bee compared to a man that runs up an high ladder and as soon as ever hee is got up to the highest stave of it down hee goes till hee comes unto the lowest and by and by hee returns unto the highest Solomon tels us Prov. 23.5 that the Eagle taketh wing and flyeth towards heaven but hee does not say that shee flies so high but it denotes that shee is one of the highest flying birds of any of the fouls under the Heavens Christ tels us also Matth. 11.23 that Capernaum was exalted unto Heaven when alas it was not so nor so because it was but an hyperbolical but rather an Ironical expression for Capernaum was so far from Heaven that her feet was rather upon the very threshold of Hell than Heaven as appears by the poynt shee steered by But this elegant Hyperbole of the Psalmists is to set forth the Sea-mans high soaring sursums and his down-falling deorsums They mount up almost as high as that caelestial 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is feigned to be Elemenci quarti nomen how that hee is one while carried upwards upon the swelling billows of the Seas even ad aulam astriferam as high as the starry mansions and bespangled roofs of Heaven and then by and by they are returned down again 2. They go down again to break up this word unto you there is nothing difficult in it onely wee may take notice that their descension in storms is not gradatim or pedetentim but rather in the violentest manner that can bee even as a stone that is hurled up in the air it will not tarry there any longer than the strength of the hand is upon it and then it will down again because it covets to bee at its Center So the weightier any thing is the speedier is and will bee the descent of it I am confident it would produce many a gallon of salt tears from the eyes of the godly that are on Land if there were but a possibility of their seeing of ships how they labour rock and reel ascend and descend in the restless Seas in time of storms for by and by they are to bee seen anon they are not to bee seen but as if they were covered all over in the Seas That Sea-men are the nearest Heaven Observation 1 of any people in the world when they are once got up upon the back of an high-rising water-billow They mount up to Heaven c. These are the onely cloud-climbing lads of the world Sea men are like to the pinnacles that are praefixed upon all high battlements which point upwards to Heaven but poyse downwards to their center Exod. 8.15 Whilst the judgments of God were upon Pharaoh he was some thing conformable but when the storm was over he was as vile as ever and none go so near or are so fair for Heaven as Sea-men are seems the Psalmist to say but let mee add this pray God they ever come there my prayers shall bee for them 1 Sam. 12.23 Moreover as for mee God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you but I will teach you the good and right way Vers 24. Onely fear the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart for consider how great things hee hath done for you For I fear that many an hundred Sea-man when hee is got up to the top of an high water promontory in the Sea that hee is as near Heaven as ever hee will bee It was once said of one that preached well and lived ill upon a time when in the pulpit some importunate messenger or other came for him to come out of the Church but one of his auditors made answer Oh let him alone for hee is as near Heaven as ever hee will bee So I may say it is a thousand pitties that ever some Sea-men should come off and down from the high-towering waves of the Seas because they are in those stormy times peradventure nearer Heaven than ever they will bee when they come on Land again Observation 2 That all Sea-men generally without all exception whether they bee young or whether they bee old both do and shall assuredly go to heaven They mount up to the heaven Me thinks the Sea-man likes mee well in the laying down of this proposition and the godly on the other hand look very strangely upon it and so consequently conclude I knovv Sea-men are as confident of going to Heaven the Lord help them as the Turks either are or can bee of that lock vvhich they keep upon the top of their crownes that they shall bee dravvn up into Paradise by Pray God Sea-men vvould once forsake their confidence and then there vvould bee some hopes of them that I have no warrant nor ground in Scripture to build it upon To clear up the point unto you I would have you to observe that there are two parts in it 1. That they do go to Heaven 2. That they shall all go thither For the first of these that they do go thither I would have you to understand mee rightly without any misconstruction I will have nothing to doe with their Salvation in this point for that is as doubtful to mee as Solomon's was to Toledo the Arch-Bishop who weighing that much-disputed controversie whether Solomon was saved or damned and not being satisfied with their arguments caused Solomon to bee pictured upon the walls of his Chapel the one half in hell and the other half in heaven There be three Heavens 1. Coelum Aerium 2. Coelum Astriferum 3. Coelum