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death_n	bear_v	life_n	live_v	4,791	5	5.2156	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03810	The arte of Christian saylinge. Or a comfortable treatis written on these words of the prophet Dauid in the 55. Psal. 22. 23. verses	Hull, John, 1569 or 70-1627.	1602 (1602)	STC 13929; ESTC S116570	57,762	152

and a loaden asse that cannot goe and therfore must needes be hindered Sam. 1. ●7 Purge thē this filth cast away this vaile and disburdē thy shippe The auncient gamesters would wrestle naked Dauid would not fight in Saules harness and hee that vseth masteries abstaineth from all thinges that may hinder him Cor. 1.9.25 Behold Christ came to beare thy burden vnload thy vessell and ease thy shippe He was made the son of man that thou mightst be the child of God he was layed in swadling bands that thou mightst be loosed frō the bonds of sin He was wrapped in ragged clowts that that thou mightst be cloathed with his righteousnesse innocency He was poore that thou mightst he rich A stranger that thou mighst be sure of an heauenly citie Hee payed tribute that thou mighst he free from the trihute of hell Hee was debased that thou mightst be exalted accursed that thou mightst be iustified condemned that thou mightst be saued Died that thou mightst liue and calles for euery one tbat is weary and heauy loaden to come vnto him and he will ease them The third hinderer is vnskilfulnesse in the carde ignorance in ayming and rudenesse in guiding Math. 11.28 for by this meanes he may roaue at random misse the hauen and hinder his iourny Iudg. 16. Blinde Sampson cannot finde the Pillars vnlesse he be guided Acts. 9. nor Saule Damascus vnlesse he be directed but if the blind leade the blind both fall into to the ditch and may be drowned Not vnlike vnto this temporall blindenesse is the spirituall darkenesse of ignorance and infidilitie For the ignorant goe they know not whether they walke in darknesse they are very fooles they are like the blind Sirians they rowe among ther enemies and there voyage is distruction Iohn 12 Seeke then for knowledge Christ is the light Prou. bee skilfull in the carde his word is the lanther Iob. 4. walke not in darkenesse Christ is the way drowne not in error his worde is the truth Iohn 8 To know God is life euerlasting Ignoratiô scripturarum est ignoratio Christ● Iohn 12. to be vnskilfull in the scriptures is to be ignorant of Christ These are Iacobs ladder Dauids key and will leade thee into all truth without these thou art like the Sodomites looking for Lots house the Iewes see king for Christ the Pilot rouing at the hauen but cannot hitte it Iohn 17. For the scriptures are our sword ballāce rule square dore that opens to vs the knowledge of God and conducts vs to euerlasting happinesse Iohn 14. Notwithstanding albeit the scripture be a candle that burneth most brightly and the sun that shineth most clearely yet they are not so vnto the blind the hid the dead but only vnto him whose darknes is inlightned whose eares are vnstopped and whose eies are opened to heare to see to beleeue the worde of truth The Isralites hard the thunder but saw not God the two disciples hard saw Christ but knew not Iesus before their eies were opened Infidility is a stōe that must be remoued a cloud that must be dispersed a death that must be quickened He that is troubled with this disease hath hands without feeling eares without hearing eyes without seeing Aug. O then let vs aske seeke and knocke for faith Iohn 1.5.9 For faith is the inlightning of the mind the victorie ouer the world the gate wherby God enters into our harts it is the star that leads the wisemē to Christ the woman to her groat and the Prodigall child to his father Math. 2. It is the light by which we walk Luke 15. the life by which we liue the sheild be which we are defended the Cinosura be which we sayle without this we shoot besides the butte Cor. 2.5 run beside the goale and row beside the hauen Forthly as Noes Arke receiued al kind of creatures Gennes 7. the ship beareth al sorts of burdens so doth man all manner of miserie Eurip. For what is life but violence griefe the body but a sepulchre the figure but fetters birth but earth and to liue but to die Homer cals man vnhappy Antiphanes death stipendary Nazinanzē a race of vnstabilitie borne to laboure and brought vp to miserie euen pleasure breedes paine welth woe singing sighing so that Menander prefers all creatures before man for happines whose ioy is but sorrow whose mirth is but griefe whose whole life but wretched miserie our cōfort is in God our goodnes Christ our captaine and heauen our happie hauen Fiftly as the ship is in continuall danger of waues windes gulfes or rockes so is mās life of sin sickenes miserie and misfortune both sea and land water and earth all are full of mischefe paine trouble ill harme hurt in such sorts as the poets add these Epithits to the sea and say ling tēpestuous boistrus froward dangerous as they that saile the sea can well recount the dangers of the same Colas 3. Gal. 5. Acts. 27. But tent ines more strang titles giue the scriptures vnto man as inordinate vncleane couitous wrathful angrie malitious cursed proud seditious drunken hating murderous yea what not So that as a ship in daunger of drowning must be helped by vnloading stopping pumping or anchoring so must man in this perilous world When Pauls sbip was in hazard by tempest they lightened the burden eased the vessell and cast out the very tackling And when thy ship is in daunger and loaden with the cares of the world feare of death and pleasure of sin thy remedy is to ease it by faith repentance and good workes which Abraham Dauid Peter and the rest did Secondly the leaking shipe must be mended and thy sinfull soule amended The water will drowne the ship and sin will smite thy soul water must be kept out by stopping and sin by risisting for euery assent the soule giues to Sathan sin the world and the flesh is like a fearefull rift in a crased vessell Sinnes resemble great waues and close rifts some being great and manifest others close and secret The first like mightie waues wil swallow vs vp quickely the second like hidden rifts will sinke vs suddenly Sathan suggested Eue delighted Adam consented and all were drowned Tecum prius ergo voluta haec anime ante tubas galeatum sero duelli paenitet Genes 3. Iuuen. 8. VVhen the stead is stolne it will be to late to shut the doore when the house is burnt to poure on water and vvhen the battle is done to put on harnesse Stop sin in the thought refist it in the entrance it is a serpent bruse it on the head a cocatrise kill it in the egge and a wolfe distroy it in the litter Sin is thy enemie looke vnto thy waies a thiefe looke vnto the doores a Dalila looke vnto thy soule thy senses are thy porters beware they be not beguiled Be thy sins