Augustine sayth Qui non manet in Christo c. He that dwelleth not in Christe and in whome Christe dwelleth not vndoubtedly he eateth not spiritually the fleshe and blood of Christe Albeit he carnally and visibly teare with his teeth the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christe And if any man say vnto me why then doth Christ say This is my body I answere it is a figuratiue speach of our Sauiour and is of him spoken to a people that well were acquaynted with the Scriptures phrase in Sacramentes So is Circumcision called the Couenaunt of the Lorde when it is but the signe of the Lordes Couenaunt The Couenaunt it selfe was I will be thy God and thou shalt be my people And therefore Circumcision is called in the same chapter that which in it selfe it remayneth to be namely the Signe and not the Couenaunt And it shall be sayth God a signe of the Couenaunt betwixt thee and me Likewise the Pascall Lambe is called Transitus domini the passing by of the Lord vntill the comming of Christe yet the Lorde by his angel passed but once in al through the land of Egipt and therfore verily indede that sacrament could not be the passsing of the lord This is the vse of scripture sayth Augu. that the signes which signifie are called by the names whiche they do represent as thus the seuē eares of corne septem anni sunt are seuen yeres The Rocke was Christe c. And in another place he sayth The Lord doubted not to say This is my body whē he gaue signū corporis the signe of his body So good christian Audience the words of Christ as of him they were spoken are sacramentally to be vnderstoode So that whē Christ saith This is my body we are to take it thus this is the representing to the faithfull the exhibiting signe of my body That these words of Christ are figuratiuely spoken Augu. also witnesseth in his booke De doctrina christiana But that the faythful do eate by the worke of the spirite Christes diuine power his very body and blood in the true vse of the Lords supper the faithfulnes in god approueth who euer was the same to his people that his faithful pledges the Sacraments promised Circūcision promised his continuall ayde that he would be their god and they should be his people Search the Scriptures see if euer any people were so guerdoned or had the presence of God so neare them or were any people so prospered so long as they continued with circumcised harts in his holy couenant Did not the Lord by his angel performe that in dede which he promised by his paesah his sacramentall passeouer Did he not passe by the Israelites house tied to this Couenant plagued all the first borne in Egypt So no doubt he truely feedeth the faithfull with not only the power but the precious body in himself not stouping one inch yet frō his fathers Throne or giuing his body to be rent into peces with our mortal teeth but in such a diuine sort as our tongs can not vtter bicause our or thy capacities cā not cōceiue the maner how further thē by the sight of his noble creature the shining sun The sunne in his globe and person doth kepe continue his spheare circle in the Zodiake yet doth he by the decree and prouident power of God light vs warm vs comforte vs and renewe our blood and bodies and as we may saye by borowed speache geueth vs lyfe by his heauenly beames the ordinarie conducts from him felfe with his very liuing substaunce Sith thus we haue so elegant a shadow of our Sauiour Christes body verily feding vs that are his in earth let vs not distrust or further descant howe the Lord can sith we know not how the sonne doth his office but feele it so to be but let vs beleeue that the Lord by his holy spirite doth feede vs and in deede with his very body blood from heauen as verily as his minister at the table in earth doth geue vs the sacred symboles of his holy body whiche in their former nature remaine not other then bread wine And with that mind that our father Abraham did receiue the sacrament of circumcision let vs folow approch the Lordes table That is so taccept with faythful harte in hand the holy Mysteries as the seales of righteousnes that God will giue vs the same that he affyrmeth them to be and in such sort as the same is to be distributed vnto vs effectually in spirite truth Let vs examine trie our selues whether we be in the fayth let vs wel consider of our steppes whether we be stāding or falling before our God let vs cast from vs our former ills put vpon vs Iesus Christ his obedience Let vs confesse our daily sinnes approch with louing feare reuerence vnto this table of attonement Finally repent beleeue the Gospel Let the Papist depart from all his