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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44901	A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable George Earl of Berkley, governour, and the Company of Merchants of England trading in the Levant seas At St. Peter's Church in Broadstreet, Nov. 18. 1683. By John Hughes, A.M. and Fellow of Baliol College in Oxon, and chaplain to his Excellency the Lord Chandois, ambassadour at Constantinople.	Hughes, John, b. 1651?	1683 (1683)	Wing H3313A; ESTC R202531	12,620	31

Man-kind from what 's to be considered in the next place II. The excellent ends and uses it serves too Which in general are to administer to the Necessities and Convenience of Humane Life by supplying the wants of every Country out of the abundance of others and that in a way to some places of absolute necessity to all of a much easier Conveyance than otherwise can be contriv'd And thereby making the Blessings of our bountiful Creator as diffusive as he intended them In which respect and by way of allusion the Philosophers Notion of the Sea may be allowed when he stiled it the Blood of the World For as the Blood Communicates life and nourishment and vigour to all the parts of our Bodies so does the Sea by the help of Navigation convey to each part of the World not only the Nourishment the Wealth and Commodities but the Life and Spirit the Manners Arts and Policies of other Countries so that no Nation be the gifts of Heaven dealt out to them in their own Soyl with ever so scanty an Hand can yet be destitute of the Conveniencies and Delights of Life unless through their own supine Negligence and Sloth For by this means the most barren parts of the Earth have been made fruitful and enriched The most rude and barbarous People Civiliz'd Thus came the dry and parched Sands and once Savage Inhabitants of Africa to flourish formerly with the Treasures Learning and Civility of the East with the Wealth of Asia and the Arts of Rome And thus at this day with the same do the once Barbarous and scarce Habitable parts of Europe flourish But the usefulness of this excellent Art is not confin'd to the needy but reaches those Countries to whom Nature is kindest For as the more Honourable Members of the Natural Body stand in need of those that are less Honourable And in Civil Societies the Rich are obliged to the Poor for their Labour as well as the Poor to the Rich for their Bounty So in the great Oeconomy of the World by the Wisdom of Providence to encourage Industry and promote a mutual Intercourse and good Correspondence amongst Mankind those parts that abound most and with the noblest Productions do yet as much want some of the Commodities of less fruitful Countries as these do the best of theirs and are glad to exchange Gold for Iron or Lead or Tin and Silk for Wool So Publick so Universal a Good is Shipping Not sought out only for the Benefit of a Family or a City or a Kingdom but of the whole World without which some places would want many of the Conveniencies of Life and all places would want some 'T is that which has opened the way for Conversation and brought Mankind acquainted with one another that has discover'd new Regions and Peopled the Earth and made great Nations that has made the World one by uniting the remotest Countries even those which Nature seem'd to have cut off from the rest and barr'd up from any Communication with them Whereas without it probably several parts of the Continent but to be sure every Island would to this day have continued so many lonesome unknown Worlds And have been left to struggle with the necessities of Nature in their own single Strength Because though a Communication between other places might be maintained with great Difficulty and Expence yet 't is impossible to find out another way for Islands to have an intercourse with one another or with the rest of the World And therefore it is absolutely necessary to the well being of them and consequently under the guidance of a wise and good Providence we are beholding to it for a great measure of our present happiness That the Roman Poets character of us does not hold true in a worse sense Divisos orbe Britannos And we are not cut off from the rest of the World in a participation of the blessings thereof as well as in our Situation Certainly there is no people under Heaven more indebted to the goodness of God than our selves for the invention of Shipping which is not only our support and ornament but our impregnable Fortress too That brings home to us the Treasures of the World and unloads them at our Doors and then secures us in the possession of them from the violence of our Neighbours 'T is this makes Gold and Silver so plentiful in our Streets that we come not much short of Israel in her Glory in the Reign of Solomon That our Land flows with Oyl and Wine and we abound with the Spices and Drugs of the East and rich Furs of the North. That all Nations in effect pay us tribute whilst Africa and America are embowell'd for us and pick out their choicest goods to present us yearly and besides the natural product of their respective Soyls we are serv'd with the sweat and labours of Europe and Asia in the best of their Manufactures So that we are a people wanting nothing but the knowledge and due sense of our own happiness More thankful hearts towards God and more grateful resentments towards his Vice-gerent under the influences of whose Wise and Gentle Government so many Blessings are heap'd upon us But these though very valuable Benefits are yet the least we have receiv'd from Navigation For what is wealth or plenty without the skill to use it And what would it have signified to us if all those things we need and now fetch from forreign Countries did grow in our Native Soyl a had we still continued in our first rudeness and barbarity without the knowledge of such Arts as fit and apply those materials to the ends and purposes of Life For there 's scarce a difference between the not having and the not using a theng So that in respect of usefulness Arts and Plenty seem to be equal for Arts must starve without Plenty and Plenty cannot be decently mannag'd or scarce at all us'd without Arts But then these have deservedly had the pre-eminence in the esteem of the wiser part of mankind because they have this advantage of the other that they immediately fine and polish the minds of men and are the Ornaments of Humane Nature For which reason we are more oblig'd for the introduction of these amongst us than of plenty But then how came useful Arts first amongst the old Brittains Was it not by their Traffick with the Phoenicians and other Easterly Nations And was not this Island first brought to a tolerable pitch of civility by the Roman Conquest 'T is to Shipping then that we owe not only our wealth and plenty But our Learning and good Manners and most of our Handicrafts too That our buildings vie with Italy in Goodliness and Magnificence and the discipline of our Camp exceeds that of Sparta or Rome That our Schools flourish with the wisdom our Towns and Country with the civility of the old Greeks and Romans That Babylon in all her Pride did not out-do us in Merchandise nor