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A06734	A learned and a godly sermon, to be read of all men, but especially for all marryners, captaynes and passengers, which trauell the seas, preached by Iohn Madoxe, maister of arte, and fellow of All soules in Oxforde, at Waymouth and Melcombe regis, a porte in the countrie of Dorsett, the 3. day of October, in the yeere of our Lord. 1581	Madox, Richard, 1546-1583.; Martin, Thomas, d. 1584.	1581 (1581)	STC 17180; ESTC S101892	11,178	36

and therfore praye vnto God before it be throwne downe vppon vs but also at the tyme of our affliction wee must flie onelie vnto Christe and crie vnto him Helpe helpe Maister for vnlesse thou helpe we perish The councell of man is windie to séeke and all our labour is nothing woorth Peter is héere and cannot saue vs Iames and Iohn haue no skyll to helpe vs Andrewe is in as great feare as wee And therfore helpe Maister helpe vs O Christ thou canst helpe thou wilt heare The Saints in Heauen we know doo loue vs but theyr arme is too short to send vs succour Or if there were hope in them as there is none yet better flie to the head then to the foote especiallie the head being so ready so willing so wel able so gentle At the head of the Spring fayre water is swéetest and at the fountayne of mercie mercie is receyued with moste pleasure Doubt nothing it is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in Princes An other note may you learne by these Disciples that those whome GOD dooth most entyrelie loue them dooth he exercise in most troubles and feares tossing them from rocke to rocke and from daunger to daunger knowing that tribulation bringeth foorth patience and patience experience experience hope and hope maketh not ashamed because the loue of God is shedde abroade in our hearts by the holie Ghost and knowing that the man is blessed whome the Lorde dooth chastice for though he be sore thrust at yet falleth he not because the Lorde is his helpe In two perrils shall he delyuer vs and in the thirde shall he quite set vs frée heauines may endure for a night but ioye commeth in the morning Blessed be the Lorde that suffereth no man to be tempted aboue his strength And therefore my brethren if it please God to laye the burthen of his Crosse vppon any eyther through sicknesse or shypwracke or pyracie or broken detters or otherwayes let him not therefore dispayre of Gods loue but rather let him be glad that it pleaseth him to picke him out as one from the people in whome the might of his Maiestie might be glorified For you may reade in the former Chapters that so long as Christe was among the multitude there fell no daunger or temptation but all was quiet and peaceable without trouble without feare but so soone as hée meant to make a tryall of theyr faith hée calleth onelie the Captaines euen his déerest Disciples and suffereth none else to come with him in the Shippe that they alone might be brought into feare This is to vs no small comfort that those he so well loued he was content to haue them so much endaungered but yet all for the best Syluer is not Syluer tyll it bee blowne and purged in the fyre Golde commeth to no honour tyll by long hammering and chasing it be forged into a vessell méete for the Kinges seruice The corne is grounde on a rough myll and baked in an hoate ouen before it become good bread The Lord make vs pure siluer and fine golde and wholsome breade to be serued on the table at the marriage feast of the Lambe for his names sake Amen And thus much of the fyrst considederation which is the personne of the Disciples Next commeth the consideration of Christes owne person of whome we may reade that for this cause was he borne and for this cause came be into the world to saue sinners And because those that had long laboured without reléefe vnder the burthen of the Lawe not finding therein any saluation might sette theyr eyes on him which is the Lawe of righteousnesse and well perceyue that he was the true Messias he therefore dyd not onely preach vnto them a newe Doctrine of the Gospell and gaue them a newe commaundement of loue but also to their great comfort and no lesse woonder hée confyrmed all his doctrine by Myracles healing all diseases bothe of body and minde euer applying the Myracle to make proofe of that which hee then preached vnto them As when hee woulde shewe that mans sinnes were so fowlie enfected with the contagion of leprosie as that no workes of the Lawe could cleanse the same but that it must be purified by his Merites he letteth them héereof sée an outwarde signe by