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A03390	A free-vvill offering, or, a Pillar of praise with a thankfull remembrance for the receit of mercies, in a long voyage, and happy arrivall. First preached in Fen-Church, the 7 of September, 1634. now published by the author, Samuel Hinde.; Free-will offering.	Hinde, Samuel, fl. 1634.	1634 (1634)	STC 13511; ESTC S115210	27,253	104

A Free-VVill Offering OR A Pillar of Praise With a thankfull remembrance for the receit of mercies in a long voyage and happy arrivall First Preached in Fen-Church the 7 of September 1634. now published by the Author SAMVEL HINDE Exod. 17.14 Write this for a memoriall in a Booke and rehearse it in the eares of Ioshua LONDON Printed by THOMAS HARPER 1634. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL Sir WILLIAM COVRTEN Knight The Author dedicates both him selfe and labours SIR IF I were a Iudge instead of a Councellour it should be my charge instead of my advice to charge them that are rich in this world 1. Tim. 6.17 that they trust not in uncertaine riches but in the living God Nor could such a charge concerne any for ought I know more than your selfe on whom the God of blessing hath heap't such affluence and abundance as if both Sea and Land the Christian and the heathen world had conspired to empty themselues into your coffers and ware-houses He said it that will maintaine it To whom much is given Luk. 12.48 of them much shall be required Your engagements to the God of Heaven are neither common nor ordinary but as if singled out for blessings you have received a Benjamins portion above many others of your brethren Gen 43.34 I know the world knows that you hide not these talants in a napkin Lu. 19.20 thousands are bettered by their improvement your imployment The following Manuell or Enchiridion will onely advertise you not as if you wanted better discipline that amongst all other your transactions and transmutations you returne to the Caesar of heaven his tributary due of praise and thankfulnesse from whose liberall hand you have received such ample testifications of favour and beneficence This Pyramis of praise this new erected pillar serues for no other end Statuae Mercurii in competis triviis quae certis indiciis perplexo viateri iter ostendebant A●l. Gel. but like the Statues of Mercury to direct every traveller and voyager or any else that are capable of mercies to the wayes of thankfulnesse and to divert them from the paths of that Satanicall sinne ingratitude What was once planted in your eares is now presented to your eyes favour it with acceptance reade it with diligence follow it with conscience and the God of mercy give unto you what blessings the booke can containe or the Author wish for this life or for a better It was no dishonour to the great Peere and Lord of Syriah 2. King 5.13 Naaman that he listened to the advice of his servants Solvit inops diti Craeso quod debuit Irus Owen Epigr. lib. un ep 62. Rich Croesus disdained not to receive a debt from poore Irus Accept you also of this my Free-will Offering which together with my selfe is justly devoted to your protection and patronage T was conceived in the wombe of the vast Ocean t is my First-borne which I can father on none but your selfe from whose influence next under God I received what I have or can present unto you The injury were too publicke if I should be too tedious Horat. Cum tot sustineas ac tanta negotia solus in publica commoda peccem si longo sermone morer tua tempora c. In briefe then I commit this to you and you to God wishing what happinesse or honour you do or can wish unto your selfe or successefull progenie health to your person blessing to your endeavours successe to your enterprises securitie to your body salvation to your soule So prayes he that doth proffer and promise obedience to your laudable Commands and injunctions SAMUEL HINDE The Author to the Reader REader in the perusall of the following leaves thou shalt have some tryall both of thy patience and judgement My absence from the Presse with some delinquency of the transcriber occasioned divers errours which either thy judgement may rectifie or thy patience dispence with I endeavoured to purge it from some which thou shalt finde amended in the closure of the booke Let thy ayme be directed to the matter not the words 't will bring God most honour thy selfe most benefit Thy faithfull friend and Monitor S. H. A PILLAR OF PRAISE PSAL. 107.23 They that goe downe to the Sea in ships and doe their businesse in great waters PSAL. 107.24 These men see the workes of the Lord and his wonders in the deepe c. ☞ PSAL. 107.30 Then are they glad ☜ Text. because they be at rest and so hee bringeth them to the haven where they would be PSAL. 107.31 Oh that men would therfore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that hee doth for the children of men THe sonne of Iesse and sweet singer of Israel in the generall parts of this Psalme summons up divers sorts of debtors to the King of heauen to discharge their obligations and make their appearance in the Courts of the King of glory there to pay their vowes and his dues of praise and thankfulnesse Neither doth the Prophets summons concerne a few or is the tribute of our heauenly Caesar to bee leuied of the remnants and out-casts of Israel both are as large as the taxation of Augustus Luke 2.5 wherein all the world was taxed None that 's cloath'd with humane flesh can free themselues from these obligations except they can shuffle themselues out of the number of Prince or people trauellers by Land voyagers by Sea be they Sea men or Land men Sicke men or Sound men Free men or Bondslaues Rich or Poore Let their persons be whom they will their qualifications how they will their conditions what they will all are here wished and warned sent for and summoned to praise the Lord for his goodnesse and to declare the wonders that he c. But in these particular verses of this Psalme which I haue singled out from the rest like a Deere from the Heard the Prophet of God and the God of Prophets addresse themselves to such onely as goe downe into the Sea in ships Verse 23. and doe their businesse in great waters Those painefull voyagers as compasse their liuings and your liuings in the fearefull flouds and are daily spectators of his works and wonders in the deepe being brought to the haven where they would be are here excited to testifie their thankfulnesse by the performance of a double duty to praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that hee doth for the children of men This is the Prophets wish and Sea mans obligation O that men would therefore praise the Lord c. Brethren and beloved in the Lord I cannot exclude my selfe from the number of such whose obligations are infinite to the God of heaven for his favourable protection both by sea and land I dare not like those unthankfull Lepers smother the mercy of an omnipotent God and beneficent Saviour either in silence or ingratitude Luk 17.17 Let those other Lepers

