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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62447	The treasures of the sea A sermon to the mariners upon Deut. XXXIII. xviii, xix. And of Zabulun, he said, Rejoice Zabulun in thy ports, and Issachar in thy tents. They shall call the people unto the mountain, there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treaures hid in the sand.	Thomson, William, d. 1699.	1683 (1683)	Wing T1036A; ESTC R203769	22,323	44

quickly put an end to our sins and miseries Let us enjoy our long expectations call the Sea to deliver up her dead and the Earth to set free her Prisoners that we with all them that are departed in the true Faith and fear of thy most Holy Name may have our perfect consummation and bliss both in Body and Soul by entring into the full fruition of the face and excellencies of the most adorable Trinity Now as we have given different senses of the words so shall we also in correspondence thereunto make our Applications And first to the adventurous Marriners that they do above all things labour to secure the favour and protection of God by an Holy Life And truly if they shall but seriously consider the condition thereof they will find themselves to lye under many and extraordinary circumstances that call them thereto as 1. The wonders and mighty works of God which they behold as the Psalmist speaks They that go down to the Sea in Ships and occupy their business in great waters these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep Psal 107. 23. The several climates the different rising and setting of Stars the divers temperatures of the air the various commodities of all Countries call upon you to praise and adore that God who has disposed all things in such a wonderful order and so various a manner for the benefit of the whole 2. The dangers of Storms of Rocks of Shelves of Sands make your preservations miraculous and consequently require the greatest and most constant Devotions to God for your safeties Pacuvius gives us a description of a Tempest sufficient to allay the courage of the most valiant and it is this Inhorrescit mare Tenebrae conduplicantur c. The Sea roars with horrour the darkness becomes palpable the blackness of the night and storms is a perfect blindness the Lightning flashes through the Clouds and Heaven trembles with the Thunder Hail and rain mixt together fall 't is hard to say in greater plenty or violence the Winds break out from all points as if they would not only destroy themselves but all the World and the Ocean rages with the Tyde Now how canst thou expect to be preserv'd in such concussions and strugglings of Nature How canst thou expect that God should becalm this Tempest asswage the fury of the Elements and stretch out his almighty arm to save thee in dangers so great if thou daily provokest him to anger by thy sins No worship him all the days of thy li●e with a pure mind and a chaste body and then call upon him in the needful time of trouble and he shall hear thee at large He shall still the raging of the Sea and the storms when they arise He shall preserve thee in a thousand dangers shall bless thee in thy going out and in thy coming in and bring thee safe and prosperously into the Haven where thou wouldst be so that thou shalt rejoice like Zabulun in thy Ports 3. The great Profits and Emoluments which accrue from your employment is a third obligation to your Piety Navigation is that which makes the Riches of the World common and the Merchant may truly be said to suck the abundance of the Sea and treasures hid in the Sand. It is he that mingles the manners and wealth of all Nations together that makes good the poverty of one place with the riches of another Navigation is certainly the greatest and most useful Art humane nature was ever master of And whatever there is of Wit whatever there is of Manners whatever there is of Riches whatever there is of Glory nay whatever there is of Religion in the World is in great measures owing to the professors thereof Go then happy Marriner fear thy God above all things and he shall bring the Winds out of his Treasures to fi●l thy Sails with gales of Prosperity Go spread thy Religion thy Laws thy Manners and Customes through the Universe and for thy reward reap the harvest of the River sack the abundance of the deep and Treasures hid in the Sands 4. The great Influence that good example has upon others calls upon you especially to a circumspection in your manners that no Profaneness Injustice or Intemperance appear in you to the scandal of others or the disparagement of our Religion For it is not deep Mysteries multitude of Laws or Rational Discourses that will convert Nations Holy Examples move beyond Precepts and a conversation void of offence is the most effectual Sermon to bring those that are without into the fold of the Church In vain therefore poor Christendom dost thou expect the coming in of unbelievers while they see thy wickedness at home thy profaneness abroad Learn then all and especially those who view foreign and unconverted Nations a conversation suitable to the doctrine ye profess Learn that most useful lecture of our Saviour Mat. 5. 