healing that leaprous body with a touch of his finger whome no Phisicke before could cure When hee would haue vs to vnderstande howe shrewdlie we are all shaken with a burning feauer that distempereth the liuelie blood of our soules and maketh our taste so bitter that we cannot sauour the swéetnesse of his doctrine in our selues without him nor serue to minister in any necessarie vse hée dooth héereof make euident demonstration by curing of Peters mother in lawe that was sicke of an Ague And héere lykewise because hee woulde haue vs to consider that in our selues there is no habilitie to resist the stormes and tempestes of this worlde the rage of the fleshe and the deuill without his helpe hée therefore bringeth his Disciples into this perrill and then delyuereth them when they call vppon him that they may knowe where to séeke helpe for theyr soules in tyme of affliction by finding such ready helpe for theyr bodies in tyme of distresse Yea but Christe was a sléepe at the stearne yea but let Christe be awaked if he heare not at the fyrst call to him the second tyme if not the second tyme crie vppon him the thyrde tyme yea call and ceasse not tyll ye haue awaked him be sure he wyll both heare and helpe at the last Christe is not lyke one of these testie squiers or those nice Dames that can abyde no noyse in the house for breaking theyr morning sleepe no Christe would be awaked with our early prayer yea with our earlie and earnest calling vpon him Would he be glad to be awaked Yea surely and more glad to be kept waking styll But howe shall we kéepe him waking that he sléepe not Giue him leaue to talke vnto vs and let vs dilligentlie hearken and lysten vnto him for hee is willing to talke and tell vs of our saluation But howe shall we set him a worke to talke I will tell you When wee praye sayth Augustin then doo wée talke with God but when wee heare the Scripture read then GOD talketh vnto vs for the Scripture is the voyce and the woordes of GOD pearcing the eares of our heartes by the vertue of the holie Ghoste If therefore you wyll heare Christe talke and so kéepe him awake Let the Bible be read vnto you whether it bée on Shipboorde or on shoare so oft as you can hearken vnto it and kéepe Christ waking for it is daunger to let him fall a sléepe because whyle he slept the Saylers were in ieopardie to bée drowned Whyle the good man of the house slepte the enuious man sowed tares among his wheate whyle Ionas slepte vnder hatches the tempest and storme with raging

now he proceedeth to declare a miracle y t Christ wrought vpon the water that it might bee made manifest vnto them y t Christes power was omnipotent and that he was the very sonne of God because all creatures were obedient and subiect vnto him In this Gospel therefore are three thinges especially to bee obserued that is to say the person of the Disciples and such as sayled the person of Christe that sat at the sterne the occasion of the miracle and the working thereof The Disciples were they for whose cause this thing happened Christ was he by whose power it was doon the miracle was that which made them all to wonder Of these three thinges that I may speake breefely and yet so speake as Gods name may bee magnifyed our vnderstanding lightened and our liues altered being tempered a fresh by Gods handy worke and renued inwardly with a right spirite let vs desyre of God the giuer of all goodnes who teacheth vs thinges profitable and guideth vs in y e way wherein we walke that the church whom he hath sanctifyed in holines purchased with his blood and clensed with the washing of water in the word of life may bee a glorious congregation without spot or wrinkle holy and vndefiled and acceptable before God and that it may so be strengthened by the power of the holy Ghost that the gates of hell may neuer preuaile against it especially let vs desyre God that the infant whom with paine of trauayle and displeasure of the great Dragon shee hath heere childed in England and Ireland may prooue a man of might courage boldly to fyght the Lordes battails and that our Queenes Maiestie Lady Elizabeth may marche with him in comforte and defence as Debora marched with Baracke the sonne of Abinoa against Sisera the cruell Cananite returne againe with like victory and that she may stand vnto him as effectually as Hester stoode to Mardocheus against the prowde Ammon with as much reioycing of the people of God ouercome in the end And for the more happye successe in this spirituall fight and the more assured conquest let vs pray that our Bishops and ministers may 