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The true honor of navigation and navigators: or, holy meditations for sea-men Written vpon our sauiour Christ his voyage by sea, Matth. 8. 23. &c. Whereunto are added certaine formes of prayers for sea trauellers, suited to the former meditations, vpon the seuerall occasions that fall at sea. By Iohn Wood, Doctor in Diuinitie.
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Wood, John, d. 1625.
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thy goodnesse ouer all the world whereby thou chearest and comfortest all things liuing but also beholdest all things and actions of the world which are naked and conspicuous in thy sight and dispellest and scatterest all thicke clouds and darke mists of ignorance infidelity and error and shewest vnto thy children the right way to heauen preseruing them from stumbling slipping and dangerous falling in that way Grant vs therefore that in thy light wee may see light And seeing thy Sonne Iesus Christ is the true life and light of men that enlighteneth euery man that commeth into the world who when the naturall light of rectified reason which thou gauest vnto man in his creation was by sinne extinguished and put out did supply the defect thereof by a better light the light of faith whereby thy children do vnderstand the mysteries of the kingdome of heauen O Lord make vs euery day more and more partakers of this light Enlighten our vnderstandâ—ngs by thy blessed Spirit and our hearts by the light of faith and our affections by thy Word that we being naâ—urally darkenesse may be light in thee and may shine as lights in a froward and peruerse generation and may let our light so shine before men that they may see our good workes and glorifie thee our Father in heauen And seeing the night of our ignorance is passed and the day is at hand and thy grace which bringeth saluation to all thy faithfull hath appeared teaching vs to denie vngodlinesse and worldly lusts and to walke soberly and iustly and godly in this present world Grant vs thy grace whereby we may cast off the workes of darkenesse and put on the armour of light and walk as children of the light that thy Son being come a light into the world we may not loue darkenes more then light because our works are euil but Lord let the light of thy countenance shine vpon vs that the light of faith which we receiue of thee in this life may make vs liue in expectation of thy light of glory in the life to come being by thee made meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light And now Lord we humbly intreate thy fatherly protection of our bodies soules from all dangers both outward and inward this day giue vs grace to make spiritual vse to our soules of all the actions and occurrences therein make vs conscionably carefull not to offend thee either in thought word or deede and prosper we beseech thee whatsoeuer wee vndertake in thy feare that wee may chearefully goe on in the seuerall workes of our places and callings so as we may seale vp our election by good workes and worke out our saluation in feare and trembling that whensoeuer this miserable and sinfull life of ours shall be ended wee may rest and raigne with thee in glory through the merits of thy deare Sonne Iesus Christ in whose name wee further call vpon thee as he hath taught vs saying Our Father c. An Euening Prayer WE present ouâ—â—â—lues again before thee most merciful Father acknowledging and confessing against our selues our manifold sins which wee haue daily multiplied against thy Maiestie and against our owne consciences from the beginning of our dayes and euen this day now passed We confesse O Lord that we were at first conceiued and borne in sinne and that from that originall corruption there haue euer since proceeded so many wicked and vngodly thoughts words and works that if thou examine what we haue done amisse we were not able to abide it or to answere one of a thousand of our actions for euen our best workes our prayers are accompanied with so many imperfections of wandring imaginations that when we haue done praying we had need to pray vnto thee againe to forgiue the scapes and negligences and ignorances of them Wee confesse further O Lord God that in respect of our sinnes wee are not worthy to looke vp to heauen or to call vpon thy name for we haue iustly deserued not onely to be depriued of all thy good blessings both concerning this and a better life which hitherto by thy mercies we haue enioyed and which we more fully expect hereafter by thy gracious promise but also wee haue deserued and doe daily deserue thy wrath and indignation to bee poured downe vpon vs vpon our bodies and soules in this life and in the life to come if thou shouldest enter into iudgement with vs. But there is mercy with the O Lord that thou maist be feared And we appeale therefore from thy seuere iustice against sinne vnto thy tender mercies in thine owne Sonne in whom wee know thou art well pleased Wee humbly beseech thee for his sake to be mercifull vnto â—s to pardon and to forgiue vs all our sinnes to wash them away in his blood to bury them in his death and passion so as they may neuer be imputed to vs either in this life to the terror and affrighting of our consciences or in the world to come to our vtter condemnation Good Lord giue vs euery day more and more the true sight of our sinnes the true sense and feeling of them and of thy great iudgements hanging ouer our heads in respect of them Giue vs a true sorrow and hearty repentance for all our sinnes past and a full resolution in the residue of our liues to be more wary and circumspect ouer all our words and actions that we may not onely striue to abstaine from sin but auoid those occasions which we haue formerly found to haue drawne vs thereunto And now Lord seeing the night is come vpon vs and hath not onely depriued vs of the light of the Sun but hath also brought with it darkenesse and terrors fearefull to our weake natures yet wee still depend vpon thy holy protection for as the day is thine so the night is thine Thou hast made darkenesse thy secret place and thy pauillion round about thee euen darkenesse of waters and clowds of the aire and yet the darkenesse hideth not from thee but the night shineth as the day the darkenesse and the light to thee are both alike Preserue vs therefore we humbly beseech thee from the perils and dangers of this night following giue our bodies rest and sleepe and let our soules continually watch for the time when our Lord Iesus Christ shall come for our full deliuerance out of this mortall life O Lord the sleepe wee now desire is an image of death while our senses being thereby bound vp from the performance of their functions and operations wee lye still as dead men not able to see or heare or doe any thing Let our beds therefore put vs in mind of our graues and the rest which we desire for our wearied bodies put vs in minde of the true rest and quiet both of body and soule which thou hast prouided for thy children after this life eâ—ded And
