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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

dum abiguntur iterum irruunt c. The Flyes that were sent to quarter in Egypt so pestered and plagued Pharaoh and his people that they could not take any rest they did so chase them and flye into their mouths and eyes Of the like restlesness are the Seas when once commissionated by the Lord. And also the Seas are calm and quiet when and at what time the Lord pleaseth to give out the word either to the winds or Seas Mark 4.39 Christ speaks but the word to that raging Sea that had so much disturbed his Disciples Bee still As if hee had said statim penitusque obmutesce Let us not hear any noise in you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fraenum hee put a bridle upon the mouth of the Sea or haltered it that it might rage no more Truly if God did not halter the Sea I wonder whither that unruly beast would carry our wooden horses Hee that has a mind to go to the Sea let him expect to meet with such waves as Jude speaks of hee calls them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ☞ rageing waves the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rageing signifies untamed wild waves roaring like the wild beasts in the Woods Forrests and wide Wildernesses of the World Some render the word fluctus maris Erasmus undae efferae maris Others Vndae maris efferatae Hee that will to Sea must look for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rageing and boysterous waves One Poet call them Fluctus truces cruel and terrible Another calls them Latrantes undae barking waves Another calls them Rapidas aquas Observ 6 That as the Lord hath set times of chastning of those that go in the deeps with dangerous storms So has hee also his set times for comforting of them again Hee maketh the storm a calm The Lord makes them amends after a rugged storm How little should any that have this Observ 7 powerful God for theirs Quid timet hominem mare homo in finu Dei positus What needs that ma● fear that lies under the protection of heaven bee dismayed with or in the dreadfullest Seas and stormiest weather that ever blew Hee maketh the storm a calm It was a good saying of an Heathen Since God quoth Socrates unto a sort of Heathen is so careful for you wherefore need you bee so careful for your selves Numa Pompilius put so much confidence in the Gods that one day when it was told him that his enemies were up in arms against him his answer was And I sacrifice That if God did not bridle the fury of Observ 8 the raging Sea and the Tempestuous wind neither the Mariners skill nor the strength of shipping could preserve them Vers 30. Then are they glad because they bee quiet THese words offer us two things 1. The Sea-mans cheerfulnesse Then are they glad 2. The reason of it Because they bee quiet Before every drop seemed to fight one against another but at the Lords Commandement the Seas are still as if they were of a congealed Ice and this administers matter of comfort to them that go down into the Seas Observ 1 That Gods saving and delivering mercies from the jaws of death in and upon the great and dangerous Seas are both very heart-affecting delighting glorious and wonderfull joyous to behold Then are they glad c. Now have they cause to sing Psal 126.3 The Lord hath done great things for us whereof wee are glad Observ 2 That although Sea-men bee often put to mourning and unto prayer it is but for a time the end and issue thereof frequently terminates in joy and praise Then are they glad c. When Bishop Jewel was in his banishment hee comforted himself with this Haec non dur●bunt aetatem This will not last alwaies Observ 3 That it is no smal comfort and obligation that is put upon any soul in the Sea to have experience of Gods regarding of his Prayer and granting of his requests Then are they glad c. This was Davids resolution Oh let it bee yours souls that go in the Seas Psal 116. I will love the Lord why because hee hath heard my voice If God did not hear your cries in stormy Seas I wonder what would have become of you ere this day Observ 4 That deliverances out of Sea-perils administer matter of great joy to gratious hearts that God is pleased both to trust them and to empley them also in further service for his glory Then are they glad c. That the generality of men do affect Observ 5 quietnesse calmnesse and peaceablenesse In storms Itur ad aethereas per magna pericula sedes both at Sea and Land Then are they glad c. When England in her late wars was tossed like a ship in a storm how gladly did all the good and honest hearts of the Nation wish for peace and a good harbour for her to ride in Horat. Od. 14. lib. 1. O navis referent in mare te novi Fluctus O quid agis fortiter occupa portum c. But alas wee have a great many of male-contented incendiaries in the land that play the Pazzians parts in Florence of whom it is said that to draw and drive on a multitude to their conspiracy in the market-place they would cry Liberty Liberty when indeed and in truth they intended to bring the people into misery and thraldom It has been thus by the Anabaptists and other Schismaticks in the Land But these sort of cattel are like the Porphyrius There be many low-fortuned Pedanticks in England that would gladly be the Princes and the Governors of it May I not say of such be they in authority or out of it as one said of Ventidius Bassus when made of a Mule-driver a Consul at Rome That they had spoiled a good Mul●●er and not made a good Consul which is a Serpent that is full of poyson but toothless There is a Sect of divers forlorn creatures in England that have a great deal of poyson in their bowels against the present Government and indeed all civil order but they are toothless It is a very sad sight may I speak of it to think that an Italian Traveller should say thus of England ☞ when hee had been in it some late years agoe There be a thousand villanous things to be seen in England that former ages would have blushed at and been ashamed of England deals with good government as the great Student did with his wife of whom it is said that he studied so much that he neglected her and chiding of him shee wished her self a book what book quoth he I wish thou wert an Almanack then should I have a new one every year 1. That hee saw a general contempt of the Worship Word and Ministers of God in it 2. A great deal of pride in apparrel 3. Covetousness and imperiousness in Superiours 4. Sedition and seditious practices against Magistracy 5. A general supine carelesness

