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love_n	heart_n	life_n	soul_n	9,367	5	4.6906	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08671	The sea-mens invitation, with a passengers observation in some particular things which concern them that practice navigation. 1 Their remarkable deliverances; and the use they make of them. 2 Their tempting and provoking of God about the winde, which obeys the Lord. 3 Their abusing themselves and their liberty when they go a shoar, whereby the creature suffers. 4 Something in particular to the captains and masters, and to all their inferiour officers. 5 How little the sea-men (with the souldiers in the fleet) are profited by their chaplains that in the year do get several groats out of their wages. And a more excellent way of teaching shewn then that of their chaplains. / By a servant of the truth, and a lover of righteousnesse, called William Caton.	Caton, William, 1636-1665.	1659 (1659)	Wing C1519; ESTC R171117	10,341	16

to all their inferiour officers HAd you been guiltless of those sins whereof the Sea-men whom you are set over are guiltie then you should have been a terrour to them that do evil and much of the evil which abounds amongst them would have been suppressed by you who are Authorized to rule over them but much of your authoritie you lose by partaking of their sins for behold doth not the witnesse of God in your own consciences accuse you and tell you you are inexcusable your selves forasmuch as you are overtaken with those sins your selves which you reprove them for But consider ought you not to have been good patterns and examples of righteousness among them ought you not to have walked in the fear of God among them and endeavoured to have kept them in the same ought you not rather sharplie to have reproved them for their evil then to have joined with them in the evil as oftentimes many of you do and have done when you see they cannot govern themselves ought not you therefore to govern them wherefore are you Authorized and set as Masters and Captains over them if not to govern and order them But how can you do that when you are inflamed with wine strong waters or strong bear and at such times your weakness and nakedness doth appear unto them and if you reprove and punish them for being as you are then the Lord by his witnesse doth judge and condemn you for you being guilty the Lord will not acquit you neither shall you go unpunished but this I would have you observe that whilst you are guilty of those things for which you reprove them you cannot reprove them with that authority and boldnesse you might do it if you were clear your selves of those things for which you reprove them neither is your reproof and punishment so effectual to them as it might be if you were free from that for which you reprove and punish them but alas what is that sin among them that you are free from And therefore cannot their transgressions be reproved by you as they ought to be untill you have ceased from your own And this I say if you were but faithful unto the Lord in what you know you might be instruments of good among them whom you rule over but while your conversation is so vain your carriage so light your behaviour so wanton and your words so unsavoury there is little hope of their reformation who follow you for examples Oh therefore be awakened to righteousnesse that you may be patterns of righteousnesse to those that thirst after it if there be any such among you and grieve not the holy spirit no longer which daily secretlie reproves you the reproofs of which hath been set at nought by many of you as it appeares by your continuance in the reproveable things for which you are reproved and these few lines are to you Captaines and Masters with your inferiour Officers not to upbraid ye but to reprove you to righteousnesse that you may come faithfully to discharge your dutie in those things which are committed to your charge and trust for which you are not onelie to be accountable unto man but also unto the Lord who will render a reward to everie one according to their deeds done in the bodie whether they be good or evil And as for you who have Chaplains aboard with you whom you look upon to be Ministers of the word and whom you own as teachers This I have to say unto you in general concerning them That if they were sent of God to preach his word and to teach you then they would preach freelie without coveting your groats or diminishing from your wages Are they not of that sort of whom the Lord speakes by his Prophet Malachi Mal 3.5 and saith I will be a swift witnesse against those that oppresse the hireling in his wages seeing they must have a groat in the moneth out of your wages and hath the same wages allowed them that you have mark do you not work harder for your wages and take more paines for the same then they then judge you whether this be equal or not that they should have of your wages for which you were hired not being content with as much as must serve you who are worthie of your hire and its pitty that you should be oppressed by them hirelings who it may be may have two hungroats in the moneth one of them more then one of you If they did not come more for the love of your groats then out of love to your souls its probable that the same wages might serve one of them that serves one of you Moreover if there be a hundred men in one Frigot more then in another will not they seek to get into that Frigot where there is most men and is not this one of their ends that they aime at viz so manie more men so manie more groats in the moneth And here they resemble their brethren the parish teachers who will strive to get that parish Church as they call it where there is most Tithes or the greatest benefice Now I say such are not Ministers of the Gospel neither doth the Lord send such to preach his word therefore cannot they profit you at all And again if they were Ministers of the word or appointed of God to teach you then they should be good examples to you which they are not in their pride in their covetousness and in their oppressing you in your wages neither are they good examples to you in their intemperate drinking until they be inflamed nor yet in their lightnesse and wantonnesse by which they cause you to erre And are not they inexcuseable for judging and reproving you for these things whilst they themselves are guiltie of the same But some will say that after they are rejected upon the Land they will serve poor sea-men And when you have them what are you benefited by them or what difference is there in your life and conversation that hath them and theirs that have them not hitherto I have perceived none for wickednesse and prophanesse abounds both among you that have them and also among them that have them not Therefore in love to your Souls am I moved to shew unto you a more exellent way of teaching then theirs which shall be free without monie and without price Heare now then O ye Sea-fairing men who practice Navigation have you not been sometimes in jeoperdie of your lives yea have not your hearts sometimes fainted and your souls even melted as it were within you by reason of the extremitie of fear and trouble that hath been upon you in perillous and tempesteous stormes And hath not there some thing even at that verie moment of time been awakened in you whereby you have in measure seen the wickedness of your condition and the sins of your youth now that which was thus awakned in you was Gods witnesse or the light which Christ Jesus the

