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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

is not onely all neither but hereby where such are either at Sea or Land there may the sooner bee a looking for a curse than a blessing in all their undertakings And again a war that is undertaken upon just and good grounds It is not unlawfull to use the help of those who fight out of a bad intention either out of hatred violence ambition honour or desire of plunder for their bad intention does not violate the righteousness of the cause Is there not many Sea-Captains that fight for nothing in the world but their 10 pound and 15 pound per moneth I may say of Sailors what one said of Law Logick Switsers They may bee hired to fight for any one Sea man Sea-man get better principle And is there not thousands of Sea-men that fight for their 18. shillings per moneth Nay may I not say that they would fight for the Devil would hee but give them better wages than the States do How many thousands bee there of them that are now fighting day by day in one part or other of the world and they know not what they fight for save onely this Saile ship and come pay-day They look not upon the glory of God nor the cause that is in hand against the proud opposers of Christ and his glorious and everlasting Gospel And now I will not deny but that these will serve to goe on in the wars to do Christs work in the world withall though hee hurl the rod into the fire after all is done It is well known in all Histories that the trash and trumpery of the world have evermore gone in the wars and indeed they are the fittest men to lose their lives for the godly and well-minded people in the world cannot well bee spared and should they bee slain the world would sustain great loss in their deaths But now what shall I say of all the wars that are on foot in the world whether in the North or in the East in the South or in the West May I not say that sin has made a man a very hurtful and harmful creature man is not now become hurtful to beasts and beasts to man but one man unto another and one Nation with and to another And this has been so of old and is no new thing still but likely to bee so as long as there is so much of the first Adam in the world both acting and ruling in the sons of men as long as Pride shall bee seen exalted above the grace of Humility Covetousness above Contentedness Lust above Chastity and Enmity above Love and Charity never look for better in the world Man till sinfull was never thus hurtfull Before hee sinned was hee not naked and neither feared nor offered wrong and will not his sinless estate ever bee known by the state of innocency When that lost Image of God comes once to bee recovered again in all men generally and when the Kingdoms of the Earth shall become the Kingdoms of the Lord Jesus Christ then shall there bee peace and quietness in the Earth that one may walk up and down in the world at pleasure but not till then When mankind shall become a lamb then will it bee a glorious age and never till then It is observed that all other creatures save the lamb are armed by natures providence but the lamb is sent into the world naked and un-armed comes into it with neither offensive nor defensive weapons When mankind comes once to receive the glorious Image of the Lord then will there bee no longer this fighting and contentious principle that is in the hearts of most men but they will bee as meek and harmeless as the Dove who in the Greek is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sine cornibus non feriens cornibus An hornless creature Phil. 2.15 But now Dii boni what indignities what affronts what pushing with the ten horns and with the little horn spoken of in Scripture When that you see once the Lyons Bears ravening Wolves and Tygers of the world to bee turned into Lambs and their wolvish and Lion-like natures changed and metamorphosed into a Dove-like meekness then may it be said that there is then new Heavens and new Earth and in the interim never look for a cessation of war in the world till there bee some great Gospel-work wrought in the Earth But fourthly That which now follows in order is the consideration of this word Great waters The Spirit of the Lord here takes great delight to put this distinguishing accent upon them and indeed it is a very famous and glorious title that God is pleased to set upon their heads Great waters calling them great in opposition to small Rivulets which the eyes of Inland dwellers are upon It is a well known axiom in Philosophy Set but contraries in the presence of each other Opposita juxta se posita magis elucescunt and the difference is quickly made Therefore in our speaking of the Great waters pray what are the Aquae Stagnantes in a Land and what are the Fontaneae Scaturigines sive Torrentes sive Fluvii maximi What are the great Rivers or the standing pools and running torrents of a Land in comparison to the great and wide Ocean As vast a disproportion and dissimilitude is there betwixt them as there is betwixt the shining Sun and a twinckling star or betwixt the massy Elephant and the little bodied Mouse The Spirit of the Lord titles them Great waters and to speak re vera Legere non intelligere est negligere in re tamen seria really they are so as I shall by and by declare upon several accompts They who have never seen the Seas nor ever