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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46978	Deus nobiscum a sermon preached upon a great deliverance at sea : with the narrative of the dangers and deliverances : with the name of the master and those that suffered : together with the name of the ship and owners / by William Johnson, Dr. of Divinity.	Johnson, William, D.D.	1664 (1664)	Wing J859; ESTC R4803	45,379	171

Children as to be and suffer with them we must not understand this secundùm affectum passionis according to any affection or passion which cannot be in the Divine Nature but secundùm effectum according to its effect and operation which is deliverance As a man that doth truly pity his afflicted brother doth not only grieve and suffer with him in his affections but doth ease and deliver him And this is the fruit and excellency of pity and this only is in God I will deliver him God will not leave his Children in endless miseries they may wander many years in the Wildernesse but at length he will bring them to the Land that floweth with Milk and Honey He will not have his Children always dwell in the Vale of Tears but he will bring them to the Mountains of Joy and Gladness He gives them beauty for ashes the oyl of joy for mourning and the garment of gladness for the spirit of heaviness Thus he delivered Joseph from the stocks Jeremy from the prison the common place of his despised Prophets he will bring Jacob banish'd Jacob home again to his Father's house and he shall both enjoy his Father's blessing and inheritance Neither did he return empty but brought his Sheaves with him Wives and Children Men-servants and Maid-servants Sheep and Oxen and in that abundance that he begins to wonder at himself being amazed at his own happiness and astonished at the goodness of God to him as we may guess by that expression For with my staff have I passed over this Jordan and now I am become two Bands But above all is that great example of Jonah who was cast into the Sea and swallowed up by a Whale We are wont to say at Sea when a man is drowned he is not only dead but buried and besides that he was entombed in a new Sepulchre where I believe never man lay so long before and yet behold after three days the Resurrection of Jonah Who would have thought to have seen Jonah again a Preacher of repentance in Nineveh Well cast me into the Sea yea let the Mountains fall upon me put me in any condition I will never despair when I remember Jonah And now this being the first Lord's day after my Anniversary Observation of my great deliverances at Sea give me leave as David says to give thanks unto God in the great Congregation and I shall praise him before much People I have for the testimony of a good Conscience and to preach the Gospel beyond the Seas suffered many adverse things I can say with S. Paul but I speak in all humility of soul only to the glory of God and out of thankfulness to his name for my great and many deliverances I have been in perils of Waters in perils of Robbers in perils by my own Countreymen in perils by Strangers in perils in the City in perils in the Sea in perils amongst false Brethren In weariness and painfulness in watchings often in hunger and thirst in cold and almost nakedness In prison after a strict and close manner in deaths often twice have I suffered shipwrack two nights and two days have I lain upon a Rock in the deep several times all hope of life being taken away Yet blessed be God he hath made me a Preacher of his great mercy and deliverance this day If the Lord himself had not been on our side we may well say If the Lord himself had not been on our side when the waves rose up against us they had swallowed us up quick yea the waters had drowned us and the stream had gone over our head But blessed be his name he hath brought us out of an horrible pit out of the miry clay and established our going So that I may truly say in the words of my text He was with me in my troubles he hath delivered me and I 'le add the other clause he hath honour'd me in making me the meanest of his Servants a Preacher of his Word and a Preacher unto you this day Vse Seeing then we have this assured promise let us wait with patience God's own time for our deliverance as it is said of the Prophet's vision Though it tarry wait for it because it will surely come it will not tarry Yet there is a kinde of peevishness in our nature even in the best of us if God doth not presently ease us of our pain deliver us from those that oppress us and give us all our hearts desire we are weary of our selves and of our lives and will needs dye like that good Prophet Elijah the only relique of piety in his days It is enough now Lord take away my life Thus Rachel could not endure any longer the disgrace of her Barneness Give me Children or else I die And thus Jonah though he lately drank so deep a draught out of the Sea of God's goodness and had seen so many Miracles of God's mercy unto him yet could not with patience endure the affliction of a little Sun-shine but cried out It is better for me to die then to live And thus it is with us in the extremity of any pain or affliction we call for Death and we had rather dye then live but if Death should come for us we should be loth to take him by the cold hand and go with him Like that old man in the Fable who coming from the Wood with a bundle of sticks at his back the Sun beating hot upon him he began to be weary and flung down his burthen and call'd for Death to take him away but when Death appeared to him and asked wherefore he call'd him To help me me on saith he with my burden The old man was then loth to dye It is thus with us in our extream and a verse things we call for Death and had rather dye then live but if God should send Death for us we should say to him as the old man Help us on with our burthen whether it be pain sicknesse poverty nakednesse bonds imprisonment the tortures of the Gout or grindings of the Stone any burthen rather then Death Do not therefore provoke the Lord with intemperate exclamations hopeless language of despair and foolish speeches of bitter passion but possess your souls with patience and wait God's leisure he can and will deliver thee I will be with him in trouble and I will deliver 3. And so I come now to the third thing propounded Promissum recompensationis a promise of reward and recompence I will honour him What could flesh and bloud expect more from Heaven in their troubled condition then the presence of God to assist them and the power of God to deliver them Yet all this had not been enough nor a full satisfaction to our desires had we not had the other part of the promise promissum recompensationis a promise of reward and recompence We think it much to serve God for nought and to suffer for

