Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
lord_n earl_n king_n viscount_n 14,472 5 11.3612 5 false
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A57542 A sermon preached before the corporation of Trinity-house in Deptford Strand, at the election of their master, May XXX, 1681 by John Rogers ... Rogers, John, b. 1647. 1681 (1681) Wing R1818; ESTC R11375 14,418 41

There is 1 snippet containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

A SERMON Preached before the CORPORATION OF Trinity-House IN DEPTFORD STRAND At the ELECTION of their MASTER May XXX 1681. By JOHN ROGERS A. M. and Chaplain to the RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE Earl of BERKELEY Published by their Appointment LONDON Printed by J. Macock for Richard Royston Bookseller to the Kings most Excellent Majesty MDCLXXXI TO THE Right Honourable GEORGE EARL of BERKELEY Viscount DURESLEY Lord BERKELEY of Berkeley-Castle c. My Lord IN humble Obedience to Your Lordships Commands and due Submission to a Request made to Your Lordship by the worthy Master and Gentlemen of the Corporation of Trinity-House this Discourse which was designed by me only for the Pulpit now begs your Lordships and those worthy Gentlemens Acceptance from the Press The Intention of it being to perswade Sea-faring men to the Exercise of Religion and Vertue upon Motives proper to themselves if by God's Blessing upon it it shall be a means of turning any one unto Righteousness it will be the most ample Return I expect for this bold Adventure abroad My Lord if it were possible that all of your high Rank and Quality would after your great Example resolve to be either Encouragers of Trade or employ their Minds in some other way as serviceable to their King their Country and Themselves we might then hope to see every one of them become what your Lordship now is inflexibly Loyal to his Prince a Hearty Lover of his Country a Great Friend to Business and Trade and a Professed Enemy to the looseness and degeneracy of the Age. MY Lord I am Your Lordships most humble and most obedient Servant and Chaplain JOHN ROGERS A SERMON Preached before the Corporation of TRINITY-HOUSE in Deptford-Strand May XXX 1681. JONAH I. 6. So the Ship-master came to him and said unto him What meanest thou O Sleeper Arise call upon thy God if so be that God will think upon us that we perish not IN this Book we have a compendious History of the extraordinary mission of the Prophet Jonah to preach Repentance to the Ninivites whose wickedness had come up before the Lord. Wherein if we consider the Circumstances that attend it they will appear to be of a very strange and extraordinary Nature so seemingly opposite to the thing designed and yet so harmonious and successful in the Event that this Instance alone were sufficient to humble our minds make us acquiesce under all the Dispensations of Divine Providence rely upon God's Ways though they be never so unlike ours and walk submissively in his Paths how crooked and intricate soever they may seem to be That a poor solitary Prophet out of Israel should enter the Streets of the great Metropolis of Assyria Niniveh that great City whose compass say Historians was forty eight Miles and her Towers fifteen hundred nay so exceeding great that the Prophet himself chap. 3. ver 3. affirms it to be three days journey within it self that he should there denounce woful judgment against the Inhabitants thereof if within forty days they humbled not themselves before God what could possibly be expected from so daring an attempt but that the Prophet upon the first opening of his mouth should have immediately fell a Sacrifice to the fury of the enraged multitude Yet behold the contrary his words become quick and powerful and sharper than a two-edged-sword he no sooner enters the City and lifts up his voice but the People believe God and a Fast is proclaimed by a Decree of King and Nobles a Fast of rigorous both for Man and Beast that the like was never heard of before Again The word of the Lord came unto Jonah saying Arise go to Niniveh The speedy execution of his Commission one would have thought should have been much forwarded by the near approach of the Judgment Yet forty days and Niniveh shall be destroyed yet behold he flies from the Presence of the Lord turns away from Assyria goes on Board at Joppa and is bound for Cilicia nay so regardless was he of his Commission that instead of trembling in the sight of God for alas Whither can he flee from his presence If he take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the Sea even there shall his right hand hold him so regardless was he I say of the heavenly voice and the Judgment consequent upon so great Disobedience that he lays himself down in perfect security is not to be awakened either by the loudness of the Winds or the roaring of the Waters till at last admonished by a Heathen he is content to be cast over-board and takes up an unheard-of Lodging in the Belly of a Whale which by the way must give occasion for that Story of Hercules mentioned by Lycophron who calls him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because he was preserved three nights in the Belly of a Fish Now that all these so seemingly untoward accidents should be so wisely managed in the Event as to mightily advantage that End which they appeared so much directly to oppose this plainly shews that such things are the Lords doings and ought to be marvellous in our eyes Yet upon these strange occurrences 't is probable the Mariners could not forbear spreading the report of them which at last reaching Niniveh might prepare the Prophets way possess the people that he could not come to them but by a Miracle that he was a Person extraordinarily sent of God and by this means gain credit and success to his Preaching Now among all the Passages of this History I have made choice of that which concerns the Prophet's behaviour whilst out at Sea as being most suitable to the present Occasion and most agreeable to my Design which is to be as practical as I can What meanest thou O Sleeper Arise call upon thy God if so be that God will think upon us that we perish not In speaking to which words I shall do these following things I. Shew That the proper Effect of Dangers by Sea should be to awaken mens minds and raise them up unto Acts of Devotion What meanest thou O Sleeper Arise call upon thy God II. The great Encouragement men have to do this from the especial Providence of God over Sea-affairs If so be that God will think upon us that we perish not And III. I shall crave leave to answer some Objections which this Discourse may be thought liable unto I. That the proper Effect of Dangers by Sea should be to awaken mens minds and raise them up unto acts of Devotion What meanest thou O Sleeper Arise call upon thy God To call upon God in times of Danger and Distress is natural to mankind but no kind of Dangers have such an aptitude in them to rouse the Spirits of men and make them think what their condition is towards God as those which sea-faring men are frequently exposed to S t Paul recounting the dangers he had passed through in preaching the Gospel to