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A19265	A godlie sermon, preached on Newe yeeres day last before Sir William Fitzwilliam knight, late lord deputie of Irelande, Sir Iames Harrington knight, their ladyes and children, vvith many others, at Burghley in Rutlande. By the minister of God Anthony Anderson. Hereto is added a very profitable forme of prayer, good for all such as passe the seas: by the same author framed, and vsed in his aduentured iourney.	Anderson, Anthony, d. 1593.	1576 (1576)	STC 568; ESTC S108500	29,532	74

you that I do not this for your sakes No Lorde but for thine own names sake to the which only be all glory for euer It foloweth And though I should walke through the valley of the shadowe of death J will feare no euill for thou art euer with me Thy rodde and thy staffe they comfort me The lessons againe be three in especiall whiche Dauid hath taught me in this verse to deliuer you The first is though that the godly safely are set vnder the Lordes protection as the sheepe vnder the most faithfull shepheard yet are they assaulted with sundry attempts and eminent daungers Many be the troubles of the iust saith the Psalmist but the Lorde deliuereth him quite out of all And his mercy hath so determined the matter that the godly perceauing his holy hande might more firmely reste in his fatherly prouidence Secondly the godly are not freede vnder the shepheard Christ frō all kind of feare but are set amid the mightie helhounds of the earth that they should warely walke and shunne thoccasion of daunger but if they be so exalted by the Lord to haue the crosse then are they freed frō shaking terror desperat feare strengthned by his spirit they follow Christ whither soeuer he goeth So the Israelites folowed Moses in the Red sea so the children the Angel in the burning Ouen So Thapostles their master Christ to death cruell torments So Dauid without feare is redy to continue his calling though he passe through the valley of the shadow of death that is though he enter into most extreme perill The third is the boldning force which Dauid attēpteth by his shepherds croke Thy rod thy staffe they cōfort me Two things sayth Dauid driue al feare from me Thy presence for thou art with me thy careful gouernment which is always exercised to my good Note good people the god is alwais present beholdeth al our actions perceth into our thoughts he sawe Sara in Abimelecks chāber Bethsaba in Dauids bed He preuented Herodes purpose brought confusion to Saules persecution He beholdeth the oppression of the poore afflicted is present to heare their cry when they call vpon him All things are naked open to his eyes and therfore reuerently walk before him be thou vpright He fetched Ionas from his fleeing ship cast him into the whales belly He brought his preaching Peter forth of the prison fast locked in with yron gates He is present euer to helpe innocent Susanna out of distresse ready to cast the corrupted Iudges vnto their deserued death This was Dauids comforte Thou Lorde art vvith me therefore will I not feare Let the same teache vs nowe to say our God and Christ is present by his spirituall ayde and comforts in all troubles to assist vs of whom then shall we be afrayd for thogh fast closed in yron gates through the strength of our god we shall leape ouer the wall And though persecuted for his cause yet is he redy to comfort vs in all tribulation So that we are able to comfort others which be in affliction by the same cōfortes which we haue receyued our selues of god Secōdly thy carefull gouernment sayth Dauid dothe administer no small solace vnto me for thy rodde and thy staffe they comfort me Dauid elegantly dwelling in the receyued Metaphor setteth foorth Gods good gouernment by the Shepheards rodde and staffe which rodd or Shepheards crooke is vsed of a cunning heard to constrayne the declining sheepe to his former foldy-mates to vrge the wanderer to his wonted felowes and to force the slouthfull Plodders better to pase it Euen so the Lord by his holy rod and staffe of health doth scourge our wandring steppes and with his correcting hande in loue dothe ioyne vs to his Church and if slouthfully we lye aloofe he vseth sharper blowes to cōpell our speede to ioyne with others in the seruice of our god all which is to the best comfort of his chosen childe But here is named a Rod and a Staffe the one to correct vs thother to defende vs And both of these are doubled in the holy scriptures God is sayde to haue a twofolde Rod the