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The sea-mans direction in time of storme Delivered in a sermon upon occasion of a strong stormie wind lately happening. / By Ier. Burroughs.
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Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.
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of thee by fulfilling my word upon thee by this tempest then expect from thee what thou wilt doe to the fulfilling of it It may be some of you have heretofore in your distresse thus promised the Lord and the Lord hath heard your cryes and hath spared you if God hath beene gracious to you doe not now returne to folly The first time as I remember that Pharaoh acknowledged that he had sinned was upon the dreadfulnesse of the Tempest Exo. 9. 27. Though I have sinned the Lord is righteous I and my people are wicked So it may bee you have done but take heed now it be not with you as it was with Pharaoh vers. 34. when he saw the tempest was over hee sinned yet more and hardned his heart you are delivered from the tempest doe not now sinne more doe not now harden your hearts Oh let conscience now pleade with you for the fulfilling your owne word take heede now doe not thrust away conscience when it comes to you to put you upon what you have promised to God in your distresse 1 Tim. 1. 19. the Scripture speakes of some who make shipwracke of faith and put away their conscience when you have escaped one ship-wracke take heed of a worse ship-wrack namely that of faith and of putting away conscience the word that is there translated put away is more then putting it is thrusting away casting off with violence the same word that is translated in Rom. 1. 12. 13. cast off the workes of darknesse when temptations to the worke of darknesse come it is good thrusting them away with violence but take heed you doe not so with your consciences when they come upon you urging on you the performance of what you engaged your selfe to God in the time of danger It may be in time of danger you cast out your goods to save your lives now cast out your lusts to save your soules either your sinnes or your soules must perish know that though you forget your promises yet God lookes after them and vvill call to account what becomes of them they are to be seeds of a godly life now then take heed that when you vowe to and covenant with God you doe not sowe the Wind that phrase the Scripture useth for losing our labour when nothing comes of our endeavours as Hos. 8. 7. but that is not all that no good comes of our promises but certainly if in them you sowe the Wind there will something come of them if not a harvest of a reformed life yet reape you shall you shall reape the Whirl-wind they will be the seedes of most dreadfull miseries to you afterwards That which one Theodericus answered to Sigismund the Emperour when he would know of him what he should doe to be happy may I say to you Consider sayes he what you would wish you had done at such and such times when you had grievous paine of the stone and gout and doe that now so I unto you would you bee happy consider then when you have been in grievous storms and dangerous tempests what would you wish you had done doe that now when company when temptations drawes to evill consider then will this be my joy if ever God brings mee into the like grievous tempests againe would I have done thus at that time at such times then men are convinced of the wayes of God and could wish themselves godly Yea I remember I have read of an expression that Xenophon hath that all men in their sailings desire for their companions to have men rather religious then Atheists because of their often dangers and feares by reason of Tempests now your hearts rise against them but at such a time you could bee glad to bee with them and to bee as they are except you be Atheists your selves O labour now to be such as then you are convinced is the best and most safest to be religious if it be good then it is good now There hath beene much feare struck into your hearts at such times but know there may be much trembling at Gods great workes and yet God not feared As at the giving of the Law the people were terrified vvhen they saw and heard those terrible things at Mount Sinai and yet afterwards God sayes Oh that there were a heart in this people to feare me God does not owne all that skaring of theirs before for any true feare of his Name the Lord therefore grant that that feare which in such times hath possessed your hearts may prove and appeare to bee not so much the feare of dangers as the true feare of the great God appearing to you in such great and dreadfull workes of his that if there were any stirrings in your consciences before now by such a sight of God causing his feare to be upon you those beginnings may be brought forth to a good and blessed issue that though your hearts stucke before and could not be brought off without much adoe to any thing that was good yet that now this vvorke of God may bring them off and now there may be an everlasting divorce between your hearts and those evils which before did cleave so close and fast unto you As we read Psal. 29. That the voyce of the Lord in tempest causeth the Hindes to calve now they are creatures that doe not calve without great difficulty but the feare that is upon them at such times causeth them to bring forth their young you have had many stirrings of heart but yet nothing hath come of them the Lord cause the feare of his great name now to be effectuall that those stirrings may bring forth something for the honour of God and your owne peace 5. Let us take notice of Gods fulfilling his Word by this stormy Wind what word of his was fulfilled amongst us whatsoever hurt hath beene done by it whatsoever judgement hath befalne any upon this it is for the fulfilling some word of the Lord the Lord give you all hearts to fulfill that worke of humiliation and obedience that this worke of the Lord calls for from you there hath not beene knowne in these parts in the memory of man the like effect of a stormy Wind as this hath brought forth We read of that wind 1 King 19. where the Text saith God was not in the Wind wee cannot say so of this for verily God was in this wind and that very remarkably O that hee might bee honoured in it that as in nature strong Winds cleare the ayre from corruption so this may bee so blessed by God to cleanse your conscience from some defilement 6. From the fourth particular the word of his promise When you have prosperous winds looke at them as comming to fulfill a word of mercy Psal. 89. 8 9. Who is a strong Lord like unto thee or to thy faithfulnesse round about thee Thou rulest the raging of the Sea the waters thereof arise thou stillest them The Psalmist acknowledgeth the worke of God in