Ionah that must bee throwne ouer boord if ever we meane that the tempests of vengeance shall cease or be bettered by calmes of mercy You that love your sinnes as Iudah loved Tamar Ge. 38.15 to enjoy your pleasures by them as Saul loved David to get honour by them Ge. 30.36 as Iacob loued Laban to get wealth and riches by them You must part with all in all or none at all One legge in the stocks will hold fast the whole body one sinne in the soule will hold fast both body and soule In vaine shall you praise God for his goodnesse if you displease him with the continuance and increase of sinne and wickednesse To what purpose will you offer to sing Psalmes of praise and thanksgiuing if the noyse of your sinnes drowne the noyse of your Psalmes as Drummes in the sacrifice of Molech did drowne the cry of the burning and tormented Infants or as the ringing of the Bels doth drowne the noyse of the clocke How dare ye professe a subjection and loyaltie to the King and Crowne of heauen if we nourish sinne in our bosomes and hearts a traytor both to him and us Eccles 5.1 Or offer the sacrifice of praise to please him when we offer the sacrifice of fooles to provoke him This is the high way to enrage him by whose power we are created by whose providence we are preserued to send worse judgements upon us then we have escaped Iud. 16.19 Such as with Sampson will sleepe in sinne as in the lappe of Dalilah let them beware their locks Iudg. 5.26 Such as with Siserah will short in this Iael's tent let them beware their liues If you will boyse sayle in all weathers who can deplore your shipwracke If you will runne from Niniveh to Tarshish Iona. 1.3 who will pitty you though you meet with a worse storme in your teeth than what you seeke to avoid D●str Tr. So did Polydamas that sonne of Antenor to auoid a storme runne under a ruinous rocke that crusht him and killed him So did the wise of Lot escape the vengeance of Sodome Ge. 19.26 yet continuing in her sinne procured a worse and more peculiar to be turned into a pillar of salt And so shall all such as are not seasoned by her example but will wilfully split themselues upon the Rocke of their owne sinnes they are unworthy of my farther reproofe or your farther attention Such as will avoid both the sinne and danger must praise the Lord for his goodnesse And such as will give unto their heavenly Caesar his tributary due of praise must do it Mat. 22.21 by acknowledging him to bee a Lord So said Ieptha to the men of Gilead Iudg. 11.9 If I fight for you against the children of Ammon shall I not be your head As I say to all of you whose faces seeme to congratulate this day whose attentions seeme to entertaine this doctrine If he fight for us against our enemies and deliuer us shall not he be our Lord Yes Le ts first acknowledge him and secondly le ts apply him all the merits of his active and passiue obedience must be laid claime to by a peculiar and particular application so did Thomas who seemed to haue engrossed him to himselfe Ioh. 20.28 My Lord and my God Thirdly by obeying him as a Lord in mercy for feare we finde him to be a Lord in justice Those mine enemies that will not I shall rule over them Lu. 19.27 bring them hither that I may slay them Heb. 10 31. It s a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the liuing Lord. Fourthly le ts praise him as the onely Lord of heaven and earth without a riuall For his glory hee will not giue unto another nor his praise to grauen Images God in the frontispiece of his royall Law provokes perswades his people Israel to haue or serue no other Gods but him because he and no other God but he Exod 20.1.2 had brought them out of the Land of Aegypt out of the house of bondage So let all such as the Lord hath redeemed out of the hands of the enemie praise him alone as their soveraigne Lord He that hath more than one God or one Lord hath neither God nor Lord. Alexander told Darius King of Persia Quin. Cur. offering to him halfe his kingdome that the Heaven had not two Sunnes neither should the Earth have two soveraignes One Alexander was enough for a world Val. Max. one Phoenix enough for an age Duos Alcibiades neque Attica neque Graecia tulit Nor Greece nor Athens brought forth two Alcibiades Sparta brought not forth two Lysanders nor the world two such Lords Let those fishermen that know no better sacrifice unto their nets or Neptune those husbandmen unto their dunghill or to Ceres for their corne others to Bacchus for their wines to Pallas for their oyles to Apollo for their wisedome to Minerva for their peace Let the Turks thank their Mahomet for protection the Persians go to their god Nergal for defence the Hamathensians to Asima for strength the Babylonians to Succobenoth for deliverance Ier. 1● 13 For according to the number of their countries are the number of their gods Let them and all Atheists go to their false and foolish Dieties all Papists to their Saints but let us go unto the Lord our God Oh that men would therefore praise the Lord. Oh that they would either cease to bee men or being men would never cease to praise the Lord. Or yet if our tongues could be weary of the publication of his praises yet let them be employed in the proclamation of his wonders Text. And declare the wonders that he doth for c. We men are put upon the labour and taske of Angels To publish his praises and proclaime his wonders is the office and theame of the Hyerarchy of heaven who are ever singing their divine Carols of praise ●●d rejoycing in the expression of his wonders Had I the tongue of men and Angels you the eares and wings of Cherubins wee could neither well enough nor soone enough extoll his praises or expresse his wonders Of both I may say as the Psalmist said before me Who can expresse the noble acts of the Lord Psal 106.2 or shew forth all his praise Yet since the royall hand of heaven vouchsafe not onely to require but requite our weake performances with acceptance As we have begun with his praises so let us go on a little also to declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men Duhartas 1. day The world 's a booke in Folio written all with Gods great works in letters capitall This world is a booke in Folio wherein are written the workes and wonders of Gods omnipotent hand the acts and monuments of our maker and preserver in his owne proper characters Not as Christ wrote when hee wrote in the dust that spirituall paradox Ioh. 8