for a time, and not daily, set in order by meditation of mortality. If there be no care of the spiritual economy at that day, at that hour, ye shall drink the bitter cup of the dregs of destruction. O than all of ye, that eat, as if ye did not care to live, and yet build, as if ye did not think to die, ye that prefer Hagar before Sara, 
Bern. Gen. 16 3. Gen. 30.4.  and neglect Rahel in regard of Bilha, ye, that respect not, that poor, pining, fainting Inmate the soul, stand in your watchtowers, look towards the west to the setting of the sun, dispose of your bodies & your souls, that your eyes may see your salvation. One put his barns in order, and that night they took away his soul; Achitophel put his house in order, and that day, he went and hanged himself; 
Esay 38.1.  but Hesekias set his house in order, set his soul in order, and so recovered health to body, and soul. Princes do partake of a kind of omnipotency, their brave followers, potentate friends, 
Beaux.  majestic robes, treasured up riches, delicate fare, fair Palaces, pleasures, as if Paradise were recovered, & their delights, as if heaven were come to dwell on earth, as the nation of the jews, carry with them a Savour of their stained stem, & murderous progeny, so all these vanities carry a sent and show of earthly & perishing mortality. Sorrow, sickness, death, be Courtiers, and of great command, they have their grooms in every office of the house. To say no more, If Solomon in all his royalty did remember his Creator in the days of his youth, before the evil days came, 
Eccles. 12.1.  before the yea s drew nigh, wherein he might say, I had no pleasure therein; then linger no longer, whosoever thou art, in the morning sow thy seed, work while it is day, provide with joseph the barns before the famine, 
Gen. 41. Gen. 6.13. Luk. 15.11. Luk. 16.1.  and with Noah the Ark before the flood. Let the prodigal child, unjust steward, unwise virgin, serve thee, as examples to terrify thee. But, to incite thee, & to rouse up that panting fainting breath, of thy soul; Remember the careful resolution of this rare Prince, whose mintadge may lend character to all the world.  
5 When the sun of his highness life, was ascending to the meridian, his, and our Eclipse began, & before the noontide of nature, the night of death set upon him. When all the world's Echo of him was that, which Antigonus spoke of Pyrrhus, maximum futurum si senesceret, 
Pluz.  then did that great Tyrant death first beat, then batter all the natural forces, all the principal parts of his bodily fortress. The besiege was not long, but cruel, when HE forecasting the worst of events and encountering them before they came, carried this character of the valiant, 
D. Hall Char. of val.  often to look death in the face, and with a religious constancy, to pass by it with a smile, at once, showing both his content, and contempt of death.  
O you vain frothy foundlings of the world, who are enemies to God, because strangers to goodness, in whom custom of sin hath left no sense of shame, and desire of life, no fear of death; learn hence, and tremble at the lesson, what it is, to walk early, and daily, with your maker, & learn, what it is to provide death's payment, before the day. Shall he that was Nature's mirror, the delight and delicacy of mankind, being as dear to the world, as heaven dear to him, shall HE so ballast himself with holy wisdom, that he provides to float steadily in the midst of his tempestuous shipwreck? shall he, in the strength of nature, heat of blood, beauty of youth, and glory of his time, prepare so timely, at once, both to welcome and contemn death? And will ye, ye earthly Glow-worms, neglect so certain uncertain a point of state, as the prevention of death, by provision for death? your daily surfeits, nightly riots, hourly quarrels are attended, not only with surquedry but mortality. If ever place, or age, time, or person, had had a privilege or immunity from death, than ye might continue to flatter yourselves, and to betray your souls: but whenas all that sojourn upon the face of the earth must return into the womb and tomb of the earth, that the arks of your bodies, be full of holes, and ye take water at a thousand breaches; when that art of offence, the duel whereof the devil is the Master, is so frequent, that beyond the ancient (but abhorrent) manner of human murders, as the infants of Bethlehem in the cradles, Eglon in the parlour, Saul in the mountain, 
Mat. 2.16. judg. 3.12. 1. Sam. 26. 2. Chr. 32.21.  Ishbosheth on his bed, Zenaeherib in the Temple, all other places whatsoever, foreign and domestic, stream with the blood of single combat, of which bloody issue, yourselves be the Authors, the actors, the abettors; To which, add the nameless and helpless infirmities, by outrages and sicknesses, whereunto ye are subject. And upon this consideration, turn your eyes inwards into your own Anatomies, observe whether ye need Cautions in this kind, that seeing examples move not, precepts may prevail.  
