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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

There bee three things that are too visibly amiss in you and I would desire you all that are in these places If that our Masters Boatswains that are in the Statesships were but pious and religious their lives would have as great an influence upon their men as Hilarion's had upon Hierome It is said of Hierome that having read the godly life and Christian death of Hilarion he folded up the book said well Hilarion shall bee the Champion whom I will follow Seamen would say if they did but see good things in you the very same of you I will follow our Master our Boatswain our Captain c. I may say unto al the Masters Boatswains of ships in England that Longum iter per praecepta brevius per exempl● Every thing in you should bee exemplary whilst on shipboard No evil should bee seen in you left that they should learn it and take encouragement to be profane in what ships of the States of England soever to amend them It would bee more credit to you amongst men and more pleasing unto God I will promise you It would vexe a mans soul to see what loose cold lukewarm and indifferent principles there bee amongst you in the performance of your duties in these things 1. In the strict observation of the Sabbath Let mee tell you thus much in respect that there is not an heavenly zeale love and fervour in your souls to and for this day that you do much harm in the ships you go in If Sea-men observe you to bee remiss and indifferent in the keeping of it they will bee as careless as you I profess I wish from the bottom of my soul that every irreligious Master and Boatswaine throughout the whole Navy of England were turned out of their places to that end men might bee put in that have a zeale for God and a care to thunder up the careless Sea-men upon this day unto the worship of God It was never my hap to see any thing of God either in the Masters or Boatswaines that have been in command in those ships that I have gone in For if there had there would have been a greater appearance of it in the rousing up of the men that were under them To what end doest thou bear the name of Master in this or that Friggot if thou lettest and sufferest the Sailors to live masterless upon this day who should more stir up Sea-men unto the serving of God than thou because thou hast not an heat to serve God thou leavest them in this and the other corner of the ship to serve the Devil Whilst Sea-men are not called up to those publick duties that are performed in your ships they are but consulting with their own carnal hearts and carnal thoughts are their companions all the time they are absent those they dandle I may say of the Sabbath day as once Alsted of his Germans that if the Sabbath day should bee named according to the Sailors observing of it in the Sea De●●●niacus petius quam Dominicus diceretur It should not then be called Gods day b●● the Devils and are the babes and brats of their own braines which are more pleasing to them than a sin-opening and sin-convincing Sermon To what end dost thou bear the name and office of a Boatswaine in the States ships if thou givest the Sea-men the liberty to profane the Lords Day and to live as they list What a filthy shame is this that our Masters and Boatswaines have no better things in them Is this commendable for you to live like drones and sots in ships that should bee examples of good If one could but look into every ship in England what their carriages bee every day in them might not one spy here a knot of wretches spending their time in filthy discourse whilst others are at Prayer and in another corner a pack of Varlets profaneing of the Sabbath whilst others are at the Sermon and this is allowed of by our God-less and Christ-less Masters The common sort of Sailors are lad● that ●are not for Sabbaths but had rather pass de delitiis ad delitias è coeno ad coelum as Hierome hath it They would dance with the Devil all day and sup with Christ at night They would live in Dalilah's lap all their lives long and then go to Abraham's bosome when they die Our Masters Boatswains are of the Athenian strain of whom it was said Athenienses scire quae rectae sunt sed sacere nolle You know what is right but you have no great stomack to it and Boatswaines I will tell you what Masters and Boatswaines look for some heavy judgement to arrest you before you go out of the world Better that you anger all the Sailors in the Seas by being godly and conscientious and pressing of them unto those publick Ordinances which the States allows of for the instructing of that wilde generation of men than to have God to bee angry with you for being ungodly and careless in your places where you might advance and promote much good 2. In the crushing and discountenancing of all swearing and drunkenness in your ships You can hear God-dishonouring oaths rapping out of your Sailors mouths on every hand you and sit in their company whilst oathes flie like Gun-powder in your eares and faces and yet not open your mouths to reprove them who should now take upon them a courage for God in this case but you If you did but let them see once your dislike they would the sooner leave it but when they see that you can digest it and endure it and sit in their company they take it for granted that you see something that is good in them and hereby you do a great deal more bolster graceless fellows in their wickedness than you are aware of How knowing and privy also are you to all that swinish drunkenness that is amongst your Sailors Masters and Boatswains of ships should have as ardent desires for the good of poor Seamens souls as reverend Claviger had over his relations Of whom it is said If I may but see grace in my wife and children Satis habeo satisque mihi meae uxori filiis filiabus prospexi I shall then account them sufficiently cared for If I could but see grace in the men under me and a leaving of their swearing drinking whoring I should then think them happy men and yet it is buried wincked at unpunished and untold unto your Commanders Nay when men come on board like beasts or creatures bereaved of sense and reason and can neither go see sit nor stand but as they are carried in mens arms to their Cabbins or to their Hammocks this is but a matter of laughter with you Art thou now I will put the question to thee fit to go Boatswaine of a ship that can turn thy back on these things And art thou fit to bee a Master and a Ruler of a

