THE SEA-MANS DIRECTION IN TIME OF STORME Delivered in a Sermon upon occasion of a strong stormie Wind lately happening By IER. BURROUGHS MATTH. 8. 27. The Winds and the Sea obey him LONDON Printed by T. Paine and M. Simmons 1640. To the Reader IT hath been the way of God in speaking to men and drawing their hearts to him to apply himselfe to them in those things they have skill of and are acquainted with When Christ was revealed to the Wise men that came from the East it was by a Star they were Astronomers and conversed much in the contemplation of the Starres and God speakes to them accordingly When our Saviour called Fishermen to follow him he tels them Hee will make them Fishers of men hee expresseth himselfe unto them in their owne way Wherefore it being my lot to live where multitudes of Mariners especially of mine owne Countrey-men daily come and my Auditors being in great part of such I was willing to take the opportunity of that great worke of God that sore and grievous tempest that was lately so terrible as made the hearts of many to shake to adde the word sutable to Gods worke to labour to conveigh some spirituall truth by the advantage of that impression that was then upon their hearts little thinking then that such present thoughts hinted by such an occasion should ever be more publike then in mine owne Congregation but knowing what need Mariners have of Sermons and considering how few they heare because I could not preach to them where their chiefe businesse lies upon the Seas I was willing to send this Sermon to them that they might have it by them many Sabbaths they spend hearing none seldome hearing any It may be the sutablenesse of this subject may invite them to reade especially it being the desires of many of them who heard it and found some worke of God upon their hearts by it to have it by them at first I was unwilling to let such sudden things appeare so publike but after considering that some poore Saylors boy at least might get some good by them I yeelded I publish not this Sermon because I conceit any speciall excellency in it that cannot be expected it is the same for the frame and substance of it that was preached the next day after the occasion Some things are added and enlarged especially concerning the nature of the Winds But because I know nothing of this subiect published and some way it may be usefull and a little good is worth much of my time and labour who knowes what a truth what a hint fitted to the apprehensions of people in their owne way may doe therefore here you have it and the Lord prosper it to you Yours in Christ I. B. Imprimatur Jo. Hansley Octob. 14. 1640. THE SEA-MANS DIRECTION IN TIME OF STORME Psal. 148. 8. Stormy Wind fulfilling his word A Word spoken in season how good is it it is like Apples of Gold with pictures of Silver Silver pictures doe set out the golden Apples and the golden Apples doe grace the Silver pictures so words that are gracious fitted to their circumstances they are graced each by other A good word spoken at any time is a golden Apple it hath worth in it but fitted to circumstances it hath beauty added to it and not onely beauty but efficacie too for so it is in the Originall words upon their wheeles when they are rightly fitted to their circumstances being spoken in due season then they goe upon their wheeles and passe along like a triumphant Chariot whereas if these bee omitted they are drawne out as a Cart is drawne on without wheeles like Pharoahs Chariots when God tooke off their wheeles they drave heavily As Saint Augustine said of the outward element in the Sacrament let the word come to the element and it is made a Sacrament so I may say of Gods workes let the word be added to Gods workes and they are instructions great helpes to Godlinesse There is a great threat against those who regard not the workes of God Because they regard not the workes of the Lord nor the operation of his hands hee shall destroy them and not build them up Psal. 28. 5. That such a curse may not befall us for our regardlesnesse of this worke of the Lord in this dreadfull stormy wind I have chose this Scripture that as Job heard the Lord speaking out of the whirle-wind so you this day by this Scripture may heare the Lord speaking to you out of that stormy tempestuous wind that but yesterday was so terrible to you Sensitive things move much yet the impression of them holds not long it is good therefore to take the advantage of your hearts and that presently The title of this Psalme is Hallelujah praise ye the Lord it is a Psalme of praise by way of excellency above others it begins and ends with Praise ye the Lord all sorts of creatures in heaven and earth ayre and seas are called to joyne in this worke but especially man of all creatures in the world God expects his praise from man in a speciall manner the wayes of God towards man being the most glorious above that they are towards any of his other workes towards him his name indeede is excellent above the earth or heavens God will have active and passive praises from man and amongst men above all from his owne people his Church whom hee hath chosen to be a people neere unto him the high praises of God are to be in their mouthes Psal. 49. 