6 But whither go I? Blessed Prince! he was both an apt scholar and an excellent Master, his understanding was illumined with the beams of divine truth, God acquainted him with his word, and in his word with his will. He made sure for his soul, & accounted it no safety, to be unsettled in the foreknowledge of his final estate. How were the devout and frequent observations of his morning religious offices, without intercession, privately continued, as if with David he had vowed, 
Psal. 5.3.  My voice shalt thou hear in the morning O Lord, in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee. This our morning star, preventing the morning watch in his morning offering, as if to him, Omnis dies esset ultimus dies, 
job. 1. Ps. 55.18. Rupertus, Vitriacus. Bon avent. Aust. in Psal. Vespere Dominus in cruse, mane in resurrectione meridie in ascensione: enarrabo vespere patientiam morientis annuntiabo mane vitam resurgentis, orabo ut exaudiat meridie sedens ad dextram Patris. Sanctuary of soul.  so did he season & sanctify himself, & as job sacrificed to sanctify his sons, so did he pray, against his sins, & commune with his own heart in his chamber and was still; and thought not this enough, but that with David, more fervently, more frequently, he would praise the Lord in the Congregation, and that, as that holy prophet professeth, instantly, yea and continually, vespere, mane, meridie, in the morning, evening, and at noon, did he praise the Lord, not only, as some interpreters judge, because these three parts of the day, were consecrated by those three prime acts of our redemption, the evening by Christ's passion, the morning by his resurrection, & the noon by his blessed Ascension, but also because these times have always by the faithful of all ages been hallowed by divine orisons, and therefore in chamber and closet, our Solomon observed these, knowing, that actions both of difficulty and weight, are drawn to perfection by often use. And therefore seeing it is a very hardmatter, either to pray, or to die, either willingly, or well, all aught both timely and diligently to exercise themselves, that by praying often, and so consequently, by dying often, in the end, men may both pray, and die, easily and willingly.  
O then all ye drowsy Night-birds! arise from your beds of sloth, 
Rev. 6.8.  carry the watch of prayer be vigilant over your own souls, look upon the pale horse, and him that sitteth thereon, whose name is death. Provide, that ye be not suddenly surprised, and die before ye begin to live. It is weakness to be unwilling, to that which is necessary to be done, it is necessary to die, and it is necessary for dying well, often to pray, often to meditate upon thy death. A day will come, when thy evening shall be shut up, be thou mighty, thou canst not resist, be thou rich, thou canst not corrupt, be thou never so wise, thou canst neither appease nor avoid DEATH. Which in the principal strength, and beauty of age, plungeth the thoughts of the worldly, interrupteth the enterprises of the worthy, breaketh the studies of the learnedst, & croppeth of the flourishing hopes of the fairest, the same God telleth Princes, ye are Gods, et homines coelestibus aequat, and yet they shall die like men, sceptra ligonibus aequat.  
7 Which meditation extracted by the Limbique of contemplation into virtuous action, endued and endowed our PRINCE, with an humble holy patience in all the stormy invasions of his sickness, having so conquered himself, as sorrows could not conquer him, his experiments, sage for their truth, though young for their time, had drawn out rules of confidence, and patience, which he did oppose, against all the fears of distrust: he knew whom he trusted, and how far death could lead him, his shield was of a metal, not so hard, as flexible, &, as it was never miss, so never pierced, he both saw, & endured a divine hand invisibly striking, and in those sensible scourges he did not murmur. His hopes were so strong, that they insult over the greatest discouragements, his apprehensions so deep that when he once fastened, he sooner left his life than his hold, his holy patience invincible, as full of faith, as void of fury, being then above nature when below himself, his pains, faintings, heats, toss, & convulsions not able to distract his person, or disturb his patience. when after a lingering, growing increasing possession of some pestilent humour, sickness had surprised his head, 
Laur. Anat.  Sacram Palladis arcem, the watchtower of the whole body, domicilium & sensuum propugnaculum, as Laurentius calleth it; yet his patience increased with his disease, & with a tongue calmly free, a forehead Socrates-like resolute and firm, & with a settled countenance, he consults the Pilots of his bodily vessel, and in their distraction, while he suffers and is silent, and beholders pity him, and his torments cannot disease him, he refers all peaceably, patiently, to the will of his maker, 
Zanch.  as if he had learned that lesson of Zanchius, Oramus Domine fiat voluntas tua, facta est, feramus. In all this, when not master of his health, yet master of himself, subduing passion to reason, & bowing to bear the burden, 
Bern.  he verified that of Bernard, Submittitur sensus, non amittitur, nec deest dolour, sed superatur, sed contemnitur.  
