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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62447	The treasures of the sea A sermon to the mariners upon Deut. XXXIII. xviii, xix. And of Zabulun, he said, Rejoice Zabulun in thy ports, and Issachar in thy tents. They shall call the people unto the mountain, there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treaures hid in the sand.	Thomson, William, d. 1699.	1683 (1683)	Wing T1036A; ESTC R203769	22,323	44

The Treasures of the Sea A SERMON TO THE MARINERS UPON DEUT. XXXIII xviii xix And of Zabulun he said Rejoice Zabulun in thy Ports and Issachar in thy Tents They shall call the people unto the mountain there they shall offer Sacrifices of Righteousness For they shall suck of the abundance of the Seas and of Treasures hid in the Sand. Terra parùm fuerat Terris adjecimus undas Fortunae varias auximus arte vias LONDON Printed for Robert Kettlewell at the Hand and Scepter over against S. Dunstans Church in Fleet street M DC LXXXIII Reader THis Sermon was occasionally Preach'd upon Mr. William Harrington's that famous and successful Engineer recovering the lading out of the Katherine sunk unfortunately in the Downs many fathoms under Water The good man therefore having been prosperous beyond expectation in a concern of so high a value viz. 14000 l. and upwards was willing to return his thanks to God and therefore made choice of me to perform that Religious Office which after the Service of the Church I did solemnly in this following Sermon Leigh in Essex Nov. 21. 1682. William Thomson TO THE Right Honourable and Right Reverend Father in GOD HENRY Lord Bishop of LONDON My Lord SOme Philosophers tell us That all the great and goodliest Natures display their Excellencies in three things Light Heat and Love The more Light dances in Precious Stones the more is their worth Heat raises Eagles above Worms and those Palms are held the Noblest which have the most Love and Inclination to their Fellows I need not tell the World how eminent those Qualities are in your Lordship whose Vnderstanding daily assists the best Monarch and the best Church in the World with its Lights and Counsels whose vigour and activity of Spirit mingled with the Nobleness of your Blood has worthily advanced you to the best Office in the Church and whose Candour and Bounty triumphs over so many Hearts But it is these Virtues that make all us especially who have the Happiness to live under your Lordships care to study all possible ways to give testimony of that Honour and Duty we owe you Among the rest I have put in my Mite and with your Lordships leave will hereafter endeavour to mend both the coyn and the summ I would not fill your Lordships left hand with a Letter and therefore humbly begging your Blessing I rest Right Honourable and Right Reverend Lord Leigh Nov. 21. 1682. Your Lordships most Dutiful Son and Servitor THOMSON To the HONOURABLE GEORGE LEGGE Esq Master of the Ordance to his Majesty CHARLES the Second c. Noble Sir THis Discourse is due to you upon the account of your favours to Mr. Harrington And therefore as he was pleas'd to make me the Orator of his thanks to God so am I also the Messenger of his thanks to You. I am a great Admirer of your Honours unshaken Loyalty and other your great Virtues and I am as devout a Beedsman for your lasting Prosperity That therefore Heaven may bless all that Wisdom Conduct and Integrity which shines so gloriously in you above most others is the daily Orison of Noble Sir Leigh in Essex Nov. 21. 1682. Your Honours in all Duty and Observance THOMSON To the Right Honourable DANIEL Lord FINCH one of the Lords of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council c. My Noble Lord YOur many favours oblige me and your high Concerns in the Admiralty encourage me humbly to offer this Discourse such as it is at Your Lordships feet I can say little of its suitableness to a Person of your great Quality and less of its Worth But if your Lordship shall please to accept of these Prolusions I will hereafter endeavour something more worthly your Lordships notice that I may at once give testimony of my thankfulness for the favours already received and demonstrate how much I am Noble Patron Leigh in Essex Nov 21. 1682. Your Honours most obliged Servitor THOMSON To the Worshipful SAMUEL HARE Of LEIGH Esquire Worthy Sir THE daily Experience I have of your Zeal to Religion your Loyalty to the Government establish'd and your Kindness to me has emboldened me to present the following Sermon to your view which however imperfect as the rest of my Productions may yet retrieve to your Memory what you have already heard from the Pulpit There is variety of Inductions from the words and such as have led us through some of the most important points of the Christian Faith It may therefore serve at once for a Sermon and System of Religion Accept it therefore if not upon these accounts yet as it is intended for an acknowledgement of the many obligations by you conferr'd upon Good Sir Leigh in Essex Nov. 21. 1682. Your most Humble and obliged Servitor THOMSON DEUT. XXXIII xviii xix And of Zabulun he said rejoice Zabulun in thy going out and Issachar in thy Tents They shall call the people unto the mountain there they shall offer Sacrifices of Righteousness For they shall such of the abundance of the Seas and of Treasures hid in the Sand. HOwever some men wedded to Cowardice and Sloth have declaimed against the dangers and roughness of the Sea looking upon every storm as a Trumpeter of Death and every Wave as a Winding-sheet Yet if we shall but seriously inspect the nature of the Watry Element we shall find her as calm as any of the rest and no less advantageous to humane Nature For whereas the greedy Earth when she shakes spares neither Men nor Cities and the mutable Air insects us with unhealthful blasts and the Fire scorches our Blood Old Neptune is of a more tractable disposition and if his angry Sister Juno the Air will but let him alone never fails to be favourable to the concerns of the World So that Tertullian though in the commendations of other things plentiful enough of words yet in the praise of Water flows with an Eloquence worthy himself and the subject telling us that it is the ancientest of all the Elements and that none of them has so many Patronages of Nature so many Priviledges of Grace so many solemnities of Discipline nor any so highly advanced in the mysteries of Religion De Bapt. Thales asserts it the principle of all things and later Chymists assure us that it is productive of whatever the skilful Operator pleases that all Art is nothing but an imitation of the great process of God Almighty in the Creation of the World who having out of nothing call'd a confused and as seemeth from the Text a liquid matter the Spirti of God moved upon the waters Gen. 1. 2. giving motion to the fluid Mother of all things who being warmed by that agitation brought forth the succeeding parts of the Universe in their Order Whence Marius Victor Et sacer extensis impedens Spiritus undis Altrices animabat aquas dans semina rerum And agreeable hereunto the Stoicks made this Element the food of the Stars as judging it