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book_n	church_n	doctrine_n	homily_n	2,004	5	11.8804	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44078	Humble proposals for the relief, encouragement, security and happiness of the loyal, couragious seamen of England, in their lives and payment, in the service of our Most Gracious King William, and the defence of these nations humbly presented to the two most Honourable Houses, the Lords and Commons of England, in Parliament assembled / by a faithful subject of His Majesty, and servant to the Parliament and nation, and the seamen of England, in order for safety and security of all aforesaid, W. Hodges ; to which is added, a dialogue concerning the art of ticket-buying, in a discourse between Honesty, Poverty, Cruelty and Villany, concerning that mystery of iniquity, and ruin of the loyal seamen.	Hodges, William, Sir, 1645?-1714.	1695 (1695)	Wing H2329; ESTC R2277	51,833	63

will be too short to Expect a real Blessing and comfortable Incouragement as we might wish but that the Seamen will be so much oppresed and the Ships Ruined and Spoiled more and more until there be some outward Reformation at least if not a true and sound Reformation of Life and Manners And if the general instructions printed and given to the Captains and Lieutenants of Ships by the Admiralty were minded aright it would mend many things and therefore deserves to be inquired into in drawing up the method of the Well-Government of our Ships and men And the first Paragraph of it is That God be duly worshipped and that twice a day and all Profaneness Drunkenness Swearing and Cursing be discountenanced and punished and the Commanders that allow it turned out And we should meet the Lord by Repentance both by Sea and Land and cry to the Lord that he would meet us with his mercy that we may by Righteousness be an exalted Nation and not for our sins be a ruined people And therefore 59. It were well if every Ship in England that carrieth but ten men were bound to carry that excellent Book of the Church of England's Doctrine the Book of Homilies to read 2 Homilies every Sunday And it hath the 39 Articles bound up with it that all Seafaring men might see the excellent Doctrine of the Old Church of England to be for sound Piety and Holiness And that it may be said of the Prophaneness of this Age That it is such a thing as the Fundamental Doctrine of the Church of England abhors And as it was said of Old of some that knew not Joseph so it may be said of the great Wickedness of this Age That it is from such as know not God neither do they truly know and believe and practice that true fundamental Doctrine of the Church of England And it were well if the Reverend Bishops would consult the great need there is of such Laws as may in some measure at least bring men to as near a Conformity to the substantial Fundamental Holiness Sobriety Charity Justice and all Christian Fundamental Duties of Grace and Holiness that are contained in so holy a Doctrine 60. And that every Ship that doth carry 120 men or more do carry an able sober Minister to instruct the Seamen in their Duty towards God and to reprove the Vices of any one in the Ship And by their Doctrine and Conversation to shew to them that the fundamental Doctrine of the Church of England is for the Real Service of God and Holiness and against all sin And that they that profess the Doctrine and live in Wickedness are false pretenders to so holy Doctrine 61. And therefore that Excellent Act against Cursing and Swearing if well executed will be a good beginning and a good help towards a moral Reformation So if the great Debauchery of this Age could be suppressed it would be a good help towards men's coming to consider of a future state and to think that whatever they are themselves at present yet mankind was created to live to the Glory of God and to honour him and not to live like beasts and worse than beasts And the more excellent the fundamental Doctrine of Christianity is in any Church or Nation the greater the condemnation of those must be that do sin against the Light of the same and will not regard to walk according unto it And now having said this I will return again to another incouragement I think there is great need of altho the Seamen in all Merchant Ships that go well and come well in the Merchant's service pay something towards the same And that is 62. That all Fleets of Merchant Ships should as much as possible keep company and stand by one the other except much over-powered And for want of this there was 6 or 7 Ships taken out of 12 in One Fleet by 2 Privateers Therefore those Ships that would not fight the Commanders ought to be made publick Examples 63. And those that fight stoutly as brave Englishmen to be incouraged and preferred 64. And that those Seamen that lose their Lives or Limbs in Merchant ships should be incouraged and have Bounty-mony as in his Majesties service they that are Wounded or Kill'd there have But now I would not be mistaken to think that his Majesty should pay it altho if a Merchant Ship be lost it may fall out that his Majesty may lose 4000 l Custom And were it so they did fight and save the Ship and Goods if there were 20 kill'd and 10 wounded if his Majesty paid each of them or their Families 20 l it were 200 l and his Majesty would save 3600 l by the saving the Ship at last and the Merchants it may be 30000 l by the bargain also And therefore it would be of great use to the King and to the Merchants and to the Nation in general to save our Ships as much as possible and ruin our Enemies as much as possible and encourage our Seamen and Masters to fight to save the Ships as much as possible But I have often wondred that any Merchants should be so barbarous or Masters so uncharitable as not to give the Seamens Families one penny of Eucouragement who laid down their Lives and saved their Ships And sometimes I have heard of some that have been forc'd to go to Law for their Wages after the Ship was saved And as I remember a Customer of mine was forced to pay the Chirurgeon 3 or 4 l to cure him of his Wounds Now I did look on this as barbarous And I do say in this respect the service of his Majesty is much better than the Merchant-men And would be in many others also if it were not for the Fault of Officers and Officers of divers sorts But this by the way for I think we should be the most happy people under the Face of Heaven if it were not for the Sins and Follies and Bribery and Knavery and Villany of the Age we live in Whereby men are Ruined and plagued and Afflicted more than ever in several Kinds both in Men of War and Merchant Ships and the King and Country lose by the same at last many Seamen serving as is to be feared other Nations by being so much discouraged in their own But I leave that and would to God that all would indeed leave it in good earnest and set themselves to study to serve God and his Majesty and the common good of all these Nations and in order to it I think this is one to incourage all Seamen as much as possible to preserve our Shipping and one way was that as I said Whoever lost their Limbs or Lives in defending a Merchant Ship should have Pensions or Bounty-mony And I suppose that if there were a Law made That every one should be so rewarded every Seaman would be more willing to venture their Lives to save their Ships and the very Seamen in Merchant Ships