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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64422	The merchants and mariners preservation and thanksgiving. Or, Thankfulnesse returned, for mercies received Set forth in a sermon of thanksgiving, preached at S. Andrewes Undershaft, Sept. 6. 1649. To the r. worshipfull, the Comittee of Merchants, trading for the eastern India, upon a late returne of seven of their ships together. By Edvvard Terry, minister of the Word, (who was sometime in their service, there) now rector of the Church of Great-Greenford, in the county of Middlesex. Octob. 4. 1649. Imprimatur. John Downame.	Terry, Edward, 1590-1660.	1649 (1649)	Wing T780; ESTC R219187	28,101	40

and exemption from those most sharpe tortures and torments is The consideration of which sometimes made a Mighty a Potent and a rich King to envy the happinesse of a poore unregarded Shepheard because he the poore man enjoyed his health and ease but the King did not Non vivere sed valere vita 't is health that sweetens and makes life life without it life is a burthen rather then a benefit and therefore without all doubt if Death and Sicknesse could be bribed they would be too rich But in this case when after tortures and weakenesse of body health ease comes what joy and gladnesse come with them 'T is well observed of Naaman 2 Kings 5.1 that he was a Captaine of the Host of the King of Syria a great man with his Master the King and an honourable man that he was a mighty man in valour but he was a leper That staine of Leprosie did so sawce the honour and valour and power of this man that the poorest man in Syria would have been loth to have had all his honour and all his power to have had his skin too boote in whose example wee may clearely see that there is no greatnesse that can exempt a man from the molt wearisome conditions While Naaman was a Leaper he must needes contemplate the joy and happinesse of those which were not so And therefore what joy and gladnesse must needes he himselfe partake of when his flesh came againe to him like the flesh of a little Childe and he was cleansed from his leprosie 2 Kings 5.14 When men are bound in setters of iron and holden in the cords of affliction saith Elihu Job 36.8 Then they will come to know and remember and consider themselves As 't is well observed of Manasses that he never knew himselfe till he was bound in chaines 2 Chron. 33.12 But when their chaine it loosed and their fetters taken off their mindes must needes bee changed from sadnesse to cheerefulnesse with their condition Such instances as these might be infinite But to come up particularly to you who are Merchants and Mariners your dangers and deliverances are layd downe at large in this Psalme and consequently your feares and joyes You I say who are Merchants and by being so hold a correspondency by Traffique with all places that are fam'd for Trade the world over You by your Adventures can bring India and Turky and Aegypt nay Europe Asia Affrica America I meane all parts and places the World over that know Commerce in their rich and usefull Commodities home unto us Certainely as your calling is honourable so 't is very profitable and usefull to all Kingdomes and Commonwealths a calling very lawfull while lawfully used The state of the World cannot stand without buying and selling Traffique and Transportation Non omnis fort omnia tellus No Countrey in the World yields in sufficiency all kindes of Commodities and therefore there must be a path from one Kingdome to another as there was from Aegypt to Assyria and from Assyria to Aegypt back againe to make a mutuall supply of their severall wants Mesech the King of Moab was anciently famous for Sheepe and consequently for Wooll 1 K. 3.4 And Hyram King of Tyre had abundance of Timber and workmen 1 K. 5. Ophir was famous for Gold Chittim for Ivory Basham for Oakes Lebanon for Cedars Saba for Frankincense c. They anciently called the Island of Sicily the Barne of Rome and Aegypt by reason of the fatnesse of the River Nilus the Granary of the World They write proudly of Italy and I wonder not at it for there is the chaire of pride filled by the Pope plena ipso and the Throne of Satan They write of Italy that it affords the best Corne and Wine and Oyle in the world and that it is so planted that it lookes throughout like a Garden or Orchard Wee should not doe well to envy either the plenty or pleasantnesse of that Land when wee consider the wickednesse of them that dwell therein for there is certainely a worme in their pleasant Gourd that will when they thinke not of it mar all in an instant For us that are Inhabitants of this Island wee may most truely and thankefully acknowledge in the words of the Psalmist that our lot is fallen unto us in a faire Land I am sure that wee inhabit a Kingdome that is too good for us for us that overpasse the deedes of the wicked the Prophet Ieremy speakes it Jer. 5.28 c. wee may apply it For us that have beene blinded with Light and have beene sicke of being well For us that considering the abundant meanes wee formerly enjoyed to help us to know God till the grosse mists and fogges of Errour so thickned upon us and the wings of Schisme and Heresie so blinded our Light Though blessed bee God wee are not without light still if wee can but see it For us that considering the variety of mercies wee formerly enjoyed till wee sinned them away to provoke us to love God these two particulars seriously considered wee may conclude against our selves that the Sunne shines not upon a more vile wretched ungodly people then wee of this Nation are considered collectively and together though wee may boldly say too that if God have a