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A13516	A valorous and perillous sea-fight Fought with three Turkish ships, pirats or men of warre, on the coast of Cornewall, (or Westerne part of England) by the good ship named the Elizabeth, of Plimmouth, she being of the Burthen of 200 tuns, which fight was bravely fought, on Wednesday, the 17 of Iune last part. 1640.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1640 (1640)	STC 23809; ESTC S103252	7,755	26

Flesh and the Devill who with their Associates and Vassals the Ocean or Sea of Rome the Schismaticall Gulfe of Separatisme and the rough Lake of Nonconformisme she hath not any Ankering rest or Moareing at all but upon the mountaine of Holynesse the Rocke of righteousnesse the True Corner-stone Christ Iesus Our Saviour himselfe did not onely passe the Sea or Lake of Genezareth but he also did there in the Ship most miraculously command and stil'd the raging windes and Seas and he did grace one Ship so much that he preached out of the said Ship or another to the people that stood on the banke of the Sea Mat. 8.23 Mat. 13.2 Mar. 4.36 Luk. 8.22 And the Apostles for the enlarging and divulging their Ministry which was the meanes of the knowledge of Salvation did make use of Ships as it appeareth in divers places of Scripture A Ship well govern'd at Sea is an Epitomy of a wel guided Church common-wealth on the Land and it is a thing to be wished that the earth were as free from some sinnes as the salt water is For in a Ship at Sea it is a rare matter to see a man play the brutish parts of a Glutton or Drunkard There are no wrangling Lawyers nor wicked Projectors a Vsurer or a Catchpole are as rare to be found there as it is to find Chastity in the Stewes In a Ship is abstinency from swearing and incontinency and twice a day there is or ought to be prayer thanksgiving offered up to God Ships are the impregnable Wooden walls of great Brittaine and Ireland And the winged flying and floating Castles forts fortifications for defence against forraigne invasion domesticall rebellion they were of that serviceable use in the raigne of King Edgar that it is said that he did often sayle round about this Iland with 1000 ships King Solomon had his Cedar brought for the building of the Temple by Sea to Ioppa 2. Chron. 2.16 And he had also brought him in Ships from Ophir 450. Talants of Gold 2. Chron. 8.18 Besides Algummim wood of which Trees there were no more to be seene to this day 1. King 10.12 Besides precious stones and jewels were all brought by such Marriners and Ships as Hiram King of Tyrus lent to King Solomon It is recorded that the warlike Virago Queene Semiramis had 2000. Sayle of Ships and other Vessels when she made warre against Cyrus King of Persia Marke Anthony at the Battel of Actium with Cleopatra his Aegyptian Concubine Queene had 800. sayle of Ships and gallies against Octavius Augustus Caesar and Caesar overcame that great number with 250 Ships read Plutarcks Lives Page 1000. William the Conquerour came out of Normandy and invaded England with 896. ships Read Stowes Chronicle King Charles of France fought with 1200. Ships against King Richard the second King of England in revenge of an overthrow by sea that was given to the French by King Edward the third who was King Richards Grand-father In the yeare 1571. At the Battel of Lepanto which is a gulph or sea neere Corinth in Greece betweene the united Christians and the Turkes on the seventh of October the Christian fleet being of great and small but 206. Sayle The Turkes were in number of Ships and gallies 333. in the 14. yeare of Queene Elizabeths raigne when Selimus the second of that name was Turkish Emperour Then and there aforesaid was a bloody Battel fought where to the great joy and safety of all Christendome the Christians in five houres won a notable and memorable Victory and very few of the miscreant Turkes went home to carry newes to Constantinople Reade Knoles Turkes History or else Reade Stowe page 670. And it ought thankfully ever to be remembred the great and wonderfull Victory that God vouchsafed to give us from the Spanish invasion 1588. in the 31. yeare of the raigne of Queene Elizabeth the Spanish Armado being 128. Vessels for warre besides victuallers the English navie being one with another 104. sayle and there was a supply of 340. ships more which the Prince of Parma Alexander Fernesius was to bring for the Spanish Ayd and Englands ruine But wind weather and the Hollanders kept Parma and his fleet in the havens of Graveling Dunkirke Newport and some other Ports of Flanders so that by Gods assistance the Valour and Valiant service of the English marriners was so prevailing that the Spaniards were beaten battered slaine taken sunke and so shattered tattered and scattered there were not many of them left to make report in Spaine of their entertainment in England Thus having shewed partly the Antiquity of shipping with the services which they doe for and in matters of warre so it is fit to be considered what commodious uses are made of shipping and marriners in time of peace It is manifest that as God hath beene mercifully liberally bountifull to all Nations and people of the world giving to each Climate and Countrey meanes for the maintaining of life yet he hath not given all kinds of commodities to any one place Kingdome or dominion But for the society of mankind he hath ordained negotiation commerce and Traffique The gold and silver jewels of India the honie waxe hempe and furres of Russia the winds oyles spices drugs sugers silkes stuffes Copper cotton mashes yards pitch rosen tarre turpentine fruits fish coales and millions of commodities more I had almost forgotten Tobacco from America and some rattels babyes and Hobby-horses from Holland all these were it not for shipping marriners Marchandize and Traffique we in England were like to want besides millions of commodities more which are endlesse and impossible by me to be named and other Nations would be destitute of our Leade Tinne Leather Cloath Tallow Beere and I know not how many other pretty things which we doe vent venture and spare to all the Realmes and regions almost of the whole World By which meanes customes are encreased and payd peace and unity maintained betweene Nation and Nation Merchants enriched marriners and Sea-men bred and maintained and many thousands of Arts Sciences Trades Crafts Mysteries and occupations doe live well and innumerable numbers of poore labouring people are set on worke True Valour is both invinceable and impregnable and not savouring of dull mortality in spight of death is immortall It knows that the onely life is to live well It shews that happinesse consists in wealth for thieves may steale that wife parents children kindred friends our acquaintance may dye all earthly goods may be spoyled consumed by fire water time or some natural or Accidentall way or other but true valour is onely Long-liv'd for it guids a Christian couragiously all his life from whence it conducts to an honourable Death and Death cannot hold it but delivers it to Fame Fame layes it up in the Register of Time and Time leaves it to everlasting Eternity To which in all my best wishes I doe give both the dead and the living that were in this former related Sea-fight or have dyed or will dare to dye for their Christian Faiths Prince and Country I meane not rashnesse anger fury or desperate madnesse for Lyons Beares Bulls Boares Dogges Tygers Cockes and such unreasonable creatures will fight snarle scratch byte teare rend and destroy one another But if it be ask'd wherefore they doe it they doe neither know or can tell But true Valour indeed doth know that God hath put an immortall soule into a mortall body or transitory tenement to inhabite therein till such time as the Lord of life great Landlord of all things doth at his pleasure command the tennant forth of a poore house of clay to an everlasting Mansion and perpetuall habitation of Happinesse And as God delivered the Israelits out of Aegypt most miraculously as his Almighty power protected David from Saul Absolon Daniel from the hungry fierce Lyons Noah from the almost all devouring flood Ionah from the Whale the three Children from the fiery Furnace Iob from the Dunghill Nebuchadnezzar from Beasts and exile Ioseph from his brethrens malice and Potiphars furie Manasses from the Dungeon Ieremie from captivity England from Spaines invasion and Romes powder plot so did hee most wonderfully preserve this poore Shippe the Elizabeth of Plimmouth and the Valiant men therein from Apparent danger and destruction For the which and all other his infinite undeserved mercies to him alone be given all honour and glorie Amen IOHN TAYLOR FINIS