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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01449	A booke of angling, or fishing Wherein is shewed, by conference with scriptures, the agreement betweene the fishermen, fishes, fishing of both natures temporall, and spirtuall. By Samuel Gardiner Doctor of Diuinitie.	Gardiner, Samuel, b. 1563 or 4.	1606 (1606)	STC 11572; ESTC S115164	72,270	172

deed thou hast caused the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme 2. Sam. 12.14 the childe that is borne vnto thee shall surely dye The Oliue tree that is planted among the vines because it occupyeth but a little roome hurteth not the vines but the nuttree that cōbreth the ground taketh vp such a wide space doth greatly hinder them The Potentates that take vp all the roome of the land sway al things as they list are dangerous to the vineyarde of the Lord of hoasts by their securitie and hostilitie the trebuler sort that are thrust to the wall that neuer growe high or ouerdreepe others little by all the euill they can doe can damnifie others Otherefore that it would please God to sweepe their house that we might finde his lost groat to turne them that they might be turned and thereby turne such as are vnder their charge vnto the worship of God For as by their fearefull euill examples they holde vp as it were the chinne of iniquitie so by these good examples in their conuersion vnto God pietie would set vp a monarchie among vs. Dauid onely by the line of his good life did drawe Saul vnto him holding vp such a lumpe of vprightnesse vnto him as did enlighten and inflame him 1. Sam. 24. and 26.15 The Baptist beeing a man of such absolute carriage as no man could approoue hee had heapes of followers who swarmed like Bees about him admired him applauded him as the Messias Luk. 3.7.12 15. 23.43 The theef that was crucified with our Sauiour Christ seeing such strange loue in the Lorde as praying for his persecuters at the very nicke and last cast was conuerted by it Paul by his learning and life together by his wordes and workes wrought a great worke among the Gentiles He did not fight as one that beateth the ayre but hee looked to his carriage and so humbled his body 1. Cor. 9.21.22.27 that thee might not bee a reprobate himselfe whilest hee brought saluation vnto others It is the point Peter much standeth vpon and laboureth to perswade that such as are lights might so lighten the world 1. Pet 2.3 that it seeing the same may glorifie God in the day of visitation 3. There is further this marke of difference betweene this two-folde fishing that the fishes of the one side are taken to dye but such as are taken by our Ministeriall fishing are taken that they might liue they are translated from death to life for euer Their resurrection from the pitte of their perdition maketh them partakers of the second resurrection to eternall saluation Common proofe teacheth the one and spirituall proofe the other You hath hee quicked Ephes 2.1 that were dead in trespasses and sinnes saith the Apostle Answerable hereunto is this his other assertion Col. 2.13 And yee which were dead in sinnes and in the vncircumcision of the flesh hath hee quickned together with him And this estate and condition of the faithfull is plainely declared by Christ when hee saith Ioh. 5. ●5 The houre shall come and now it is when the dead shal heare the voyce of the Sonne of God Wee were all of vs without Christ dead in our sinnes and were buried in the bedde of darknesse of all errors and superstitions into which by the subtile illusions of Sathan wee haue beene ledde and held in the captiuitie and bondes of them But Christ who hath destroyed the kingdome of darkenesse hath brought vs backe to life and the light of faith As he stayed the widdowes son when the Porters had him on their shoulders vpon the beare Luke 7.15 and restored him to his mother So when wee were giuen vp to the second death The great mercie of Christ in sauing repentant sinners and the deuils officers were busie about vs to carrie vs away with them Christ with his sauing Worde came among vs seazed vppon vs tooke vs out of their hands and restored vs to our heauenly Father Christ was the day-man and mediator betweene God and man and spake comfortably to vs as vnto Hezechias 2. king 20 5. Gen. 2.15 3.23.24 Iob. 30.31 Gen. 3.15 1. Cor. 15.45 c. Rom. 5.14 1 5. c. Rom. 1.3 Thou shalt not dye but liue Adams state was happie in his earthly Paradise but the case was quite altered with his sinne And wee may take vp Iobs wordes concerning him His harpe was turned into mourning and his organs into the voyce of them that weepe But wee are safe enough againe by his seede the second Adam by whome wee are saued the omnipotent worde of God Hebr. 9.14.28 1. Pet. 3.18 Iohn 19.34 taking our nature vpon him and vndergoing the wrath of his Father and death the wages of sinne due vnto vs. Whose side beeing opened with a speare there entered liuing creatures into him all such as are to bee saued both cleane and vncleane as of all sortes into the Arke of Noah Gen. 7.1 2 3. c. that were preserued from danger of drowning Wherefore my soule sleepe securely within him as in a Caue and nestle thy selfe in him as Doues in the clifts of Rockes and the Lord giue thee vnderstanding in all things 2. Tim. 2.7 FINIS

