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Fishermen fishers of men A sermon preached at Mercers Chapell on Mid-Lent Sunday the 26. of March 1609. By Iohn Ravvlinson Doctour of Diuinitie.
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Rawlinson, John, 1576-1630.
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Animae pro sale to the soule in stead of salt to keepe it from the corruption and tainture of sin 5 As those fishes onely were reputed cleane Qui pinnulas squamas habent which haue finnes scales x Deut. 14. Deut. 14. So are those men only cleane in the sight of God Qui squamas loricam habent patientiae pinnulas hilaritatis saith y Bernard Serm. 1. in die S. Andr. S. Bernard who haue the scales and coat-armour of patience and the finnes of ioy and cheerfulnesse to spring vp to God-ward 6 As there are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fishes that eat vp fishes the greater the lesse * Oppian l. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So there are also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Men that eat vp men an vnchristian kind of Canibals eating vp Gods people as a man would eat bread as it is a Psal 14.8 Psal 14. And it is the complaint of the Prophet b Abac. 1.14 Abacuc c. 1. Facis homines quasipisces maris Thou O God makest men as the fishes of the sea feeding and praying one vpon another 7 As fishes Tunduntur fluctibus non deficiunt saith c Haymo Haymo are soused with the salt and bitter waues and yet sinke not so are thegodly billow-beaten with persecutions and yet faint not For this saith d Hilar. l. 7. de Trinit S. Hilary l. 7. de Trinit is the prerogatiue of Gods Church While it is persecuted it flourisheth while oppressed it increaseth while contemned it prospereth while assaulted it vanquisheth while tried it vnderstandeth nay though almost conquered still it withstandeth 8 And lastly as fishes when they are wounded haue recourse to the Tench the Physitiā of fishes whom if they do but touch they are healed So must wee when wee are wounded with sin repaire to our Sauior Christ the true tench the Physitian of Kings and King of Physitians whom if we doe but touch Tactu fidei with the touch of true faith we shall bee whole as the woman with the bloody issue e Luc. 8.44 Luc. 8. toucht but the hem of his garment onely and she was presently whole as a fish It is therefore well and wittily obserued by the ancient as is noted by f August De ciuit l. 18. c. 23. S. Austin de Ciuit. l. 18. c. 23. and by g Tertull. li. de Baptism Tertullian lib. de Baptism that the initiall letters of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iesus Christ the Son of God our Sauior make vp the Greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth a fish And ye shall finde h Iohn 19.34 Iohn 19. that at his passion hee was opened in the side like a fish And the Authour of the Sermons de Sanctis vnder S. Austins name compares him to Tobits fish Cuius iecore per passionem assato fugatus est Diabolus Whose liuer being broiled at his passiō vpō the fiery coales of his loue did scare and driue away the vnclean spirit In these and the like respects are men very semblable vnto fishes And yet this difference I find between them that wheras whē fishes are taken its death to thē when men are taken its life to them For fishes are taken that they may be deuoured by the iawes of men but men are taken that they may bee deliuered from the iawes of hell 3 Mare saeculum The Sea wherein they fish is the world Mare magnum spaciosum a wide and wilde Sea as Dauid calls it i Psal 104.25 Psal 104. Or as k Apoc. 4.6 S. Iohn termes it Apoc. 4. Mare vitreum A Sea of glasse a Sea for tempestuousnesse and a Sea of glasse for brittlenesse In the time of Noah that preacher of righteousnesse then was it true without a metaphor that all the World was nothing else but a Sea or deluge when the waters had ouerspred the whole surface of the earth l Gen. 7.18 Gen. 7. m Ouid. Met. l. 1. f. 7. Omnia Pontus erant deerant quoque litora Ponto It was then a materiall now a mysticall sea wherein are many conflicts of crosse-windes and waters tide against wind and wind against tide and both against fishers the Preachers of righteousnesse A Sea wherein the Diuell that huge Leuiathan of whom it is said n Iob 41.7 Iob 41. that Squama squamae coniungitur spiraculum non est in eis His scales are so close compacted together that no winde can come between them not onely plaies and takes his pastime o Psal 104.26 Psal 104. but his pastime is to spoile the riuer and to sucke vp Iordan into his mouth p Iob 40.18 Iob 40. And a Sea wherein as q Chrysost Hom. 7. operimperf S. Chrysostome notes Homines non ambulant sed feruntur quia Diabolus cum delectatione compellit eos in mala Men walke not but are carried with the streame while the Diuel carries thē headlong into sin whence it is that many make shipwracke of faith and a good conscience r 1. Tim. 1.19 1. Tim. 1. and then what maruell if they be drowned in perdition and destruction ſ 1. Tim. 6.9 1. Tim. 6. But most of vs beat the waues neuer so little Lord how soone are we sea-sicke Scarse able with the Disciples t Matt. 8.25 Matth. 8. when their ship was endangered to sob out so much as a short disiointed eiaculation Lord saue vs we perish 4 Cymba vocatio The fisher-boat is the profession or calling of the Minister which howsoeuer heere in this world it be like the ship Argos Militans inter fluctus daily and hourely exposed to the sore and bitter tempests of persecution hatred exile death it selfe yet heereafter it shall be like the same ship Inter sydera triumphans as the stars in the firmament shining for euer and euer u Dan. 12.3 Dan. 12. 5 Rete verbum The Net is not any materiall Net like that in * Suidas Suidas which one cast ouer another while they were in single combate together when he had ensnared him in his net slew him Nor such a phantastical imaginary Net as is Purgatory which x Szeg. spec Pont. Rom. Szegedin cals Amplissimum rete ad capiendas animas A most spacious Net to intangle souls Nor such a bloody spiritual Net as y Mich. 7.2 the Prophet Micah speakes of c. 7. All lie in wait for blood euery man hunteth his brother with a net But it is Sagena that sweepe-net which our Sauiour brought downe from heauen euen the glorious Gospel of Iesus Christ catching whole nations at a draught that Net wherin men who are plunged in the darkesome holes of ignorance muddy cares of this world are drag'd and drawen out to the light of truth and loue of supernall things Or as z Ber. Ser. 1. in die S. Andr. S.