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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69156	The shippe of assured safetie wherein wee may sayle without danger towards the land of the liuing, promised to the true Israelites: conteyning in foure bokes, a discourse of Gods prouidence, a matier very agreable for this time, vvherof no commo[n]ly knovven especiall treatise hath bene published before in our mother tong. What great varietie of very necessarie and fruitfull matier is comprysed in this worke, conuenient for all sortes of men, by the table of the chapters follovving after the præface, ye may perceyue. Compyled by Edward Cradocke, doctor and reader of diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Oxford.	Cradock, Edward.	1572 (1572)	STC 5952; ESTC S109809	192,706	546

THE SHIPPE of assured safetie Wherein wee may sayle without danger towards the land of the liuing promised to the true Israelites Conteyning in foure Bokes a discourse of Gods Prouidence a matier very agreable for this time vvherof no commōly knovven especiall Treatise hath bene published before in our mother tong What great varietie of very necessarie and fruitfull matier is comprysed in this vvorke conuenient for all sortes of men by the Table of the Chapters folovving after the Praeface ye may perceyue Compyled by Edward Cradocke Doctor and Reader of Diuinitte in the Vniuersitie of Oxford 1. CORINTH 4. As touching me I passe very little to be iudged of you or of mans iudgement 10 I iudge not mine own self 1. PETR 5. Cast all your care vpon God for he careth for you ¶ Imprinted at London by H. Bynneman for William Norton ANNO. 1572. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE That beareth vp this ioly Beare A vvoodden staffe some say it is Ragged in forme But vvill ye heare I tell you plaine they say amisse Gods care it is that vvatcheth aye And neuer sleepes at time nor tide That of this Beare is th' only stay The only supporte and the guide So long then as he holdes it right Stand sure he shall against his foe And man nor deuill day nor night Shall aye be able to vvorke him vvoe God graunt him many blessed dayes To liue before his parting hence And that he may in all his vvayes Make God the staffe of his defence AMEN quoth E. C. To the right honorable and his especiall good Lorde and Patrone Lorde ROBERT Earle of Leycester Baron of Denbighe Knight of the Honorable order of the garter of the Quenes Maiesties priuie Counsaile and highe Chauncellar of the Vniuersitie of Oxforde c. Edvvarde Cradocke Doctor and Reader of Diuinitie in the layde Vniuersitie vvisheth muche health vvith encrease of honoure and prosperous successe in all his godly affaires THere were three causes righte Honourable and mine especial good Lord which moued mee at this time to take penne in hande The firste and principall vvas the dutie and seruice vvhich I ovve to God vvho vvoulde not onely that by preaching and reading but also by al other meanes possible I should seke the aduauncement of his kingdome The nexte vvas my zele tovvardes the house of God the ruinous and decayed state wherof in this later age of the world I coulde neither forget vvithout impietie nor remember vvithout compassion nor passe ouer and neglecte vvithoute great burden of conscience The third and last cause that prouoked me vvas that I mighte enter into some pore account touching the course race of my vvhole life spent for the most parte of it in the Vniuersitie of Oxford asvvell to other my good Lords and Patrones to whom I am muche beholding as namely also to your Honoure vvhom not only we Oxford men acknovvledge as oure good Lord and Chanceller but also next vnder the Queenes Maiestie our cheefe heade VVhose honourable and curteous nature both shevved to other my far betters and from me thoughe vnworthye at no time vvithdravvne vvhat it mighte iustly chalenge and whose great authoritie and iurisdiction ouer vs what laufully and orderly it might commaund I could not be ignorant in any vvise It came therfore oftentimes to my remembraunce that seing your Honor with other the furtherers of our studies haue so honorably spared me your good vvord I could neither without infamie hold my peace nor without want of good aduisement not giue oute some testimonie of my bounden duetie And for this purpose to confesse vnto your Honor the very truthe howe small soeuer mine habilitie vvas yet rather conuenient leasure of me muche desired this great vvhile than any goodvvill vtterly was wāting But as God worketh secretely many sundry vvayes to helpe that forward which he wold haue done at the last in dede fell oute oportunitie of me not so muche coueted or vvished for as heartily lamented and bevvailed that the plague daily growing and encreasing in the Vniuersitie of Oxford the publike lectures being for the very same cause intermitted hoping by Goddes assistance to prouide sufficiently for meself more of a studious minde than greatly vrged by any neede for my frendes hearing at the last where I vvas vvrote me earnest letters to come downe vnto them amongst other I there remained VVholely therefore being addicted and giuen to contemplation from the which at that time there was no great encombrance that might pull me backe I began nowe seriously to minde the setting oute and publishing of some booke And being fully determined to wryte vpon the matter notwithstanding vvhervpon I might fitliest groūd my processe I was not by and by resolued Sometimes it came into my minde to take in hande some controuersie of this time But considering with meself what great learning hath bene lately shewed in such questiōs I was quickly chaunged from that mind For vvhat could any body novv vvryte of for the improuing or defending of suche things which very plentifully alredy hath not bene discoursed VVould a mā gladly be instructed touching the vse of images let him peruse D. Calfehils boke against Martial VVold he heare what can be said of the Masse Not only master Deane of Paules his bokes against Dorman are to be sene but also the treatise of the righte reuerēd father bishop Cowper entituled The defense of the truth against the masse and the works of the late famous bishop of vvorthy memorie D. Iewel VVho in tvvo of his greate Volumes hathe gone through with so many so profoūd maters of religion that for diuers needefull poynts to be spoken of they might vvell serue a Diuine for common place bokes Therfore taking more diligent perfite deliberation after many other things vvhich I thought vpon the very time and place vvhere I then vvas and the remembrance of Goddes Prouident care for me from my youth and notwithstāding my diligence in taking heede not least of al declared towardes me at that time made me in loue as it vvere vvith the argument of Gods Prouidence Therwithal which inflamed me not a litle the more it could neither be hidden nor vnknowne vnto me howe graciously besides our deseruing hovv vvonderfully beyond al reason God hath lately protected with his mightie hand not only our soueraigne Lady the Queenes highnesse but vniuersally the vvhole state of this realme For o good Lorde vvhat subtile vndermining what crafty cōueying what cruell conspiring hathe bene attempted VVhat mischeuous heades vvhat slie practises vvhat vngodly deuises haue beene founde oute VVhiche neither by anye mannes vvisedome coulde come to light vvhen they vvere hidde nor by mannes strength and pollicie coulde be repressed when they were broken out But that god whose prouident eye neuer slepeth whose head is alvvayes carefull and mindefull of vs whose arme stretched out is neuer idle vvhen none other vvise coūsel could take place by his maruellous forsighte hathe prouided