Beatorum It is not the latter novv they go to in storms but the tvvo former But to the point in hand that you may understand my meaning in it take notice that it is stormy and tempestuous weather that Sea-men go to Heaven in even then when the winds lift up the waves of the Seas by which and upon which thay are in this sense transported unto Heaven what they do or whither they go when dead I have nothing to do to judge and therefore whilst they are living wee need not credit that they go into Heaven Sailors are like to Grashoppers in goodness vvho make faint essayes to fly up to Heaven and then presently fall dovvn to the Earth again Sea-men that have their feet as it vvere in stormy vveather upon the battlements of Heaven should look dovvn upon all earthly happiness in the world as both base abject slight and slender waterish and worthless The great Cities of Campaniae seem but small cottages to them that stand on the tops of the Alps. for I never knew any of them so holy Enoch indeed Gen. 5.24 Walked with God and hee was not for God took him There is a vast difference betwixt going to Heaven and into Heaven the Eagle that Solomon speaks of flew towards Heaven but hee doth not say that shee went into it There is a vast disproportion betwixt a mans going to a place and
usually sends them a peece of gold stampt with the Image of St. George upon it Who was valiant amongst you had Medals in the Dutch wars they have a brave warlike ship which they call the Preston To keep up the memory of that dreadful Sea-fight which they had with the Dutch near Portland they call one of their warlike ships the Portland To keep alive the memory of their transactions against the enemy at Yarmouth they have a gallant ship which they call the Yarmouth That their dealings with the enemy at Famouth might bee remembred and celebrated to the praise of that God whom they serve they call one of their brave warlike Vessels the Famouth To keepe alive the goodness of God in their helping them to overcome their enemies at Bristow they call one of their sumptuous ships the Bristow To keep up the memory of one sore bout they had with the enemy in Kent they call one of their ships which they built afterwards the Kent That they might not forget their dispute with the enemy at Dartmouth one of their ships is stiled the Dartmouth To remember that bout they had with the enemy at Tarrington they call another ship the Tarrington To remember the engaging of the enemy in Essex All these ships are called by the names of Englands Battels and every ship carrying the name of an English Battel upon her cannot otherwise chuse but under God be heart daunting terrible to the proudest enemy that ever strutted in the Seas What is said of the Leviathan I think I may say of our ships Job 41.9 Shall not one bee cast down even at the fight of them they call one of their ships the Essex To keep up the memory of that bout they had with the enemy at Basin-house in Hampshire they call one of their Friggots the Basin To perpetuate their engaging the enemy in Pembrokeshire they call one Friggot the Pembroke Another they call the Hamshire Another the Glocester Another the Non-such And all these besides several others as the Lime c. have been built since and after these disputes and so named Paul after his ship-wrack I find to that end hee might remember that deliverance calls it Melita and the Maltezes's at this day La scala di San Paulo St. Pauls shipwrack or arrival Sea-men have you no names for the places where you have been shipwracked what call you the places where you have been in greatest danger Call to mind the many places that you have been in and the many storms and perils that you have gone through The States of England throw not their dear and costly purchased Victories at their heels Imitate the Tartars in valour who go slightly armed into the Battel upon their Backs as scorning and abhorring ever to turn their backs whâ—n once the chief Standard of the General is let flye in the field A certain Prince would bee pictured with this Motto which I give to you that use the Seas Luctor non mergor I was much endangered but God has preserved mee Sibyllae mos erat in palmarum foliis oracula scribere in meliori metallo autem tenete naufragia vestra which they have got in their late wars but to keep them alive they put them upon their warlike Sea-boats 4. By erecting Pillars to bee standing memorials and monuments of the Lords undeserved goodness unto them Samuel set up a stone and called it Eben-Ezar 1 Sam. 7.10 12. Hitherto quoth hee when the Philistins fought against them Hath the Lord helped us The States of England to keep up the memory of their Land-deliverances layd out very costlily three thousand pound upon one ship Accipe redde Cave is a Motto that is writ upon all mercies Upon Fire is writ take heat from me Upon Apparel take warmth from me Upon bread take strength from me Upon a piece of a plank in a storm take safety from me But make a good improvement of these things or else stand cleer four thousand Pound upon another and six thousand upon another And will you lay out nothing to perpetuate the memory of your deliverances Give mee leave to hand to every soul in the Sea this short and sweet word of advice 1. Improve all your Sea-mercies for Gods glory 2. For your own good 3. For the good and benefit of others 1. For Gods glory esteem of God highly look out for higher thoughts of God than ever you have had in your souls and labour daily to beat down your own pride loftiness and haughtiness of mind otherwise you will never bee able to maintain high thoughts of God and to say of the Lord in all your Sea-preservations Exod. 15.11 Who is like unto thee O Lord amongst the Gods who is like thee glorious in holiness fearful in praises doing wonders 2 Chron. 