men and losse of shippes if not overmatcht so many squadrons and fleets so many feinds and furies armed to destruction One halfe houre is the losse of many a Christians life and libertie If they dye their bodies want what yours enjoy the charitable honour of a grave Propertius Cuius honoratis ossa vehuntur aquis Yet that 's the least of sorrows Rev. 20.13 for the Sea shall giue up her dead as well as the Land The fish in the Sea as the wormes in the Land surrender all at the generall audit if they live they live to libertie and need the helpe of your prayers or to slavery and thraldome and need the assistance of your purses to redeeme them from their worse then Aegyptian thraldome and servitude under Pharaoh Neco King of Aegypt Exod. 5.9 Brethren its one thing to speak of Hanibal at Rome and another to meet him in the field its one thing to speake of their miseries in England another thing to be lyable to them or behold them abroad they are but shadows of compassion that are wrung from men that behold the miseries of slavery with other mens eyes in comparison of what would be if you beheld them with your own and saw either what they had which they would willingly want or what they wanted which they would willingly enjoy Suave mari magno c. Lucre. saith the Poet It s an excellent object to stand upon some Tower and behold a battell in the Sea betweene two ships or a shoare betweene two Armies But farre from any thoughts of pleasure or content is it for such as graple with their adversaries now upon such disadvantages as usually happen to such as go downe into the deep Sea-fights now are not as they were betweene the Romans and Thracians where they did end their quarrels with Darts and javelins 1. Sam. 17.40 or as betweene David and Goliah with slings and pibble stones But with the roaring and rending Cannon that except our ships and sides were vengeance proofe of force there must be effusion of bloud losse of ships of men their lives their limbes their liberties There Christian is forc't to fight against Christian Isa 19.2 as Aegyptian once did against Aegyptian He that is a bondslave against him that is a freeman and those of our owne nation and houshold are forced to bee our worst enemies Mat. 10.36 In these bitter and sad conflicts eyther with ships or Gallyes How many poore and miserable captives are there that cry out unto their Country men as Lyncus the Prisoner of Hercules did upon Andromada seeing him in another ship O Andromada Hâ—st Tro. save thy friend Lyncus else I shall loose my liberty and thou thy friend But alas 't is worke enough for us to save our selves or if wee could ouer-master our enemies yet our hands are manacled as were the Israelites that they might not fight against the Moabites nor Ammonites nor Edomites Deut. 2.5 There 's them that haue payd too deare at home for damage done to their adversaries abroad All euils of the Sea said one is lesse than shipwracke Eccles 6.1 but this euill of slauery say I is worse than that and this euill haue I also seene under the Sunne and to this one more that Princes walke on foot Eccles 10.7 and vassals ride the subiects and seruants of honourable and Christian Princes walke on foot when such vassals are mounted upon the pampered and ietting Steeds of honour and ambition and triumph in number and insolency This also would teach a man to preferre Minerva before Mars and a certaine peace before a doubtfull victory Hist Tro. No indifferent man but would choose to live with Demo Gorgon in the Caves of Arcadie and live the life of the stricktest Anchorite rather than to expose himselfe to these dangers or if necessity of employment doe call him abroad he will learne the second clause of the Sea mans Letanie From Battell Murther and from sudden death or lingering slavery Good Lord deliver us Certainely there is not ordinary probability of escape for ships of indifferent force or burthen except they bee delivered by his hand of power if they fight of Providence if they meet not with their enemies for they are mighty we are weake they are light and nimble when we are dull and slow we are men of peace when they are men of warre They are many wee but few how can they choose but winne and we but lose the victory Deut. 32.30 unlesse that God did encourage us and discourage them that one might put a thousand and ten thousand to flight Yet this is but the second stem of danger our enemies at sea the third followes which is worse than both the other The third danger Enemies ashoare after our arrivall that is our enemies on the land after our arrivall There is not more danger of our corporall enemies at sea than of