other persons do though prophane I dare maintain it that one godly holy and powerful conscientious Minister doth more good in an hour mistake mee not I countenance no prophane men in the Ministry than such do Travellers write that in Padus Justice is described in a publick place betwixt a pair of Soules and a Sword with those two verses in her mouth Reddo cuique suum sanctis legibus omne Consilio mort de genus ne crimine vivat These Verses have little handsom●ess or ●●oothness in th●●● to come from such a famous University as it is renowned to bee yet it the sense extream good And I hope that you th●● are in Power will will by this soule towards them 〈…〉 the Sea● or can do by their whole years service Many quarrel with the Ministry and alas the fault it not in the Sun but in the Owl Non crimen Phaebus noctua crimen habet Better might the Sun bee spared said a people of Chrysostome than a preaching faithful Ministry The Ministry is compared in Scripture to the most needful things Bread Salt Water Physick Armour and who can spare any of these What are Ships or Countries without the Word but Fabricks and Nests of Drunkards Adulterers and piping Tiplers yea far worse than Newgate But I question not but that your Honours are great favourers and prizers of learning and I pray God make them all so that are in power and authority over us I hope you see enough of the folly the hair-braindness and giddiness of the illiterate in this age which swarms amongst us both at Sea and Land and who so forward rash bold and precipitant as the ignorant even upon every design that the Ignis fatuus of their stupid brain leads them to Lapidandi sunt Haeretici non tantum sacrarum literarum argumentis as Let this age bee a president for future ages to have a care of themselves The University of Cambridge I have observed hath for her Arms a book clasped betwixt four Lions and Oxford a book open betwixt three Crowns hereby signifying that English men may not onely study the liberal Arts closely and quietly but also profess them publickly and openly being guarded with the Lion and the Crown protected thereby and encouraged thereunto by Royal charters The Lord knows I took little contentment in the Sea amongst that pack of rude and disorderly swearing and prophane wretches that goe in it Our Saviour Christ hyed him to the wilderness amongst the beasts and carried his Disciples with him holding their fellowship to bee less hurtful and dangerous Frater fui Draconum sayes Job 30. Inter Scorpiones habitavi said Ezek. chap. 2. Better live amongst Beasts than beastly minded men and Princely priviledges The University of Heidelbergh hath for her Arms a Lion holding a book in his paw intimating that persons of honour quality and authority ought to bee both favourers countenancers and also upholders of all good literature But to come to a period My Lords and Gentlemen I do acknowledge my self to be much ingaged unto some of you for which I am very thankful to come out of your debt I knew no better way than the presentation of this small Treatise which I hope will prove both savoury and also delightful in the reading Your names are famous in this our Land both for unknown valour and unparalleld piety the smell whereof like the sweetness of the Panther goes far and near and travels both Sea and Land over God make you still instruments of his gory and more and more multiply his graces in you that you may bee pillars in our Church adorning your Religion which as your best ornament adorneth you and gracing that truth by your holy profession and practice which above all other titles will most inoble you and make you truly noble in this world both in the sight of God and all good men and eternize you in the life to come The which shall bee the hearty prayer of mee who present you with this peece of my hard pains and of my experiences whilst in the Sea And so shall ever remain much devoted to Your Lordships and Honours in all Christian duty and service DANIEL PELL From my Study at my Lady Hungarfords in Hungarford house upon the Strand London May 4. 1659. To the Right Worshipful Mr. MATHEW GILEY Esq Daniel Pell Wisheth all happiness and comfort both in this life and in the life to come Reverend and Noble Sir IF Anatomists tell true that there is a certain concave in the heart in which little cell lies all the best affections then shall I not onely promise you but assure you that you have them all I do affectionately speak it Si de capite tuo sicuti Minervam ferunt ex Jove natus essem non major afflueret amor quam tibi manat I am constrained to tell your Worship that I am acted like the Sea by the Moon whose operation if Philosophers tell true sets the Sea the worlds great wonder on an ebbing and reflowing The like power and influence has your transcendent worth and goodness over mee besides the many and unexpected kindnesses and Christian favours that I have now received from you and your religious and vertuous family and am still likely to have conferred upon mee that I cannot but break out into a torrent of admiration of thankfulness unto you and could I write those respects which I bear to you again for them Thankfulness in men was a thing that Helidor much prised and looked for when he said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gratitudo viro sapienti pulcherrimum munus Sir They are but my Iuvenilia's yet I hope that you will esteem of them and bid them welcome with a Ray of the Sun as once Aurelius the Roman Emperour wished to doe I would Certainly Ego sim planè perditus inhumanus si egregiam tuam mihi tam perspectam in me pietatem benevolentiam fidem ex animo deinceps affluere aut elabi patiar Nay should I not bee an Adinstar Mecaenatis annuli in quo Rana fuit ex Insula quapiam ubi ranae perpetuo silent If I should not acknowledge my many engagements unto your worthiness It was a notable saying of Seneca sayes hee si ingratum dixeris c. let mee but hear of a man that is unthankful and you need to say no more of him to mee I know then well enough what hee is Worthy Sir I would not for a world lye under such a censure to your merit De tuis innumerabilibus in me amoribus nullum nec finem nec modum facio cogitandi To put you out of all questioning of that I here present you with the best praelibamen or principium of that great and high respect that I do bear you and can for the present procure you from which you may expect and shall assuredly find hereafter far greater acknowledgments and it is namely My Nec

