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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

whole world than his own conscience Christ would not hold his tongue when he was in Martha's and Simon 's house the Lepers And godly Commanders will not keep their tongues in their mouths on shipboard when they hear swearing and see villany and profaneness But before I take my leave of the Sea-Captaine I have yet a few more Rules in my eye to present him withall which heedfully followed will in the end I question not both shew him the way of commanding and of deporting himself in his Command I have much observed the weaknesses of men that have been intrusted with Commands and were not their pride haughtiness and stubbornness so great as it is there might bee hopes that they would in time become pretty men To such I will speak in the words of Solomon Prov. 3.7 Be not wise in thine own eyes fear the Lord and depart from evil 1. Take heed of being suddenly and easily provoked An angry man is compared to a ship that is sent into the Sea Quae daemonem habet Gubernatorem that has the devil for its Pilot which will assuredly bee thrown upon one rock sand or other when shee is of his steering Bee as swift as thou canst to hear but slow to speak any evil and slowest of all unto wrath There is Gods command for it Jam. 1.19 which should sway thee a great deal more than an Act of Parliament Ovid puts this down as a singular badge of a noble and princelike spirit to bee tardus ad Iram Certainly they who are evermore on a fire and do quickly take fire at every thing they are rather Tinder Gunpouder or annoynted with Brimstone than with the sweet oyle of the spirit of meekness If thou beest a cholerick spirited fool take Seneca's advise Imprimia finibus hostis arcendus est non cum portis se intulit modum à captivis non capit Above all things says he beware to keep the enemy from entring the city for if hee once get but in his head hee will give thee the Law This was the high praise and commendation that Nazianzen gave of Achanasius that hee was Magnes Adamas a load-stone in his sweet gentle nature and yet an Adamant in his stout and resolute carriage against those that were vile and evil Inferiora tranquillima The more heavenly the mind is the more calm will it be I have read of the Collossus at Tarentum Uno digito mobilis idem si toto corpore impellitur resistens One may move it with a finger but if once that you do offer to put your full strength to it you can not then stir it Weake spirits are easily daunted and a● harsh rugged spirit in a Commander will not win on Sea-men but do more hurt than good Some again resemble tender plants which dye if but touched with the knife or iron Fine Chrystal is sooner crushed than hard marble Spots Gentlemen are soon seen in the Ermin and as soon in you if you have not an honest care of your selves The Snow is not so white but there is one Anaxagoras or other in your ships to make it black Keep your fingers out of the fire if you would not have them scorched and not take it from thee 2. Tollerate and bear with light and trivial failings I mean with those which have not in them any sin and dishonour unto God contempt of command or injury unto the state and to one another It is an old Rule Toleramus Toleramur Archytas when angry with one of his servants said Oh how would I have beaten thee had I not heen angry with thee Here hee bore with him in a small business And so must you also if ever you would carry on good and peaceable Commands 3. Before you punish give warning Hereby men will be the more inexcusable when they come to bee found out faulty and worthy of punishment It is a good saying Praemonitus praemunitus forewarn'd forearm'd If warning will not serve the turn then let punishment bee laid on This Rule is laid down by Moses Deut. 12.10 When thou comest nigh to a City to besiege it first offer conditions of peace to it In this method wee find God himself walking Noah was sent unto the old world to give them warning Moses and Aaron into Aegypt Lot unto Sodom Obadiah to Edom Jonah to Nineveh Christ himself to Jerusalem Flashes of lightning do evermore appear before the comming of the Thunder-crack in the clouds Et afflatur omne priusquam percutitur Nothing is struck that is not blasted before 4. Take heed of trespassing in the breaking up of the Hold when you take purchase and prize Some hereby have not been able to hold up their heads in their Commands because they gave the vulgar sort of men such an articling advantage over them If Sea-men get but this hole in your coats once they will set as light by you and your Commands as the wild Asse in Job 39.7 does by the Driver He scorneth the multitudes of the City neither regardeth hee the crying of the driver I leave the application of this Scripture to your selves In Rutilo Luxuria est in Ventidio laudabile nomen Turpia cerdoni quaedam Volusosque Brutosque Decent Would you know the English of this Feasting and drinking in Rutilus was rioting in Ventidius brave munificence What some do is an hainous matter what others do nothing so Some may more cleverly steal the Horse out of the stable than othersome look over the Hedge Some may better break open the Hatches in the Hold than other-some take what lies betwixt decks 5. Quod semelimmissum non est revocabile tempus Post est occasio calva If you will not take hold of opportunities fore-lock you shall be served with a cold comfortless dish of her bald occiput Take heed of neglecting to speak to suspected ships and searching of their Cockets Have not some been remisse in this particular thing that have not a little smarted for it And besides it gives your Sea-men occasion to open their mouthes to the prejudice both of your present and future employments When you meet with ships that you are jealous of bee not put off with a parcel of fair words but enquire into their lading and the Country they are going to I will present you with a very pretty pertinent and applicable story to the admonition in hand A great Fowler having found a bird in a snare was humbly intreatd by the bird that he would grant her her liberty shee would requite his courtesy with three good lessons which if duely observed would profit him more than her small body Vpon this condition the Fowler was contented to release her provided that the Lessons were so profitable and beneficial as shee spoke of whereupon both parties being agreed the bird begun to sing her three promised notes unto him The 1. Note was this Lose not a certainty for an uncertainty This note was very