Learn hence ye impatient and passionate whirlwinds, ye, who hoist up sails in your tempests, whose words be wounds, & breath blood, behold (but not without amazement) a Princely souls calm, in the midst of a bodily storm, whose resolution was, as that sometimes of Tertullian, Totum licet seculum pereat, 
Tertul.  dum patientiam lucrifaciam, rather would he, that the world should perish unto him, than his patience perish. Learn if ye are not as far past the bounds of nature, as grace, ye fiery monsters, who as if ye were borne under the torrid zone, whose spleneticall, frenetical passions, like the surges of the sea, break the vessels of your understanding and reason; who are stirred with less than a word, and are more turbulent than a torrent, who in the least disasters are ready to blaspheme God and die, whose proceed are as heady, as your words hasty, and looks peremptory, who never look how innocent, but how strong ye are, and will rather usher, then smother an injury, making your sword the first of trials, & murder the fruit of the sword, whose society admits no safety, nor acquaintance any tranquillity. O ye bloodhounds, is the life of man no more precious, or the justice of God for blood no more rigorous, that without respect, I say not of Christian, but Pagan patience, ye familiarly destroy your brethren, for whom Christ hath died? Ye posterity and tribe of Cain, when any small disgrace, nay the least distaste, a tale, a toy, a breath, a word, a syllable, 
The lie.  will edge to revengeful impatience, behold him, holy soul, from whom all his pains, redoubling of his pangs, the violence and virulence of humours, in his troubled heart, tormented head, parched tongue, schortched throat, inflamed body, and fired blood, could not extort any sparks of impatient passion.  
8 Thus, in him never was divorce between devotion & patience. Holy soul! how prevalent was devotion in him, by which he cast so often sweet wood into his bitter waters! how did God's spirit by this subdue his reason, regenerate his will, purify his nature, how by this, in his extremity hourly did he walk with his maker, and talk with him familiarly, celestial spirits affording him company and service, all the rooms of his holy heart set a part for holiness! Which habit was obtained by the former acquisition of it, in those many virtuous actions of his tender age, when in the 14 year of his time, he approved himself to be a religious hearer, judicious observer, and obsequious obeyer of the word of his maker, his graceful gravity, giving much life to those sermons, which were heard by him, but his practice much more. Among many others this one remarkable monument shall rest with renown upon his memory, he abhorred an oath, laying, besides the obelisk of imputation, a pecuniary mulct upon those his followers and family, who were found faulty in swearing, which moneys were duly distributed, to the poor. Neither can I here omit his religious answer made unto one, that wondered, at his sports, to observe his highness freedom from oaths, he answers, I never knew any sport worth an oath. This holiness so early began, ended not, sickness diseased it not, sorrow disordered it not. He showed his own care of serving God then, in his daily calling upon him, commanding in the entrance of his sickness, that the ordinary hours & prayers in his Closet should be duly observed, as if he had derived piety, as well as royalty from joshuah his example, whose speech was, 
Josh. 24.15.  I and my house will serve the Lord; besides the prayers which often he desired to be used at his highness bedside, wherein a learned and Reverend 
n =" *" D Milborn Deane of Rochester.  Deane then assisting, fearing to distemper his pained head, with any loud voice, his highness earnestly calleth and willeth him to speak more openly, such was his happy and hearty respect to his religious prayers. As also his desire and delight to receive those heavenly plentiful instructions, and to partake in those holy powerful devotions of the most Reverend Archb. who daily did both visit, and perfect that good work in him, so that neither the dullness of the disease, drowsiness of his head, dimness of his eyes, or disturbances of his whole afflicted body, could hinder the divine part from her great solace in so great sorrow.  