6. They are not onely to rejoyce in their God and in his glorious workes but to bee joyfull in a glorious manner to rejoyce in glory not onely to sing the praises of the Lord but to sing aloud upon their beds vers. 5. God himselfe is the praise of his Saints as we have it in the 16. verse of this 148. Psalme not onely the workes of God but God himselfe hee is their praise both actively and passively he is their praise their glory their excellencie and he even he himselfe is the subject of their praise Gods people are his glory and God is the glory of his people They are his glory Psal. 78. 61. hee delivered his strength into captivity and his glory into their enemies hand God is their glory Psal. 3. 3. Thou art my glory and the lifter up of my head and thus God and his people glory one in another every where the Name of God is great but God is knowne in Judah and his Name is great in Israel Psal. 76. In his Temple every man speakes of his glory Psal. 29. 9. wherefore to him be glory in the Church Eph. 3. 21. The glory that God hath from his people from his Church is another manner of glory then hee hath from all the world besides wherefore let not us faile of giving God the glory of his great workes of this his mighty worke Our subject then at this time is
to open unto them his good treasure the treasure of Nature is a good treasure there are many good blessings in it yet such as hee gives sometimes to the wicked Psal. 17. 14. Hee fills their bellies with his hid treasure but Gods people as they are a peculiar treasure to God Exod. 19. 5. so God hath a peculiar treasure for them a treasure in Heaven Luke 19. 22. 7. God weighes the Winds Job 28. 5. He makes a weight for the Winds this is made a speciall evidence of Gods propriety in understanding the way of wisdome as appeares verse 20. Whence commeth Wisdome and where is the place of understanding seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living and kept close from the Fowles of the ayre by which Hierome understands proud lofty aeriall high spirits who love to soare aloft and to be above in the clouds Wisdome is hid from them but rather thus it is to be found in no place in the World the Fowles of the aire never saw that place where it is Destruction and Death say we have heard the fame of it that is such as are now swallowed up of destruction and death the abstract being put for the concrete as we have often in Scripture as Revel. 20. 14. Death and Hell were cast into the lake of fire These who are destroyed and dead they now know something what true Wisdome is they finde by wofull experience what it is to neglect God and to cast off his feare and to follow the vanity of their owne hearts now they see what would have done them good and what hath undone them for ever but though men neither living nor dead know what true Wisdome is yet God understandeth the way thereof vers. 23. How doth that appeare that only true Wisdome dwels with God amongst other things this is one speciall hee maketh a weight for the winds that is either by ordering them in a just proportion that there shall not bee the least particle of them spent further then may serve his purpose or thus he maketh a weight for the Winds he giveth to the Windes their poyse that they should move this way or that way according as hee pleaseth 8. The Lord makes the Wind his messengers Psal. 104. 4. Who maketh his Angels spirits so it is in your bookes but the word translated spirits signifies Winds and is to be understood of them for the scope of the Psalmist is to shew the glory of God in his great workes of Nature The word translated Angels signifies messengers in the Hebrew as the Greeke But the Apostle in the first of the Hebrewes quotes this Scripture and applies it to the Angels vers. 7. And of the Angels he saith he maketh his Angels spirits and his Ministers a flaming fire to this Calvin upon the 104. Psalme justifying the former interpretation ansvvers It is not the intent of the Apostle to expound the meaning of the Prophet but sets out an Analogie or likenesse betvveene that obedience the Winds yeeld unto God and that vvhich is performed by the Angels and so the meaning is that as God useth the Winds his messengers to goe hither and thither as he pleaseth for the fulfilling his Word so hee useth the Angels for his service and they obey accordingly so that this visible sensible World is as it vvere a glasse of that glory the Lord hath in the higher World above in the Heavens and vve may be the rather induced to conceive that the Apostle maketh use onely of an Allegoricall sense of that Scripture because vvee finde many times in the New Testament places quoted out of the Old and applyed not according to their proper sense but some according to their typicall and others their allegoricall sense as many might be named I will onely shew you one place quoted out of the Psalmes as this is and that by the same Apostle the place of the Psalme that is quoted is Psal. 19. vers. 4. Their line is gone out through the earth and their words to the end of the World it is apparent this is spoken concerning the heavens their line that is their rule or delineation which is a meanes to teach the simple as Isay 28. 10. or by line is meant a building frame which is made by line and rule Job 38. 5. speaking of Gods creating the earth hee hath this expression Who hath stretched out the line therof The Greeke Translators translate the word sound which word the Apostle also useth quoting this place Rom. 18. 