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A90365	Pelagos. Nec inter vivos, nec inter mortuos, neither amongst the living, nor amongst the dead. Or, An improvement of the sea, upon the nine nautical verses in the 107. Psalm; wherein is handled I. The several, great, and many hazzards, that mariners do meet withall, in stormy and tempestuous seas. II. Their many, several, miraculous, and stupendious deliverances out of all their helpless, and shiftless distressess [sic]. III. A very full, and delightful description of all those many various, and multitudinous objects, which they behold in their travels (through the Lords Creation) both on sea, in sea, and on land. viz. all sorts and kinds of fish, foul, and beasts, whether wilde, or tame; all sorts of trees, and fruits; all sorts of people, cities, towns, and countries; with many profitable, and useful rules, and instructions for them that use the seas. / By Daniel Pell, preacher of the Word.	Pell, Daniel.	1659 (1659)	Wing P1069; Thomason E1732_1; ESTC R203204	470,159	726

ΠΕΛΑΓΟΣ NEC Inter vivos NEC Inter Mortuos Neither Amongst the living nor amongst the Dead OR AN IMPROVEMENT of the SEA Upon the Nine Nautical Verses in the 107. PSALM Wherein is handled I. The several great and many hazzards that Mariners do meet withall in Stormy and Tempestuous Seas II. Their many several miraculous and stupendious deliverances out of all their helpless and shiftless distresses III. A very full and delightful description of all those many various and multitudinous objects which they behold in their travels through the Lords Creation both on Sea in Sea and on Land viz. All sorts and kinds of Fish Foul and Beasts whether wilde or tame all sorts of Trees and Fruits all sorts of People Cities Towns and Countries With many profitable and useful rules and Instructions for them that use the Seas By DANIEL PELL Preacher of the Word London printed for Livewell Chapman and are to be sold at the Crown in Popes-head Alley 1659. Pells Improvement of the Seas To the Right Honourable John Lord Desborough One of his Highnesses most Honourable Privy Council George Lord Munk Governour of Scotland and sole Commander of all the Forces in it George Lord Mountague General for the Narrow-Seas And George Ask●e Knight and General for the Northern-Seas To the Right Honourable Commissioners for the Navy and Admiralty of ENGLAND Collonel Edward Salmon Col. John Clerk Col. Robert Beak Esquires c. Daniel Pell Wisheth all increase of saving Graces with true honour and prosperity in this life and eternal happiness in the life to come My Lords and Gentlemen LUke Dedicated his Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles to that Honourable and Noble person Theophilus Luke 1.1 Act. 1.1 John dedicated as I finde in Scripture-Record his 2 Epist to the Elect Lady and his 3 Epist to his friend Gaius 2 Joh. 1 2. Alexander on his death-bed left his Kingdome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Optimatum Optimo to him that was the best of the best To your Honours I dedicate this worthless yet painful peece and I pray God it may prove profitable I hope you will like it the better because there is none of this subject extant that I do know of or ever heard of in the world The Age wee live in is all for novelties This I can say for my comfort that I could not bee at rest nor at quiet and at peace in my own heart and conscience till I undertook the writing of this peece both to reprove such as go in the Seas to do them good when I shall bee gone and to stir up your Honours to appear for the Lord against that prophaneness that is in the Sea and also to let my own dear Relations and the world to know That I● made some use of my time whilst amongst the Lords wonders in the Deeps and high-strained Jigs of Musick God in his good time alter it and the newest songs are now adayes commonly best liked of for once because they were never heard of before but however I hope you will accept of it and if that these Lines which were writ in a restless and turbulent Sea may but obtain your much-desired countenance and comprobation I will couragiously speak it with the Orator 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I fear not any manscensure Nec frons Catonis movebit me nec Timonis lingua Perhaps some simple 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will speak against it or some low-bred Pedantick Ex aula Telemachi or è Patrocli domo But no more shall it nor the Author regard them than the Moon doth the clamouring and snarling Cur in the Heavens of whom the Poet sings En peragit cursus surda Diana suos Some of Davids Psalms Insignis Ode Davidis Tremel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prae corona aestimatur hie Psalmus Right Honourable and Right Worshipful are called Michtam which in the Hebrew tongue signifies a precious Jewel or a Psalm of gold Propter mirificam ejus excellentiam which is of far better worth than its weight in gold both for the matter thereof and the manner And I hope that you will say the like of this Aureum flumen orationis said Cicero concerning Aristotles Politicks there is in that book a golden flood of discourse Liber iste auro contra non carus said another concerning the lives of the Philosophers written by Diogenes Laertius no gold is comparable to that gallant peace how much more then may it bee said of this notable and precious Psalm