spirituall ashore Fryers of all orders disorders Monks Priests Iesuites Inquisitors these sease upon many a reformed Protestant as the ravenous Vulture doth upon the helplesse Chicken that 's scattered from the wings of the Hennes protection as the Wolfe upon the Lambe or as the greedy and eager Hound upon the helplesse and breathlesse Hare Oh that God had as faithfull servants as the Divell hath Clyents who like their Lord master goe seeking whom they may deuoure 1 Pet. 5.8 Or that they were as sure Gods friends as they are his enemies Their care and diligence to gaine a Proselyte is far greater than others to auoyd it Mat. 23.15 for how many men trauellers by land voyagers by Sea after all other escapes by their bad Pilotage come to make shipwracke both of faith and of a good conscience 1 Tim. 1 9. Coelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt Horat. Such as desire to enioy the benefit of forraigne Countries change not their minde but their ayre was once used as an ancient Adage But now too many change their religion with their climate and their God with both yeelding to the subtile insinuations and serpentine perswasions of those crafty Politicians Wolves in sheepes cloathing Mat. 7.5 who send many men home to their native Country laden with the vices fashions corruptions and opinions of those Countries they have lived in of those persons they have conuersed with of those arguments they haue discoursed of who having lost all shadowes of sanctity returne to their owne home like the weather-beaten Barke of Athens with never a Planke of the same wood they were first made of All principles of Religion grounds of faith being quite obliterate and defac't they stampt in a new mould having not so much as the reliques of a reformed Christian or halfe lettered monuments of their former profession but like the Vane upon the Mast or Weather-cocke on the steeple are turned about with the winde of every
of Samaria should rise up in judgement against mee who said amongst themselves 2 King 7.9 This is a day of good tidings wee doe not well to hold our peace If we tarry till the morning light some mischiefe will befall us now therefore come that wee may goe and tell the Kings houshold It were a piece of impardonable sacriledge to monopolize or ingrosse the divine Elixar of my Masters and my Makers mercies and miracles workes and wonders that I have had experience of in forraigne and farre distant Climats Counties Kingdomes Ilands Provinces Nations People Languages Since then that God the Father requires no more of me than God the Sonne did of the dispossessed Demoniacke Mark 5.19 Goe and tell what great things the Lord hath done for thee I were unworthy of my tongue if I should not speake to you of your eares if you should not heare what shall be delivered May the God of heaven therefore open my lips Mark 1.17.34 and my mouth shall shew forth his praise say Ephphata to your eares and they shall be opened for the wonders of the King of glory to enter in In these words that I have read and you have heard there is an exact mixture and accurate composure of Dangers Mercies and Duties these three are woven and platted in the Text and are the three Tabernacles of my meditation here I build one for God another for you a third for my selfe and such else as it doth concerne Here is dangers of such as goe downe into the deepe Mercies of him that made the Sea and all that therein is Duties for such as have received these mercies and escapt these dangers and are brought to the haven where they would be Heaven earth and waters rowle and tumble up the billowes of the Text the woofe and warpe whereof is spun both of course and fine threed Exra 8.16 Exod. 36.1 1 Cor 3.16 It would require the skill of Iarib and Elnathan men of understanding the hand and loome of some Aholiab and Bezaleel to make it fit worke for the Tabernacle of the Lord for the Temple of God which Temple yee are that while you heare of these dangers ye may be brought to feare and awfulnesse of these mercies yee may be drawne to practise thankfulnesse of these duties ye may be woed to service and obedience It wants not what skill I could bestow upon it according to my talant and ability and my time and present opportunity of which I may say as Philip of the five loaves and two fishes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Alas what are these amongst so many Alas what are these my meditations these water-works not able to expresse the shadows of that divine Majestie they do adore and to which they are dedicated Yet they should be seasonable they have crossed many brinish billows and waves of salt water