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

family that can stand upon deck and see men come on shipboard in this pickle and have no grief and vexation at that dishonour that comes to God by them I wish that all such men that go in the States ships were packed out of them and men fearing the Lord and zealously abhorring swearing lying whoring and drunkenness c. were established in their steads But Thirdly In your cruel usage and tyrannizing of it ●●er your men Swearing and Drunkenness is no part of your quarrelling with them for you can very well dispense with these things amongst them and swallow down many other notorious and nefarious evils You are like to Pharaoh's Task-masters unto them and in many things do you abridge them of a comfortable and peaceable living in the ships they sail in with you I would have all the Masters Boatswains in England that are or shall go in any of the Statesships as humble minded as Willegesins was of whom it is said In thalamo grandioribus literit in scripta habuit Willegesi Willegesi recole unde voneris Being a Carpenters son and afterwards by his learning Bishop of Moguntia had this written in his bed-chamber in great letters Willegesius Willegesius remember of what thou camest on Is not this a good memento to you When Jacob was grown rich he forgot not his former condition how he came over Jordan perhaps with never a penny in his pocket Gen. 32.10 Hee makes mention of nothing that he had but his staff What choler what fury what anger what hatred what devillising breaks out at your hands eyes feet and tongues against them I and many times too unjustly Consider with your selves what God has done for you in exalting you into places of Command and how hee has not done so for others that are better deserving good encouragements than you are and this may pull down your high stomacks and your flidged plumes What hast not thou been Boatswaine in former times Have not many of you been Cabbin-boyes common Sea-men ship-swabbors c. what and now so proud so high and so lofty verify not the old Proverb Set a begger on horse-back and hee 'l ride a gallop Master what hast not thou been before thou camest to that preferment wa st thou not many yeares ago a Cabbin-boy or a Boatswains servant a meer common Seaman or some low obscure and uncredited fellow be thou not too high in the ship thou goest in to Lord it over the Sea-men left thy fall be with a vengeance Prov. 16.18 Pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall The next thing then promised you is unto the common and inferiour sort of Sea-men wherein I shall tell them that I have many things against them And how it would become them far better that there were not so many spots in their coats in respect of those great designs that are in hand and on foot for Jesus Christ in the world I will lay them down in particulars 1. Drunkenness I will say unto our Sailors what Demosthenes said of Philip King of Macedon when commended for a jovial man and one that would drink freely This is a good quality in a spunge but not in a King So it is a good quality in a spunge but not in a Captain Boatswain Gunner Carpenter Purser Master or Sailor This bewitching sin hath tript up the heels of many thousands of you and got such victory and mastery over you that I think you will never bee able to decline it as long as you live This sin has stollen your hearts away from God and goodness in so much that hee hath neither honour remembrance nor obedience from you Hos 4.11 Sailors let mee tell you thus much that there be many foul sins and soul-damning iniquities to bee found in your hands in these last and evil daies which elder times were angry at and would have blushed to have seen them crawling in any corners amongst them You blush not to ●will till you vomit and to drink b●●●asure without measure You conten● 〈◊〉 your drinkings when you get your noses into a Sea-port town who should drink most and hee that has the strongest brain or the widest and largest tankard to contain it carries away the bell and glory of it Peruse but the 5. Isa 11. and consider what an eternal and everlasting woe will follow that course of life and me thinks you should grow out of conceit with it Whilst I reprove you for these things I free my own soul before God This sin is against reason had you but reasonin your brains it is also against the necessity of nature good health vigour of the mind and alacrity of the senses Drunkards may bee better called Bottles Barrels Pipes Sinks Tubs and Hogsheads than men Drunken Sailors are the likest unto that tankard-lifting Zeno If you will needs do as Asops Grashopper did you will in the end smart for it of whom it is said that shee did per aestatem ca●care totam Sung all Summer starved in the winter Throw your monies away freely in the Alehouse go through a thousand storms and bitterments in the Sea for as