neither canst thou ever perform what thou hast vowed to whom hee replied in the storm Vers 26. Their soul is melt●d because of trouble They are even ready to dye at this time Junius understands it of extreme vomiting as if they that used the Seas were casting up their very hearts many times Anacharses for this very cause doubted whether hee should reckon Mariners amongst the living or amongst the dead And another said that any man will go to Sea at first I wonder not but to go a second time thither is little better than madness very softly and silently lest St. Christopher should hear him Hold thy peace thou fool dost thou think that I ever meant it if ever I recover shore the Devil take mee if ever hee gets as much as a small tallow candle of mee or the pairing of my nails Make you the Application 20. Beleeve that all storms that come upon you are of the Lords raising and commissionating I have met with this passage which was found sayes history in a Council above a thousand years ago Si quis credit quod Diabolus tonitrua fulgura tempestates sua authoritate sicut Priscillianus dixit Anathema This Canon was made against such as did simply attribute storms tempests thundrings and lightnings c. to the Devil and not to God as if so be that he should be the causer and the procurer of them whosoever beleeves this said the Council as Priscillianus hath done let him bee an Anathema But without any further wording of it to you I freely bestow this peece of my Nec inter vivos Nec inter mortuos upon you all that use the Seas and beg your acceptance of it The God of Heaven grant it may do you good read it heed it yee need it pray for mee and I shall not bee wanting in my prayers for you that God would bless and prosper you in your imployments and thus hee that takes his ultimum vale of you and the Sea rests Gentlemen Yours to serve you in the service of Christ DANIEL PELL From my Study at my Lady Hungarfords in Hungarford House upon the Strand London May 4. 1659. THE EPISTLE TO THE Christian Readers Whether at Sea or on Land Good Readers I Would very freely invite you had I but that chear that I judge you deservedly worthy of Let this Epistle bee thy Janisary or Pole-star to the perusal of this book The stars that do attend the Artick-pole are the greater and lesser Bear and the least star in the lesser Bears tail is called the Pole-star by reason of its nearness to it and this is the guide of the Mariners as Ovid in his Epistle sings it You great and lesser Bears whose stars do guide Sydonian and Grecian ships that glyde Even you whose Poles do view this c. if you therefore will come to such Fare as hath been provided dished cooked and prepared upon the Sea for you you shall bee freely and heartily welcome and in your coming take this Advertisement along with you or else you had better let it alone Guests that are invited unto some Grandee King Lord or Prince 1. Respect with great desire the hour of his feast and so give their diligent attendance that they may come in a decent seemly and orderly manner 2. That nothing pleaseth the Prince better than to see them feed soundly on the meat dished and prepared for them 3. They are cautelous that they do not speak any thing that may bee in the least offensive to the person that invited them 4. They do not statim by and by depart but stay and sit a while and interchange familiar conference with the Prince 5. At their departure they yeeld a great deal of reverence returning him a thousand humble thanks for the favour vouchsafed them offering themselves ready at his service I question not your wisdome in the applying of what is before you The strongest Arguments that I can lay you down that did put mee upon this laborious business in a restless unquiet and disconsolatory Sea were such as these 1. It was the good pleasure of the Lord to draw and hale mee to undertake it by a strong and an unwithstanding impulsiveness that lay every day upon my heart and spirit till I went about it 2. To reprove that spirit of machless and unknown prophaneness that is amongst many thousands that use the Seas 3. To that end they might bee healed in their souls amended and reformed in their lives and practices 4. Because I never saw any thing writ unto them as suitable to and for their imployment the want of which did the more affectionately lead mee on for the good of their souls 5. Because I bear an extraordinary strong love to the souls of those that go down into the Seas and would as gladly have them saved in the day of the Lord as I would my self 6. Because I would have the world to know a little what perils and hazzards those that use the Seas do run thorow and meet with all in their imployments 7. What Ulysses's commendation was by Homer I shall say of them that use the Seas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hee knew the Cities and manners of many people They see many brave Cities and Countries that could not bee seen were it not for shipping Our Gentry travel both Sea and Land with much bodily hazzard and with great expence of state and all but to get a little more knowledge of fashions and a gentile behaviour To let the world know what works and wonders of the Lord those do see that go into the Seas and beyond them 8. To that end the world might know what great preservations and deliverances the Lord bestows upon them in their affairs 9. To that end the world might know I made some improvement of my time when at Sea for I never affected the mis-spending of one day all the time I was in it but lived though amongst men as if not amongst them Mihi musis knowing that time is precious and tarries not Vpon a Dialpeece of a Clock in the Colledge Church of Glocester are portrayed four Angels each of them seeming to say something to those that look up to observe the hour of the day which is made up of two old Latine verses 1. An labor an requies 2. Sic transit gloria mundi 3. Praeterit iste dies 4. Nescitur origo secundi Englished Whether you rest or labour work or play The world and glory of it passes away This day is past or near its period grown The next succeeding is to us unknown 10. And lastly To that end all the Lords people would bee mindful of those that use the Seas They are like to a direct North-Dial that hath but morning and evening hours on it They are far from good means on land pray for them and not forget them in their most serious and solemn addresses unto their God They stand in need