and to you they should be acceptable For as amongst you I preached my Vale and long farewel so now by divine providence am I brought againe once more upon this holy mount The Communion day to salute you with my primum salve first salutation what you can conceive not to be seasonable in regard of your time and meeting You may freely correct it t' will shew part of your judgement which I conceive to be sutable in respect of my time and arrivall you may favourably accept it as part of my love Incline therefore your eares to the tenor of the following Embassie the arrant is Gods the task is mine the use is yours Let your pious acceptance and patient attention be as Midwives to assist me in the delivery of these three dangers mercies duties that struggle in the wombe of my text like the quarrelling twinnes that descended from the loynes of Isaac from the bowels of Rebeckah Gen. 25.22 The rough and hairie Esau comes first to view I le first speake of the dangers Ioh. 2.9 reserving the other as the Bridegroom did his best wine untill the last They that go downe into the sea expose themselves unto a danger that like the mace of Neptune is three-forked Danger threefold All voyagers are lyable to a triple danger of the Sea of the enemies in the Sea of the enemies on the shore after their arrivall In any or all these three kindes was there never more danger than now since Noahs Dove was pilot unto Noahs Arke Gen. 8.8 or since Saturne the King of Greete did first finde out the Art of Navigation The way of a ship in the Sea is one of those foure things that prou'd a paradox to puzsle and non-plus the wise and great King Solomon Pro. 30.9 and thousands more since his dissolution He that commits himselfe to the custody of a three incht plank for there 's no more betweene death and us had need to say with David Psalme 108.1 My heart is ready O Lord my heart is ready He had need to be ready for prosperitie ready for adversity ready for libertie ready for slavery ready for the stormes tempests of vengeance ready for the calmes and favourable aire of mercy He must look to be a sharer in the first Phil 4.11 he may hope to be partaker of the last They that go downe into the deepe shall see a Sea whose billows bellow whose surges swell raging with tempests roaring with whirlwinds and be at once terrified with fearefull thunder-claps dazled with terrible lightenings amazed with ayerie fires and apparitions astonished with eruptions and evaporations from the furnaces of heaven with the clouds those bottles of heaven that sometimes emptie themselues in such violence as if they threatned another deluge With those windes that come from the treasuries and hollow concaves of the earth which as is let loose for vengeance like some accursed bandogge are more fierce for former cohibitions These besides many other sad apparences are they lyable to that go downe into the deepe which oftentimes affright them worse then the ghost of Brutus did him in his dismall and nocturnall vision Plutarch Cher. Now such as are humbled with these judgements amazed with these wonders astonished with these terrours affrighted with these apparitions can never disrellish the offers of mercy in such deliverances they cannot but praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare his wonders that he doth for the children of men I lived to see which now I live to declare and memorate all the foure elements in a combustion Psa 118 17 uproare and confusion as if they had beene to have beene reduced to their former chaos Frigida pugnabant calidis Ovid. lib. 1◠Met humentia siccis Mollia cum duris sine pondere habentia pondus Having passed the dangerous and strait gulph of the danger Incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim Ovid. in Loc. Not farre distant from the Trinacrian or Sicilian shore we sayled neare an Island that burnes like mount Sinai Earth yet not consumed
with those blasts of fire which proceed from Mines of brimstone by which they are nourished The terrible and sulphurious flames do pierce the ayre above Fire that in the day time it seemes to be covered with smoke in the night with fire The ayrie and tempestuous windes above Ayre enraged the billows and surges of the Sea below Water that as said the Poet Ovid de Pont. Iam iam tacturos sidera summa putes So said the Prophet so say I sometimes we were lifted up to the heavens and sometimes cast downe againe unto the deepe everie element a messenger of death The fire flaming the earth smoking the ayre storming the water raging Psa 8â— 5 as if all the foundations of the earth had beene out of course The envelloped clouds descended round