that is here handled Ad votivas Insulas humanitatis vostra fortunatas navigo and if I may but have Apparente Horizonte Phaebo scintillantis adinstar met●eri that is all that I desire and look for from you The Sea is neither scribendi studendi neque commorandi praeter pugnandi navigandi locus a place to study in nor to write in it is no place beleeve it to tarry any long time in it is onely a place for transportation or navigation and digladiation Therefore I hope that your Honours will expect no Tullianum scribendi fluxum amaenum from mee that would better become a Coriphaeus or an Eloquii sol a bonarum literarum Phoenix a musarum decus and a Leporum delicium gratiarum unicum neither words that are pickt phrase choice composition smooth sentences fluent cadencies sweet language polite stile flourishing look not for Tropes of Rhetorick or Syllogismes of Logick or Axioms of Philosophy nor words set in checker work the Sea is no place to do it in and indeed non benè Cymbalissant quum nihil prater inconceptis verbis those words are not very savoury that are delivered rudi Minerva raw crude and unpremeditated for a ship is but a confused place to undertake the writing of any thing in where Drums and Trumpets Pikes and Muskets great Guns and Harquebusses ranting Roysters and Ear-deafing sails and cordage are evermore roaring about one which make a far greater noise than the Cataracts of Egypt by which and through which the Inhabitants that live near unto them are extraordinarily deafned This Hulk and poor Pinnace was builded and meanly rigged a good while ago at Sea and being ready to put forth one storm or other arose which caused it to lye by the Lee. But the weather now clearing up and promising a calm I have adventured and exposed it to wind and weather and the censuring world hoping that those that will come on board of it and truck with it will finde some commodity in it worth as much as the Merchant Venturer the Stationer will ask them for it The Reasons why I shroud this Book under your Honours bee these Right Honourable Reason 1 1. Because it was hatched and slidged in one of your ships and never writ on land but every syllable of it was penned and drawn up at Sea and I have not had the leasure to polish it any more than it is and therefore both the service of my body and brain was

world in Books and Study Ennius could find and pick out gold out of a Dunghil The laborious Bee will fetch hony out of a flower before shee leaves it And I hope that you will see some thing in this peece worth the relishing I will assure you it was never writ studied nor composed on Land but in a turbulent Sea where there is nothing but a Chaos of hurry and confusion and so I hope you will pardon the weakness of the work for had I been on Land or had I had the time when on Land I would have sent it out into the world more accurrately furnished accomplished But Quid moror istis I cannot but speak of it to your praise and worth that I am very much affected and taken with that good life and conversation that you live and lead in my Ladies family and bless God in my soul many times for that gratious and pious voice of Prayer that I hear daily out of your Chamber into my Study that is adjacent I pray God bless you and bestow the riches of his grace and sweet comfortable Spirit upon you for that is the thing you daily press for Quo pede caepisti progrediare precor This I shall say the more you pray and the more holily and spiritually you live and walk the more serviceable will you bee both to your good God Nation and Country God has many times called you out of the world into a Parliamentary way and that undoubtedly to do your Country all the good you can your Motto and the Motto of the whole House now assembled may and should bee Adinstar Alphonsi Regis Arragonum qui in Symbolo habuit lumen ardens cum lemmate Aliis servio mihi consumor Or if you will Ludovicus's the King of France Qui in Symbolo habuit Pelicanum revocantem ad vitam sanguine proprio pullos emortuos God grant that the affairs of this Land may bee carried on for the peoples good and may resemble Virgils Eccho where all things went well Omnia sonant Hyla Hyla lemma Sanguis meus estis vivite Thus should the whole House bee and do for the Land and Country that has chosen them I would have our Parliament House to resemble that good Bishop Socrates tells of who did when a terrible fire was in Constantinople fastning on a great part of the City and Churches in it go to the Atar and falling down upon his knees would not rise from thence till the fire-blazing in the windows and flashing in every door was vanquished and extinguished Do what in you lies to put out the fire of the sword and the fire of Division that is gone forth and broke out upon us in this Nation I have met with this passage Non sit jam quod clamant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. O Jupiter pluit calamitates that a certain Rustick having blamed Antigonus while hee lived grew after some tryal had of his succession to recant his errour and to recount his crime and digging one day in the field was questioned what hee did there hee said O Antigonum refodio I seek Antigonus again Oh dig and delve for peace that you may see both order and decency in Church and State restored and the Land left in a blessed frame to the Posterities that are to come after you and betray as not in our good and wholesome Laws but maintain them you certainly see enough of that profane and giddy hair brainedness that has been all along in the heads of the illiterate who have sought to bring the whole Land into confusion and themselves into the saddle Honoured Sir I take my leave of you I present this peece unto you I pray accept of it and the God of Heaven bless you and guide you shall bee the prayer of him who is Sir Yours to serve you in the Service of Christ DANIEL PELL From my Study at my Lady Hungarfords in Hungarford House upon the Strand London April 20. 