people in the World he hath a people in this Kingdome and were it not for these wee should be as Sodome be as Gomorrha Oh England once the Glory sometimes the Honour and the envy of other Kingdomes how sad will thy condition be if thou shalt live to become the scorne the shame the contempt of Nations if thou shalt receive by thine owne continued and in bred contentions so many scarres and blemishes that may make thee looke like the man in Lucan totum pro vulnere Corpus who was all wound Yet notwithstanding all our misdeservings Almighty God suffers us still to live in to enjoy this good this very good Land and such a one that as one sometimes spake of Athens that it was {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Greece of Greece So it may be said of England that rightly considered in it selfe it is a Kingdome of Kingdomes and there is not a Canaan to be found in Europe no not in the World if not in this Island wee enjoying heere all the most naturall and necessary Commodities for rayment and nourishment that can be desired A place rich in it selfe and for what we want from other parts God hath made us a way in the Seas and a path in the mighty Waters to bring it in You that are the worthy Merchants who with your hazard abroad supply our wants at home You know those pathes and wayes wee named to be deepe and dangerous by reason of Tempests and other Casualties and though a number of your Mariners are not at all troubled at Tempests because they have seene and felt and out lived so many of them and therefore are many times insensible of their

{non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the faire Havens Acts 27 8. which leade into that City of refuge which saves from the destroyer wherein the Righteous shall for ever sit and sing out of a most comfortable experience that great is the mercy the goodnesse of the L●rd A City whose builder and maker is God Heb. 11.10 to which wee may apply that spoken by the Psalmist Psal. 87.3 of the earthly to that heavenly Jerusalem Glorious things are spoken of thee thou City of God Glorious great things are spoken of it but greater things conceived where our thoughts far exceede our words and both of them come exceedingly short of the thing wee would apprehend and speake of And shall doe so till the time come where the Saints in Heaven shall say enjoying the end of their hope as they did in another case Psal. 48.8 As wee have heard so have wee seene I and abundantly much more in the City of the Lord of Hosts in the City of our God A City a place a rest an happynesse which cannot be found anywhere but there above and wee throw away our lives if wee doe not continually ayme at it Now while wee are in this life wee are but in our way towards that better and in this passage wee may conceive our selves to be like Passengers in a Shippe under sayle enjoying a faire Gale of Winde so that whether they eate or drinke or sleepe or whatsoever they doe beside are still going on to their Port. Beloved there are many of us heere assembled that have been farre wee have one journey more before wee can be at home for Pater Patria our God that made us and the Kingdome for which wee were created if wee were not borne out of due times are both above And further many of us heere in this Congregation may consider that time hath Snowed upon our haires and the end of our journey cannot be farre off and therefore it is very seasonable now after many travells and troubles to thinke of and prepare for our rest to thinke of our anointing to the buriall to thinke of finishing our course in bringing our lives as well to an happy conclusion as to an ende to stand carefully upon our watch that when wee be summoned wee may not be surprised that when God shall please for to call any one of us by his messenger Death wee may have nothing to doe but to dye and thus having a Plaister ready before wee receive the blow wee shall lose nothing by dying but what wee may well spare our sin and corruption And that wee may be the better prepared for that great businesse wee must labour to be like Shippes abroad farre from their home that are well furnished and fitted and richly laden In readinesse to returne unto their Countrey and want nothing but a winde to carry them thither Hence the Holy men of God in all Ages who were able to looke further then earth could never finde so much comfort in any thing beside as in the meditation of Heaven who having seen the promises concerning Christ a far off and being perswaded of them they embraced them Heb. 11.13 the word is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} they kissed them they hug'd them as resting most abundantly satisfied with them And the Ancient Fathers in naming the day of the death of the Faithfull the day of their Birth and the day of their Martyrdome the day of their Nativity did shew how much esteeme they had of the life to come so excellent and glorious above this life that is present be a mans condition heere never so great so seemingly happy that there is no comparison betwixt them In this life there is much delight taken in changing of Places Apparrel Foode Company Recreations and the like in seeing and being seene But in Heaven our Felicity will consist in rest Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord they rest from their labours Rev. 14.13 I say the happinesse of the blessed Saints above shall consist in rest in not longing after any other condition because there can be no change of that what the Saints there enjoy without much losse Heere the thoughts of men are distracted and disquieted with thousands and thousands of actions and cares and feares like a Shippe at Sea tossed up and downe by