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duty_n	husband_n	perform_v	wife_n	3,838	5	7.4579	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15681	The true honor of navigation and navigators: or, holy meditations for sea-men Written vpon our sauiour Christ his voyage by sea, Matth. 8. 23. &c. Whereunto are added certaine formes of prayers for sea trauellers, suited to the former meditations, vpon the seuerall occasions that fall at sea. By Iohn Wood, Doctor in Diuinitie.	Wood, John, d. 1625.	1618 (1618)	STC 25952; ESTC S101875	102,315	138

was yet in their mouthes when the wrath of God came vpon them and slew the strongest of them and smote downe the chosen in Israel So God gaue them a King at their request but in his wrath And the very diuels sometimes haue their request granted as vers 32. of this Chapter 2. It is not a signe of reprobation to haue our sute denied for the sonnes of Zebede are so serued and Paul himselfe was not heard at the first but was faine to pray three times God doth not grant presently to make vs to depend vpon him the more For the delaying of desires doth make men the more earnest and things easily granted are lightly esteemed but hee neuer denies any thing that stands with his glory and his Churches good And thus much of the occasion of their carnestnesse Now for the prayer it selfe it is very short but three words and I consider in it three things first the title they giue him Master or Lord. Secondly their request Saue vs. Thirdly the reason We per●sh In the first I obserue their humility in calling him Lord and Master In the second I obserue their weake faith yet calling to be saued In the third their faint hope and almost forlorne Wee perish 1 And first for the title or name wherby they call him The three Euangelists which all report this miracle doe all differ therein For the word here vsed by our Euangelist signifies Lord acknowledging his rule and authority ouer them Saint Marke vseth a word which signifieth Master or Teacher signifying that they had left their former trades of life to become his Disciples and depend on him as their master Saint Luke vseth a third word which signifies one that was set ouer and had taken care and ch●rge of others a terme giuen to shepheards in regard of their sheepe and to Commanders both in peace and warre In the comparing of which words we may conceiue that there was a kind of confused noyse among the Disciples striuing as it were by their outcries who should wake him first and who should giue him the best title whereby they might not only put him in minde of the dutie that belonged to him toward them as he was their Lord and Teacher and Master but also to shew that they in this misery depended vpon his only help and assistance to deliuer them And here seeing that our Sauiour Christ approuing of these titles saith vnto them in another place Ye call me Master and Lord and ye say well for so I am I might take iust occasion to speake of names and titles and shew that as God himselfe in the first giuing of names to the day and the night the heauens the earth and ●he seas And as Adam afterward in giuing particular names to all the creatures by Gods commission and appointment did make their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is did giue them proper names according to their seuerall proprieties of nature So it behoueth euery one in what place calling soeuer he be plaeed to consider what name doth properly belong to his place whether it be of rule and gouernment or of subiection and obedience and to be stirred vp by those names to performe those duties that belong to their seuerall callings whether in the Magistracie or in the Ministery whether as a husband as a father as a master and on the other side whether as a subiect a scholer a wife a childe a seruant That seeing seuerall duties doe belong vnto each of these places and they fitly expressed in the names giuen to euery one they may learne to make their names and dispositions answerable and sutable that the argument giuen by the Apostle preferring Christ aboue the Angels to wit That he was made so much more excellent then the Angels in as much as hee hath obtained a more excellent name then they might teach all men to studie to excell others in goodnesse as they are aduanced to higher places and receiue more honourable names but the especiall thing that I obserue in these titles is the humility of the Disciples acknowledging themselues to bee his vassals his scholers and seruants that being now in extreame misery do relie only on his mercy and goodnesse for their deliuerance that they may seeme to say with the Prophet Behold as the eyes of seruants looke vnto the hand of their Masters and as the eyes of a maiden vnto the hand of her mistrisse so our eyes waite vpon the Lord our God vntill he haue mercy vpon vs. Now for the vertue of humility as pride it was not onely the first sin both in the Angels and in man but was and is the mother and root of all sin and the bane and poyson of all vertue So humility it was the first lesson taught to Adam after his fall Dust thou art and to dust thou shalt returne And it was the principall lesson that our Sauiour taught his Disciples both by precept Learne of me that I am meeke and humble of heart and by his owne example Behold I haue giue● you an example And by demonstration setting a little child in the middest of them and telling them Except ye be conuerted and become as little children ye cannot enter into the kingdome of heauen But as this vertue is necessarie for all Christians at all times so is it most necessary in prayer of all other things as may appeare in the prayers of the Pharisie and Publican where the pride of the Pharisie ouerthrew al the good deeds that he boasted of and the humble confession of the Publican made him to goe away more iustified And indeede in the duty of prayer whether we consider 1. God and his excellencie his maiesty his omnipotency and other attributes 2. Our owne corruption our weaknessa our wickednesse euen of the best men in their best actions that euen our righteousnesse is as a filthie and polluted cloth That our best workes are fitly compared to starres which haue a little light but not of themselues but from the Sunne and that light may be discerned in the night and darke but when the Sunne ariseth doth not appeare So our workes if we compare them with the workes of the wicked the workes of darknesse they shew somewhat but compared with the Sonne of righteousnesse from whom wee receiue all the light we haue they vanish and are nothing I say if we either consider God to whom we pray or our selues wee cannot but in all humility acknowledge our selues to be but dust and ashes to bee nothing nor nothing worth to be base wretched miserable contemptible as the Heathen haue confessed not to bee worthie to looke vp to heauen nor to tread vpon the earth nor to call vpon his name considering our consciences doe accuse vs and he is greater then our conscience