about us in shouts terrible to each beholder into the water the water ascended into the clouds and as a weaker vessell yeelded to their violence The fire burnt in the bowels of the earth and the earth uncapable of resistance sent forth flashes and flames of fire and brimstone as if Hell had no other chimney but Strumbelo Strumbelo Aetna Vulcans temple mount Soma or Vesuvia puteoli all burning mountaines and the adjacent mountaines to vent her smoke These things for commonnesse and familiarity to some Marriners the oftner they are seene the lesse they are regarded But some fresh-water spectator beholding them in their terrour would think perhaps as little of preaching in a Church of England as ever did Ionah in the streets of Ninive when the sea was his death the fish was his death the winde and waves his death Presentemque intentant omnia mortem Virg in Luc. Yet that God that set Ionah a shore upon the borders and lists of Syriah hath brought us also to the Haven where we would be Oh that men would therefore praise the Lord and declare the wonders that he hath done for us the children of men These and all other dangers to which Seamen are subject have their end and use For as the pennance and mulct of Demosthenes did serue to adorne the altars of Iupiter so the miseries and troubles of such adventurers do work together for the best to them that love God Ro. 8.28 and are called of his purpose Here 's some honour to adorne the altars of the God of heaven For as stormes do purge the ayre above so they do or should purifie mens hearts below For now if ever the Marriners will deprecate their Dieties and call upon Ionah to call upon his God Ion. 1.5.6 Now if ever the Disciples will awake their Saviour with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Master save us we perish Mat. 8.26 Now every Turke betakes him to his sacrifice every Christian unto his prayers Even such as allow not or approve not of a Letanie ashore would quickly learne to say and pray From lightening and thunder from stormes and tempests from violence of winde and waves God Lord deliver us The soundest heart will disrelish this bitter Colloquintida and quake to be fed with this unsavoury Hemlocke though but for a few dayes or houres and after the stormes are once blowne over will preferre the case of a Christian to the wealth of an Arab or savage Indian Quid maris extremos Arabas ditantia Indos Horace in loc I and conclude with Meander Satius esse pauperem in terra vivere quam divitem mari se committere It's safer to live a poore man on shore than a rich man at Sea Neither are we more subject to the violence of windes at sometimes then to variety at other Aul. Gâ—l li 2 c. 24. at night we sayle Vento Iapige with Virgils Westerne winde Act. 27.14 ere midnight troubled with Pauls tempestuous Euroclydon which blew and blustered at midnight ere morning Virg. Aen. 1 Validus iactaverit auster in alto turned with a Southerne and after that a Northerne gale t is possible to see them and many more blow all at once according to the Poeticall description where each strives to get the mastery Virg. Vna Eurusque Notusque ruunt Creberque procellis Affricus c. Nor yet more troubled either with violence of winds or variety then a third time with want and scarcity After heaven had seemed to frown and lower she now doth laugh and smile at our former troubles and present helplesnesse Now we have a breathing time and our former sorrowes be becalm'd It proves to many the increase of worse who lye for want of winde in sight of their port but cannot come at it Like Moses in the sight of Canaan but could not come neare it The first makes them a trouble to themselues which is stormes of abundance the last which is the calmes of want do make them a booty and purchase for roving and ranging Pirats 2. Danger of the enemie in the Sea which is but the second part of Danger at first proposed One woe is past Revel 9.12 and now behold another woe is at hand Sicut unda impellitur unda Ov. I two more woes doe follow it as one wave doth another If there were no more woes or danger in the Sea then the opposition of our enemies it were enough to make a voyage miserable No day in the week or scarce houre in the day are we free from encounters or preparation to encounter with those Turks Gods and our aduersaries those venemous Cantharides do swarme in the Mediteranean and Adriaticke Seas Sex quotidie millia lampadum ante Pseudo prophetae Mahometi tamulum c. Petr. Bess Mr. R Knowâ—s in his Turkish History Millions of Christian soules haue rued the terrour of those worse then debauched Saracins worshippers of the false Prophet Mahomet