Learn hence ye profane, unseasoned souls, who never name God but in oaths, never think upon him, but in extremity, ye senseless graceless Gallants, to whom will is a law, appetite a Lord, reason a servant, and religion a drudge: a time will come, when you shall not know how to think upon God, because ye begin to learn but then; the Apostle questioneth you, how can ye call upon him, in whom ye have not believed? 
Rom. 8.  Think you to live with him, whom ye have rejected from living with you, because, this is the end of all knowledge, entertain ye this knowledge only, in the end of your lives? How many great ones have slept their sleep and found nothing, when lying upon the altar of their death beds, to sacrifice their bodies for the sin of their souls, the heart like a piece of dead flesh, hath been without sense of love, of fear, of care, of pain, from the deaf strokes of a wrath revenging conscience? These heart's surbated with cares, & surfeited with riots, as they have no natural traduction of goodness, so no celestial infusion of grace, Mercury hath governed their brain, jupiter their liver, Mars their gall, Saturn their spleen, 
Laur. Anat.  but Sol the sun of righteousness had never any power over, never any place in their hearts. O stony, steely hardness of hearts, which no blows can break, to whom nothing shall be granted, though it may be required, because nothing was performed which was commanded. O loathsome soul, poor and bare, and naked, can all thy compassing friends infuse no one tear into thine eyes, one drop of comfort into thy heart, one repentant sigh from thy soul, one grain of faith into thy spirit, one mite of mercy, one jot of joy into thy conscience? O dumb dump, shall the world Echo thy sins, hell echo thy sorrows? Art thou in thy passage, and knowest that no sooner is thy candle out, but the large history of thy life, shall be openly read? Is the impostume of thy lies, lusts, oaths, oppressions, now breaking, the vail of hypocrisy, now to be removed, and thy memory to become as odious to all men, as thy life was tedious to good men, hast thou been unhappy in thy birth, ungodly in thy being, and must thou be ungracious in thy end. Consider this, o all ye that forget God, lest he suddenly take ye away, when there shall be none to help you, strike of all delays, which have already devoured too much of the good time. Cast anchor, see if you may shun the dangers, as eminent, as imminent, shake of the viper, avoid the enemy & the avenger, fly from the indignation like to fall upon you, lest that time, which yet ye may take, overtake ye, and then, ye have neither power to resist, nor patience to bear, nor place to avoid.  
Let not hoary sins, bring home heavy horrors, season your selves, bath and embalm your souls, lest your bodies be their sepulchres, and you, their murderers: begin early, if the sixth hour be past, overslip not the ninth, if the ninth be past, foreslow not the eleventh, stay not till the last hour, for he that doth sometimes, doth not all times give a days wages for an hours work; Qui promisit poenitenti veniam, non promisit omni peccanti poenitentiam. Look upon that Princely pattern of goodness, who in young years, being holy and devout, steadfast in faith, joyful through hope, rooted in charity, hath passed the waves of this troublesome world, and is finally come to the land of everlasting life.  
9 And sweet Prince! how willingly did HE submit himself, both to his visitation, & to the end thereof, his death! when, lifting up his mind to heaven, he discovered, that so bright, and beautiful glory, and contemned all things on earth, enfolded in a misty darkness. Divine Eagle! piercing beyond the orb of the sun, when neglecting in pains the body, which was to be a nest of worms, he desireth in joys to satisfy his soul, which was to be a Companion of Angels. Heroical spirit! who, willingly entered the Combat with the last enemy, that is to be destroyed, Death, when, upon the Vigil of his departure, being visited by that most Reverend Prelate the Archb. his Grace, and religiously, questioned by his Grace, whether, he could willingly submit himself, to the will of God, so far, as the stroke of death, his highness replied, yes willingly, with all my heart, and though not with so great liberty of tongue, as love in heart, manifested hereby, that he was not so sure to die, as to be restored, & so outfaced his death, with his resurrection, with his everliving love of everlasting life. O heroical! nay more, O Angelical spirit! fined and polished in this furnace of his affliction, that so freely, so faithfully is ready to forsake all, and to follow the Lamb whither soever he goeth, 
Rev. 7.  who with white hands and a clean soul was fit to serve and to attend his Saviour, yea even then, to sing with Simeon, 
