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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

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

in the South-West and by West c. Psal 107.43 Who so is wise will observe these things 4. And lastly The other Army lies quartered in the South and this oftentimes is very commonly the fiercest and furiousest of them all This Army may be called neque manere finet neque navigare Sometimes it will neither suffer ships to sail nor to keep the Sea insomuch that it makes the Seas run mountain-high and lye all upon a bubling froth and curded foam This Army marches one while into the South and by East South and by and by into the South-East South-East and by South c. and is very ready and attentive to carry on the Lords designs either for good or evil There is both a wonderful vertibility and also variableness in the winds one while they are here and by and by they are there Eccl. 1.6 The wind goeth towards the South and turneth about unto the North it whirleth about continually and the wind returneth again according to his circuits Oh what quick eyes hearing eares ready feet strong arms may I say has these four-wind armies to go yea run If that an Italian General could say when one of his Noble● complained unto him of their want of men I can have all Italy up in arms with one stamp of my feet upon the Earth What do you think then of the Lord cannot hee have all his forces both in Heaven and Earth up in arms Land sooner than Armies of men can bee at the sound of trumpet or at the beat of drum and fly upon Gods commands What more frequent than to hear this amongst the Mariners Wee were shipwracked when the Nothern wind-army lay in the North North-West and wee lost our ship says another when the Eastern wind-army lay in the East and by South c. and wee lost our ship says another when the Southern wind-army lay in the South and by East South c. and wee lost our ship seems another to say when the Western wind-army was upon its march in the West South-West c. But to proceed I will run on in a few more particulars as God has wind-armies at command so has hee many other strange unminded and unobserved armies to march into the field against a people when hee pleases 1. God has his Angel-fighting-armies some whereof are good and other some are bad 2 Sam. 24.16 And when the Angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it the Lord repented him of the evil c. 2 King 19.35 And it came to pass that night that the Angel of the Lord went out If one Angel could do thus much what could not Christs twelve Legions have done upon the wicked Jews and smote in the Camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand c. 2. The Lord has his Sun Moon and Star fighting Armies and this is another sort of army that the Lord has sometimes mustred up to shew his mighty Power and these are called the Hosts of Heaven Deut. 17.3 This Host was up in Arms in Joshua's time Josh 18.12 13. But some may object and say this is something strange how should the Sun the Moon or the Stars fight I answer God may take away the use the benefit the light and the influences of them and in this sense the battel will bee found too hard to escape in 3. The Lord has his men-fighting-armies at command Exod. 12.51 By these did the Lord bring Israel out of Egypt The wicked are Gods sword and his Armies Isa 10.5 6 7. Jer. 25.9 God has Armies of men both good and bad and when hee pleases hee can presently arm them and send them upon errands of ruine and destruction against a Nation 4. The Lord has his water-fighting-armies at command Gen. 6.17 And behold I even I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven and every thing that is in the earth shall die 5. The Lord has his fire-fighting-armies at command Gen. 9.24 2 King 1.10 Levit. 10.2 And this Army shall bee up in arms either in ships at Sea or Houses Towns and Cities on Land to set them on burning flames 6. The Lord has his air-fighting army at command and when hee is pleased and displeased with a people hee lets flye the arrows of pestilence out of the strong bended bow of his fierce wrath and irresistable indignation He can infect the aire Numb 16.46 and this arrow shall neither flye over nor short but hit the white the person or the persons that the Lord aimes at whether they bee Towns or Cities Nations or Countries this contagious air shall lay siedge unto them and over them and the Sun shall not bee able to drive it away nor the winds to sweep it away and this stinking aire is able to stifle all whether in Towns Cities or Countries if hee do but impower it and set it on 7. The Lord has his Hail-stone-army at command this Army was up and on foot for God in Joshua's time Josh 10.11 I would all the Drunkards and Swearers Take heed Sailors how you sail to and again in the Seas with hearts full of guilt hands full of blood tongues full of lies and heads full of sinful projects and unreconciled men to God that are either in the States or Merchants Service would tremble before the Lord and bee in fear lest their pates should bee broken with hail-stones out of the Heavens 8. The Lord has his Earth-fighting-army at command Numb 16.32 And the Earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up and their houses c. Take heed Godless man how you walk on Earth lest at every step thou takest the Earth open to bury thee alive for thy drunken and swearing life 9. God has his fighting Armies at command out of the meanest and contemptiblest minutila's that are and these shall come in as good regimental and warlike order as the Souldier at the sound of trumpet or beat of drum viz. Lice Frogs Worms c. How have these adventured into Kings Palaces and who gave them that boldness These broke in at the windows ranged like rude Soldiers into every room belonging to Pharaoh's house Exod. 8.6 16.17 Acts 12.23 10. God oftentimes makes Conscience a terrible gnawing and fighting Army and this the great God of Heaven has command of to send a tormenting Hell into it who is able to stand in the face of this battel This enemy shoots through and through Job could not stand in it for hee cryed out Have pitty upon mee have pitty upon mee Oh my friends for the hand of the Lord hath touched mee But to proceed There is one phrase in the words before us that would bee a little opened and explained 1. What wee are to understand by a Stormy wind 2. What the effects of it are 1. I find that Scripture is delighted to speak of this very vapour Of that

upon us from comming up to make him a prisoner or otherwise to sink him whereas before for many hours chase the wind has carried on our ship with as great celerity as could bee desired This is clear to mee now that there is an over-ruling power above that orders all affaires even as hee pleases which keeps ships in the Seas from murthering of one another Herein certainly appears the very visible finger or hand of God Two ships in the Seas if they bee at variance one with the other they are not unlike to the two Pitchers upon whom this Motto was writ Si collidimur frangimur If wee meet wee must either one or other break in giving our very enemies their lives and liberties which otherwise would have been taken from them many and many a time if that the wind would but have contributed its help unto us 5. Others are many times beat and forced out of the Seas vi arm● even by and with the violency of storms and tempests insomuch that they are hurled upon the shore and most dangerously ship-wracked the weather being so boysterous and extreame that they have not been able to bear themselves up against it nor to free themselves from the ruining consequences of it yet has the Lord shewed them mercy when that the Vessels has been denied to bee saved even then when the Seas have seized upon her and broke her up into an hundred peeces and parcels and upon these Plancks Yards Masts and offals of the Vessel have all the Mariners got safe to the shore Thus has God provided for men in the deepest of danger when that