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A15681	The true honor of navigation and navigators: or, holy meditations for sea-men Written vpon our sauiour Christ his voyage by sea, Matth. 8. 23. &c. Whereunto are added certaine formes of prayers for sea trauellers, suited to the former meditations, vpon the seuerall occasions that fall at sea. By Iohn Wood, Doctor in Diuinitie.	Wood, John, d. 1625.	1618 (1618)	STC 25952; ESTC S101875	102,315	138

and looke for seeing the Apostle telleth vs That the feruent desir● of the creature waiteth when the sonnes of God shal be reuealed Because the creature is subiect vnto vanitie not of it owne will but by reason of him that hath subdued it vnder hope Because the creature also shall be deliuered from the bondage of corruption into the glorius libertie of the sonnes of God For we know that euery crea●ure groaneth with vs also and trau●lleth in paine together vnto his present And not onely the creature but wee also which haue the first fruites of the Spirit euen wee doe sigh in our selues waiting for the adoption euen the redemption of our body Seeing then Saint Iohn telles vs Dearely beloued we are now the sonnes of God but yet it is not made manifest what we shall be And we know that when he shall be made manifest we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is Seeing this world is as the sea as bitter as inconstant as full of dangers as full of monsters as full of deuouring fishes as the sea is and no place for vs to rest and abide in and yet we must passe through it before we can come to heauen seeing there is no hope except we can be assured that we are in Christs ship his Church and being in it we must looke for stormes and tempests either outward by persecution or inward by hereticks and schismaticks Let vs no way dismay our selues though Christ our Sauior died and seemed asleep as not regarding our miseries for hee is arisen and hath commanded the windes and seaes he hath captiued and subdued all our spirituall enemies and assured vs of eternall and euerlasting life Let euery one therefore that readeth or heareth this Treatise learne of the Apostle To deny vngodlinesse and wordly lusts and to walke soberly and righteously and godly in this present world Looking for that bless●d hope and appearing of that glory of that mighty God and of our Sauiour Iesus Christ. And so I conclude this Treatise as Saint Iohn doth his Reuelation which is the conclusion of the whole Bible He which testifieth these things saith Surely I com● quickly Amen Euen so come Lord Iesus The Grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all Amen FINIS PRAYERS FOR SEA-TRAVELLERS VPON SEVERALL OCCASIONS suited to the former meditations in this Treatise A Prayer to prepare Nauigators by Sea to true Christian resolution in the vndertaking any long Voyage among Infidels MOST mightie and glorious God the earth is thine and all that therein is the world and they that dwell therein For thou hast founded it vpon the seaes and established it vpon the Flouds And though the heauen and the heauen of heauens bee thine and the earth with all that therein is yet thou hast set thy delight vpon our fathers and made choise of vs their seede to bee thy people Thou hast in the darkenesse of ignorance and error ouer-spreading the world giuen vs thy word to b● a lanthorne to our feete and a light vnto our pathes thou hast not onely giuen vs thy Law to teach vs what to doe but thy Gospell also to teach vs what to beleeue to bring vs to euerlasting life And seeing the summe of it all is to know thee to be the onely very God and whom thou hast sent Iesus Christ. And no man hath seene thee at any time but that onely begotten sonne which is in thy bosome he hath declared thee who is the brightnes of the glory and the ingraued forme of thy person bearing vp all things by his mighty word who being in the forme of God and thinking it no robberie to be equall with thee yet made himselfe of no reputation and tooke on him the forme of a seruant and was made like vnto men found in shape as a man And whē the fulnes of time was come was made of a woman and made vnder the law to redeeme vs that were vnder the law that we might receiue the adoption of sonnes And seeing O Lord thou hast giuen thy spirit vnto all thy children to testifie vnto their spirits that they are thy sonnes And hereby wee know thy spirit that euery spirit that cōfesseth that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God we most humbly and heartily entreate thy maiestie that being now by our professions called to leaue our natiue coūtrie where thy Gospel is truly and sincerely preached by which meanes and by effectual working of thy spirit we haue had faith in thee and thy sonne Iesus Christ and in thy holy spirit one God in three persons begotten in our hearts and being to trauell through the great dangers of the vast and wide sea into the remote parts of the world amongst the heathen that doe not know thee nor call vpon thy name it may please thee so to increase and daily confirme that faith in thy sonne Iesus Christ which wee vndertooke at our first being receiued into thy Church by the Sacrament of Baptisme that we may euer acknowledge him to bee perfect God and perfect man in one person and thereby to bee our onely aduocate Mediatour and intercessor to thee for vs Giue vs grace wee beseech thee in our daily dangerous trauels by sea with Christian courage and resolution to be alwaies readie according to thy good will and pleasure to liue and dye in this faith Let vs not trust either in the goodnesse or strength of our ships or in prouisions of things necessarie made by those which set vs forth nor in the skill and valour of our Commanders nor in any other outward meanes but let vs acknowledge all these things to proceede from thy goodnesse and euermore depend vpon thy blessing vpon the meanes in our vse of them not for any merit of ours but for thy Sonne Iesus Christ his sake In all our troubles and extremities let vs by faith haue recourse to our Lord and Sauiour Iesus being assured he is God and therefore can and Man and therefore will deliuer vs if it stand with thy glory and our good And if it please thee to bring vs amongst either Infidels or Idolaters grant that we may not communicate with them in their sinnes but consider thy great goodnesse towards vs who are by nature no better then they and haue deserued worse at thy hands in abusing thy long suffering and patience that thou passing by so many and so great and populous Nations and leauing them in their incredulitie and vnbeleefe hast reueiled thy self and thy will vnto vs and made vs professors of the same euen to the farthest endes of the world Grant vs therefore good Lord that we may not staine our holy Christian profession by any vnchristian conuersation to make thy name which wee call vpon to be blasphemed or ill spoken off amongst the Heathen but that we may conscionably

