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A48948	A sermon preached at Lambeth, April 21, 1645, at the funerall of that learned and polemicall divine, Daniel Featley, Doctor in Divinity, late preacher there with a short relation of his life and death / by William Leo [sic] ...	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing L2817; ESTC R7483	22,538	42

Justice Judgement and other Regall Royall and Princely Prerogatives yet they and we all with all the world shall appeare before the glorious throne of Jesus Christ to give an account of what we have done here in our bodies be it good or evill Why is the world set out by a sea For that it is restlesse as the sea is Why a sea of glasse For that it is brittle like glasse The world is as made of glasse Ubi splendet frangitur where it is more shining resplendent there it soonest cracks and breaks And lastly why resembled to crystall For two respects The first in relation to the men of the world who are gull'd and deceived by it the world seeming unto them to be all crystalline when God knowes and all godly ones finde by experience that it is glassie slippery brittle and no preciousnesse in it at all The second is in relation to God Crystall is transparent we all know how much more is this world and all the things of this world with all the actions transactions words and the very imaginations of the thoughts of all mens hearts are open overt and obvious to the knowledge sight of the great Jehovah Jireth who ordereth them all according to the counsell of his most sacred and secret will I will spend no more precious time in spelling of the Text you now I conceive it understand it as well as my selfe The point of Doctrine that I learne out of this Text in the Result of it is couched in this short breviate and proposition All the passages of this world wherein we live are very dangerous as a Sea ever transitory brittle and slippery as a sea of glasse never satisfactorie albeit it glitter and shine like crystall and ever open overt obvious and transparent to the sight and censure of Almighty God be they couched never so hellishly deep though they be sunk even to the deeps of the devill Accommodate me I desire you with your Christian patience but for the space of one houre and by that time by Gods favour I shall quit this glassie sea and shew you the Port of our happinesse Heaven And give me leave in the Doctrinall part to speak freely to your heads and in the Practique to put it home to your hearts by the evidence of the Word contained in the holy lines of sacred Scripture and in the power of the Spirit according to the modell of that knowledge of God that he hath imparted unto me The first piece of my Doctrinall part is thus That the passages of this world are passing dangerous as a sea proved and expressed in foure resemblances First in respect that this world as the sea is subject to sundry and frequent stormes You all know what storming is It is grown a Military terme Such a City Town Cittadell and Castle was stormed 1. Daniels Vision shews it Daniel spake and said I saw in my vision by night and behold the foure winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea That is to say 1. The South wind of prosperity What is there any storme in that Oh how many and mighty puft up with the pomp of this world doe forget God and have their portion with the wicked who shall be turned into hell and with them all the people that forget God! 2. The storme of adversity caused by the North-wind of affliction deeps and distresses oh how many and mighty hath that wind sunk Saint Augustine was accustomed to say to such as came unto him for advise support and counsell in severall disgusts of conscience Assuredly my friends through hoping and despairing the sonnes and daughters of men doe miserably perish by hoping foolishly and cursedly all their life that all shall be wel with them albeit they walk in the stubbornnesse of their own hearts against all the blessed means and motions of Gods blessed Word and Spirit and despairing like hel-hounds in the end of their dayes 3. There may come a storme out of the East neither good for man nor beast and yet may be an especiall inspiration of some common grace Christ hath pronounced a blessing to the pure in heart for they shall see God O blessed Puritanes They doe see God already in his Works and Word and shall see him hereafter in a beatifical vision But what say you to this of the Wiseman in his Proverbs There is a generation pure in their owne conceit and yet are not purged and purified from their wickednesse 4. Yea the case may so fal out that all the rest of the winds may breathe fairely and yet on a sudden a black cloud and storm may appeare out of the West and overset all In briefe a Disgust may arise out of all the 32. points of the Seamans Compasse and Chard and ruine us in this sea of the world in a trice be we never so conceited of our safety and assurance The second passage is That this sea of the world is very and passing dangerous in respect of the many and manifold rocks shelves syrtes and sands that lye hid and covered in the Sea The Divine shewes you a map of this world points to it saying All that is in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but of the world What all things in this world Yea all Behold I will shew a truth The Astronomers conceit that the heavens are turned upon the two Poles to wit the Artique and Antartique Poles I admire not their conceit this I am sure I know and we all here are experienced in that all the actions affections imaginations of the thoughts of all men and women tend either to profit or pleasure or both Oh how many for these ends and purposes have runne themselves upon the rocks of witlesse and worthlesse security Others upon the shelves of proud and Luciferian presumption have ruinated themselves Others have sunk themselves and theirs upon the syrtes sands of miserable Desperation The third passage is That the sea of this world is passing dangerous in respect of the many sea monsters that are in it The Prophet Daniel saw this in his Vision And foure great beasts came up from the sea divers one from another The first was like a lyon which are the proud knowne and discovered by their high looks lofty words and stroting incesse The second was like a Beare which are the voluptuous and filthy uncleane persons men and women The Beare licks his dirty pawes and the strumpet wipes her mouth and licks her whorish lips and saith I have done no evill when she hath sold her soule to the devil and sunk her body into a gulfe of uncleannesse The third beast was like a Leopard a mongrell beast comming of a Lion and a Pard and this is the covetous wretch who being neither fish nor flesh nor good red-herring neither good