Hand was ready to give without asking A good old man bestowed on me an excellent pair of Mittens which I brought into England We found much civility every where though the Country is all rocky yet the Peoples hearts are tender God made them è meliore luto out of a better soil then their own Country But to make hast out of my Story as well as out of Norwey We went away from Fredericstat 3 or 4 miles to Ostersound the Haven where our Ships lay having laid into the Ship that was bound for England some small Provision as much as our Stock could pay for yet not so much as our Necessity required for had not God blessed us with a favourable wind we certainly had wanted much But we with all that was left us which was now nothing but our selves entred into the Ship in the evening In the morning before we went out there came a ship from Lyn in Norfolk struck against our harbour which was naturally wall'd about with rocks and so perished immediately This was a sad Omen and it seem'd to me as a Prologue to a new Tragedy We had not been above two or three hours at Sea but there was a sad distraction amongst us in the Ship and the Mariners crying again for Mercy Mercy For we had almost fell foul on a Rock which lay so cunningly in the Water that we did not spy it till we were upon it but by the goodness of God we sail'd close by it and escap'd it the least touch of it had been our ruine Thus God oftentimes doth bring his Children as neer the mouth of danger as may be but he lets them not fall therein that they may both fear and praise his Name About noon we came clear off all the rocks on the Coast of Norwey and were sailing for England with a fair gale of wind But in this Prosperity another sad Accident befell us This third Ship sprang a leak a new one I cannot say but rather repeated an old one and so our Ship began to swim within as well as without and we had no way to relieve our selves for the Leak could not be found but by pumping which we did day and night and so took revenge of the Sea by spitting that Water back again in its Face as fast as it came into our Ship But now again we were in a sad and deplorable condition being in danger to be drown'd from the Spring that rose within us and to suffer an Intestine Shipwrack which like a Civil War is most dangerous We had our life now at our fingers ends and if we had not lifted up our hands to pump as Moses did to pray these Amalekites had prevail'd I mean these merciless Waves had overcome us Good God! in what and how many streights hast thou brought us Our sins are many as the waves of the Sea and so hast thou O Lord made our punishments For now we were as I conceive in a worse condition then ever before for though our Dangers were great or rather greater yet they came upon us so on a sudden that we understood them not That Danger is less afflictive which we less understand and that Misery we apprehend not is none at all or at least none of our own But now we see death before our eyes and are in expectation to perish every moment so that we may say with S. Paul We die daily We were in the condition of him that sees himself bleed to death In our former Dangers we had like to perish suddenly which had been lesse penal to our affections we were now to dye at leisure and to be drown'd with premeditation which is more afflictive to our Thoughts though a less punishment for our Sins Melius est perire semel quàm timere semper the fear of Death is more dreadful then Death it self and it is better once to dye then to be always dying With these fears about us and black apprehensions we sail'd on still with a fair wind and after four or five days and nights sail so it pleased God we came in the view of the English Coast on Norfolk side neer Winterton where we saw the ruines of a Shipwrack and the Countrey people enriching themselves with the losses of other men the worst way of getting in the world This was the Epilogue to our Tragedy yet we had one Scene of sorrow more For when we came neer Yarmouth road on our left hand lay the Shingles on our right the Shore and we could not agree amongst our selves on which side we should go Our two Masters and two Pilots for so many we had in one Ship like four winds blew contrary ways In this contest they made a fearful noise and quarrel their language was as foul as the weather and as high as the wind and brought us in as great danger as our own Master told me as ever I think Monarchy is the best Government in a Ship as well as in the State Many Pilots with their over-wisedomnesse are oftentimes the ruine both of themselves and their Vessel At length we did agree ordered one of our own company a Shotley man who best knew the Coast to sit at Stern But this crazy and ill-built Ship though she was steered one way flew another as if all things had conspired to our ruine We resolv'd to sail by the shore side that in case our Ship should miscarry we might swim to land These were but sad hopes But it pleased God we came safe into Yarmouth road and having cast our Anchor thought our selves secure But our Anchor came home to us again and the wind which was very high had like to have driven us on a Scotch-man They cry'd out and so did we for they could not be more afraid of us then we were of our selves for had we boarded them we certainly had endangered both our Ships But that God that had begun and gone along with us in such visible characters of his extraordinary mercy would not now leave us at the last but did perfect our deliverance For our Anchor held and we rode very secure that night The next morning we hung out a Weaf and there came four Men in a Shallop from Yarmouth and demanded no less then thirty shillings to carry me a single person to shore when our whole Stock was but two Pieces of Eight Though I did long for land yet I could not purchase it at such a rate But at length they were content to take less because they could get no more and took something rather then to turn back with nothing But they had no sooner got me in the Boat but they row'd me up and down to weigh Anchors for there had been a great Storm the night before and many Ships had broke their Cables and were driven away by the Tempest They tryed at several Anchors not without great danger as I conceived but finding themselves not strong enough they at length brought