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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62447	The treasures of the sea A sermon to the mariners upon Deut. XXXIII. xviii, xix. And of Zabulun, he said, Rejoice Zabulun in thy ports, and Issachar in thy tents. They shall call the people unto the mountain, there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treaures hid in the sand.	Thomson, William, d. 1699.	1683 (1683)	Wing T1036A; ESTC R203769	22,323	44

Arts or Arms yet in the Wars of Saul and David 1 Chron. 12. 32. the children of Issachar were assembled for David under the command of two hundred Captains of their own Tribe who were men that had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do To teach us that the wisest men do not always descend from Kings from Priests or from Consuls but sometimes creep from under the humble shades of poor Tents and innocent Cottages to confound the pride of the Great and dissolute to sit in counsel with Princes and to determine the great affairs of War and Peace or to administer relief and justice deliverance and comfort to the oppressed world We might add hereunto that the Countries of Zabulun and Issachar have been the Cradles of many great and deserving Princes as well as the scenes of glorious actions But to omit all other how considerable soever let us cast our eyes upon our Saviour who honour'd Nazareth with his conception Mount Tabor with his Transfiguration Capharnaum and the Sea-Coasts of Galilee with his Doctrine his Miracles his Conversation and vouchsafed from thence also to chuse his Disciples to call the people out of the valley of the shadow of Death unto the Mountain of light and life to offer the Sacrifices not of Bulls or of Goats but those of an humble and contrite spirit which through the merits of that one unspotted Sacrifice which was once offer'd up for us all upon the Cross become Sacrifices of Righteousness holy and acceptable unto the Lord. Wherefore rejoice Zabulun c. 2. They shall call the people c. From this prophetick Benediction of the good Patriarch we may observe 1. That the surest foundation to lay the hopes of a future prosperity is true piety The doctrines of all good men the examples of all Ages both of the good and bad and even the dictates of reason it self astipulate for this doctrine If we look back as far as the Laws of Moses we find that great Conductor of Gods people ever pressing this doctrine as the only means to obtain their promis'd Land and possess it when attain'd Deut. 6. 18. Thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord that it may be well with thee and that thou maiest go in and possess the good Land which the Lord sware unto thy Fathers It is this Song which so often exercises the harp of David Psal 34. 9. O fear the Lord O ye his Saints For there is no want to them that fear him And after all his experience and observation he assures us Psal 37. 25. I have been young and now am old yet never saw I the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging their bread The wisest of men tells us Prov. 10. 27. The fear of the Lord prolongeth life And it is very observable what Epiphanius remarks concerning the former ages of the world namely that there was not one example of a Son who died before his Father till Terah the Father of Abraham taught the people a false Religion to make Images of Clay and worship them and concerning him it was first said Gen. 11. 28. And Haran died before his father Terah in the Land of his Nativity Pointing out to us that it was the Impiety of men which brought all the evils into the world and hasten'd the slow necessities of Death But to what purpose shall we multiply examples St. Paul plainly tells us 1 Tim. 4. 8. Godliness is profitable unto all things having the promise of this life and that which is to come This doctrine he had receiv'd from the fountain of truth as it is now recorded Mat. 6. 33. But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his Righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you In short then it was piety that carried Joseph to all the honours of Egypt that gave victory to David and riches to Sol●m●n that brought the wicked Head of Holofernes into the lap of Judith and threw Esther into the embraces of the mightiest Prince then upon earth But it is not necessary to stand upon the success that has always attended particular devotion It were beyond our Arithmetick to number them All those Kingdoms which have been founded in piety and religious Laws have ever flourisht with a lasting prosperity Upon this basis was laid the Jewish Synagogue which endured to the amazement of the World for so many Generations and if there were any sad Contingences that befell it it is nothing but the due reward of their wickedness and revolting from God And the Christian Church was built upon the Mountain of piety to be the glory of all Ages the honour of Kings the desire of all the World To suck of the abundance of the Seas c. But there are two vices opposite to a well grounded and solid piety and consequently to a firm and well establisht prosperity and those are a too rapacious Avarice and an over-hasty Ambition 1. Avarice Job tells us there are those that build their houses as a Moth Job 27. 18. And how does it build Easie observation shews that this little creature harbour'd in some piece of Cloth gnaws perpetually to cover himself till his greediness has devoured the walls of his house and so he discovers his own nakedness instead of hiding himself Thus does every Covetous man He wracks himself and torments others to raise a Monument of his greatness or security But this goodly building compos'd of Injustice Rapines and Oppressions cemented together with the Sweat and Blood of the poor crumbles into ruin and when this cometh into the judgement of God this foolish Moth who has so gnawn to feed and cover himselfe finds himself naked hungry and extreamly miserable So true is that of the Prophet Hab. 2. 9 10 11. Wo to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house that he may set his Nest on high that he may be delivered from the power of evil Thou hast consulted shame to thine house by cutting off many people and hast sinned against thy Soul For the stone shall cry out of the Wall and the Beam out of the Timber shall answer it So that instead of sucking the Treasures of the Sand their portion is only those of the Snow which God speaks to Job of Job 38. 22. Hast thou entred into the treasures of the Snow And of which one of the Fathers makes a very useful Moral telling us that the Treasures of the Snow are Wordly Riches which covetous men rake together as children do Snow which in their folly they roll into heaps with no little pains and hazards of their health efforming them into Horses Giants Houses fansying strength usefulness and safety in these more feeble works of their feeble hands but the next showre wāshes away all their labours leaving nothing behind but the mother of those white fleeces which foams a while upon the pavement and presently sinks into the bosom of the earth So