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A04602	Our sauiours iourney to the Gadarens: or the loue of Christ vnto man. Written by I. Iones Bachelour in Diuinity, and parson of S. Nicholas Acons, London	Jones, John, 1574 or 5-1636.	1615 (1615)	STC 14720; ESTC S102837	54,929	145

him vpon a giddy humour but a discreete deliberation to go vnto them and because he did go therefore here it is said it came to passe Factum est saies the Latine Text it was done so it came to passe Now it came to passe on a certaine day The second thing followes the meanes he went into a Ship with his Disciples Now it came to passe on a certaine day that hee entred into a Ship with his Disciples 1. Mac. 4.9 It is the speech of Iudas Maeccabaeus 1. Mac. 4. that when he was to encourage his Army against Gorgias his souldiers he wils them not to feare their multitude nor to be afraid of their assault mementate sayes hee qualiter facti sunt salui patres nostri Remember sayes he how our fathers were saued in the red Sea when Pharoah pursued them with an Army if euer we should be mindefull of any thing then this particular we should not forget Heere wee haue an example in this same Story of our fore-fathers the Apostles how they and we in them were saued from the danger of a tempest After that our Euangelist had shewed what miracles our Sauiour had acted on the the Land he sets downe now as great a miracle as any of the rest that hee did vpon the Sea that so both earth and Sea might witnesse with him the power and truth of the doctrine that hee Preached to the people Now it came to passe on a certaine day that he went into a Ship with his Disciples He went into a Ship Why what need now had he more of a Ship then at any time else we read he had Was not hee the Lord and God of the water as well as of the Land and could hee not command the one as well as the other Was not this hee that for his peoples sake dried vp the red sea and made them to go through as vpon dry land Exod. 14 Ex. 14.22 Is not this the same that when it pleased him walked vpon the water as vpon firme ground Mat. 14.29 and made his Disciple Peter tread there also Mat. 14. Why then but for the passage ouer of a little Lake would he haue a Ship for to ferry him ouer could hee go vpon the Sea when it was boysterous and rough and must he be passed ouer a Lake when it is calme and quiet what meanes this passage of his that he went into a Ship Yes Beloued he could haue done it as well without a Ship as within the Ship had it pleased him but hee saw it more conuenient for him for to do it otherwise Hee could haue either dryed the Lake with his word as hee did the red Sea or haue walked vpon it at pleasure as at other times he did but heere hee would neither of these hee would choose rather to go as a passenger then as a Lord and Commander of what was his owne To dry the Sea with his word or walke vpon it at his pleasure were arguments and tokens of his Diuinity but heere he would be knowne to be a naturall man he came into the world to take vpon him our infirmities and to cure vs by those who long before were wounded vnto death bee was our Physition and we all his Patients now a Physition that cannot skill of his Patients infirmities shall hardly be able to cure those diseases and how shall he be better skilled in our wants then by feeling of them himselfe hee would feele our wants in this as well as beare our infirmities in other matters the Prophet Esay tels vs what he hath done for vs in other matters in the 53 of his Prophecy where he sayes Esay 53.4 Surely he hath borne of our griefes and carryed our sorrowes he was wounded for our transgressions and by his stripes were we healed So heere hee would know our wantes in being passenger in a Fishers Ketch Had our Sauiour remained God alone as he was at the first what comfort on benefite had that bene vnto 〈◊〉 and or if he had taken humane flesh vpon him and not taken our infirmities withall he could not haue beene seene so well in mans miseries as he was but therefore he tooke them that he might be well skilled in them and being skilled in them hee might compassionate them and compassionating of them he might throughly cure heale them all In this one iourney then of our Sauiours he did such things as might truely shew he was truely man and withall he might demonstrate himselfe to bee the Son of the euerliuing God He went into a ship slept that by both he might instruct vs of the want of necessaries that bee in our nature hee rebuked the wind and appeased the Sea that so he might shew vs the power of his Diuinity He went into a Ship but not into the warspite no man of war to do mischiefe withall for though himselfe were come as himselfe professes Luk. 12.49 in Luke 12. I am come to send fire vpon the earth and what is my desire but that it were already kindled yet he would not as our Pirates now adaies do fetch his fire from hel to blow men quick vp into heauen that he hath left for those diuelish helhounds without their greater repentance that as they haue serued others so they thēselues at the last shold be serued blown vp with fire here and perpetually afterwards be burnt in euerlasting fire But he went into a poore Fishers ship a ship of trade and labour that so all things might answere in proportion both his birth life and death all should bee proportionable one vnto the other His birth it was poore and needy a Village for the place an Inne for his house a Stable for his chamber a cratch for his bed what poore beggar amongst men more miserably borne Ierusalē in Scripture is proclaimed to be the Citty of the great King what King greater thē this King of ours who hath both on his vesture on his thigh a name writtē Rex regum Dominus dominantium King of Kings and Lord of Lords yet this great Lord will choose rather to honor with his birth little Bethlem the least amongst the thousands of Iudah then famous Ierusalem the Metropolis of the world litle Bethlē I say shal be honored by his birth whē famous Ierusalem shall dishonor her self by his death passiō In this small village of Bethlem he neither commands Princely Pallaces nor great mans house but contents himselfe to bee borne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Greg. Naz. speakes in a base and a common Inne a place made for the receipt of the meanest company and in that Inne hee takes vp a Stable for his Nursery and a Cratch for his chaire of Estate a poore Carpenter and his wife for his priuy Counsellours an Oxe and an Asse for his common Courtiers thus the mighty God whose Seate is in heauen and the earth is his Footestoole must bee contented with

