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A57803	The Julian ship, or, Paul's transportation to Rome a discourse on Acts 27, 15, made on March 20, 1680/81, the Sunday before the last Parliament's meeting at Oxford / by Wil. Ramsay, Esq., B.D. ...	Ramsay, William, B.D.	1681 (1681)	Wing R216; ESTC R13588	13,504	28

Ship with the Sailers and Mariners and the whole Ships Crew ver 11. and 30. These represent the Church of England in the Malignant sense that is the Popish Church or Romish Party among us For Julius was the Minister of the Roman Emperour who then was the Cruel Nero and together with the other Pagan Emperours is by St. John called The Red Dragon because made Red with the Bloud of Christians Which Red Dragon gave his Power and Seat and great Authority to the Beast the Pope Rev. 13.1 2. Then Julius the Centurion aptly represents every Popish Power or Civil Romish Minister among us and his Souldiers the Popish Laity Hirelings or Pensioners or whatsover Popish instruments or helps The Pilot and Master and Ships-Crew represent more properly the Popish Clergy with their Adherents and all that are Popishly affected In Relation to the present great Popish Plot Julius imports the Chief Civil-Agent therein the Pilot and Master the Chief-spiritual Ones Only mark This Julius was no Caesar and we pray God avert such a Judgement from us that ever any Caesar should be such a Julius There was a third sort of persons in the Ship There were with Paul certain other Prisoners ver 1. These joyn'd with St. Paul and his Company may represent the Church of England in the Common sense as it includes all that are called Protestants But if we take all these sorts of persons together that is all that are Aboard the ship they represent the Church of England in the National sense that is the whole English Nation So much for the first Circumstance who are Aboard The second Circumstance is Whither bound We need not hale them For we may read afar off as it were in their Fore-Castle in the greatest Characters ver 1. It was determin'd that we should sail into Italy It was determin'd that the Whole Nation of us The Now-Church of England in the largest sense should go to Rome Julius the Commander of the Ship had receiv'd Commission for this which he durst not neglect or disobey for he could not answer such a default before his Lord Augustus Nero. It was determin'd the Chap. before by Porcius Festus by King Agrippa and by Bernice that we should all sail into Italy to Rome that we should all be shipt together and transported to Popery The French Agrippa and the Pompous Berenice were thus kind unto us And what was Father le Cheese Agrippa's Consessor but a well fed Porcius Festus And was not Coleman at least their most humble Julius Have we not the Letters of his Commission taken from his own hands and confest with his own Mouth in which it was fully determin'd that we should all sail into Italy That the whole Nation of us should serve Augustus Nero or the Beast in his stead That the beast should receive his power again over us which alass he has lost so long That we should worship him with a new Zeal and that for his sake we should set up his Image over us that is a Popish power in which we need fear nothing but two things An Arbitrary Rule to destroy our bodies that is our Lives and Liberties at Pleasure and an Antichristian Religion to destroy our Souls of Necessity This is the second circumstance It was determin'd we should sail into Italy The third Circumstance is of What built the Ship or whence the Ship We find it ver 2. First we entered into a ship of Adramyttium The Original Word is Chadermouth which the Greeks mollifying pronounce Adramuttion It 's compounded of Chader a Conclave or privy Room and Mouth Death So that the ships name was the Conclave of Death as if we would call it Portmouth the Port of Death Mouth signifying Death in the Hebrew Therefore this ship of St. Paul doth rightly represent unto us that ship of the Plot which was built in the Jesuits Conclave or which is all One in the Conclave of Rome to us the Conclave of Death For there we were all shipt for death both Bodily and Spiritual Temporal and Eternal Our Enemies had made themselves sure of us Their ship was so well built their plot was so well laid that they counted us as much their Prisoners having got us into their Chadermouth as Julius accounted Paul and his Fellows his Prisoners when he had put them into this ship of Adramyttium I dare engage my Life for a Sacrifice says Coleman to Porcius Festus if we succeed not c. And his Word was made true but not to his own Mind But mind now whom had they ship't in this ship of Death Not only Paul and Luke but also Aristarchus our Soverain Lord the best of Princes and with him every Noble Macedonian every faithful Patriot every Christian Thessalonian every zealous Citizen and Protestant Thessalonica it self they devoted to the Flames They succeeded in that they burnt our fairest Protestant City but she coming victorious with double Glory out of the midst of the Popish Furnace she prov'd her self a Thessalonica indeed In a word the Whole Nation was put into this ship their Chadermouth to be transported to Rome or Death or Hell yet Paul and Luke and Aristarchus that is only Our chief and best Ones were markt out for presents to Nero for sacrifices to his holy power And we shall see wonders in their Rescue For see we The fourth Circumstance what course the ship steers Not what course the Commander had devised or the Sailers For then we had all been undone and carried to Rome before this For ver 2. They meant to sail by the Coasts of Asia in which coasts was Built that Adramyttion that Portsmouth that door of death which was prepared for us there they had chalkt out an infallible way of destruction for us all But God regarded his servants in this Ship and for his Church and Gospels-sake he steer'd his Paul and his Luke another way He brought them first to Sidon to Agrippa's Confederates and gave Paul favour even in the eyes of Julius and no few friends in Sidon ver 3. So God rais'd us up friends to help us from amidst our Death-plotting Enemies From Sidon Julius thought to sail straight to Myra he mistook it for a Roman word and thought to work wonders in a moment But the God of Paul countermanded the Winds and steer'd them under Cyprus and over the Sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia ver 4 5 led them a way which they thought not of for the way of the wicked the Lord turned upside down Psal 146.9 at length by his permission they came to Myra in Lycia where this first ship having serv'd Paul more than Julius finished its course So has our God made the Popish Plotters to serve most wonderfully the Gospel's turn even while they sought to destroy it The Parallel of this first ship seems to reach as far as the matter of Toleration procured by Our English Julian's by which they doubted not to Hobgoble us all to ship