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
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
Kings and Princes of the Seas and the Conquerours of all the Armadoes in the world that shall dare to meddle with you Inter caetera providentiae divinae opera hoc quoque dignum est admiratione c. Amongst other works of a divine providence this is very admirable that the winds lye upon the Sea for the furtherance of Navigation and that they may all strike and vail to you as forein Nations once did unto the Kings and Princes that were their Conquerors of whom it is said that at what time they sent their Ambassadors to them whom they both had subdued and would have subdued to them they desired of them Terram Aquam and in token of their subjection they sent them both Water and Earth because all command is either by Sea or by Land and all possessions and riches are either gotten out of the Sea or out of the Land And now after all that I have said in the high commendations of you I pray God bestow peace on our Nation both at Sea and Land for that is far better than these dreadful and heart-amazing Wars There is small comfort in it to see Nation rising up against Nation and an imbruing of their hands in one anothers blood It is a very sad sight in these our dayes the Lord amend it to see Nations running one against another like the two Mountains in Pliny of which hee tells Montes duo inter se concurrerunt crepitu maximo assultantes recedentesque inter eos flamma fumoque in Calum exeunte that they ran continually one against the other Plin. cap. 2.83 Nat. Hist from whom nothing but smoke and fire rise up and ascended towards the heavens with a great sonorous and formidable noise they that take delight to see it I wish they may have enough of it Give mee leave to take my leave of you in a few directions which I would have you to look upon as one of the highest expressions of my love and affection that a man can possibly bear you I speak not only unto you altogether that fear the Lord but unto the other prophane crew also shall I commend a word of counsel and this Treatise is one of the greatest Legacies of my love that I either have or know how to bestow upon you and truly I could wish that every Minister that goes in your ships and in the States service would endeavour to shew something of the improvement of his time that it may stand upon record for the good of you that use the Seas and so far would I have any from carping at what I have done that I would wish them to mend it if they can or shew something of their own I had no warm study to sit in nor no place that was free of noyse and tumult when I writ it Sirs You may visibly behold the great love I bear you who hath taken all this pains in the Sea for you What would you have mee to do for you I have gone a begging to all the good Ministers in the land to pray for your preservation conversion and sanctification I have gone a begging to all the Saints and servants of God to pray for you It was somewhat a soure saying of one concerning the viler sort of Sea-men when he said if you see them not in Sea-port Towns in November December January and March which are the windiest Months in the year then you may conclude that they are all gone to Heaven or else they will never come there They mount up to Heaven c. vers 26. I have exhorted all the Sea-ports in England to pray for you and to remember you that go in the turbulent deeps and I will assure you that I will never forget you neither in Pulpit nor in private but pray hard for your prosperity in the Seas and felicity in the life to come My hearts desire is that you may bee saved in the day of the Lord. The Rules I would commend to you that travel are such as these following and I would hand them not onely to every good and honest heart that goes in the Seas but to every prophane wretch whatsoever 1. Let not the irreligion of those places you travel into whether France Spain Italy Barbary or Turky c. breed in you a neglect of divine duties or a disgustion unto the pure and most reformed Religion that is amongst us in England 2. When you meet the Host or Eucharist in the streets through which it is often born to the houses of the sick get out of the way that you kneel not to it which if a stranger neglects hee is lyable to the Inquisitors or one mischief or other 3. Go no further into the Outlandish Churches in the world than the hand of your own Religion and conscience will lead you lest you dash upon the rocks of Atheism and Idolatry 4. Pitty rather than spurn scoffe and scorn at those you see prostrate before a Crucifix or a Saint It hath been matter of pitty unto my soul many and many a time when in forein parts 5. Neglect will sooner kill an injury than revenge If you meet with injuries in forein parts prudently and patiently put them up an ill turn in those parts is far cheaped passed over than revenged the endeavour of which many times is but Gentleman usher to a greater 6. Keep your selves out of all the Mercenary Harlot houses that bee in the Italian French and Spanish Cities or in any other parts of the world you traffick to Prov. 5.8 Remove thy way far from her and come not nigh the door of her house 7. Begin all your voyages with fear and sincere and hearty prayer unto God to go along with you through and over the Seas to carry you well out to return you wel back You go very rashly upon all your designs The Israelites usually asked counsel of God first and then they went The Grecians went to their Oracles Gentlemen and Sea-men in your perusal of this Treatise you will finde me sharply striking at prophaneness in the Sea and to those that are bad I speak to and those that are honest and godly are very silly and simple if they quarrel with it thereby they will bring upon themselves an evil name for let but me hear a man speaking against it and I shall conclude him to bee some Swearer or c. the Persians to their Magi the Egyptians to their Hierophantae the Indians to their Gymnosophista the ancient Gauls and Brittains to their Druides the Romans to their Augures It was not lawful to propound any thing of weight and moment in the Senate Priusquam de coelo observatum est before they had observed from heaven whether God would shine upon their proceedings and enterprises yea or no. 8. Abhor to go to Sea out of any Sea-port Town in England in a drunken posture I would have those that are naught in the Sea to say with
neither canst thou ever perform what thou hast vowed to whom hee replied in the storm Vers 26. Their soul is meltâ—d because of trouble They are even ready to dye at this time Junius understands it of extreme vomiting as if they that used the Seas were casting up their very hearts many times Anacharses for this very cause doubted whether hee should reckon Mariners amongst the living or amongst the dead And another said that any man will go to Sea at first I wonder not but to go a second time thither is little better than madness very softly and silently lest St. Christopher should hear him Hold thy peace thou fool dost thou think that I ever meant it if ever I recover shore the Devil take mee if ever hee gets as much as a small tallow candle of mee or the pairing of my nails Make you the Application 20. Beleeve that all storms that come upon you are of the Lords raising and commissionating I have met with this passage which was found sayes history in a Council above a thousand years ago Si quis credit quod Diabolus tonitrua fulgura tempestates sua authoritate sicut Priscillianus dixit Anathema This Canon was made against such as did simply attribute storms tempests thundrings and lightnings c. to the Devil and not to God as if so be that he should be the causer and the procurer of them whosoever beleeves this said the Council as Priscillianus hath done let him bee an Anathema But without any further wording of it to you I freely bestow this peece of my Nec inter vivos Nec inter mortuos upon you all that use the Seas and beg your acceptance of it The God of Heaven grant it may do you good read it heed it yee need it pray for mee and I shall not bee wanting in my prayers for you that God would bless and prosper you in your imployments and thus hee that takes his ultimum vale of you and the Sea rests Gentlemen 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 May 4. 1659. THE EPISTLE TO THE Christian Readers Whether at Sea or on Land Good Readers I Would very freely invite you had I but that chear that I judge you deservedly worthy of Let this Epistle bee thy Janisary or Pole-star to the perusal of this book The stars that do attend the Artick-pole are the greater and lesser Bear and the least star in the lesser Bears tail is called the Pole-star by reason of its nearness to it and this is the guide of the Mariners as Ovid in his Epistle sings it You great and lesser Bears whose stars do guide Sydonian and Grecian ships that glyde Even you whose Poles do view this c. if you therefore will come to such Fare as hath been provided dished cooked and prepared upon the Sea for you you shall bee freely and heartily welcome and in your coming take this Advertisement along with you or else you had better let it alone Guests that are invited unto some Grandee King Lord or Prince 1. Respect with great desire the hour of his feast and so give their diligent attendance that they may come in a decent seemly and orderly manner 2. That nothing pleaseth the Prince better than to see them feed soundly on the meat dished and prepared for them 3. They are cautelous that they do not speak any thing that may bee in the least offensive to the person that invited them 4. They do not statim by and by depart but stay and sit a while and interchange familiar conference with the Prince 5. At their departure they yeeld a great deal of reverence returning him a thousand humble thanks for the favour vouchsafed them offering themselves ready at his service I question not your wisdome in the applying of what is before you The strongest Arguments that I can lay you down that did put mee upon this laborious business in a restless unquiet and disconsolatory Sea were such as these 1. It was the good pleasure of the Lord to draw and hale mee to undertake it by a strong and an unwithstanding impulsiveness that lay every day upon my heart and spirit till I went about it 2. To reprove that spirit of machless and unknown prophaneness that is amongst many thousands that use the Seas 3. To that end they might bee healed in their souls amended and reformed in their lives and practices 4. Because