6.14 There is no God like thee in the Heaven nor in the Earth 2. To love God more dearly that has done so much for you David's heart began to bee on a burning glow within him when hee begun to consider of the Lords hearing of his prayers Psal 116.1 2. I love the Lord because hee hath heard my voice and my supplications Ah Sirs will not you that use the Seas love your God no more than you do Good Sirs do not with your God as the Heathens did by theirs of whom it is said that they would put them off with slight Sacrifices when called for a man they brought a candle Hercules offered up a painted man instead of a living one what had been become of you ere this day if God had not heard your prayers in your calamities 3. To thank and praise God Praecepta docent at exempla movent more heartily for what hee has done for you in all your straits at Sea Psal 103.1 2. Bless the Lord oh my soul and all that is within mee bless his holy name Tully calls gratitude Maximam imo matrem omnium virtutum reliquarum the greatest and the mother of all virtues 4. To obey God more cordially Many Sailors are a meer tortile lignum Too much a kin to the Crab Nunquam recte ingrediuntur Cancri Very disobedient and crooked unto God and freely this is to render again according to the mercies and favours God did for you when in the great deeps which Hezekiah nay not onely hee but thousands of our Sailors fail in this very duty 2 Chron. 32.25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him The Elements are obedient unto the Caelestial bodies the Orbs and Sphaeres to the moving intelligence and all the Intelligences to the chiefest of all which is the Lord loved of all Darius escaping a great danger in his return out of Scythia by the faithful counsel and assistance of Hysteus the Milesian hee was so taken with this kindness that to reward him hee sent for him to the Court to praefer him to one of his Privy Councel gave him this commendation
that use the Seas that these Water-Spouts come down from heaven in the form of a cloud and at the one end it is in the form and likeness of a funnel which will descend upon the surface of the water and suck till it bee full out of the Ocean and so returns ascending up again into the heavens These are daunting and dreadful unto the ships that pass on in the Seas for if the cloud rends then down falls that infinite massy weight of water into the Sea again which will make the Sea to flash and froth at a great distance but if it come directly upon any of the ships it will endanger to sink them and to break down their decks masts and boltsprits Many ships have come to sad losses and woful hazzards by the fall of Water-Spouts Certainly after this manner does the Lord call and send for the waters of and in the Seas to pour out upon the face of the Earth The Ordinances of the Heavens are not seen nor known by and to every one Job 38.33 But to such as go down to the Sea These water-carrying Tankards come out of the Heaven to fetch water out of the Seas at Gods appointment to distil in silver showers upon the face of the whole Earth even upon the face of every Nation and Country that is in the World Amos 5.8 Now these Water-Spouts are not seen to any but ships that sail in the Seas 8. That various view that they have of the several sorts and kinds of People that bee in the world how they differ one from another in form habit speech gesture and deportment The Indians are wont to paint themselves with divers and sundry colours some with white and othersome with red some with the characters of the Moon in white and othersome with the Sun in black upon their bodies c. 9. That burning Island Fogo Burning Fogo These are the lads now that do Ultimas Provincias terras peragere in Remotissimas mundi partes navigare which is of an unspeakable heat and in height computed to bee twenty miles and upwards At the top of this Mountain there is a burning fire that shews it self four times in an hour most terribly to all the ships that sail in the Seas neer unto it It flyes up in horrid flames as if the fire of it would not stay until it reached the heavens after this like manner I have seen burning Strumbilo very vehement which lies in the Austral parts of the world 10. The People in the Torrid zone is another sight that they have who are afflicted most sadly with the scorching heat of the Sun It is observed that if there were not all the day long