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A57803	The Julian ship, or, Paul's transportation to Rome a discourse on Acts 27, 15, made on March 20, 1680/81, the Sunday before the last Parliament's meeting at Oxford / by Wil. Ramsay, Esq., B.D. ...	Ramsay, William, B.D.	1681 (1681)	Wing R216; ESTC R13588	13,504	28

us and transport us as so many stock-fish and to sell us to Rome at what rate they pleas'd But that ship their Chadermouth failing them The sacred History tells us ver 6. That at Myra in Lycia Julius found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy and put us therein Myra from the Greek is interpreted a place of Myrrh and Lycia a place of Wolves Myrrh is a funeral Odorament and the Wolves of our Land are the Plotters of Rome Then Myra in Lycia was that funeral Consult of Wolves that is of the Jesuits in which they had bound up together as in a funeral Bundle the sacred Life of our King with the lives of our Pauls of our Luke's of all our Aristarchus's of every noble Macedonian of every zealous Thessalonian among us This was their Alexandria in which they thought to conquer all In this ship says St. Luke ver 7. We sail'd slowly many dayes over-against Cnidus under Crete over-against Salmone and after much adoe came to the fair havens nigh whereunto was the City of Lasea Of these places Observe First of Crete Tit. 1.12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. The Cretans are always Liars evil Beasts Idle-bellies Cnidus interpreted imports the Art of slandering Salmone of flatterring Lasea of Fraud subtle and fox-like Circumvention All these put together lying slandering flattering fraud subtlety dissimulation circumvention represent unto us the Mystery of Jesuitism with which as with the Devil's Compass they steered their Alexandria sailing slowly many dayes till with much ado they came to the fair Havens of some vain and presumptuous hopes For in the height of their Alexandrian hope behold what befell them and their Alexandria Their wicked horrid and plagiary design against Paul and Luke and Aristarchus against King and Church and State was strangely discover'd and brought into light And our gracious Paul according to his excellent spirit advis'd our Julius and his Company to desist and proceed no farther His Reasons you have ver 9 10. First that the time of sailing was now spent and sailing was very dangerous For the Jewish Fast of September was over at which time of year Our Popish Plot was fully discover'd Paul also told them that the event of a farther Voyage would be with much hurt and dammage not only of lading and ship but also of their lives This discovery being made and that by the help of their own Confederates was surely sufficient to make them desist had not more than a devilish wickedness wholly possest and over-rul'd them But mark the devilish Obduracy of the Popish Clergy For ver 11 12. The Pilot and Master of the ship with the Company of Sailers and Seamen that is the Popish Clergy Cardinals Provincials and other Jesuits and Priests suffer'd not Julius to hearken to Paul but gave him all hopes of the best success and that they might yet obtain their purpose and find a commodious Haven to winter in even Phenice in Crete In this they all joyn'd Votes and Voices and prevail'd with Julius that he consented to them and would not hearken to Paul and so their design for Phenice was concluded What this Phenice in Crete imports is not hard to unridle Crete as St. Paul told us is the famous seat of Liars and Phenice that especially which is in Crete is famous for that credit which the Romans themselves call fidem Punicam Phenicean credit which never fails to fail Then Phenice in Crete is lye in lye plot in plot fraud upon fraud a plot of plots This was the Popish Alexandrian plot They resolv'd and it was determin'd that although their Chadermouth fail'd yet their Alexandria should not The result of the Consult was to deny and abjure the discover'd plot with such impudence that Heaven and Earth could not possibly believe and not only so but their Resolution was this while they denied their own plot with a Cretian lye that at the same time they would lay a worse plot at the Protestant door with a Phenician lye This was their Phenice in Creet And this was a very cunning and subtle Haven for them to Winter in Therefore ver 12. This Haven is said to lye toward the South-west and North-West that is in the form of an half Moon within which their Alexandria might have winter'd safe and secure from all Wind and Weather and could they have got in here they had sav'd themselves and had carried us all Our Paul's our Luke's and our Aristarchus's Our Church and State to Rome But God forbad such a thing yet they went very far toward it they sail'd very fair for it a while with a fair south-gale For as you have ver 13. The south-wind blew softly upon them and supposing they had obtain'd their purpose loosing from the fair havens they sail'd close by Crete their beloved land sed praevenit jactum anchorae Deus But It was not long till ver 14. There arose against them a tempestuous wind called Euroclydon This was the breath of Jehovah our God which blew our Enemies from their expected port from their refuge of Lies from their dear Phenice and saved us from their base Phenician designs which we consider with astonishment to the praise of Providence in the Fifth Circumstance how they wind What is that Euroclydon Many read it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and so the Latine renders it Euro-aquilo The North-East wind The Word seems to import much of the American Hurricane in it which rising in the East Whirles towards the North and thence to the West and gathering force round the Compass comes to its fullest mischief in the South However this is certain it was Eurotyphonicus was a sudden Violent Tempestuous and Mighty Wind rising from the East with which their Alexandria was so caught that she could not bear up into the Wind but was violently beaten from the desired Phenice Now this disappointment was wonderful in our eyes For they had brought their ship in sight of their Phenice they had a fair soft south-gale for a time they thought they had obtain'd their purpose they had wip'd their mouths clean of the Plot as if it had never touch'd their Lips they denied it they abhorr'd it they cursed it they abjur'd it to very Death they got Martyrs not a few zealous Martyrs for their Lye they had made ridiculous odious infamous all that should mutter against them the Discoverers of the Plot were made the Plotters Our Paul's our Luke's our Aristarchus's even they were accused the Alexandrian-Crew was every day heard loud in Huzzah's Phenice was in their hearts in their eyes almost in their hands they thought surely to Winter there and the next spring to transport us all Their Midwife Sham-plots their Cnidian Salmonean Lasean Cretian Phenician Lyes Tricks Jugglings Conjurings Equivocations Mental Reservations Oral Prolations Perjuries Forgeries precious Subornations most holy bloody Oaths of Secresie but above all their stupendious unparallell'd miraculous Martyrdoms which Heaven and Earth and Hell do