they would have been drowned if that they had not had those Offalls to have been as Boats to have landed them out of the stormy Sea 6. Some have been too often if it had been the Lords will either through their heedlesness or negligence in a most dreadful estate and condition by fire which has come either from Candle as the snuffs of it or by the fire from the Ashes that have been carelesly blown out of their Pipes hereby has the ship been set on a burning blaze and roaring flame and before the ship has been burnt or the fire has got so low as the Powder boats have been sent out of other ships to fetch the men out of her And in a short time afterwards the ship has blown up into the aire in a Million of shivers How often have some been thus miraculously delivered and how often have others perished in the burning flames of those Tarry-materials 7. Othersome of them have many a time been taken captive by the Turk and after the expence of several years in cruel bondage and unmerciful thraldom they have after a most wonderfull manner inimicorum contra voluntatem been delivered out of it It seems that it is the custom of the Turk to make use of many of his vassals and captives in the Seas to sail his ships to and again about their Pyrating and filching designs and the Lord undoubtedly who sees and looks down upon the bitter sufferings of his people provides most admirably to and for their freedoms for many a time has the Lord sent out a strong wind to blow upon them against which they have not been able to contend and thereby have been cast upon the Christian shore These are the Angliae crabrones Cyno●yae Viperoe Cantharides sometimes in France and other sometimes in Spain sometime in Portugal and other sometimes in Italy c. by which means the poor captived and imprisoned have been freed and the Turks perpetually inslaved Oh the many Sea-men that are still living and can tell of this very deliverance 8. Sometimes when they have been taken by the Turk and lain long in smarting vassallage and bondage they have cleared themselves out of their enemies hands by stealing away in the night and taking the water adventuring life rather than stay in such an Egyptian usage to get into the ships that have been riding in the Turks harbours Why may not I tell of these deliverances to the praise of my God I finde in Scripture that as small is made mention of Act. 9.25 Then the Disciples took him by night and let him down by the wall in a basket by which means they have got their liberty and come home for England 9. Others have been sometimes taken by and with the Turk and also other Pyrats whereby they have lost liberties freedomes and costly ships of an unspeakable worth and value and when that the enemy hath been carrying them away in a most victorious and triumphing manner I may sing of this frequent and providential deliverance Hic bene de laxis cassibus exit aper hee hath not had his prize over a day or half a day in his hands but some ship or other hath got sight of them as it is the manner of Men of War to speak with every sail they espy in the Seas and after that they have begun once to give them chase it is the usual custome of an enemy when hee is far off to flye and make all the sail hee can to escape if they finde them unwilling to bee spoke with all Frigots let flye all the sails that ever they can make and those that are of a singular going will in time fetch them up as oftentimes they do and hereby are the Captives most miraculously redeemed out of the hands of their blood-thirsty enemies Oh the many Sea-men that a●● still living and can tell of this very sweet and seasonable deliverance 10. Others many times have been taken by the Turk and upon their preconsidering of their misery that would ensue in their captivity and slavery have set their heads on work how to get their freedoms again I may write upon this deliverance Tunc cum tristis erat defensa est Ilion armis Militibus gravidum laeta recepit equum Whilst Troy was too secure the panched horse ruined her as indeed I have known several such who have been taken by them have given the Turks all the wine that ever they could get them to swallow down to that end they might get them fudled by which means they have got both their ship lives and liberties again and an enjoyment of England which they were in all likeliness never to have seen more 11. Some are oftentimes meeting one another at an unawares both in the day and especially in the night stem for stem and this is so dreadful a thing that many times either one Gentlemen you are bound in the very same obligation that Israel stood in unto their God for all your deliverances I leave the charge with you answer the contrary another day if you can Deut. 4.9 Onely take heed to thy self and keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen and lest they depart from thy heart all the dayes of thy life Your eyes have seen wonderful preservations

calm but intricate and desperate perils and hazards do and must they run in your affaires through the Seas to accomplish the work that you have in hand against our forein and cruel enemies That pitcher that goes long to the well comes home crackt at last But ten thousand pitties it is to and upon my spirit that any of your golden warlike boats should either perish in storms What Taxaris said to his Country-man Anacharsis when hee saw him in Athens the very same will I say unto any either in or out of England I will says hee shew thee all the wonders of Greece Viso Solone vidisti omnia So visis navibus nostris Anglicanis vidistis omnia They that see Englands warlike ships see the greatest wonders that are either in it or belonging to it or in any other accidents But alas they are not exempted from those ruines no more than others there are but few Trees that have their growth in the world that are free'd from the Thunder save the Lawrel and alas there bee very few ships but the winds and the Seas will have a bout with them Bee ever and anon looking for some sublunary and temporary accidents or other befalling of your ships they are out in the Sea where there is a million of dangers and not in the Harbour I would have you of the like resolution that Anaxagoras was of of whom it was said when news came to him that his son was dead that hee told the messenger hee knew full well that hee had begot him mortal Conclude you in the like manner that your ships the very best and strongest of them are but made up of wasting and frangible materials and ingredients and the looking for the approaching of these like contingencies now and then will in fine tend to the setlement I and to the better establishment of an Heroical spirit under them When the great Naval or the inferior rank of your ships are in their Harbours they are in the greatest safety that can bee but when out at Sea they are not onely lyable but must stand to all the hazzards that shall happen and befall them 3. You that are the great Merchants of England stand in need of cautioning to look for storms Your ships are a meer uncertainty whilst in the perilous Sea an obscurity a fallacy one while they are and by and by they are not they are like to stars which for a while appear but by and by disappear or meteors in the air or as the black dive-dappers in the salt-waters or as the flock of birds that lighted in the husband-mans field and when hee thought they had been his they took wing and flew away Yea they are not unlike to Bajazet that ball of fortune as one termed him because it was one while well with him and another while it went most sadly you live its true in the brave accomplished and best Cities and Sea-port-Towns in the Land but whilst you are on Land your great adventures are in dreadfull dangers in the Seas in one bottom it may be that you have a thousand in another four and in another twenty and truly there is small wisdom of adventuring all in one bottom I have read of one that wittily said hee never liked that wealth that hangs in ropes meaning ships because where one ship came well home