165● To the Right Worshipful Mr. GILES HUNGARFORD Esquire D. P. Wisheth all prosperity in this life and felicity in the life to come Reverend and Worthy Sir IT is an usual saying Si musae Latine loquerentur inquit Varro Plantino sermone loquerentur Although I take the boldness to present you with this my Nec inter vivos Nec inter mortuos upon the 107. Psalm which was writ upon a frowning and tempestuous Sea whom I know to bee a person every way so well studied read and accomplished not in the least inferiour to him whom a great University Tutor much boasted of that was a Pupil to him fac periculum c. try him in the Tongues Rhetorick Logick and Philosophy c. in what you will hee is able to answer you I hope you will expect no such high strained stile and phrase from mee which the Muses would delight to speak in and whom it would far better become than mee for the Sea is no place to write and polish books in no more than hard riding is to him that would make a Map or true description of a Country I confess such is the great respect I bear you I speak now ex imis praecordiis that if it were not for that and also for that worth and merit that I clearly see in you together with that sweet mixture of ingenuity wisdome and good nature besides a great many more good things that is possible for to be in a person of your rank and quality I should scarce have adventured to have offered you this peece of my travelling Operam Oleum I beg your acceptance of it and shall assure you that you have a very high room in my thoughts which is indeed reserved for all such as both know and fear the Lord. I freely bestow this peece upon you and give you all the interest in it that possibly can bee bestowed upon you I hope you will both see and also find something in it worth the reading and the while in your perusing Sir You are descended of a very high and honourable Family a Family whom I much honour and respect and that is one of the grand inducements that puts mee upon an appearance unto you and the onely way to heighten your honour still is to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I know no one thing this day upon the face of the earth that stamps such a Nobility and eminency upon our Gentry in the land as Piety and Religion doth Nobility by blood as one well said is but a fancy or an imagination but this hath a reality in it and where it is it evermore begets a splendor and a lustre But I will not further the prayers of him shall bee for you and yours who rests Sir Yours to serve you in the Service of Christ DANIEL PELL From my Study at my Lady Hungarfords in Hungardford house upon the Strand London May 4. 1659. TO ALL

the German Emperor Let us fight with our faults and not with them that tell as of them How knowest thou but God may meet with thee for that sin before ever thou return again 9. Have a care of entertaining all that doctrin that you hear preached by those that are brought into your ships by your Schismatical Sea-Captains under the notion of Chaplains who never had any true cal to usurp the Ministry Thales sent a golden Tripos which some Fisher-men took up in their Nets and the Oracle commanded that it should bee given to the wisest to Bias Bias to Solon c. when they had but seven wise men If you will but beleeve the times wee live in there are hardly so many fools now to bee found either on Sea or Land and if such a thing were now to bee had wee should all fight for it as the three Goddesses did for the golden Apple Wee are so wise now that wee have our women Politicians women Preachers preaching Souldiers preaching Sea-men and preaching Sea-Captains teaching Trades-men every silly fellow can now square a circle to an hair make perpetual motions finde out the Philosophers stone interpret the Revelation of St. John make new Theoricks new Logick dispute de omni scibili Town City Country Sea and Land are now full of these deified spirits and divine souls God bee merciful to us 10. Bee you respecters both of Ministry and Magistracy in the Land there is no greater nor higher baseness at this day upon Land or Sea than the dis-respecting of them such as live at Sea or live on Land let mee tell them they have a foul name in Scripture hee that is a despiler of these I desire to hear no more of the man for I am satisfied what hee is Jude's Ep. vers 9. Filthy Dreamers despisers of Dominions and speakers of evil against Dignities I would wish that every Seaman would get him one of these books that I have writ and that hee would minde the good wholesome directions that are laid down in it What if thou sparest three or four shillings out of thy wages to purchase it that is no great matter it cost the Author a far greater charge to set it out for the good of thee and every poor soul that goes down into the deeps 11. When you come on shoar into Sea-port Towns where there are