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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03390	A free-vvill offering, or, a Pillar of praise with a thankfull remembrance for the receit of mercies, in a long voyage, and happy arrivall. First preached in Fen-Church, the 7 of September, 1634. now published by the author, Samuel Hinde.; Free-will offering.	Hinde, Samuel, fl. 1634.	1634 (1634)	STC 13511; ESTC S115210	27,253	104

we not delivered as a prey unto their teeth But by the honourable convoy of his mercy by the hand of his clemency are wee brought to the haven where we would be Oh that men would therefore c. Have you heard and read of Ionah embarked en wombed Ionah 1.17 and entombed in the entrals of that great Leviathan yet blessed with protection Even wee also have had the like menaces of windes and waves stormes and tempests to make us fit morsels for those living mountaines whose entrals and gorges would soone consume us to a gelly Ionah 2.10 But the mercies of the God of Ionah are not yet diminished for he hath brought us to the haven where we would be Oh c. Mat. 8. ●3 24 Lastly have you heard both of sinners and Saviour both in one ship covered with waves tossed with tempests he asleep they awake they fearefull he powerfull they as sufferers he as a commander both of them and what they feared The case was ours we have beene though not in eadem nave in the same ship yet in codem praedicamento Toto sonuerum aethere ●●mbi Vir. in the same predicament And when we cride in our distresse he heard us when we went to awake him he arose and calm'd the waves stilled the windes stayed the spouts repelled the gusts rebuk't the stormes And by his mercy are we brought to the Haven where wee would be Oh that men would therefore c. He that neither slumbereth nor sleepeth was our aide and helper or if he have seem'd to sleepe t is as he expounds himselfe Cant. 5. Cant. 5.2 I sleepe but mine heart waketh He seemes to use sleepe but his heart waketh and himselfe is vigilant for our protection Once indeed aboue all other times he seem'd to us to sleep out a miserable and fearfull storme as if he had forsaken us as once his Father had forsaken him t is worthy the file and records of eternitie Mat. 27.46 In the mould of Genoa In Genoa the eight of Ianuarie last was such a storme and tempest as caused the Inhabitants to rake up the urnes and bring forth the ashes of the deceased Saint Iohn Baptist as a propitiatory sacrifice to calme the raging Sea I neither beleeve that they are or that they are of some vertue or that they have them if they were yet there all the he Saints and she Saints Angels Lords and Ladies of Heaven were sued unto for mercy and deliverance Mat. 8.27 In this never to bee forgotten misery we cryed unto the Lord our God who seemed to sleepe and be awakened and both the windes and sea they did obey him De profundis clamavi out of the depth did I cry unto the Lord. Abyssus abyssum invocat One depth calls on another a depth of our misery caused for a depth of his mercy he did neglect us but for a while for the greater manifestation of his mercie and increase of our services Oh that men would Psal 99 6. c. Moses Aaron and Samuel Noah Daniel and Iob those spirituall Courtiers and favourites of the King of heaven in their distresses cried unto the Lord and hee heard them and delivered them and his mercies are renewed to us everie morning and his compassions faile not Lam 3.22 Psal 86.1 He will have us know that when sinners bow their hearts he will bow and bend his eares to their prayers and supplications And that he desires not the death of a sinner but rather c. As I live saith God the Father as I dye saith God the Sonne I desire not nor delight not in the death of sinners no he is proner to mercy then to judgement He was longer in destroying one Citie I in threatning to destroy it than in building of the whole world Ionah 3.4 Exod. 20.11 Fortie dayes and Ninive shall be destroyed sixe dayes and the whole world was made the heaven earth the sea and all that therein is Well may he forget to be angry with us Psal 30.5 Psal 136.1 for the stormes of his anger endure but for a moment but he can never forget to be mercifull for the calmes of his mercy endures for ever So much for the two generals viz. the Dangers that provoke us to awfulnesse the Mercies that move us to thankfulnesse 3 General Duties to draw us to obedience the third follows which is duties to prouoke us to obedience And this obedience must reflect backe againe and be seene and shewed in the performance of a double dutie viz. The publication of his praises and proclamation of his wonders Text. Oh that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men This is all the Text will enjoyn or the Prophet looke for or the God of Text and Prophet require after the receit of his mercies to yeeld unto him his tribute of praises T is as much as he doth aske t is as little as we can give t is his due and our duty Of both which a word or two and there cannot much more remaine Hitherto we haue but numbred the turrets and bulwarks of this text as David wisht the spectators of Sion Psal 48.1 Psalme 48. and haue beene stayed in Atrio templi in the porch entrance and body of the Text. Now suffer me to leade you by the hand into the sanctuary of Sanctum sanctorum or holy of holyes He that will not lend an eare deserues not that euery Angell should moue a wing or descend the ladder or looke out of the windows of heaven to assist him either in his wants or wishes Gen. 28.12 The first piece of our obligation consists in the publication of his praises and to do this brings honour to God He that offereth me praise he honoureth me Psal 50.23 The second is the declaration of his wonders and he that doth not this draws a curse and propheticall anathema upon his owne head which waits for such as regard not the worke of the Lord nor the operation of his hands Psal 28.5.6 Oh that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare c. Those that haue beene most deeply interest in humaine miseries and the receit of divine favours are called here to the performance of these holy seruices And they onely because there cannot be a greater argument of Gods praise and our duty then escape from danger and receit of mercy This truth is firmely built upon the pillars of the Text. The conquering Romans in all their honourable and glorious triumphs Hist Rom. suffered none to make any triumph to erect any Prophees or to enter into the Temple of honour where were Crowns Garlands Palms Lawrels Robes Aul. Gel. Rewards Emblemes but they must first passe the Temple of vertue where were Swords Iavelins Targets Lances Helmets and other instruments of warre by which they must purchase their