twenty perished and miscarried and have you not great reason to fear and look for losses do not think that all the ships that you have either in the East or in the West in the North and in the South shall come all safely home The country Shepherd that puts his Lambs Ews to pasture upon the great and wide forrests does not think to find them all the next day some are worried with the dog some with the wolf and othersome taken away by stealth Many times your interests are seised on by storms sometimes by Pyrats and other sometimes by Rocks and Sands Qui in immenso mari navigant valde turbantur The Seas are not unlike to an hilly and mountainous country through which they that travel after they bee in the bottom of one Valley they know not what danger of way-liers may bee in the next it is the very same at Sea for it is not many leagues that one can see upon a direct line and what Pyrats may bee in those places the eye cannot reach unto is not known to the Mariner but the proverb is Sub omni lapide dormitat Australis Scorpius There is a peevish Pyrat in every corner to fetch off your ships from comming to you But to proceed My speech is unto and towards all the Sea-men again that they would make sure of one thing that I would fasten upon them were I able to drive the nail of Truth to the head in all their hearts and that is shortly this 1. That they would prepare themselves for storms Whilst Sea-men loose from the shoar of life they lanch out into the main of mortality immortality and that you may follow this sweet and blessed counsel that the Spirit of my God has put into my heart for to tell you of I will give you directions what you should do 1. Get sin pardoned to you 2. Rest not either on Sea or on Land till God bee at peace with you And when you have accomplished these two things go whither thou wilt Me thinks Sea-men do not look like those whom God will bless for the want of their putting on for these two things and the God of Heaven go along with thy poor soul then mayst thou leave the Land for many daies with a great deal of comfort 1. Get sin pardoned to you or else it would bee better for thee that thou never wentest to Sea How darest thou that art a Captain a Master a Lieutenant a Boatswain a Gunner a Carpenter a Purser or a common Sea-man be so bold to venture to Sea with thy back burthen of sin unremitted Ah how ought you to stand in fear of that God whilst you are in the Seas that is ablest to set on and to call upon the winds to destroy you and when you go with sin unpardoned may you not daily expect the roaring storms of the Lords displeasure Isa 7.18.19 And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall hiss for the Flye that is in the uttermost parts of the rivers of Egypt and for the Bee that is in the Land of Assyria If it were my case now as it is yours I should verily fear every hour that I spent upon the Sea that God would hisse for the North South East or West winds to rear the vessel I were in to pieces should I venture to Sea without a pardon and an acceptation of my person with and from my God Take heed lest that the Lord do hear you swear c. If you give him occasion hee can presently hiss for the winds to overwhelm you and

that long entity of eternity Bee perswaded upon it all you that bear command you that are Captains Boatswains Gunners Carpenters c. that it is one of the indiscreetest and desperatest cards that you can play to have the work of your peace with God at such times to do and make It may bee that in an engagement you may come to lose both leggs and arms and such dreadful and mortal wounds given you under which you may lie groaning in your ships and then what through excessiveness of pain and dolour together with the fears of death your souls will bee then taken up withall you will bee the unfittest men in the world to come into the hands of your God at death in such conditions thou wilt bee little able to pray to think of any good or to doe any thing that is good but where is the Sea-man that ever thinks of these things beforehand Nay this has and is still the very burden of my soul when I think of it that when and whilst you are chasing of an enemy for six or seven hours together all this time or part of it might well bee spent in the thoughts and meditations of your death yet notwithstanding should God give you many daies chase it would bee no otherwise with you I could never see any of you so serious as to say Gentlemen wee are going to fight and whose hap it may bee for to die I know not it may bee mine as soon as another mans I have a great many sins to get pardoned I have an Heaven to look after and an Hell to escape whilst time permits my heart shall bee taken up with these things and therefore let mee request the like care in you it will bee no blot nor badge of disparagement neither in mee nor you for so doing none can brand us for cowardize to bee careful of our dying Oh that our Sailors could bee got to meditate death and the day of Judgment If your leasurable hours in the Seas were thus spent every day what rare men would you come to bee in the end I am confident that Nihil sic revocat à peccato sicut frequens mortis meditatio I have sometimes met with a story of one that gave a young Ruffian a ring with a deaths head in it and that upon this condition that hee should one hour daily for seven daies together look and think thereupon which hee accordingly did and in the end it bred a blessed change in that mans life Oh would to God that you that go in the Seas would bee much in the thoughts of death and that you would set before your eyes the very shortness of your lives Those red and Military vestments that you hang about your ships in the times of war are no other than the black mourning burial-cloaths that lye upon the Corpses and Coffins of the dead and so should bee advertising Sermons unto you of your mortality Philostrates lived seven years in his Tomb that hee might bee acquainted with the grave before his bones were interred I am sure that there bee thousands of our Sailors that have lived five times seven in the wars Might not many men that have been slain in ships in our late Sea wars have lived longer if they had but served God better I speak of Captains and Sea-men c. It was observed of old that that man that durst be so fool-hardy to go into the Wars without his house undedicated to the Lord that he never returned off the field alive Deut. 20.5 Let him go and return unto his house left hee dye in the battel and Merchants service and that in ships which are no other and no better than slaughtering and butchering houses or meer Coffins of mortality in which lye murdering Guns mortal engines and dis-mangling bullets yet may you finde them living in them as if there were no dying time to come nor no God no heaven no hell nor no devil to bee thought on I pray God that this might not bee too suitable a Motto for thousands of poor silly Sailors when they dye Anxius vixi dubius morior nescio quo vado I toyled hard all my life time for a living but that which is the worst of all I dye despairingly and so go out of the world I know not whither Or otherwise that of Adrian the Emperours Animula Vagula Blandula c. Ah poor soul whither art thou now going It will not now bee granted thee when thou art upon thy dye that thou shalt ever have any more respite for to jest it in to sport it in nay there will bee no more time allowed to swear in to drink in and to whore it in as many of the Sailors have done I may sing this of the jovial crew of the careless Sailors Hen vivunt homines tanquam mors nulla sequatur Vita cito avolat nec potest retimeri Mors quoti die ingruit nec potest resisti Mors ubique vos expectat Aut veluti infernus fabula vana foret Sea-men do live as if they should ne'r dye And as if hell were but a foppery Me thinks I hear the Seas saying unto all the prophane Sailors in England as the heathen Priest said to the people when begun to sacrifize 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Who is there the answer