in those scorching parts of the world as the Indies c. a cool breeze which blows for the greatest part of the day to moderate that excessive roasting heat that is there it were impossible almost either for man or beast to live there they are so tormented and rosted with the beams of the Sun that they curse the up-rising of the Sun every morning they get out of their beds yet notwithstanding this vehement heat they have these accommodations to allay the intemperateness of the Zone many sweet springs of cool water to refresh themselves in and goodly rivers to bathe in many great and pleasant trees for shade which yeeld them both meat and drinks and besides they want not for Spices Sugars Lemons Oranges and juyces to quench their thirst withall and cool their bodies c. 11. A sight of those many Orange Olive and Lemon besides many other trees which they see growing where none inhabit Job 38.26 27. even their boughs ready to break with plenty of fruit and no hand nigh to take them in their maturity before they fall to the ground and perish In these parts lies the Lords store-houses of Snow Hail and Ice Job 37.9 Out of the North comes forth cold 12. The Northern parts of the world into which parts they adventure sometimes as far as they can for extreamity of cold but there is such an intolerable frigidity in some parts under the Poles as that they cannot bee discovered nor approached unto Job 38.18 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the Earth declare if thou knowest it all Many will make great cracks and brags that the world is so many thousand in rotundity and so many thousand in breadth but it is none of my judgement to beleeve any such trifling assertions or computations Nova-zembla 13. Those Septentrional Zones that bee in Greenland and Nova Zembla c. which onely in Summer-time may bee spoke with but not in the Hybernal insomuch that many parts under the Poles are inhospitable by reason of that excessiveness of cold frost snow and ice that lyes in those parts which would kill people to live there Those Sunless Starless and Moonless nights and days that bee in the Winter-time in those parts have fetcht in that in Matth. 25.30 to my thoughts And cast yee the unprofitable Servant into utter darkness there shall bee weeping and gnashing of teeth If a man were in those parts hee would find nothing else but darkness weeping Meditate the torments of hell Sea-man when thou goest Norward Thou durst as soon eat thy fingers as go into the Northern parts of the world as Greenland c. if thou thoughtest not that thou hadst a good ship under thee to bring thee back again Thou knowest full well that the cold in that place would kill thee and gnashing of teeth and with ten thousand times that hee were in England or in any part of the world than in that uncomfortable part and side of the world 14. Lapland A sight of that People which live in Finmark and Lapland c. who to avoid that extreamity of Winter-cold that commonly falls upon those parts turn Troglodites they delve themselves warm holes and caves in the Earth to shelter themselves from the rage of that brumale tempus that breaks out upon them in that bitterness 15. A sight of those huge Icy Mountains that bee in those Northern Zones which make such a dashing and crashing one against another making such hideous noises as if it were the very roarings of hell or those ear-deafing Cataracts that are to bee heard and seen in Egypt 16. This is one that is as remarkable as any thing that has been spoken of That in Island Greenland and in divers other Northern parts of the world that are destitute of wood scarce having one stick growing yet notwithstanding they are most miraculously provided for every year and though they have not vessels nor ships to fetch wood withall yet does the Lord supply them on this wise Many great trees and billets are carried unto them upon the waves and billows of the Seas both out of Norway and elsewhere which come and lie in their creeks It is no small wonderment to mee to think how prodigiously
in the South-West and by West c. Psal 107.43 Who so is wise will observe these things 4. And lastly The other Army lies quartered in the South and this oftentimes is very commonly the fiercest and furiousest of them all This Army may be called neque manere finet neque navigare Sometimes it will neither suffer ships to sail nor to keep the Sea insomuch that it makes the Seas run mountain-high and lye all upon a bubling froth and curded foam This Army marches one while into the South and by East South and by and by into the South-East South-East and by South c. and is very ready and attentive to carry on the Lords designs either for good or evil There is both a wonderful vertibility and also variableness in the winds one while they are here and by and by they are there Eccl. 1.6 The wind goeth towards the South and turneth about unto the North it whirleth about continually and the wind returneth again according to his circuits Oh what quick eyes hearing eares ready feet strong arms may I say has these four-wind armies to go yea run If that an Italian