ignoraunt superstition receyue the doctrine of the holy written scriptures vnfaignedly Let the carnal gospeller the Atheist be ashamed at his filthy life skoffing girds cast at the truth Let the Auncient harlot hate his whordome and bath his beastly body in the blood of Christ by repentant fayth Let the couetous stretche out his hande vnto the poore shut vp his eyes from worldly thirst Let the courtly Dames you here present cut short the phantasies of vaine desires and rather couet to come behind the lashing pride of these ill days then seeke to folow the vntamed fashion of this wicked world And pray with Dauid that your eyes may be fast shut from beholding our to to much abhominable vanities Let the contentious ceasse their brawling striffe and with vs in one by the Lordes spirite of truth ascende to the Lordes sacrament of vnitie loue That this grace may come to euery of vs and to the whole Church of god this Church of England Ireland and therein to the Quenes maiestie Elizabeth her honorable Councelours and Potentates Gods spiritual Preachers and Ministers to all Magistrates gouernours as well here present as absent and to this congregation a member of the sayd Church let vs the louing sheepe of our cheefe Shepherd Christe by the comfort direction of his holy spirite humbly at the hands of our most merciful Father for the loue he beareth to Christe his only begotten sonne and in his name craue it saying O our father whiche arte in heauen c. Graunt O Lorde that into the vvords vvhich this day and at other times through thy great mercy vve haue graciously heard vve may be effectually transformed through Christe our head Shepheard and Lorde To whom together with thee O Father and the holy Ghost three distinct persons and one eternall God be all honour and glory power and dominion now and for euer
Christe but it is the worke of God in him The order also in our conuersion to the Lorde is excellent The Father geueth to his Christe those whiche shall be called The holy Ghost he giueth into their hartes whom he hath predestinate to lyfe which spirite graffeth them into Christe who by his blood doth wash their soules from sinne and by the same his spirite doth forme them in his fayth whose Gospell he writeth in their hartes and sheedeth his loue into their consciences so that they walke in newnes of lyfe because they are taken vp and the olde man in them cast downe and as newe creatures they follow their leader Christe into the steppes besitting their condition These are they whiche are theodidaktoi all taught of god This elegant order is described at large by the Prophet Ezechiell in this sort A newe hart vvill I geue you and a new spirite vvill I put vvithin you I vvill take away the stony hart out of your body and vvill geue you an hart of flesh and I vvill put my spirite vvithin you and cause you to vvalke in my statutes and you shall keepe my iudgements and do thē And a little after I vvill be your God and you shall be my people And agayne thus Then shall ye remember your owne vvicked vvayes and your deedes vvhiche vvere not good and shall iudge your selues vvorthy to haue bene destroyed for your iniquities and abhominations Be it knowne to you that J doo not this for your sakes sayth the Lord God therefore be ashamed and confounded for your owne vvayes And Paule to the Romanes hath it thus Those which he knew before he also predestinate to be made like to the image of his sonne that he might be the first borne among many brethren Moreouer Whom he predestinate them also he called and whom he called them also he iustified and vvhom he iustified them also he glorified This is the golden gifte of god thus is oure newe creation lincked in this precious chayne The celestiall god hath inwardly beyonde tyme predestinate and created his people to the likenesse of hys sonne and hath by his holy spirite sealed them to him selfe and by thexternal Organ his holy worde through the ministerie of preaching in their seuerall times hath he called his sheepe to the knowledge of their shepheard Christ and state in him and by his bloody death hath iustified them before and with his supernaturall power hath made them glorious with the Angels So our conuersion as it is by the Lord so is it by his spirite and gospell wrought in vs Howe necessarie then the office of preaching is you see it is the instrumentall cause of our conuersion How miserable that place is which wanteth preaching may you perceyue by the glory that commeth through dayly teaching Christ by the truth in his word For this cause Christe so often Iohn Baptist so diligentlye the Prophetes seuerely the Apostles