sailed in them and upon them they cannot credit their magnitude latitude and longitude and when they read over that 1 Chap. Gen. 9. where God said Let the waters under the Heaven bee gathered together unto one place and let the dry land appear and it was so it is but transiently inconsiderately and at the best unponderingly for there is but few that mind or apprehend what they read Why These are waters indeed in respect they are little less in spatiousness nay if not greater than the whole Earth joyn all the small Ex pede Hereulem wee say The skilful Geometrician finding the length of Hercules foot upon the hill Olympus made the portracture of his whole body by it You may judge of the Seas though you never saw them and great Islands and Continents that be either in the East and West North and South together they are not so vast and large as the Seas bee Now I know that many are very prone to deem this assertion as a thing not credible because of the weakness of their judgements but that I may bring those into a beleef of it that may call what is laid down here into question I will tell them what they shall do to put the thing out of

Lutherans is it not the Spaniard Who is it that could wish all the Towns Cities and Houses in England to swim as deep in blood even as the streets and pavements n Paris have done in the late civil wars of France when at one time they cut off 1200000 Protestants is it not the Spaniard Qui sunt qui ardoribus tantis sicut Aetna Vesuvius aestuant Hispanienses Qui sunt qui Crabrones Cynomyae Viperae Cantharides Angliae Hispanienses Qui sunt qui vivas aternas venulas aquae reliquerunt Hispanienses Pray consider who it is that sends the Jesuite into England which does us so much hurt in these dayes is it not the Spaniard Pray look about you if you have fighting spirits in your bosoms do you think it fit or meet that they should do thus with us I would it lay in my power to play England such a fit of warlike musick as Alexander's Harper once did the Emperour when feasting with his Nobles and chief Commanders the musick was an embattailying alarm and assault at the sound of which he had no power to sit at the table and banquetting cheer any longer but betook himself to his armour his spirits were so revived then would I make all the able Inhabitants in it to dress themselves in armour to fight against the Pope and Spaniard Hark! Hark! how the trumpet sounds to war When Caesar the Roman Emperour was privately murthered one of the Nobility took up his bloody clothes and shewed them to his Subjects that hee might stir up their spirits unto a detestation and revenge of so cruel and barbarous a murther What a many of English has the Spaniard massacred in the Indies in other parts corners of the world shall all this my friends be forgotten now After Socrates was put to death at Athens Aristophanes rehearsed the Tragaedy concerning Palamedes who had been executed by the Graecians long before at the siege of Troy in which was these verses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yee have slain of Greeks the very best Ay mee that never any did infest The people hearing of these lines were so moved that they presently fell upon the authors of Socrates's death and drew them out to punishment And will not you do thus Sailors by the Spaniard who has killed so many of your calling Hee made a great cry in the eares of the people Ecce Ecce vestimenta Caesaris sanguinolenta Here is the bloody clothes of your Emperour In the like manner give mee leave to cry Ecce Ecce Christianorum vestimenta sanguinolenta Look Look upon the bloody clothes of Christians How many have they murthered in this and in that part of the world Can you read the sad stories and not bee moved thereat Can you endure to hear of those bloody Massacres made by the Spaniard P. Clodii mortem aequo animo nemo ferre potest luget Senatus maeret equester ordo tota civitas confecta senio est Squalent municipia afflictantur coloniae agri denique ipsi tam beneficum tam salutarem tam mansuetum civem desiderant The Spaniard defends his old rotten Religion not so much by argument as by sword blood fire and powder Dumque ego pugnando superem tu vince loquendo Ovid. Met. lib. 13. is the Bloody practice of the Spaniard This did all the Heathens they evermore disputed against the Christians with fire and sword When they were about to disprove the Resurrection they would keep the Christians and themselves from being buried And other sometimes they would set on dogs and wild beasts to tear their bodies in peeces and other sometimes burn their bodies into ashes and then cast them into Rhodanus Euseb lib. 5. cap. 10. I prof● 〈◊〉 I either Hecatonchiron'd or Hecatompedon'd hundred-handed or hundred footed as Briareus was I would set them all on work to pull to peeces both the Spaniard the Pope Give me leave to tell our English Sea-men that it would bee a great shame unto them now since our Spanish war is on foot that they should bee spoke unto as Menelaus in the Poet said unto the Graecians when fearfull to undertake a single combat with Hector 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What Graecian Soldiers turned to cowardize So what English Sailors no stomack now to fight the Spaniard What credit what repute what report have you gained in the late wars with the Hollander Hold your ground still and take these as