were the people in them got safe to shore by one means or other Prayer will not onely keep off storms from ruining of you but also from fire and from the wrath of God to seize upon you Prayer will bee as commodious for our States ships and for our Merchant ships yea I dare bee bold to say it as that Antidote was which they used in antient times in their besmearing of all their wooden buildings with Alome in trial whereof Archilanus Mithridatis is a witness when hee washed all the wood of the Tower therewith which hee had in charge and when Sylla attempted to set it on fire hee could not but gave it up as invincible It is no wonder though wee have so many Frigots fired and so many warlike boats blown up rocked and stranded surely the main cause is there was not the fear of God in those mens hearts that sailed them Plutarch reports that at the sacking of Cities those houses that stood near to any Temples evermore fared well for it whilst others went to ruine and there was not prayer amongst those men that went out with them into the Sea Exod. 11.2 And the people cryed unto Moses and when Moses prayed unto the Lord the fire was quenched Pray Sailors pray or else your ships will either meet with fire rocks or sands 5. You are in danger of being unpittied and unhelped in the time of your distress because of your neglect of prayer What Chrysostome said in one case of the Christians sins I will say of the Sailors in another Nostri peaca●is fortes sint barbari That the Christians sins did furnish Arms to the very heathens to invade Christendome Prov. 28.9 Hee that turneth away his ear from hearing the Law even his prayer shall bee abomination Now who turn their backs and ears more from the sacred rules of the word than those that use the Seas Is it not one of the Lords great Commands that every one should pray How then canst thou expect that hee should look upon thee when the ship is even going into the bottome Doth not the Sailors swearing prayerless and irreligious lives lay them open and consequently furnish their enemies in the Seas with courage and valour to overcome them and doth it not also lay them open to the winds Seas sands rocks to catch hold of them to tear them to peeces I am afraid that God will say of you when in storms Prov. 1.26 27. I also will laugh at your calamity I will mock when your fear cometh when your fear cometh as desolation and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind when distress and anguish cometh upon you 6. And lastly you are not onely in danger of being unpittied at such times when you are most in danger but also of being unheard in your prayers though you call never so vehemently Prov. 1.28 Then shall they call upon mee but I will not answer they shall seek mee early but they shall not finde mee This is a dreadful thing that men should thus desperately run themselves out of Gods favour I could not if I had all the language in the world set off your misery souls I will pray that Sea-men may not give the Devil the like occasion to triumph over Christ as hee did in Cyprians dayes whose words I will thus invert quoth Satan I never dyed for any Sea-men that serve me with such diligence as Christ hath done for his I never promised my Sailors that serve me so great a reward as Christ hath done to his and yet I have more Sea-men that are servants unto me than Christ hath amongst them that are servants unto him Christ hath here one in a ship and there one in a ship but do not you see that the greatest number and the greatest part of men even in all Nations that are sent out in ships to the Sea are my servants And yet notwithstanding though you run your selves upon these six dangers besides the many more that I might reckon up unto you I am afraid that you will not for all this deal with prayer What Objections lye in my way I will remove and then Sea-men answer God another day for your prayerless and irreligious lives it is not I but your selves that must give an account of your selves yet such is my love and largeness of heart towards you all that I cannot better express it than in the Apostles words Rom. 10.1 Brethren my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved Whether ever or never that I shall see the face of a Sea-man again or set my foot in a States ship again yet shall my prayers bee for you both in private and publick and if I should not so do I think I should not bee well-pleasing to my God because I seriously lay to heart what need you have of it both for your conversion and also for your preservation and sanctification Object 1 Mee thinks I hear some poor Sea-men saying Alas Sir wee cannot pray wee have not those praying abilities to lay open our selves in to God otherwise we would not be so backward in the practising of your good and Christian counsel and advertisement as wee are Answer Abilities to pray are evermore found to increase upon and in the use of prayer Precando disces precare by practising prayer thou will learn to pray Do thy part and God will not bee wanting in the doing of his Moses begun to object to God his weakness in speaking but would God take or dispense with that excuse Exod. 4.12 Now therefore go and I will bee with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say Mee thinks I hear many Sea-men Object 2 speakieg unto mee on this wise Good Sir why are you so importunate with us to take up this duty of prayer there bee many thousand sail that goe to and again in the Sea that use no prayer at all and yet they prosper and meet with little danger or damage I am afraid that their prosperity is their plague and penalty Answer for because they prosper for the present Are not most Sailors Nero-like who said when counselled Ut facta superi semper comprebent sua that the gods above might approve of all his doings Stulte verebor esse cum faciam Deus Thou doting fo●l shall I stand thinking or fearing the gods when I go about my own designs In like manner sayes the generality of Mariners What would you have us to be godly and to use prayer this we never did nor never will do they sinfully presume and sinfully presuming they presume to sin and sin will in the end set the doors wide open to let in the Seas and winds upon them Prayerless ships the more they prosper I am afraid that they are the nearer unto judgement Phericedes's boast was this that hee had as much contentment and safety though hee never sacrificed to the gods in all his life