be not some plot of villany to insnare thee Can any wise man love the place where Satan domineeres If this our Gospel truth be hid from any here it is hid to them that are lost Are not they lost that can neither be found in heaven nor in the earth nor yet in the sea The god of this world which is the Devil hath blinded the minds of them that beleeve not this truth lest the light of the glorious Gospel truth of Jesus Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them The whole world saith the holy Divine Saint John lyeth in wickednesse and our little world this Island wherein we dwell is on fire about our eares and yet neither the worlds malignity nor yet our owne misery can quicken us to a lothing of this restlesse and brittle sea of glasse But would you learne how to avoid this Traitor that wil Judaize with you this dominion of Satan and this house on fire I shall doe my endeavour to satisfie your desire in this point You all know that whatsoever the shavelings of Rome say we have a Church and it is a principall piece of the holy Catholique Church which we professe to beleeve that is scattered farre and wide upon the surface of the whole Universe and to this Church we have given our names Christian is my name and Catholike is my sirname We are shipped by Baptisme If a tempest arise cry upon Christ as the Apostles did in a storme If the Ship of our state be ready to be swallowed up of the waves flye unto Christ if he be asleep awaken him with our cryes Concutitur fides non excutitur our faith may bee shaken but never shaken off therefore never cease but cry and cry aloud that we may be heard and being heard we may be delivered and being delivered we may glorifie God If the wind roare Christ will rebuke it and there shall follow a great calme The fift Use of the Doctrine is to take a review of the Text If this world be in experience to us a Sea of glasse like unto Crystall This Crystalline resemblance deceives none but children and fooles who are deceived with shewes shadowes and resemblances But wee are men endowed with reason and experience How are we fitted and furnished for our voyage Where 's our Tackles Have we our Maine mast ready that is to say our faith without which it is impossible to please God there 's no walking or talking with God without it Where 's our Anchor and Sailes the Anchor of hope and the Sayles of good workes What wind doe we sayle by no wind under the cope of heaven but the gale of Christian Charity can arrive us at the Port of Heaven But sayling with that gentle gale we need not feare any danger between this and Heaven For if a Whale by the way should swallow us as it did Jonah or a wind called Euroclydon which caused Pauls ship-wracke at the Island then called Melita now Malta In both dangers we should be safe the Whale must cast us upon the Land and though the Ship were wracked yet either by swimming or by some broken fragments of the Ship we should surely come safe to Land The sixt use of this Doctrine is of Discovery The holy Apostle gives every one in particular a Christian Caveat Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall If my Text be a vision unto you it hath discovered how slippery our station is I beseech you therefore when you have forgotten me yet remember my Text and forget it not lest you slippe and slide and fall like the house built upon the sands the fall whereof was great The Royall Preacher tells us that God hath set the world in the heart of man to the end that he should consider the deceitfulnesse and uncertainty of it Shall a man love that which Christ never prayed for I pray for mine Elect I pray not for the world That is I pray not for the Muck-worms and Mammonists of this world And if the grace of God be in us we shall daily blesse and thank God for the Lord Jesus who hath given himselfe for our sinnes that hee might deliver us from this present evill world according to the will of God and our Father They that remember not this discovery of the world have not knowne God as John testifieth The Mammonists of this world cannot endure to heare or thinke of death and yet when they lose the things of this glassie world they murther themselves with worldly sorry St. Paul is a witnesse of this truth saying The sorrow of this world causeth death The Mammonists and Muck-wormes of this world brag boast and pride themselves with the things of the world Saint Paul was otherwise minded God forbid saith he that I should pride my selfe in ought or any thing in the world save in the Crosse of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world It is no marvell that so few love Preachers and gaine so little or nothing by the frequent and powerfull preaching of Gospell-truth Paul sheweth us the reason why Demas forsooke him Hee was in love with this present world Saint Peter gives the Muck wormes Mammonists and lovers of this world their fearfull fatall and finall doom shewing first how we may escape the pollutions of this world and then how dangerous a relapse and backsliding is For saith he and puts the case thus If the Muck-wormes and Mammonists of this world have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ they are againe intangled therein and overcome the latter end is worse with them then the beginning for then they become Wells without water Clouds that are carried with a tempest to whom the mist of darknesse is reserved for ever For the Lord Christ Jesus sake blessed Auditory you holy people of the Lord remember my Text when you see not me That our standing is very slippery upon this Sea of glasse Remember that all the actions transactions and all the imaginations of all the thoughts purposes and intentions of all hearts are before the Throne of God open and manifest to his sight and censure The Lords Throne is in heaven His eyes behold his eye-lids try the children of men The Lord tryeth the righteous but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soule hateth Oh remember that the Lords Throne is for ever and that his Throne is in heaven and the earth is his pedestoole Oh remember that thou sweare not by heaven for it is the Throne of God For hee that sweareth by heaven sweareth by the Throne of God and by him that sitteth thereon Oh remember that we must all appeare before the Throne of Jesus Christ and render our accompts Oh remember what favour the Lord Jesus hath purchased for us that we may come boldly to a