week-day Lectures and good preaching hear all the good Sermons you can for you stand need of it and tarry not bezling in an Ale-house when you may have food for your souls 12. When you come into any Parts of this Land or go into the Ports in forein Nations let your outward carriage and deportment bee good and orderly A good name is soon lost else There is a pretty story how that Reputation Love and Death made a Covenant together to travel all the world over and each of them was to go a several way and when they were ready to depart a mutual inquiry was made how that they might meet again Death stood up an said that they might be sure to hear of him in Battels Hospitals and in all parts where either famine or diseases were rife Love bade them hearken after him amongst the children of poor people whose parents had left them nothing at Marriages at Feasts and amongst the professed servants of vertue the only places for him to bee in Reputation stood a long time silent when it came to her turn to speak and being urged to assign them places where they might finde her shee sullenly answered that her nature was such that if once shee departed from any man shee never returned to him again I wish you wise 13. Let your hearts and tongues go alwayes together it is a sad age wee live in they are not relatives neither on Sea nor Land It is well worth your observation of the Peach namely that the Egyptians of all fruits make choice of that principally to consecrate to their goddess and for no other cause but that the fruit thereof was like to ones heart and the leaf to ones tongue 14. Nothing but godliness will bee a target to you against your Aquarum confluges Bee not carried away with the damnable opinions that are in the heads of many of your Sea-men and Commanders There bee many sorry Solecismes amongst them 15. Lay aside all that vain talking that is amongst you in ships A prating Barber asked King Archelaus how hee would bee trimmed the King replyed silently Surely in much prate there cannot but bee much vanity 16. Many Sea-men deal by prayer as the Athenians did with their holy Anchor in time of danger they would throw it out never else whence the Proverb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. Sacram anchoram solvere dicimur quando ad extremum prasid um confugimus Erasm Use prayer every morning you uprise whether on Sea or Land if you would have God to bless you There are six seasons many Sea-men take up prayer and never else 1. When they are put to it to cut down their Masts by the board 2. When a Cable breaks 3. When the Rudder bands break off and leave them Rudderless in the great and wide Sea 4. When they are thrown irrecoverably upon Rocks and Sands 5. When they are put to it to pump night and day to keep up their ships from sinking 6. When the winds tear all their sails to peeces about their ears And this I like not 17. Get a spirit of meekness and humility detest a high and a proud spirit I wonder why many should bee so proud and surly as they are at Sea certainly if they did but recollect themselves their descent pedigree and lineage together with their imployment they would finde themselves to bee but carried up and down in the Sea by a fart at the best out of Aeolus's breech the god of wind 18. Shake off that rugged and churlish nature that is come onely amongst you and get a more affable and courteous disposition that will bee your interest 19. Pay the Lord all those solemn vows that you make unto him in the Seas when you are in deep distress and dangerous storms Not one of a thousand of you doth this I dare bee bold to speak it Erasmus's Colloquium in naufragio is very much like you In a storm the Mariner promises no less than golden Mountains to be sacrificed it but come safe to land another vows to go on pilgrimage as far as to St. James's of Compostella bare foot and bare headed in a shirt of male next his skin begging all the way a third promises St. Christophers Statue which is mons verius quam statua a Mountain rather than a statue and this is to be seen in one of the great Churches at Paris that hee would give him a wax Candle as big as himself whom one of his contemporaries checked saying if thou shouldest now go and sell all that thou hast thou art not worth so much

words and expressions Such as are more vexed for that dishonour a pack of ungodly men throw upon God than they are for ●y disparagement that comes upon themselves And have an holy care and endeavour in all places and companies in the Seas to walk so as that they may thereby win glory to their God and honour and credit to their professions Bee sure that you that are Captains take not in men that will learn all the rest to swear lye and blaspheme 18 None but such as will seek the good and preserve the peace of all the ships they either go or sail in and can comfort themselves with this that in their very callings and publick imployments their aims and endeavours are not more at gain profit or credit than at the glory of God and good of others And so being humble and publick spirited are active to pleasure others in any good office Good Commanders will say to their men as Bernard said to his friends when ever they writ Letters to him Si scrib●s non placet nisi legam ibi Jesum I like not Sailors further than I see of God Christ in them or service they can making themselves servants to all that stand in need of them 19. None but such as are sound in judgement and not rotten for one of these crown-crazed fellows will infect and poyson all the rest Suffer not such to live under your Commands as deny Jesus Christ to bee the Son of God And deny the immortality of the soul and deny the sacred Scriptures to bee the Word of God Such as these there bee that go in your ships and many that can neither beleeve that there is either a God a Heaven or an Hell These are as dangerous in ships as the unclean person was to the Camp hee went into Num. 5.2 3. Put out of the Camp whosoever is defiled that they defile not their Camps That unclean person defiled every bed hee lay on and every thing he sate on Levit. 