of being prayed for Job 9.26 They are called in that place Ships of desire 1. When a man sees a goodly and a stately ship that is then a ship of desire 2. A Merchants longing for his ships good return home is a ship of desire 3. A ship of desire is a swift Pinnace o● a Pyrats Bark or Vessel that is made on purpose for the prey to out-sail all others But to proceed Let mee tell thee Good Reader before I take my leave of thee that I can say of and by my going to Sea for which I had as clear a all to as ever man had to any place in this world as a good man once said who had lyon a long time in prison in the primitive times of persecution I have quoth hee got no harm by this No more harm hath all my troubles at Sea done my inward man than a going up to the rops of those mountains hath done them that have made the trial where neither Winds Clouds nor Rain doth over-top them and such as have been upon them do affirm that there is a wonderful clear skye over head though Clouds below pour down rains and break forth in thunder and lightning to the terrour of them that are at the bottome yet at the top there is no such matter Mee thinks I have heard the Seas say unto mee Vide hic mare hic venti hic pericula disce sapere See how ready the Winds and Seas are at Gods beck and wilt not thou fear him If I may tell thee my experiences of Gods doing of my soul good in the Seas then can I tell thee thus much bee it spoken to the praise of that sweet God whom I serve and honour that I have got no harm by going to Sea but a great deal of good both to my soul and also to my understanding and intellectual parts 1. I have learned by my going to Sea to love the world less than I did before Love not the world c. 1 Joh. 2.15 2. I have learned to know men and the world far better than I did before 3. I have learned to prize a life in heaven far before a reeling and staggering life here on earth 4. I have learned to bee far more shye and wary of sin than I was before because I found my self so fearful of death and drowning many times in storms when in the Seas I have read of a young man that lay on his death-bed and all that ever hee spoke whilst hee lived was this I am so sick that I cannot live and I am so sinful that I dare not dye It is good to keep clear of sin 5. I have learned to live upon God and to put my trust in him more than ever I did before so that I can comfortably speak it Psal 7.1 O Lord my God in thee doe I put my trust c. 6. I have seen more of the Creation by my going to Sea than ever I should have done if I had stayed on Land The Lord sets men the bounds of their habitations It is said of Lypsius that he took such delight in reading of a Book I wish that thou mayest as much in this that hee said Pluris faecio quum relego semper novum quum repetivi repetendum The more I read the more I am tilled on to read 7. I have learned to fear God more and to stand in awe of that God who hath the lives of all his creatures under his feet and is able to dispose both of a mans present and also future condition even as pleaseth him than ever I did before 8. I have learned to pray better and to ply the Throne of Grace oftner with my prayers for spiritual blessings than ever I did before 9 I have so learned Christ that I made it my work and businesse all the time I was at Sea to lead my life so as in the continual presence and aspect of the Lord Meer Heathens thought God to be every where as appears by their Jovis omnia plena Quascunque accesseris ora● Sub Jove semper eris c. Psal 16.8 I have set the Lord alwayes before me c. and so I lived and have lived both at Sea and also at Land that I shall give both foe and friend and friend and foe their liberty to speak and observe me as much as they can 10 I have learned to love my God more than ever I did before and if I had not I should appear to be a very rebellious Child As Demetrius Phalerius deceived the calamities of his Banishment by the sweetness of his Study so I the troublesome Seas and rude society by mine I know that this poor Peece of mine has in it its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Na●vi its blacks and spots its Human frailties which the good Lord remit yet in it is there truths Divine and things very profitable and worthy to be embraced in respect the Lord has done so much for me to preserve me and mercy me as hee hath done in a cruel Sea which is a place as the Poet sings Luctus ubique pavor plurima mortis imago Good Reader doest thou live in times of trouble and daies of danger then turn over this Book and thou wilt finde that there is a wise and a powerful God in the Heavens that sits at the Helm both of Sea and Land to preserve poor souls in them Wouldst thou hear of those Sights and Wonders of the Lord that those that goe down into the Seas doe see then will I commend this small Treatise to thee what delight fuller thing canst thou read than a Theam or Subject of the Sea and Sea affairs here mayest thou read and peruse this my Nec inter vivos nec inter mortuos which cost me much pains and get some good out of it When Nebuzaradan burnt the rubbish of the Temple hee kept the Gold c. Though in reading thou meetest with Creature-defects which I will assure thee was never writ upon Land but drawn up as I studied it upon water Libentèr omnibus omnes opes concesserim ut mihi liceat vi nulla interpellante isto modo in literis vivere Tully I would freely give all the good in the world that I might sit down in the world live and lead a studying life But it was the Lords will that I should travel in the great and wide Sea yet wilt thou meet with many a savoury truth if thou hast but a gracious heart in the brest of thee Accept of it My sute to you Readers is that upon your perusal of it you would seek the Lord in its behalf that it may doe good to them that use the Seas I begge the prayers of every godly and gracious Minister into whose hands peradventure it may come that he would pray that it may be instrumental to reform these People that goe in the Seas who stand in need of