much again Frugalitas Attacis est Sophrosyne Ciceroni modestia Frugality with the Athenians was wisdom with Cicero modesty and shall it not bee so with you May it not be just with God to do by you as hee did with Cleomenes King of Lacedemonia who when excessively drunk fell distracted never recovered his wits any more How if God should do thus by you when you are vomiting and spueing were it not justice of any that I can resemble them unto of whom it hath been said that hee was such a drinker that hee would often lye as one dead for many hours with his drinking and in the end grew so odious unto all and to his own wife who when finding of him in that case caused him to bee laid in a Tomb with a great stone on the top of it whereby the Emperour was miserably pined to death Drunkards when found in this condition would bee served so and it might be then that the rest would bee affraid ●●●●t wright in the perusal of his Consc●●● and publication of his Repentance unto the world cried out after this manner Oh it wounds mee to think of my blasphemous oaths uttered in passion and distemper my disobedience to my parents my excess in my drinking of healths c. If ever the drunken Sailors of England come to bee touched with the filthiness of their soul-damning pottings they will roar out as hee did for them Sea-men will you live all your life time in this sin Woe bee unto you if this sin and your lives end together 2. Swearing I verily think there is scarce one in five thousand of you that is clear of this nasty and stinking contagion What Chrysostome said in one case that if he were the fittest in the world to preach a Sermon to the

Virgils Hypotoposis of a storm at Sea is their condition Tollimur in coelum curvato gurgite iidem Subducta ad manes imos descendimus undâ Consider but what a bustling the winds sometimes make and keep in a stormy day upon your Houses and Trees that are in your Orchards insomuch that many times trees are rent up by the roots and out-housing dismounted and thrown down to the very ground Now if the wind have such an influence upon all high things at Land how much more upon the tall spired Masts and shipping that go in the shelterless Seas 5. Word is unto the godly and pretious Ministry that is in great plenty in this Nation Gentlemen you are by your profession 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rowers 1 Cor. 4. And beleeve it rowing is a very hard labour The Seas are as full of dangers to them that go down into them as Pandoras box was whom the Poet reports of that Prometheus the Father of Deucalion would needs pry ●nto out of which Mille morborum malorum genera ●rumpunt A thousand evils was in it for men in the Thames go with their dublets off all day their living is got by the sweat of their brows But your labour in the Lord 's Vinyard is far greater than theirs many have killed themselves by hard working to get the world and I am sure there lies many a pretious Preacher in the grave that might have lived longer if he had not preached himself to death and prayed himself to death though an unworthy world takes no notice of it I beg of you your publick and your private prayers for those that use the Seas Wee have a great number of ships frequently going to Sea above a thousand sail every year both of Merchants and Men of War and stand not these in need of being prayed for I fear many of them perish and finde it to go harder with them than it otherwise would bee did you but pray more for them Ah they stagger it in the Sea every day more then hee that has a cask a tankard Alas the Sea-mans life is a reeling to fro Nutant nautae vacilla●t cerebro pedibus may be their mott● or an hogshead of strong liquours in the belly of him And are in daily jeopardy of their lives Good Sirs bestow pulpit prayers study prayers family prayers and field-walking prayers upon them all is little enough to prosper Zebulun's Tribe in their goings forth and commings in But I proceed That God watcheth every opportunity Observ 3 and takes all occasions to do his people good Then hee bringeth them unto their desired Haven Very gladly would God have spared Jerusalem if there had but been one man in it that executed judgement and sought after the truth Jer. 5.1 Run thee to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem c. How compassionatly did the Lord affect any opportunity to cure Babylon Mans heart-daunting extremity is Gods goldenest opportunity Acts 27.23 For there stood by mee this night the Angel of God whose I am and whom I serve They all expected to be drowned but God looked out for them to preserve them The Sea is no delightful place to carry in for it is with them that use it as it is with travellers on Land who speed their pace through fields that afford no novelties though sometimes they bait their beasts rest themselves in places that are fruitful when hee intreated her with