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[ 1294] God onely to be sought unto for safety, in the time of eminent distresse.
THe Poet describing the manifold miseries of Aneas that Trojan Prince,* 1.1 in his long and weary voyage, sheweth the great perill that he and his Com∣pany were in, and the great speed they made to escape the danger of the cruel Cyclops, who together with his Gigantick Army mustered on the shoare, as strong as so many sturdy Oaks, and tall as lofty Cedars, whose very Countenances threatned death and destruction to all that came near them: It was then no time for them to stay there,* 1.2 but high time to hoist up the sayls, nimbly to betake them∣selves to their Oars, and rather then the Giants should offer violence to them, to lay violent hands on their Tackle, and so quit a dangerous coast that could promise nothing but mischief: So the onely way that we have to prevent any eminent danger,* 1.3 which by our sins we draw upon our heads dayly, and such as are even at the shoare ready to assault us; nay such as have already even boarded these our poor brittle barks of Mortality, is, swiftly to sayl away in the waters of unfeigned Repen∣tance, and every Man of us to betake himselfe speedily to the Oars of true con∣trition and invocation to Almighty God,* 1.4 and to row painfully in the Sea of our sin∣full hearts, seeking and never giving over till we are upon the Rock of our defence, and have found the God of our salvation.