instruction and I fear perish for want of it and also of knowledge I took the pains the Lord knows my heart upon no other account but to doe the Souls of those good that goe down into the Seas and it shall bee my prayer perpetually that God would prosper this poor and imbecil Peece to every one of their Souls certainly that God that put me upon the dressing of this wholsom and savoury Dish for them will blesse it to them Which that it may be shall be the hearty and constant prayer of mee for you and them that the ever-living all powerful and most gracious God would fire and enflame your hearts and theirs in all the duties of holinesse that both you that sit on Land and they that goe to Sea may find his favour and such acceptance as may sweeten your Souls and theirs in the saddest seasons So prayeth he that is Yours willing to serve you in Soul affairs DANIEL PELL Study at my Lady Hungarfords in Hungarford House upon the Strand London May 4. 1659 Reader IT is impossible that any Book should come from the Press void of Errata's provided thou knowest what belongs to Printing therefore what thou findest amiss in much meekness correct for it is neither the fault of the Author nor the minde of the Printer THE PROOEMIUM I Question not but that the gallant Englishmans rare Navigating Art and deserving Science is an Art out-stripping Arts. Who will deny but Ignoramus's that this Art carries the Poop-lanthorn or the high-hoised Maintop-light and many others for their inferiority and indignity come on Stern If any will go about to set up their own what would such do but Splendente Sole lucernam accendere light up dim burning Torches or Candles in the shining Sun Who will say that this pre-excelling Art is not an Art of exquisite Excellency Rarity Mirability and Ingenuity Who will say that this Art brings not in fair Engleterra's Wealth her Silks her Wines her Sugars Spices Stuffs her Silver and her Gold besides many other innumerable and unreckonable Commodities Whence came Solomon to and by all his Gold Precious Stones Silver Ivory Apes Peacocks Almug-trees was it not by shipping He built himself a Fleet of Ships 1 King 9.26 27 28. which were employed and sent about to that very end and purpose to fetch unto Jerusalem the Gold of Ophir and those other Barbary Commodities And how should we come by the Silver Mynes in Hispaniola and those inestimable Riches that lye in great abundance in those remote Occidental and Oriental parts of the World if we built not Ships and sent them out unto them The Riches that are in other Nations and Countries will not come to as we must go down to Sea to them and for them if we would have them These Lads are Masters o● the Seas and the greatest Princes that ever crossed the salt waters They beat their enemies in the Seas make them run as fast before them as ever the Bezar ran or runs before the dogs of whom it s said Cupiens evadere damno Testiculorum adeo medicatum intelligit inguen rather than lose his life he bites them off his stones when an enemy is pursued out of fear goes overboard his Cask next his Chests and then his Boat or any thing that may but lighten his vessel to escape his hungry followers Who will say that this Art under God is not Englands safety from Forinsical Invasions If not let that Octogesimus Octavus Mirabilis Annus speak in which was that desperate attempt that the Spaniard made against this Nation under God that little shipping that was then at that time in England was wonderfully instrumental to scatter and break to pieces their long hatched and contrived purposes Oh England England write this and all thy other deliverances from those dreadful fulminations of Rome in aereis memoriae tuae foliis in the brassy leaves of a never-dying memory write them down I 'll say again with the Pen of a Diamond What would have become of England if we look but into nearer times viz. in our late Wars with Holland and the French if we had not had warlike Ships out at Sea both to have boxed them and broke their bones Under God this shipping that is in England has been instrumental to keep the Inhabitants of our Nation in their Possessions Houses Lands and Livings which otherwise would have been most miserably hazarded and prey'd upon ere this day by a multitude of truculent and unmerciful Wretches It s said of Constantinople that it is sufficiently fortified with three sorts of Bulwarks 1. With Wood 2. With Stones 3. With Bones By Wood is meant their warlike Ships which they keep out at Sea in the defence of the City and their Sea-Port Towne By Stones is meant their thick and impenetrable Walls which is round about the City And by Bones is understood an invincible Number of stout Sword-handling men to fight any Enemy that shall or dare oppose them Such a threefold Bulwark as this is the onely way to keep up England in a flourishing estate and posture and that in despight both of the Devil and all its Adversaries Our warlike Ships are the best Walls and Sea-Port Castles that be about the whole Nation of England keep but them up and bid a button for the World Our warlike Ships at Sea are to us in England what those Canes Allatrantes sive Stridentes Anseres were to the Romans which kept their Capitol by whose barking and galling if any attempted those Treasury-Houses Give but chase unto one of these Coast-creeping Pirats and alas he is but a Virfugiens hand moratur lyrae strepitum he will not stay to dance after the Musick of a lower Tyre of our Ordnance but runs from us like the frantick Satyr who had no sooner blown his horn but ran away amazed in the sound of it the Citizens were presently up in Arms. Englands safety lies in keeping out their Gun-barking and Gun-fighting Ships upon the Seas which scare our Enemies more than if the Devil were amongst them Nay they are as much terrified at the sight of one of our Warlike Frigots as ever Brutus was with that Malus Genius that disquieted him the night before he died Nay they are as fearful of them as ever the Burgundians were of every Thistle they did see which they thought was a Lance and every Tree a Man and every Man a Devil Every great Ship the Pirate sees in the Sea he takes for a Statesman of War Non ita Bovem Argus Argus never kept his transformed Io nor that watchful Dragon the Golden-fleece nor Cerberus the coming in of Hell so narrowly as our vigilant and watchful warlike Frigots do the Coasts and Shipping of this Land and Nation And indeed there is great necessity that they should act and bestir themselves with a Juno's-like jealousie a Danae's custody and an Argus's vigilancy for had they as many hands as Bryareus