returned was this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 good and honest men if not sayes hee Procul oh procul este prophani The Seas say Bee gone you Swearers Take heed left you meet not with the Lord whilst in the Sea as the Church did on land when shee said Lamen 3.10 Hee was unto mee as a Bear lying in wait and as a Lyon in secret places Doth not your wickedness in the Sea pull down storms upon you and give you to experience that in Nahum 1.6 Who can stand before his indignation and who can abide in the fierteness of his anger his fury is poured out like fire and the rocks are thrown down by him Adulterers and Drunkards come not upon us in your ships lest wee send you going to thousands of those dead that wee have drowned 2. When you go to Sea resign up all and recommend your selves your souls your bodies your friends your wives your families goods and habitations I what ever you have or desire that the Lord would keep or fear to lose into the hands of your God and you will finde him a faithful keeper of what ever you do commit unto him the Apostle Paul found him so 2 Tim. 1.12 And I am perswaded that hee is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day Psal 121.5.6 The Lord is thy keeper the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand 3. If you would prepare for storms fill your hearts then every morning that you uprise with the fear of your God who hath the rule of the day and is also the Sovereign King and Lord over it and also of the

night and so consequently is able at his pleasure to make it stormy or calm comfortable or dreadful It is the counsel of the Wise man and I present it to you for I know none stand more need of it than your selves Prov. 23.17 Bee thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long None knows what may happen unto them before the Sun goes down 4. If you would prepare for storms take fast hold on God by the hand of faith before they come and also when they come Job 13.15 Though hee stay mee yet will I trust in him Though hee should bring tempest after tempest upon thee let not thy hold go but take as fast hold of him as ever wrestling Jacob did upon his God and thou wilt finde both safety and comfort enough 5. Would you know now Sailors why the Lord sends many storms upon you And would you know also what Gods ends and aims are in storms I will give you in a few grounds to those preceding ones that I presented unto you and the first will bee this 1. That Gods aim in stormy winds is not alwayes for destruction but sometimes for trial Matth. 8.25 Gold is often thrown into the fire but what is the Goldsmiths end in so doing not that it should bee consumed but fined 2. God sits by his blowing blasts I know not whether it would bee worse or no that the heavens should alwayes look upon us with one face or ever varying for as continuall change of weather causes uncertainty of health so a permanent settledness of one season causeth the certainty of distempers perpetual moysture dissolves us perpetual heat evaporates or inflames us cold stupifies us and drought obstructs and withers us and stormy winds that are sent out upon the Seas you sit not more carefully by to hand in your Top-gallant Sails or Top-sails when winds blow high and fresh than hee doth sit by the winds to keep them from destroying of you The Goldsmith sits not more carefully by that precious metal to watch its first melting than hee doth by the winds lest that they should wrong your vessels This God doth for those that fear him in the Seas 3. Storms come for improvement God would have the grace of faith and of patience exercised Matth. 8.25 2. It will not bee amiss if that you that are the Great Statesmen of our land prepare for storms It is true you are out of the wind-blowing Sea blasts whilst on land but your gallant and sumptuous warlike Sea-boats are in them oftentimes at Sea Well all that I shall say unto your Honours is this Prepare to meet ill news and sad and dismal accidents to befall them now and then that comes in an hour that usually falls not out in an hundred And grant that ships bee cast away It was a brave minde that Antisthenes was of when hee desired nothing else in all the world to make his life either comfortable or happy with but the spirit of Socrates which was of that temper that it could cheerfully bear the saddest tydings that ever came or the greatest evills that ever befell man or that any other fatal Omen do befall them hee that trusteth in the Lord shall not bee moved at it Psal 112.7 Hee shall not bee afraid of evil tydings his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord. 3. It will not bee out of my way to give the great Merchants of our land the same advertisement to prepare for storms Gentlemen It is with your ships at Sea if but without Convoyes as it was with Aesops Geese and Cranes that were feeding in one Pasture altogether Venatoribus autem visis understand Pyrats the Cranes being light bodied volatiles betook themselves to their wings and would not stay to answer the reckoning but the Geese that were heavy bodied Sailors capti fuerunt were taken and knocked in the head by the Hunters The best Sailor escapes when the slowest falls into the Pyrats hands Great losses come upon you many times and how will you take and entertain the sad news that shall and oftentimes doth come to your ears of one ship lost in the North another in the South may bee one in the East and another in the West if you bee not prepared for this news it will bee too heavy a triall for you to bear When you send out your ships prepare for the worst and expect not alwayes the best and I will assure you that what ever contingencies befall you they will bee the more comportable for your spirits I have great ventures at Sea some in one bottome and some in another some in the Eastern parts of the world other some in the Western some in the Northern and some in the Southern and if the Lord will bee pleased to return them in safety I shall bee very thankful unto my God and if not I will pray for patience and strength to submit to his will As soon as ever the Souldier hath intelligence of the enemies advancing towards him hee prepares for the battel at the sound of Trumpet and the beat of Drum and on goes his best arms and armour for his defence and safeguard and the like provisions should you make in my apprehensions for the ships that you have out in perilous Seas But to proceed to the next words of counsel that I would present unto our Sea-men it will bee shortly this 3. And lastly Bear storms stoutly when dangerous and perilous sinking and shipwracking storms and tempests are upon you bear them couragiously with patience silence and without all murmuring or repining and without all passion choler distemper or any other unquietness of spirit or thinking hardly of the Lord. When David was under affliction wee hear no more of him but this Psal 39.9 I was dumb I opened not my mouth because thou didst it Plutarch in a consolatory Epistle to his good wife on the death of a child amongst many other arguments sent her this Wee must alwayes think well of what the gods do And will not you Sea-men think well of the Lord when it goes either ill or well with you at any time Vlysses encouraged his companions thus when in a raging storm upon the Sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Sirs saith he Wee are not now to learn what sorrows are When ill news came to Eli how did he bear it 1 Sam. 3.18 And hee said It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good Paul and Silas were so far from murmuring and repining that they were very cheerful when in the Dungeon and Philpot and his fellows when in the Cole-house and the many Martyrs when in the flames It was a gallant speech of Stilpo that great Philosopher when King Demetrius had sacked that famous City of Megaera to the very foundation hee asked the Philosopher what losses hee had sustained none at all quoth hee for war can make no spoyl of vertue Jewel when banished comforted himself with this