18. And further whereas it is said their words to the end of the World is meant those testifications that the frame of the Heavens have together with their course and order to witnesse to the world the glory of God in them whereby they doe as it were cry aloud to men to behold the glory of the great God Now the Apostle in the 10. to the Rom applies this place to the preaching of the Gospel by the Apostles that were sent out he brings it to shew that unbeleevers could have no excuse for their unbeleefe But I say have they not heard yes verily for their sound went into all the earth and their words unto the ends of the World wherefore although that place in the 104. Psalme by way of Allegory may bee applyed unto the Angels yet firstly and properly it is to be understood of the Winds every Wind is as a messenger of God sent to us about some errand or other and happy are wee if wee have that care and skill that may finde out what their message is what the meaning of God in them is that they may never returne without doing the worke for which they were sent and certainely one way or other they will performe their worke as we have it in the Text they will fulfill his Word In the 55. of Isay vers. 10 11. The Word is compared to the Raine that comes downe from Heaven in that it returnes not in vaine so neither will the winds that come from Heaven yea as messengers from the God of Heaven they will not they cannot returne in vaine 9. This is a creature that God delights to make use of when hee would so speake to men as to humble their hearts before him thus he did when hee intended so to speake to Job as to humble him so thorowly as hee might be prepared for deliverance he speakes againe and againe to him out of the Wind chap. 38. and 40. 10. Christ makes use of this creature in setting out the freenesse of Gods grace in the great worke of Regeneration Joh. 3. 8. The Wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof but canst not tell whence it commeth nor whither it goeth so is every one that is borne of the Spirit and God made use of this miraculous worke of his in sending the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles Acts. 2. 2. There was the rushing of a mighty Wind and filled all the house where they were
East Wind carrieth him away and a storme hurleth him out of his place You know the speech of Eliah to Ahab when he see the clouds arise make haste lest the raine prevent you 1 King 18. 44. so I to you make haste lest the storme prevent you when an enemy takes in a Towne by storme it is very terrible Oh how dreadfull then will it bee to that people whom the Lord shall come against as an enemy and after many offers of conditions of peace rejected he shall take them in by storm It is the pride of mens hearts that is the cause they feare not this wherefore my prayer shall be according to that of the Psalmist Psal. 83. 15. Lord make them afraid of thy storme I doe not I will not pray as in the former part of the verse Lord persecute them with thy tempest Oh no if it may bee the Lord keep it from them neither doe I pray Lord make them afraid with thy storme but Lord make them afraid of thy storme For the second how terrible are stormes raised and raging in mens consciences When the wrath of God in a mans soule shall persecute him as the Wind as Job complaines chap. 30. 15. Terrors are turned upon mee they pursue my soule as the Wind and chap. 9. 17. Hee breaketh me with a tempest When God shall say to Conscience goe persecute them with thy tempest and make them afraid with thy storme after great calmes there useth to arise grievous stormes many of you have had a long calme of peace and prosperity you may expect a storme a comming God who is said Psal. 107. 29. to make the storme a calme can as soone make thy calme a storme the vapors that cause the tempest arise insensibly but when they grow to a tempest they have mighty power so sinnes are committed and multiplyed insensibly they lie by heaps in the conscience you feele nothing of them now but at last if you looke not to it they will cause a dreadfull tempest and especially when the hearts of men are most swelling with pride Mariners observe that usually before great tempests there are great swellings at Sea it is so usually before great Conscience-tempests the more swelling any wicked mans heart is the neerer the more dreadfull is the tempest like to be Many of you have in your time beene in most fearefull tempests that have made your hearts to ake within you but you must looke for another manner a more dreadfull tempest when not vapors in the ayre but the wrath of an infinite God in the Conscience shall shake and rend your hearts the terrors of the Lord following you will cause another manner of rage in the heart then ever stormy wind caused in the mighty waters Psal. 11. 6. Vpon the wicked he shall raine snares fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest this is the portion of their cup It is called the portion of their cup saith Saint Augustine upon the place because of the just measure and proportion Gods Justice observes in the dealing out punishment to sinners as we heard before God is said to have a weight for the winds so for this storme and tempest that comes upon the wicked the Lord weighes it it comes upon them proportionable to their sinne were you ever strucke with feare when you have seen the huge flouds of waters rowling and ranging in the Seas being driven by mighty winds what fear then will possesse your hearts when you shall see the flouds of ungodnesse comes in upon you how will the terrors even of Hell then compasse you about it is an expression of David Psal. 18. 