the best argumentative Oratory that the Heavens could compose till shee said I will not bee cured Jer. 51.9 How did God watch to spare Sodom for ten mens sakes Gen. 18.32 Ah were but Sea-men godly I durst undertake their safety in their well-going out to Sea and returning back from Sea Insomuch that they might bid defiance to the Seas and say unto them as Luther said of Henry the eighth's letters Agant quicquid possunt Henrici Episcopi atque adeo Turca ipse Satan nos filii sumus Regni So Agant venti freta c. What History sets out Neptune in in a statue of gold holding the two terrours of the Seas in his hands the one called Scilla the other Charybdes I may better say of the Lord and these hee has in chains and is feigned to call out aloud to the Mariners and ships that pass that way Pergite securae perfreta nostra rates Ships securely 〈◊〉 on Through our 〈◊〉 Ocean That when ships have been long out of Observ 4 the Land in forein parts their well coming home is evermore very delightful Italiam Italiam laeto clamore salutat Virg. and inexpressable pleasant to them Then hee brings them to their desired Haven It is said of Marcus Tullius that when hee was brought out of banishment it was with him as if hee had entered into a new world and had gotten Heaven for Earth he broke out into this language I am amazed to see the beautifulness of Italy Oh how fair are the Regions thereof what goodly fields what pleasant fruits what famous Towns what sumptuous Cities what Gardens what pleasures what humanity amongst Citizens and Country people It is said of the Trojans after they had been warring a long time in the Mediterranean Seas the like shall I say of our Warriours that as soon as they spied Land they cried out with exulting joyes Oh Italy Italy It is thus with our Sea-men Abigails bottles of Wine and frayles of Raisins were not more welcome to David in the hungry Wilderness of Paran nor the shady Juniper-tree more delectable to the Prophet when in the parching Sun nor Jacobs sat Kid more acceptable to his grave Father Isaac in his sickness than the Land is to the Mariner when he hath been long out of it when been a long tract of time out at Sea in the East or West Indies Oh England England poor Travellers that have been long out of their w● 〈◊〉 the night time wandring here and 〈◊〉 and ring there in a bewildered condition upon Hills and Mountains in vast and large Forrests far from any house destitute of monies and all comfortable refreshments weather-beaten with rain and wind terrified with thunder and lamentably starved with cold and hunger wearied with labour and almost brought to despair with a multitude of miseries if this man or those Travellers should upon a sudden in the twinckling of an eye I may write Epicharmes 's saying upon the Mariners calling 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All good things are bought with labour bee fetched and placed in some goodly large and rich Palace that is furnished with all kind of rich accommodations warm fire sweet odours dainty meat downy beds pleasant musick fine apparrel honourable and noble company and al this prepared for them Oh how would they bee transported and over-joyed As great contentment and heart-ravishment as all this is the sight of England to the Mariner after a long voyage Observ 5 That every ships sinking and miscarying in

out their hearts do exceedingly fail them and there is nothing else then but crying weeping wailing and wringing of the hands for that lamentable and deplorable condition that they see themselves irremediably involved in now are they in a confusion ransacking and running to and again to throw the ponderousest of their goods over bord that their Vessel may bee the lighter What Dolor cordis is there amongst the Sea-men when the ship is dangerously leaky yea what animi molestiae and what Suspiria flebilia ab imo pectore one while they work and another while they weep to see themselves irrecoverably at deaths door Undique facies pallida mortis Death is now on every side them and with David they cry Psal 39.13 O spare mee that I may recover strength before I go hence and bee no more Being once in a dangerous and leaky Vessel in which the hearts of the Mariners were greatly daunted in respect that wee were very far from Land when wee arived safe on shore I could not but turn about and in the first place look up unto my God with a thankful feeling of heart and in the second look back upon the Sea from whence wee were delivered and write down this upon his undeserved mercy Psal 56.13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death and now doe they unloose every knot of sail that they can make to run unto the nearest shore that they can get unto to save their lives and ever and anon are they sending up one or other unto the top-mast head to see if hee can descry either Land or ships in the Seas which if they