of Samaria should rise up in judgement against mee who said amongst themselves 2 King 7.9 This is a day of good tidings wee doe not well to hold our peace If we tarry till the morning light some mischiefe will befall us now therefore come that wee may goe and tell the Kings houshold It were a piece of impardonable sacriledge to monopolize or ingrosse the divine Elixar of my Masters and my Makers mercies and miracles workes and wonders that I have had experience of in forraigne and farre distant Climats Counties Kingdomes Ilands Provinces Nations People Languages Since then that God the Father requires no more of me than God the Sonne did of the dispossessed Demoniacke Mark 5.19 Goe and tell what great things the Lord hath done for thee I were unworthy of my tongue if I should not speake to you of your eares if you should not heare what shall be delivered May the God of heaven therefore open my lips Mark 1.17.34 and my mouth shall shew forth his praise say Ephphata to your eares and they shall be opened for the wonders of the King of glory to enter in In these words that I have read and you have heard there is an exact mixture and accurate composure of Dangers Mercies and Duties these three are woven and platted in the Text and are the three Tabernacles of my meditation here I build one for God another for you a third for my selfe and such else as it doth concerne Here is dangers of such as goe downe into the deepe Mercies of him that made the Sea and all that therein is Duties for such as have received these mercies and escapt these dangers and are brought to the haven where they would be Heaven earth and waters rowle and tumble up the billowes of the Text the woofe and warpe whereof is spun both of course and fine threed Exra 8.16 Exod. 36.1 1 Cor 3.16 It would require the skill of Iarib and Elnathan men of understanding the hand and loome of some Aholiab and Bezaleel to make it fit worke for the Tabernacle of the Lord for the Temple of God which Temple yee are that while you heare of these dangers ye may be brought to feare and awfulnesse of these mercies yee may be drawne to practise thankfulnesse of these duties ye may be woed to service and obedience It wants not what skill I could bestow upon it according to my talant and ability and my time and present opportunity of which I may say as Philip of the five loaves and two fishes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Alas what are these amongst so many Alas what are these my meditations these water-works not able to expresse the shadows of that divine Majestie they do adore and to which they are dedicated Yet they should be seasonable they have crossed many brinish billows and waves of salt water and to you they should be acceptable For as amongst you I preached my Vale and long farewel so now by divine providence am I brought againe once more upon this holy mount The Communion day to salute you with my primum salve first salutation what you can conceive not to be seasonable in regard of your time and meeting You may freely correct it t' will shew part of your judgement which I conceive to be sutable in respect of my time and arrivall you may favourably accept it as part of my love Incline therefore your eares to the tenor of the following Embassie the arrant is Gods the task is mine the use is yours Let your pious acceptance and patient attention be as Midwives to assist me in the delivery of these three dangers mercies duties that struggle in the wombe of my text like the quarrelling twinnes that descended from the loynes of Isaac from the bowels of Rebeckah Gen. 25.22 The rough and hairie Esau comes first to view I le first speake of the dangers Ioh. 2.9 reserving the other as the Bridegroom did his best wine untill the last They that go downe into the sea expose themselves unto a danger that like the mace of Neptune is three-forked Danger threefold All voyagers are lyable to a triple danger of the Sea of the enemies in the Sea of the enemies on the shore after their arrivall In any or all these three kindes was there never more danger than now since Noahs Dove was pilot unto Noahs Arke Gen. 8.8 or since Saturne the King of Greete did first finde out the Art of Navigation The way of a ship in the Sea is one of those foure things that prou'd a paradox to puzsle and non-plus the wise and great King Solomon Pro. 30.9 and thousands more since his dissolution He that commits himselfe to the custody of a three incht plank for there 's no more betweene death and us had need to say with David Psalme 108.1 My heart is ready O Lord my heart is ready He had need to be ready for prosperitie ready for adversity ready for libertie ready for slavery ready for the stormes tempests of vengeance ready for the calmes and favourable aire of mercy He must look to be a sharer in the first Phil 4.11 he may hope to be partaker of the last They that go downe into the deepe shall see a Sea whose billows bellow whose surges swell raging with tempests roaring with whirlwinds and be at once terrified with fearefull thunder-claps dazled with terrible lightenings amazed with ayerie fires and apparitions astonished with eruptions and evaporations from the furnaces of heaven with the clouds those bottles of heaven that sometimes emptie themselues in such violence as if they threatned another deluge With those windes that come from the treasuries and hollow concaves of the earth which as is let loose for vengeance like some accursed bandogge are more fierce for former cohibitions These besides many other sad apparences are they lyable to that go downe into the deepe which oftentimes affright them worse then the ghost of Brutus did him in his dismall and nocturnall vision Plutarch Cher. Now such as are humbled with these judgements amazed with these wonders astonished with these terrours affrighted with these apparitions can never disrellish the offers of mercy in such deliverances they cannot but praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare his wonders that he doth for the children of men I lived to see which now I live to declare and memorate all the foure elements in a combustion Psa 118 17 uproare and confusion as if they had beene to have beene reduced to their former chaos Frigida pugnabant calidis Ovid. lib. 1● Met humentia siccis Mollia cum duris sine pondere habentia pondus Having passed the dangerous and strait gulph of the danger Incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim Ovid. in Loc. Not farre distant from the Trinacrian or Sicilian shore we sayled neare an Island that burnes like mount Sinai Earth yet not consumed