borne in an unluckie houre whose body hangs up in their Sancta Sophia or chiefe Church of the City of Mecha with six thousand lamps alwayes burning before him These his followers and worshippers are and haue beene the ruine of many thousand Christians on Land by warre on Sea by pyracie Neglecta solent incendia sumere vires As fires neglected gather strength and make way for their owne fury So doth their security giue advantage to our ruine and their cruelty They have alreadie so long triumpht in mischiefe that if we credit the annals or opinion of such who record it they have got a greater part of Christendome than is left for to oppose them Or if we beleeve but our owne experience and ordinarie probabilities Hist de destruct ruina Troiae we may expect that ere long like Aegcon the Greekish Pyrat they will set upon the Navy Royall of Iupiter himselfe God stirre up all Christian Princes to unity amongst themselues and to unite their forces against this common enemie herein would lye the safety of their owne Monarchies and securitie of their owne Subjects For now so many shippes so many fights and funerals both of
we not delivered as a prey unto their teeth But by the honourable convoy of his mercy by the hand of his clemency are wee brought to the haven where we would be Oh that men would therefore c. Have you heard and read of Ionah embarked en wombed Ionah 1.17 and entombed in the entrals of that great Leviathan yet blessed with protection Even wee also have had the like menaces of windes and waves stormes and tempests to make us fit morsels for those living mountaines whose entrals and gorges would soone consume us to a gelly Ionah 2.10 But the mercies of the God of Ionah are not yet diminished for he hath brought us to the haven where we would be Oh c. Mat. 8. â—3 24 Lastly have you heard both of sinners and Saviour both in one ship covered with waves tossed with tempests he asleep they awake they fearefull he powerfull they as sufferers he as a commander both of them and what they feared The case was ours we have beene though not in eadem nave in the same ship yet in codem praedicamento Toto sonuerum aethere â—â—mbi Vir. in the same predicament And when we cride in our distresse he heard us when we went to awake him he arose and calm'd the waves stilled the windes stayed the spouts repelled the gusts rebuk't the stormes And by his mercy are we brought to the Haven where wee would be Oh that men would therefore c. He that neither slumbereth nor sleepeth was our aide and helper or if he have seem'd to sleepe t is as he expounds himselfe Cant. 5. Cant. 5.2 I sleepe but mine heart waketh He seemes to use sleepe but his heart waketh and himselfe is vigilant for our protection Once indeed aboue all other times he seem'd to us to sleep out a miserable and fearfull storme as if he had forsaken us as once his Father had forsaken him t is worthy the file and records of eternitie Mat. 27.46 In the mould of Genoa In Genoa the eight of Ianuarie last was such a storme and tempest as caused the Inhabitants to rake up the urnes and bring forth the ashes of the deceased Saint Iohn Baptist as a propitiatory sacrifice to calme the raging Sea I neither beleeve that they are or that they are of some vertue or that they have them if they were yet there all the he Saints and she Saints Angels Lords and Ladies of Heaven were sued unto for mercy and deliverance Mat. 8.27 In this never to bee forgotten misery we cryed unto the Lord our God who seemed to sleepe and be awakened and both the windes and sea they did obey him De profundis clamavi out of the depth did I cry unto the Lord. Abyssus abyssum invocat One depth calls on another a depth of our misery caused for a depth of his mercy he did neglect us but for a while for the greater manifestation of his mercie and increase of our services Oh that men would Psal 99 6. c. Moses Aaron and Samuel Noah Daniel and Iob those spirituall Courtiers and favourites of the King of heaven in their distresses cried unto the Lord and hee heard them and delivered them and his mercies are renewed to us everie morning and his compassions faile not Lam 3.22 Psal 86.1 He will have us know that when sinners bow their hearts he will bow and bend his eares to their prayers and supplications And that he desires not the death of a sinner but rather c. As I live saith God the Father as I dye saith God the Sonne I desire not nor delight not in the death of sinners no he is proner to mercy then to judgement He was longer in destroying one Citie I in threatning to destroy it than in building of the whole world Ionah 3.4 Exod. 20.11 Fortie dayes and Ninive shall