General could say when one of his Nobleâ— complained unto him of their want of men I can have all Italy up in arms with one stamp of my feet upon the Earth What do you think then of the Lord cannot hee have all his forces both in Heaven and Earth up in arms Land sooner than Armies of men can bee at the sound of trumpet or at the beat of drum and fly upon Gods commands What more frequent than to hear this amongst the Mariners Wee were shipwracked when the Nothern wind-army lay in the North North-West and wee lost our ship says another when the Eastern wind-army lay in the East and by South c. and wee lost our ship says another when the Southern wind-army lay in the South and by East South c. and wee lost our ship seems another to say when the Western wind-army was upon its march in the West South-West c. But to proceed I will run on in a few more particulars as God has wind-armies at command so has hee many other strange unminded and unobserved armies to march into the field against a people when hee pleases 1. God has his Angel-fighting-armies some whereof are good and other some are bad 2 Sam. 24.16 And when the Angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it the Lord repented him of the evil c. 2 King 19.35 And it came to pass that night that the Angel of the Lord went out If one Angel could do thus much what could not Christs twelve Legions have done upon the wicked Jews and smote in the Camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand c. 2. The Lord has his Sun Moon and Star fighting Armies and this is another sort of army that the Lord has sometimes mustred up to shew his mighty Power and these are called the Hosts of Heaven Deut. 17.3 This Host was up in Arms in Joshua's time Josh 18.12 13. But some may object and say this is something strange how should the Sun the Moon or the Stars fight I answer God may take away the use the benefit the light and the influences of them and in this sense the battel will bee found too hard to escape in 3. The Lord has his men-fighting-armies at command Exod. 12.51 By these did the Lord bring Israel out of Egypt The wicked are Gods sword and his Armies Isa 10.5 6 7. Jer. 25.9 God has Armies of men both good and bad and when hee pleases hee can presently arm them and send them upon errands of ruine and destruction against a Nation 4. The Lord has his water-fighting-armies at command Gen. 6.17 And behold I even I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven and every thing that is in the earth shall die 5. The Lord has his fire-fighting-armies at command Gen. 9.24 2 King 1.10 Levit. 10.2 And this Army shall bee up in arms either in ships at Sea or Houses Towns and Cities on Land to set them on burning flames 6. The Lord has his air-fighting army at command and when hee is pleased and displeased with a people hee lets flye the arrows of pestilence out of the strong bended bow of his fierce wrath and irresistable indignation He can infect the aire Numb 16.46 and this arrow shall neither flye over nor short but hit the white the person or the persons that the Lord aimes at whether they bee Towns or Cities Nations or Countries this contagious air shall lay siedge unto them and over them and the Sun shall not bee able to drive it away nor the winds to sweep it away and this stinking aire is able to stifle all whether in Towns Cities or Countries if hee do but impower it and set it on 7. The Lord has his Hail-stone-army at command this Army was up and on foot for God in Joshua's time Josh 10.11 I would all the Drunkards and Swearers Take heed Sailors how you sail to and again in the Seas with hearts full of guilt hands full of blood tongues full of lies and heads full of sinful projects and unreconciled men to God that are either in the States or Merchants Service would tremble before the Lord and bee in fear lest their pates should bee broken with hail-stones out of the Heavens 8. The Lord has his Earth-fighting-army at command Numb 16.32 And the Earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up and their houses c. Take heed Godless man how you walk on Earth lest at every step thou takest the Earth open to bury thee alive for thy drunken and swearing life 9. God has his fighting Armies at command out of the meanest and contemptiblest minutila's that are and these shall come in as good regimental and warlike order as the Souldier at the sound of trumpet or beat of drum viz. Lice Frogs Worms c. How have these adventured into Kings Palaces and who gave them that boldness These broke in at the windows ranged like rude Soldiers into every room belonging to Pharaoh's house Exod. 8.6 16.17 Acts 12.23 10. God oftentimes makes Conscience a terrible gnawing and fighting Army and this the great God of Heaven has command of to send a tormenting Hell into it who is able to stand in the face of this battel This enemy shoots through and through Job could not stand in it for hee cryed out Have pitty upon mee have pitty upon mee Oh my friends for the hand of the Lord hath touched mee But to proceed There is one phrase in the words before us that would bee a little opened and explained 1. What wee are to understand by a Stormy wind 2. What the effects of it are 1. I find that Scripture is delighted to speak of this very vapour Of that