Windes and Waves Domine cor meum inquietum est c sayd that Ancient Father Oh Lord I am not I cannot be quiet till I come to rest with thee Heere in this life one misery overtakes another as one Wave of the Sea doth another there is no weeding up of these tares no remooving of these annoyances from the life of man for it is our portion as wee be men more as wee be Gods people to suffer in one kinde or other while wee be heere the Gospel propounds nothing so much as the Crosse the Crosse and the Crowne are fastened heere together not to be seperated till death part them man and misery being tearmes convertible Man that is borne of a Woman is of few dayes and full of trouble Job 14.1 but this is the comfort of every godly man that as his miseries are great so his life is short and no good man shall carry his owne Crosse further then Simon the Cyrenian did the Crosse of Christ Mar 15.21 to Golgotha to his Grave For as death beginnes the miseries of the wicked so it puts an end unto all the miseries of the godly I count or I reckon saith the Apostle that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the Glory which shall be revealed Rom. 8.18 as if he had sayd when I have considered the Crosse with all its incombrances when I have considered profit and losse what I may suffer and what I shall be sure to gaine it amounts all to this that the eternall weight of the Crowne doth exceedingly out-weigh the momentary weight of the Crosse so that when the godly have done that heere which God hath appoynted them either to doe or suffer when they shall have accomplished as an hireling their day then shall they lye downe in peace and receive their penny and take their rest after all their labours troubles sorrows sufferings times of refreshing will come from the presence of God and then all teares shall be wiped from their eyes all sadnesse from their spirits And therefore how will the soules of the blessed admire themselves when they shall come to that much desired and longed for Haven we here commend unto you and see themselves disburdened of all their Toyle and Trouble and Feare and Care in a moment when they shall enjoy Peace without trouble Joy without any mixture of griefe Happinesse without measure Felicity without end Contentment without any interuption when they shall enjoy that Good which satisfies all desires and excludes all feares Then Faith shall be no more for wee shall have Sight Fruition And Hope no more for we shall enjoy the things hoped for And Patience shall be no more for there shall be no more paine nor Mercy because there shall be no more Misery the onely Knowledge of God shall fill our understandings the Love of God shal wholly possesse our affections Oh how will the soules of the blessed be then and there transported with joy who after they have gotten safe through the storme shall see themselves in a place where they shall heare the holy Name of God no more blasphemed nor his deare people scorned nor his precious Ordinances any more trampled under foot nor his sacred Truthes any more perverted nor yet slighted by the groundlesse conceivings and perverse mistakes of men who are like froward or teachy children that deserve the rod rather then the spoone or breast because they kick at or kick downe that good nourishment which if they knew how to tast or relish it might make them thrive Oh how will the soules of the blessed be then ravished with comforts with contentment when they shall injoy the society of the blessed Saints and Angels where they shall have new company joyn in new thanksgivings and sing new songs which none can understand but those which sing them when they shall enjoy fulnesse of delight in enjoying God in whose presence is fulnesse of joy and at whose right hand there are pleasures for evermore Psal. 16.11 When I shall behold thy Face in Righteousnesse I shall be satisfied with thy likenesse saith David Psal. 17.15 and no marvell for this a Face that is all eye a Face that doth transforme into its likenesse all that do behold it as a looking-glasse exposed to the Sunne seemes to have the Sunne in it We shall be like him saith Saint John 1 Joh. 3.2 for we shall see him as he is and they that look upon him are lightned Psal. 34.5 they shall not onely see light but be light not see light as we see that brightnesse of the Sunne by our eyes but as if wee were all eye throughout our bodies shall receive light on all sides And this blessednesse which God hath prepared for his people non Minuitur multitudine possessorum sed tanta universis quanta singulis shall not be diminished with the multitude of possessors but is shal be as much to every one as it is to any one every one above enjoying it as every one here below having eyes enjoyes the light of the Sunne And as Jonathan before faint received some strength and had his eyes enlightned so soone as he had tasted of the hony 1 Sam. 14.29 So the faithfull who have been long wearied and toyled with evils here and been ready to faint under the burden of them shall then recover strength and have the sight of what they formerly believed after that they have tasted of the sovereign good the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the living the meditation of that unexpressible happinesse prepared for all that live in the Feare and dye in the Favour of God is like that Tree cut by Moses and cast into the bitter waters which presently made them sweet Exod. 15.25 Oh these are thoughts to live and dye in I might enlarge my selfe much more on this most comfortable and copious subject but much speech is wearinesse to the flesh These are good thoughts to leave you in and therefore in this good meditation I will leave you FINIS