be destroyed sixe dayes and the whole world was made the heaven earth the sea and all that therein is Well may he forget to be angry with us Psal 30.5 Psal 136.1 for the stormes of his anger endure but for a moment but he can never forget to be mercifull for the calmes of his mercy endures for ever So much for the two generals viz. the Dangers that provoke us to awfulnesse the Mercies that move us to thankfulnesse 3 General Duties to draw us to obedience the third follows which is duties to prouoke us to obedience And this obedience must reflect backe againe and be seene and shewed in the performance of a double dutie viz. The publication of his praises and proclamation of his wonders Text. Oh that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men This is all the Text will enjoyn or the Prophet looke for or the God of Text and Prophet require after the receit of his mercies to yeeld unto him his tribute of praises T is as much as he doth aske t is as little as we can give t is his due and our duty Of both which a word or two and there cannot much more remaine Hitherto we haue but numbred the turrets and bulwarks of this text as David wisht the spectators of Sion Psal 48.1 Psalme 48. and haue beene stayed in Atrio templi in the porch entrance and body of the Text. Now suffer me to leade you by the hand into the sanctuary of Sanctum sanctorum or holy of holyes He that will not lend an eare deserues not that euery Angell should moue a wing or descend the ladder or looke out of the windows of heaven to assist him either in his wants or wishes Gen. 28.12 The first piece of our obligation consists in the publication of his praises and to do this brings honour to God He that offereth me praise he honoureth me Psal 50.23 The second is the declaration of his wonders and he that doth not this draws a curse and propheticall anathema upon his owne head which waits for such as regard not the worke of the Lord nor the operation of his hands Psal 28.5.6 Oh that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare c. Those that haue beene most deeply interest in humaine miseries and the receit of divine favours are called here to the performance of these holy seruices And they onely because there cannot be a greater argument of Gods praise and our duty then escape from danger and receit of mercy This truth is firmely built upon the pillars of the Text. The conquering Romans in all their honourable and glorious triumphs Hist Rom. suffered none to make any triumph to erect any Prophees or to enter into the Temple of honour where were Crowns Garlands Palms Lawrels Robes Aul. Gel. Rewards Emblemes but they must first passe the Temple of vertue where were Swords Iavelins Targets Lances Helmets and other instruments of warre by which they must purchase their
which I say to you as Moses concerning the building of the Tabernacle Exod. 25.9 Fac secundum hoc exemplar And as our Lord and Sauiour to the questioning Lawyer Go thou and do so likewise Whatsoeuer things haue vertues in others will be no lesse eminent in the imitatours Wherefore then whatsoeuer things are honest Phil 4 8. just good vertuous laudable that follow they will carry away a blessing Shall the Iewes offer their children in sacrifice in imitation of Abraham S. W. R. Hist Or Agessilaus King of Sparta offer sacrifice in imitation of Agamemnon which was throwne off the Altar by the Thâ—ban Lords in Aulis And shall not we be prouoked by better examples to imitation of better actions God requires neither trophies nor triumphs sacrifices nor burnt offerings of us though we receiue as great and greater mercies as our progenitors who so testified their thankfulnesse He askes no more of us but to be thankfull and to praise the Lord for his goodnesse c. Well said the seruants to the Prince and Peere of Syriah 2. King 5.13 to their Master Naaman when they would prouoke him to follow the Prophets order and advise If the Prophet had required some great thing of thee wouldest thou not have done it how much more when he bids thee but wash and be cleane So say I if the Lord of Prophets should require some great things of you would ye not do it How much rather when he bids you to wash your selues from the foule spots of unthankfulnesse and be cleane Should God raise a Subsidie and challenge but what is his owne and require of you that are Lords both of Sea and Land to resigne your Lordships in the one your interest in the other your title to both Of you Land Lords to give up your rents and revenues Of you rich men to give away your wealth of you poore men to give away your almes of you Officers to give away your fees of you