16. Let your light so shine hefore men that they may see your good works and glorifie your father which is in heaven 2. The second of our Applications shall be to us all but especially to the true Zabulonites that we learn highly to esteem this Religion we profess A Religion which has overcome so many difficulties been confirm'd by such Miracles continued by such a wonderful Providence through so many Ages A Religion that glories in so many Martyrs Doctors Pastors Bishops and Holy men of the clearest Spirits and greatest accomplishments in the World A Religion that corrects our Errours that bridles our Passions that sanctifies our Natures and gives us the greatest assurances of Gods love to us here and the most infallible revelations of a future and eternal felicity What if some little Spirit blown up with a system an experiment a fantastick song or some giddy vortex in his Head make now and then a fally out against this Truth Is it reasonable for this think you to waver in our Faith or grow neglective of our duty No we have a Law deliver'd by the Word it self which millions of Martyrs have sign'd with their Blood which the best of mankind professes the wisest heads of the World have illustrated with the lights of their Writings and for whose defence Heads and Pens the most able labour daily But alas that ancient Zeal which brought the Church to so great Glory and so vast extent seems much decay'd and instead thereof the Spirit of Atheism Heresie Schism and luke warmness has succeeded So that the state of Religion runs low the Word of God wants its due belief the holy Priests that reverence that becomes persons who handle the mysteries of God the Churches the decency of holy places And in short God is defrauded of that Glory which all beings owe to the Majesty of Heaven and we all want those comforts of Religion our wiser and more zealous Ancestors enjoy'd The Lord in his due time restore that devotion and prudent Zeal which was so remarkable in the early Christians 2 Cor. 9. 2. that many may be provoked to the same Repentance Faith and good works may suck the abundance of the Seas and treasures hid in the Sand i. e. the secrets of the Law and Mysteries of the Gospel 3. Let us all prepare for that account we must give when Christ shall seize the heritage and benediction of Zabulun and Issachar when the Sea shall give up her dead and the Earth restore the Bodies committed to her charge that so whatever our condition is in this World our Souls and Bodies may be happy in the next For They that be wise shall outshine the brightness of the Firmament and they that turn many to righteousness as the Stars for ever and ever Dan. 12. 3. And as S. John teaches 1 Joh. 3. 2. Beloved now are we the Sons of God and it does not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him For we shall see him as he is This is that vision alone which can terminate all our desires in the enjoyment of that essence whose boundless goodness shall fill us with the perfection of himself For in his presence is fulness of joy and at his right hand are pleasures for evermore Psal 16. 11. FINIS

slippery are all the acquists of covetousness that they scarce ever stay so long with us as to be enjoy'd never so long as we expected nor at all to satisfie us But as for the man that feareth the Lord that delighteth greatly in his commandment blessed is he His seed shall be mighty upon earth the generation of the upright shall be blessed Wealth and Riches shall be in his House and his Righteousness endureth for ever Psalm 112. 1 2 3. 2. An overhasty ambition Have you ever seen a bubble rise in a moment and take a dance or two in the lap of the Wave his Mother and then burst asunder and immediately shrink again into his first principles Then have you seen the emblem of an ambitious man who rising from almost as great a weakness swells bigg and fetches a caper or two and perhaps breaks two or three more bubbles that float in his way and by and by some heavier drop of adversity falls upon his head and crushes him into his first Original This is exemplified to us in the adventures of the Consul Bibulus who swelling in his triumphant Chariot was kill'd by the accidental fall of a Tilestone before he could reach the Capitol Or in the great Favourite Sejanus whom the same day saw attended by the Senate and torn to pieces by the people Or in the Sacred History where we find Absalom impatient of the long and as seem'd to him more than humane age of his Father and thereupon sets all his engins at work to bring the Crown upon his own head But the event was only that having by a restless ambition disturbed the Court of his aged Father every hair of that busie head became a snare to him and an Executioner of the Divine Justice So infallibly does ruin follow Pride and Rebellion Put all into this L'envoy and it amounts to this That fortunes raised upon unjust ambitions or covetous exactions are as houses built upon sands which wash away with every storm scarce leaving behind them the name of their ruins while exemplar pieties found their prosperities upon Rocks which no winds nor rains can move from their place And the reason of it is Because Religion puts us under the protection of God without whose blessing nothing is safe nothing is successful Wherefore it becomes all those who imbark themselves in the dangers and employments of the world to secure the blessings of Heaven and the favours of God by zealous devotions and constant piety For then the Stars shall fight in their courses the winds shall blow the Sea