Arguments to sharpen your spirits in warring to the Seas till you have brought dovvn the Spanish Monarchy and that Italian beast at Rome Do not you hear them saying in Spain of the good people in England Psal 74.9 Let us make havock of them and burn up all the houses of God in the land But now in waging of war lest I should bee misunderstood there are evermore two things to bee propounded in the wagers of it 1. A just cause 2. A right intention 1. A just cause This is primarily requisite lest there should bee a falling under the lashing and bitter reproof that is recorded with detestation in the Book of Psalmes They persecuted mee without a cause The cause ought to be just betwixt Nation and Nation neither is every light and small trivial injury a just cause of war because war is a thing that punishes men with the greatest and grievousest punishments that can bee And besides war is not to bee undertaken but upon some injury which is both great and hainous either in it self or consequences And again great and hainous injuries do not warrant war unless it bee after the trial and use of all the lawfull means that can be for peace Deut. 20. Judg. 20.11 2. A right intention The intention in the first place should drive and aim at the glory of God and in the next at the justice of war War is not to bee waged out of passion and hatred but out of zeal for justice that war may alwaies tend to a fit peace and tranquillity as to its proper end and center As for the instruments of war now that are to carry it on when once it is begun I conceive that they are of two sorts 1. Some very good and godly 2. Othersome very bad and wicked This cannot well bee helped in Sea-wars in land-wars there is oftentimes better redress of things for men eminently godly and well qualified are not to bee found to make Armies and Armado's of And again I think it is not unlawful that the worst of men yea the very scum and filth of the world are employed I find in Scripture Gen. 14. that Abraham had some of the forces of the King of Sodom joyning with him which were no other than an unclean and stinking crew of men Yet wicked profane and deboyst men they ought to bee carefully avoided and ejected out of Navies Ships Armies Troops and Regiments because they both bring great scandal upon a Nation and upon their Generals and Commanders and that

of Christ did Apollos 5. Admonish them of and about their faults Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sin upon him Lev. 19.17 But seeing I am very importunate with you to reprove and carry strict command over your men in the Seas I would have our Sea-Captains of that brave noble spirit that Themistocles was of of whom it is said that when he found a chain of gold in the street he would not stoop down to foul his fingers with it but said heroically unto another Tolle tu ego sum Themistocles Sea-men take you the spoyl I will not have a farthing-worth of it Beggarliness is an uncomely thing in Captains Give mee leave also to rub you a little upon the shore for you are not without your apparent slips no more than they are but are as far over the shooes in rotten practices as others Now I will shew wherein and that in several particulars and pray amend them 1. In Prize and Plunder Is there not more than a few couzening pranks plaid by you in the defrauding of your Sea-men of that which they have most desperately hazzarded themselves for It is a true Proverb That hee that shares hony with a Bear shall have the least share of it Sailors who fight hard for what they get and you that do little or nothing in the engagement run and take it from them what justice or equity is there now in this Leave off Leave off this stinking course and carry your selves Christianly amongst your Sea-men and let them have what is their dues in such cases Have not some of you been disgracefully turned out of your places about these things 2. In the solemn observation of the Sabbath This day God pardon you is as little observed or regarded in the Seas by you that are in command as it is almost in Turky My ears have often heard to my sorrow and to the dishonour of my God whom I serve that every day was a Sabbath unto them What have such Commanders intended now in such Diabolical speeches in the ears of an hundred and fifty men but to draw them off from the keeping of it And it is to bee feared that there bee more than a few of such still in the States ships of England who are secretly prophane and licentious What ever prophane wretches think of this day I will speak thus much in the vindication of it that God is wont to sanctifie his people more on this day than on another and that more have been converted in it than on any other day besides Heathen Princes are wont in their Coronation dayes to shew themselves to their people in their Royalties and to cast about them great handfulls both of silver and of gold The Sabbath is a day wherein God appears most comfortably to those that conscienciously keep it hee shews himself to them and they shew themselves to him On this day God makes our spirits holy and heavenly and sets them in tune and order for every good work and business 3. In the clubbing down of swearing Many Sea-Captains stand in their ships like Harpocrates the Egyptian who was alwayes painted with his finger upon his mouth Their fingers are in their mouthes when they should speak for God in the