moste playnelye the Pastours and spirituall shepeheards in Gods Churche nowe moste comfortablye doe offer and exhibite vnto you the trueth of God to tourne your heartes By the preaching of the worde the worlde from tyme to tyme hath bene wonne to Christe the sonne of God and by the same the Gentiles are conuerted into him hereby this nation is chaunged into truth and Popery ouerthrowen by this shall the hartes of the children he turned to the fayth of their fathers in God and the Reprobate shall heerewith be condemned And this propertie Dauid giueth to the worde The Lawe of the Lorde sayth he conuerteth the soule the testimonie of the Lorde is faythfull and giueth light vnto the eyes The necessitie of teaching Paul preacheth to be great woe vnto me if I preache not sayth he where preaching fayleth the people perish sayth Salomon Fayth commeth by hearing of the word of God sayth Paule to the Romaines without fayth can not a man please God by faith we shall be more then conquerours he that beleeueth shall be saued but he that beleeueth not shall be damned sayth our doctor Christe Fayth is brought by hearing hearing wayteth of the Preacher the Preacher is dombe vnlesse he be sent pray therefore the Lorde of truth to send more store of true paynfull Preachers into this Churche of Englande and this shire and conuert in mercy or confound by Iustice these dombe Dogges whiche can not barke these watchemen whiche can not see these ydol shepheards which eyther can not or will nor feede the hungry Lambes of Gods holy Church and shepefold of this nation O Lord graunt this for thy Christ our chiefe shepheards sake Now deare freends examine your selues here present Is this holy chaunge wrought in you maye I say vnto you with Paule Ye were sometime Gentiles ye vvere dead in sinne ye vvere without God in this lyfe But you hath he quickened you hath he called you that were no people hath he nowe made the people of God you are no more straungers and forreners but Citizens with the Saincts and of the housholde of God buylt not vpon the Romishe rocke but vpon the doctrine of the Apostles and Prophetes Iesus Christe him selfe beeing the head corner stone in whom my brethren if you be by his spirite grafted and buylt you shall growe to an holy temple in the lord I trust to you I may say thus Ye were Gentiles but you are Christians of the cheefest I knowe it of the rest I haue great cause to thinke it and therfore with great comfort in God I proceede to the second point He leadeth vs in the pathes of righteousnes for his names sake In God is our conuersion in him also is the continuance of our vpright walking before him First of vs is here to be noted a double righteousnes whervnto we are brought by Christ The first is the righteousnes of Christ for vs to the Father The seconde is the righteousnes of man by Christe and is the worthy walking in holines of lyfe without ceassing The righteousnesse of Christ for vs consisteth in the person of him selfe who for vs hath so answered the fathers full iustice in his iuste sacrifice and hath so incorporate vs into him selfe by fayth throughe his spirite that the same his righteousnesse is accompted for ours so that though we by nature are wicked yet in respecte of his grace we are sanctified and iust in the sight of God whose it is to saue and to condemne Of this iustification or righteousnes Paule speaketh thus God sending his owne son downe in the similitude of sinfull fleshe for sinne condemned sinne in the fleshe that the righteousnesse of the lawe might be fulfilled in vs which walke not after the fleshe but after the spirite The seconde righteousnesse is the dayly walking in newnes of lyfe which is of euery man required that thus by the Lord is iustified The grace of God sayth Paule that bringeth saluation
¶ A GODLIE Sermon Preached on Newe yeeres day last before Sir William Fitzwilliam Knight late Lord deputie of Irelande Sir Iames Harrington Knight their Ladyes and Children vvith many others at Burghley in Rutlande By the minister of God Anthony Anderson Hereto is added a very profitable forme of prayer good for all such as passe the seas by the same author framed and vsed in his aduentured iourney Psal 37. Marke the vpright man and behold the iust for the ende of that man is peace ¶ Imprinted at London by Thomas Purfoote for Lucas Harison dwelling in Paules Church yarde Anno Dom. 1576. ¶ TO THE RIGHT worshipfull Sir William Fitzwilliam Knight late Lorde deputie of Ireland Sir Iames Harrington Knight Master Ihon Harrington his sonne and godly heire their vertuous Ladies Wiues and faithfull children Anthony Anderson Preacher