4 5. The sorrowes of death compassed mee and the flouds of ungodlinesse made me afraid So Arias Montanus turnes it howsoever hee may meane of ungodly men yet the word bearing the other reading we may also apply it to the ungodlinesse of men then the sorrowes of Hell compassed me The Lord give you a heart to foresee this storme and to prevent it Wee read Exod. 9. 20. when God threatned to send upon Egypt a fearefull storme of haile those who feared the Word of the Lord made their servants and Cattle to flee into their houses so this day you heare from the Lord a storme threatned let every soule that feareth the Word of the Lord seeke to flee into a shelter there is no other shelter that can keepe it off but onely the Lord Jesus Christ that which is said Isa. 32. 2. is true of him a man shall be a hiding place from the Wind and a covert from the tempest 7. Let us yet rise higher in praising God in the stormy Wind by considering in our hearts if God be so dreadfull now in this one creature how dreadfull then will he be when he shall appeare in all his power in all his wrath his Iustice and holinesse what shall the glory of the great God be hereafter of which the Scripture speaks so much when he shall cloath himselfe in glory and majesty in the full brightnesse of them when the Heavens shall depart like a scrowle and the elements melt with fervent heat when all the World shall be on fire about him the voyce of the Lord hath shaken the earth but he saith yet once more I shake not the earth onely but also Heaven that will be a dreadfull day indeed when the starres of Heaven shall fall unto the earth as a Fig-tree casteth her untimely Figges when shee is shaken of by a mighty Wind when every Mountaine and Iland shall be moved out of their places when the Kings of the earth and the great and mighty men shall hide themselves in the Dennes and in the Rockes and Mountaines Revel. 6 13 14 15. A stormy Wind that shakes off the fruit of trees here wee account great but such as shall shake the Heavens and cause the starres to fall as the fruit the untimely fruit of a Fig-tree how dreadfull must that needes be beyond all apprehension and yet in such a stormy Wind will God one day appeare in his glory when not onely children and women and a few fearefull people shal be afraid but the Kings the Captaines and the great ones of the earth shall tremble and hide themselves and wish the Mountaines to fall upon them and the hills to cover them from the Wrath of the Lord Thus I have endeavoured to shew you how you should glorifie God in his worke to be moved with it in a sensitive way that is no more then the bruit beasts are the swine will runne up and down and cry in a stormy wind yea when it is comming being sensible of it before you are but Job 35. 11. God teacheth us more then the beasts of the earth and maketh us wiser then the foules of heaven therefore God lookes for another manner of glory from us men then from them and more from us Christians then from men God hath given to the reasonable creature to
God was not in the wind nor in the earthquake nor in the fire but in the still voyce it was to shew you that Elias and so other Ministers of God should be to the people as that mighty wind as the earthquake and fire till God appeares in them and when they see God in them then to be as a still voyce unto them but this by the way for the clearing this Scripture from the abuse of it Vse 2. If the Winds be for the fulfilling Gods Word and that in those severall wayes Hence let us learne that when any great Winds and Tempests arise it is not for nothing that they arise there is some speciall reason that God hath for the raising and continuing of them God hath alwayes some speciall aime in them for the fulfilling of some word or other of his many people when they heare of and feele grievous tempests boisterous violent Winds they thinke and say there is conjuring abroad and that is all the use they make of them God is neglected hee is not so much as once mentioned by them I finde a Canon in a Councell above 1000. yeeres agoe made against such as shall attribute tempests thundrings and lightnings to the Devill as if he caused them whosoever beleeves this saith the Councell as Priscillianus did let him be Anathema It is true if God will permit the Devill he hath much power over corporall things to make great changes in them to doe great things by them as we know what he did by Gods permission against Job and when his children were feasting there came saith the Text Job 1. 