Luk. 2.28.  Lord now lettest thou thy servant departed in peace. Then, I say, when the earth partaked so much of the beauty of heaven, so many delights, so many pleasures, so many Triumphant, magnificent Trophies, for the joining of those two royal Virgin rivers, Thames and Rhine, when the Gracious, virtuous Princess, 
Psal. 45.  his highness sister was all glorious, her clothing of wrought gold, when she was to be brought to her Illustrious Palatine, in raiments of needle work, the Virgins, that were her fellows, to bear her Company, when with all joy and gladness she was to be brought to enter into her Prince's Palace, that in steed of her Parents, she might have children, whom she might make Princes in foreign lands. Then, when righteousness looked down from heaven, and all the Christian world, resulted with joyful acclamation, some few Curs of Antichrist excepted. Then, that even then, this blessed Prince, to be willing to leave the world, and his happy soul to be contented, to be loosed from the fetters of the flesh? How should it amaze those subterranean Moles, who desire to have their portion still in this life, crying faciamus his tabernacula! Who when Death serveth the execution upon them are most unwillingly drawn, 
Math. 17.  and pulled from worldly delights, as beasts from their dens, with malevolence & violence, roaring out as lamentable a farewell to their souls as Adrianus the Roman Emperor, who cried out Animula, vagula, blandula, etc. That his fondling and darling soul was now fleeting, & he knew not unto what darkness & danger it should pass, where now should be hits lodging, now, that it was to lose hits former delight, and sporting, he knew not the pace, the place, the passage, the entertainment, how far was he from him, whose motto was, Nec pudet vivere, nec piget mori, from all the Saints of God, that know they are but translated, dissolved, gathered to their fathers, fallen a sleep, their life is hid for a time, that they lay down their tabernacles, lie down in peace, sleep in the Lord, rest in hope, wait their change; that death, is only a ferry, a boat, a bridge to convey them into another place, or as a Groom, that lights a taper into another room.  
But o human witchcraft! that so enchanteth those two divinely polished tables of the soul, the will & understanding, cheating the affections in the one, checking the meditations of the other. Why, do not the gallant walking Ghosts, of this godlesse-age provide more willingly to entertain the divorce & dissolution of their earthly frame? why, so daily do they incur, the death of both parts, when as their defluxion, and consuming course is daily manifested? every minute they live, being a step unto death, every action pulling away some part of their beloved life, when like a candle continually burning, they are hourly dying, and yet, as unwilling to die, as weak to resist death; the head a skull, the breath smoke, the eye water, the brain dirt, the heart dust, the body a house of clay, 
Scal. Exer. 148.  and men themselves are not men, but pieces and fragments of men, as Scaliger told Cardan, and no ways to pass to life but by the gate of death as the Israelits could not pass to Caanan but by the dead sea; and as an ancient compareth our body disposed into the four humours unto the veil of the Temple, composed of the 4. Colours, as, this vail must be removed, before the entrance can be obtained, into the Sanctum Sanctorum, so, must the body put of mortality, to endue itself with immortality. But the fleeting Meteors, of this fond age, neglect the Contemplation hereof, and being no more able to abide death, then quiet in thinking on the fear of death, they wish, to fly even from themselves, and to be discharged, from being guided by so ill a guest, as their own soul, they wish their portion to continue in this life, they can be content, to stay here for ever. The base wealth, false pleasures, vain hopes, lying promises, feigned friendship, short glory, fading beauty of this dull and dungeon-like life, yields them sufficient satisfaction; otherwise to be sequestered from these itching toys, bewitching joys, and to leave the world, they are most loathsomely loath, they answer, they know, where they are, whither they shall go they know not, and hereupon in the instant of their transmigration they are so unwilling to leave the world, hence is it that they begin to feel the flames of Hell before they go down to the grave, before them horror, behind them terror, on the one side sin, on the other shame, fire in the hand, a serpent at the heart, terrors of the night, sting of conscience, fear of hell, torture them, and, their unwillingness to die is most willing to torment them. But I proceed, my subject is sorrow, whom I follow.  