Servants to give away your earnings of you Marriners to give away your dear bought wages I know that this would be Dui us Sermo Luk. 18.23 a harsh and unreasonable request But quis requisivit Mic 6.3 who hath required those things at your hands God hath not troubled you with sacrifices nor wearied you with offerings no the God of heaven hath another request unto you which you may not you must not deny him and Saint Paul in Gods name and I in Saint Pauls name Beseech you Brethren by the mercies of God Ro 11.1 that ye present your selves soules and bodies as a holy living and acceptable sacrifice unto God for although the other were an unreasonable yet this is but your reasonable service Rom. 12.1 Caius Cotta that thankefull Roman Plut. vit Ro. when hee would shew himselfe truely gratefull to the Senate hee gave them his soule and his reason was vita mors iura naturae sunt Life and death are the rites of nature We cannot better testifie our prayses and gratulations than by giving our soules unto our Maker whose they are by creation and redemption saying with the Psalmist Psal 41.5 Into thy hands O Lord I commend my spirit for thou hast redeemed mee O Lord thou God of truth Ioseph charged his brethren to bring with them their little Brother Benjamin else they might all have beene left behinde So Christ our elder brother Gen. 42.20 chargeth us to bring with us our little brother Beniamin of thankfulnesse else all other services are of no value Plut. in v. Thes Aegeus the Father of Theseus sent his sonne to graple with the Minotaure and gave him one sute of blacke sailes and another of white to be hoysed onely and worne in case he got the victory which though he had got yet he returnes home with the blacke sailes he went out with at sight of which his father threw himselfe from the Sigean Promontory where he expected his sonnes arrivall In which history is lively moralized the naturall dispositions of too many who like Theseus the sonne of Aethra Aegeus after a happy voyage and prosperous doe returne with the blacke sayles of ingratitude and unthankfulnesse Eph. 4.30 and hereby grieue the spirit of their holy and heauenly Father by which they are sealed unto the day of redemption whereas if they did hoyse the candid and white sayles of gratulation and applause they should rejoyce both Angels and Cherubins that sit upon the scaffold of heauen expecting our victory and happy arriuall Luk. 15.10 Now that we may aright blesse God for his mercyes let us in praising of him offer this sourefold sacrifice First let us offer the sacrifice of charitable almes as occasion is offered to us To doe good and distribute forget not He 13.16 for with such a sacrifice God is well pleased I hereby wee shall make our selues Creditors to God and him a debtor to us Pro. 19.17 For hee that giueth unto the poore lendeth to the Lord he that putteth his money into the banke of heaven shall make plentifull returne in this world Luk. 18.10 an hundred fold and in the world to come life everlasting Secondly offer to God the sacrifice of an humble penitence and contrition Psal 51.17 The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit Psal 51.17 a broken and a contrite heart O Lord thou wilt not thou canst not despise While your hearts are thinking of your sinnes let your eyes be like the Pooles of Heshbon by Bathrabim Cant. 7.4 which were euer full of standing water to wash away those soule spots that sullage of Adams clay that rests within us Thirdly le ts sacrifice our wils and make a perfect and absolute resignation of them to the will of God whether it be paetiendo or faciendo by doing or suffering by a patient sufferance of what he inflicts by an obedient yeeldance to what he commands In this we do no more then the Sonne of God and Saviour of the world who subscribed to the will of his Father Mat. 6.10 Not my will but thy will be done Fourthly and lastly wee must sacrifice our sinnes if ever wee meane to bring any honour to God by yeelding him his praise This sinne offering or offering of sinne is equally necessarie with them that went before Even those that are as neare to us as Isaac was to Abraham must be sacrificed those that are as neare as our right eye or hand must be cut off Mat. 5 29. puld out and offered Gen. 2â— 10 Sinne is an Hagar that must be thrust out of doores else Sarah our conscience shall never be at rest and quiet 1. Sam. 5.4 Sinne is a Dagon whose necke must be broke upon the threshold of repentance 1 King 5.10 Sinne is a Naaman that must be washt in Iordan seven times in the vermilion streames of our Saviours sufferings seventy times seven times Ionâ— 1.15 Sinne is a