admire that so many men should dye for a lye in envy to the Martyrs of Jesus who dyed for the Truth These things I say made up their hopes so full and fair that they doubted not to Winter in Phenice and next spring to go where they pleas'd But the Lord forbad There came a North-East Wind from the Lord and so beat upon their Crete that they utterly lost all sight and hope of Phenice To be brief this was the Euroclydon of the last Parliament That Typhonical Wind which blew upon the Plot from the Tryal of Stafford with which their Alexandria was caught and could not bear up into the Wind any longer This is the sum of the Text and when the ship was caught and could not bear up into the Wind we let her drive But you will say Do not the Papists bear up into the Wind still I answer No but let us examine what follows the Text and we 'll find they have given up themselves to the Mercy of the Winds a long time and are in a sad drift driven they know not whither even whither the Master of the Winds shall drive them and were it not that Paul and Luke and Aristarchus are in the ship they had perisht long agoe Time will not suffer me to be particular in all points I must be content to observe one or two things First That ver 16. They were by that Stafford-Enroclydon suddenly driven under the Island Clauda for being driven from their Crete from their refuge of lies they found their cause to halt fearfully Stafford notwithstanding his toughest stiffness fell and ver 17. fearing lest they should fall into quick-sands they were put to all their shifts they took up their boat used helps undergirded their ship took down their sails and being exceedingly tost they lightned the Ship casting out the very tackling ver 18 19. c. This fignifies the Popish vain hopes and shifts in and since the last Prorogation and Dissolution since which We may say that of ver 20. Neither Sun nor Stars in many dayes have appear'd unto us and no small tempest has laid and yet lyeth upon us and had we not known our God all hope that we should be saved had been taken away But God be blest we find ver 21. We have St. Paul to stand up in the midst of us to comfort and cheer us and to give us Assurance of that God whom he preaches that he hath determin'd contrary to our Enemies to save us that an hair of our head shall not perish ver 22. Now I exhort you to be of good cheer says St. Paul for there shall be no loss of any mans Life among you but of the Ship Two things he tells us 1. The ship shall be lost that is the Now-Church of England in the Malignant sense The Popish Church the Romish Bottom their trusty Alexandria shall be broken in pieces it shall sail no more in the English Seas You may read ver 39. The sailers discovering a certain creek with a shore thought to thrust in the Ship there and to save themselves and the Vessel and ver 40. they made all shifts to do it but ver 41. Falling into a place where two seas met they ran the ship aground and the forepart stuck fast and remained unmoveable but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves So now our Popish Sailers may perhaps have some hopes in the Oxford Creek and Shore and may think to thrust in their Alexandria there and to save the Vessel of their Plot. But I trust rather the Word of St. Paul The Ship shall be lost They 'll find at Oxford two Seas meet the House of Lords and the House of Commons there they shall run their Alexandria aground The forepart shall stick fast and remain unmoveable their Chieftains shall stick where Stafford stuck As for the hinderpart of the ship the rest of the Popish rout that shall be broken in pieces with the violence of the Waves Our English Seas will spue them out and our Loyal ground will swallow themalive And this is the loss of the ship to this shall the Popish Alexandria be driven by the Winds of the Lord our God But of our lives who are in the ship Paul tells us there shall be no loss of any mans Life among you This is understood of the Now-Church of England in the select sense as it includes all true Protestants We must confess even they were or now are in utmost danger neither could they nor yet can they save themselves Paul and Luke and Aristarchus they were in the ship which was lost and when it was lost and they suffer'd loss with the ship yea they were in other peculiar danger no less unavoidable than ship wrack without God For ver 42. The Souldiers counsel was to kill the Prisoners and Paul in the first place But God turn'd the heart of Julius to save Paul and with Paul the rest So may the Lord turn the hearts of our Popish Julius's to save our Paul's our Luke's our Aristarchus's Our Gospel Our Government Therefore also even Julius and his Companions were saved with Paul and his Companions The History tells us not that Julius became a Christian yet because he befriended Paul we have some hope of him even so we have hope still of the Popish Julius's among us that not only their Lives but their Souls too may be saved with us But to conclude all let us mark with what difficulty even Paul and his Company were saved Ver. 43. Those that could swim cast themselves first into the Sea and got to land The best among us may be put to swim for our lives and if the sea wherein we must swim prove not a Sea of bloud which God of his infinite Mercy prevent and avert by his Almighty power yet certainly the Sea we must swim in is very tempestuous and the billows break higher and higher till God shall rebuke them and bid them be still But alass all cannot swim some must be put to harder shifts Therefore ver 44. Those that could not swim got some on boards some on broken pieces of the ship and so it came to pass that they escaped all safe to land All All None lost no not One of two hundred threescore and sixteen souls ver 37. But pray mark Who these all were they were they who had Paul and Luke and Aristarchus with them That is all who keep and observe the Apostolical and Evangelical Faith and who maintain the Aristarchical that is the true best ancient just and lawfully establish't Government among us which is by King and Parliament God has joined these no man must divide them The Papists would take away the Parliament from the King and God knows too many join with the Papists in this point which is the greatest point the Papists can wish to gain On the other hand there be Commonwealth-men who would take away the King from the