down alive ships and all into the very bottoms When the Idol Apis of Egypt had a mind that Germanicus should bee ruined shee would not take meat from his hand This was the answer that the stormy-wind gave when demanded what was the reason that it had shipwracked so many goodly Vessels at such a time Si precantes eos ventus invenisset nihil contra eos efficere potuisset If I had but found them praying I could not have ruined them So God prayers from your hands That is is not for nought that the Lord Observ 22 sends down such calamitous and perilous storms as hee doth upon those that use the Seas Then they cry c. It was a great dispute betwixt Doctor Philomusus and Learned Philosophus what might bee the reason that Sea-men out-strip all people in rudeness deboystness wildness and ungodliness Philosophus Worthy Sir to answer you exactly ratione causae it cannot otherwise be but they should be a wild a brutish sort of people in respect they live so much out of the Land if they lived on land amongst good people there were some hopes of their reformation and amendment but living amongst vain idle and ungodly men they become like a drop that falls out of the clouds even one and the same with the Ocean Fowls that live on the waters are never known to bee tame viz. your Duck Mallard Goose and Seagul these are all wilde and not like unto your Land Fowl 2. They must needs bee wilde because they never tarried so long on land as to get good nurtriture literature and breeding but their parents pack them out to Sea from small children to seek and work for their living As it is with the Lapwings young so is it with the Sailors Naturalists observe of this Bird that if the shell doth but once crack and break they are of that running mettle that they will force their way out and run with the shells upon their heads The generality of Sea-men run to the Sea before they bee seven eight nine or ten years of age and therefore this is one main reason why they are so rude contemptible and absurd in their manners 3. Their ignorance and brutishness together with their audacious gracelesness arises from their early and timely running out of the land on to the water before they are able to give any account of Faith Scripture and the Ten Commandements 4. The main reason why Sea-men are such notorious and nefarious swearers rises either from their nesciency of that Commandement of the Lords Exod. 20.7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain There would be a greater number of Swearers Drunkards and Adulterers amongst the Sailors did not White-Hall keep them down and in awe Surely that is a dreadful house whose lofty Turrets keeps both Sea and Land in subjection I may say of Sailors what Juvenal once said of a people in the times he lived in Non habent ulterius quod nostris moribus addat posteritas Our Sailors flow with those sins in the Seas which former ages were ashamed of and which following posterities will never be able to adde or commit Or otherwise from a want of the fear of God 5. The main reason why Sea-men generally are such filthy and immoderate Drunkards is their want of principles to fortifie themselves against it or otherwise being kept out so long at Sea when they come on land they pour down their cups as Swine do their swill which are of such an avarous gurmundizing nature that they think they can never have enough 6. The main reason why the generality of Sea-men are such extravagant and irregular liars is their deficiency in Scripture-knowledge and also in the strong converting work of Gods grace upon their hearts were that once wrought in them the running issue of their foul-tongues would soon take up and cease Philomusus Worthy Sir you have very fully and pregnantly satisfied mee as to the question I propounded to you for which I thank you should I yet press you to tell mee more of them I know that you could do it but the time not permitting I will not move in this case any further To cast up all shortly Sailors you may conclude that God will one day reckon with you for your unparalleld prophaneness and that storms come not upon you for nought neither are any of you cast away in your ships but by reason of your ungodliness May I not objurgatorily speak it that there goes many ships in the Sea which if they were deeply loaded with the filthiest excrements that lye in the stinkingest Jakes Channels and Boghouses about the City of London would bee far sweeter receptacles for gracious hearts to breathe and walk in than they either are or ever will bee because of that voyce of swearing lying and prophaneness that is amongst them I have met with this passage concerning an Hermite that was taken away in the evening by the conduct of an Angel through a great City to contemplate the great wickedness that was daily and hourly done in it and meeting in the street a Cart that was full laden with the excrements of men the man stopt his nostrils and betook himself to the other side of the street hastening from the sowr carriage all hee could but the Angel kept on his way seeming no whit offended with the ill savour of it and the man much wondring at it followed after him and presently they met a woman gorgeously apparelled perfumed and richly attired well attended on with Torches and Coaches not a few to convey her to an house of Baudry Surely our States Captains and the Merchants Ship-masters have good noses and also good stomachs that can live so contentedly in ships which are meer Hell-houses of swearing and prophaneness If I were a Commander I would either run out of the stinke of swearing or make them to run out of the ship that should take that boldness to make such a filthy funke in it the good Hermite seeing this begun something to bee revived with the fair sight and sweet smell thereof and so begun to stand and gaze upon them but the Angel stopt his nose and hastened away beckning to his companion to retreat from the stench of the Coach telling him withal that that brave Courtezan laden with sin was a far fouler stench and savour to him and before God and his holy Angels than that beastly and stinking Dung-cart hee fled from which was laden with excrements They that are wise will make the Application Observ 23 That great is that stupidity and benummedness that is in Sea-men when they cannot nor will not bee awakened to seek unto God before and until storm and danger comes upon them Then they cry c. And he bringeth them out of their distresses This phrase is joyned to the other by a copulative particle And is

18. Minde well Gods dreadful dealings with others in the Seas how hee lets the winds fall upon them It is reported of a Cable that it spoke on this wise when it broke in a grievous storm and let the ship run upon the sands both to the fatal loss of the ship and all the passengers that were in her Grande peccatorum intus onus me extra fregit The grievous burden of sin within board layd a greater stress upon mee than the storm without did and therefore I was not able any longer to hold the ship and the wicked that were in her from perishing but the Lord bid mee break and let them go for they were not worthy the holding and preserving from the jawes of death You are wise and know how to apply this and the Seas seize upon them insomuch that both ship and men go down into the uninhabited bottoms Is not the news coming to your ears very often that such and such a sail is cast away such and such a ship was split to peeces in the occidental or oriental parts of the Seas Cast up the sad sorrows that others taste of and consider what God hath done for you in sparing you with your lives in those many storms that you have been in and in those many voyages that you have made Who so is wise c. 19. Minde how God hath disposed of the winds and granted unto them a very varying and altering motion insomuch that they blow not alwayes one way The Sea-man makes no doubt of it but if hee have wind to carry him into forein Countries hee shall have a wind to bring him back again which hee might