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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13777	Saint Pauls ship-vvrack in his voyage to Rome, with the entertainment hee found amongst the barbarous people of Melita Delivered in a sermon at Meechny, alias Newhaven in Sussex, on the 8th of February, 1634. and occasioned by a ship-wrack which happened in the same place the Sunday-night before, being the first of February, to the losse of many mens lives. By Iohn Tillinghast, Rector of Taring Nevill, in Sussex.	Tillinghast, John, 1604-1655.	1637 (1637)	STC 24075; ESTC S103030	34,330	142

Melita an Island situate in the Mediteranean Sea distant from Sicilia sixty miles and from Africa an hundred and ninety There were two Islands called by this name this and another which lyeth in the Adriatick Sea neare to Dalmatia Some ascribe S. Pauls shipwrack to this latter but their opinion Beza in his annotations on this place learnedly confuteth and proveth it to be that Melita within the Straits which at this day is called Malta and is one of the places most renowned in the World for repelling of the Turkes when Solyman the Emperour of them did send against it a most mighty Army it was then defended by them who are called the Knights of Malta being in the yeare 1565. concerning whose valour and successe in resisting that mighty adversary divers have written at large in their bookes of that Argument But now what entertainment our Apostle and the rest of his company found being h●re put ashore my Text with some of the subsequent verses in this Chapter doth plainly shew The words which at this time I have made choyce to speake of doe mention a kindnesse which they received at their first comming out of the Sea being al wet and bewraied with the ●ome of the Sea and stiffe with cold as Calvin describes them and with much adoe crawling to the shoare they received as S. Luke who was one of them confesseth no little kindn●sse which the barbarous people shewed unto them For they kindled a fire c. This courtesie wee have here described 1 By the persons who shewed it The Barbarous people 2 By the thing wherein it was shewen with the Apostles acknowledgement of it They kindled a fire c. which he confesseth to bee no little kindnesse 3 By the cause or reason moving them thereunto which was The present raine and the cold 1 The persons were the inhabitants of the Iland which are here called Barbarous people Of Barbarians we may reade in other places viz. In the Romans the Corinthians and the Colossians in which places the word is taken either 1 For one who is rude and unlearned as Rom. 1.14 or 2 For one who so speaketh as he is not understood as 1 Cor. 14.11 or 3 For one of another Nation different from the Iewes and the Greekes as Col. 3.11 S. Paul in that place before named of the Romans by Greekes understanding men that were more civill which were governed with good and civill lawes by the Barbarians a wilder sort which were more savage and fierce more rude and that in a twofold respect 1 In pronouncing the Greek tongue being ignorant thereof they were esteemed by the Greeks as Barbarous for the Greeks were won● to call Omnes Barbaros non Graecè loquentes all Barbarians that could not speak their tongue The Romans also after the Empire was translated unto them were so wont to esteeme of all those who were ignorant of the Greek and the Latine Tongue Whence the Poet in his exile complaines that because hee could not understand them he was no other than a Barbarian amongst them Barbarus hic ego sum quia non intelligor ulli 2 In regard of their rude behaviour in comparison of the Greeks for the Grecians were the civillest nearest finest and gentilest people that were under the Sun where all Arts were refined whither all men of note travelled for good breeding in all good literature and for understanding of all good discipline for peace and for war From whence the Romans first of all other Nations by reason of their commerce with them and the apt scituation of their Countrey learned their civility and knowledge of Arts and good Lawes unto whom we of this Land by reason of their conquest thereof are beholding for the greatest part of that good breeding which is amongst us But to come to these people here mentioned in my Text they were as Aretius and others think a mixt people consisting of Africans and Italians as it often happeneth in such places whose confines are neere adjoyning the one to the other From them in this place receiving the Apostle and the rest of the company into their houses making them fires because of the cold and raine in Winter courteously lodging them and when they departed being such as had suffered shipwrack and were thereby in want helping them with necessaries we may observe It is not a thing only commendable in these Heathens but also to bee imitated by us Christians to be harboursome to strangers and courteously to succour them in their wants A duty which indeed is much commended in the Scriptures unto all Christians as a sweet fruit of liberality God Almighty from his owne example doth admonish men to the performance hereof when hee saith of himselfe That hee executeth the judgement of the fatherlesse and widow and loveth the stranger in giving him food and raiment hee inferres thereupon this duty belonging unto us Love ye therefore the stranger He appoints it to the Iewes as a part of that fast which he had chosen to deale their bread to the hungry and to bring the poore that are cast out to their houses and when they see the ●aked to cover them and not to hide themselves from their own flesh c. Often by his Apostles doth he presse this duty unto the people Saint Paul numbers it in the Catalogue of those dayes which are required of us and set downe in the 12. of the Romans Bee given to hospitality and writing to the Hebrewes he would have them not forgetfull to entertaine strangers Saint Peter would have his auditors and all others to use hospitality one to another without grudging by which places besides the example of these heathen Melitenses here mentioned who had learned by nature this point of courtesie wee may see the truth of this doctrine viz. That it is our part and duty to bee harboursome unto strangers and freely to succour them in their distresses Reas. 1. Because it is a Law not only written in the book of God but even imprinted in the very nature of man though wee know not the purposes of their hearts and what their intents may be yet wee are to use them courteously for identity of their nature that is because they are Men children of Adam as our selves are It was nature and not Religion that moved the King of Aegypt to give commandement for Abraham that none should hurt him or any of his possessions and here in this place common nature saith Calvin did wring out of these Barbarous Gentiles some affection of mercy in this so great necessity Reas. 2. Christian charity requireth this at our hands doth not the Apostle in that great commendation of Charity say of her that she is kinde and that shee seeketh not her owne And doth not the same Apostle exhort the Philippians not only to regard their owne estate but the