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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14261	Foure sea-sermons, preached at the annuall meeting of the Trinitie Companie, in the parish church of Deptford: by Henry Valentine vicar	Valentine, Henry, d. 1643.	1635 (1635)	STC 24574; ESTC S103489	42,166	77

both of the wisdome Rom 11.33 knowledge of God! O Lord our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth Psal 8.1 Among the gods there is none like unto thee O Lord Psal 86.8.10 neither are there any workes like thy workes for thou art great and dost wondrous things thou art God alone O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare his wonders to the sonnes of men Little children and ignorant persons when they see a curious picture gaze upon it and please themselves in the beauty of the colours but they consider not the art and skill of that hand which limmed it so we see the wonders of God with our eyes we heare of them with our eares wee taste them with our mouthes wee feele them with our hands yet our hearts are not affected with them as they should be neither doe we consider those glorious Attributes of power wisdome goodnesse and mercy laid open in them If we did the consideration of his power would make us feare him the meditation of his goodnesse would make us love him the contemplation of his wisdome would make us praise him according to that of the Psalmist Declare his glory among the heathen Psal 96.3.4 his wōders amōg all the people for the Lord is great greatly to be praised he is to be feared above al gods Secondly if the Lord hath made such wonderfull and admirable things for us in this world which is but our cottage how excellent and admirable are those things which hee hath provided and prepared for us in heaven which is our palace If I was the sweetest singer in all Israel if I had the tongues of men and Angels I should not be able to expresse the least part of them S. Paul spoke with tongues more then all the rest of the Apostles and the Barbarians called him Mercury the god of eloquence yet these things are so admirable and transcendent that the strength of his expressions and the straines of his eloquence could not reach them And therefore he telleth us not what they are but what they are not Eye hath not seene nor eare heard 1 Cor. 2.9 neither hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him The eye of man sees much yet the eare heares of many things which the eye never saw I never faw Salomons Temple in its beautie nor Rome in her glory nor Christ in the flesh yet my eare hath heard much of them But if there be any thing which my eare hath not heard yet my heart is able to conceive it I never heard the thunders that were upon mount Sinai I never heard Paul in the pulpit yet I conceive how terrible was the one and how powerfull was the other But these things are so high and admirable that I can neither perceive them by the sense nor conceive them by the understanding When the Queene of Sheba came to the Court of Salomon she was ravished with the wonders she saw there when we come to heaven the Court of him that was greater then Salomon how shall we be ravished to heare the Hymnes and Hallelujahs of Angels to see the face of God the body of Christ our Saviour the beauty of the new Ierusalem and our vile bodies made like his glorious body But who is fit for these things I leave therefore these wonders which God hath provided for us in Coelo in heaven and come to those which are in Salo in the Sea for this is our third and last part That the workes and wonders of the Lord may be seene in the Sea and deep waters God who is wonderfull in all his workes 3. Part. is most wonderfully wonderfull in the Sea for it is as full of wonder as it is of water Some restraine my Text too strictly to those wonders which God shewed in the red-sea which was a Causie to the Israelites but a grave to the Egyptians Or to those which he shewed in the Sea when the Prophet Ionas was cast into it as the sodaine calme and the restitution of his Prophet from the belly of the whale But our Prospect will be more faire and delightfull if wee inlarge it in these particulars following First the situation of this Element is wonderfull I will not here dispute the question whether the Water or the Earth be higher sure I am that the elevations and swellings of the Sea are wonderfull and were it not that the Lord on high is mightier then the noise of many waters it would breake out as once it did into an universall Deluge and Inundation Job 38.8 9 10. But God hath shut up the Sea with doores he hath swadled it with darkness he hath set it bounds saying Hitherto shalt thou come but no further and here shall thy proud waves be stayed I reade of one Canutus sometimes a king of this Island that standing by the Thames at a flowing water commanded the waves to come no nearer But the River for all this kept its course and if the King had not given ground would have drowned him with which saies the story hee was so much affected that he hanged up his Crowne in Westminster and would never after weare it To command the Elements is his prerogative that made them Feare you not me Ierem. 5.22 saith the Lord Will yee not tremble at my presence which hath placed the Sand for the bound of the Sea by a perpetuall decree that it cannot passe it and though the waves thereof tosse themselves Infirmissimo emnium vilis sabuli pulvere vis maris etiam in tempestate cohibetur Ambr. Hexam c. 2. de die 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet they cannot prevaile though they roare they cannot passe over it And Hesychius saies that the Sea is as afraid of the banke of sand as we are of thunder Secondly the Motion of the Sea is as strange and wonderfulles the former It is reported of Aristotle that great Secretary of Nature that not being able to conceive the reason of the ebbing and flowing of the Sea he threw himselfe into it using these words Because I cannot comprehend thee thou shalt comprehend mee And howsoever this hath received many subtile and curious discussions yet all confesse it a wonder and secret of Nature For suppose it be the naturall inclination of this Element which at the first covered the face of the Earth and does as it were labour to recover its ancient Inheritance Or suppose the Moone to be the cause of it as most determine for this Planet hath a regencie and dominion over moist bodies yet it is a wonder still It is as admirable that the Influence of the Moone should cause such an elevation and agitation of the waters as if God had imprinted this qualitie in the Element it selfe For my part I shall ever say with the Psalmist Thy way is in the