I never saw any thing writ unto them as suitable to and for their imployment the want of which did the more affectionately lead mee on for the good of their souls 5. Because I bear an extraordinary strong love to the souls of those that go down into the Seas and would as gladly have them saved in the day of the Lord as I would my self 6. Because I would have the world to know a little what perils and hazzards those that use the Seas do run thorow and meet with all in their imployments 7. What Ulysses's commendation was by Homer I shall say of them that use the Seas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hee knew the Cities and manners of many people They see many brave Cities and Countries that could not bee seen were it not for shipping Our Gentry travel both Sea and Land with much bodily hazzard and with great expence of state and all but to get a little more knowledge of fashions and a gentile behaviour To let the world know what works and wonders of the Lord those do see that go into the Seas and beyond them 8. To that end the world might know what great preservations and deliverances the Lord bestows upon them in their affairs 9. To that end the world might know I made some improvement of my time when at Sea for I never affected the mis-spending of one day all the time I was in it but lived though amongst men as if not amongst them Mihi musis knowing that time is precious and tarries not Vpon a Dialpeece of a Clock in the Colledge Church of Glocester are portrayed four Angels each of them seeming to say something to those that look up to observe the hour of the day which is made up of two old Latine verses 1. An labor an requies 2. Sic transit gloria mundi 3. Praeterit iste dies 4. Nescitur origo secundi Englished Whether you rest or labour work or play The world and glory of it passes away This day is past or near its period grown The next succeeding is to us unknown 10. And lastly To that end all the Lords people would bee mindful of those that use the Seas They are like to a direct North-Dial that hath but morning and evening hours on it They are far from good means on land pray for them and not forget them in their most serious and solemn addresses unto their God They stand in need
no intimate or delightful converse with the wicked which are professed enemies unto God and Christ no they dare not doe it therefore blame them not when they look shily upon swearing Sailors and care not for comming amongst them They have the sacred Word and all the reason in the world on their sides and therefore let this stop every Bedlamite Sailors mouth 1. They dare not come into wicked mens company for fear of the infection of sin 2. Out of a fear of an infliction of punishment Hee that would keep himself unspotted in the Sea let him resemble the River Alphaeus of Elis in Arcadia Mocum est quicquid mihi nocere potest I finde that in me said Bernard that is apt to take fire How much more in Sailors Than shun prophane men as thou wouldst shun the devil orone that hath the plague running upon him I have often seen a parcel of ground once a fair Garden of flowers over run with stinking weeds so good men turned bad by stinking company These Sea-men are like Pharaohs seven ill favoured kine if they see but any amongst them that have grace and heavenly mindedness in them yhey will be sure to set their teeth in them They desire to eat up the wel-favoured which runs thorow the Sea but will not mingle with it Hee that will not take this counsel and resolvedly begin to shake off all prophane societies hee shall never be able to live or lead a godly life this is the first step to heaven Sailor and if thou hast not this resolution in thee let mee tell thee thus much thy foot is in the way to hell Now after this sweet word of Advertisement which I hope may prove profitable if the Lord set but in with it let mee tell you thus much that it is a very hard thing to live religiously at Sea and therefore evermore look for these two things 1. Wicked men will assault you and make onsets and invasions to shake you out of your profession and to fetter you in the same loosness of life they live in Set your eyes upon these sons of Belial and resist them with courage There bee many thousands of godless Sailors that bee too like that bird Pliny writes of which Naturalists call the Vulture that when shee beholds her young to thrive and feather and wax lively and strong that shee will clap them and beat them with her wings till they look lean and languish again It is thus at Sea you will meet with the like cruelty amongst them and finde Sea-men discouraging of you in the good wayes of holiness but bear up couragiously against all the storms and oppositions of good that ever you shall meet withall in the world 2. Wicked men are so far from God and his wayes themselves that instead of taking delight in you for that good that is in you you will finde hatred from them It was a divine saying of Seneca That no man did set a better rate upon vertue than hee that loseth a good name to keep a good conscience In die praelii naufragii tempestatis mortis plus valebat Conscientia pura quam Marsupia plena Boldly say unto all the wicked ones in the Sea as David said Psal 119.115 Depart from mee yee evil doers If it were not for the godly ones that be in the world the Sun would not shine long upon you the heavens would fall upon the wicked the earth would open her mouth to swallow them up and all the creatures of God would arm themselves against them and yet these are cruel haters of them by whom they are gainers for I will keep the Commandements of my God Bestow thy affections upon the godly whom thou shalt live for ever with in the Kingdome of heaven and not upon those whom thou shalt never see more in the world to come and never bee the better for in this life but an hundred times the worse There is yet a further word of Advertisement in my eye and I would gladly press it home upon all the Sailors in England if that I did not behold these things which I am now going to speak of amiss in them I would not trouble my self to take the pains in an uncomfortable Sea to write them down The first then is this You ought to love and tender godly men in their names and when ever occasion is offered you should willingly make report of that good that is in them and not throw dirt upon them 3 Joh. 12. Demetrius hath good report of all men and of the truth it self yea and wee also bear record and yee know that our record is true There is many a precious soul that is of great worth I would have men that are godly at Sea not to be daunted discouraged or disheartned from well-doing but to do as the Moon doth who follows her continual course task and labour though many Dogs Curs bark and leap at her En peragit cursus surda Diana suos credit repute and account amongst the godly on land that must not have a good word nor a good look from such wicked men as many of you are that go in the Seas 2. If you hear the godly that are or have been amongst you falsely charged with any thing and evilly spoken of you should stand up in their defence and bee contented to hazzard some part of your own credit to vindicate theirs 1 Sam. 20.32 And Jonathan answered Saul his Father and said unto him wherefore shall hee bee slain what hath hee done 3. Take heed of raising and laying slanders upon the godly Miriam did so by Moses I would have all the Captains in the Seas to do by their men when they find them slandering good men as Vespatian and Titus did to all the detractors and slanderers they heard of when ever any were taken that were guilty thereof they caused them to be whipt about the City that others thereby might be deterred from the like practices but consider Gods just judgement against her Numb 12.1 9 10. Miriam became leprous as white as snow Take heed Sailors of medling with the godly that shame you in this world by their innocency of life and conversation and wil rise up in judgement to condemn you in the life to come You are prone to fasten your fangs in the reputation of those that would scorn to bee like you nay think every hour that the Devil would come and fetch them alive out of the word should they but be in that degree of wickedness that is to be found in your hands Most of our English Sailors are too like those wee finde to bee reproved in Scripture Jer. 18.18 Come let us devise devices against him Psal 35.11 They laid to my charge things that I knew not of They are kindred to those that aspersed godly Mr. Luther of whom their lying tongues and graceless hearts would needs say that hee dyed despairingly and that in his grave
there was a great stink of brimstone and his body presently afterwards taken out of it when as Mr. Luther was alive to confute it They are like to those that vilified pretious Mr. Beza slandering him with this lye that hee run away with another mans wife And brethren to those that aspersed Mr. Calvin when they said that hee was branded on the shoulder for a Rogue I have met with a dreadful story in some readings which I would present to every Sailor in England and if but well paused upon I should think that it should startle them in slandering of the godly There was a vile wretch who had most injuriously abused the godly Martyr James Abbes and after all his base usage of him hee was shortly after taken with a strange fit of phrenzie and cried out James Abbes is saved and I am damned James Abbes is saved and I am damned There is many a precious soul whom you hate and speak evil on ship-board that shall bee saved when thousands of you shall bee damned I am damned may many a Saylor say when such a good man whom I slandered and spoke evil of is saved Sailors rail on many a good man as causelesly as dogs in the street upon passengers unto whom a good man might say what have I done to this Dog that hee follows mee with this angry clamour had I rated him or shaken my staff at him or stooped down to have taken up a stone to have thrown at the head of him I had then justly drawn on this deformed noise but what need I wonder to see this unquiet disposition in a brute creature I would have Sea-Captains to follow Dominitian the Emperour then should they soon find few slanderers in their ships his stomach so riss against them that he could not indure them but banished them out of the City saying That they which do not punish slanderers encourage them Platina when it is no news with the reasonable How is innocency and merit bayed at in the Sea by the quarrelsome and envious Sailor without any just