15.4 Nay hee defiled every man he touched or came neer This doe many Sailors in the ships they go in they corrupt and defile many a hopeful youngman who would have been far better if he had never come within the smoke of their chimneys and within the reach of their rotten and heart-putrifying discourses and perswasions I would have all the Captaines in England both in the great and small ships that go in the Seas to bee more curious and cautelous about the choice of their men than ever they have been I may say unto our Sea-Captaines of those many men that they have under their Commands as Libidinus said of that contentious debate that was betwixt Caesar's and Pompey's Souldiers who made a loud cry unto them why talk yee saith hee of these things Nisi Caesaris Capite delato Unless Caesar's head bee off there will bee no peace Unless you keep vile wretches down and out of your ships you will never have peace and quietness in them If you did but mind the inconveniences of keeping Swearers Drunkards Adulterers and Quarrellers c. in your Ships you would not give them that countenance and entertainment that you do I would have you to do with wicked men in your ships as the Jews did the day before the Passeover which was after this manner every Father of a Family with other men lighted wax candles and searched every corner in their houses to purge out all crums and remnants of Leaven And their Scribes taught that a man was to search after Leaven in secret places and corners by the light of a candle lest any peece or parcel should bee left behind and so pull a plague down upon that house Oh that our Sea-Captaines were as fearful of carrying Swearers Drunkards Revellers and profaners of the Lords day amongst them as the Jews were of casting out of the Leaven out of their houses what ships should wee then have in the Seas for piety and purity They would then resemble those glorious families spoken of in the New Testament who had Churches in their houses Philemon ver 2. Aquila and Pricilla 1 Cor. 16.19 Nymphas Col. 4.15 Our States ships should bee little Churches and Chappels for the Divine Worship of God But that I may now pass I will sail a while upon a Star-bord-tack and draw up the arrow of my discourse unto the Head that I may thereby a little tell our Sea-Captaines what their duties be in the several ships they are employed in and what also is requisite in those that either do or would bear command God knows there bee many in ships that bee trusted by the States command that know not what to do when they are on shipboard 1. It is requisite and mainly necessary that those that are or would bee Commanders should bee well qualified with knowledge in themselves of the sacred Word of God especially if they bee destitute of learned and pious Chaplins to that end they may bee instrumental to bring on their Sea-men under their Commands unto the fear of God The more insight any Commander has into matters of soul-concernments the meeter are they to instruct their Companies in the things that concern their souls Hee that is well furnished and accomplished with Scripture knowledge and holy wisdom in his heart is the aptest man to advance Religion in a ship 2. That they should seek the knowledge of their ships and strive to get a full and perfect cognizance of the state of their Sea-men viz. of their conditions dispositions necessities capacities inclinations He that would be an accurate and an accomplished Polititian indeed let him turn over Machiavell's bible and travel the varieties of men in the world and laboriously pry into them as well as pore upon his book I remember Austin begins one of his Sermons and as hee begins I would to God our Captaines would also begin and end with no worse advice Ad vos mihi Sermo O juvenes flos aetatis periculum mentis To you is my speech oh young men the flower of age the danger of the mind and of their darke and blind judgements and also of their immoveable and dead affections Had but Commanders now a full sight of these mens miserable conditions I would not fear but that their hearts would bleed to see many brands in the fire By this enquiry now prefixed you may the better know how to suit your Counsels cautions instructions and admonitions without which you cannot Husband-men you know suit their seed-corn as the land and years require and as their grounds will best bear 3. It is requisite that Commanders should have tender affections for and in the behalf of their Sea-men viz. Love and Desire 1. You should have much love to God in your bosoms and to your Sea-mens good I could wish that you were as careful over the poorest and meanest that go in the Seas as ever David and Bathsheba were over Solomon their son Prov. 4. v.

