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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

now he proceedeth to declare a miracle y t Christ wrought vpon the water that it might bee made manifest vnto them y t Christes power was omnipotent and that he was the very sonne of God because all creatures were obedient and subiect vnto him In this Gospel therefore are three thinges especially to bee obserued that is to say the person of the Disciples and such as sayled the person of Christe that sat at the sterne the occasion of the miracle and the working thereof The Disciples were they for whose cause this thing happened Christ was he by whose power it was doon the miracle was that which made them all to wonder Of these three thinges that I may speake breefely and yet so speake as Gods name may bee magnifyed our vnderstanding lightened and our liues altered being tempered a fresh by Gods handy worke and renued inwardly with a right spirite let vs desyre of God the giuer of all goodnes who teacheth vs thinges profitable and guideth vs in y e way wherein we walke that the church whom he hath sanctifyed in holines purchased with his blood and clensed with the washing of water in the word of life may bee a glorious congregation without spot or wrinkle holy and vndefiled and acceptable before God and that it may so be strengthened by the power of the holy Ghost that the gates of hell may neuer preuaile against it especially let vs desyre God that the infant whom with paine of trauayle and displeasure of the great Dragon shee hath heere childed in England and Ireland may prooue a man of might courage boldly to fyght the Lordes battails and that our Queenes Maiestie Lady Elizabeth may marche with him in comforte and defence as Debora marched with Baracke the sonne of Abinoa against Sisera the cruell Cananite returne againe with like victory and that she may stand vnto him as effectually as Hester stoode to Mardocheus against the prowde Ammon with as much reioycing of the people of God ouercome in the end And for the more happye successe in this spirituall fight and the more assured conquest let vs pray that our Bishops and ministers may 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 in their syluer Trumpets that we may bee remembred before the Lord our God and y t they may hold vpp their handes in prayer as Moses did in the mountaine when ●●●sua fought against A●elecke vtterly to destroy him Let vs 〈◊〉 God also to directe the Lordes of the 〈◊〉 with his wisdome that they may be such to vs as Obed was to the Ephrami●es and Ieh●ida the Priest to 〈◊〉 and his people because all warre as sayth Salomon is to bee enterprised by counsell and in the multitude of them that can giue good aduise is safety and health Let vs pray for all Schooles and Uniuersities Oxforde and Cambridge that as they are like mount Eph●aim where the Children of the Prophets be 〈◊〉 so they may bee like Mount Syon where the Lord is truely worshipped for euer and that therein God of his mercy wil beautify with vertue and learning the Colledge of Allsoules Let vs not forget to 〈◊〉 vnto God the protection and defence of all Citties Magistrates and Iustices the Mayor of this Towne and Bayliffes y e Customer Con●●●●●● Sercher and such what euer beseeching of God that both them and we and all the Commons may enrowle to God such an account of our liues in loue and charitye that he which searcheth the harts and the reines may finde vs free from all gawle and bitternes beeing full fraught with humility bound for the lande of promise hauing our sayles of heauenlie hope fylled with the winde of Gods spirite being dyrected by the compasse of his worde and gouerned by the roother of wisedome with the ancker of faith and the maine-mast of an vpright conscience and smothe conuersation in Christ Iesu For these thinges and all other whereof our blessed Father knoweth vs to haue neede let vs with one hart and voice powre out vnto him that prayer which Christe Iesu his fyrst begotten and best beloued sonne hath taught vs saying Our Father which art in heauen c. Math. 8.23.24.25 And when he was entred into a ship his Disciples followed him And beholde there arose a great tempest in the Sea insomuch that the ship was couered with waues but he was a sleepe And his Disciples came to him awoke him saying Lord saue vs we perish I Tolde you that in this Gospell were thrée especiall obseruations The first whereof is the person of Christes Disciples in whome this is woorthy the marking that they béeing simple men and vnlearned were admitted euen to the company of our Sauiour Christe being ordeyned before to be witnesses of those thinges they sawe and heard and to be messengers of peace and of the glad tydings of saluation to all that beleeued that the wisedome of this worlde might be confounded and quayled through the apparaunt foolishnesse of the Crosse of Christe which seemed such a iest to the Greekes that they laughed it to scorne and was such an eye sore to the Iewes that they coulde not looke straight vpon it and such a stumbling blocke in theyr way that they fell headlong ouer it In these Disciples yet though well acquainted and inured both in the maners and with the might of their master Christ Iesu we maye behold an image of mans frayltie and weakenesse that being but a lyttle Seashaken with a storme they were straight wayes at theyr wittes end ready to giue vp the Ghoste for feare not considering that so long as Christe was in the Shippe let the windes rage and the Sea roare let the Cables cracke and the Clowdes throwe downe lyghtening let the surges mount vp to Heauen and let the waues open and gape lyke hell yet so long as Christ sitteth in the stearne there is no danger Si Deus nobiscum quis contra nos If God be on our side who can preuaile against vs. If the sorrowes of death compasse vs about and the snares of wickednesse make vs afrayde yea though the whole earth shoulde be mooued out of her place and the Mountaines fall into the middest of the Sea yet because God is with vs we shall not feare God shall helpe vs and that right earlie But the Disciples dyd as doo commonlie other Saylers and Seafayring men naye I praye God all that goe to the Sea doo no other wayes than did they whyle the skie looketh cleare and the water calme and that they scoure the streame with a good forewinde then all without care we scarce thinke vppon GOD but let him once styrre the déepe out of his treasures and ouer-cast vs with the blacke mantelles of the South and powre the water out of his bottelles vppon vs then our soule melteth for verie trouble and we are euen harde at deathes doore But héere shall be a good lesson for vs to learne that not onelie in fayre weather we must looke for a storme