thy goodnesse ouer all the world whereby thou chearest and comfortest all things liuing but also beholdest all things and actions of the world which are naked and conspicuous in thy sight and dispellest and scatterest all thicke clouds and darke mists of ignorance infidelity and error and shewest vnto thy children the right way to heauen preseruing them from stumbling slipping and dangerous falling in that way Grant vs therefore that in thy light wee may see light And seeing thy Sonne Iesus Christ is the true life and light of men that enlighteneth euery man that commeth into the world who when the naturall light of rectified reason which thou gauest vnto man in his creation was by sinne extinguished and put out did supply the defect thereof by a better light the light of faith whereby thy children do vnderstand the mysteries of the kingdome of heauen O Lord make vs euery day more and more partakers of this light Enlighten our vnderstand●ngs by thy blessed Spirit and our hearts by the light of faith and our affections by thy Word that we being na●urally darkenesse may be light in thee and may shine as lights in a froward and peruerse generation and may let our light so shine before men that they may see our good workes and glorifie thee our Father in heauen And seeing the night of our ignorance is passed and the day is at hand and thy grace which bringeth saluation to all thy faithfull hath appeared teaching vs to denie vngodlinesse and worldly lusts and to walke soberly and iustly and godly in this present world Grant vs thy grace whereby we may cast off the workes of darkenesse and put on the armour of light and walk as children of the light that thy Son being come a light into the world we may not loue darkenes more then light because our works are euil but Lord let the light of thy countenance shine vpon vs that the light of faith which we receiue of thee in this life may make vs liue in expectation of thy light of glory in the life to come being by thee made meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light And now Lord we humbly intreate thy fatherly protection of our bodies soules from all dangers both outward and inward this day giue vs grace to make spiritual vse to our soules of all the actions and occurrences therein make vs conscionably carefull not to offend thee either in thought word or deede and prosper we beseech thee whatsoeuer wee vndertake in thy feare that wee may chearefully goe on in the seuerall workes of our places and callings so as we may seale vp our election by good workes and worke out our saluation in feare and trembling that whensoeuer this miserable and sinfull life of ours shall be ended wee may rest and raigne with thee in glory through the merits of thy deare Sonne Iesus Christ in whose name wee further call vpon thee as he hath taught vs saying Our Father c. An Euening Prayer WE present ou●●●lues again before thee most merciful Father acknowledging and confessing against our selues our manifold sins which wee haue daily multiplied against thy Maiestie and against our owne consciences from the beginning of our dayes and euen this day now passed We confesse O Lord that we were at first conceiued and borne in sinne and that from that originall corruption there haue euer since proceeded so many wicked and vngodly thoughts words and works that if thou examine what we haue done amisse we were not able to abide it or to answere one of a thousand of our actions for euen our best workes our prayers are accompanied with so many imperfections of wandring imaginations that when we haue done praying we had need to pray vnto thee againe to forgiue the scapes and negligences and ignorances of them Wee confesse further O Lord God that in respect of our sinnes wee are not worthy to looke vp to heauen or to call vpon thy name for we haue iustly deserued not onely to be depriued of all thy good blessings both concerning this and a better life which hitherto by thy mercies we haue enioyed and which we more fully expect hereafter by thy gracious promise but also wee haue deserued and doe daily deserue thy wrath and indignation to bee poured downe vpon vs vpon our bodies and soules in this life and in the life to come if thou shouldest enter into iudgement with vs. But there is mercy with the O Lord that thou maist be feared And we appeale therefore from thy seuere iustice against sinne vnto thy tender mercies in thine owne Sonne in whom wee know thou art well pleased Wee humbly beseech thee for his sake to be mercifull vnto ●s to pardon and to forgiue vs all our sinnes to wash them away in his blood to bury them in his death and passion so as they may neuer be imputed to vs either in this life to the terror and affrighting of our consciences or in the world to come to our vtter condemnation Good Lord giue vs euery day more and more the true sight of our sinnes the true sense and feeling of them and of thy great iudgements hanging ouer our heads in respect of them Giue vs a true sorrow and hearty repentance for all our sinnes past and a full resolution in the residue of our liues to be more wary and circumspect ouer all our words and actions that we may not onely striue to abstaine from sin but auoid those occasions which we haue formerly found to haue drawne vs thereunto And now Lord seeing the night is come vpon vs and hath not onely depriued vs of the light of the Sun but hath also brought with it darkenesse and terrors fearefull to our weake natures yet wee still depend vpon thy holy protection for as the day is thine so the night is thine Thou hast made darkenesse thy secret place and thy pauillion round about thee euen darkenesse of waters and clowds of the aire and yet the darkenesse hideth not from thee but the night shineth as the day the darkenesse and the light to thee are both alike Preserue vs therefore we humbly beseech thee from the perils and dangers of this night following giue our bodies rest and sleepe and let our soules continually watch for the time when our Lord Iesus Christ shall come for our full deliuerance out of this mortall life O Lord the sleepe wee now desire is an image of death while our senses being thereby bound vp from the performance of their functions and operations wee lye still as dead men not able to see or heare or doe any thing Let our beds therefore put vs in mind of our graues and the rest which we desire for our wearied bodies put vs in minde of the true rest and quiet both of body and soule which thou hast prouided for thy children after this life e●ded And