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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

FOVRE SEA-SERMONS PREACHED At the Annuall Meeting of the TRINITIE COMPANIE in the PARISH CHURCH of DEPTFORD BY HENRY VALENTINE VICAR LONDON Printed by M. Flesher for IOHN MARRIOT and are to be sold at his Shop in S. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetstreet MDCXXXV PErlegi librum hunc cui titulus Foure Sea-Sermons in quo nihil reperio quò minùs cum utilitate publita Imprimatur Ex Aedi Fulham Sept. 8. 1634. SA BAKER R.P.D. Episc Lond. Cap. Domest TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVL The MASTER WARDENS and BRETHREN of the Trinity Company H. V. wisheth Grace here and Glory hereafter THese Sermons both in their preaching printing acknowledge thēselves yours For your sakes they were first made and it is not for their owne they are now made common I was put upon two evils either to print that which was bad or else by transcribing suffer it to be made worse I have chosen the lesse and God may bring good out of it Discourses of this nature are few yet great need have Sea-men of them debarred for the most part from the sweet comforts and many helpes which our Church at home affordeth Hee that considers the one will not condemne these Sermons for Wast and hee that is sensible of the other will not aske to what purpose are they Yet though others should cast dead flyes into this ointment my hope is you will approve it for bonum opus and afford it your Patronage And so I commit it to you and you to the protection of him that is able to keepe you God blessed for evermore Yours in Christ Henry Valentine PSAL. 107.23 They that goe downe into the Sea in Ships and doe their businesse in great waters AS the Power of God in the beginning laid the foundation of the world Nihil de nobis curare Deum dicunt Epicuraei Dei providentiam usq ad Lunam descend re asserit Aristot putatque Deum suis contentum esse finibus Ambros l. 1. offic cap. 13. so his Providence ever since hath borne up the pillers of it Yet the Epicureans and Aristotle himselfe as S. Ambrose witnesseth chained up God as it were and confined Him and his providence to the circle of the Heavens And as Moses was perswaded by his father in Law to Admit into his consideration none but weighty and important affaires and to transmit ordinary businesse to the deliberation of inferiour Magistrates So these foolishly perswaded themselves that God would not disquiet nor trouble himselfe with the government and administration of the world Scilicet his superis labor est ea cura quietos sollicitat sed Te nos facimus Fortuna Deum coeloque locamus Juvenal Cum turpiter flagitiose viverent ne perpetuo metu suppliciorum cruciarēuer hanc sibi consultatienem excogitare volucrunt Pet. Mart. c. 13. loc commun which is one of those Res exiguae which the Poet sayes Iupiter is not at leisure to looke after but rather that the world and all the events and passages in it are committed to Fortune But whatsoever they pretended Peter Martyr sayes well that they advanced this opinion that they might sinne with more freedome and lesse feare as the whorish woman tooke advantage from her husbands absence to admit a stranger into her bosome and to fill her selfe with dalliance till the morning But as for us we know that God is present in all places and that the golden chaine of his providence reaches unto the least and lowest of his creatures for can God bee ashamed to care for that which he was not ashamed to create No he hath made the small Wisd 6.7 and the great and careth for all alike The haires of our heads Mat. 10.29 30. Ad culicem pulicem Providentiâ mundus administratur usque ad folia volatica August conf l. 7. c. 6. the fowles of the aire the flowers of the field nay sayes S. Augustine the Gnat and Flea and the flying leaves which are tossed to and fro with the wind are all within the compasse of it And David in this Psalme tels us that the traveller meets it in the wildernesse the Captive in the prison the sick man in his bed and the Sea-man in the deepe waters for there is no place where God is not Now because I am to speake to you of the Tribe of Zebulun who are here met together to offer up your anniversary sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving I will single out the last instance and God make these Sermons as profitable to you as they are fit for you The whole frame and building stands upon foure pillers 1. The Mariners Profession 2. The danger of that profession 3. The deliverance from that danger 4. The duty after that deliverance The Mariners Profession is to goe downe to the Sea in Ships and to doe businesse in great waters Wherein we will consider these two things First that Mariners and all other men have a worke and a businesse to doe Secondly that Mariners have a worke of their owne in Ships and in the deepe waters and what that is First here is a worke and businesse to be done The Angels of what order soever have a businesse assigned them for they are all ministring spirits and are sent abroad for the good of those that shall be heires of salvation And the Scripture describes them with winges because they doe their worke which is the will of God with all readinesse and alacrity And therefore wee desire in the Lords prayer that his will may bee done in earth as it is in Heaven Man in Paradise must not be idle God imployes him and sets him a worke which was to dresse the garden And we that are the Sons and Daughters of Adam must not eate a morsell of bread till we have earnd it with the sweat either of our Browes or of our Braines He that will not worke let him not eate sayes the Apostle which Law if it was put in execution I thinke there would more die in a week of idlenesse then does in a whole yeare of all other diseases It is an old and true saying Otia dant vitia that sloth is the cause of sinne and idlenesse the fruitfull mother of wickednesse for by doing nothing we learne to doe ill Our Saviour couples them together Mat. 25.26 Thou wicked and slothfull servant And Salomon sayes that the field i.e. the soule of the sluggard is all growne over with thornes and the face thereof covered with nettles Prov. 24.31 Waters that stand still and have no current putrifie and breed venemous creatures Bodies that have no exercise grow obstructed with grosse humors Dead carcasses that have neither sense nor motion are devoured with crowes and ravens Certaine it is that when we are most lazie the devill is most busie for he watches his opportunity and sowes the tares of his Temptations when men sleepe David tarries at home and takes a nap upon his bed in the day time and then suns himselfe upon the battlements of the house when he should have beene in the field fighting the Lords battels