Meadows Vineyards flourishing Pastures upon which hee looks a while with great delight and on he goes again and meets with fruitfull Orchards green Forrests sweet Rivers with silver streams and behaves himself as before and at length he meets with Desarts hard wayes rough and unpleasant soul and overgrown with Bryars and Thorns here he is intangled for a time to stay labouring and sweating with grief to get out of them and after our he neither remembers his toyl nor the objects that he saw yet doth many of them learn out of it and from the creature that there is a God God upbraided Israel for their stupidity and will hee excuse you think you they had before them the Oxe and the Ass which were creatures that they might have learned wisdome enough out of Isa 1.3 The Oxe knoweth his owner and the Ass his Masters crib but Israel doth not know my people doth not consider The word consider comes of con and sydus and so signifies say some not one bare simple stella but a multitude of stars intimating that it is not a bare transient aspect or flash but an abiding and dwelling upon a thing that is to bee pondered and considered of as a Bee will stick upon the flower till shee extract honey out of it God complains again in Jer. 8.7 The Stork in the Heaven knoweth her appointed times and the Turtle and the Crane and the Swallow observe the time of their coming but my people know not the judgement of the Lord. God puts an En ecce exprobrantis upon them for their Caecity and inobservantness of the works of God And will not the Lord say to you one day that go down into the Seas and see his creatures and store-houses that are both in the waters and on the land viz. Fish in the Sea Beasts of the field and Fowls of the air c. that in respect you have made no soul-profiting uses of them they shall bee bitter and tart aggravations of your future condemnation Oh lament lament your blindness and inexcusable stupidity that you can look upon the wonderful works of God and go so boldly and undauntedly and unaffectedly amongst them without wondring at the wisdome of God and reading of Divinity lectures out of them Can you look upon the Leviathan when hee playeth in the Seas or upon the Trunked Behemoth when hee feedeth upon the land and not stand admiring and blessing of the Creator of them Can you look upon the many and strange kinde of Fishes that bee in the Seas of creatures that bee on the land and Fowls that bee in the air and not bee affected and drawn out with new love new fear and new obedience to serve your good God Ah Sea-men Sea-men I will deal plainly with you If I should see the Lord feeding of Sparrows and cloathing Lilies I should bee both stupid and faithless if I learned not that his providence were the same over mee both to cloath mee and to feed mee If that I should look upon the Heavens and see nothing in them but that they are beyond my reach the Horse and the M●●e would see that as well as I. May not many Sea-men bee painted as the Egyptians were wont to set out an inconsiderate man by To set such an one out in his colours they pictured him with a Globe of the earth before him and his looking-glass behinde him What Solomon sayes in Prou. 17.24 I shall say unto those that travel Wisdome is before him that hath understanding but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth If that thou seest nothing in the earth but a place to walk in or to take thy rest on the Beasts of the earth and Fowls of the air sees that as well as thou If thou canst see nothing in the Sea to admire God for but a place to swim and sail ships in the fowls that daily sit upon the floods see that as well as thou If thou seest nothing in the Bee and Bird but that they are winged other creatures see that as well as thou doest though not to admire them how they sail thorow the vast sea of air that when the Bee is out in the flowry field shee should bee able to steer directly homewards again to her hive and the Bird when abroad to her nest though at never so a geat a distance What shall I say If thou seest nothing in gorgeous apparel but pride the proud Peacock sees that as well as thee Laudatus paevo extendit pennas If of all thy meat and drink that thou livest upon thou knowest nothing but the pleasure and the sweetness that is in them unto thy taste the Hog and the Swine have as great a portion as thou hast If of hearing seeing smelling tasting feeling bee all the delight that thou canst finde in the works of God the dumb creatures do far excel thee in this and thy heart is little better than the heart of a Beast 2 Vse of Exhortation If it bee thus that you that go in the Seas have the fullest and greatest aspect of the Lords works and wonders both in the Sea and Land suffer mee but to leave two things with you and I will pray unto my good God that they may bee profitable unto you and do some good upon you Oculi idcirco dati sunt corpori ut per eos intutamur creaturam ac per hujusmodi mirabilem harmoniam agnoscamus ●pificem 1. Labour for a conscientious eye There is an eye in the world that makes not a little conscience of that glorious sight and Chrystalline humour that God hath put into it for to behold his works with all What a large Book is the Earth that the eye ranges over and how large a Volume is the Sea thorow which you sail certainly you might learn more than you do and bee better scholars in Christs School than you are They that live pind up in one Nation or Country are far from the view of the Creation for they stand but as a man that comes to some great Earl's or Knight's house and stands in the Court now unless hee be invited in hee sees not the sumptuous rooms and places that bee within it onely at a distance hee sees a little of the outward superstructure but they that go into the Sea from Country to Country they see the riches of the Earth the beauties wealth honours and strength of Nations and Kingdoms and truly let mee say thus much that they that see all these things and learn nothing out of them as incentives to love and fear their God Creatio Mundi Scriptura Dei. Vniversus mundus Deus explicatus The whole Creation is nothing else but Gods excellent hand-writing or the Sacred Scripture of the Most high The Heavens the Earth and the waters are his three large Volumes or the three great leaves in which all the creatures are contained and the creatures themselves are as so many