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 in their syluer Trumpets that we may bee remembred before the Lord our God and y t they may hold vpp their handes in prayer as Moses did in the mountaine when ●●●sua fought against A●elecke vtterly to destroy him Let vs 〈◊〉 God also to directe the Lordes of the 〈◊〉 with his wisdome that they may be such to vs as Obed was to the Ephrami●es and Ieh●ida the Priest to 〈◊〉 and his people because all warre as sayth Salomon is to bee enterprised by counsell and in the multitude of them that can giue good aduise is safety and health Let vs pray for all Schooles and Uniuersities Oxforde and Cambridge that as they are like mount Eph●aim where the Children of the Prophets be 〈◊〉 so they may bee like Mount Syon where the Lord is truely worshipped for euer and that therein God of his mercy wil beautify with vertue and learning the Colledge of Allsoules Let vs not forget to 〈◊〉 vnto God the protection and defence of all Citties Magistrates and Iustices the Mayor of this Towne and Bayliffes y e Customer Con●●●●●● Sercher and such what euer beseeching of God that both them and we and all the Commons may enrowle to God such an account of our liues in loue and charitye that he which searcheth the harts and the reines may finde vs free from all gawle and bitternes beeing full fraught with humility bound for the lande of promise hauing our sayles of heauenlie hope fylled with the winde of Gods spirite being dyrected by the compasse of his worde and gouerned by the roother of wisedome with the ancker of faith and the maine-mast of an vpright conscience and smothe conuersation in Christ Iesu For these thinges and all other whereof our blessed Father knoweth vs to haue neede let vs with one hart and voice powre out vnto him that prayer which Christe Iesu his fyrst begotten and best beloued sonne hath taught vs saying Our Father which art in heauen c. Math. 8.23.24.25 And when he was entred into a ship his Disciples followed him And beholde there arose a great tempest in the Sea insomuch that the ship was couered with waues but he was a sleepe And his Disciples came to him awoke him saying Lord saue vs we perish I Tolde you that in this Gospell were thrée especiall obseruations The first whereof is the person of Christes Disciples in whome this is woorthy the marking that they béeing simple men and vnlearned were admitted euen to the company of our Sauiour Christe being ordeyned before to be witnesses of those thinges they sawe and heard and to be messengers of peace and of the glad tydings of saluation to all that beleeued that the wisedome of this worlde might be confounded and quayled through the apparaunt foolishnesse of the Crosse of Christe which seemed such a iest to the Greekes that they laughed it to scorne and was such an eye sore to the Iewes that they coulde not looke straight vpon it and such a stumbling blocke in theyr way that they fell headlong ouer it In these Disciples yet though well acquainted and inured both in the maners and with the might of their master Christ Iesu we maye behold an image of mans frayltie and weakenesse that being but a lyttle Seashaken with a storme they were straight wayes at theyr wittes end ready to giue vp the Ghoste for feare not considering that so long as Christe was in the Shippe let the windes rage and the Sea roare let the Cables cracke and the Clowdes throwe downe lyghtening let the surges mount vp to Heauen and let the waues open and gape lyke hell yet so long as Christ sitteth in the stearne there is no danger Si Deus nobiscum quis contra nos If God be on our side who can preuaile against vs. If the sorrowes of death compasse vs about and the snares of wickednesse make vs afrayde yea though the whole earth shoulde be mooued out of her place and the Mountaines fall into the middest of the Sea yet because God is with vs we shall not feare God shall helpe vs and that right earlie But the Disciples dyd as doo commonlie other Saylers and Seafayring men naye I praye God all that goe to the Sea doo no other wayes than did they whyle the skie looketh cleare and the water calme and that they scoure the streame with a good forewinde then all without care we scarce thinke vppon GOD but let him once styrre the déepe out of his treasures and ouer-cast vs with the blacke mantelles of the South and powre the water out of his bottelles vppon vs then our soule melteth for verie trouble and we are euen harde at deathes doore But héere shall be a good lesson for vs to learne that not onelie in fayre weather we must looke for a storme