kinde of evil amongst us but gave us our liberty to do what wee thought good And what Captain served you at Sea I have served Captain this three years but hee neither ever prayed amongst us nor instructed us in any thing that was good What a dreadful reckoning will there bee here to bee made many Captains think that they do not stand charged with the care of souls but one day you will finde it when God shall bid you go to hell for the neglect of your duties 2. Suppose a Captains reproof have not such success upon their souls as hee could desire yet may it bee that hee may thereby tame and take down their high hoised insolency by seasonable contradiction as that they shall not bee able to carry it away in a vaunting Bravado You may cool and confound their swearing and swaggering humors that they glory not in it by bringing them unto shame and condign punishment for it If Sea-men will swear I would then stand up and tell them that all this while they fight against God damn their own souls and please none else but the Devil and wicked men and that they shall assuredly burn everlastingly in hell if they hold on in their cursed humors without timely repentance and reformation 3. Suppose that reproof after reproof will not prevail know thus much that it is not in vain for hereby you shall the more increase and aggravate their inexcusableness clear your selves and glorifie the Tribunal of Gods justice which shall one day smoak against them 2. In all sinful cases you are bound to speak 1. Because silence at such times when you hear swearing lying and behold drunkenness in your ships and amongst your Sea-men will greatly bewray either your Cowardliness in the cause of God or hypocrisie in your professions Will it not seem strange think you that you that pretend to stand on the Lords side shall hear the glorious Name of God prophaned in a base sordid and blasphemous manner and yet never open your mouthes at all in his behalf against them who will not but say Captain Thou art an Hypocrite and Captain Thou art another dissembling Hypocrite also 2. If your consciences Gentlemen bee either inlightned wakened tender or rightly informed I will appeal to any of you whether or no they do not and will not smite check and quarrel with you for the omission of your reproving duty by your cowardly and unseasonable silence Hereby you do but intangle your selves in their guiltiness and pull upon your own heads an accountableness for that swearing and villany which you are privy unto who would not then but reprove and slash the roots of sin 3. How knowest thou but that by thy speaking in such cases thou maist lay and charm down the spirit of profaneness that walks up and down the ships thou art in so that it shall not bee able to rage and break out in others as otherwise it would do Who would then but ever and anon be speaking 4. Hereby you will exceedingly comfort and cheer up the hearts of the godly amongst you from being grieved and cast down by a company or crew of Sathans swaggerers Revellers I am confident of it that if our Sea-Commanders were but as carefull to put out the fire of swearing of lying that is in ships every day as they are to pass the word every evening fore aft put out your candles alow there There would not be so many ships lost and cast away as there bee and Ranters Good people they mourn to hear the swearing and the profaneness that is in your ships both betwixt decks and in every corner they walk into or sit themselves down in Their villany is a meer dagger and burthen to their hearts and spirits I profess that that bad order that is in the Sea and that toleration of swearing and profaneness makes many an honest heart take his leave of the States service and bid farewel Sea who would otherwise have continued in it longer than they have done I have known some that have striven to be cleered upon an account of a great internal fear lest God should fire the ships from heaven which they have gone in or otherwise in stormes throw them upon Rocks or sands because of that filthiness abominable wickedness they have observed amongst them I remember once that when wee were comming out of the Sea from France into England that we saild neer to one of our Sea-port towns and upon an occasion a piece of Ordinance was fired the smoke of which fell into our main-sail and represented the ship on a fire to those that were on shore and great running forth there was and weeping and wailing by those that had friends in our ship for fear of the loss of our lives but blessed bee the Lord there was no such danger though it was a great town-talk When I came to hear of it I returned my God thanks Chrysostome speaking of youth says it is difficilem jactabilem fallibitem vehementissimisque egentem fraenis hard to be ruled easy to bee drawn away apt to bee deceived standing in need of very violent reins Seamen stand in need of tutoring and looking to that the swearing that was within board set us not on a blasing fire in the sight of our own Country The Objections now that seem to arise against the putting what has been said into practice are some such invalid arguments as these 1. Objection I love not to medle and I have Scripture commands for it Jam. 3.1 Bee not many masters Answ Not medling in this case is a kind of soul murthering what sayest thou to this now wilt you lye under the guilt of murther 2. Object It is a thankless office Answ Not with the wise Prov. 9.8 I have read concerning the sweating sickness when it was in England that those whom they carefully kept waking escaped but the sickness seized mortally on them that were suffered to sleep Oh keep your Sea-men waking if it bee possible that they sleep not unto death and though it bee an unpleasing work on both sides yet shall you have thanks for it one day 3. Object I shall lose my labour Answ Venture that thou hast lost many a worse Job 6.25 How forcible are right words 3. Object Plato went thrice to Sicily to convert Dionysius and lost his labour Polemo a great Drunkard by hearing Xenocrates became a sober man a very learned Philosopher I shall hereby lose the love of all my Sea-men Answ It may bee not but say thou shouldest thou shalt find a better thing than ever their good word or well likeing of thee will ever avail thee I will present thee with one Scripture that wil when thou readest it sparkle thy spirits and draw thee on to bee more for thy God than ever thou hast been Peruse it then Mark 10.29 30. A man had better offend all the Sailors in the Seas and all the people in the