provocation or grounds in the world how do they shew their tongues their heels their teeth but let them rail so I serve but my God 4. You should not lend your ears unto the reports that are made against good and godly men Exod. 23.1 Thou shalt not raise a false report put not thy hand with the wicked to bee an unrighteous witness Prov. 11.13 5. You ought not to blaze abroad the failings and infirmities of the godly should you either hear or know of any Prov. 11.13 A tale-bearer revealeth secrets but hee that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter 6. You ought not to amplifie and aggravate mens failings as you do the most in the Seas of all people under the whole heavens again Act. 16.20 Una guttula conscientiae malae totum mare mundani gaudii absorbet One drop of an ill conscience wil swallow up a whole Sea of worldly joy cheerfulness Mr. Perkins mentions a good man who being ready to starve stole a Lamb and being about to eat it with his poor children as his manner was before meat and to crave a blessing durst not do it but fell into a great fear and perplexity of spirit acknowledging his fault to the owner promising payment if ever he should be able These men being Jews do exceedingly trouble our City I have now nine things more in my eye which I would present unto every Captain Master Boatswain Gunner Carpenter Purser and Sailor in any of the States ships of England And after I have lain them down in brief I will pass on in what I further intend 1. Keep daily in thy bosome a good and quiet conscience or otherwise it will when thou comest unto the trial gnaw out all the roots of valour out of thine heart It is said of the Earl of Essex that hee was never fearful of fighting any enemy in the field but when his conscience charged him with guilt for some sin or other I would have all the Sea-Captains Masters Boatswains Gunners Pursers Carpenters and Sea-men to prize a good conscience in one case as Benevolus did in another who said when offered preferment by Justina the Arrian Empress if that hee would but bee an instrument of doing vile service for her What saith hee do you promise mee an higher place for a reward of iniquity nay take this away that I have already with all my heart so that I may keep a good conscience and thereupon threw at her feet his girdle the ensign of his honour Acts and Mon. 2. Bee careful in the avoiding and renouncing of all the sins which the generality of Sea-men are incident unto 3. Evermore count the chief Magistrates and Rulers lawful commands to bee sufficient warrant to ingage and fight a forein and Commonwealths adversary 4. Esteem all hardships easie through hope of victory Julius Caesar is a worthy example for you Sailors William the 2. of England going to imbark at Sea the Master of the ship told him it was rough and there was no passing without eminent danger Tush said he set forward I never yet heard of a King that was drowned therefore fear not the waves This valour would wel become Sailors in all their peâ—illous affairs of whom it is said when forewarned of a Conspiracy that was made against him in the Senate hee boldly answered Mallem mori se quam timere I had rather dye than admit of fear 5. Look through your wages at Gods glory and your Countries good 6. Expose not your selves in a Bravado to needless and incommodious peril King Richard the first of that name who when the rest of the Princes and Gallants that were travelling with him in the Holy land where they then warred were come to the foot of an hill from whence they might clearly view Jerusalem the Holy City then possessed by Saraceus without all hopes of recovery they begun to put spurs to their horses every one in a youthful countenance saying that they would strive who should bee the first at it and have the maiden-head of that goodly prospect but the King more solid and serious than the rest pulled down his Beaver over his eyes and told them that he would not gratify them with a vain pleasure of so sad a spectacle God forbid said hee that I should behold that City or come so neer unto it now though I could which though I would I know not how to rescue The Application is cleer enough 7. There be three things that I would commend unto every Sea-Captain Master Gunner Boatswain Purser Carpenter and Sailor in England 1. To bee holy at Sea 2. Stout-hearted in a fight 3. Sparingly merry when they come on shore Chuse rather to dye ten thousand times than once to stain your credits The Lyon out of state scorns to run whilst any looks upon him I would not have our Sailors to resemble that
do no more value ships of a thousand or sixteen hundred Tun than the wind vallues a light and unballasted feather The sporting Student for recreation bandies not his Tennis-ball with more facility from side to side yea and sometimes over the Court-wall than the Seas do both the great and small ships that they carry upon their shoulders It is true water is a very weak creature The water in the Sea far exceeds the strength of waters out of it viz. in Rivers Pools Wells and Ponds It is observed of ships in their coming up the River of Thames that they will draw a foot or two more water than they will do when in the Sea and of creatures one of the very weakest if my judgement fail not but when and where there is much of it congregated into an Alpine mountain and so carried up on the wings of the wind in a rowling manner it carries no small terrour in it The rising of a Lion out of his sandy Den or the appearance of a Greenland Leviathan looks not more grimly and gastly upon one than merciless and rowling waves in time of stormy Seas Many a one that is in the stormy Seas would wish to bee at a distance from those great rowling waves and billows that threaten to run over their heads ships and yard arms of such force are the Seas that let a ship bee great or small strong or weak if it bee her hap to fall upon sands or stick upon the bottome they will knock her all to peeces If any one would read what terrible and dreadful Majesty there is in God let him go down into the Sea a while and hee shall see so much of God in that clear water-looking glass as might be sufficient to turn him from sin to holiness from the world unto heaven and from the devil unto God all his dayes What Jerom speaks of Asella I may even say of my self after all that I have said Habebat silentium loquens whilst she spoke she was silent quicklier than if there were an hundred Carpenters set on work to do such a thing The Seas did so by the ship the Apostle Paul was in Act. 27. and they will and do so still if they take ships but once stranded The Eagle is a great bird yet is her vertue seen in a feather because it will consume all other feathers As mighty as the fire of Aetna is yet may one feel the beat of it in one spark as huge as the Sea is one may taste of its saltness in a drop and as great as the Whale is one may perceive his power at a distance So the Sea either in a little storm or quiet calm if but in it And now what shall I say the more Painters when they have used strokes of gold to make the brightest radiancy they can of the Sun wee see how weak and faint a shadow they represent of its beams and light So what I or any other would undertake to write of the Seas it is nothing comparatively what they are in themselves That the Mariners imployment in and Observation 3 upon the great water how dangerous or how perilous soever it bee is both lawful warrantable and allowable They that go down This text of Scripture which wee are at this time handling and speaking from doth naturally treat of Navigation as the vocation and occupation of some men viz. Such as have business in the great waters And have not many men affairs and commerce betwixt Nation and Nation to manage and dispatch which cannot any otherwise bee either done or performed but by this art If it were not for this art the creation could not bee travelled into nor the eminent works of God discovered nor the excellent fruits and commodities of the earth that bee in other parts of the world participated of Now this vocation hath been an antient imployment and of very long standing and continuance it hath been in use before Christs time and of use in his time and ever since Christs coming into the world Gods own people the Jews were very great Merchants and so are all the Jews generally unto this day the word Canaan signifies a Merchant denoting that they were not ordinary but of the greatest of Merchants And God hath not prohibited nor forbid men from coming upon the Seas no more than hee did in those times If that this calling had been unlawful and unwarrantable then Zebulun the Mariners Tribe would have been forbad it Deut. 33.18 And of Zebulun hee said Rejoyce Zebulun in thy going out c. vers 19. For they shall such of the abundance of the Seas and of treasures hid in the same But it is so far from being forbid that it is rather encouraged and allowed of and if it were lawful for Zebuluns Tribe it is the same for England or any other Nation in matters of trading and commerce one with another Some have their callings stations and habitations on Land some again at Sea Some are ingenious in one thing and some again in another All men have not the like equality of gifts parts and graces that othersome have and certainly one main end is that they bee helpful to one another Moses had not the voluble tongue therefore hee was beholden to Aaron to bee his prolocutor God sets men their bounds and their work and task whilst they are in this world some must go to Sea all their dayes and other some not so much as set their footupon the Salt waters But now for a little further confirmation of the Doctrine were there no Scripture to prove the lawfulness of the Mariners Calling I would then demand of any one 1. To what end the Lord did cut out all those Harbours Creeks Chanels and convenient places for ships to ride in in time of storms and to go into to fraught themselves both in this Nation of ours and in all the other Nations in the world 2. To what end were the great Rivers cut out for but to carry ships up to Cities and Towns viz. All the Sea-port Towns and Cities whether in England France Spain Holland Norway and the rest of the Nations in the world 3 To what end grows the great and tall Fir of which is made masting and yarding for all the ships that bee or shall bee built in the world These grow in great plenty both in Norway New England and divers other parts in the world Now I would not bee misunderstood I do not deny but that Fir is useful in many other things But I propound but this as a question and so leave it with you 4. To what end were Pitch Tar and Iron in such abundance as is in many parts of the world though useful in and about divers things besides if this art were not lawful 5. To what end is the use of the Loadstone discovered It is a well-known axiâ—me Deus nihil frustra fecit God never made any thing in vain but for