shall spread her self as a carpet the earth shall open all the Magazines and Riches of her Entrails And they shall suck the abundance of the Seas and Treasures c. Why is it then that we see so many fruitless so many fatal Voyages Why does the Sea so often raise her Waves as the Mountains of Ararat and then open her unfathomable Womb as if she meant to disclose the Entrails and Centre of nature Why does the Air so often become the emblem of Hell rending all things with the fury of its lightnings and by and by hide the ruins made in darkness thick as that of the infernal Abyss How comes it to pass that Fleets fraught with the Riches of the East and of the West so often split upon Rocks and wreck upon sands How comes so great wealth to be a prey to the Ocean and so many bodies of men to be food for Sherks and Dolphins Why is Heaven so deaf in the midst of these tempests that neither Tears nor Vows nor Prayers can move it to mercy Why it is because men carry along with them into the Deep their Intemperances Adulteries Blasphemies Oaths Curses Rapines and the whole Mafs of their Sins unrepented of This is that accursed Cargo that Anathema that makes the Seas to swell and the Winds to roar that stops the ears of Heaven to their call and makes an eternal shipwreck of their souls bodies and estates So intolerable a weight does sin add to the calamities of men and so backward is God in redressing the miseries of the wicked This brings to my remembrance a story which Diogenes Laertius reports of Prias of Priene who being at Sea in a storm with some wicked Passengers and they calling upon their Gods for relief the wise Philosopher advised them to silence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lest the Gods should be aware of their passage The vengeance not the mercy of the Divinity always pursuing the ungodly Which should teach us above all things to learn the Golden Verse of Orpheus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. to make Religion the first and last and all our cares that we may be preserved from all dangers or secur'd in them by the Divine Protection or rather that of a more Divine Poet Psal 91. 2 3 4. I will say of the Lord he is my refuge and my fortress my God in him will I trust Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the Fowler and from the noisome pestilence He shall cover thee with his Feathers and under his Wings shalt thou trust his truth shall be thy Shield and Buckler Thou shalt not be afraid for the terrour by night nor for the Arrow that flies by day nor for the pestilence that walks in darkness nor for the destruction that wastes at noon day A thousand shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand but it shall not come nigh thee For he shall give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways v. 11. His favour is the best policy and firmest Insurance But there are those and particularly S. Ambrose de bendict Patriarch who have more advantageously and more worthy a Prophetick Spirit discourst this subject referring the Doctrine to Christ and his Apostles and telling us that out of Zabulun Christ sent them to call the people to the Mountain c. i. e. to the Church who suckt the abundance of the Seas and Treasures hid in the Sand when the bounty of Kings converted to the Faith enricht the Church with the abundance of their Donations Which happy and pious Interpretation gives us occasion to handle Doctrines the most useful and mysteries the most profound And 1. We observe what improbable Instruments in the eyes of men God chose to call his people to the Mountain He fetches no Disciples out of the Schools of the Pharisees he sends not to the Walls or Porches of Athens but calls a few Fisherman to give Laws and Religion to all the Nations and all the Ages of the World Of which Origen cont Cels l. 1. gives the reason telling us that if Christ had chosen the wise and eloquent it might have given suspicion that like the Gentile Philosophers he had raised his Sect not by the Grace of God but by the Arts and Elocution of his followers But when we see a few Publicans and Fishers convince the obstinacy of the

Industry and being blessed by thy goodness may bring many Souls to thee and maintain True Doctrine and Holy Discipline in thy Church till the second coming of Christ our Saviour The tenth is Charitable beneficence to the houshold of Faith as witnesseth S. Paul Phil. 4. 18. I received the things that were sent an odour of a sweet smell a Sacrifice acceptable to God But the first is that alone which can make the rest acceptable before God and without which the Prayers of the most devout the blood of the Martyrs the alms of the most Charitable and the Religion of all mankind were ineffectual to their Salvation It is by this Sacrifice alone our sins are wash'd our natures purified our duties rewarded and the Christian Faith secured of the glories of Eternity O blessed Jesus O Eternal Son of God! Who can sufficiently admire this mystery or adore thy goodness Who can sufficiently extol thy incomprehensible love who gavest not thy Wealth not thy Brethren not thy Kindred not thy Angels but thy self God and Man for us Sinners and Enemies Pious Devotions have been carried into many admirable raptures in the contemplation of this sublime Mystery but none seems to have gone higher than that of Origen who urges this great High Priest to have offer'd himself not for man only but to have tasted death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 extending the merits and efficacy of his passion to the Stars otherwise impure in the sight of God and therefore in need to be cleansed that so all things might be restored to the Kingdom of the Father Orig. in Evang. Joh. And which S. Paul seems highly to favour in that famous place of Col. 1. 