the vilest place that vaine man can finde out for him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saies Na● Thus he that makes all other men rich himselfe must be borne like a beggar in some out roome and he that is full of all spirituall blessings must be as one who were voyde of all His life is proportionable vnto his birth hee is driuen into banishment so soone as he is borne and afterwards aboue the course of nature he is forced to fast forty daies and forty nights heb is scoffed at by his kindred reuiled by the Gouernours cursed by the Doctors called Coniurer by the Commons betrayed by his seruants scorned by the Courtiers mocked by the Souldiers rayled at by the Malefactors his whole life was nothing else but a map of miseries wandring vp and down he goes not hauing where to repose his wearied limbes Math. 8. The Foxes haue holes Mat. 8.20 the Birdes haue nests but the Son of man hath not whereon to rest his head The wildernesse is faine to be his Couch and a few poore Fishermen his guard to attend vpon him his prouision is fiue barley loaues and two small fishes and what are they amongst so many Ferried ouer here he is in a poore fishermans boate the vilest and most contemptible of all other Trades But his comming it was in humility and therefore hee contents himself with the basest things he Whose the sea is Psal 95.5 and whose hands prepared the dry lands Psal 95. Hee I say is mad passenger in a Ketch in a poore Fisher-boate ferried ouer to the other side He went into a ship but he went not alone hee was accompanied with his Disciples He went into a ship saies my Text with his Disciples hee went with his Disciples that so he might proue their faith vpon the sea as well as vpon the solide and dry land euery way hee would try them that so hee might harden them against the time of affliction Almighty God though he knew Abraham throughly yet he would try him in the weightiest matter to see whether hee would remaine constant vnto the end Gen. 22.2 as you may reade at large in the twenty two Chapter of Genesis Go offer vp thy sonne Isaac vpon one of the Mountaines that I shall tell thee of who holding of Gods promise vnto him certaine and sure that in his seede all the Nations of the earth should be blessed would rather trust in what hee hoped for then in what hee saw before his eyes before his eyes hee saw nothing but certaine death and yet aboue hope hee hoped for nothing but euerlasting life Non haesitabat saies Saint Augustine quod sibi reddi poterat immolatus qui dari poterat non speratus hee no more doubted that his sonne should be restored vnto him after he was sacrificed then hee doubted hee should haue him before he had him So our Sauiour here hee would thorowly try his Apostles in their constancy in the nearest matters not in the death of their children and sons but in the death of their owne selues he exposes all their liues at once to a manifest danger hee carries them to sea hee goes into a ship and his Disciples with him Wherein they shew themselues true friends indeed and faithfull seruants vnto their Maister who will not onely accompany him in his labours but euen in imminent and manifest dangers wil not forsake him so that our Sauiour might well giue that testimony of them Luk. 22.28 that he does in the 22. of Luke vos estis yee are they which haue continued with me in my temptations And to digresse a little from them and turne the dyall vnto our selues wee all know that Christ our Lord is much sooner found in affliction tribulation then he is in mirth iollity Christ he is the Lilly but as it is said of the Lilly in the Canticles Hee is growing amongst the thornes Cant. 2.2 Mat. 27.29 nay he is crowned with a crown of thornes Math. 27. sooner found in the house of mourning then in the courts of ioy and gladnesse Moses in the 3. Exod. 3.2 of Exod. found him in the bramble-bush 1. King 19.4 when all the Egyptians missed him in their court Elias in 1. King enioyed him vnder the Iuniper tree a tree full of prickes when Ahab could not intreate him in his seeled pallaces But yet the world is in a contrary veine quite from this they will follow Christ in prosperity but in aduersity they will giue him leaue to bee alone vpon the land he shall haue followers enough why hee hath whole multitudes attending on him Ecce totus mundus sayes S. Iohn Ioh. 12.19 Behold the whole world runs after him but vpon the sea his traine hath left him onely his Apostles they keepe him company He went into a ship with his Disciples Whilst God rewardes men with his gifts for the seruice they haue done him so long he shall haue followers enough but if once their profession beginne to draw blood then Demas will reuolt make shipwracke of all that before hee hath professed there are but a few that can indure this Baptismus sanguinis to dye their colours in graine that so they may be knowne to be his Disciples These kind of men I cannot more fitly resemble then vnto the vsurers of these our dayes who will willingly lend their money vnto our merchants but vpon this condition that howsoeuer the world go with the poore merchant-aduenturer the vsurer still will bee sure to be a gainer by him so these they will follow Christ in his glory where they may reape their priuate advantage but by any meanes they will not endure to heare of him in his crosse and passion otherwise farre otherwise was it with his Disciples here both in prosperity or aduersity they will be sure to be partakers with him if their Lord will to 〈◊〉 then they will alongst with him He went into a shippe with his Disciples I might heere enter into a large discourse of our humane basenesse and our degenerate nature how ready all of vs are to deny our Lord and Maister but I list not shew that in words which every one of vs do daily act in our doings we follow Christ vnto the wedding we acknowledge him our Maister in the breaking of bread and we honor him highly in the acting of miracles but in perils and in dangers in losses and in death we do detest him In every one of these wee set vp this for our Mott Vos autem non sic farre oh as farre as may bee let the least of all these be from vs let them not once approach the place where we shall dwell For we are like vnto the Israelites in the 15 of Exodus Exod. 15.1 who when they saw their cruell enemies the Egyptians drowned before their faces and they themselues maisters of the field without so much as striking of one stroke for it they burst