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cause_n	bring_v	lord_n	time_n	1,564	5	3.2852	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08671	The sea-mens invitation, with a passengers observation in some particular things which concern them that practice navigation. 1 Their remarkable deliverances; and the use they make of them. 2 Their tempting and provoking of God about the winde, which obeys the Lord. 3 Their abusing themselves and their liberty when they go a shoar, whereby the creature suffers. 4 Something in particular to the captains and masters, and to all their inferiour officers. 5 How little the sea-men (with the souldiers in the fleet) are profited by their chaplains that in the year do get several groats out of their wages. And a more excellent way of teaching shewn then that of their chaplains. / By a servant of the truth, and a lover of righteousnesse, called William Caton.	Caton, William, 1636-1665.	1659 (1659)	Wing C1519; ESTC R171117	10,341	16

swearing by your impatiencie and frowardnesse yet notwithstanding he who causeth the rain to fall upon the just and the unjust he also maketh the wind to be serviceable to you all without which none of you could sail from Country to Country like as you do though it might be just with the Lord who is slow to anger to cause the wind to be still and so thereby deprive you of the benefit of it because of your unthankfulnesse for it and your unworthinesse of it and this know that if he should bid or command it to be still you if you were ten times more then you are could not make it blow for it will not obey you but him that created it viz. the Lord God of Hosts is his name who is daily provoked by you concerning this thing and you chafe and sret your selves about it when it is against you but which of you by cursing and sweaing by chafing and fretting your selves can make it blow as you list though it bloweth where it listeth and as he pleaseth whom it obeyeth Were it not better therefore for you to be still and quiet and content considering that although it be not good for you in particular yet it is good and fair for some that practise Navigation who ought to have the benefit of it as well as you although none of you have ever seen it good for you all at once yet I believe there is none among you that hath sailed upon the Sea half a year together but that the wind hath been good for you at one time or another And this I say concerning it that it may teach you who are disobedient to him whom it obeyeth to wit the Lord who rebuked the wind and said unto the Sea peace be still and then the wind ceased and there was a great calm but though you are by him forbidden to swear Mat. 5.34 yet you are more disobedient to him then the wind which ceased at his rebuke but so do not you from swearing at his reproof Hee saith love your enemies blesse them that curse you c. But are not you disobedient to him in those things and in many more which might be instanced And therefore I say the wind may teach you which sometime some of you will curse for obeying him who saith blesse and curse not but your folly in this thing is mighty great and the Lord he will judge you for it and do not think that he 'l hold you guiltless who curseth that which he bringeth out of his treasuries Psal 135.7 which in it self is very good And who amongst men could more subsist without it then you who sometimes will seem thankful for it when it satisfies your wills but if it cross you bow froward and impatient are you fretting your selves and provoking him whom it obeyes when it crosseth you therefore consider of this ye that go down to the Sea in ships that do business in great waters and learn to fear the Lord who commandeth and raiseth the stormie winde Note when stormie winds come with which you are often offended that it is the Lord that raiseth stormy winds and who also stilleth them and him they do obey who maketh the storm a calm so that the waves thereof are still and then are not you glad when you are delivered from the rage of the proud swelling waves of the boisterous sea but alas how quicklie then do you forget your vowes which you made to the Lord when your hearts fainted and your souls melted because of fear and trouble that was upon you in the tempestious storme when you were almost at your wits end but O that you would now be perswaded to pay your vowes to the Lord and not to forget all his deliverances nor yet his mercies and favours which he hath bestowed upon you then would he oftentimes for your sakes rebuke the winds and the sea yea he would hear your cry in the time of trouble and bring you out of your distresse Wherefore be awakened to righteousness oh ye Sea-fairing men and cease from rejoycing in iniquity and from takeing pleasure in unrighteousness least that the Lord cause the great deep to swallow you up like as it hath done many thousands before you who have been Rebellious and disobedient to the Lord whom the winds and the seas obey Another thing hath been observed by others as well as my self among you and that is this to wit when you have been several moneths upon the sea more or less and that afterwards you by the providence of God come well into a Harbour and being permitted to go a shore either about your business or to see your friends or to refresh your bodies or the like even at such times do you most shamefully abuse your selves by drinking excessively until you make your selves more like beasts then men And thus you abuse your selves and your liberty and cometh thereby the more to be bereaved of it and in all this the creature suffers being made subject to this vanity though not willingly But for the sake of the weak and of those that are almost void of understanding among you I shall shew you in three particulars how the creature suffers First it may suffer by being several moneths upon the sea being kept with salt and dry victuals and sometimes great scarcetie thereof not onely of meat but also of drink insomuch that a cup of clear water with a crust of dry bread would be of great worth sometimes and such a day some of you have seen Secondly the creature suffers when you come a shore even the very time when it should be refreshed by your excessive drinking intemperate eating you not being wise enough to govern your selves in such a condition when your stomackes will not bear much meat partly by reason of the long scarcety nor your heads much strong bear having drunk little for a long time before thus the good creatures of God being abused by you you through the abuse of them become worse then you were when you had need of them Thirdly when you have so abused your selves with wine strong-waters or strong bear then can you not govern your selves but oftentimes doth that which you ought not to do and thereby transgresseth the Law a shore or the orders you have a board upon your ship and then it may be one punishment or another is inflicted upon you if the Officers neglect not their duty whereby the creature is made to suffer And then after your drinking excessively you are for a time unfitter to do your business then you were before you went ashore and then peradventure by reason of your abusing your selves and others you may come to be debarred of the liberty of the going a shore to take the benefit of the wholsome Aire and to be refreshed with such things as the Country do afford which you may have need of and yet want them aboard To the Captains and Masters of all Ships and