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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03810	The arte of Christian saylinge. Or a comfortable treatis written on these words of the prophet Dauid in the 55. Psal. 22. 23. verses	Hull, John, 1569 or 70-1627.	1602 (1602)	STC 13929; ESTC S116570	57,762	152

beasts of the feild are mine If I be hungry I will not tell thee For the world is mine and all that there in is And thus much the word God importeth vnto vs. Euripides For if he be God indeede he neither wants nor stands in neede of any other but our God is almightie Iob. 5.17 He made heauen and earth and all that is therein And this is the law of reason that omnis qui aliquid facit eorum quae facit habeat potestatem that euery man who makes of effects any thing should haue power and dominion ouer the workes of his owne hands Cassiodorus in Psal 94. But what should I spende my time in prouing of Gods sufficiency seeing he is not onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yea and likewise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sufficiēt for himselfe but also for others yea and sufficient for all be they neuer so many Zenephon For of him be all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nothing can bee without God Arist de Mundo who As Aristotle in his booke ae Mundo saith that he is as the gouernour in the ship the wagoner in the waggon the Chanter in the Quire the law in the Cittie the Generall in the army the same and much more is God in the world Now the ship cannot long indure without the Pilote nor the Citie without the law nor the army without the Captaine nor the world without God For God is vnto the world as the Sunne unto the Moone quo recedente deficit lumen Lunae A quinas in Collos But if the Sun pull backe his light from the Mooneshe must likewise loose her light and if God withdraw his hād from vpholding the world the world must needes decay And therefore cast vpō him for he only hath being of him selfe and is sufficient for himselfe thee And thus much for the first ground The second is the promise of Gods prouidence noted in these words He shall nourish thee wherefore he may be called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because God by his prouidence doeth as it were forerunne and prouide nourishment for all things Greg. Nicen de prouid And good reason For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 must bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he that made all things must prouide for all things otherwise there would fall out some lacke or want either in the maker or in the prouider For if one should make the world and another keepe and conserue it the one would be weary of working misdowbting the care of the prouider and the other carelesse in keeping fearing the goodnesse of the worker wherefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the generation conseruation gouerment of all things are not amisse alledged by the Fathers to proceede and come from one the selfe same power The first nothing his creating facultie the second is conseruing and the third his ruling an guiding power And this is acknowledged by the word of God and practised by the creatures For the eyes of all thinges looke vpō thee saith the Psalmist speaking of the Lord Psal 145.15 16. and thou giuest them their meat in due season thou openest thy hands and fillest all thinges liuing of thy good pleasure Psal 104.4 This the rauening Lion confesseth by his practise For the Lions roaring after their pray do seeke their meat at God And naturall Philosophy relating the nature of the creatures doth warrāt as much vnto vs. For they ripping vp the nature of the crow do finde in her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a certaine vnnaturall affection towards her young ones who beholding the tallowy couller of her birdes when they are young falleth into a loathing and misliking of them Wherefore for certaine dayes she leaueth and forsaketh them whome God taking into his custody in meane time sustaines releiues by worms that breed in the doung and filth of their nest vntill such time as the old ones returne vnto them againe Iob. 39.3 For he prepareth meate for the Rauen when his birdes cry vnto him wandring for lacke of meate This is further shewed by Gods miraculouse preseruation of the Kings Fisher a sea birde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Basil de● precat Who maketh her nest vpon the water of the sea and that in the middest of winter euen then when the windes are most strong and the water most boysterous Yet by Gods prouidence the windes wax quiet the waters calme so long as the Halciō sits vpon her eggs and produceth her young ones yea for so long as the young ones haue neede of their damnes nourishment and are not fitt to prouide for themselues And these dayes the saylers call the Halcionian dayes Thus God sheweth himselfe a Father vnto his creatures being as the psalmist speaketh like vnto a father that hath compassion vpon his children And good reason that the Lord should be thus vnto vs if we trust in him For do we not see the plants giue life nourishment vnto the spigges and twigges that arise and issue of them The beastes cherrish and nowrish their young and man bringeth vp his Children that be borne of his loynes Plato And doe wee thinke that God can bee without naturall affection that is the Creator and maker of all fatherly loue in others yea and is the cause of all the good in nature and he himselfe be without goodnesse vnto his creature yes verily cogita de Deo quicquid melius potest de te quicquid deterius de illo amplius credere debes quam cogitare possis Bernardus Meditat. 5. Thinke the best that thou cāst of God and the worst thou canst of thy selfe notwithstanding thou mayst beleeue much more touching his goodnes then thou canst possibly thinke our image in For he is bonum sine quo nihil est bonum Aug. solil 1. he is goodnesse it selfe without whome nothing is good yea indeede none is good but one and that is God himselfe And therefore cast thy burden vpon him for he is thy sheaphard that will keepe thee so that thou shall not want and thy shepheard that will seeke thee so that thou canst not be lost Psal He is like vnto a eagle that defēds her young ones against the heate of the sunne and the rigour of the cold Luke 15. Like vnto an hen that keepes her young ones against the fury of the vulture Deut. 32. and may be wel compared to the winges of the Cherubin Math. 23. which are alwaise spread abroad to receiue thee at thy comming O therefore praise the name of the Lord for he is good the earth is full of his goodnes Psal 106. Thus doth saints giue thanks vnto God Psal 106 for his goodnesse Pindarus But alas and not onely but also olde fauour and frendship is now a sleepe for men at these dayes are too