19. a great Wind and smote the foure corners of the House It is observed by some there was a speciall worke of the Devill in drawing the Wind round about the house how could one Wind else take the foure corners of the house Origen thinkes those Winds were onely the Devils themselves cluttering about the house and striving who should doe mischiefe soonest the same word in the Hebrew that signifies the Wind signifies also a spirit Certaine it is if God should let him loose hee were able to overturne our houses every day and suddenly to destroy us all but howsoever God may permit him sometimes as his executioner yet the supreme cause of raising and ordering is God for speciall ends which the Devill is forced against his will to further and there is not the least vapour or any of the most contemptible creature that he hath any power over but by permission and therefore neither Angel nor Devill nor any power in Heaven and Earth can raise or continue any Wind but as an instrument of God When God hath some worke to doe for the fulfilling his Word it were a great shame for any who professe godlinesse to bee afraid of the Devill in this kinde The Devill saith Tertullian hath no power over Swine much lesse over Gods Sheepe what God hath to doe in that proportion he raiseth the Wind according to that expression you had before that God had weights for the Wind adde to this that place Psal. 78. 50. Hee weighed out a path for his anger for so are the words in your Bookes it is onely hee made a way to his anger but consider then these two places together thus God first weighes a path for his anger how much hee intends to execute and then he weighs the means that is the Winds according to the former expression in Job just enough for the execution of so much anger and no more and so proportion them and this beyond all second causes makes the Winds greater or lesse continuing longer or shorter time which few thinke of But thus much for the application more generally but more particularly from these foure considerations of that word they come to fulfil from the first the word of his Decree 1. Hence wee learne the certainty of the fulfilling of all Gods Decrees all creatures worke for this end wee may purpose and decree things but every little thing is enough to hinder but the word of Gods Decree shall stand for ever Heaven and Earth and Ayre and Seas and all creatures must worke and give forth all their power and efficacie for this therefore certainely none can faile 2. Whatsoever falls out by the Wind take notice of it as the fulfilling of the word of Gods Decree and make use of it accordingly doe not thinke it came by ill hap or chance or onely through unskilfulnesse or neglect of such or such so as to thinke if these things be taken heed of another time there need be no feare that such things will fall out againe yes if this came to fulfill the word of Gods Decree howsoever such and such meanes furthered it although they had not beene God could have have had many other wayes to have made these winds to have fulfilled this word of his and so may do some other time when such meanes shall not fall out From the second the Word of his command 1. Here learne the Soveraignty and greatnesse of God that hath these creatures at his command Who is this said the Mariners concerning Christ whom the wind and Seas obey so let us say who is this Lord how great is his command who are you then that dare resist the command of this God Shall Heaven and Earth Seas and Winds fulfill Gods word and art thou he that darest stand out against it to resist it to rebell against it Job 38. 1 2 it is said that God spake to Job out of the whirle-wind and said Who is this that darkneth counsell Now the Lord speake to your hearts out of every stormy Wind who is this that dares stand out against my command great things have yeelded and doe daily yeeld to Gods word as Psal. 29. 5 6 7. It breaketh the Cedars it divideth the flames of fire What a heart then hast thou that darest that canst stand out against it 2. Seeing the boisterous Winds obey the word of command when thou feelest boisterous raging lusts in thy heart looke up to this God cry to him to give out a powerfull word of command to still them Likewise O Lord thou who rulest the raging Sea and tempestuous Winds and they are still O that thou wouldest rebuke these raging distempers of my heart which raise a grievous tempest in my soule that they may be still Chrysostome upon the 8. of Matthew speaking of those winds that raised tempest upon the Seas which endangered the Shippe wherein Christ and his Disciples were makes use of an Allegoricall sense comparing the Ship to the Church and those winds to the Devils that raise tempests to endanger the Church certainly the lusts of a mans heart are more dangerous winds they raise a tempest more dangerous then all the Devils in Hell are able to raise but the Lord that is able to still the one is able to still also the other Psal. 65. 7. These two are put together The stilling the
the Cedars in Lebanon not onely literally but metaphorically the highest and loftiest spirit that is How dreadfull then is the power of God himselfe which hath nothing in it but infinite and so much as no addition can be made of many of the weakest things in the world hath such an amazing strength then that which is so great as no addition can be made and all in it infinite oh how full of glory and Majesty is that power The naturall cause of the power of the Winds that men give is from the kind of vapour of which they are the more earthy vapors are and hot the stronger the Winds Hence many times Summer Winds are exceeding strong and many times in hot countries because the earth is more open and the Sun having power to draw up more grosse earthy vapors there are mighty tempestuous Winds exceeding strong whirle-winds according to that Job 37. 11. Out of the South commeth the whirle-wind the southerne parts are hot 4. God is to be praised in the variety of the motions of the Winds Eccles. 1. 