lines by and out of which hee that has a seeing eye may read profitable and singular Divinity lectures that they are greatly to blame There bee many tender-hearted people on Land that would even melt into tears if they did either see or know but of the one half of what you both see and know But what is it I pray for a man to see nothing but whiteness in the Lilly redness in the Rose purple in the Violet lustre in the Stars or perfuming sweetness in the Musk c. other creatures see this as well as you if you make no better use of these things Plutarch's little Bee when it spoke could say Ex fl●sculis succum mellis colligere cum alii non delectentur nisi colore odore I could gather hony out of any flower whilst others passed by and would not light upon it 2. Do what ever in you lyes to get a seeing eye for want of which some in their travels are but meer beetles Nycticoracis oculos habéntes or men that carry their eyes in their heels when they should have had them in their heads A seeing eye will affect the heart let a man go where hee will in the World Lament 3.51 Mine eye affecteth my heart I wish that every poor Sea-man in the world were so spiritual Sea-men might gather rare documents from the creatures as the little decimo se●tos that be both in the Sea and Land as the small fish that are in the Sea the Dove Aut that are on the Land as well as from the great folios of the Whale and Elephant c. that every thing that hee sees in the Sea or on the Land affected his heart Holy David was so heavenly that hee could lay his eye upon nothing that his heart was not affected with Psal 148.8 9 10. One while his eye was upon Fixe another while upon Hail one while upon Snow and another while upon Vapour one while upon the stormy Wind and another while upon the Mountains Hills Trees Beasts Cattel Creeping-things and flying Foul c. and none of these but his heart was exceedingly affected and taken in the thinking and beholding of them Again says Solomon Prov. 15.30 The light of the eyes rejoyceth the heart Give me leave to speak one concluding word unto you who are so much as it were in the heart and garden of the world as you are you might pluck many a sweet and savoury flower to make nosegays of I may say of the Sea and the forein parts of the world what one once said of the Sacred Bible that there was evermore aliquid revisentibus Something to see again again to serve you to smel on in your hearts all the dayes of your lives A gratious heart will evermore bee drawing out good observations out of the creature and will take an occasion to breathe after God in every strange thing it sees or enjoyes A goodly Ancient being asked by a prophane Philosopher How hee could contemplate high things sith hee had no books wisely answered that hee had the whole world for his book ready open at all times and in all places and that therein hee could read things Divine and Heavenly Bees will suck hony out of flowers that flies cannot do But to proceed 2. The next thing is to insist a little upon those singular and providential preservations and deliverances that Sea-men meet withall in their navigable employments My last work you know was to set before you a Praelibamen or a small parcel of the works of God that they behold in their travels and my next task is to prefix a few of those works which may very properly and pertinently bee called Opera conservationis works of mercy and preservation from and out of those many dreadful dangers and life-hazarding perils that they do run in the stormy and raging Seas And before I begin arenam descendere to enter upon them I will lay this proposition before you Observ 4 That the Sea-man of all the men under the whole Heavens none excepted is one that is both a partaker and a seer of the greatest and remarkablest of temporal deliverances These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep The course that I shall shape and steer in the handling of this doctrine will bee in these following Corollaries that I shall lay down before you the divulging of which unto the world cannot but advance and exalt my Masters name And I hope it will lye as an engagement upon the hearts of the godly as it was upon Davids to love and fear that God the more that bestows such great and so many undeserved preservations upon them that go in the Seas For this reason is it that I do take upon mee to call their deliverances to mind because their dangers and their preservations are not known to every one the major sort of people that live on Land are not acquainted with the things that I shall sing of My Song shall now bee th●t of Virgils ab ●ove principium now I will make it my business to present you with some of them though indeed not the one half of what I might and what others who are more knowing in them might tell you of And if you will but give mee that audience and attention that the beasts of the field the fouls of the air gave unto Orpheus's musick that is all I will desire of you It is said of the Beasts of the field and of the Fouls of the aire that they forgot their several appetites who were some of prey some of game and othersome of quarrel some for one thing and some for another insomuch that they stood very peaceably and sociably listning to the Aires Tunes and Accords of the Harp and when the sound ceased or was drowned with some lowder noise then every beast returned to his own nature again To bee short the truth of it is they are very ear-delighting and heart-melting deliverances that I shall speak of and therefore they are both worthy reading and also hearing 1. They that go down to the Sea in ships are many times most dreadfully surprized and bewildered with dangerous and perilous leaks at which water comes gushing into their Vessels as it will out of a cistern or conduit-pipe when once the cock head is but turned about and it may bee when they are thus unexpectedly taken they are many an hundred mile from any port or Land to save their lives I and further to aggravate their misery they are not within the sight of any ship or ships to come and help them which is not onely an heart-akeing discouragement but an heart-casting-down condition Now goes the hand-pump and the chain-pump which they carry in their ships as fast as ever they can turn them about to throw out that water that springs in upon them and when they find the water to flow in upon them far faster than they can throw it