Corah Dathan and Abiran at the prayer of Moses And in the waters at his prayer not onely the makâ—ng of bitter waters sweet but deuiding of the sea in two And in the aire at the prayer of Eliah the middle region shut vp from raine for â—hree yeeres and sixe moneths and at his prayer the fire descending to consume the Captaines and their fifties but also in the Heauens the Sunne to stand still at the prayer of Ioshuah and the strongest diuels to bee cast out by this and fasting Yea seeing this duty doth worke vpon God himself to withhold him from pouring downe his iâ—dgements All those doe not onely excuse the Disciples but commend them in comming to their Master to awake him and call vpon him for helpe and doe teach all good Christians by their example neuer to forget or neglect the performance of this dutie But we consider further here the manner of the Disciples comming vnto Christ by the extremitie of danger whereby they were driuen not onely presently and suddenly to call vpon him but with exclamation and outcrie to crie and roare to him thereby to reâ—eiue present helpe lest it come too late for in the great dangers of fier and water which two elements are said to haue no mercy there must be neither dallying nor delaying but without present helpe there is no hope As therefore if a man shall see his house on fire hee comes not coldly and faintly to entreat his neighbors help to yeeld them reasons but breakes out into exclamations Fier fier water water ladders ladders helpe helpe we are all vndone c. So in this place in this extreme perill of water it may wel be presumed that the Disciples being in great feare skreeked and made a pitifull noise to awake their Master And howsoeuer the prayers of the godly are neuer vnseasonable and are therefore to be vsed at all times and vpon all occasions as was said before yet certainely they are neuer so earnest so feruent so hearty and consequently so effectuall as in extremity of trouble This therefore is a principall reason why God doth suffer afflictions in this life to seaze vpon and euen to be ready to ouerthrow his owne dearest children For though many other reasons hereof are giuen by the Fathers as first To shew his iustice against sinne of which no man is free in this life Secondly to terrifie the wicked for If iustice begin at the house of God what shall c. Thirdly to exercise their patience of which they haue neede no patience but in afflictions Fourthly to make conformable to the image of his sonne for as Christ saith of himselfe Ought not Christ to suffer these things and so to enter into glory So Saint Paul of his children All that will liue godly in Christ must suffer persecution Fifthly to weane them from the world as the nurse annoints the teate with bitter things Sixthly to make them know that their disease is not incurable As the Physitian to a desperate patient wil giue leaue to eate what he list but to him whom he hath hope to recouer he denies many things hee must keepe diet Seuenthly to assure them that they are sons not bastards being partakers of correction Eightly to stop Satans mouth that is ready to say Doth Iob serue God for naught Ninthly to purge vs from the drosse and corruption of our natures for that which the flayle is to the Corne to bring it from the straw that which the file is to the yron to take off the rust that which the fier is to the gold to purge it from drosse that is tribulation and affliction to Gods children to do them good Tenthly but aboue all other reasons the last remaineth that they may call and crie vnto the Lord renouncing themselues and resting and relying vpon his protection This is the reason that the Prophet Dauid desireth of God that his prayer may ascend as the incense For as incense can send vp no smoke or sweete perfume till it come into the fier So the prayers of the Saints do neuer ascend so forcibly as in their fiery trials Oratio sine malis est sicut auis sine alis Prayer vntill affliction stings is like a bird without wings it cannot raise it selfe to mount and flie vp to heauen for if we examine our owne harts we shall find that euen the best men that pray vnto God ordinarily euery day either publikely with others or priuately by themselues which duty is too much neglected by too too many doe while they are free from troubles call vpon God but weakely and coldly and faintly rather for fashion and custome then with any sound and sensible feeling of their owne miseries they offer the calues of their lippes And draw neere vnto God with their mouthes but their hearts are farre from him and are therefore attended and accompanied with so many wandring imaginations and vaine and idle thoughts euen in the middest of this holy and religious duty that when they haue done praying they had neede begin to pray againe for forgiuenesse of their negligent and carelesse carriage therein But in affliction when the iudgements of God are vpon vs and wee are thereby brought either to the true sense and feeling of our sinne and of the waight burden of it pressing vs downe to hel or to be deiected by any extremitie of sickenesse or any other danger that may threaten death this cannot but worke feare and terror and howsoeuer many of the wicked that neuer had care to serue God in the daies of their peace are thereby brought either to murmur and to repine against God as the Israelites in the wildernesse or to reuile the meanes and seeke reuenge as dogs that bite at the stone that is throwne at them or fall to open blasphemy against God as Iulian the Apostata crying at his death Vicisti Galilâ—e O Galilean meaning Christ Thou hast ouercome Or lastly fall into despaire and make away themselues as Achitophel and Iudas yet if they be not past all grace and hope the iudgements of God wil work remorse in them Wee reade of hard-hearted Pharaoh that at the first would not acknowledge God and therefore said to Mâ—ses and Aaron Quis est Iehoua Who is the Lord that I should heare his voice Yet afterward though he could not for the hardnesse of his heart pray himselfe yet when the plagues of God were vpon him he entreated Moses and Aaron to pray for him And againe Goe not farre away but pray for me It is admirable to consider how the feare of Gods iudgements wrought vpon the Niniuites at Ionahs preaching for the text saith of them that though they were a Heathen people that knew not God and a great people for their Citie was of three daies iourney and there was in it