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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85917	The first lecture concerning navigation. Read publickly at Sr. Balthazar Gerbiers academy, at Bednall-Greene.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1649 (1649)	Wing G556; Thomason E574_14; ESTC R206292	6,706	17

THE FIRST LECTVRE Concerning NAVIGATION Read Publickly at Sr. Balthazar Gerbier's ACADEMY AT Bednall-Greene Septemb20th .1649 LONDON Printed by Gartrude Dawson 1649. The first Lecture concerning NAVIGATION AS the Deep declares at all times the mervellous wonders of that great Author guider and preserver of all things can it be otherwaies but a marvellous occup●tion and can it be but glorious to the mind of the creature to exercise it self on that whereon the spirit of God was pleased to move before all things were Certainly Navigation whereof we shall now treate cannot but afford a glorious delight to the mindes of lovers of knowledge as the Seas affords a world of wealth to those that make Navigation their Trade Is it not as rare as it is wonderfull That with an Instrument so little as an Astralabe is and ●ith that called a Sea Compas By the first to measure the Circles of the Heavens the height and distance of the Sunne and Stars by the second which hath neither mouth tongue legs nor hands man is told guided and shewen where East West North and South is not onely in the stediest case a vessel can be but when the moved waves tosseth the same as towards the Clouds and thence lets it reelas into an Abisme No wonder Salomon the wisest of all men said that the hardest to be found is the way a Ship makes through the Seas And is the wonder not the greater that it findes the straight course thereof through that vaste perpetuall moving and removing body as exactly when the firmament app●ars as black as Inck and all the lights of Heaven are covered with the Night as with an estinguisher as well as at the clearest day Is it not a wonder above wond●rs that after so many months Navigations that after such varieties changes of Winds intermixture of ●tormes the violence of tides so constantly changeable a Vessel arives to the mouth of an Harbour as straight as if it were a Ferry-boat drawn by acord fastened from one shoare to the other With the ●oyall Prophet David let all men say Qui descendunt mare in navibus facientes operationem in aquis multis ipsi viderunt opera Domini mirabilia ejus in profundo Dixit stetit spiritus pr●cella exaltati sunt fluctus ejus Ascendunt usque at coelos descendunt u●que ad abystos anima eorum in malis t●b●scebat Turbati sunt moti sunt sicut eb●ius omnis sap●entia eorum devorata est Et clamaverunt ad Dominum eum tribularentur de necessitatibus eorum eduxit eos Et statuit procellam ejus in auram siluerunt fluctus ejus Et laetati sunt quia siluerunt deduxit eos in portum voluntatis eorum confit●antur Domino misericordiae ejus mirabilia ejus filiis hominum That is They that go down to the Sea in Ships that doe businesse in great Waters These see the works ●f the Lord and his wonders in the deep For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy winde which lifteth up the waves thereof they mount up to the Heaven they go down again to the depths their soul is melted because of trouble They reel too and fro and stagger like a drunken man are at their wits end Then they cryed unto the Lord in their distresses He maketh the storm a calm so that the waves thereof are still Then are they glad because they be quiet so he bringeth them unto their desired haven Oh that men would praise the Lord for his go●dnesse and for his wonderfull works to the Children of men Psalm 106. Let u● then take profit of this present meditation wherein wee shall find the great benefit of the Art of Navigation in that it doth not onely serve for the transportation of men and goods from one part to the furthest of the world and towards the which God was n●t pleased to prescribe any high wayes for Carts nor Horses but to make men acquainted with all such parts in which God doth man●f●st the varieties of his power and of his bottomlesse treasuries so with Nations in some of which his divine fath●rly mercy is glorified and his justice made more apparent rendring man also more capable to participate of those numerous riches 〈…〉 what the Ind●an precious shoa●es are garnished with by all the golden bowels of the Earth where nature by the Sun beams is made capable of suc● productions by what the Mother w●mbe pearls is possest with by that wherwith Aarons breast was made so sh●ning gl●rious man loads his Vessels as freely as Carts on other grounds with the most ord●nary fruits and production of the Earth Spices and Balms for the preservation and restauration of man and in that plenty as common fields in other parts produce Pease and Turnips Flax and Trees for T●rp●ntine Navigation therefore may well be said to be for man a Science the most profitable of all Arts if man can make that use of it as may justly draw blessings unto him which is to be compast by doing that so earnestly wisht by the aforesaid King David Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse and for his wonderfull works to the children of men And by being as ready to labour in his cause in which no soul can suffer any ship-wrack as to hazard life ship and goods for transitory things Wee shall begin with the Sea and say first what it is and why it is called Ocean Concerning Navigation THE Sea is all the vast extent of Water which environs the Earth The Water hath been created by God in principio creavit Deus Coelum Terram Spiritus Domini ferebatur super aquas In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters This is confirmed by the writs of Moses in his Generation or of-spring of this World The water doth engender and maintains it self in the Sea the Rivers come from it and return to it The Egyptians have made foure Elements of each one whereof they have made two The one Male and the other Female They doe believe that the Ayre which engenders the winde is the Male and that which is loaden with clouds and which doth not stirre to be the Female They call the Water of the Sea Male and all other water Female They say that the Fire the flame whereof burns is Male and that which shineth without doing harm is the Female They doe believe that the hardest Earth as the Stons and Rocks are Males and doe give the name of Female to that which is maniable It is called the Ocean Sea by reason of its quick and continuall motion for Oris in Greek is to hasten or else it s called Oceane quasi Cianeus for it embraces the Rivers of the Earth It receives divers names according to the diversitie of places by the which it passes as the Sea of China India