Son of God hath enlightned you with all which from thenceforth if you had obeyed it it would have taught you the residue of your life to have lived godlily righteously and soberly in this present evil world it would have taught you to have forsaken drunkennesse pride covetousnesse lying swearing cursed speaking yea in few words it would have taught you the whole dutie of man which is to fear God and keep his commandements And this is that teacher the excellencie of whose teaching excels your Chaplines For they teach you to believe that the Scripture is the light and the word and the power of God but this will teach you to believe that he is the light Joh. 5.39 Rom. 1.16 and the word of whom the Scripture doth testifie and that the Gospel is the power of God according to the Scripture They will teach you by an hour glass it may be two or three hours in the week but this teacher will not be limited to an hour to a time nor yet to a place but is alwayes present with you to teach you the fear of the Lord. 2 Tim. 3. They through their Ministry may keep you alwayes learning and yet not be able to bring you to the knowledge of the truth but they who are taught by this come to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus this teacher will teach you freely without money and without price but your Chaplaines must have a certain sum of money otherwise many of them would lay down their trade of Preaching This will teach you to sing with the spirit and with understanding 1 Cor. 14.15 but they will teach you to sing Davids conditions which he passed through and which many of you undergand not 1 Thes 5.22 This will teach you to pray with the spirit and with understanding but they will teach you to pray formally at set times as if the spirit were limited to a form and the holy one of Israel to a set certain hour This will teach you to shun evil in its appearance to avoid the pollutions of the world and to forsake sin and to abstain from it but they will teach you that you cannot escape the pollutions of the world while in the world Prov. 14.34 but that you must be polluted with them neither that you can be free from that which is a shame or a reproach to any people they will teach you to contend against that which reproveth you for sin and condemneth it in the flesh viz. the light in your conscience But it will teach you to love it to obey it to follow it though it judge you and reprove you it is for your good that you by it might be brought out of the things for which you are judged and reproved into peace with God who teacheth his people by this teacher whose teaching by it is a more excellent way of teaching then mans invention which many in these latter dayes have received by tradition of which sort your Chaplaines are who oppress you in your wages and teacheth for doctrines things which they ought not for filthy lucres sake 1 Tim. 3.3 as in those particulars before mentioned you may see which briefly I have instanced but many more might be alleadged whereby it might be more evidently manifested that the way by which God teacheth in the light doth far excell the teachings of your Chaplains 1 Joh. 2.27 and this teacher whereof I speak is that which teacheth of all things which is truth and no lie which abode in the Saints and abideth in them and as it taught them so were they to abide in him who is light Christ Jesus and then they needed neither Priest nor Chaplain nor any man to teach them and they that come to witness the teachings of this teacher the annointing they need not say one to another know him who hath promised to teach his people himself even him whom the winds and Seas obey for such comes to know him and his teachings even from the least to the greatest Now if you would come to know this excellent way of teaching you must come to the light which sheweth you sin and evil and convinceth you of the same and then you 'l come to know its teachings guidings and leadings love it and you love Christ believe in it and you believe in Christ obey it and then you 'l obey him whom the winds and the sea obey therefore be not rebellious and stiff-necked O ye that sail upon the great deep but turn you unto the Lord at his reproof who secretly oftentimes doth reprove you for your sin and transgression whereby you have been long separated from God who doth not delight in the death of a sinner but rather in shewing of mercy O that you would be wise and learn to fear the Lord then should I with thousands more rejoyce in your Reformation And this I know that there are some among you which is daily burthened with the wickedness that abounds among you and yet scarce dare to reprove you finding so much in themselves that is reproveable but if such do keep to the light whereby that which is reproveable is manifested they will come to feel the opperaperation of the spirit of judgement and of the spirit of burning in themselves whereby they will come to be purified and then they may freely reprove that in another which is judged and condemned in themselves Truly O ye sea-fairing men my soul pitpittieth you Isay 57.20 when I consider that you are like the troubled Seas which casteth up mire and dirt your mirth and you melody your jesting and your folly your laughter and your vanity your pastime and your singing your storming your raging sometime against the wind sometime one against another alas what is it more then the mire and the dirt or the foam of the troubled Sea which is your figure I have also observed that it is hard to find a grave solid sober man in a ship that feareth God and worketh righteousness but upbraiding and provoking one another to naughtiness and folly superfluitie of that is to be found among you as if you should not be called to an account for it but O! let the time past suffice wherein you have done very foolishly and now learn to fear the Lord and let the wind and Sea which you have so much accasion for teach you to obey him who hath more delight in obedience to his voice then in burnt-offerings and sacrifices This is the day of your visitation wherein the hand of the Lords love is stretched out towards you 1 Sam. 15.22 and wherein he is waiting to be gracious unto you therefore now in this the day of the Lords everlasting power seek ye the things which belong to your peace while they may be found least the day come wherein they may be hid from your eyes in love to your souls is this Paper write and sent among you as a token of Gods visitation to you from one who hath viewed your condition and was moved with commiseration and pitty towards you who now hath time but how long you may have it you know not therefore while you have it prize it Amsterdam in Holland the 4. Mon. 1659. W. C. THe mighty day of the Lord is coming and he will teach his people himself who is gathering his people from all false shepherds and Christ Jesus the great Shepherd shall rule over them and teach them who will write his Law in their hearts and put his Law in their minds and he will be their God and they shall be his people Heb. 7. and his annoiting shall be in them and as that doth teach them they shall abide in the Son and in the Father and his spirit in them shall lead them and as that doth lead them they are the Sons of God and it shall lead them into all truth and it shall comfort them and bring all Christs words to their remembrance which he hath spoken forth and that spirit is it that doth reprove the world which is the Saints Comforter therefore to that that doth reprove you all must you come before you know the Comforter THE END