can but espy towards them they will make with the greatest cheer that can bee I have known some that have been seven or eight dayes in this very praecedent case and condition that I am now speaking off wherein they have most laboriously pumped and sailed as for their lives and at the last when they have been both despairing and desponding of life in respect that all their strength has been spent with hard working and the ship they sailed in filled even half full of water the Lord has looked down upon the travel of their souls and sent them one ship or other within the sight of them when they have been far out of sight of any Land towards which they have made with all the speed that in them lay and by firing of Guns which is commonly a signal of that ships distress that fires they steered their course directly towards her and taken out the men that would have been lost in her and in a little time the ship that they sailed in has sunk into the bottom Again others in leaky ships when that they have been denyed the sight of any ship in the Seas to flye to have got safe to Land notwithstanding that dreadful distress But now to look back upon and over this deliverance permit mee to move these two questions and they will magnifie it 1. Who is it that sends the Sea-man a ship out of the Seas to take him up when there is no possibility of keeping the ship that hee is in on flote and above water is it not the Lord 2. And who is it also that gives the Leakship leave to arrive safe on shore whereas in the eye of reason shee might rather have perished in the Seas having so far to sail before shee could come to any port and besides could see no support nor succour from ships in her way Is it not the Lord 2. They that go down to the Sea in ships in their passage and re-passage from Country to Country and Nation to Nation have been oftentimes most sadly set at and assaulted by the Turk and other Pyrats insomuch that when the enemy has come up very near unto them almost within the reach of his Ordinance God has most wonderfully many a time appeared for them either by calmning of the winds in that part of the Sea their pursuing enemies have been in or by giving of them a strong gale of wind to run away from them when the enemy has lain in a calm with his sails flat to his Masts God has many and many a time calmed the winds for the English when they have been pursued with the Turk c. insomuch that the Seas have layn to admiration like a Mare mortuum de quo antiqui feruns sine vento sine motu By which means God has kept them from unmerciful thraldom and captivity And the enemy for want of wind has not been able to come up with and to his desired prize or otherwise by granting them a stiff gale until the going down of the Sun by which they have made their escape from the Pyrat in the black of the evening for then has not the enemy been able to see his chase nor to cast for the best because the chased very gladly alters his course This has the Lord Almighty done for many a Merchant ship blessed and for even blessed bee his sweet Name hee has denyed to fill the enemies sails with wind when they have had strong intentions to make spoil and prey of them Oh the many Sea-men that have been thus delivered 3. They that go down to the Sea in ships often and sundry times when they have been surrounded with way-lying Pyrats and Robbers I sometimes with two or three for one which is contrary to that well known rule Ne sit Hercules contra duos notwithstanding in their hot disputes and exchange of Ordnance one against the other even when shot has flown like hail on every side them some striking their Hulls I say no more but this Good Lord how bold and witty men are to kill one another what fine devices have they found out to murther a far off to slay many at once and to fetch off lives at pleasure what honour do many place in slaughter the monuments of most mens glory are the spoils of the slain and subdued enemy whereas contrarily all Gods titles sound of mercy and gracious respects to man some their Shrouds and othersome their men and though they have been most desperately beset both on head and on stern they have most couragiously by the assistance of the Lord cleered themselves out of their hands with very little and small damage I and other sometimes got the victory in their quarrels by sinking of the enemy and sending him down into the bottoms Oh the many Sea-men that have been thus delivered 4. They that go down to the Sea in ships many times when they are in chase of a pestilent enemy this I have seen satis superque satis and when wee have come almost up with him within Demi-culverin distance so that Ordnance has been levelled upon him and the shot has flown over and beyond him the Sea has presently layn all on a calm and as it were the winds have been called off from filling our sails insomuch that there has been a stop put