at its appearance filling the air with many loud acclamations 2. That there is a tenderness of heart and spirit in you mourning for and under sin which renders you Elect holy and beloved amongst the Saints that know you I would all the new upstarts in England were of this good old sin-mourning temper Rom. 7.24 Oh wretched man that I am who Acts 24.16 Herein do I exercise my self 3. That you make it your constant care and business to look to your life and conversation and I do know it that it is the desire of you soul that it should bee such and in such a way of holiness as does become the Gospel of Christ Philip. 1.21 4. That it is the great care and desire of your soul that all under you should bee engaged in the daily worship and service of God Joshua 24.15 But as for mee and my house wee will serve the Lord. 5. That you are a discourager of what you apprehend to bee evil in your family Psal 101.2 3 4 5 6 7. Hee that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight Were all Families so ordered it would bee better both in the City Country and the whole Land than it is at this day Prov. 14.1 Every wise woman buildeth her house 6. That you are exemplary in your Family and truly it is good so to bee if the Mountains overflow with waters the Valleys are the better for it and if the head bee full of ill humours the whole body fares the worse for it Give mee leave now my much Honoured Lady to present a few things to you which may tarry with you when Providence may call mee from you 1. Think of your dying day It is said that there stands a Globe of the world at the one end of the Library in Dublin and a Skeleton of a man at the other it seems they that go into that Library need not stand long to study out a good lesson What if a man were Lord or Lady King or Queen of all the known parts of the world yet must hee dye I like not the Proverb I no more thought of it than I did of my dying day It is written of the Philosophers called Brachmani that they were so much given to think of their latter end that they had their graves alwaies open before their gates that both going out and coming in they might bee mindful of their death There was once a discourse betwixt a Citizen and a Mariner my Ancestours said the Mariner were all Sea-men and all of them died at Sea my Father my grand Father and my great grand Father were all buried in the Sea then sayes the Citizen what great cause have you when you set out to Sea to remember your death I but says the Mariner to the Citizen where I pray did your Father and your grand Father die why saies hee they died all of them in their beds truly then saies the Mariner to the Citizen what a care had you need to have every night when you go to bed to think of your bed as a grave and the clothes that cover you as the earth that must one day bee thrown upon you You are wise and know how to apply it 2. Lay up treasure in Heaven God has done much for you in the bestowing the riches honours dignities and great things of this life upon you by making you taller by the head and shoulders than thousands both in City and Country are Matth. 6.19 20. Is a Scripture I would commend to your leasurable considerations 3. Take heed of the bewitching honors entertainments and the deluding and heart-insinuating great things of this world It was a good saying of Luther I hope your Ladyship will make it yours when offered great things that hee protested to the Lord hee would not bee put off with the things of this life for his portion Psal 17.14 Men of the world have their portion in this life That is all it seems that ever they are like to have The Rubenites Numb 23. having taken a liking of the Country which was first conquered because it was commodious for the feeding of their Cattel though it was far from the Temple where they might have fed their souls to enjoy it they renounced all interests in the Land of Promise It is said of the Locusts that came out of the bottomless pit that they were like unto Horses and on their heads were as it were Crowns of gold and their faces were as the faces of men their hairs as the hair of women their teeth as it were the teeth of Lyons c. Rev. 9.7 8. in which Scripture wee have quasi Horses quasi Crowns quasi faces quasi teeth and quasi hairs of men In part such are all the honours and comforts of this life 4. Bee much in prayer hard and private wrestling with God in your closer for Heaven and Salavation If a man were assured that there were a great purchase in Spain Turkey Italy c. or some other remote parts would hee not run ride sail and adventure the dangers and hazzards of the Sea and of his enemies also if need were that hee might come to the enjoyment and possession thereof Heaven is better than Earth and a life in glory than a life in this sinful World and that you may prefer that above this in this lower world and may also live and bee with the Father and the Lamb in the highest glory when this life is ended for ever more shall bee the hearty prayer of him Madam Who is your Ladyships most humbly devoted DANIEL PELL From my Study in your own most Honourable House and Family London May 6. 1659. To the Right Worshipful Mr. HENRY HUNGARFORD Esquire And one of the Members of the Honourable House of Parliament D. P. Wisheth the grace mercy peace and love of God the Father in this life and eternal bliss and glory in the life to come Reverend and Right Honourable Sir Uno non possum quantum te diligo versu Dicere si satis est distichon ecce duos If I cannot in one verse my mind declare If two will serve the turn lo here they are SO great an honourer and admirer am I of you and the House and Family that you are descended of and belong unto that I cannot praetermit you without the presenting of this small Tract and Treatise which is of no great worth or value but onely an act or an expression of that superlative respect and service I bear you Certainly if I should I should then bee an Adinstar Niciae cujusdam Pictoris of whom it was said tantam in pingendo diligentiam adhibuit ut saepe numero intentus arti cibum sumere oblivisceretur è famulo quaereret LAVINE pransus ne sum a very forgetful person I question not but that you will find some thing in it worth your reading although you have travelled all or the greatest part of all the known parts of the