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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52761	A most pithy exhortation delivered in an eloquent oration to the watry generation aboard their admirall at Graves-End, by the Right Reverend, Mr. Hugh Peters, doctor of the chair for the famous university of Whitehall, and Chaplain in Ordinary to the high and mighty K. Oliver, the first of that name as it was took, verbatim, in short hand (when he delivered it) / by Mercurius Pragmaticus.	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.; Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.	1649 (1649)	Wing N397A; ESTC R12200	4,725	8

A MOST PITHY EXHORTATION Delivered in an Eloquent ORATION To the watry GENERATION Aboard their Admirall at Graves-end By the Right Reverend Mr HUGH PETERS Doctor of the Chair for the famous Universitie of Whitehall and Chaplain in ordinary to the High and Mighty K. OLIVER the first of that name as it was took verbatim in short hand when he delivered it By Mercurius Pragmaticus Printed in the Year M.DC.XLIX A MOST PITHY EXHORTATION DELIVERED In an Eloquent Oration to the watry Generation aboard their Admirall at GRAVES-END c. My true Trouts as ever water wet I Have hungred and thirsted to lift up my voice like a Trumpet amongst you and to pour forth my spirit upon you for ye are all flesh and that 's frail but I must teach your hands to war and your fingers to fight And that you may the better remember my words I mean to force them in with a malin-spike e'ne just as ye splice a Cable I understand you are very willing already to undertake this great work and the better to incourage ye I intend to clear your consciences of all scruples that may seem to hinder your cheerfulnesse in the businesse Ye know honest harb I have been at New-England and am not now to learn the difference between a dry Cabin and a great storm for my own part I had enough o' nt I had cast the platform of this blessed deliverance which we now enjoy in that sanctified soyl and could not rest till I came home to put it in practice Our work is now in the Finishers hands by Land and now we must pin our faiths upon your shoulders for our Sea successe it behoves you therefore to stand to your tackling for ye are to fight against principalities and powers That Reprobate RUPERT to give the Devil his due is able to fright ye all into an auger-hole but bear up your heads stifly do'nt ye run away like water-rats stand to your pease-pottage lustily there 's pork enough aboard to make brewis till ye eat and split again 'T would make a mans teeth water to think of your good bouls of lob-lolly and fat poor-Jack upon fish-daies But enough of this ● now to come to ye as I told ye having cleared this point I mean to handle the second part of my division in the same tune Ye know we have been long oppressed with that Arch-Traitor the King they may thank my Councel or his head had been on to plot mischief against the Saints to this day but I think we are rid of him now I was fain to stablish the heart and strengthen the hand of the cowardly Executioner or else the Fellow had melted into Malignancy for fear of that Scarcrow sentence Touch not mine Anointed but I hope t is better his head 's of then that this generation of Prophets should have had any harm Blades I think ye are sufficiently instructed in these state principles I shall now come to ye in a word of commendations I could have spoke a few Latin sentences to ye that has all your good qualities stowed in a little room but those was learnt in the time of Egyptian bondage only to have fitted me for a cringing Conformist and in this time of clear light and liberty t is a language as detestable as hard to be understood I must therfore tell ye at length in words issuing from a meek heart that I love a tarpauling for these four good qualities First because they pray so fervently when they are in danger though they swear as devoutly when the storm 's over and truly however it appears they have the gift of the spirit in them that they will take so much pains to pray at all Secondarily as for their Religion so for their honest dealings for I never knew any man complain of them without a just cause only the Custom-house-waiters have wink'd at many of their pretty passages between ship and shore Thirdly for their ingenuity for they are commonly as cunning horsons as can be and can over-reach the Devil or a Broker the length of a hawser Fourthly for their courage for they 'l do more mischief with one Demi-Culverin then Cromwel can with a whole Troop of Dragoons and one bottle of strong-waters will make a ships gang do more execution then 100 fire-locks they 'l fight with all the Turks in Christendom if they get them once between wind and water I know lads you cannot chuse but laugh to think what fine sport there will be betwixt you and the Princes ships 't will be bisket and beverage to you to be together by the ears with them and then some of ye may see the wonders of the deep I could speak nothing but 〈◊〉 and crackers fireworks and granadoes murderers and brasse basses Cannons and confusion to ye to make ye in love with the thoughts of a sea-fight such a one as I never saw nor I hope never shall but that I know y' had rather hav 't then hear on 't In the mean time consider with your selves and take comfort in 't 't will be a godlier sea-fight then that between your Ancestours and the Spanish Armado You have all the pillars of truth to support you in the Cause and those are as strong as can be established by Act of Parliament and I hope you have more grace then to build your faith upon any other foundation for the Scriptures if they be not with us they shall not seem to be against us for I believe your Ministers are not to learn how to stretch them home enough at sea as well as at land Again consider but what store of brave purchase there wil be instead of pay for you for they say the Rebels are richly laden and if you can but scape knocks and come off with credit I 'le get the Moderate Intelligencer to canonize ye for brave fellows and Harry Walker shal every Friday write your Admirals names in Hebrew that their fames may be read backwards For my own part I am resolved to take half a score texts out of the volume of your victories and preach whole pulpits ful of fire and smoke against your adversaries the wooden horse Cavaliery enough to make a Church stink as bad as Paul's dores of horse pisse For your Admirals they are all men of valour and love to defie danger as little as you doe only it wil not be fit that they should hazard their persons in the face of a fight but it wil be more necessaay that they go to Councel in the Hould whilst you bustle above Decks They are men of as good government as an Ordinance of Parliament can make them and I hope you 'l say that can set all things to rights or else how could we have hit the way hither I am confident you cannot but love them for their sakes that sent them ye and for my sake that commend them to ye and you know I do not use to praise honest men to their