19 20. For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell and having made peace through the Blood of his Cross by him to reconcile all things unto himself by him I say whether they be things in Earth or things in Heaven If this be so we need not break the Glasses of Galiloeo the spots may be washed out of the Sun and total nature sanctified unto God that made it However this may be it is safest for us to attend to Holy Scriptures telling us Heb. 9. that the Son of God offer'd through the Eternal Spirit this Sacrifice upon the Cross to purge our Consciences from dead works to serve the living God And he is not now enter'd into the holy places made with hands but into heaven it self now to appear in the presence of God for us Which is to say in effect that Christ offered himself a Sacrifice upon the Cross which because it was perfect and infinitely meritorious could be but one and that but once but because the needs of the World should last as long as the World it self it was necessary there should be a perpetual Ministry establisht whereby this one sufficient Sacrifice should be made for ever effectual to the several new arising needs of all the World To this end Christ was made a Priest for ever not that he should offer himself often For then must he often have suffer'd since the foundation of the World Heb. 9 25. But being ascended into Heaven he there represents and exhibits to the Father the great effective Sacrifice which he offer'd on the Cross to eternal and never failing purposes And as Christ is pleas'd to represent to his Father that great Sacrifice as a means of atonement and expiation for all mankind and with special purposes for all the elect all that serve him in holiness So he has appointed that the same ministry shall be done on Earth too in our manner and according to our promotion And therefore he chose first the Fisher-men of Galilee to offer the Sacrifices of Righteousness and has ever since preserved in his Church an order of men who by shewing forth the Lords death by Sacramental representation may pray unto God after the same manner that our Lord and High Priest does that is offer to God and represent in this most solemn Prayer and Sacrament Christ as once for all offer'd already upon the Altar of the Cross So sending up a gracious instrument whereby our Prayers may for his sake and in the same manner of Intercession be offer'd up to God in our behalf and for all them for whom we pray to all those purposes for which Christ died And as the Holy Priests do in a Sacramental manner present to God the Sacrifice of the Cross by being Imitators of Christs Intercession So the people are Sacrificers too in their manner For that besides in saying Amen they join in the Act of him that ministers and make it also to be their own So when they worthily receive the Holy Eucharist they receive Christ within them and therefore may also offer him to God while in their Sacrifice of Obedience and Thanksgiving they present themselves to God with Christ whom they have Spiritually received that is themselves with that which will make them gracious and acceptable The offering their Bodies and Souls and services to God in him and by him and with him who is his Fathers well-beloved and in whom he is well pleased cannot but be acceptable to all the purposes of blessing grace and glory And this is the Sacrifice of Righteousness the Mincha purum spoken of by the Prophet Malachi 1. 11. From the rising of the Sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles and in every place Incense shall be offer'd unto my name and a pure offerring For my name shall be great among the Heathen saith the Lord of Hosts Wherefore let us all exult in that mystical expression of the Son of Barachiah Zech. 9. 17. How great is his goodness and how great is his beauty Corn shall make the young men cheerful and new Wine the Maidens 3. They shall suck of the abundance of the Seas and of Treasures c. Those as hath been noted before how study mystical senses of Holy Scripture refer all this to the Doctrine of Christ and the calling of his Apostles For in these parts he was not only much conversant himself but also chose many of his Disciples and Followers who though in their own persons they did not suck of the abundance of the Seas or treasures of the Sand i. e. the Riches and Emoluments of the two Elements yet they did in the Body which they built and in the persons of their Successors the Bishops and Pastors of the Church For when Emperours and Kings became Proselytes of the Gospel they became kind to the Church and she became rich by their Donations The wealth of all Seas flowed into the bosome of the Church and the Treasures of all Lands was laid at the feet of the servants of Jesus Then was fulfilled that of the Prophet Isa 60. 4 5. Lift up thine eyes round about and see all they gather themselves together they come to thee thy Sons shall come from far and thy daughters