Verse 4

Beholde also ye shippes, which though they be so great, and are dryuen of fierce windes, yet are they turned about with a very small helme, whither soeuer the violence of the gouernour wyll.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 107:25-27 : 25 For he commaundeth and causeth a stormie winde to arise: and he lifteth vp on high his waues. 26 Then they ascende vp to heauen, and come downe agayne to the deepe: so that their soule melteth away through trouble. 27 They reele to and fro, and they do stacker like a drunken man: and their wysdome fayleth them.
• Jonah 1:4 : 4 But the Lorde sent out a great winde into the sea, and there was a mightie tempest in the sea, so that the shippe was in daunger of splitting in sunder.
• Matt 8:24 : 24 And beholde, there arose a great tempest in the sea, in so much that the shippe was couered with waues: but he was a slepe.
• Acts 27:14-38 : 14 But not long after, there arose against their purpose, a flawe of wynde out of the northeast. 15 And when the shippe was caught, and coulde not resist the wynde, we let her go, and were dryuen with the weather. 16 But we were caryed into an Ile which is named Clauda, and had much worke to come by a boate, 17 Which they toke vp, and vsed helpe, and made fast the shippe, fearyng least they shoulde fall into the Syrtes: And so they let downe a vessel, & were caried. 18 The next day, when we were tossed with an exceading tempest, they lighted the shippe, 19 And the thirde day, we cast out with our owne handes, the tacklyng of the shippe. 20 And when neither ye sunne nor starres in many dayes appeared, and no small tempest lay vpon vs, all hope that we should be saued, was then taken away. 21 But after long abstinence, Paul stoode foorth in the middes of them, and sayde: Syrs, ye shoulde haue harkened to me, & not to haue loosed fro Candie, neither to haue brought vnto vs this harme and losse. 22 And nowe I exhort you to be of good chere: For there shalbe no losse of any mans lyfe among you, but of the shippe. 23 For there stoode by me this nyght, the Angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serue, 24 Saying: Feare not Paul, thou must be brought before Caesar. And lo, God hath geuen thee all them that sayle with thee. 25 Wherfore syrs be of good cheare: for I beleue God, that it shalbe euen as it was tolde me. 26 Howbeit, we must be cast into a certayne Ilande. 27 But when the fourtenth nyght was come, as we were saylyng in Adria, about mydnyght the shypmen deemed that there appeared some countrey vnto them: 28 And sounded, and founde it twentie faddomes. And when they had gone a litle further, they sounded agayne, and founde it fyfteene faddomes. 29 Then fearyng lest they shoulde haue fallen on some rocke, they caste foure anckers out of the sterne, and wisshed for the day. 30 And as the shypmen were about to flee out of the shippe, when they had let downe the boate into the sea, vnder a colour, as though they woulde haue cast anckers out of the foreshippe, 31 Paul sayde vnto the vnder captayne, and to the souldiers: Except these abide in the shippe, ye can not be safe. 32 Then the souldyers cut of the rope of the boate, and let it fall away. 33 And when the day began to appeare, Paul besought them all to take meate, saying: This is the foureteenth day, that ye haue taryed & continued fasting, receauyng nothyng at all. 34 Wherfore, I pray you to take meate, for this no doubt is for your health: for there shall not an heere fall from the head of any of you. 35 And when he had thus spoken, he toke bread, and gaue thankes to God in presence of them all: And when he had broken it, he began to eate. 36 Then were they all of good cheare, and they also toke meate. 37 And we were altogether in the shippe, two hudred threescore & sixteene soules. 38 And when they had eaten enough, they lyghted the shippe, and cast out the wheate into the sea.