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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46978	Deus nobiscum a sermon preached upon a great deliverance at sea : with the narrative of the dangers and deliverances : with the name of the master and those that suffered : together with the name of the ship and owners / by William Johnson, Dr. of Divinity.	Johnson, William, D.D.	1664 (1664)	Wing J859; ESTC R4803	45,379	171

pride of his heart shewed to the Babylonish Ambassadours the house of his precious things his gold and his precious ointments and the house of his treasure in the same manner but more holy with the same passion of mind but better sanctifi'd doth S. Paul in the same Chapter shew unto the world the rich treasure of his sufferings his frequent perils his hunger his cold his bonds his imprisonments his whips his scourges his shipwracks his nakedness These were Saint Paul's riches these were his precious things His bonds were dearer to him then the golden chains of Hezekiah his prison of higher price in his esteem then the house of his treasure and his nakedness of more value with the Apostle then all the wardrobe of the King of Judah For ye may perceive in this Chapter he counts up his sufferings as a rich man counts up his Estate and Substance So much saith the Merchant I have at Sea so much in the City so much in City so much in the Country So doth the Apostle reckon up his sufferings In perils at Sea in perils in the City in perils in the wilderness This was Saint Paul's stock this was his wealth and treasure So that this Chapter seems to me to be the rich Inventory and Sum of S. Paul's sufferings Thus I have shewn you with what chearfulness the Apostle did embrace the afflictions of this life But we must go a step higher not only to welcome these good Angels for so I think I may call our afflictions for they are sent to us for our good but we must entertain them grato animo not only with a joyful but a thankful Spirit For seeing they are such happy opportunities of grace let us give God thanks that he hath afflicted us and praise his name that he hath made us miserable and let us magnifie his goodness that in these days he hath slain us and shed our blood Thus we find holy Job praising God upon a dunghill where he was left as naked as he came out of his Mothers womb The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. This was Job's grace and thanks for his afflictions And I think I may call it grace after meat for all was taken away Every one can say grace before meat whilst we behold God's blessings with our eyes our tongue cannot chuse but praise his name Job's Wife could say the former part of the grace The Lord giveth blessed be the name of the Lord but when all was taken away it was Curse God and die But a true child of God gives God thanks for afflictions as well as for blessings and praiseth his name for both And so I have done with the first part of my Text the state of Gods children here upon Earth I come now unto the second Gods care of his children in that condition exprest by a threefold promise and first Promissum praesentiae a promise of his presence I will be or I am with him in trouble But is not the Lord every where Whither shall I go from thy Spirit saith David or whither shall I flee from thy presence God indeed is every where not only ubique but primò ubique as the School calls it chiefly and most properly not in part and in parcels as accidents dwell in their subjects but wholly and according to himself who is indivisible and infinite in his own nature and essence and this Divines call praesentia secundùm essentiam the essential presence of God by which he is in all things that were created by him even the meanest and most vile of his creatures and yet no way contaminated or defiled by their vileness or uncleanness for he is in them not as any part of their essence sed ut causa essendi as the very cause and principle of their being and essence giving subsistence unto them without which they could be nothing But this is the general presence of God But there is a more special presence of God There is First praesentia gloriae the glorious presence of God and that 's in heaven where God sits upon his throne enamell'd with the Souls of the blessed and wall'd about with glorious Angels Not that God is more in Heaven then upon Earth according to his divine Essence but by fuller manifestation of his power and by greater dispensations of glory Secondly there is praesentia gratiae the gracious presence of God and so he is upon Earth with the Sons of men And that two ways First By his internal affection and that was eternal and so he was with us before we were and was present when we were not before we had any Being he loved us For he had chosen us in him that is in Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world now there is nothing ties us so close together as love It is said of Jonathan and David that their hearts were knit together because they did burn in mutual flames of love and affection so that they seemed to have but one heart and one soul and they both one man and this is praesentia amoris the presence of his eternal Love But secondly he is with us by a temporal manifestation of that Love and that three ways 1. By a real assumption of our nature unto himself in the mystery of his Incarnation he is so with us as he is become one with us bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh Joh. 1.14 The word was made flesh and dwelt among us Even as a Bride and Bridegroom are one man and wife so Christ and his Saints are one for our nature in this union was married unto Christ who is both God and man even as before by the creation Heaven and earth were married in man and therefore by Lactantius called Societas coeli terrae the Society and fellowship of heaven and earth so by a neerer tye in our redemption Heaven and Earth Divinity and Humanity God and Man are joyned together so he may well be named as the Prophet Isaiah foretels EMANVEL God with us Secondly he is with us by a spiritual union of himself to us And this was visible when the holy Ghost descended on his Disciples in cloven tongues like as of fire and sate upon them on the day of Pentecost Christ took upon him our Nature to make himself one with us and then he gave us his Spirit which is his Nature to make us one with him In respect of this spiritual union Christ compares himself to a Vine and we are his branches to the Church whereof he is the head and we are his members so that he is one with us and we are one with him And lastly He is with us in our troubles by a more particular indulgence of his special favour he is so with us as to suffer with us a fellow-sufferer in our afflictions and makes himself a party in our troubles and puts his shoulder unto the sad