of Christs Gospell wisheth all health in Christ our Lorde THough I vse not more thē briefe notes to write my sermons yet right worshipfull for that of some of your godly religious children I was more then earnestly entreated to set downe this Sermon my simple newyeares gift bestowed in comon amongst you I after lōger sute then there was great cause graunted and haue penned downe the same so neare as I can call to my memory the manner of my speche The order and disposition I haue exactly obserued and not omitted any note or authoritie of scripture by me then alledged And as it is vnpossible for him that penneth not his Sermons to set them downe euen so and with the selfe same words in all places as he spake them So to all my possibilitie haue I performed as neare as may be my order and speech And some thing haue I added in some place which want of tyme trained me from at that present And if any lesse ye nowe lyke then when you herde the same consider then the difference betwixt reading preaching the selfe same truth and matter Gods grace did thē assist the preachers spirit voice gesture and disposition likewise your hartes by his spirite were made to hunger this holy bread And now you haue the liuing wordes but seuered from the lyuely voyce which neuer can bring like profit to the godly hartes vnles greate thirste of the matter cause the resemblaunce of the maner howe to stande as freshe before your eyes The Lord graūt it to profit as much as my good will is then shall my small labour be fully recompensed I haue ioyned here to the forme of prayer which I gaue to your worship good Sir William at Holme Patricke in Irelande very good for all such as passe the seas as our selues haue tasted by good proofe the comforts receiued in our late ariual the lord be praised therefore Take the small gyft with the geuer all yours as he may in the Lorde to whome vvith dayly thanks for your great curtesie to me in Irelande I in my prayers commende you the rest vnfainedly Ian. 3. 1575. Your worships in the Lord Anthony Anderson The Lord is my sheperd therfore shall I want nothing He maketh me to rest in greene pasture c. RIght worshipfull and dearely beloued brethren it hath from auncient dayes bene receaued that in the first of the newe yeare eache friende doth salute his other with some token of friendship and therwith wisheth to such his friende all helth good prosperitie in god Which cyuill custome in Newyeares gyfts I do allowe in ciuill sort and hauing so many freinds here assembled haue purposed to benefite you all at once and with suche a speciall gift as of euery of you the same being worthely receaued I shall be deemed to haue satisfied my office belōging my boūden amitie to you all The gift I exhibit is a portion of Gods heauenly treasure fully sufficient from this first day of the yeare to enriche you aboue measure in Christ so that you vse the same wyth the spirituall instrument of faithfull and obedient practise continually in your hartes And this treasure forth of the Psalmists treasury I haue receaued and by the same spirit deliuer it to you in the Lord whose grace the Lorde vouchsafe to be oures in this holy actiō for his Christes sake The treasure it selfe is the .23 Psalme of the Prophet Dauid the which Psalme was made by that holy king after the receipt of his kingdome and Crowne wherto he confesseth God to be his onely helpe and promiseth to him selfe by the former receyued benefites an absolute warrant of Gods heauenly prouidence in his succeding Regiment The words are thus The Lord is my sheperd therfore shall I want nothing He maketh me to rest in greene pasture and leadeth me by the still waters And so forth to the ende of the Psalme I purpose hauing thus by prayer called vpō god to giue you the Psal by verses and of euery of them such comfortable lessons as the Lorde in mercy shall gyue me to vtter vnto your Christian hartes and with as much breuitie as may be because of the extreme cold that so we may more speedely approche the Lordes holy Table to receiue his heauenly mysteries The Lord is my sheperd c. The prophet calleth his God a shepherd because of his prouident care ouer him one of his chosen lambes which word sheperd importeth an office of continual feeding of dayly care of feruēt loue to the flocke vnder his charge of watching guiding and defending to the best safety of his sheepe All which the noble Dauid by the spirite of Gods instructiū knoweth to be in the Lord his our god therfore he giueth his maiestie this most apt tytle The Lord is my sheperd Dauid the prophet vseth the phrase which God by his holy spirite giueth to