reproof of sin and seldome or ever shall you hear them active in the pulling down the Devils Dialect Sea-Captains in this case are very like unto those Idols David speaks of Psal 115. That have mouths but speak not and prophaneness God pardon you How doth many of you walk up and down in the ships you have command of even day by day and though you hear swearing betwixt decks or upon deck and on every hand you yet do not you open your mouthes to crush it and to punish such vile wretches who should beat down this sin in ships but you Let a Minister open his mouth against them and they are ready to eat them up because they love not his reproving of them More may bee done by that power you have over them as to the reclaiming of them from this evil than any Minister in the world can do though hee either threw out his heart amongst them or spit up his lungs with thundering against them for it I profess I wonder how you can hear and digest with patience and silence the very Oaths and rotten speeches that bee perpetually belched out of stinking mouthes that bee in your ships Instead of being valiant for God you are meer Cowards in good causes and Traytors unto the State of Christianity Nay let mee tell you that you do think by this sinful silence to gain and purchase unto your selves the name and the applause of no Medlers in other mens matters and so are cried up for merciful men and peaceable men when alas you are rather murderers of mens souls than preservers of them Ante Vacunales stantque sedentque focos Ovid. Put on put on Sea-Captains for that brave spirit of Jeroms who said in these words Si veritas est causa discordiae mori possum tacere non To put you now upon the beating up of the Quarters of all swearers and prophane wretches in your ships and to the discountenancing of all vice let these profitable Consectaries lye warm upon your hearts and spirits 1. How knowest thou but that a seasonable reproof may by the blessing of God bee an occasion of conversion to the offender And know that hee that converteth a sinner from the errour of his wayes shall save a soul from death and shall hide a multitude of sin Reproof in your mouthes would keep Sea-men from much sin as holy Bradford kept B. Farrar whilst he was prisoner in the Kings Bench from receiving the Sacrament at Easter in one kinde which he had promised to do And B. Ridley whilst prisoner in the Tower from going to Mass which once he did but was reduced by Mr. Bradfords godly letter Jam. 5.20 It is a noble imployment yea it is one of the gloriousest works in the world to have an hand in the holy business of the saving of a soul Many of your Sea-men Gentlemen are running headlong unto hell if you can by any means stop them do take hold of any thing that you can first lay hands on and tell them that you have a strong love in your hearts for the good of their poor souls I fear it will bee inquired into one day what good you have done the men you took a charge off Come hither Sea-man will the Lord say What Captain was you under in the Seas I served Captain whom I was never bettered by all the Voyage What Captain was you under also I was under Captain whom I never heard a word of God or of Christ drop out of his lips amongst us never in all my life What Captain served you under I was under Captain who never reproved swearing nor any

wilde beast betakes himself to his Den and the wounded Hart to his medicinable herb Dictamnum the pursued Malefactor to the Horns of the Altar and under the Law the chased Man-killer to the City of Refuge Sea-men are a generation of people that can carry the damnable burthen of their Oaths Drunkennesses When the destroying Angel was abroad the Israelites fled into their chambers Ex● 12.32 A good example for Sailors in time of storms for they that use the Seas deserve little better at Gods hands than those whom the Angel cut off they may well think that when God is killing and sinking others with a vengeance that they deserve the same and so ought to lay it to heart as the Israelites did in their chambers and Adulteries in calms as easily as the Sea can bear the great and heavy loaded ships or as Sampson did the gates of Gaza upon his shoulders but in storms when grim-countenanced death stares them in the face the top-gallant sails of their high hoysed spirits are a little lowred and melted 10. To bring their hearts into better Reason 10 rellish and esteem with calms If Sea-men were to live on land any long tract of time Prov. 27.7 The full soul loatheth the hony-comb One dish too often is stalling and cloying and Sardanapulus never liked any dish twice they would as little estimate it as those that never set their foot upon the salt waters but spend and end their dayes in Lands and Countries of peace and ease it is a general rule that most things are rather valued Carendo potius quam fruendo in their want than in their enjoyment I have observed that when wee have had a week or a fortnights sweet and tranquil weather so that wee have both sailed and anchored in as much quietness and stability as if wee had been lodging in beds and houses upon land but these continued mercies have been little prized by the Mariners Calms at Sea are devoured like Acorns by the Hog at land who never looks up at the hand that beats them down and little considered of as high favours from the Lord and begot little warmth love and