6. The Wind goeth toward the South and turneth about unto the North it whirleth about continually and returneth againe according to its circuits It hath its various circuits appointed by God which way it shall turne although their motion seemes exceeding unsteady and changeable up and downe without any certaine rule yet they observe their circuits wherein they runne their compasse as God appoints them In some places of the World their motions are steady and constant which Mariners call their Trade Wind. 5. God is to be praised in the use of the Winds God hath made them to be of great use in the World Seneca calls them a mighty benefit of Nature although many times much hurt comes by them as hee sayes De Caesare majore it was wont to bee said of him and hee brings in Livy for an Author that it was uncertaine whether it had beene more profitable for the Common-wealth that ever he was borne or that he had not beene borne so saith he of the Winds in regard of that harme comes by them it may be questioned whether the good or the hurt be the greater but hee meanes principally the hurt that comes by the abuse of them in Navigation for instead of furthering men to passe up and downe into one anothers countrey they carry them to warre one with another God gave the Wind that the good of Countries might bee made common not to carry Armies Horsmen weapons pernitious to Nations thus he but howsoever as himselfe saith we must not account those things to be good which by ill use turne to hurt it is true of this worke of God as in all other creatures they are of speciall use many wayes as great blessings to us as 1. For purging the ayre much infection of the ayre is driven away by them the ayre is cleansed and kept sweet with the motions of thē which otherwise would corrupt as the standing Waters do Job 37. 21. The wind passeth and cleanseth so Jer. 4. 11. A dryed wind toward the daughter of my people not to fan nor to cleanse God threatens afflictions to come in wrath not as the Wind comes to fan and cleanse the ayre but as a whirlewind to destroy 2. For the scattering of the clouds here and there up and downe in the World by them God shakes as it were his Waterpots by which he waters the Garden of the Earth as Job 37. 11. Also by watering hee wearieth the thicke cloud he scattereth his bright cloud and it is turned round about by his counsels and this is done by the breath of God as it is vers. 10. 3. For altering of seasons for bringing in cold or heare as Job 37. 9 10. Out of the South commeth the whirlewind and cold out of the North by the breath of God frost is given and vers. 17. He quieteth the earth by the South wind he brings warmth that way 4. For Navigation in vvhich Art there is much of the Wisdome of God seene and if it bee rightly used the goodnesse of God to mankind is very great in it In the 28. of Esa. from the 24. v to the end the Lord challenges to himself the glory of teaching the Plow-man the art of plowing the ground and threshing out the corne his God saith the Text vers. 26. doth instruct him to discretion and doth teach him and vers. 29 This also commeth forth from the Lord of Hosts which is wonderfull in councell and excellent in working Now if this art be from the Lord and if God shewes himselfe wonderfull in counsell and excellent in working of this how much more is that excellent Art of Navigation whereby men come even to subdue the Seas to themselves to finde out and draw forth the riches of them whereby they passe up and downe over the whole World to see the wayes of God and the riches of God throughout the Earth whereby the severall parts of the world are knowne each to other and communicate each to other the wonderfull blessings of God surely it is God that instructs men in this it is he that gives them understanding and in this much more is the Lord wonderfull in counsell and excellent in working How little of God in the great workes of Nature should we know and enjoy were it not for the Art of Navigation but what were mans skill or industry therein if God did not further it by the use of the Winds the worke of God is very observable in these two workes of Nature The one in scattering of Springs and currents of waters up and down in secret veines and in open passages of the earth to make fit for habitation and the other in appointing the various motion of the Winds to work up and downe upon the Seas to make them fit for Navigation 5. That use that we have here mentioned in the Text Fulfilling his word of which in the next point 6. A great worke of God appeares in stilling the Winds and calming them as hee pleaseth no man knowes whither they goe when Christ rebuked the Winds and bad them be still Mark 4. 39. The Wind ceased and there was a great calme Isa. 27. 8. Hee stayeth the rough Wind Many times when it is most rough and boisterous he staies it on a sudden so as Mariners may see much of the hand of God in it towards them in which God is much to be praised for by this the Lord ruleth the raging of the Sea when the waves thereof arise hee stilleth them and marke how the Psalmist magnifies God in this worke Psal. 89. 8 9. O Lord God of Hosts who is a strong Lord like unto thee or to thy faithfulnesse round about thee Thou rulest the raging of the Sea when the waves thereof arise thou stillest them How soever naturall causes may be used by God for this yet we must acknowledge God in them and his worke above them in stilling