10 How sorrowful a day, was this Vigil of his death? How watery, that day, the 5. of November, which should have been the day of fear and fire and fury, if that Tragedy, which Antichrist and hell plotted, had been acted! How was this day, the day of joy and jubilee for deliverance! I say how was the glory and beauty thereof changed by this Eclipse of the Princely sun! The Lord even then visiting us, 
Lament, 2.22.  as jeremy complaineth in the Lamentations, Lord, thou hast called us in a solemn day, and now terrors are round about us. A day that at the institution thereof did occasion more cause of joy, to us, them any ordinary day of deliverance to the jews, our deliverance greater, our enemies more cruel, their snares more fearful, the mischief more miserable, the misery more general, and the project more horrid, and terrible then ever any, we read of among jews, or Gentiles, Grecians or Barbarians, or the history of any estate hath read, heard, or registered in times Chronology. A day, wherein they cried of Zion, down with it, down with it even to the ground. Wherein the Oracles of our wisdom, the Chariots of our Israel, the sacred Reverence of our Clergy had been devoured, the learned Guardians of our justice, the whole estate of our weal-public, by a public woe, had been blasted and blemished, and consumed. A day that should have been mother to the foulest monster, and monstrous plot, that ever was purposed or performed, facinus tale quod nec Poeta fingere, nec Histrio sonare, nec mimus imitari poterat, even in that day, wherein we were freed and delivered by a miraculous hand, from this hellborn horror intended against us. O how was this day altered, by the public sorrow for virtues sickness! This fift day fear possessed City and Court; a day, that though Pythagoras and Hesiod, count to be most infortunate, yet was never ominous or inauspitious to us; witness the gracious preservation of the Lords Anointed on the 5 of August and this 5 of November. Now many & hearty prayers were in fiery Chariots sent up to heaven, to implore divine majesty, that this day we might not be led into the temptation of such a tempestuous shipwreck as the loss of our Prince.  

Hesiod. Virgil.  〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, saith Hesiod; and Quintam fuge is Virgil's caution; and Rhodiginus giveth the reason, 
Coel. Rodig. lib. 8. cap. 9  that upon the fift day the furies do govern, it being the day of their birth. The fift day, the Giants began their wars against heaven, shipwrecks, earthquakes, tempests, devastations, being even proper to this day; and the Brumalia being kept in the same month of November, and about the 5 day, had the dedication, à sonitu tonitrus & fulminis. Yet neither this month, nor this day, 
Hosp. de origine Fest. Novemb.  were ever yet unhappy to us, till now; and now began we to tremble, though we had scaped the fift days furies, and the Brumalia, the Winter's feast, which was intended, yet now the joy of our heart was humbled, 
Lam 5.15.  and fear was on every side. But Thou continuest holy O thou worship of Israel. O Lord, let it never be forgotten, that thou didst please to spare and forbear the great judgement of this day, and this day didst not so overshadow us, with sorrow, as to take away our josias, in the celebrity of our preservation, to extinguish our joy utterly, by Hadadrimmons' lamentation.  
A meditation, that should stir up all those unfaithful unthankful souls among us, who neglect the Lords favour, and the remembrance of his holiness, in the deliverance of this day. It was his infinite mercy that this day he let not our enemies laugh us to scorn or to triumph over us, but deferred Prince HENRY'S death one day further. Yet certainly he suffered this heavy judgement to fall upon us so near to this time, because we are so forgetful of his marvelous deliverance from the dangerous engines prepared against that time. It is not unworthy the observation, 
joseph.  that most of the great judgements fell upon Israel upon the days of their solemn feasts, surely for the profaneness and unthankfulness of them, for those blessings received, which occasioned the institution of those feasts. And why should we not forever hereafter stand in awe, trembling, and fearing, how the Lord hath afflicted us so near our solemn feast day. And though he had delivered us from the violence and malevolence of men & Devils, yet, if we turn not, he can whet his sword & bend his bow, as he did by that arrow that struck Israel's josiah.  
12 It is as true as terrible, judgement may be prolonged, but when the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, by no power it can be avoided. The sixth day ensued, which as if it had had a divine dispensation to break the sixth commandment, slew our PRINCE. A day, that hath been Principibus infesta & infausta; witness the death of Richard the first, the sixth of April; 
1199  Henry the second, the 6 of july; 
1189  Edward the first, the 6 of july; 
1307  & our last Edward, blessed K. Edward the 6. on the 6 of july; 
1553  as also this 6 day of November, wherein our, julium sydus, Prince HENRY'S sun did set.  