some use or other and also the secret vertue that is betwixt the Loadstone and the two Polar points the Artick and the Antartick which keeps the Mariners Card most firm and stable in all his Navigations and courses that hee steers and shapes if this art were not lawful I will give you now in a few particulars a Praelibamen or taste of those various uses and singular benefits that mankinde generally hath of and by the Seas 1. All the Nations of the world have this benefit by the Seas They yield them an easy quick and speedy passage or transportation to and fro by which every place or part in the world partakes of what one another enjoys Hereby are earthly blessings transmitted unto one another Esau's earthly portion or blessing was the fatness of the Earth plenty of corn wine and oyle c. Gen. 27.39 and these good things that are in the world some in one part and some in another are carried into those parts that are wanting and destitute of them Now speed is a great advantage in all businesses for quick dispatch of things What one says of the heavenly bodies I may in one sense as well say of the Art of Navigation Heavenly bodies do convey their sweet influences non qua calidae sed qua velocis motus England thou art happy that thou art an Island and at a great distance from the cruelty of the dark corners of the Earth And wee know that all Nations are carefull to keep up and maintain their Stationary post both in England France Spain Italy Turky Germany and the rest of them to that end the Nations may bee quickly informed in all secular occurrences or all assaults by the breaking in of forein powers And of the same use are the Seas upon which and through which do our shipping and the shipping in all Nations fly upon their canvas wings and are by good winds in a little time carried unto the furthest ports in the world and when fraughted if weather favour as speedily returned 2. They quell the rage of the hottest Element and are very useful and instrumental to keep sublunary mansions from being converted into cinders and ashes 3. They part Nations from one another If all the world were in one continent it is more than probable that sin which has brought in such an hurtfull Principle into the minds of men that there would bee nothing but a daily killing slaughtering and murthering of one another Now God might if hee had pleased have laid all the whole world in one continent and not separated one Nation from another as hee has done What intrudeing is there upon one anothers borders what fireing of Towns what burning of Villages what slaughtering at their pleasure is there evermore amongst those that are in one Continent would it not bee thus every where were there not a Sea betwixt them to part them from pulling one another by the throat And hee might have given commission to the great waters to have lain upon the back of the world and not in the heart of it as they doe but the Lords unsearchable and incomprehensible Wisdom has contrived all things for the good and conveniency of mankind blessed and ever blessed bee his holy name Does not the great infinite and wonderful Wisdom of God appear in this in that hee hath divided and taken the world and broken it into many pieces for one people to live in one place and another people in another of it Look but into some great continents in the world where there be several Kings Princes Dukes and Emperours and they are never at quiet but in a perpetual hostility and enmity one against the other witness France and Spain the Turk and the Persian and divers other parts in the world 4. The ebbing and flowing of the Seas are of marvellous use and benefit unto all the Haven-towns in all Nations whatsoever whether East or West North or South far or near by this ships come in with the flood and goe out with the ebbe Gen. 41.13 Zebulun that dwelt at the Haven of the Sea found the benefit of the fluxes and the re-fluxes of the Seas by which their ships came in and by which they went out How useful is the flowing What this ebbing and flowing of the Seas it as to the natural causes of it none knows the supernatural every one can tell Some fictitiously attribute it unto an Angel whose office is as it was in the Pool of Bethesda to move the waters to and fro Other some have these guesses at it that there are certain subterranean or under Sea-fires that give the Seas their motion One calls the ebbing and flowing of the Sea Arcanum naturae magnum natures great secret Contra rationem nemo sobrius Contra Scripturam nemo Christianus Contra Ecclesiam nemo pacificus They that are wise may see both reason and Scripture in the proof of the point and re-flowing of the Seas both to London in the Thames and Hull in Humber besides many other ports and places in this Land and Nation where ships are continually comming in and going out Some attribute the flowings and the re-flowings of the Seas which is a most wonderful thing to the various effects of the divers appearances of the Moon and this is not improbable not unlikely for experience teacheth us that according to the courses of the Moon tides they are both ordered and altered from whence wee may positively conclude that the waters have their attraction from the Moon And indeed it is the judgement of the best Philosophers that the Moon by her operation sets the Sea the worlds great wonder on ebbing and flowing Aristotle because hee could not find out the natural cause of the Seas flowing and ebbing told the Sea that if hee could not comprehend the reason of it the Sea should comprehend him and out of grief immediately hee threw himself into the Sea Others again think that the final cause of the Seas motion was ordained by God for the purging and preserving of the waters as the aire has its purgings by and from the winds which are as brooms and besoms to sweep away all the contagious vapours and infectious savours that climb up into it Standing waters wee know are apt to putrify corrupt and stink if it were not for sweet springs that feed them but what are small Rivulets that are extracted and strained waters through the veins of the Earth though out of all the Nations in the world to the great and wide Sea they are but as the drop of a bucket or a mole-hill to a Mountain 5. The Sea affords all mankind this great singular and publique benefit in respect it yields them such an innumerable variety of all sorts and kinds of Fish both great and small which is a great supply to many Towns Cities and Countries both in the Eastern Western Northern and Southern parts of the world And of these are killed infinitely every
they are provided for that are without fuel in Island and elsewhere In this Island there is another very remarkable passage that there bee several waters in it which are of such a vehement ardency that they will boyl both fish foul and beef in And in these waters the people both dress and cook all their victuals and bays which the people take up and reserve for winter Certainly hee that guided the Kine which bare the Ark 1 Sam. 6.12 guides and orders that these parcels of wood faggots or fuel should come unto those that would bee starved if they were not thus helped every year and besides if there were not a visible hand of providence appearing for this people that live in a Country where doubtless wood will not grow or otherwise for firing it has been destroyed these peeces that swim upon the floods of the Seas might go from them and into the middle of the Sea rather than unto them if not directed c. 17. Their aspect of the Sea which is sometimes of such an ignifluous lustre as if it were full of Starrs insomuch that if a peece of wood or any other ponderous thing should be thrown into it at such times in the night it will show it self as if it were full of firesparkles Whence that Proverb As true as the Sea burns 18. The sight of those two burning Islands Hecla and Helga is another these are often times covered over with Snow yet burn within and belch out very terrible and vehement sparks of fire 19. Their viewing and walking up and down in the goodly sumptuous princely and stately Cities that bee in the world viz. Constantinople Grand-Cair Genoa Venice Naples Rome c. 20. A sight of those fearful and unusual Lightnings and Thunderings that bee sometimes in the Occidental and Austral parts of the world which are with such vehemency and dreadfulness that one would think that the Heavens and the Earth would come together I have heard the honestest and godliest of men that use the Seas say that when they have been in the Indies if they did but see a cloud appearing in the bigness of ones hand they need no other warning but that a most dreadful storm would ensue Insomuch that they have been forced to make all the haste they could to get sails furl'd yards peak'd and their ships fitted to endure it as well as they could The Observation was this That the most or the greatest part of Gods glorious and wonderful works are seen by Sea-men The point then will afford us these two uses 1. Of Reproof And 2. Of Exhortation 1. Vse Reproof 1. Is it thus then that you that are Sailors and Sea-men do see most of the Lords works yea more than all the people in the world besides Platonists by the sight of Nature see more yea and will shame thousands of our Sailors for they could say that all that pulchtitude and beauty that shines in the creature was but Splendor quidam summi illius boni pulchrum coelum pulchra terra sed pulchrior qui fecit illa Surely this point looks with a sour look upon you that make no improvement nor application of things unto your selves for better amendment than you do I may say unto you in the words of Job 35.11 who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven that God hath taught us more than the beasts of the field and hath made man wiser than the fowls of heaven therefore God looks for another manner of glory and understanding from you that are men than hee doth from them and more from those that are Christians than from natural and carnal men It is a notable saying of Mr. Calvins Diabolica ist aec scientia said hee quae in natura contemplatione nos retinens a Deo avertit That is a