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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

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 Published by their Appointment LONDON Printed by J. Macock for John Martyn at the Bell in St Paul's Church-Yard 1680. TO THE Right Honourable GEORGE Earl of BERKLEY Viscount DURSLEY Lord BERKLEY of Berkley-Castle c. and Master of the Corporation of Trinity-House in Deptford Strand My Lord WHEN this Sermon was Preached before You Your Lordship and the Worthy Gentlemen of Your Society were pleased by many kind and obliging Expressions to signifie your favourable acceptance of it and to let me know that it was your desire it might be made publick Which I confess was somewhat of a surprise to me Yet I considered that I ought to look upon the repeated declaration of your Lordships pleasure and the concurrent Vote of so many judicious persons in the nature of a command and have therefore chosen by this act of submission to pay that deference which is due to your judgment thereby giving the best assurance I can that I am My Lord Your Lordships most humble and most obedient Servant RI. HOLDEN DANIEL XII 4. Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be encreased THis Book consists of History and Prophecy In the historical Part there are great arguments of Daniel's and his Companions piety of their constant faith in God and courage in persecutions together with an account of the miraculous deliverances which God wrought for them In the prophetical there are predictions of strange Revolutions and of great changes and alterations of Government which should happen in several of the great Kingdoms of the World and these so plainly described that Porphyrie would not believe they were written before the event But above all there are clear and distinct prophecies of the Messias his name offices and the time of his death when he should be cut off and make a reconciliation for iniquity Dan. 9.24 26. In the three first Verses of this Chapter he speaks of the twofold coming of Christ at first to publish and confirm the Gospel vers 1. the other to reward his faithful Servants and to punish obstinate and incorrigible Sinners ver 2 3. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the Earth shall awake some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt And because many things here foretold were not to come to pass of some Ages after therefore he is commanded in the beginning of this verse to shut up the Words and seal the Book until the time of the end that is to preserve it carefully that afterwards by comparing the prophecies with the events men may see that these things were known to God long before For this is the great reason why God has been pleased in his Word to reveal to his Church many things which shall happen in after Ages His end and design therein was not to gratifie the curiosity of men who are naturally desirous to know what shall come to pass in future times but to clear his own Omniscience and to make it manifest after their accomplishment that they were not casual or unexpected to him but that he had a certain foreknowledge of them Whence it is that Prophecies are wont to be expressed in obscure words and in a dark language and are called a sealed Book because the meaning of them at least in all the circumstances is hidden from us till expounded by the event which when all is done is usually their best Interpreter But saith he in the words of the Text before the time of the end come before the accomplishment of this great Prophecy concerning the consummation and conclusion of all things the end of the World and the Day of Judgment Many shall pass to and fro and knowledge shall be encreased In which Words we have these two Parts 1. A Prediction of something remarkable that should happen in the latter days Many shall pass to and fro 2. The consequent of that the benefit which thence should redound to mankind And knowledge shall be encreased 1. For the former the Prediction of somewhat remarkable that should happen in the latter days Many shall run or pass to and fro Not to trouble you with variety of Expositions that which seems most probable in it self as well as most suitable to the occasion of this solemn Assembly is That in these Words the Prophet foretells the great improvement there should be of Navigation in the latter Ages of the World And this Interpretation I ground upon the proper notion of the Hebrew Verb here used 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which as it signifies in Scripture generally any way of motion or passage so in the Chaldee which is the language wherein the Prophet wrote the greatest part of this Book it properly signifies to move upon the waters and the words which come from it referre to this sense 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ezek. 27.8 is rendered Mariners and vers 26. thy rowers and Isai 33.21 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a Gally with Oars And to this sence the vulgar Latine had an eye when it translates the words of the Text Plurimi pertransibunt multiplex erit scientia Many shall pass through as it were from one end of the World to another and knowledge shall be encreased And how exactly the event has answered the Prophecy will easily appear to any one who considers that the Mediterranean was the biggest Sea which was known to the wisest Nations of those Ages the Hebrews Greeks and Romans whence in all their Languages it is called the Great Sea Numb 34.6 Josh 1.4 Rom. 7. ● it being greater by far than any other they knew the Sea of Galilee and of Genezareth and the rest being but bigger Lakes and the Red Sea much less than it And though they had heard of the Ocean which is mentioned by Homer yet little or no use of it was made in many Ages for Navigation insomuch that St. Clemens Ep●ad C●r p. 28. who lived in the first Age of Christianity says 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the Ocean was not to be passed by men Jun. in loc and yet it is thought that he meant no other but the narrow Sea which is betwixt England and France Further than Hercules's Pillars or Gades they accounted as Pindar's words are Oly n. 3. ad fin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wholly unpassable filled with nothing but darkness and confusion And Herodotus relating how Neco King of Egypt sent out some Phoenician adventures from the Red Sea Lib. 4. Ch. 42. p. 237. who when after a voyage of three years they were come home affirmed that they had sailed around Africk 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where they had the Sun on their right hand and so returned by the Streights through the Mediterranean into Egypt again he