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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.
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Wood, John, d. 1625.
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his beloueâ— wiâ—e Rachâ—l in childbed And yet more with the losse of Ioseph his eldest sonne by her And lastly with enduring two yeeres of famine No maruell therefore if he stiled his whole life the dayes of his pilgrimage And his good sonne Ioseph sped little better who was enuied by his brethren threatned to bee killed cast into a pit drawne forth and sold as a slâ—â—e to the Ishmaelites carried by them into Egypt and sold to Putaphar falsely accused by the harlot his Mistresse vniusâ—ly cast into prison whose feet they hâ—ld in â—hâ— sâ—ockes and he was laâ—d in irons And lastly the fauour he did to the Kings Butler which was cast in prison to him though he earnestly entreated to be rememâ—red was quite forgotten This then is the state and condition of Gods dearest children and not to instance in any more particulars we may obserue it to be his dealing commonly with his Church for thus hee deaâ—t with his people the children of Israel when by his mighty power and out-stretched arme hee had made the Egyptians weary of them by those ten seuerall plagues inflicted vpon them by the ministery of Moses insomuch that they forced them to goe away in hast saying we dye all And so deliuered them from that slauery and bondage which they had endured foure hundred and thirty yeeres yet let vs consider to what straights they are brought They had the Red seâ— before them the mountaines on each side and Pharaâ—h with a great Host of Horses and Chariots pâ—rsuing them So that the pâ—ople are in despaire of any escape and therefore say to Moses Hast thou broâ—ght vs to die in the wildernesse because there were no graues in Egypt Wherefore hast thou serued vs thus to carry vs out of Egypt Did we not tell thee this thing in Egypt saying Let vs be in rest that we may serue the Egyptians for it had been betâ—er fâ—r vs to serue the Egyptians then that we should dâ—e in the wildernesse Then and not till then was it time for God to shew himselfe and therefore Moses doth then answere for God Feare ye not stand still and behold the saluation of the Lord which he will shew to you this day for the Egyptians whom ye haue seene this day ye shall neuer see againe The Lord shall fight for you therefore hold you your peace And presently hee diuided the sea so that the Israelites went through the midst of it vpon the dry ground and the waters were a wall vnto them on the riâ—ht hand and on the left but Pharaoh and all his host were dâ—owned in pursuing and following them I haue been the longer in this meditation because it is of most vse for Sea-men that finding it ordinary with God to haue dealt thus with his best Saints they mâ—y neuer faint be the danger neuer so great but wait and expect Gods leasure for deliuery For God as hee knoweth the best time so he is the best obseruer of time and though the ship be couered with waues yet cast not away your confidence Say with holy Iâ—b Though he â—ill me I will trust in him resolue with the 3. children Bâ—hold our God whoÌ„ we serue is able to dâ—liâ—er vs when he please he will I would here end this first point of the danger in respect of the tempest but that by consideration of that which we find in the other Euangelists reporting this history we finde in Saint Marke that there werâ— with him other little ships and yet wee finde not that those ships or any of them were in the like danger for this ship was couered with waues and both Saint Marke and S. Luke say that it was filled with watâ—r and they both vse a word for the tempest which in the Originall signifieth A whirle-wind which is a violent and strong wind descending downe right and turning and winding round about so that when such a wind shall light vpon such a ship at sea it carryeth it instaâ—tly round about and wheeles it vnderneath the water So that this word imports that though the whole sea were troubled and so the other ships not free from danger yet this tempestuous whirle-wind did specially aime at this bottome in which our Sauiour and his Disciples were And whether this tempest was raised by Christ himselfe as he was God or whether Satan whom the Apostle calleth The prince that ruleth in the aire was permitted to raise it as hee was to raise such another tempest whereby hee smote the foure corners of the house wherein Iobs children were eating and drinking and killed them It is certaine that the end for which Christ thus suffered this tempest thus directly to seaze vpon his ship was not onely for the triall of their faith which was yet but weake but also for the confirmation and strengthening thereof by that great miracle which he then wrought To teach all men at sea and land to depend vpon Gods prouidence in their greatest dangers knowing that a sparrow câ—nâ—ot fall â—o the ground nor an haire from their heâ—ds without him and therefore submitting their wils to his will in their most extremities to say with Elâ— It is tâ—e Lord leâ— him do what â—â—emeâ—h him good And thus much for the first point of the danger 2. We come now to the second point But he was aslâ—epâ— When Christ told his Disciples concerning Lazarus Our friend Lazâ—rus sleepeth bâ—t I goe to wâ—â—e hâ—m Thâ—y answere Lord if he sleepe he shall be sâ—fâ— But Christ spake there of his death by the name of sleepe And heere in as great danger of death as flesh and blood can imagine the Disciples plainly seâ— that their mâ—sters sleeping is the greatest cause of their danger for as Marâ—â—a saith of her brother Lord if thou â—aâ—st bâ—en here my broâ—her had not bin dâ—ad so might the Disciples haue said Lord if â—hou hadst not slept wee might haue preuented all this danger Strange it is therefore that ouâ— Sauiour should be so sound asleepe when his Disciples were so watchfull It was not so with him in anoâ—her daâ—ger when indeede he was to die when withdrawing himselfe from the rest and making choyce of his â—hree pillars of the Apostles Peter Iames and Iohn to waâ—â—h with him â—he â—ight before his passion as he could not or would not sleâ—pe himselfe so he could not keepe them awake â—hoâ—gh hee warned and charged them againe and againe though he tâ—lâ— them of the danger of that right that â—he shepheard should bâ— smitten and the shâ—epe scattered yet he found that hâ—wsoeâ—er the spirit was willing yet the flesh was weake The one the spirit was like a forward dog that cannot be holden backe from his game but the flesh was like a curre in his couples that