Devillish kinde of knowledge that in the contemplation of nature keeps men in nature and holds them back from God After this manner may I speak unto you that it is a devillish kinde of knowledge that you have of the Seas and of the Creation if that all you see know and hear of keep you still in nature what better art thou than a beast for all thy travel Give mee leave to tell you thus much 1. That there is a seeing eye in the world an eye that is much in Quaelibet herba Deum stella creaturaque and upon Gods works Isa 40.26 Job 26.8 Hee bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds and the cloud is not rent under them A seeing eye looks on nothing that is either in Sea or Land but thinks of God in it I have read of one that was so spiritual and heavenly-minded that when hee was in the world where hee had a full view of many wonderful things hee said there was nothing that ever hee did behold but hee saw God in it When I cast mine eyes upon the Earth I saw that God was every where When I looked upon the Heavens I considered with my self that that was his Throne When I looked into the depths of the Sea I beheld the power and wisdome of God in the creating of them And when I looked upon the many creeping things that were in it they told mee that God was there I looked also into the breathing air with all the inhabitants of it and it told mee that God was there whose proper Attribute is to bee every where I looked up into the Starry sphere and spangled roof of heaven which glisters with innumerable stars from whence I learned that that is a Christians Country who is in Christ and from thence do I look for my Saviour and the longer I do look upon those glorious and burning and shining Tapers of the heavens which are estimated the very least of them to bee bigger than the whole earth I consider that God hath undoubtedly great and just expectations from man that hee will do some work and service for his Maker Most Masters will not allow their servants to sport and idle whilst their candles are burning but if they finde them so doing they will blow them forth Certainly Sea-men you may conclude that God looks for great things from you who see so much of the Creation that others see not Will it not bee tollerabler for the ignorant Indian c. and the miserable heathen that is in the world than it will bee for you who have no other light but the light of nature to walk by I may compare the generality of Sea-men unto a Traveller who doth in his vagaries leave all things behind him in his way he passes by stately Towers and comely Turrets brave buildings both of Marble Brick and hewn stone goodly Cities Towns and Countries comely and beautiful people and other some both black and tawny and these hee beholds for a while and admires them and passeth on and leaveth them afterwards he goes thorow the â—ields
than to hear this out of Scripture Psal 7.11 That God is angry with the wicked every day If God bee angry with the wicked every day then I will pawn my salvation upon it that hee is not pleased with you every day But Sea-men to fasten this truth upon your spirits and to drive it into your heads pray consider what a dreadful storm the Lord sent out after Jonah when hee sinned against him and provoked him to anger Jonah 1.4 But the Lord sent out a great wind into the Sea and there was a mighty Tempest in the Sea so that the ship was like to bee broken Did not Jonah now and those Heathen that hee sailed amongst acknowledge that that storm came upon them for their sins This was more than ever I heard English Sailor say or confess in all my life during that too long time I have spent amongst them where is the Sailor that wil say when the masts are a going down by the board in a storm or the ship is a going to bee cast away upon the Rocks or upon the Sands and shore what is the Lords design now Some iniquity or other is amongst us some carnal filthiness some stinking and abominable impurity that wee have not been humbled for nor turned from that has brought this misery upon us now are our lives jeoparded and at the very stake by reason of that swearing drinking and audacious gracelesness that is amongst us I dare bee bold to say it that the ungraciousness of that generation of People that goes down into the Sea and is amongst them does put the Lord many and many a time to rouse up his wind-Lyons Seems not this to bee the language of all storms Isa 1.24 Ah I will ease mee of mine adversaries and avange mee of mine enemies or wind-Eagles to flye about their eares with a raging austerity and heart-daunting cruelty yet notwithstanding this generation cannot bee got to abate in swearing reform in drinking and return from their filthy doings Sailors if ever you would travel the Seas with safety and freedom from storm and Tempest follow the Example of the wild-geese that fly over Caucasus where the Eagles roost lest they should bee heard in their gagling they will not take any such flight or voyage before their mouthes bee well crammed with pebbles and then they know that they are far enough out of danger If you would not now have God to send down storms upon you let him not see you drunk nor let him not see you profaning of his holy Name yea bee sure of this that you never let him hear you swearing I am confident were you but an humble and a godly sort of people neither beasts of the field the Seas you swim in and the winds that are above you would never hurt you so much as they do and so you should find more peace more quiet and less dread and terrour than now you do What is it that sin will not do it will batter down Cities I have read a notable passage of some Heathens who when at Sea and in a very dangerous storm where they were all like to bee cast away began every one apart to examine themselves what was or should bee the reason of so dreadful a storm and after they had cast up all by quaerying with themselves what have I done and what have I done said another that his occasioned this storm it amounted to this they remembred that they had Diagoras the Atheist on board and rather than they would perish they took him by the heels and hurled him over board and then the storm ceased and the Seas were at quiet with them If any one would ask mee now what is the reason that the State-ships meet with such hard storms and so many Sands and dangers I should tell them this it is because they are so full of filthy Swearers Drunkards and Atheistical Adulterers These have made my heart for to tremble more than all the dreadful storms that ever I have been in in all my life Nations Towns and Countries and lay them level with the ground and therefore well may your sins bring many ships to ruine Hos 4. vers 2 3. It is that profaneness that is amongst you that puts the Lord upon suffering of your ships to blow up and to fall upon Rocks and Sands c. Think not that the strongest ship or ships in the world are able to keep you from drowning when there is nothing but swearing and carnal filthiness amongst you It was but a foul mistake and also a carnal conceit that Dionysius was of that great Sicilian Tyrant when hee said that his Kingdome was bound to him with chains of Adamant for time soon confuted him Is there not now as strong a conceit in you about your valour and the strength of your ships Alas one sturdy storm will make them rock and tremble I and carry them unto the bottome or throw them upon the shoar if but licensed and impowred by God The strongest walled Cities in the world cannot keep judgement out if sin bee but within neither are they sufficient Canon-proof against the Arrows and Canon-bullets of an heavenly vengeance the height of a Cities proud-daring and out-braving Turrets may for a time keep the earth in awe but they cannot threaten heaven nor stand it out against the Lord the sinfuller a City a Nation a Country a Ship or Family is the weaker are they and the more do they lye open to Gods dreadful thundring and lightning upon them Isa 40.15 I will tell you of a story that will make your ears to tingle when you have heard it and it is of that famous City of Jerusalem which was the glory and beauty of the whole earth It thought it self so strongly fortified and manned within that there were an impossibility of ever being stormed and ruined but alas sin being in its full weight within set open the sluces and flood-gates of Gods displeasure and so let in the raging surges of cruel and intestine wars and brought it unto a heap of stones and to an uninhabitable place After Titus Vespasianus Souldiers had set the Temple on fire it was observed all the industry and skill that ever could bee used imagined or thought on could not quench it Titus sayes the history would gladly have preserved it What is it that God cannot do who is able to marshal and draw into a body even all the scattered forces that lye upon the face of the Creation together and draw forth their vigour vertue and so arm them and that which is more set on every degree of that vigour force that is in the creature according to the strength of his own powerful Arm Gods anger is able to change and alter the very nature of all creatures yea the smallest and the weakest and feeblest of them shall not onely go but run upon Arrands of Destruction in obedience to their chief Generalissimo who can