force some storms are known to bee of that they will overturn houses on Land and â—â—nd up trees by the roots 1 King 19.11 Sambelicus sets out the strength the force and the power of the winds when hee tells us how whilst Cambyses and his Army sate down to dinner in a sandy desart a dreadful storm arose and beat up the sandy mountains about their eats and became as so many Sextons to delve the graves of the greatest part of his Army for them This vapour sets forth the great power of God let those therefore that go upon the Seas learn to fear the Lord lest hee bury them in the deep Psal 148.8 The stormy wind fulfilling his word The fierceness of this creature is little known and as little understood supposed and imagined to bee so terrible as it is I mean to those that live on Land and are far from the view of the dreadful and military force and power that is in it but it is too well known to those that live in sailing and floting houses upon the Seas The word Stormy wind comes from a borrowed metaphor from the Soldiary and Land-Armies who will when they do assault and storm either Forts Towns Castles or Cities even lay on their greatest force of Men and Ordnance and then is there the greatest frowns in their faces and palpitations in their hearts It is called here a Stormy wind in opposition to smooth gentle and benign gales and winds as the Sea was but ev'n now in a fair temperate and moderate calm so that the smalest boat might have rowed to and again in the Seas now cannot scarce the greatest and strongest ships live in them but are in perpetual jeopardy of being drowned 2. What the effects of a stormy wind are and these are twofold 1. Lifters up of the waters 2. Sinkers or ruiners of ships 1. The word lifting up has its countenance the clear demonstration of this like borrowed Metaphor as it is with and amongst men that are proud high and haughty and of an Elephantinum hominis genus who wil lift up themselves strut look big speak loftily and magnify themselves or else from those Strapados which they have in the Austral parts of the world by which they will hoyst up their malefactors many fadoms high and then lower them down again with the greatest violence that their weighty bodies can descend withall After this manner are the ships lifted up in storms that use the Seas and as violently thrown down again As the potentest military power is seen to put his enemy unto flight as great So dreadful are the downfals that are made in storms that they seem to outstrip the deepest Vallies that sit under the cloud-topping and cloud-imbraceingest mountaines that bee in the world I and greater disorder doe the Seas run in and flye before the stromy winds 2. Ships are oftentimes cast away by them Acts 27.41 And falling into a place where two Seas met they ran the ship a ground and the fore-part stuck fast and remained unmovable but the hinder-part was broken with the violence of the waves And again storms end in the debilitating and disinabling of ships That all perilous storms and ship-wracking Observ 2 Tempests are both of the Lords raising and sending What are storms but the uttering of Gods voice in wrath and judgement upon the Seas If the winds blow harder at some times than their ordinary course is which is most useful profitable unto the Mariner it is no other but a curse a judgment and a token of the Lords displeasure But where is the Sea-man that beleeveth this for hee commandeth c. If this point stand in need of proving I will make it out both pregnantly and sufficiently that the Lord lays claim to it and challenges his propriety in it and so consequently that it is his act and none but his therefore that I may not put you off with words I will throw you in these inlightning and doctrine-confirming Scriptures Psal 147.18 Hee causeth his wind to blow and the waters flow Psal 148.8 Stormy wind fulfilling his word That word of his that God has and will fulfill many times may bee sinking and perishing for ought I know as well as floting and keeping above water The Lord has the winds at command to bee his executioners and administratours either of destruction or preservation hee it is and hee alone that finds them with employment 2 Chron. 