have so ordered and decreed if but been pleased but his providential care for the good of man hath made them changeable whereby they blow one while out of the East and another while out of the West one while out of the North and another while out of the South by which ships are carried out of all parts in the world and so again returned Who so is wise c. 20. Minde how the Lord hath had a tender eye over you in stormy and blowing weather when Pilots have undertaken to carry you into forein harbors promising and protesting to you that there hath been a competent and sufficient profundity of water to swim your ships in Mee thinks this mercy should bee sufficient to make a Sailor melt if hee were composed of marble whose very Physiognomy hath a Magnetick force to ravish souls with the goodness of God and when come to the trial your ships have been run on ground where you have lyen beating for two hours together as if the ship would flye into shivers at every billow that hath rushed upon her and heaved her up and thrown her down yet after some expenditure of time the flood hath heightned and carried you off clear both with ship and lives Who so is wise c. 21. Minde how the Lord hath taken a fatherly care of you when your ships have unexpectly been on fire that it hath entred into the heart of some one or other to go down into the Hold not dreaming of any thing have espied the very initials of fire burning upon the cordage and timber of the ship Ah that I should say of Sea-men as the Rabbins say of the Jews who throw the book of Hester upon the ground before they read it because the name of God is not in it Sailors throw their precious deliverances at their heels by which means it hath been extinguished and the ship and your lives miraculously preserved Who so is wise c. 22. Minde how the Lord undertakes for you when you are come to an Anchor either in France Holland Italy Could I tell of more of your mercies I would for as the Apostle saith I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ I shall say unto you and unto the world that I am not ashamed to tell of the mercies that the Lord bestows upon you in the deeps c. when the wind hath come fair off the land you have taken the greater boldness to anchor under it thinking your selves secure enough but in a little time the wind hath wheeled about and been upon your backs and yet through an over-ruling providence hath favoured you till you have got up your Anchors and freed your selves from the shore by turning it up into the Sea and then the storm hath grown on amain which would have hazzarded your lives if you were in that place at an anchor again Who so is wise c. 23. Minde how the Lord hath favoured you when been coming to an appointed port or station where there hath been a very intricate sailing by reason of those many sand banks that have lain on every hand you steering and holding in stormy weather a direct course upon them and the ships you have been sent too to anchor by considering your danger This inquiry now that I have made of the Lords appearances for you in the great deeps is but small and I have but played the part of the skilful Mathematician who takes special notice of the many parts of the world and is able exactly and distinctly to set them out to any one as they lye in this and the other climate but yet when hee hath done all hee leaves a great space for a terra incognita and that unknown World for ought I knovv may be five times bigger than all the knovvn World Your deliverances are far more than I can tell of have fired some peeces of Ordnance one towards you and another from you which is the usual sign of danger you have thereby altered your course and been delivered Who so is wise c. 24. Minde how the Lord hath troubled some of you that are and have been in command in your sleep by dreams when sailing in the night how that the ship hath been near to land insomuch that you have started out of your beds and gone and looked over the ships head out of fear What was once said of Henry the third King of France that he had not the ingenuity to discern his friends from his foes may bee said of the Mariner in dark nights at Sea had hee not the Lord to direct him and presently got a sight of it whereas both the ship and your lives had been at the stake if the Lord had not looked out for land for you Who so is wise c. 25. Minde how the Lord hath and doth still very frequently help you when in dark and heart-danting evenings how doth hee establish your hearts when there are great and hot disputes amongst your selves about the lights that are upon the Sea-coasts both in this and other Countries insomuch that you have gone on in a great deal of boldness upon such a point and preter-navigated all rocks sands and dangers Who so is wise will c. 26. Minde how the Lord hath looked down

his glorious Majesty hee is able to do all things that are works of power might and strength and are not things against his own nature or things that imply contradiction Reason 2 Because when things are impossible in mans eye then is it the fittest time for the Lord to appear in It is a common saying and a true one That mans extreamity is Gods opportunity Observ 6 That God in his Judgments upon the Seas often times remembers mercy And hee bringeth them c. God is slow to wrath I wish I may not say of the Lords indulgency to profane wretches in the Sea what Sigismund the Emperour used to say of his enemies Is inimicum occidit qui inimico parcit I am affraid Deus non nunquam parcendo saevit That the Lords long sparing will end in rageing and may I so speak hee is seen walking towards sinners in the shooes of Asher which were of ponderous brass Deut. 33.24 25. Observ 7 That the greatest dangers of the Seas and the proudest waves that ever elevated are and should bee no plea for unbelief And hee brings them c. Matth. 14.30 31. When Peter saw the wind boysterous his heart begun to fail him but was hee not reproved for his distrusting of the Lord Poop-lantern ship-covering and yard-arm-rising waves should not daunt and discourage faith in God Were the Seas in a storm as high as the mountains of Merionethshire in Wales whose hanging and kissing tops come so close together that the shepherds sitting on their several mountains may very audibly stand and discourse together but if they would go to one another they must take the pains to travel many miles Sailors should not bee apalled and terrified Dangers are faiths Element and in them it lives and thrives best Such was the high-raised valour of Luther that when hee was to go to the City of Worms they told him of strange things Faith like the Ivie the Hop the Woodbine which have a natural instinct in them to cling lay hold upon the stronger Trees laies hold on God in time of danger as many will doe fresh-water travellers at Sea but quoth Luther if all the Tiles that bee upon every House in the Town were devils they should not scare mee Sailors should have the like courage in storms which one had when in a great straight Certa mihi spes est quod vitam qui dedit idem Et velit possit suppeditare cibum Good hearts may say to the Sea when in a storm what Luther said to his enemies Impellere possunt sed totum prosternere non possunt crudeliter me tractare possunt sed non extirpare Haec est fides credere quod non vides dentes nudare sed non devorare occidere me possunt sed in totum me perdere non possunt Faith will put your heads into Heaven and your ships into an Harbour when in a storm it will set you on the top of Pisgab with Moses and descry the promised Land when you may come to bee denied the sight of Land in storms 1. Great Faith is seen in this as much as any one thing whatsoever that it both can and will beleeve in God as a man may say with reverence whether God will or no it will beleeve in an angry God in a killing God and in a drowning God Job 15.10 Great Faith is not easily shaken 2. Great Faith is never clearer seen than when in the midst of souzing storms and dangers there is great confidence and strength