affection in their hearts to God again It is very just with God to take his abused and unconsidered mercies from them and give them storms and tempests rowling raging Seas that never valued the kindnesses of God in mild and lovely weather When the Mariner is ruggedly dealt withall for a fortnight or three weeks in stormy and turbulent weather then how welcome is and would the tydings of a cessation of those winds and Seas that are up in arms against them be Ah souls it is a mercy that every day is not a day of sorrow of dread and terrour to you Calms have been very sweet to my soul and have drawn out my heart very much to bless my God for them and shall they not have the like impression with you Fear then lest God take mercy from you and license his indignation to arrest you Reason 11 11. To purifie the Seas It is not the fairest and calmest day that purifies the air but thundrings lightnings and blustering storms and winds that are the airs cleansing brooms and so consequently the same unto the Sea Storms do undoubtedly refine and purifie the salsitude of the Seas and that liableness that is in them unto depravity and coruption 12. For the furtherance and increase Reason 12 of Repentance God sees it fit to lay on storms and chastisements that they may bathe themselves in tears that their Repentance may bee true 2 Chron. 7.13 If my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked wayes then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their Land Every storm should be as the Alarm that is struck upon a drum to call all that go in the Seas to Repentance and godly sorrow for their sins and the voice of storms seems to bee this Aut paenitendum aut pereundum I may better say that to Sea-men which holy Anselm said unto himself than that hee should speak it of himsel In his Meditations he confessed that all his life was either damnable for sin committed or unprofitable for good omitted and at last concludes Quid restat O peccator nisi ut in tota via tua deplores totam vitam tuam Oh what remains Sea-man but that thou shouldest not onely in storms but in thy whole life lament the God-provoking sins of thy life When the Lord once gets a people into fetters then does hee shew them their work and their transgressions Job 36.9 and makes their ears open to discipline good hearts when they are locked up in the stormy bolts and fetters of the Seas they then consider that it is for some sin or other and their ears are open and attentive to hear God speaking unto them Ezek. 36.31 Then shall yee remember your own evil waies and your doings that were not good and shall loath your selves in your own fight for your iniquities and for your abominations God many times sends down storms upon the Seas that hee may put that impaenitent crew that frequents them into a godly frame and compunction of heart for their sins but the Lord knows there is little reformation or amendment amongst them Non est poenitens sed irrisor qui adhuc agit unde poenitea That Sailor is but a counterfeit that makes a show of piety in a storm and wears the Devils and not Gods livery in a calm notwithstanding those dreadful dangers that they do daily converse withall this is the Lords complaint against the Sailors in England if I know any thing of the will and mind of that God whom I serve Jer. 8.6 I hearkned and heard but they spake not aright no man repented him of his wickedness saying What have I done Every one turned to his course as the horse rusheth into the battle Reason 13 13. To put them upon the searching of their hearts what sin it is that the storm has come down upon them for Aristippus told the Tarpaulings hee sailed with when they wondered why hee was not affraid in the storm as well as they that the odds was much for they feared the torments due to a wicked life hee expected the reward of a good one the Mariners did so in that storm they were in Jonah 1.7 And they said every one to his fellow Come and let us cast lots that wee may know for whose cause this evil is upon us so they cast lots and the lot fell upon Jonah There is some cause or other why such dreadful Tempests come upon you if you would but enquire them out and for my part I look upon it as a wonderful mercy that every day in the Sea is not a day of storm and a day of terrour so that you can neither sail nor take any comfort my reason

whilst you do float above When the Lord would stir up David and melt his heart and bring it unto a kindly sorrow for all his mercies hee takes this course 2 Sam. 12.7 Did not the Lord do thus and thus Did hee not make thee King of Judah and of Israel Did he not give to thee thy Masters wives and houses into thy bosom and if this had not been enough hee would have done more for thee therefore recount the particular kindnesses and Sea-deliverances the Lord has bestowed upon thee does not the Lord seem to say I delivered thee at such a time and in such a storm did not I deliver thee from such a Rock and from such a sand God keeps a reckoning Sirs of what hee does and also of all your deliverances it is but wisdom then to kiss the Son lest hee bee angery to kisse him with a kiss of adoration and subjection all your daies 3. Consideration That thankful hearts are evermore full of thankful thoughts and these are such as are evermore suitable unto the benefits that are received Psal 116.12 What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits Hee has delivered mee out of this and the other storm from this and the other shore from many Rocks and Sands both in this and also in the other parts of the world I have met with a story of a Company of Sailors in Zara called by some Jadera a Town in Sclavonia that they consecrated a Church to St. John di Malvatia which they built out of their own wealth and wages to express their thankfulness for their great deliverance out of a storm in which they had like every man of them to have gone to the pot This they vowed when at Sea and when come on Land they were as good as their words where are your thanks Sailors what shall I now bestow upon him How has hee preserved mee when shot has flown like hail When dangers have been unfordable and miseries innumerable then has the Lord stept in to deliver mee Ah Sirs what cause have you that use the Seas to fall down before the Lord in all thankful acknowledgment to him for your deliverances at Sea even as the Wise men of the East did before Christ and offer unto him Gold Incense and Myrrhe aurum fidei thus devotionis aromata pietatis mentes humiles probos mores animos dignos Deo The Gold of faith the Frankincense of Devotion the Myrrhe of Godliness humble minds good manners souls worthy of God 4. Consider That thankful hearts are evermore full of admiring thoughts I wonder at the goodness of God says a good and an honest heart that hee should come and step down so seasonably to deliver mee when I was in a Sea far from any eye or heart to pitty mee Ah how has mercy taken the pains to come and meet us How has mercy as it were fallen into our mouths and into our laps even very unexpectedly Abraham's servant was very full of admiring thoughts when hee saw providence so working for him Gen. 14.21 as the womans coming to the well and her willingness to give him and his Camels as much water as they pleased Ah stand amazed at Gods deliverings of your souls in the stormy and tempestuous Seas 5. Consider That thankful hearts are evermore full of awful and trembbling thoughts at the Judgments of God both executed and threatned upon others in the Seas when they see themselves so threatned in storms and others to bee cast away in them and yet notwithstanding they themselves spared this strikes thoughts of fear into them and upon them Psal 119.20 My flesh trembles for fear of thee and I am afraid of thy righteous Judgments 6. Consider That thankful hearts are evermore full of viewing and observing thoughts Oh how has the Lord delivered mee in this late storm and Tempest in what danger was I in but now our Sails rent our Mast fell about our ears wee pumped and toyled night and day for our lives Cables broke and at another time our Anchors came home and our ships drive And thus such hearts cannot but say Exod. 15.13 Thou in thy Mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed 7. Solemnly consider that thankful hearts after Sea-deliverances are full of improving thoughts and will not you bee so too Gentlemen You that use the Seas Such a soul has his whole mind taken up with the mercies of the Lord and hee plots contrives and designs how hee may make a good use and a good improvement of all that he has done for him in the Seas Pliny writes of Egypt It is well if it may not too truly be said of those that use the Seas that shee was wont to boast how shee owed nothing to the Clouds or any forein streams for her fertility being abundantly watered by the inundation of her ovvn River Nile I am affraid that you think that you are not beholden to your God and beheld with his eyes in the great deeps Such a soul sets all his Sea-deliverances in print and layes them up in the wardrobe of his heart The holiness goodness mercifulness and majesty of God is evermore much in such a souls eye 8. Consider That all good men are for it and that with tooth and naile and will you not then bee thankful unto the Lord I will tell you who bee against it the Devil and wicked men but I pray God preserve you from such Counsellors Psal 65. Praise waiteth for thee O God in Sion Psal 29.2 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name Worship the Lord in the beauty of holynesse 9. Consider That God himself is for it Mal. 2.2 If yee will not hear and if yee will not lay it to heart to give glory unto my name saith the Lord of hosts I will even send a curse upon you 10. Consider That God commands it The shortest cut to ruine men is unthankfulness Trumpeters delight to sound when where they are answered with an Eccho 11. Consider That God expects it 12. Consider That God prizes it and commends it 13. Consider That God is hereby much honoured by it Psal 50. ult 14. Consider That God will fully and freely reward it A word or two now of Use and so I will leave the point because it is so painful to mee to write and lay down at large what I might and what every point would bear I do acknowledge that Spices when they are pounded and beaten small they do evermore smell the sweetest and points of doctrine or Scriptures when they are branched forth expounded and broken up into parts are evermore the profitablest For my part I know not what to say to the generality of Sea-men because they put me to as great a stand as the Turky Painter was once put to when he was to set forth all the several Nations of the world according to their Country dress and habit hee left one