him his other Prophets in calling the Lord a sheperd as thus Thou diddest lead thy people lyke sheepe by the hand of Moses and Aaron Againe O thou sheperd of Israell herken which leadest Ioseph lyke a sheepe And when God will by his Prophet foretell in what sorte he will visite his people he promiseth his visiting Christ by this name saying He shall feede his flocke lyke a sheperde he shall gather the lambes with his arme and cary them in his bosome and shall guide them with young Lykewise in the Prophet Iere. 23.4 Ezec. 34.10.12 This sheperd Christ is Dauids sheperd and lord The Lord said vnto my Lord sit thou on my right hand vntil I make thine enemies thy footestole In which place Dauid calleth Christ his lord which is to hsm to all the chosen children of god the appointed sheperd of their soules as Christ him selfe doth witnes saying J am the good sheperd the good sheperde giueth his lyfe for his sheepe And Peter in his first epistle thus Ye were as sheepe going astray but ye are returned now vnto the sheperd and byshop of your soules In a good sheperd are to be required these things all which are most
which peace onely we ought to stryue for all other peace is meare warres with god Thus much of the shepheardes roddes and staues and nowe we proceede to the .5 verse which sayth Thou doest prepare a table before me in the sight of myne aduersaries Thou dost anoynt my heade with oyle and my cup runneth ouer Doubtles kindnes and mercy shall follovv me all the dayes of my lyfe and J shall remaine a long season in the house of the Lord. Though mine enemyes sayth Dauid seeke to destroy me yet thou Lorde doest not onely deliuer me but also in despite of their fury dealest most liberally with me as menne doo with their chiefest friendes in this our lande of Iury. Bydden to their sumptuous feastes they anoynt their heades with pleasant Oyle and gyue them Cuppes of large importe and them moste amplie fylled So haste thou and muche more aboundantly delt with me and wilt after for thy mercy is suche as kindnes shall follow me during lyfe And for this thy mercy in my prolonged dayes I shall alway in them seeke to serue thee in thy holy house Because I haue long troubled you I wil omit to speake here of the prouidence of God in them which be his and persecuted of the multitude but such it is that their deuises the Lorde doth laugh to skorne and erecteth his beloued vp to honor maugre their berdes Or more to say of the difference betwixte the papist and the faithful protestant the one with the Iew is euer gaping after good but after the godly Gods blessing runneth them to comfort euen as the Ryuer from Moses Rocke flowed after Israell to be their drinke spirituall sacrament Or once to touch that longing lust which ought to be in Dauids lyue in all christian heroicall honorable worshipfull godly riche and meaner persons that is a dayly desire to serue God yea euen in the house of prayer with the floke of Christs folde I was glad saith Dauid of those which sayde vnto me Come we will go into the house of the Lorde together Your olde chaples your priuate houses O ye states of the earth are for the most part an occasion of great losse to your selues Ye so seperate your selues from the common exercise of Christes sheepe Ye lacke the doctrine which other there receiue to their greate comfort Ye keepe your families frō grace be euill examples to the vulgar sorte Ye expresse the small loue to those that be like Dauid whiche if you mende not can not but bring you from his god our sheheard Christ whose desire is to haue his sheepe come together Where two or three be gathered together in my name saith Christe there am I in the middest of them Gather the people sayth God sanctifie the congregation gather the Elders assemble the children those that sucke the brest let the bridegrome go out of his chamber and the Bride out of her closet Let the Priests the ministers of the Lord weepe betweene the porch and the Alter and let them say Spare thy people O lord c. This was the order in the Apostles churche as Paule affirmeth in his first epistle to the Corrin saying I prayse you not that you come together not with profite but with hurt For firste of all vvhen you come together in the churche J heare that there is dissention among you Againe if therefore vvhen the vvhole church is come together in one c. In this churche were of greate byrth lyke welth and stately condition yet they came together in one they assembled them selues in the church they kept not some their priuie chaples other their dining chambers but most of all their sléeping heades Looke to this you states be not so