quis laboranti Deo suam operam ministravit Ambr. in orat de fid resurr what engines what instruments what labourers God used in so great a worke Moses tells you he did but say let it be so and it was so and David sayes He spake the word and they were made he commanded and they were created So that the creation of the world was like the building of the Temple there was no noyse of any toole or hammer heard in it but like Ionas his gourd though it was not planted nor watered grew up on a sodaine even in the short space of sixe dayes and this is another wonder John 2 20. Sex diebus faectus mundus Non quod Deus tempore indiguerit ad constitutionem ejus cui intra momentum suppetit sacere quae velit sed quiaea quae fiunt ordinem quaerum Ambr. in ep ad Horont Ista est causa admirationis cum res aut fingularis est cutrara Aug in ep ad Evod. Perseverantia consisetudinis amisit ad mirationem Aug. de Trin. l. 3. c. 2. Quam multa usitata calcantur quae considerata slupentur The Temple of Ierusalem was a stately and magnificent building yet it was not built in lesse time then forty and sixe yeares notwithstanding many hands went to it but the whole fabricke of heaven and earth was finished in the space of sixe dayes and hee that made it in so few dayes could if he had pleased have made it in as few minutes Thus then are al the workes of the Lord wonderfull yet as the Apostle sayes of the starres One starre is more glorious then another so say I of Gods workes some are more admirable and wonderfull then others as being either lesse common or more curious First that which makes some of them more wonderfull then others is because they are lesse frequent and common The people marvelled at the multiplication of the loaves and fishes and were so affected with the strangenesse of the miracle that they would have made Christ a King for it Quid non mirum facit Deus in ommbus creaturae motibus nisi consuetudine quotidiana viluissent Aug. in epist ad Volusian Psal 19. yet we wonder not at the increase of harvest and multiplication of the seed though in some grounds it brings forth twenty in some thirty and in some an hundred fold We wonder not at the Sunne though it be the beauty and bridegroome of nature as David calls it yet wee wonder at the faint light of a Comet because the one we see every day and the other but seldome Secondly some are more wonderfull and admirable because more curious and exquisite In some creatures wee have onely vestigium the print of his foot but in others imaginem his image Some are the workes of his fingers some of his hand some of his arme and the more power or wisdome God hath expressed in their forming the more wonderfull are they in our eyes And because I would not lose my selfe in this field of Zoan Eunt homines mirari alta monrium c. relinquunt seipsos nec mirantur V. August conf l. 10. cap. 8. In homine principatus est omnium animantium summa quaedam universitatis omnis mundanae gratia creaturae Ambr. Hexam lib. 6. cap. 10. Mark 16.15 Cura divini ingemi Tertul. this field of wonders I will determine you to the consideration of your selves first S. Augustine taxes such of folly that admired the height of mountaines the waves of the Sea the windings of rivers c. yet never wondered at themselves who are Gods Master-piece and the abridgement and Epitome of the whole creation for man hath being with stones life with trees sense with beasts and understanding with Angels and hence is it that he is called every creature In the making of other things God did but say let this or that be so and so and it was so but when he came to make man all the persons in the Trinity consult and advise about it Let us make man after our likenesse The Sunne Moone and Starres are glorious creatures Psal 3.3 yet are they but the workes of Gods fingers Psal 119.73 but man is the work of his hands Thy hands have made mee and fashioned me I need say no more but what the Psalmist does Psal 139.14 I will praise thee for I am fearefully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy workes and that my soule knowes right well yea I am curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth Compono hic canticum in laudem creatoris nostri c. V. Galen l. 3. de usu partium and the word in the originall signifies such art and curiositie as is used in needleworke and imbroidery And as Man is more wonderfull then other creatures so some parts of man are more admirable and artificiall then others In ep ad Volusian quod sol luna in coelo hoc oculi in homine Ambr. Hexam lib. 6. cap. 9. S. Augustine wonders most at the eye which though it bee but a small member yet in an instant runs from one side of the heavens to the other And thus having a little discovered you to your selves let me lead you abroad into the world and see what wonders we can there meet with If we climbe up into heaven we shall finde it as full of wonders as it is of starres for euery star is a wonder being as Astronomers observe if truly of a greater magnitude then the body of the whole earth If we descend a little lower who is able to satisfie these questions Job 38. Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow or hast thou seene the treasures of the haile Hath the raine a father and who hath begotten the drops of dew out of whose wombe comes the ice and the hoary frost who hath gendred it If we goe downe yet lower from the aire to the earth Quid enumerem succos herbarum salubres quid virgultomem ac soliorum remedia c. V. plura in Amb. Hex cap. 8. de dietertio we shall finde that plants and trees and mineralls have wonderfull vertues nay that the earth it selfe is a wonder for it hangs as a ball in the midst of heaven and though it have no pillers to uphold it nor but tresses to comprehend it yet it stands fast for ever and shall never be removed Looke sayes Tertullian upon the buildings of the Bee Imitare si potes apis aedisicia formicae stabula araneae retia hombycis flamina Tertul. l. 1. advers Marcion or the lodgings of the Ant or the webs of the Spider or the threds of the silkeworme and imitate them if thou canst And thus we see the point cleared Now our duty is when we see these wonders to breake out in an acknowledgement of God of his excellencies and glorious Attributes which are displayed in these creatures O the depth of the riches