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heaven_n	creature_n	lord_n	praise_v	2,323	5	9.4645	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44124	The improvement of navigation a great cause of the increase of knowledge a sermon preached June 7, 1680 before the Corporation of Trinity House in Deptford Strand, at the election of their master / by Richard Holden, Vicar of Deptford.	Holden, Richard, 1626 or 7-1702.	1680 (1680)	Wing H2380; ESTC R4281	14,377	40

relates it trembling as a story he durst give no credit to himself though possibly some others might Nay he was so far from assenting to it that he denies there is any such thing as an Ocean Lib. 2. Ch. 23. p. 98. and blames the Geographers of his time for affirming without any proof that the Earth was encompassed by it And as for those few who did venture to launch out into this great Deep they did it with much fear and caution as appears by the Voyages of Solomon's and Hiram's Fleets to Ophir 1 Kings 10.22 that is to Summetra or Zeilan Boet. Phat Lib. 2. Ch. 27. Chan. lib. 1. ch 46. as learned men prove from the Commodities they brought thence in which they did but creep by the shore all the way as is manifest from the length of time spent in one of those Voyages three years which is now performed in less than half the time from these parts of the World though the distance be ten times as much from hence as it was from the Red Sea where Solomon's ships set out And when any one undertook and succeeded in an attempt of that nature he was looked upon as an extraordinary and Divine Person as we read of Hanno a Carthaginian who it is like was the first that ventured out of the Streights and built some Cities upon the neighbouring Coasts of Afric that he valued himself so highly upon this performance and grew so vain in his imagination as to account himself a God and that others might think so of him too Aelian says Var. lib. 14. ch 30. he had taught certain Birds to call him The Great God Hanno So was he puffed up with a successful Voyage into distant and unknown Places Vit. Agr. And Tacitus speaking of some seditious Souldiers in the Roman Army who seizing upon three Vessels compelled the Mariners to sail with them round about this Island of Britain He calls it magnum memorabile facinus a great and daring attempt which deserved to have the memory of it perpetuated to all Generations And now I am sure I need not in this Auditory adde any thing to shew how much the modern improvements are advanced beyond the utmost that the boldest Adventurers of old could attain to the new Islands and Kingdoms and the new World discovered of late Ages do give abundant proof of that and your own experience confirms it I proceed therefore to the second Head The consequent of this improvement the benefit which should thereby redound to mankind that together with Navigation knowledge should likewise proportionably advance too 1. The knowledge of Nature 2. The knowledge of Arts. 3. The knowledge of Divine Providence and 4. The knowledge of true Religion 1. The knowledge of Nature which is an effectual means to lead us to the knowledge and love of God Psal 19.1 2. The Heavens declare the Glory of God and the Firmament sheweth his handy-work the frame and motion and influences of the Heavens do demonstrate to any man who considers them with attention how great and powerful and wise and gracious that God is who formed them and all the other Creatures which do continually preach and instruct men in the glories of the great Creator The whole World saith St. Basil is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the School of reasonable Souls where they may be taught to know God And for this reason the Psalmist calls upon the Heavens and Sun and Moon Psal 148. and Stars to praise the Lord because those heavenly bodies do by their beauty and order and greatness and usefulness and long continuance proclaim the Power and Wisdom and Goodness of him who made them all out of nothing as Moses said at the beginning God saw every thing that he had made and behold it was very good so good as to glorifie the maker by exciting the beholders to magnifie and adore him If we go over the whole frame of things saith St. Augustin Tom. 8. in Psal 26. there is not a creature but tells us with a loud voice Deus me fecit God made me Whatever is good or delightful in the Work commends the Author If you look up to the Heavens they are the work of his hands I and contrary to the laws of Architecture he made the Heavens first and then the Earth set up the roof before he laid the foundation if you look down upon the Earth God made that variety of Seeds that diversity of Plants that multitude of living Creatures and who can fully set forth the praises of all these of the Heaven and Earth and Sea and all in them or of the invisible Beings the Angels and Thrones and Dominions and Powers or of the Soul that is in us which gives life to the body moves the parts acts the senses comprehends so many things in its memory and discerns and judges of them by its understanding And if we be at a loss in speaking of the effects with what language can we sufficiently magnifie the glories of the Almighty cause of all Now the improvement of Navigation hath hugely advanced the knowledge of Nature and of the works of God Psal 104.24 c. O Lord saith the Psalmist how manifold are thy works in wisdom hast thou made them all the Earth is full of thy riches So is this great and wide Sea wherein are things creeping There go the Ships And by the help of them these latter ages of the World have arrived at a much fuller knowledge of those manifold works of God than former times could attain to Every Region and every Country abounds with his wonders which were all concealed and hidden or at most but imperfectly and fabulously related whilst they were deprived of intercourse with one another To give one instance of this It was a general opinion amongst the Ancients that the Countries which lie under or near the Aequinoctial Line were not habitable by reason of the great and violent heats they must be subject to for finding all places by how much nearer they lie to that so much more exposed to heat they concluded that between the Tropicks all was exusta flammis cremata as Pliny's words are Nat. Hist l. 2. c. 68. wholly burnt up and not to be endured I know a worthy writer of our own Nation is pleased to affirm Sir w. Ral. Hist l. 1. c. 3. §. 8. That Tertullian of all the Ancients was of another opinion which came nearer to the truth and that he thought the Countries within the torrid Zone to be places of great pleasure and delight imagining withal that Paradise where our first Parents were placed and where the Souls of good men go after death was seated there But certainly this judicious person either did not read or strangely mistook his Author Apol. c. 47. For Tertullian's opinion appears to have been That Paradise is not within the Tropicks but beyond the furthest of them and that it