Divine soul! how readily did it move to its Centre, & how constantly! all the storms could not shipwreck the ark of his faith, all the surges could not sink his precious soul. He continued victoriously Constant, & is assured, to see the Lord in the land of the living. The beams of his faith did reflect upon him, and kept life beyond life in him, when the last symptoms, the harbingers of death appeared, in that dismal period, of that fatal day, the violence of convulsions, and fury, and extremity of the disease appearing then most terribly, because it was never to appear again. In that spark of life, his last & best Physician, the most Religious, most Reverend Archb. his Grace, being his highness heavenly remembrancer by many hearty, & holy exhortations to assure him with assured Constancy, of God's mercy, to lift up his heart to prepare him to meet the Lord; and calling more earnestly and loudly, because the organs of speech and hearing were deprived of use, his highness being earnestly moved to manifest by signs his apprehension of these divine exhortations and his assent hereunto, he lifted up his holy hands united, & afterwards his eyes bend to heaven, from whence not long after appeared, in his deliverance, his salvation.  
Learn hence all ye unmindful, unfaithful, unconstant, weatherbeaten worldlings, who, like reeds tossed of the wind, never continued in one stay, whom the least blast of affliction doth so amate and amaze, as that God is forgotten, and being unbelieving Sceptics, believe no more than ye see, and fear no more than ye feel, and therefore are sure to want the Continuance of Constancy at your deaths, because you were never acquainted with it in your life. When all your members and faculties are surprised, all pains & perplexities enlarged, when the sorrows of death compass ye about, & the floods of wickedness make ye afraid; then how horrid will it be, that out of all your former life's extraction no one drop, either of Comfort, or Constance, may be distilled! When the aching head, panting heart, faltering tongue, shortening breath, beating veins, crazed mind, and cracked memory shall disturb, and distract all your faculties, and not only your heavenly, but even earthly cogitations; when the dumb mouth, numbed hands, stiff joints, pale lips, vanishing strength, and expiring life, be the forerunners of a doleful fearful death; and the want of a religious settled constant memory, shall then bring the woe of a wanton mind, and ye shall by a scourge of Conscience receive a beginning in this life of your full torments in the flames of hell, the eternal justice making you executioners of your own faults: the heart & hope, of life being but a bubble, a smoke, a lie, a fury, 
W●sd 5. Esay. 28. Prov. 11. job. 11.  as Solomon, Esay, and job, have described it, wanting the sweet solace of the soul, and that assurance, which the Saints have in all your anguishes and extremities, neither obtaining acceptance with God nor repentance from God, a Grave-stone lying upon your hearts, sealed with the sense of God's judgements, pressed down with the rubbish and ruins of the decayed monuments of ancient transgressions▪ your foundation laid not upon the rock, but on the sands, and in the sea, where waves and winds beat on every side, when all those old friends, but new enemies lie in ambush, the corrupters of judgement, seducers of will, Traitors of virtue, flatterers of vice, Pioneers of Courage, murderers of Comfort, & the extinguishers of all peace in conscience or joy in spirit. Whereas to, a resolved soul, to a Constant Christian, even in the pangs of death he then chief, seemeth to be the lively and lovely image of his maker, having his reason and understanding clear, his will and affections ordinate, his sensual faculties not only restrained from evil, but constrained to be serviceable to do good: and howsoever his corporal state be in an Eclipse, & wanteth as much in sense, as it aboundeth in sorrow, yet his soul is triumphing, & rejoicing in God his Saviour, & ready to sing his Nunc dimittis, as this Princely Saint.  