secret yet a secret stab will take away thy life bee they hidden yet hidden poyson will rob thee of thy selfe be they smale de guttis minitis implentur flumina yet small drops makes great flouds and drown much ground and therefore stoppe it out betimes Aug. Thirdly he must pumpe to ease the ship of water and man repent to ease his soule of sin Esa 38. Hezechias plague sore must haue a plaister of figges to draw the poyson from his heart Luke 3.9 and thy pestilent sin a plaister of Gods word to keepe the infections from thy soule Tim. 1.4 The dropsie body requires a sweate to purge out humors and mans dropsie soule the feare of God to driue out sin Naaman must be washt seauen times in Iordan to cleanse his body and we be bathed seauen times in repentance to scoure our soules The surfetting stomacke must haue a vomit to helpe his bodie and man true confession to ease his soule The sickely body must keepe a diet to preserue his health and the penitent man must abstaine from sin to saue his soule vnto which if he add exercise of good workes he shal be happie Heb. 6.18.19 Fourthly in danger the marriner will ly at Anker for his saftie so must man in the sea of this world for his securitie His Ankers must be faith hope and prayer the ground must be the Trinitie then will the Anker hold and the ground neuer faile For we haue Gods promise his othe that by two things vvherein it is vnpossible that God should lie we might haue strong consolation which haue our refuge to hold fast the hope that is set before vs which we haue as an Anker of the soule both sure and stedfast And if God be with vs let windes waues rockes sin Sathan the world fret fume blow all shall not hurt vs. Sixtly and lastly as the tossed seafearing man wearied with waues withered with wind rushed with rockes and greened with gulfes wil make mirth and melodie at his safe arriual in the earthly hauē so much more the christian sayler whose ship is him selfe Heb. 11. whose windes waues gulfes rocks are his prosperous sinister troubles temptations trangressions Psal 42. and whose hauen is heauen which he vewes a far of salutes out of the sea sighes after with heauie grones praise for dayly with watred eies will receiue with ioy embrace with hymmes and retaine with euerlasting praise his blessed entrance in the happie heauens Apoc. 22. How willing where the Saints to die Paule to be dissolued and Dauid to be with God This makes the good man dy singing like the swan liue praying with the saints and cry rūning dravve me drawe me with the Church Ocurramus sequamur saith Ambros Curramus non passibus sed afflictionibus saith Barnard let vs run follow flie here is not happinesse let vs hast post saile with hearts with hands with grones sobs and sighes there is felicitie where whē thou arriuest thou shalt haue Father Son and spirit to receiue thee Angels saints and all the heauenly p●…ier to imbrace thee The blessed Trinitie for Christ his promise to reward thee with a crowne kingdome thrōe happie heauenly and eternall where paine is neuer felt groning neuer heard sadnesse neuer seene and euill neuer feared but there shall be youth without age life without death health without sickenes and true felicitie for euer without end the which we pray for we labour for and we saile for The way and method I haue opened in this short treatis for a confirmation of the rich comfort of the poore and consolation vnto all THE ART OF CHRISTIan Sayling Or A comfortable Treatise written on these words of the Prophet Dauid in the 55. Psalme 22 23. Verses Cast thy burden vpon the Lord and hee shall nourish thee He will not suffer the righteous to fall for euer And thou O God shalt bring them downe into the pit of corruption c. PLus mouent exempla quàm verba Gregory Examples doe moue more thē precepts and a good life then a good lesson For Homines facilius ad benefaciendū exemplis quàm verbis inuitantur Origin Men are incited sooner by workes then by words and by liues then by lawes to do wel Wherefore Dauid intēding to preferre a precept first propounds his practise because haec iustitia est vt quod alterum facere velles tute prius ipse incipias This is the law of iustice to practise that wee would haue others performe to begin that our selues wherein we would haue others to go forwards And happy shalt thou be if Dauids hazzard be thy happines his practise thy presidēt and his cure in extremitie thy care in aduersitie to cast vpon the Lord. For being persecuted by Saul hee wisheth wings like a Doue in the 6. verse But hac via non succedente preuayling not this wayes hee betakes him vnto his prayers and cries vnto the Lord in the 17. verse there is his practise and his soule was deliuered in peace in the 19. verse there is thy warrant Now for thy instruction this Psalme is by the Greeks intituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Psalme of Dauid to giue instruction Or ode didascalica Tremeli wherein Dauid or God by Dauid playes the master and thou if thou fearest God must be the scholler Or lastly Maskille Dauid according to the Hebrewes as who should say In this Psalme is contayned Doctrina situ dignissima Sadel in Psal 32. A doctrine worth thy knowledge for thy vnderstanding and wee may adde a practise worthy imitation for thy liuing For when prosperitie on thy right hand shall vpbraid thee with Quis tu es alas thou art grasse and thy glorie as the flower of the field Esai 40.6 then mayest thou cast this burden on the Lord say with Dauid How euer it be yet God is good Psal 73.1 And when aduersity shall demaund Vnde es Gen. 3.9 thou art of the earth and to the earth thou must returne Iob. 17.14 Corruption was thy mother wormes are thy sisters Thy dayes are swifter then the weauers shittle Iob. 7.6 and for thy abiding thou hast not whereon to lay thy head Math. 8.20 Thē cast this burden c. and make it knowne with holy Iob that naked camest thou out of thy mothers wombe and naked shalt thou returne Iob. 1.20 For dant superi cuncta vel auferunt Pindarus The Lord giueth and the Lord taketh away And yet say with Dauid Psal 127 3. The Lord hath done great things yea great things for vs already Though vertue reiect thee with this question Qua semita huc accedes it is a hard matter to clime the tree of vertue especially for thee that art borne in sinne and conceiued in iniquitie Psal 51.5 whose righteousnes is like a filthie clout Esai 64.6 and all the cogitations of thy