it If a man have a fan in his hand he may ventilate and agitate the still ayre into a winde how much more may the devils by the greatnesse of their power and swiftnesse of their motion so compresse and agitate the ayre as to throw downe houses And I thinke the windes that are bought and sold are no other What the strength of the ayre is when it is compressed and moved violently wee may see in the breath of a bullet which sometimes kills that man it never touches It is an easie matter for the devill then if God suffer it to drive a ship at Sea which way he pleases whose motion is more swift and violent then that of a bullet And God suffers much for the triall of our faith and bringing about the passages of his secret but most just providence So then no true winde is raised but by God for he it is that formeth the mountaines and createth the winde Amos 4.13 nor nothing like a winde but by his permission for hee hath the devill as a dog in a chaine and this dog cannot ceaze upon a swine without leave I dare say that if the devill could raise a tempest when and where he pleased he would strike the foure corners of our Temples and bury us all in their ruines when we meet together to offer up our sacrifice of praise and praiers to Almighty God Now is it thus that stormes and tempests are the Lords doing and the singer of God were not the heathen Philosophers in an errour thinke you that chained up God in the circle of the heavens and confined him and his providence to the Sphere of the Moone supposing him either too lazie or too busie to intend sublunary affaires The soule informes all the members of the body the foot or finger as well as the head So God who is the soule of this great body the world rules and governes every part and limbe of it how little or remote soever In heaven he is a Glorious God in earth he is a Gracious God in the ayre he is an angry God in the Sea hee is a terrible God in hell he is a just God so that God is every where and wheresoever he is he is God blessed for evermore But you of the tribe of Zebulon may hence learne to whom to direct your prayers and addresse your devotions when stormes and tempests threaten you with destruction We must not with the Heathen invocate the starre of Venus or the two brethren Castor and Pollux or Aeolus the father of the windes as Horace did for his friend Virgil when he sailed to Athens nor with the superstitious Papist must we invocate S. Nicholas but with the disciples we must goe unto Christ and awaken him with our prayers saying Master save us or else we perish for he it is that raises the storme and he only it is that can rebuke it O Lord God of hosts Psal 89.8 9. who is a strong Lord like unto thee for thou rulest the raging of the Sea and when the waves thereof arise thou stillest them The floods have lifted up O Lord Psal 93.3 4. the floods have lifted up their voice the floods have lifted up their waves But the Lord on high is mightier then the noise of many waters yea then the mighty waves of the Sea And then be not discouraged with those dangers which attend your profession sith nothing befalls you but what comes by Gods commandement and providence I am not of his opinion that sayes that God made the Sea onely for the beauty of the element not for the art of Navigation True it is that many have been drowned at Sea and as true that far more have dyed in their beds Moses when he blessed Zabulon bade him Rejoyce in his going out and that you may doe so consider that no storme is raised by the malignity of the starres by the mischiefe of Fortune or by the malice of the devill but by the power and appointment of a good God Looke up to the crosse in your Flagges and remember him who was the beloved Sonne of his Father yet David prophecyed of him that all the waves and billowes should goe over him Psal 42.7 not the billowes of waters but of Gods wrath And remember that the Church your Mother is mindefull of you and commends the estate of all such as travell by land or water to Gods care custody providence and protection Now that God which led his people through the red Sea into the land of Canaan lead you through the dangers of the deepe and the waves of this world into the land of rest the Kingdome of Heaven Amen PSAL. 107.26 27. They mount up to heaven they goe downe again to the depths their soule is melted because of trouble They reele to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wits end WEE have already seene the Seamans dangers in their causes both principal which is Gods command and instrumentall the windes and the waves Now when all these meet together at Sea as they did but lately in the Text it must needs be foule weather and both Ships and Saylours in great danger For what can man doe when God hath once given the word or how can a piece of wood hold out when it is assaulted on all sides with two furious Elements the wind and water The parts of the Text are as the Verses two First the danger it selfe in a violent and contrary motion of elevation and depression for the ship riding upon the backe of a vast and mountainous billow seemes to faile in the cloudes but the treacherous and deceitfull billow sliding from it throwes it into such depths Vix eminet aequore malus that the top mast is hardly discerned The second are the sad consequences and attendants of this danger and they are three 1. Exanimation and Feare Their soule is melted 2. Vacillation and staggering illustrated from the simile of a drunken man 3. Stupefaction and astonishment They are at their wits end And indeed many times they are so before they be halfe way in their voyage First of the danger They mount up to heaven they goe downe againe to the depths The Jewes derided the Gospell of S. Iohn because they read in it that if every thing that Christ did was written the world it selfe could not containe the Bookes that should be written lib. 2. epistol ep 99. But Isidore Pelus justifies S. Iohn by many expressions of the like nature God promised Abraham that he would make his seed as the dust of the earth Gen. 13.16 Yet who sees not saith S. Augustine but the graines of dust are incomparably more numerous then all the sons of men l. 16. de civit Dei c. 21. yet God speaks not of the whole world but of such onely as should descend from the loynes of Abraham and such as should bee accounted his children as he was the Father of