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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15681	The true honor of navigation and navigators: or, holy meditations for sea-men Written vpon our sauiour Christ his voyage by sea, Matth. 8. 23. &c. Whereunto are added certaine formes of prayers for sea trauellers, suited to the former meditations, vpon the seuerall occasions that fall at sea. By Iohn Wood, Doctor in Diuinitie.	Wood, John, d. 1625.	1618 (1618)	STC 25952; ESTC S101875	102,315	138

and ●he forme or manner the length the breadth the heighth the cabbins the window and the seuerall decks Seeing therefore Nauigation hath so honourable an author of such antiquitie it may not be despised but highly esteemed Sixthly true religion is the best marke of true honour as may appeare in that noble title giuen by the holy Ghost to the faithfull of Berea And wee see that God himselfe hath passed his promise Those that honour me I will honour This then is the sixth part of the honour of Nauigators that they haue the best meanes to bee truly religious and sincere Christians without hypocrisie For howsoeuer it is true that the ordinary meanes to beget faith is the word preached ordinarily which many of these Nauigators doe want yet God be thanked there is care had in those Fleets that are sent into the East Indies for the furnishing of them with honest Ministers to supply that want so farre as conueniently may be And as I am perswaded that Gods blessings haue been the more multiplied vpon the Merchants aduenturers for their Christian and religious care in this point So I hope that the sense and feeling of those blessings from God will cause them not only to continue still but to encrease daily in that holy care But howsoeuer the thing I aime to shew is that the men that are sent to those parts especially the Commanders being men of wit and vnderstanding and hauing such helpes and meanes as I know they haue not onely of the Bible which is the chiefe and principall but of the best bookes that are now written in our owne language to helpe daily to encrease their knowledge as they cannot in perusing the great booke of nature the fabrick of the world by God but breake out into that holy admiration with the kingly Prophet O Lord how manifold are thy workes in wisedome hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches So is the sea great and wide therein are things creeping innumerable both small beasts and great There go the ships yea that great Le●iathan whom thou hast made to play therein All th●se waite vpon thee that thou m●y●st giue them food● in due season And liuing in that element from whence all riuers come and returne into it againe and yet cannot fill it how can they but meditate of him Tha● gaue his decree to the sea that the waters should not passe his commande ment when hee appointed the foundations of the earth That shut vp the sea w●th doores when it issued and came forth as out of the wombe That made the clouds as a couering thereof and darknesse as the swadling bands thereof That stablished his commandement vpon it and set barres and doores And said Hitherto shalt thou come but no further and here shall it stay thy proud waues And if these considerations worke not vpon their hearts God speakes by the Prophet Ieremy Feare ye not mee saith the Lord or will ye not bee ●fraid at my presence which haue placed the sands for the bounds of the sea by the perpe●uall decree that it cannot passe it and though the waues ●hereof rage yet can they not preuaile tho●gh they roare they cannot passe ouer it And yet besides all these meditations the Prophet D●uid telleth vs that They that goe downe to the sea in ships an● o●cupie by the great waters they see the workes of the Lord and his wonders in the deepe For he commandeth and raiseth the stormie wind and it lifteth vp the waues thereof They mount vp to the heauen and d●scend to the deep so that their soule mel●eth for trouble They are tossed too and fro and stagger like a drunken man and all their cunning is gone c. This teacheth vs that Nauigators cannot but see and acknowledge more then other men the omnipotencie the infinitenesse the iustice the goodnesse and mercy of God both in the variety of creatures exceeding them vpon earth and in the variety of administration of all things himselfe remaining vnchangeable and how can these men then in re●ding good bookes wherof they haue plentie but apply them to their hearts and so liue as they should euer bee prepared to die Seuenthly it is a great honour to men to supply the necessities and to bring profit and renoune to the state and Common wealth wherein they liue And this is the seuenth honour due to Nauigators especially amongst vs that are seated in an Iland and separated round about by the ocean sea from the continent or firme land that without the vse of Nauigation should bee depriued from all commerce and trade with other Nations whereas now by the vse thereof our land is not onely as famous as any other to the remotest parts of the world but those merchandizes wherewith wee abound and which wee can well spare are exported for the benefit of other countreyes and those things which we want and without which wee could not conueni●ntly liue are returned as corne in time of dearth wine oyle spices drugs siluer gold precious stones and that which must not be forgotten fish to the reliefe of many poore as we daily see with our eyes But lastly and aboue all the honour of Nauigation and Nauigators appeares in this that Christ our Sauiour liuing vpon the earth though he were borne at Bethlehem in Iurie yet had his whole education at Nazareth a towne of Galile not far from the sea and when hee began to shew himselfe to the world hee for sooke Nazareth and went and dwelt at Capernaum which is neere the sea in the borders of Zabulon and Nepthalim and not onely tooke pleasure to walk by the sea of Galile and from thence to call Apostles while they were casting their nets into the sea to catch fish and promising to make them fishers of me but likewise made choice of a ship somtime as a pulpit out of which he might best instruct and reach the people here as a passenger as a place to rest sleep in and therein to wo●ke that great miracle that followeth in this story The vse whereof vnto all Nauigators is that this honour done vnto that profession then doth not cease now but as he was then bodily and visibly present in this ship so he is as hee is God present in euery ship in what place of the world soeuer it bee and with his children as a speciall protector in their societies assembled in his feare and name according to his promise Wheresoeuer two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the middest of thē or as he promised to his Apostles when hee sent them to preach to all nations Behold I am with you alway to the end of the world To teach Nauigators when they enter into their ships to take Christ along with them and to be sure to keepe him