impower and commissionate for services of the bloodiest severity that may be as one of the worlds great wonders but it could not bee such was the fury of the fire and the rage of the Souldiers both of them undoubtedly set on by God so that the fire would not bee extinguished when they threw in both water and the blood of the slain into it Josephus tells us that Herod the King had for eight years together before the ruine of it imployed ten thousand men at work to beautifie it This was a very glorious thing yet how quickly brought down for the sinfulness of a people 1 Cor. 10.11 Now if these things came upon them for sin and security my application is this in short to you that use the Seas Take heed that your sins bring not storms shipwracks and fires upon you when you are in the Seas far from any land If you ask the reason why such a famous City was destroyed the answer is easily returned It was for sin And if you ask what is the reason of such and such Towns and Cities in the world have been fired the answer will bee That sin was the cause of it and so consequently of the ruine of all your ships 2. Because God will shew his power Reason 2 and let nothing-man know what a bubble a flower a helpless creature man is in the hands of his Maker Matth. 8.24 And behold there arose a great tempest in the Sea insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves but hee was asleep and his Disciples came to him and awoke him saying Lord save us wee perish Proud man is very prone to ascribe that to himself which is absolutely and properly due unto the Lord Proud man is oftentimes priding of himself with high thoughts of himself what he is in point of wisdome parts art and skill but when God puts him to the trial hee is a meer nothing Bulla vitrum glacies flos fabula faeuum Vmbra Cinis punctum vo◠sonus aura nihil and therefore God would undoubtedly teach man thus much in storms that there is no wisdome art skill or strength can carry him out of his dangers but it must be God alone that must do it for them But many Sea-men are like to Aprogis that Egyptian Tyrant in many of their storms and dangers of whom it is said that hee was grown to such an height of pride and impiety and contempt of God that hee professed that hee held his Kingdome so safe Ut à nemine Deorum aut hominum sibi eripi possit Behold what a weakling the Sailor is in a storm Isa 33.23 Thy tacklings are loosed they could not well strengthen their Mast they could not spread the sail that neither God nor men could take it from him but hath not God let you see an end of your vain thoughts and imaginations many and many a time and have you not run upon sands when you have purposed to come well home and have you not at other times run on rocks and gone into the very bottome amongst the dead when you have both confidently thought and said you would come safely to your Ports God oftentimes sufficiently convinces you what you are in your own strength and wisdome without him But to proceed 3. Because God would have some Reason 3 humbled God was forced to send a storm after Jonah before hee could get him to buckle to his work Jon. 2.1 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the Fishes belly Nulli rei natus es nauta nisi paenitentiae Sailor thou and every one is born for no other thing but for repenrance and the Lord knows there is none in the world or under the whole heavens that repents less than thou doest Rugged storms will both dissolve men and cause their eyes to run down in rivulets of tears yea it is an argument of a good heart to bee afraid of Gods righteous judgements when the stormy winds are out upon the Seas Good people look upon them as no other but the sword of the Lord that is drawn out of the Scabberd of his indignation which hee waves to and again over and upon the face of the great deeps which puts them upon begging and praying upon the bended knees of their hearts that God would put it up again 4. Because God would have some Reason 4 converted It is very probable and apparent Jonah 1.16 that that storm that came down upon the Mariners proved their conversion Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord and made vows Now they feared God whom they never owned knew nor feared before Storms have been the first converting Sermons that many a man ever met withall Yea God hath met with them in a storm Truly God is forced to do and deal with Sea-men many times as Land-men do with unruly Jades and unbacked horses when they have a minde to take them they must drive them up against some hedge gate or bank where they can neither get forwards nor backwards or else they can never halter them If God do not send down rowsing storms upon the Sailors heads that even threaten to rend both heaven and earth I fear they wil I never return nor come home to God whom a Sermon out of the Pulpit could never take nor reach I many have been caught in a storm that have stood at as great a distance and in as much opposition to God and his word as Ataliba that Indian Prince once did to Fryar Vincents book which hee presented to him withall telling him that it was a small Treatise of all the mysteries of salvation heaven and hell hee looked upon it and told the Gentleman that hee saw no such thing in it asking him withall how hee knew it Many who have heard the word and have said in effect they saw no such matter in it as the Preacher tells them of have been taken napping in a storm God sometimes takes here one and there one napping in a storm that could never bee catched in a calm The word converts but few at Sea but a dreadful storm may fetch in them whom a Sermon could not reach All ground is not alike some must have a shower some a clodding neither is all wood to be used alike some will plain and other some must be taken in the head with wedge and beetle Truly one would think that one of those fearful and most dreadful storms that fall now and then upon the Seas were and should bee sufficient to turn the heathenest Sailor that is in them into a very good and gracious Christian Quaedam fulmina aes ac ferrum liquefaciunt Some Thunders will soften both Brass and Iron and that is an hard heart surely that is not melted and converted before the Lord in those loud thundring claps of storm and tempest Reason 5 5. Because Sinners Swearers and Drunkards are in ships It is nothing but the
and the rest of our feral and remote Antagonists 4. It is of wonderful use to the purifying of the air off and from its many infections and contagions the winds are the cleansing engines of the world or the airs sweeping-brooms by which the air is kept both sweet and salubrious and this they do by their oblique and ubiquitary motion which would otherwise corrupt and stench as standing pools Job 37.11 But the wind passeth and cleanseth them Jer. 4.11 This benefit every Land and Country hath of the winds both to fan and sweep the foul corners of the air that are amongst them 5. It is of wonderful use as to the scattering of the clouds here and there in this and in the other Country How are the clouds seen sometimes in a very pendulous manner to hang over the very heads of parched Countries as if unwilling to dilate and part with their watry liquor because of the sinfulness of those Countries Clouds fly and hang over them yet drop no fatness God allows all Countries excepting Egypt which is supplied in a wonderful manner by the River Nilus the benefit of the clouds and of the Heavens hee misses not the smallest of those many Islands that he has lying here and there up and down in the world but remembers them all yea the uninhabitablest place that is in the world both procul prope for the use and benefit and accommodement of mankind by these are the Lords water-pots or cloudy water-bowls of the Heavens shaked and poured down upon the dry and thirsty places of the Earth All Gardens Orchards Corn-fields valleys hils and desarts that bee in the world are watered by them Job 37 11. Hee scattereth his bright cloud The winds are of very considerable and important use as to the conducting and convoying of the aquatical clouds of the Heavens to water the many Islands Territories and Countries of the Lords that bee in and throughout the world It seems that God has a special care of every Country and corner in the world that none of his Gardens and Orchards should parch for want of water and therefore hee has cloudy tankards in the Heavens which flye upon the wings of the wind to fall upon what place hee pleases to supply them 6. It is of wonderful use in its various vertibility and instability Non ita Carpathiae variant Aquilonibus undae The wind is a very varying and turning thing in respect that all parts in the world are served by it one while it serves to carry some Mariners into the North some out of the East into the West and other some again out of the West into the South It stays not long in one quarter but is a meer Camelaeâ—nce mutabilior Eccl. 1.6 The wind goeth toward the South and turneth about unto the North it whirleth about continually and the wind returneth again according to his circuits And hereby is it the more commodious because if it should have its abode any long time either in the Eastern Southern Northern or Western parts of the world then the opposit parts would bee greatly obstructed in their sailing into those parts from whence the wind should blow Great is the Wisdom of our infinite and good God who has ordered and created all things for the good of man in that hee has thus appointed and disposed of the winds to bee one while in one place and another while in another both to fetch Mariners that are far from home and also to carry them out that are desirous and have busines and occupation to do from home 7. It is of wonderful use to alter Seasons it cannot bee gainsaled that the winds have not an altering influence in all Seasons because they bring in our heat and by and by comes in our cold Job 37.17 How thy garments are warm when hee quieteth the Earth by the South wind When the wind comes out of the South how is every one warm and cheerful both in City and in Country although but in a thin and Summers garment but when it comes out of the blustering North or the frigid and mordacious Oriental of the world how is every one then cold within doores and without doors I even in the thickest habit that they can put on Job 37.9 Out of the North cometh forth the cold Now undoubtedly that cold comes upon the wings of the winds out of and from under the Artick and also heat in the same manner from the Antartick of the world When the wind comes out of the North or out of the East how quickly is the heat of the Earth cooled and taken away but as soon as ever it comes out of the South how is the Earth warmed and all the Animals of the world revived Psal 107.43 Who so is wise will observe these things 8. It is of wonderful use to dry up the wetness and dirtiness that is upon the face of the Earth how are all foot-paths and all horse-rodes shoveled and cleansed by the winds It is wonderful to think how an Easterly wind will sweep all the beaten paths and corners that are in the world this wind is called in Scripture a supping wind Hab. 1.9 because it drinks up the moystures that have been laid upon the Earth by the clouds Psal 107.43 Who so is wise will observe these things 9. It is of wonderful use to clear the Heavens for us and to feed us with the light of those glorious lamps and luminaries that are hung up in the Heavens to make the world comfortable to us how would the Sun the Moon the Stars and the face of Heaven bee absconded over-shaddowed and obumbrated to us with clouds fogs mists and ascending vapours that are as so many curtains drawn over those great and glorious Lanterns of the Heavens if the winds did not sweep them and reduce them to an annihilation 10. It is of a wonderfull and most dreadful use in the hand of the Lord to break and ruine the greatest and the strongest ship or ships that ever crossed the salt-waters 2 Chron. 20.37 The ships were broken that they were not able to go to Tarshish And the great Spanish Armado that came against us to invade our Land were broken and scattered by the winds so that they were frustrated in their Dice-games and carried into the bottoms when that they thought they should have had the full possession and enjoyment of this English Island 7. Vse A word of Exhortation and that unto all you that go in the Seas Is it thus indeed that all perilous storms and ship-wracking Tempests are both of the Lords raising sending and impowering give mee leave then to commit three sweet words unto you and I will pray hard both in private and publick that they may be a heart-wining and an heart-perswading word but before I hand them unto you I will lay down a few of those natural symptomes prognosticks and common observations of the approaching of winds and storms only as