stately that you set your selues stiffe necked to the Lorde frequent his house adsociate his people conioyne with his churche to heare the Lorde by his ministers speake vnto you that your common cry with the reste may ioyntly pearce the eares of Gods most louing maiestie in the throne of his mercy seat In hope of your content hereto I say nothing hereof but as you see runne from the same in haste to ende But because of the holy communion to the which we purpose in the Lorde one worde thereof and so an ende Paule the Apostle taketh occasion by the temporall blessing of God vpon the Israelites in Manna and the stony rocke to deliuer to the Corrinthians sound doctrine in sacraments And yf the same with the rest of holy scripture be writtē for our learning why should I forget so good and apt a lesson as both his example our present ministration and this our profitable texte doth offer vnto me c. Dauid speaketh of his Crowne and Diademe with the Appendices Neither doth he forget the spirituall comfortes that from the Lorde he dayly receiueth by the seales of the lords righteousnes his sacred sacraments The sacramēts of Gods church are only two The lauer of baptisme and the Table of the Lorde In the Supper at this table prepared without our prouision and desert of God in his Christ the faithfull do receiue two things that of two seuerall persons sacred bread wyne at of the externall preaching ministry the only fyt ministre for the same by the inward secret omnipotent inuisible worke of the holy ghost in soule by fayth truely fixed in christ they verely eat receiue the very true substantiall body of Iesus Christ still sitting at the right hād of his heuēly father in maiesty on hie By faith he is receiued by gods spirit he is deliuered in soule he is eaten for the diet is spirituall and can not be pressed with mans carnall téeth That of the minister we receiue only bread and wine the holy Apostle Paule fyue times telleth vs in the deliuerie therof to the Corinthians 1 epist. chap. 11. And the auncient Fathers say the same amongst whom S. Ciprian doth stand approued and he sayth thus of the Eucharist Dedit itaque dominus noster in mensa c. Therefore our Lorde Christe in his laste supper which he made with his Apostles gaue to them at that table Bread wine with his owne handes but vppon the Crosse by the hands of the cruell tormenters he gaue his body wounded for vs Sunt quae erant sayth Ambrose speaking of the Elementall bread and wine The same they were they are and are chaunged into another vse If the sacramental bread be the very body of Christ after cōsecration then the wicked aswell eate Christes body as the godly But this the auncient fathers doe denie Origen saith Est verus Cibus Christ is the true meate which no euill and wicked man can eate For if the wicked man could in the Sacrament eate the body of the Lord then should it not be written Qui edit hunc panem He that eateth this bread shall lyue for euer
he maketh the stormy windes to ceasse so that the waues therof are still 30. Then are they glad because they are at rest and so he bringeth them to the hauen where they would be O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnes declare the wonders which he doth for the childrē of men Glory be to the Father c. The lesson Mat. 8.13 ANd when Iesus was entred with his disciples into the ship there arose a gret tempest in the sea so that the ship was couered with waues but he was a sleepe Then his Disciples awoke him saying Master saue vs we perishe And he sayde vnto them why are ye fearefull O ye of little faith Then he arose and rebuked the windes and the sea and so there was a greate calme And the men marueled saying what mā is this that both winds and sea obey him If the Sea be rough Out of the deepe O Lord we call vpon thee heare vs O God and haue mercy Psal 5. We haue sore prouoked thine anger O Lord thy wrath is waxed hot thy heuy displeasure is sore kindled against vs. But rebuke vs not in thine indignation neither chastē vs in thy displeasure Psal 6. Iudit 8. In deede we acknowledge that all our punishmēts are lesse thē our deseruings Iob. 11. But yet of thy mercy O Lord correct vs to amendement and plague vs not to our destruction Sap. 11. Psa 25. Turne thee vnto vs and haue mercy for we are desolate and in great misery Psa 79. So we that be thy people and the shepe of thy pasture shall giue thee thankes for euer and will be alwaies shewing forth thy prayse to all generations Glory be to the father c. The prayer O Lorde God the Father of comforts and God of all solace which art euer myndfull of thy mercy and carefull to keepe promise