Rod of his loue and the Rod of his anger Also a twofold staffe as in Zacharie the staffe of beautie and the staffe of Bands Of these two rods and these two staues the scripture speaketh thus First Thapostle sayth that in loue he scourgeth his people correcteth their sinnes least they should be damned with the wicked world When we are thus iudged sayth Paul speaking of gods correction for thabuse of the Eucharist wee are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned vvith the vvorld Behold his louing Rod. Our dayly transgressions demerite death but his dayly mercy who willeth not the death of a sinner chāgeth his sharpned sworde into a smarting rod thereby to worke in vs true repentance and humble pacience For as his hand is striking his bowels are boyling in pitie towards vs and with his spirite dothe chaunge our hartes and supporteth our falling state by hys defending staffe Wherefore despise not sayth Paule the chastening of the Lorde neyther faynt when thou arte rebuked of him For vvhome the Lorde loueth he chasteneth and he scourgeth euery sonne that he receyueth Yf yee endure chastning God offereth him selfe vnto you as vnto sonnes for vvhat sonne is he vvhome the father chastneth not Yf therfore yee be vvithout correction vvhereof all be partakers then are yee Bastardes and not Sonnes See dearely beloued the nature of our louing Father in this his rod of loue And now it should seme this doctrine to be moste liuely when as we see his heauy hande whipping our brethren with the smarting scourge of pestilence Irelande is therewith euery where infected Englande is infected and this our Countrey and Townes very neare vs Stamford and Vppingham greeuously visited Hereby we ought to be moued to repentaunce knowing that for sinne our God our shephearde chasteneth vs with rebukes that I may vse our Prophetes words in the Psalmes and with his rod maketh our gallant beautie to fade away as it were a mothe fretting a garment Euery man therefore is but vanitie But there be some of you me thinketh that whispereth in my eares thus Syr you knowe that many of vs together with your selfe God hath most louingly deliuered from this pestilent rod in Ireland yea and so that wonderful was our safetie The whole land is visited no towne knowne free in the house where we lay some dead in the shippe wherein we passed the seas one or moe gone to God and sith our departure the Knight with whom we were twentie dayes wayting Gods blessing for westerly winds hath in his owne person therwith bene scourged The which deliueraunce seemeth to cleare vs in deseruing so heuie a scourge though called a louing rodde

Amen Laus Deo per Christum 1. Ian. 1575 Psa 77.21 Psal 80.1 Esai 40.11 Psa 110.1 Ma. 23. Act. 2.34 Io. 10.11 1. Pe. 2.25 Io. 5.24 Io. 10.15 Mat. 11.28 Io. 21.15.16.17 Act. 20.28 Luke 15.4 5. Mat. 18 12 Lu. 10.34 Esai 53. 1. Pe. 2.24 Ma. 12.20 Io. 15.2 Io. 15.2.3 Eze. 3.18 Act. 20.28 Zach. 11.17 Rom. 8 1. Pet. 2. Rom. 8. 1. Pe. 5. Io. 10. Esa. 53.7 Heb. 12.2.3 4. c. Psal 37.25 1. Kin. 17.4 5.6 1. Kin. 17.14.15.16 Dan. 14. story of Bell. Io. 6.11.12 13. Mat. 6.33 Psa 37.19 Phi. 4.11 Psa 37.2.3 Psa. 17.14 2. Cor. 5.8.9.10.11.16.17.18 2. Cor. 6.9.10 Luke 16 vers 2 Io. 5.24 Ioh. 7.39 Iohn 4.14 Math. 6. vers 3. Rom. 7.18.19.20 2 Chro. 24 17.18.19.20 Rom. 8. Io. 17.2.6 Rom. 8.29 Eph. 1.2.3.4 Rom. 8. Colos 3. Math. 3. 2. Co. 5.20 Luke 1.17 Psal 19 1. Co. 9.16 Pro. 29.18 Ro. 10.17 Rom. 8.37 Mark. 16 16 Esa. 56.10 11.12 Ephe. 1 Eph. 2.19 Eph. 2.12 Rom. 8.3.4 Tit. 2.11.11 Lu. 9.62 2. Cor. 3.5 Phil. 1.6 Ezech. 35.30.31 Ephe. 2.18 Rom. 8.15 Apoc. 7. and 14 Eph. 4.30 1. Io. 5.10 Rom. 8.33 2. 1. Pet. 2.21 Rom. 8.14 Rom. 7.19 2. Pet. 2.19 Eph. 3.16 Eph. 4.19 20. Eph. 5.4 1. Cor. 11.1 Luk. 2. Sap. 5. Esa. 40 Esa. 30.22 Esa. 64 vers 6 Psal 31.4 1. Sa. 12.22 Esa. 48.9 Eze. 20.9 Eze. 36.32 vers 4. Psa 34.19 Eph. 5.7 2. Cor. 4.13 Exo. 14.22 Dan. 3.25 Gen. 20.3 2. Sa. 12.1 Psa 22.24 Gene. 17. Iona. 1.17 Act. 12.8.9 2. Cor. 2.3 Zach. 11. 1. Cor. 11.32 Ezech. 18. Psal 103.8 Heb. 12.10 and 2.17 Esa. 5 4.7 Hebr. 12.5.6.7 Psal 39.11 Luke 13.2 Psal 2.9 Ps. 78.45 2. Sa. 10.12 1. Para. 18.19 Esa. 37.36.38 2. King. 6.14.18 2. Kin. 7.6 2. Ki. 6.25 2. Tes 2. Mat. 21.44 2. Cor. 10.4 Ioh. 14.1 Mat. 21.43 Zach. 11.7 Deu. 4.6 Gualterus in zachari Psa 2.12 Prou. 20. Ps. 78.70.71.72 Zac. 11.16 Ps. 61.2.5 1. Co. 10.4 Psa 122.1 1. Cor. 10. Ioel. 2.16 17. 1. Cor. 10.17 1. Cor. 14.23 1. Cor. 10.1 2.3.4 Rom. 15. Rom. 4. In the Sacrament two things are conceiued Cipriani de vnct Chrism Ambro. de sacra li. 4. cap. 4. Origen in Matth. August in Io. tra 20. Gen. 17.10 Exod. 12. August in Leuit. 