night or what hour there is in the year that the Sea-man is not liable to some fearful jeopardy and casualty or other hee cannot positively and absolutely say any day that hee either sails or anchors in that it shall bee a day of peace and quietness unto him Hee cannot say after this day is over I will live and go into this and that place to morrow it was therefore a very humble and also a very gracious saying of one when invited to come and give his friend a visit upon the morrow ensuing to which courtesie hee returned this answer Ego crastinum non habui hos plurimos annos I have not had a morrow in my hands this many years What greater dangers of losing life are those in that go down into the Seas than that poor soul was that ever lived in the expectation of death The Sea hath a million of dangers in it I and fuller of perils to the Mariner than Africa either is or can bee unto the Traveller It is observed What I have read of one concerning that which he did see in a vision I may bring in and say of the Sea when hee beheld the many snares of the. Devil that were spread upon the face of the earth he sate down mourning and lamenting in this manner Oh Quis pertransiet ista who shall pass through all this and by and by after some long debate a voyce behinde him was heard Humilitas pertransiet Humility will carry thee through them Good Lord seems many a stout man to say how shall wee ever go through those many dangers that are upon the Seas in one place lies lurking rock in another perilous sands and every where the stormy wind I answer that faith in God will carry thee thorow them all that hee that will travel in Africa must take these following directions besides the many more that are prescribed or otherwise they will soon bee cut off with that multiplicity of venemous creatures that bee in it 1. Hee must not take his journey fasting because if hee should accidentally bee bitten or stinged by any of them the poyson will have the greater Influence upon the body in respect that the veins and arteries are the more open and empty at those times than at ohers 2. Hee must have a care of travelling when the Sun is hot and shining because all manner of vermine lye very much couchant in every field and graminous place and not onely for that reason neither but because if they should bee stinged at such a time the wound will bee the harder to get cured 3. Hee must have a special heed that hee foot it not over graminous bushy leavy and bramble places because in those places the veniferous creatures take up their abode and so will ceize upon any one that shall but tread or come amongst them 4. Hee must not go without that antidoting herb called A veneniferis creaturilis libera me domine The good Lord deliver mee from all venemous and hurtful creatures I bring but in this dangerous part and place of the world as a comparison to the Sea which is as full of hazzards as Africa can to him that shall travel it Nay further to set it home that they that use the Seas are in perpetual danger give mee leave to cast about and to tell you that all the creatures which encompass us about do as it were bend their whole force against us the very Sun in the firmament which is the dayes bright shining lamp of the world and is as a certain general Father to all living things doth sometimes so scorch with his beams that all things are parched and burnt up with the heat thereof at another time it takes its course so far from us that all things are like to dye in its absence with very cold the earth also which is the Magna parens mundiâ— the great mother of us all swallows up many thousands with her gulfs and earthquakes and the Season the other hand they devour and kill up men abundantly what an infinit of Rocks Sands Elâ—â—s Shallows Sirtes's and Charybdus's bee there in the Seas all which endanger the ships that go in them and upon them What shall I say also of the air Is not it many times corrupted And doth it not engender and gather clouds thick mists pestilence and sicknesses neither Land nor Sea Desart places private houses or open streets are free from ambushments conspiracies hatreds emulations Theeves and Pyrats Is there not spoyling of fields Terror ubique trerâ—or timor undique undique terror said the Poet. This may be the Sailors emblem Eccl. 2.23 For all his daies are sorrows and his travel grief yea his heart taketh not rest in the night sacking of Cities preying upon mens goods fireing of houses imprisonments captivities and cruel deaths falling upon mankinde in one place or other of the world It is at Sea as it is with a man that is of necessity having no other way to travel over some great wide thorny wilderness in which is all manner of ravening beasts in one corner Bear in another Wolf in one Lyon in another Tyger in one Wilde Oxen in another Wilde Boar in one Elephant in another Alligator in one Serpent in another Scorpion in one angry Leopard and in another the murthering Crocodile Would you think now that a man should ever get safe over such a place Consider all things and I know that the Sea is little inferiour to it for danger 5. Ship-leak springing The Mariner meets oftentimes with this most dreadful and inevitable accident which is of more trouble to him than any one thing in the world besides I a leak in a ship hath more terrour in it than an house that is on fire because the inhabitants may at their pleasure run out of it even when they please but it is not so at Sea in a ship for let the ship bee on fire or half filled with the waves of the Sea there is no back door for them to run out at That Log which Jupiter hurled out of heaven upon the heads of those Rana co axantes in cavernulis which molested him with their croaking Petitions for a King was not more terrible unto them than a leak is unto the Mariner in a storm It is reported of a ship that shee made this doleful complaint when going to sink Ego mergor quippe nautae mei aquam non extulerunt They let mee sink for want of pumping which if there had then many a thousand sail would have been left to run this way and that way ere this day at the pleasure of the winds and the Seas because men in such straights will give any thing for their lives A Leak in a ship is like to a sting in a Tortoyse of whom it is said that if shee bee stung with a Viper shee dyes upon it if she get not to that medicinable herb Margerum or Penny-royal This is an hour
or Castles if that you that are the Sea-ports of our Nation were but a praying pious and religious people and that holiness purity equity and justice dwelt amongst you and were pregnantly in you were these the fruits that the skirts or branches of our Nation brought forth for so I call you because you are but the feet of the Land you are far from the head and heart of the Nation how might you strengthen us that go in the Seas and weaken our enemies against whom wee fight Ah Sirs if you live irreligiously in these Towns and Ports Many Sea-port Towns are like to Rumny-marsh Neque hyeme uque aestate good neither Winter nor Summer The very scum of the Land dwells in them all the Nation will smart by it surely it would do better that the best people in England lived in Sea-ports and not the worst How many Sea-ports has the Turk made havock of both of the Venetians and also of the Spaniards they were well enough fortified but sin being within a filthy people living in them they were soon conquered and made fire faggot and captives of Inland-Towns fare the worse for Godless Sea-ports Ezek. 39.6 Ezek. 30.9 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid and great pain shall come upon them as in the day of Egypt lo it cometh Ezek. 28.7 That great trading City of Tyrus which was the fame of the world for exporting and importing of Commodities If any one would ask me the definition of a Sea-port-Town I should tell him I would draw the Picture of the people speaking they are given to gross railing privy defamations and whisperings to the prejudice of one another hot scalding words and tongues set on fire in hell are the best fruits they bear Jam. 3.6 to whom resorted the Merchants of all Countries for traffique both of Palestina Syria Egypt Assyria Judea and Arabia by reason of her filthinesse was brought down from all her pomp and pride Alas They that live in Sea-ports should bee Moses's and Aaron's to stand in the gap and plead with God and not trash and trumpery When people live profanely and irreligiously in Sea-ports it makes all strangers think that people are no better that live higher up in the Land truly they will bee apt to censure the whole Nation if it bee not amended amongst you 2 Word is unto the States-men of our Land and that is succinctly this What Claudian the Heathen Poet sang of Theodosius's good success in the wars the like shall I sing of our English Warriours in the Seas O nimium dilecte Deo cui militat aether Et conjurati veniunt ad classica venti That all their warlike Ships and Boats that are employed in the Seas derive their felicitous arrivals and good success abroad whether unto or from Spain and the West-Indies or off and from those many parts and corners of the World where now you send them from the Lord Almighty whose the the Sea is And hee bringeth them to their desired haven Italiam Italiam laeto clamore salutant Virg. Good news is coming to you oftentimes from them and that as thick as the three luckie messengers that were sent to King Philip of Macedon at one time 1. One came and told