who also cōmaundest vs to call vpon thee in our troubles with hope of full release at the brinke of our deepe daungers we thy poore children craue thy hande now to helpe vs which are destitute of further ayde in earth then this our litle ship We are inuironed with these huge roring seas horribly raging and breaking in vpon vs The winds are vehement grow to increase in stormes our sinnes be heuy and Satan seeketh to sinke vs In our selues we distrust but in thy mercy we repose our earnest confidence and in the humbled state of these our soules we beseeche thee to heare vs Graunt vs thy Christ his presence in our ship Awake O blessed sauiour help vs lest we perish Thou seest our case cause of crye thou knowest our weaknes O Lord encrease our fayth Commaund the winds to cease their violence cōptroll the seas and set them quite vnder vs Keepe whole our mastes prouide safety to our sayle holde steddy our helme and be thy self the master of our ship Giue vs grace to haue like care to serue thee in seming supposed securitie as we haue desire to receiue thy helpe in this our present aduersitie Keepe vs euer to be thine and vouchsafe to stand for vs to thy Fathers iustice Conduct vs to land and safely set vs to our seuerall dwellinges for thy names sake Blesse our soules with thy spirite be mercifull to our Church and Queene her honorable Deputies Councellours Presidēts Magistrates Geue them and vs faythful harts to heare thy worde encrease thy good giftes in the teachers of the same Finally our selues our soules bodies we commit into thy mercifull handes deliuer vs at thy good pleasure for thy holy names sake we beseech thee to whom with the Father and the holy ghost be all honour and glory now and for euer Amen But if the Seas be quiet and passage pleasaunt then say thus and pray O Lorde our good God howe excellent is thy name wonderfull are thy workes but thy mercy farre aboue measure If we descende into our consciences to ponder the poyse of our sinne what may we looke for but vengeaunce beholding thee for iust These sensles Creatures the winde and seas doo dayly serue thee in silent obedience and all other inferior created things doo euer yeelde thee obsequie But we for whom all these are made and dayly are benefited by them do neuer stande vpright before thee And at this present Lord we fele the truth of thy louing promise giue to all them that trust in thee For thou hast called away the elder stormes the correction of sinne and triall of fayth and sente vnto vs this pleasant gale hauing the winde seruiseable to our humble desires these mightie waters to worke our willing effects Vouchsafe vs pardon by Christe for our iniquities and the continuaunce of this pleasaunt passing vntill we be ariued the port in thee of vs desired Keepe vs we pray thee O heauenly father from all perils in the sea and saue vs by thy mighty hande in earth Guyde vs with thy spirit in the ship of thy holy church through the raging seas of this wicked world bring vs through true fayth safely to the celestiall hauen of our inheritaunce that there with the companie of al heauenly passengers we may prayse thee euerlastingly Graunt vs and thy whole churche these our requestes for Christe our Lorde thy sonnes sake In whose name we make to thy mercy our petition thus O our father which art in heauen c. Laus Deo. Hauing safely arriued let the godly company together say or sing the 103 Psalme and then this thanksgeuing thus AL honor prayse we yeelde to thee O God our louing father who in thy great mercy notwithstāding our former liues present sins some distrusting thy louing helpe some not caring to cal vpon thee and some most desperately blaspheming thy holy name hast thus most mercifully deliuered vs and to this safety on land in thy gret mercy brought vs Now Lord again we beseech thee to defend vs that hauing safely passed the surging seas we be not through our weaknes Satans temtation drowned in the voluptuous Riuers of fleshly lustes or choked with the foggie mists of popish or carnal practises but that we may attende vpon the sonne of righteousnes Christe our Lorde and may be conducted to the hauē of our celestiall Ierusalem by the moste pleasant purifying winde the spirite of truth Which spirit as he bloweth where he lusteth so vouchsafe him euer to take vs with him during our naturall liues in the faythful and true seruing of thee and neuer leaue vs destitute of his holy aide vntil thou hast for thy christes sake crowned vs in glory To whom with thee and the same holy ghost three persons and our one only God be all honor and glory for euer and euer Amen Laus Deo per Christum