inspiration of the good spirite Iustification free-grace inheritance among them that are iustified by faith eternall life and all the blessings of heauen accompanying it XI The Port to which we driue this Ship 1. Cor. 15.20.26.51 c. Of death The Port to which wee driue this Ship is death For such as by death passe from this life land at deaths staires where the bodie abideth the time of the restitution of all things that with their coheires they may enter into the land of promise Happie they are that die in the Lord Reuel 14.13 for they rest from their labours and their works follow them they enioy that which their faith hath so long fished for Wherefore wee say with Cyprian Serm 4. De mortalitate Non sunt fratres lugendt accersione dominica de soeuito liberati cum sciamus non eos amitti sed praemitti nec accipiendas hic atras vestes quando illi ibi indumeta alba iam sumpserint which is to say We are not so much to wayle for our brethren whome God by his messenger Death hath sent for seeing that they are not lost but gone before vs. Againe he saith thus verie sweetly Quis non peregre constitutus properet in patriam regredi Quis non ad suos nauigare festinans ventum prosperum cupide optaret vt velociter charos liceret amplecti Who being a trauailer in forraine parts doth not hast to his owne home who would not willingly sayle to his friends and desire a lustie gale of wind to speed him The time of the generall meeting of fishers and Seafaring men where that he might the sooner see the faces of his deerest kinred XII The time of our generall meeeing of vs fellow-fishers and Sea-faring men is the Iudgement day of which day S. Iohn speaketh thus I saw the dead both great and small stand before God Of the last iudgment and life eternall Reuel 20.12 Reuel 21.3.24.10.11.12.13.14 The fishermens meeting place where Casting out of netts angles out of this sh p. Gen. 6.3.18 and 7.1.20 and 1 Pet. 3.20 Luke 17.27 Math. 24.38 Gen. 6.14.15 c. The church is a steadie angling boat out of which there is no safetie Psa 125.1 Our pri●e care XIII Our meeting place is our heauenly Ierusalem a Citie whose builder and maker is God of which read the whole 21. Chapter of S. Iohns Reuelation which hath much of this matter Thus in this Ship which is the Church of the euerliuing God we haue verie fit standing for the casting out of our nets angles and for our spirituall fishing without which there is no good to be done For as none were saued that were not in Noahs Arke so out of the Church there is no saluation As that was so pitched within and without as no water could sue thorough any seame thereof so the state of the Church is such as no detriment can bee imported vnto it For when tyrants haue shewed the extent of their malice the Church abideth firme as mount Sion not to be remooued Let our prime care therfore be to be in this Ship mindfull of that which Saint Austine truely saith Non habet Deum patrem qui non habet ecclesiam matrem He hath not God to be his Father who hath not the Church to be his mother These haue beene my meditations on this Boat when I haue been in mine angling-Boat THE SECOND CHAPTER Of the waters that are for this fishing THe riuers of waters ouer which we are to cast our nets and to lay our Angles Mar. 16.15 The waters for this fishing are the world Math. 13.47.48 A comparison betweene the world and the Sea are the wide world The Sea into which the drag-net of the Gospell was cast in that parable cleerely signifieth the world The world hath all the conditions of the Sea therefore it may well goe hande in hande with it Augustine matcheth it with the Sea thus Hoc sanctum mare est Aug. Tom. 2. in Psa 39. habet amaritudinem noxam habet fluctus tribulationum tempestates tentationum Habet homines velut pisces de suo malo gaudentes tanquam se inuicem deuorantes This world is a sea which hath a hurtfull bitternes which hath waues of tribulation tempests of tentations It hath men like fishes floating in it reioycing in that which is hurtful vnto them in their baite which is their bane and deuouring vp one another The world is a Sea swelling with pride blewish with enuie vaine glorie is the winde which maketh it to rock reele vpon the waters foaming with anger very deepe and profound in couetousnes no plummet beeinge able to sound the bottome of it castinge out all that commeth in the waye thorough excessiue miscarriage hauing a mercilesse maw to swallowe vp all that it can get with vnsatiable oppression verie dangerous to saile in by reason of the pernicious rockes thereof of desperation presumption couered with those waters loftie thorough the reciprocall waues of their passiōs ebbing flowing in the inconstancy of it terrible salt thorough sin finally Mare amarum very brinish are the waters of it and not to bee brooked Iob. 40.20 The great Leuiathan and all sort of fishes in the Sea So in the world men of all natures and affections c. As in the Sea are all sorts of fishes and there is the great Leuiathan that hath his pastime in the waters so there be in this world men of all natures and affections we can name no creature of inclination neuer so cruell filthie abhominable but we will finde a Copes-mate for him of like qualitie amonge the crowd and companie of men Therefore heere commeth in an old prouerbe in place The diligence that ought to be in preachers of the word c. There is no fishing to the Sea For as the Fisher-man delighteth there to fish most where most store of fish are so should the spirituall Fisher-man of men desire to bee there more where his auditors are more The Apostles when the dispensation of preaching the Gospell was committed vnto them tooke a large circuit and wide perambulation through the world and their commission serued them thereunto Math. 28.19 being after this fourme Goe into all the world and preach the Gospell vnto all creatures No Angler or Fisher-man will be alwaies plodding in one place Fishers but will follow the fish whither soeuer they goe Hee often findeth in a blinde vaine and spot very gainfull and delightfull doings and therefore he searcheth and ransacketh euerie place It is meete the Minister should doe the like and so he must if he will be a workeman of such thinges such a workeman as the Apostle describeth 2 Tim. 2.15 and the Lord expecteth a workeman that needeth not bee ashamed Christ not onely fished for the Crocodile in the water but for the Menowe in like manner and therefore as he went thorough euerie Math. 9.35