him that â—â—e had won the game at Olympus by the running of his Chariots 2. Another came and brought him word that his Captain Parmenio had overthrown the Dardanians 3. Another came and told him that his wife Olympia had born him a son which was called Alexander and hee was very fair for a fourth It is not the Pagans Neptune or the Papagans S. Nicholas I know not what that delivers people in the Seas brings them home to their harbours as many ignorant Papists fancy 3. Word is unto the Merchant and Sea-man I would wrap you both together because you are sharers most commonly either in each others losses or successes you have interests and that of great worth and value in several and sundry bottoms which cut their way through the Salt waters and great wisdom it is indeed not to venture all in one bottom for hee said wittily that said He liked not that wealth that hung in ropes meaning ships There bee many dangers not good to have all in one bottom the Mouse will not trust to one hole therefore shee has many if in case shee bee assaulted But that which I ayme at unto you Gentlemen is this when any of your ships come home and richly laden with the rich and wealthy Commodities of forein parts which you are partakers and sharers in Oh bee affected with such mercies and consider how undeservedly the Lord throws in the world upon you it flows in upon you and flyes â—ay from others Ah Sirs when your ships come home bless the Lord for his goodness towards you and them in bringing them home both to theirs and also your desired Haven 4. Word is unto the Inland Towns and Cities of the Nation Gentlemen I may say to our Inland-Towns Cities what the Orator in another case once said to his Auditory Non timet mare qui non navigat non bellum qui noâ— bellat non terae motum qui est in Galatia non fulmen qui est in Aethiopia They that sail not know not what the roughness of the Seas are Their condition in the Sea is like the mans in the Emblem that runs through thick thin foul fair saying Culmen ad Aonidum recto contendere cursu Fert animus Pindi saxa pâ—â— tribulos Friends and Country-men you live far from the Sea neither are you in the sight of it at any time nor in the hearing of its roaring and ear-deafening waves yet is not this any excuse for you to bee unmindful of those that are employed in it and daily upon it Sea-men which are the Nations servants run through a Million of hazzards to fetch in the rich and costly Commodities of forein parts viz. Silks Spices Oranges Figs and Lemmons c. The shipping of the Land is not onely Sub Deo instrumental to keep you in safety but also to afford you those Commodities that have not their growth nor entity in England David lived at Jerusalem far from the Sea as many of you do yet was not hee ignorant of the many sorrows and dangers that those that use the Seas do goe through and meet withall Whereupon you have him here composing of their condition into a Psalm and is much affected with it Hee was sensible of the blowing of the winds of the raging and roaring of the Seas of the Rocks and Sands of the dangers and shipwracks that men in those employments were liable to Ah Sirs pitty them that go in the Seas and bestow a thousand prayers upon them for their condition calls for it and requires it at your hands if you have any spark of pitty and Christianity in you
the Egyptian ibid. Spots soon seen in the Ermin page 64 Suspicious ships should not bee neglected to hee spoke withall page 65 Song that the poor bird sung when got out of the Fowlers hands ibid. Suevians estimation of peace page 70 Ships how they should bee governed ibid. Strong drink should bee kept out of ships page 77 Sailors that are naught too like the unsavoury Elder tree ibid. Star the Mariner sails by what page 12 Sailors prophane life like to King Eldreds Reign page 413 Sea-men how they will go forth in windy nights to see if they can espye any star in the heavens page 420 Sea-men how fearful of Rocks and Sands page 430 Sea-men how unkindly they deal with Prayer page 483 Saylors in storms how compared to the Froggs in the Country-mans Pond page 481 Saylors how resemble the Siryphian Froggs page 478 Swearing ships worse habitations than the stinking Jakes and Channels about the City of London page 490 Saylors like to the people in the time that Juvenal lived in page 489 Seas turbulent and dangerous to Passengers because of prophane men in ships page 350 Security taken napping at sea as the old World was page 364 Sea how compared to lovely Paris in Hectors eye page 376 Sea-men exhorted in their employments to imitate the Nobilities of Rome ibid. Storms as well as Calms come from the hand of God page 379 Signs of the coming of storms be fifteen page 373 Ships at sea how resemble the Owl in the Embleme page 535 Saylors imployment how compared to the picture of the naked man in the Almanack page 530 Sea-ports should resemble the Emblem of the Candle page 535 Sea-men how they sit in the Waves and upon the Flouds like him in the Emblem page 536 Sea compared to the English Colledge at Valladolid in Spain for danger page 536 Sea-port Towns if naught how they endanger and threaten the whole Land with ruine page 538 Sunk ships bespeak Sea-men to make seven good applicatory uses page 550 Ships that have fair names upon them oftentimes very foulely miscarry page 547 Sea-mans life and conversation page 548 Sea how compared to Pandora's Box for danger page 542 Ships brought to ruine by reason of sinful men that saile in them page 555 Sea-men if godly need not fear the seas page 544 Saylors life what it is page 458 Sea compared to Proteus page 454 Syracucian when in a storm to save himself threw his wife over-board page 455 Sea how compared to the river Hypanis page 438 Seas why turbulent and Winds boysterous be divers in respect of the prophane wretches that goe in them ibid. Storms how the uttering of Gods voyce in wrath against them that use the seas page 340 Sea-mens large vowes to their God when in storms page 461 Sea-men in want of fear how compared to Sigismund page 475 Sea-men how they call upon God in storms and never in calms page 476 Sea-mans employment as dangerous as the Snails going over the bridge page 533 Story of one risen from the dead page 566 Storms better not bad men page 567 Stork how she expresses her thankfulnesse page 568 Saylors of Zara what they offered to their God for a deliverance in a storm page 570 Sea-men deal with their God as Egypt with the Clouds page 572 Seas upon a time how spoke to a pack of swearing Saylors and asked them why they was not affraid page 560 Shipwrack many suffer and why page 547 Saylors compared to Bees page 452 Sea-men how should prepare for storms page 394 Storms what Gods aimes are in them page 395 Sceva how he told of all his deliverances to his friends page 573 Seamen what they should say of their deliverances page 588 Sea-men how they deal with God page 580 Ship how covered over with Celestial curtains page 318 Storms how dreadful sometimes in Egypt page 329 Sea-lights when burn dimme make the Mariners curse and rage page 509 Seas as difficult to Navigate as the Hircinian Forrests bee to travel through page 510 Sigismund Emperour what used to say of his enemy page 514 Seas in storms run as high as the mountains in Mirioneth-shire in Wales page 514 Spaniard how may be dealt withall page 182 Spanish Ambassadors proud Ambassage into England page 185 Sea-men exhorted to bee as valiant for England as the two Scipio's were page 185 Sea-men exhorted to charge the Spaniard stoutly page 187 Sea-men how they see the riches honours and beauties of Countries page 191 T. TRojans how glad after their long Warre when came within the sight of their own Country page 545 Toledo the Arch-Bishop how hee despaired of Solomon page 410 Thankfulnesse how gainful it was to Alexander page 578 Tyger what page 254 Toddy-tree what page 265 Terebinth-tree page 266 Torrid Zone how people live in it page 273 Troy how ruined when secure page 298 Torpedo what page 226 Tumbler page 441 Titus Vespasian how sweetly spoken page 517 Travellers on Land what course they take page 11 Teneriff how difficult to goe up to the top of it page 600 Tree in Pliny how delightful page 2 Theodore how careful of his Childrens education page 35 Turkycock how said to rage page 106 Thistle in the Scottish coyn what it said page 139 Trumpet sounds England stand to thine Arms. page 143 Turks how allow none to be idle page 166 Thescus how guided by Ariadnes thred page 500 Thresher what said of him page 222 Thrush how brings evil upon her self page 205 Turk what said of England when looking for it in a Map page 183 V. ULysses what said of eloquence page 45 Voluptuous Londoner how feasted his five senses page 100 Vines in India how compared page 21 Virgils observation of a storm page 542 Ulysses how sadly hee raged when like to bee drowned in a storm page 556 Venice how lived a thousand years in one form of Government page 529 Use of comfort to those that use the Seas that God is the great Commander of them and of the winds page 360 Voyages are all to bee begun in the fear and by the good leave of God page 387 Vulcan so proud that hee would dwell no longer on earth but c. page 415 Vses of Information Circumspection and Reproof page 361 Unthankfulness reproved page 576 577 W. VVInd what it doth page 36â— Wars of old what they did when they went into them page 388 Wonders the greatest in England are her famous and stately Fabricks of warlike ships page 382 White-hall how a curb both to Sea and Land page 489 Winds how overthrow Sambelicus and his Army whilst at dinner page 338 Wind-Armies bee four page 331 Walnot tree how better for beating page 504 Winds are allayed six several wayes page 522 Waves of the Sea what called by some page 524 World if travelled what to be done page 194 Whale what said of him page 212 Wilde-Ass what page 247 Water-spouts at Sea what page 271 Wilde-Cows what page 255 Wilde-Goat what page 254 Wilde-Bore what page 255 Waters of the Sea why called great page 152 Water in Sicily what page 153 War how ought to begin and bee carried on page 145 World how often it hath been fought for page 170 World divided how few Christians in it page 271 Williams valour when went to Sea page 124 West-Indies how tame Fowls are page 241 Weeping-tree page 266 X. XErxes trusting in a multitude of men how betrayed page 520 Xerxes angred at Helespont how threw Irons into it page 521 Y. YEars ago could not sail far at Sea because wanted the use of the Loadstone page 9 Z. Zebra what page 250