17. Gen. 41.26 Augu. de doct chri lib. 3. Deut. 4. Exo. 12.12.13.28.29 Ro. 4.11.12 2. Corinth Rom. 12.2 Psal 119.32 To the right vvorshipfull Syr William Fitzwilliam Knight late Lorde deputie of Irelande A. Anderson the minister of Christes holy Gospell vvisheth Christ our Lorde vvith his vvhole merites CAll vppon me sayth God in the day of thy trouble and I will deliuer thee Greater troubles with lesse comfortes than in the raging Seas can not be founde as those with Dauid must confesse which occupie their busines in greate waters This daungerous Iourney as among many others ye are in the Lordes name to aduenture so vouchsafe this preparatiue to your godly hart and by and with the same in assured hope of Gods assistaunce for his Christ approche his mercy seate The hast we haue and gaping hope for Westerly winds will not permit long leysure to proyue this sodayne frame Take it Right Worshipfull as it is and accept the good will of the Geuer vse it at your neede to the Lordes prayse and your present comfort which is my harty desire And I shall dayly pray the Lorde for you and vs that we may speedely imbarke and safely arriue in Englande through Christes ayde the master of our ship At Holme Patricke in Irelande 17. October 1575. Your Worships in Dom. A. Anderson A forme of prayer for sea-men and passengers to vse in the sayling Shippe ¶ A confession of our sinnes to God. O Almighty God and most righteous we thy deare children here encompassed with these thy mighty creatures the windes the huge seas and sayling ship do acknowledge and confesse our selues and euery of vs to be miserable sinners and from our first cradles depely to haue offended thy diuine maiestie Our seuerall thoughtes be corrupted our sundry hartes and acts are polluted our synnes cannot be hid from thee We hartely confesse them O Lord els should our consciences condemne vs because our transgressions beare witnes against vs But thou art the God of our saluation and to vs thy children the beste father full of mercyes riche in compassion slowe to wrath and most ready to forgiue the penitent sinner calling vpon thee And sithe it is the worke of thy most holy spirite to mollifie the stony harted and to chaunge the fleshly hart into a spirituall soule Eze. 36. We most humbly besech thee for thy Christes sake to graunt vs thy holy spirite takē from vs our stony and gyue vs hartes of fleshe and into them power thy graces turne vs vnto thee Thy holy law imprint in our soules and giue vs to walke in thy statutes during these our naturall lyues Bow downe thine eare and heare vs and with thy fauourable countenance loke vpon vs behold our place and cause of cry Our ship is subiect to subuersion if thy holy hande direct vs not in mercifull prouidence Gyue O lord the sweete and plesant gale in thy name of vs to be desired in vehement stormes by thee called to punish and proue vs assist vs with thy strength and spirite of comfort Loke vpon our mediatour Christ and through him pitie vs and in the bowels of thy mercy conduct vs to the hauen of vs desired if it be thy will. Then shall we sing and prayse thy name and shew thy wonders in the deepe and our soules shall confesse that though the seas be mightie Psa 93.5 yet thou O God art of most might ouer them Let vs not be tempted further gracious God then that our strength in thee shall counteruaile and graunt the euent prosperous Glad our hartes with safety on shore and make vs mindfull of thy mercies Gyue vs we beseche thee true fayth firme hope and feruēt loue in thee keepe vs alwayes thine and graunt thy Christ for euer ours in whose name for our selues and all other in our condition with the rest of thy churche we call vnto thee thus O our father which arte in heauen halowed be thy name c. A psalme Psa 93.5 The waues of the sea are mighy and rage horribly but yet the Lord that dwelleth on high is mightier Psal 107. 23. They that go down to the sea in ships occupie their busines in great waters 24. These men see the workes of the Lord and his wonders in the deepe 25. For at his worde the stormy wind ariseth which lifteth vp the waues therof 26. They are caried vp to heauen downe againe to the deepe their soule melteth in them because of their trouble 27. They reele to fro and stagger like a dronken man are at their wittes ende 28. So when they cry vnto the Lorde in their trouble hee deliuereth them out of their distresse 29. For