parts and we were taught to escape our danger by our danger for our Ship breaking in the Stern we were forc'd to fly to the former part and one of the Sea-men the same that pull'd me up by the Rope leap'd from the Bow of the Ship upon the Rock with a rope in his hand which was fastned to one of our Masts and held it with so stiff an hand that another slipt down by it and so all our own company and some of the Danes eight and twenty in number came safe to the Rock that way All this while being left alone upon the Deck I began to wonder what became of my company not then knowing that they had found any means of deliverance But perceiving that they all crowded to the head of the ship I went to see God knows that was all my intention what they did there and so I came to the knowledge of their escape and an opportunity of my own For I found a Dane endeavouring to slide down himself and a small leather-trunk by that rope who like a loving man took pity upon me and presently whipt away his trunk and bid me slide down there but I return'd him his kindness and desir'd him to go down first not so much out of complement but that I might know how to slide down for I saw none of them go before me and I did not know whether I should go with my head or heels foremost I had no time to ask counsel or make experiment but presently I got upon the rope with my heels foremost and back uppermost But the waves beat upon me and the wind which was high blew me round and had almost made me let go my hold but I praise God I came safely to the side of the rock and they cry'd Off off not out of unkindnesse to me whom they knew not in the dark but that I might make a speedy way for another which I quickly did for having laid one hand upon the rock I came off the rope and so on all four climb'd up to the rest of my company I was the last that came down the ship that way for in that very moment the ship began to decline from us and give way which the Master perceiving who was still aboard made lamentable moan to us to help him which we did with our utmost endeavours But the ship brake and sunk immediately There was this good man and four of the Mariners drown'd I saw the Master with a light in his hand fall into the Sea the saddest sight I ever yet beheld in this world and that which pierced my very soul to see him that saved our lives lose his own There was nothing so bitter to me in all my sufferings at Sea as the loss of this man it raised such a storm and tempest in my affections that I am not yet calm within I never think of him but I am cast in a troubled sea of sorrow and suffer shipwrack daily in my mind for as he was a man of a meek and charitable disposition unto all so I found him kinde unto my self after a more special manner How sollicitous was he for us in our distress and used all means though it was to his own hindrance to save us and in all probability had he not staid for us he might have arrived at his own Harbour in safety What shall we say shall we plead with the Almighty with the Prophet Jeremy No it is better to cry out with S. Paul Oh the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgements and his ways past finding out For who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his counsellor All that we can say is that God sometimes thus dealeth with his own children Those whom by his grace he hath made instruments of great good upon earth he taketh unto himself to make them highly blessed in heaven Certainly the Spirit of God moved upon these waters and call'd this good man as Christ did S. Peter on the Sea of Galilee to come to him that for this high act of charity he might receive him and presently crown him with glory Now were we upon the Rock but knew not where and some of the Company before I came to them had measur'd it round with their feet and found it both a Rock and an Isle and contrary to our hopes inhabitable so that we waited for the Morning-Star to draw the curtain of the night and discover us first unto our selves for as yet in the dark we were as ignorant of our selves as of our sad condition and then to shew and discover some coast or land to us which we hoped we were neer to It was a long and a sad night with me a rock is an hard pillow to sleep on beside I was thinly clad having cast off my coat when I intended to swim and had no leisure to put it on again for I thought it best to leave that behinde me rather then my self We went from place to place up and down I may truly say for I had many a fall upon the slimy Rock sometimes we were up to the anckles in water I cannot say overshooes for I had none so that my feet were cut with the sharp stones as my body with the cold wind so that I felt the very teeth of Winter bite quite through me for Winter in that Country is an old man with a grey head when it is but a child with us At length we happen'd in an hole of the rock which was a warm shelter to us against the wind And now the long-expected Morning drew neer and we fain would have seen before we could In that twilight every black cloud we discerned we flatter'd our selves was land and here it was we said and there it was But when the Sun arose we saw it no where only we had a glimpse of the Coast of Norwey but it was at that distance that we were not in any capacity to reach it but with our desires Truly when I rose up and took a view of the Sea and the place where I was I was struck down again with amazement to see so many hundreds of Rocks round about us lying for the most part under water which the Sea-men call Breakers because they break the Sea and turn it into feathers It was a great providence of God that we should in the night with full sails pass by all these rocks the least touch against them had been as mortal to us as our sins and then to come to the great Rock which was as a Church above water I am sure it was an Asylum to us The Countrey-people deservedly call it Arn-Scare It was the same hand again of Gods providence that our ship should be carried with a full strong wind into the cleft and open part of the rock which was as a bosom to receive us had we touch'd upon any other