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spirit_n	body_n	lord_n	soul_n	15,609	5	5.1843	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06734	A learned and a godly sermon, to be read of all men, but especially for all marryners, captaynes and passengers, which trauell the seas, preached by Iohn Madoxe, maister of arte, and fellow of All soules in Oxforde, at Waymouth and Melcombe regis, a porte in the countrie of Dorsett, the 3. day of October, in the yeere of our Lord. 1581	Madox, Richard, 1546-1583.; Martin, Thomas, d. 1584.	1581 (1581)	STC 17180; ESTC S101892	11,178	36

A Learned and a Godly Sermon to be read of all men but especially for all Marryners Captaynes and Passengers which trauell the Seas preached by Iohn Madoxe Maister of Arte and fellow of All soules in Oxforde at Waymouth and Melcombe regis a Porte in the Countie of Dorsett the 3. day of October in the yeere of our Lord. 1581. Esaiah 55.3 Encline your eares and come vnto me heare and your soules shall liue and I will make an euerlasting couenaunt with you euen the sure mercies of Dauid At London Printed by I. Charlwood To the worshipfull M. Mayor of Waymouth and Melcombe regis in the County of Dorsett and his brethren the Bayliffes and Aldermen of the same Towne Thomas Martin wisheth encrease of grace with the true feare of God WHen I considered with my self worshipful and in the Lord beloued the manifolde and subtile practises with the malignant drifts that the man of sinne his ministers by the suggestiō of Satan doo daily put in vre to bring Gods word being a Lanterne vnto our steps and a light vnto our feete not only into contēpt disliking but also vnto vtter ruine and decay that he may raigne in the temple of mens harts as God alone I could not stay but carefully endeuor my selfe what way best I might diligently as well to supporte and vnderproppe as to promote and aduaunce the same And for that of my selfe I am not so good a labourer in the Lordes Vineyarde as I wish I were yea rather a loyterer as I wish I were not for in truth the good thing that I would doo I doo not the contrary that I would not that doo I yet not I but sinne that beareth sway in me I thought it good to sette abroade in the viewe of the world to the constant comfort and ioy of the Godly and to the griping greefe and sobbing sorrowe of the wicked that short sweete and comfortable sermon which that godly learned and vertuous young man Iohn Madoxe M. of Arte and fellow of all Soules in Oxforde in your hearing preached heere in this Chapell of Melcombe the third of October in the yeere of our Lorde 1581. to all your great comforts That as then in your hearts being by the spirite of God therevnto zealously mooued you dilligently heard him so now the same beeing eftsoones offered vnto you to be perused you may glorifye God in him And that as hee nowe hauing reaped the fruites of his faith is made coheire with his and our Christ in the kingdome of our good God so his good studyes in vertuous exercises not buryed in the pit of obliuion may make him in fame on earth to liue for aye Which sermon as by the author at my mocion was first vvillingly vnto you pronounced and at that time of you thankfully receiued so now vnto you most gladly the same doo I dedicate and so much the rather because you being Marchants and therfore often trauailing the dangerous salt fome may by taking it with you and recording the same learne howe to passe in the acceptable feare of God your idle times at sea to the benefit of your own soules and most of all to the glorye of God So be it Your freende in the Lord to commaunde Thomas Martin Luke 10.18 And when he was entred into the ship his disciples followed him c. O Lord God our strength and refuge which onely doost great miracles thou which art the hope and health of the iust and the defender of thē in the time of trouble thou that buildest thy tabernacles in heauen and hast fastened the ioyntes thereof belowe in the earth which callest the waters of the Sea and powrest them vpon dry lande appease the rage of this tempestious worlde stil the stormes of the flesh and rebuke the wicked spirites which seeke to bring both body and soule vnto shipwracke Aryse Lorde in thy mercy and helpe for wee are hardly distressed set our vessels out of danger that so in safety we may aryue to the wished Hauen which is heauē it selfe the rather to take the land with Christe which is our cheefest cariage then to make shew or sale of any other Merchandize of our owne For all other is nothing in comparison of him in whose name we assemble together humbling our selues and aduauncing his glory who is our life our light and our comfort euen Christ Iesus to whom hee praise power and dominion for euer Amen BEtter a simple Cooke dresse the supper then that the guestes go hungry to bed better spread vp a Canuase sheete then to be quite without a sayle and make no way at all better a small venture in a little Pynasse then to sitte out for naught and to be left quite without a share and so I truste you will thinke that sith this place can not now be so furnished as it should yet better take that it may haue then looke for that it cannot haue assuring you that albeit my cookery bee simple yet will I see that the meate shall bee good and wholsome and albeit my Barke be not stored with shift of Tackell yet shall it bring you to a safe Hauen and albeit the bottome be but small and nothing deepely laden yet shall it share to euery man at least one good lesson They that goe downe to the Sea in shippes and occupy by the great waters these see the workes of the Lorde and his wonders in y e deepe For at his word the stormy winde ariseth and troubleth y e waues therof In as much therefore as thys Towne is placed so nigh the maine that it vseth the Ocean as an handmayde to bring in profit whereby you become well acquainted with all the knackes conditions of the salt Fome how seruicable it is whē it is well pleased what bedlam leges it will fetch when it beginneth to be wanton Therfore haue I chosen this text euen from this Gospell that you may confesse the might and meruailous power of Christe by working such a miracle and also he enstructed howe to order your selues that you may passe the waues without daunger of losse If any man were able to vndertake the safe landing of all your commodities and warrant euery voyage that you make I doubt not but you wold gather about him in a throng and listen to all his wordes and admonitions If therefore the preacher will warrant the safetye of your soules with al the heauenly fraught and spirituall marchandize thereof be not slacke to heare him for it is the better parte it is ware that serueth in a deere yeere yea it enricheth you and all your children Saint Mathewe hauing declared before y e wonders y t Christ wrought vpon the earth not in the wildernes onely where fewe perhaps might be to see them but euen in y e townes and Citties where euery mā might beholde them and not in the Ualleys alone among the people but in the tops of the mountaines among his Disciples