lines by and out of which hee that has a seeing eye may read profitable and singular Divinity lectures that they are greatly to blame There bee many tender-hearted people on Land that would even melt into tears if they did either see or know but of the one half of what you both see and know But what is it I pray for a man to see nothing but whiteness in the Lilly redness in the Rose purple in the Violet lustre in the Stars or perfuming sweetness in the Musk c. other creatures see this as well as you if you make no better use of these things Plutarch's little Bee when it spoke could say Ex fl●sculis succum mellis colligere cum alii non delectentur nisi colore odore I could gather hony out of any flower whilst others passed by and would not light upon it 2. Do what ever in you lyes to get a seeing eye for want of which some in their travels are but meer beetles Nycticoracis oculos habéntes or men that carry their eyes in their heels when they should have had them in their heads A seeing eye will affect the heart let a man go where hee will in the World Lament 3.51 Mine eye affecteth my heart I wish that every poor Sea-man in the world were so spiritual Sea-men might gather rare documents from the creatures as the little decimo se●tos that be both in the Sea and Land as the small fish that are in the Sea the Dove Aut that are on the Land as well as from the great folios of the Whale and Elephant c. that every thing that hee sees in the Sea or on the Land affected his heart Holy David was so heavenly that hee could lay his eye upon nothing that his heart was not affected with Psal 148.8 9 10. One while his eye was upon Fixe another while upon Hail one while upon Snow and another while upon Vapour one while upon the stormy Wind and another while upon the Mountains Hills Trees Beasts Cattel Creeping-things and flying Foul c. and none of these but his heart was exceedingly affected and taken in the thinking and beholding of them Again says Solomon Prov. 15.30 The light of the eyes rejoyceth the heart Give me leave to speak one concluding word unto you who are so much as it were in the heart and garden of the world as you are you might pluck many a sweet and savoury flower to make nosegays of I may say of the Sea and the forein parts of the world what one once said of the Sacred Bible that there was evermore aliquid revisentibus Something to see again again to serve you to smel on in your hearts all the dayes of your lives A gratious heart will evermore bee drawing out good observations out of the creature and will take an occasion to breathe after God in every strange thing it sees or enjoyes A goodly Ancient being asked by a prophane Philosopher How hee could contemplate high things sith hee had no books wisely answered that hee had the whole world for his book ready open at all times and in all places and that therein hee could read things Divine and Heavenly Bees will suck hony out of flowers that flies cannot do But to proceed 2. The next thing is to insist a little upon those singular and providential preservations and deliverances that Sea-men meet withall in their navigable employments My last work you know was to set before you a Praelibamen or a small parcel of the works of God that they behold in their travels and my next task is to prefix a few of those works which may very properly and pertinently bee called Opera conservationis works of mercy and preservation from and out of those many dreadful dangers and life-hazarding perils that they do run in the stormy and raging Seas And before I begin arenam descendere to enter upon them I will lay this proposition before you Observ 4 That the Sea-man of all the men under the whole Heavens none excepted is one that is both a partaker and a seer of the greatest and remarkablest of temporal deliverances These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep The course that I shall shape and steer in the handling of this doctrine will bee in these following Corollaries that I shall lay down before you the divulging of which unto the world cannot but advance and exalt my Masters name And I hope it will lye as an engagement upon the hearts of the godly as it was upon Davids to love and fear that God the more that bestows such great and so many undeserved preservations upon them that go in the Seas For this reason is it that I do take upon mee to call their deliverances to mind because their dangers and their preservations are not known to every one the major sort of people that live on Land are not acquainted with the things that I shall sing of My Song shall now bee th●t of Virgils ab ●ove principium now I will make it my business to present you with some of them though indeed not the one half of what I might and what others who are more knowing in them might tell you of And if you will but give mee that audience and attention that the beasts of the field the fouls of the air gave unto Orpheus's musick that is all I will desire of you It is said of the Beasts of the field and of the Fouls of the aire that they forgot their several appetites who were some of prey some of game and othersome of quarrel some for one thing and some for another insomuch that they stood very peaceably and sociably listning to the Aires Tunes and Accords of the Harp and when the sound ceased or was drowned with some lowder noise then every beast returned to his own nature again To bee short the truth of it is they are very ear-delighting and heart-melting deliverances that I shall speak of and therefore they are both worthy reading and also hearing 1. They that go down to the Sea in ships are many times most dreadfully surprized and bewildered with dangerous and perilous leaks at which water comes gushing into their Vessels as it will out of a cistern or conduit-pipe when once the cock head is but turned about and it may bee when they are thus unexpectedly taken they are many an hundred mile from any port or Land to save their lives I and further to aggravate their misery they are not within the sight of any ship or ships to come and help them which is not onely an heart-akeing discouragement but an heart-casting-down condition Now goes the hand-pump and the chain-pump which they carry in their ships as fast as ever they can turn them about to throw out that water that springs in upon them and when they find the water to flow in upon them far faster than they can throw it

