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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44901	A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable George Earl of Berkley, governour, and the Company of Merchants of England trading in the Levant seas At St. Peter's Church in Broadstreet, Nov. 18. 1683. By John Hughes, A.M. and Fellow of Baliol College in Oxon, and chaplain to his Excellency the Lord Chandois, ambassadour at Constantinople.	Hughes, John, b. 1651?	1683 (1683)	Wing H3313A; ESTC R202531	12,620	31

Tyre in the number of Artificers 'T is this furnishes us with most of our Medicines and first brought us the art of healing 'T is this acquaints us with the present state of the World and with the Histories of past Ages not only such as relate to forreign Kingdomes but to our own also of which we should otherwise have known nothing but what had been imperfectly deliver'd down to us by Oral Tradition For unto this Art we owe that without which no ingenuous Science can be understood or scarce any good Trade manag'd I mean the knowledge of our Alphabet and Spelling and that any of us are able to Write or Read Because the use of Letters being first found out in Phoenicia or Chaldaea it was naturally impossible that the knowledg of them should have been conveyed to us but by the help of Navigation But the top and Crown of its Glory is that it was a necessary instrument of planting Christianity amongst us which ought to be infinitely dearer to us than wealth or learning or any thing besides For it gave Joseph of Arimathea and other Apostlical men the first Preachers of the Gospel here an access to us and without it unless by a Miracle the Knowledge of our Saviour could never have reach'd our Isle So that speaking as Men but for this Art instead of presenting our selves now before the Lord in his Holy Temple that God who made the Heavens and the Earth and us and all things else we might at this time have been worshipping some little Impotent Divinities of our own making which can neither help their Worshippers nor hurt those that prophane them Or it may be with a little more Discretion might have been falling down to the Sun or Moon or some of the Host of Heaven that are the immediate indeed but second and subordinate Causes of a great deal of good to Mankind We had not only continued a rude and needy People but without Shipping we had been without God in the World Thus I have prosecuted this very large Subject I confess with some general hints only because if the Text had oblig'd me to speak to nothing besides yet the straitness of an hour w'ont admit of a full and particular Discourse of that business which is done in great Waters I come therefore to the remaining part of the Text and in the last place to III. Reckon up some of the most remarkable works and wonders of God in the deep And the first I shall mention is That the Sea being higher than the Earth does not overflow it When the Text saith Those that go down to the Sea in Ships it is to be understood of the part only that is next the Shore Eor in other places that 't is higher is evident both from the nature of a Globe which the Sea and Land could not otherwise make and also from ocular Demonstration because at a distance on the Main you first see Masts of a Ship coming towards you before you see the Body of it or the Ship it self which being so much the fairer Object of Sight must necessarily be seen first if the Ocean were a level But now that the Waters being above the Earth and in continual Motion Ebbing or Flowing do not fall down upon it and cover it but contrary to the Nature of a Fluid Body keep themselves in heaps within their proper place is unaccountable to Reason and can only be resolv'd into the Virtue of that Almighty word Gen. 1.9 And God said let the Waters under the Heavens be gathered together unto one place and let the dry Land appear and it was so Next to the miraculous confinement of the Sea within its proper bounds we may place this that 't is Navigable That so loose and yielding a body as Water is should support the load of a Ship and of so many thousand weight in it when it can't bear up a grain of Lead or the least Stone Here the Wisdom and Goodness of God can never be sufficiently admir'd who knowing how necessary Navigation was to the good of Mankind has provided them all the requisites thereto as materials for their Ships and their Tackle the Magnet for their Compass the steddy and parallel direction of the Axis of the Earth for their Cynosura and which is the Foundation of all created Timber with the natural Disposition of floating and to enable the Sea the better to bear it up has infus'd a Salt thickness into it which last is the more observable because it excellently suits with the end of carrying Ships and can serve none other that we know of But then the Sea being thus fitted for Ships and their Burthen A new Scene opens for the Divine Glory to display it self in making this cold and thick Element administer to vital warmth and perspiration And so a fit Receptacle for an innumerable company of living Creatures Which Fertility of the Waters does as much illustrate the Wisdom and Goodness of God as any of his Works on Earth His Goodness in the maintenance of many thousand Families by the Fishing-Trade His Wisdome in the Natures of those Animals Many of them for strength and goodly proportions being inferiour to none on the Land But I shan't be tedious in giving particular Descriptions of these only observe That when Almighty God himself would magnifie his Wisdom and Power before Job he picks out the Leviathan of the Sea for the chief subject of his Triumph And having describ'd his strength and proportions with respect to them leaves us this supereminent Character of him Vpon the Earth there is not his like he is a King over all the Children of Pride But besides the wonderful works of Creation which I think come fairly within the sense of my Text 'T is evident from the following Verses which describe a deliverance from a Storm that the Text does more especially respect the Acts of Divine Providence as employed about Sea-fairing men And here his Goodness is to be admir'd 1. In preserving their Ships at Sea and in Storms and Tempests Except the Lord build the House the Workman laboureth but in vain and except he supports it when built it cannot stand But how many more accidents do hourly threaten the ruin of a Ship at Sea than an house at Land The decays of a House may be repaired and the breaches made up when a leake in a Ship cannot be stopt In a Tempest an house has only the Wind to contend with which is commonly gentler at Land but a Ship must endure the violent Concussions of the Waves too An Earthquake does now and then swallow up an House but how many more Eddies are there to suck in a Ship In a calm 't is as lyable to the Common accidents of Firing and Dissolution by a decay of some of its parts as an House But in a storm how many more Dangers it is subject to and consequently how much more endearing that Providence is which preserves it