of heart in the soul at such times Observ 8 That God will have every thing wrested from him by prayer And hee bringeth c. Good Sea-men should play the part of Daedalus Templum Cybelis Deorum matris non manib●es sed precibus solummodo aperiebatur The gates of Cybeles Temples could not bee opened by hands but prayer quickly threw them open who when hee could not escape by way upon Earth went by way of Heaven and that is the way of prayer Five Motives to put Sea-men upon Prayer 1. Solemnly consider that in the creature there is nothing but emptiness and helplesness 2. Solemnly consider that you cannot have any hopes of winning ought from God but by prayer The Champions could not wring an apple out of Milo's hand by strong hand but a fair maid by fair means got it presently 3. Solemnly consider of God what hee is whom you serve naturally no other but goodness it self Nothing animated Benhadad so much as this that the Kings of Israel were merciful Kings It was said of Charles the great I would to God I could say so of every Tarpowling that goes in the Salt-waters that hee delighted so much in prayer that Carolus plus cum Deo quam cum hominibus loquitur That hee spake more and oftner to and with God than hee did with men Flectitur iratus voce rogante Deus And nothing encouraged Titus Vespatian the Emperour's Subjects so much as this that hee did nunquam dimittere tristem never send any away sorrowful 4. Solemnly consider how many in the Seas go upon the very same errand that you go on to him and mind how they speed and are carried securely out of all their distresses 5. Solemnly consider what Prayer is to God hee loves it Let mee hear thy voice for it is comly 6. Call to mind your former experiences did you ever pray in a storm but you fared the better by it Consider what cases you have been heard in That servent Prayer will prevail with Observ 9 God in the greatest storms I would all the States Tarpowlings were of James the Just's principle of whom Eusebius tells us Genua ejus in morem cameli obditrata sensum contactus amiserunt That his knees were hardned like the Camels by his frequent kneeling to Prayer Prayer is Optimus dermientium cuslos certissima navigautium salus tutissimum viatoribus scutum The sl●epers best keeper the Sailors surest safety the Travellers protecting Shield And hee brings them out c. Witness the Mariners calm Jonah 1. and witness Christs disciples deliverance in the storm Impartial fire that comes from above has been often times seen to spare yeelding objects and to melt resisting metal to pass by lower roofs and to strike upon all high-Towered pinnacles I wish that our Sailors were as much given to Prayer as Anna the daughter of Phannel of whom it was said that shee never departed out of the Temple but served God night and day in prayer and fasting I wish it were the resolution of them that use the Seas to do as Ambrose the Bishop of Millain did when news came to him that Justina the mother of Valentinian intended to banish him hee told them that hee would never run away but if they had any purpose to kill him they should at any time find him in the Church praying for himself and for his people 1. Vse of Comfort For

whilst you do float above When the Lord would stir up David and melt his heart and bring it unto a kindly sorrow for all his mercies hee takes this course 2 Sam. 12.7 Did not the Lord do thus and thus Did hee not make thee King of Judah and of Israel Did he not give to thee thy Masters wives and houses into thy bosom and if this had not been enough hee would have done more for thee therefore recount the particular kindnesses and Sea-deliverances the Lord has bestowed upon thee does not the Lord seem to say I delivered thee at such a time and in such a storm did not I deliver thee from such a Rock and from such a sand God keeps a reckoning Sirs of what hee does and also of all your deliverances it is but wisdom then to kiss the Son lest hee bee angery to kisse him with a kiss of adoration and subjection all your daies 3. Consideration That thankful hearts are evermore full of thankful thoughts and these are such as are evermore suitable unto the benefits that are received Psal 116.12 What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits Hee has delivered mee out of this and the other storm from this and the other shore from many Rocks and Sands both in this and also in the other parts of the world I have met with a story of a Company of Sailors in Zara called by some Jadera a Town in Sclavonia that they consecrated a Church to St. John di Malvatia which they built out of their own wealth and wages to express their thankfulness for their great deliverance out of a storm in which they had like every man of them to have gone to the pot This they vowed when at Sea and when come on Land they were as good as their words where are your thanks Sailors what shall I now bestow upon him How has hee preserved mee when shot has flown like hail When dangers have been unfordable and miseries innumerable then has the Lord stept in to deliver mee Ah Sirs what cause have you that use the Seas to fall down before the Lord in all thankful acknowledgment to him for your deliverances at Sea even as the Wise men of the East did before Christ and offer unto him Gold Incense and Myrrhe aurum fidei thus devotionis aromata pietatis mentes humiles probos mores animos dignos Deo The Gold of faith the Frankincense of Devotion the Myrrhe of Godliness humble minds good manners souls worthy of God 4. Consider That thankful hearts are evermore full of admiring thoughts I wonder at the goodness of God says a good and an honest heart that hee should come and step down so seasonably to deliver mee when I was in a Sea far from any eye or heart to pitty mee Ah how has mercy taken the pains to come and meet us How has mercy as it were fallen into our mouths and into our laps even very unexpectedly Abraham's servant was very full of admiring thoughts when hee saw providence so working for him Gen. 14.21 as the womans coming to the well and her willingness to give him and his Camels as much water as they pleased Ah stand amazed at Gods deliverings of your souls in the stormy and tempestuous Seas 5. Consider That thankful hearts are evermore full of awful and trembbling thoughts at the Judgments of God both executed and threatned upon others in the Seas when they see themselves so threatned in storms and others to bee cast away in them and yet notwithstanding they themselves spared this strikes thoughts of fear into them and upon them Psal 119.20 My flesh trembles for fear of thee and I am afraid of thy righteous Judgments 6. Consider That thankful hearts are evermore full of viewing and observing thoughts Oh how has the Lord delivered mee in this late storm and Tempest in what danger was I in but now our Sails rent our Mast fell about our ears wee pumped and toyled night and day for our lives Cables broke and at another time our Anchors came home and our ships drive And thus such hearts cannot but say Exod. 15.13 Thou in thy Mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed 7. Solemnly consider that thankful hearts after Sea-deliverances are full of improving thoughts and will not you bee so too Gentlemen You that use the Seas Such a soul has his whole mind taken up with the mercies of the Lord and hee plots contrives and designs how hee may make a good use and a good improvement of all that he has done for him in the Seas Pliny writes of Egypt It is well if it may not too truly be said of those that use the Seas that shee was wont to boast how shee owed nothing to the Clouds or any forein streams for her fertility being abundantly watered by the inundation of her ovvn River Nile I am affraid that you think that you are not beholden to your God and beheld with his eyes in the great deeps Such a soul sets all his Sea-deliverances in print and layes them up in the wardrobe of his heart The holiness goodness mercifulness and majesty of God is evermore much in such a souls eye 8. Consider