impower and commissionate for services of the bloodiest severity that may be as one of the worlds great wonders but it could not bee such was the fury of the fire and the rage of the Souldiers both of them undoubtedly set on by God so that the fire would not bee extinguished when they threw in both water and the blood of the slain into it Josephus tells us that Herod the King had for eight years together before the ruine of it imployed ten thousand men at work to beautifie it This was a very glorious thing yet how quickly brought down for the sinfulness of a people 1 Cor. 10.11 Now if these things came upon them for sin and security my application is this in short to you that use the Seas Take heed that your sins bring not storms shipwracks and fires upon you when you are in the Seas far from any land If you ask the reason why such a famous City was destroyed the answer is easily returned It was for sin And if you ask what is the reason of such and such Towns and Cities in the world have been fired the answer will bee That sin was the cause of it and so consequently of the ruine of all your ships 2. Because God will shew his power Reason 2 and let nothing-man know what a bubble a flower a helpless creature man is in the hands of his Maker Matth. 8.24 And behold there arose a great tempest in the Sea insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves but hee was asleep and his Disciples came to him and awoke him saying Lord save us wee perish Proud man is very prone to ascribe that to himself which is absolutely and properly due unto the Lord Proud man is oftentimes priding of himself with high thoughts of himself what he is in point of wisdome parts art and skill but when God puts him to the trial hee is a meer nothing Bulla vitrum glacies flos fabula faeuum Vmbra Cinis punctum vo● sonus aura nihil and therefore God would undoubtedly teach man thus much in storms that there is no wisdome art skill or strength can carry him out of his dangers but it must be God alone that must do it for them But many Sea-men are like to Aprogis that Egyptian Tyrant in many of their storms and dangers of whom it is said that hee was grown to such an height of pride and impiety and contempt of God that hee professed that hee held his Kingdome so safe Ut à nemine Deorum aut hominum sibi eripi possit Behold what a weakling the Sailor is in a storm Isa 33.23 Thy tacklings are loosed they could not well strengthen their Mast they could not spread the sail that neither God nor men could take it from him but hath not God let you see an end of your vain thoughts and imaginations many and many a time and have you not run upon sands when you have purposed to come well home and have you not at other times run on rocks and gone into the very bottome amongst the dead when you have both confidently thought and said you would come safely to your Ports God oftentimes sufficiently convinces you what you are in your own strength and wisdome without him But to proceed 3. Because God would have some Reason 3 humbled God was forced to send a storm after Jonah before hee could get him to buckle to his work Jon. 2.1 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the Fishes belly Nulli rei natus es nauta nisi paenitentiae Sailor thou and every one is born for no other thing but for repenrance and the Lord knows there is none in the world or under the whole heavens that repents less than thou doest Rugged storms will both dissolve men and cause their eyes to run down in rivulets of tears yea it is an argument of a good heart to bee afraid of Gods righteous judgements when the stormy winds are out upon the Seas Good people look upon them as no other but the sword of the Lord that is drawn out of the Scabberd of his indignation which hee waves to and again over and upon the face of the great deeps which puts them upon begging and praying upon the bended knees of their hearts that God would put it up again 4. Because God would have some Reason 4 converted It is very probable and apparent Jonah 1.16 that that storm that came down upon the Mariners proved their conversion Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord and made vows Now they feared God whom they never owned knew nor feared before Storms have been the first converting Sermons that many a man ever met withall Yea God hath met with them in a storm Truly God is forced to do and deal with Sea-men many times as Land-men do with unruly Jades and unbacked horses when they have a minde to take them they must drive them up against some hedge gate or bank where they can neither get forwards nor backwards or else they can never halter them If God do not send down rowsing storms upon the Sailors heads that even threaten to rend both heaven and earth I fear they wil I never return nor come home to God whom a Sermon out of the Pulpit could never take nor reach I many have been caught in a storm that have stood at as great a distance and in as much opposition to God and his word as Ataliba that Indian Prince once did to Fryar Vincents book which hee presented to him withall telling him that it was a small Treatise of all the mysteries of salvation heaven and hell hee looked upon it and told the Gentleman that hee saw no such thing in it asking him withall how hee knew it Many who have heard the word and have said in effect they saw no such matter in it as the Preacher tells them of have been taken napping in a storm God sometimes takes here one and there one napping in a storm that could never bee catched in a calm The word converts but few at Sea but a dreadful storm may fetch in them whom a Sermon could not reach All ground is not alike some must have a shower some a clodding neither is all wood to be used alike some will plain and other some must be taken in the head with wedge and beetle Truly one would think that one of those fearful and most dreadful storms that fall now and then upon the Seas were and should bee sufficient to turn the heathenest Sailor that is in them into a very good and gracious Christian Quaedam fulmina aes ac ferrum liquefaciunt Some Thunders will soften both Brass and Iron and that is an hard heart surely that is not melted and converted before the Lord in those loud thundring claps of storm and tempest Reason 5 5. Because Sinners Swearers and Drunkards are in ships It is nothing but the