12 And now death Nature's midwife, began her final act of dissolution, & this fatal day, friday, (a day, which long before, his highness accounted dismal) proved to be the day of blackness and darkness, a day of clouds & gloomishnes, there never was since the time of Christ the like; and Lord, let never be the like any more, after it, even to the years of many generations! Now the infallible signs of unsatisfiable death approaching, the disjointing Convulsions, & trembling agonies came upon him, Nature wasting like a dying Lamp, & in that day, his stars begin to be darkened, the keepers of his house to tremble, the strong men to bow themselves, the grinders to cease, they that look out of the window to be darkened. Now the silver Cord is ready to be loosed, the golden pitcher breaking at the fountain, and the wheel breaking at the Cistern. Now, now HE is going to his long home, and the mourners go about in the street. O miseram faciem orbis! O woeful countenance of a Court, that now appeared! the Echo and reclamation of sighs, sobs, the throws of sorrow, of outcries, and unspeakable Lamentation, sounded not only in that woeful house, and therein in the Chambers of death, but in all the Court, all the city, men passing along by each other, as if they had been come out of the graves. Tears groans, heavy looks, disheveled locks, and lamentations filling all places; speech, & life, seeming to be strangers to men, the saddest time, & sablest world, that ever our Country knew. It exceeds invention to imagine it, and is able to cast a perpetual damp upon the understanding, that shall conceive it: my hand, pen, heart, all my faculties sink under this burden, I lack Agamemnon's vail. The delight of mankind, & expectation of nations is expiring, where, how, whence is Comfort, to be had? I shall never forget ever to pity those poor souls, with wring hands & breaking hearts, whose shrieks, and outcries are able to pierce Adamant: Are sins more prevailing, than prayers? Where is the power and violence of prayer? which opened, and shut, and sealed up heaven, brought down fire, and stayed the sun in the firmament. No hope, no help, all miracles ceased? No balm in Gilead, nothing in the strength and extracts of nature, no Elixir in Art to recover, to repair this irrecoverable consumption? It was providence, that disposed it, and doth silence question. But was the charge so strict, as that the great Tyrant Death would smite, neither small, nor great, but Israel's Prince, the joshua, josiah, majesties first borne, Religion's second? Must the Rose be blemished, before it was fully bloomed? or the fig three blasted, before it was time to bring forth fruit? O cruelty of that savage monster Death! O Death, thou child of sin, and father of confusion! hast thou not already triumphed enough, in funeral solemnities? thy applause in the cries of widows, and orphans, by the disorder and desolation of thy universal dominion; that as many ages, as have been since the world was created, so many conquests, hast thou obtained, and yet thy all devouring throat, the grave unsatisfied? But again I see the finger of providence imposing silence, forbidding question. Yet my ears tingle with the doleful tune of that woeful time. The bell now calleth him to the triumphant Church; by day Death durst not approach, by night he undertakes this deed of darkness. The redoubled sound of that solemn, but sorrowful knell struck all hearts, with a chilling, kill fear; now, hope was without help; the air was troubled with the scriching outcries, and all knees bowed, all faces plentifully bedewed, the world in an ecstasy, as if some especial part of nature were dissolving. Now were the last prayers of the family, who without intercession were all that day assisted by many honourable, and infinite lamentably sobbing souls; whereof the Chapel, vestry, entry, and whole Court were full, all joining with strong cries, weeping eyes, & bleeding hearts did commend his blessed soul, to be bathed in the precious blood of his Saviour. And so not long after quietly, patiently, blessedly he expired, and yielded his spirit into the hands of his immortal maker. Even then, when that inauspicious aspect of the planets did portend some ominous disaster, when only Saturn and jupiter appeared above, and Sol, Mars, Mercury, Venus, and Luna lay hid below, not daring to be witnesses of that heavy and horrid effect of that horrible conjunction.  
Learn hence all ye fir trees, that Cedars may fall, and Princes the Gods of the earth may die. They are men, helpless men, mortal men, corruptible men, in the frames of their bodies, and in the cogitations of their minds. Happy therefore is he, that hath the God of jacob for his refuge! Happy is he, whose hope is in the Lord his God And blessed be our God, who in the unconceavable wisdom of his divine will, hath freed blessed Prince HENRY from the fetters of the flesh! Who when he had showed him the world, to loathe the world, enfranchised him from this earthly prison and dungeon, and possessed him now with greater liberty. Where being exalted in greatest glory, he is now in his presence, where there is fullness of joy, and at his right hand pleasure for evermore. Where there is an immortal, immarcessible crown, wherewith already he is adorned, in that kingdom of continuance, where sorrow shall never be felt, sickness never be feared; where joy cannot be touched with sadness, nor health tainted with sickness; where there is all good, without any evil, and all trouble, all punishment, and all fear is done away.  
And finally, blessed be that God, who hath out of his fountain of goodness once again opened the windows of the morning's mercy and restored a new light to those sorrowful souls, who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death; and hath restored the voice of joy, and gladness unto our most gracious K. JAMES, and the family of St JAMES, by the settling of that house and the happy shining of our day star CHARLEMAINE, the apparent heir of his blessed Brother's virtues and titles, the Parallel of former, and absolute pattern of future Princes, whose stem and stock long may it flourish under the branches of those Royal Cedars, his renowned Parents; that so with much happiness, his Highness may bring forth his fruit in due season, to all good men's good, and Gods great glory. Amen.