That all good men are for it and that with tooth and naile and will you not then bee thankful unto the Lord I will tell you who bee against it the Devil and wicked men but I pray God preserve you from such Counsellors Psal 65. Praise waiteth for thee O God in Sion Psal 29.2 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name Worship the Lord in the beauty of holynesse 9. Consider That God himself is for it Mal. 2.2 If yee will not hear and if yee will not lay it to heart to give glory unto my name saith the Lord of hosts I will even send a curse upon you 10. Consider That God commands it The shortest cut to ruine men is unthankfulness Trumpeters delight to sound when where they are answered with an Eccho 11. Consider That God expects it 12. Consider That God prizes it and commends it 13. Consider That God is hereby much honoured by it Psal 50. ult 14. Consider That God will fully and freely reward it A word or two now of Use and so I will leave the point because it is so painful to mee to write and lay down at large what I might and what every point would bear I do acknowledge that Spices when they are pounded and beaten small they do evermore smell the sweetest and points of doctrine or Scriptures when they are branched forth expounded and broken up into parts are evermore the profitablest For my part I know not what to say to the generality of Sea-men because they put me to as great a stand as the Turky Painter was once put to when he was to set forth all the several Nations of the world according to their Country dress and habit hee left one

usually sends them a peece of gold stampt with the Image of St. George upon it Who was valiant amongst you had Medals in the Dutch wars they have a brave warlike ship which they call the Preston To keep up the memory of that dreadful Sea-fight which they had with the Dutch near Portland they call one of their warlike ships the Portland To keep alive the memory of their transactions against the enemy at Yarmouth they have a gallant ship which they call the Yarmouth That their dealings with the enemy at Famouth might bee remembred and celebrated to the praise of that God whom they serve they call one of their brave warlike Vessels the Famouth To keepe alive the goodness of God in their helping them to overcome their enemies at Bristow they call one of their sumptuous ships the Bristow To keep up the memory of one sore bout they had with the enemy in Kent they call one of their ships which they built afterwards the Kent That they might not forget their dispute with the enemy at Dartmouth one of their ships is stiled the Dartmouth To remember that bout they had with the enemy at Tarrington they call another ship the Tarrington To remember the engaging of the enemy in Essex All these ships are called by the names of Englands Battels and every ship carrying the name of an English Battel upon her cannot otherwise chuse but under God be heart daunting terrible to the proudest enemy that ever strutted in the Seas What is said of the Leviathan I think I may say of our ships Job 41.9 Shall not one bee cast down even at the fight of them they call one of their ships the Essex To keep up the memory of that bout they had with the enemy at Basin-house in Hampshire they call one of their Friggots the Basin To perpetuate their engaging the enemy in Pembrokeshire they call one Friggot the Pembroke Another they call the Hamshire Another the Glocester Another the Non-such And all these besides several others as the Lime c. have been built since and after these disputes and so named Paul after his ship-wrack I find to that end hee might remember that deliverance calls it Melita and the Maltezes's at this day La scala di San Paulo St. Pauls shipwrack or arrival Sea-men have you no names for the places where you have been shipwracked what call you the places where you have been in greatest danger Call to mind the many places that you have been in and the many storms and perils that you have gone through The States of England throw not their dear and costly purchased Victories at their heels Imitate the Tartars in valour who go slightly armed into the Battel upon their Backs as scorning and abhorring ever to turn their backs wh●n once the chief Standard of the General is let flye in the field A certain Prince would bee pictured with this Motto which I give to you that use the Seas Luctor non mergor I was much endangered but God has preserved mee Sibyllae mos erat in palmarum foliis oracula scribere in meliori metallo autem tenete naufragia vestra which they have got in their late wars but to keep them alive they put them upon their warlike Sea-boats 4. By erecting Pillars to bee standing memorials and monuments of the Lords undeserved goodness unto them Samuel set up a stone and called it Eben-Ezar 1 Sam. 7.10 12. Hitherto quoth hee when the Philistins fought against them Hath the Lord helped us The States of England to keep up the memory of their Land-deliverances layd out very costlily three thousand pound upon one ship Accipe redde Cave is a Motto that is writ upon all mercies Upon Fire is writ take heat from me Upon Apparel take warmth from me Upon bread take strength from me Upon a piece of a plank in a storm take safety from me But make a good improvement of these things or else stand cleer four thousand Pound upon another and six thousand upon another And will you lay out nothing to perpetuate the memory of your deliverances Give mee leave to hand to every soul in the Sea this short and sweet word of advice 1. Improve all your Sea-mercies for Gods glory 2. For your own good 3. For the good and benefit of others 1. For Gods glory esteem of God highly look out for higher thoughts of God than ever you have had in your souls and labour daily to beat down your own pride loftiness and haughtiness of mind otherwise you will never bee able to maintain high thoughts of God and to say of the Lord in all your Sea-preservations Exod. 15.11 Who is like unto thee O Lord amongst the Gods who is like thee glorious in holiness fearful in praises doing wonders 2 Chron. 6.14 There is no God like thee in the Heaven nor in the Earth 2. To love God more dearly that has done so much for you David's heart began to bee on a burning glow within him when hee begun to consider of the Lords hearing of his prayers Psal 116.1 2. I love the Lord because hee hath heard my voice and my supplications Ah Sirs will not you that use the Seas love your God no more than you do Good Sirs do not with your God as the Heathens did by theirs of whom it is said that they would put them off with slight Sacrifices when called for a man they brought a candle Hercules offered up a painted man instead of a living one what had been become of you ere this day if God had not heard your prayers in your calamities 3. To thank and praise God Praecepta docent at exempla movent more heartily for what hee has done for you in all your straits at Sea Psal 103.1 2. Bless the Lord oh my soul and all that is within mee bless his holy name Tully calls gratitude Maximam imo matrem omnium virtutum reliquarum the greatest and the mother of all virtues 4. To obey God more cordially Many Sailors are a meer tortile lignum Too much a kin to the Crab Nunquam recte ingrediuntur Cancri Very disobedient and crooked unto God and freely this is to render again according to the mercies and favours God did for you when in the great deeps which Hezekiah nay not onely hee but thousands of our Sailors fail in this very duty 2 Chron. 32.25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him The Elements are obedient unto the Caelestial bodies the Orbs and Sphaeres to the moving intelligence and all the Intelligences to the chiefest of all which is the Lord loved of all Darius escaping a great danger in his return out of Scythia by the faithful counsel and assistance of Hysteus the Milesian hee was so taken with this kindness that to reward him hee sent for him to the Court to praefer him to one of his Privy Councel gave him this commendation