but it is an abiding and a staying upon them and turning of mercy upside down and looking first upon the one side and then upon the other that affects the heart 2. Take notice of the freeness of Gods dealings with you in the Seas if you would bee thankful to your God it is out of meer mercy and goodness without any merit or desert in you and though there bee much sinfulness amongst you swearing by the highest in Heaven and by the vilest in Hell Ah Sirs I wish I could get you to minde what God doth for you and that I could work upon you in what I have writ to you as Antonius de Padua once did upon the hearts of a people whom he once preached to he thundred so out of the holy Law of God that they would go one in the streets smiting of their breasts tears drilling down their eyes crying out Misericordia domine Misericordia Mercy Lord Mercy and all the abominable oaths that you cast forth in storms which is like to the mire and dirt the Sea casts up as the Prophet sayes yet doth God appear for you in them David was wonderfully affected with Gods dealings with him Gen. 32.10 2 Sam. 7.18 19. 3. Eye the seasonableness of all your Sea-deliverances God doth and ever did take the fittest time to accomplish every thing in Eccl. 3.1 To every thing there is a season Eccl. 3.1 And God makes every thing beautiful in his time vers 11. The season of the mercy puts a beauty and lustre upon it even as the Sun puts its beauty upon the Rainbow Was it not a seasonable mercy to the man that went from Jerusalem to Jericho and falling among Theeves had all that ever hee had taken from him I and more than that wounded and left for dead upon the ground and in that very juncture and extremity of time the good Samaritan comes providentially by and takes compassion of him Luke 10.33 That King Ahasuerus could not sleep in the night 1 King 17.18 19. before Mordecai should have been hanged of all the nights in the year besides and that a book should bee brought him and instead of other books which were his exercise the book of the Chronicles and of all places and passages in it that should bee turned to which had relation to Mordecaie's good service in discovering the Treason of the two Chamberlains which moved the King to save him from the Gallows Ah Sirs I would have you to say to your God what Luther once said before he was better informed to the Pope Leo 10 An. 1518. Prostratum pedibus me tibi offero cum omnibus quae sum habeo vocem tuam vocem Christi in te praefidentis loquentis agnoscam I humbly prostrate my self with all that I have and am at thy feet That when Peter was sinking Christ should then put forth his hand and still the waves Ah Sirs eye the seasonableness of all Gods mercies with you Mee thinks I hear many a gracious Sea-man say Ah wee had been drowned at such and such a time and cast away at such a time if God in his mercy had not prevented it 4. Minde the unexpectedness of delivering mercies at Sea I profess for my part when wee have been in storms and run upon sands I have thought it an impossible and a very unlikely thing to escape insomuch that I have had occasion to say as Sarah did to Abraham who would have thought it Gen. 21.7 Mercies come crouding in many times upon you that use the Seas unlooked for 5. Eye the mercies of God towards you in all those places that you either do or have traded into in the world how many Voyages thou hast made through and over the dangerous deeps and how God hath blessed thee prospered thee and delivered thee abroad gon out with thee and come home with thee Moses takes special notice of what God had done for Israel in bringing them out of Egypt and also of their journey through the wilderness of Canaan and so sets them all down in a local method in the Red Sea they passed through it on dry land Pharaoh and his host was drowned therein and in Rhephidim God gave them water out of the Rock Exod. 17. and victory over Amalek in the Wilderness of Sin At night and at morn they had flesh and Manna In Sinai God gave them his holy Law Exod. 16. Paul in a local method mindes the converting grace of God as to the place bestowed upon him at Damascus They that will go into the Elysian fields saies the Poet must over Acharon and Phlegeton and the several other Rivers of Hell before they can come into those pleasurable and delightful rich and flowery Meadows and so through many storms over the Seas before they can come at the beautiful and wealthy Countries in the forein parts of the world Vbi definit humanum auxilium ibi incupit divinum and his deliverance afterwards when hee was let down through the windows in a basket at Lystra Derbe and Iconium Act. 14. at Philippi Chap. 16. at Thessalonica Chap. 17. at Corinth Chap. 18. at Ephesus Chap. 19. c. But I proceed to a word of Application 1. Of Exhortation 2. Of Reproof Vse 1 1. Of Exhortation Is it thus then that God hath done all these things for you Ah Sirs bee exhorted to lay up all your Sea-deliverances let them lye the nearest your hearts of any thing in the whole world besides and let all your new mercies bee as goads in your sides and as spurs to a better life Vse 2 2. Of Reproof unto those that go down into the Seas and forget all their mercies and let them lye loose upon their hearts and spirits Sirs the Lord complains of you as hee did of Israel Jer. 3.8 When your condition was as Lyricus said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one wave after another passing over your heads then did the Lord appear for you but you have not come off like men with God in thankfulness Amos 4.6 to the 12. Thus and thus did I for you but you returned not to mee What shall not your escapes work upon you and shall not the ruines of others startle you how many Vessels bee there sunk in the Seas and you notwithstanding have come safe home out of them Ezek. 16.56 Thy sister Sodome was not mentioned c. the Chalde Paraphrast sayes was not for instruction the word in the Hebrew was not in thy mouth they had quite forgot the destruction of Sodome insomuch that it was neither in their thoughts nor mouthes The ruines of others is little thought of by you and your Sea-deliverances are forgot by you That miraculous eminent and remarkable Observ 9 Sea-mercies and deliverances benefit not hard flinty stony and impure hearts in the Seas Oh that men would praise the Lord. As if the Psalmist should say they have the greatest mercies of any people in the world bestowed