20.37 And the ships were broken that they were not able to go to Tarshish May bee many of them were hurled into the bottom of the Sea and others of them thrown upon the Rocks and Sands But to speak shortly now and yet exactly unto the interest of this praegoing point I would then have all the Sailors in the world to conclude upon this ground of truth that all stormy and tempestuous winds are of the Lords raising and sending and that hee is to bee acknowledged in them and herein I would have you to soare far higher than the natural causes of things Hee that drove man out of Paradise both doth and can drive graceless wretches out of the Seas and hurl them upon Rocks Sands and Shore The Rocks the Sands and the Winds I may fitly resemble unto the Cherubins and the flaming sword that was placed at the East end of the Garden of Eden Gen. 3.24 Which turned every way these are ready at the Lords command to break ships in the East in the North and in the South or in the West It is said of the Earth that it is given by God unto the children of men Psal 115.16 But the winds the Lord keeps in his own hands to move and flye to and again this way and that way in the Heavens even as it pleaseth him best to do this and to do that and their dependency is in the heavens no creature has them at command but God solely and properly for every Tempest that comes has as it were an express command from the Lord and that under both hand and seal and if the winds should bee questioned and summoned in to give an accompt of the sad perils they throw the Mariners into and the many shipwracks and great and innumerable losses they put them to year by year they would tell such as should demand an answer of them that they had order from above for so doing and that sin which abounds in ships was the onely cause of those fatal and ominous ruins and desolations But that I may give you the grounds of this Proposition you will in the end I question not bee fully satisfied about the Lords proceedings in this manner 1. Because God would shew his Divine Reason 1 displeasure and indignation against that sinful and ungodly generation of people that go in the Seas Seamen you may conclude it that there is never a storm that comes down upon the Seas to endanger you but God is exceedingly angry with you what more frequent
They who â—oe really call upon the Name of the Lord in dreadful storms and dangers do acknowledge him to be omniscient one who knows best of all their wants and necessities 2. They acknowledge God to bee Omnipotent and one who is able to supply all their wants in their greatest straights that ever they are surrounded with 3. They acknowledge him to bee an all-good and one who is very merciful and bountiful and upon these considerations any one may take encouragment to pray That the Sea-man commonly makes the Observ 8 Lord many serious and solemn vows and protestations in the time of calamity I have read of some Mariners that vowed wonderful largely when their ship lives were at the stake what they would do for their God whom they served they told him if ever they got to shoar alive they would sacrifice a Candle to him that should have as much tallow in it as the main-mast was in length and substance but when got safe to Land they forgot their vow and one of them being more religious than the rest begun to tell them of it and to prompt them to itâ— push quoth the Sailors we are now at Land and onâ— small candle of eight in the pound will serve the turn which afterwards hee never performs Then they cry c. As if David should have said in time of danger they will both protest and vow nay and almost swear too that they will turn gratious and pretious souls but when the storm is over their vows are all forgotten and they are at their swearing again Jonah 1.16 Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly and offered a Sacrifice unto the Lord and made vows It seems that this is a very common thing amongst them Plato had perswaded Alcibiades to live justly and honestly in the world during the whole course of his life and when hee protested and vowed to him that he would do so I pray God said Socrates that hee would once begin So our Sailors make large vows in dreadful storms when the ship is upon Sands or when shee is leaky and half full of water and they tell God very largely what paenitents and what religious people they will bee if hee will but graunt them their lives but I may say unto them pray God they would once begin there is not a people under the heavens that are slower to good and that have a less skill in good than they are they are couzen Germans to Seneca's Semper victuri and I pray God that they hit on it before they dye Sailors are like Nebucadnezzar's image in storms whose head was all of pure gold the arms of silver the thighs of brass the legs of earth and clay They are gold and silver in storms but at Land and in calms meer dross and brass It is with Sailors in storms as it was with Israel at that dreadful time of Gods descending out of the heavens upon Mount Sinai Deut. 5.27 Go thou near and hear all that the Lord our God shall say and speak thou unto us all and wee will hear it and do it Here was a large protestation you will say Well vers 29. carries sad tidings in it Oh that there were such an heart in them that they would fear mee and keep all my Commandments alwaies that it might bee well with them and with their children for ever The Sea-mans large promise to his God in a storm is like to false fire to a great Peece which dischargeth a rich expectation with a bad report Siquidem vovens non solvens quid nisi pejero Bern. Hee that vows in storms and does not perform his vows when delivered out of them forswears himself before the Lord. If there were but such an heart in Sailors as they pretend to have when in storms I am confident that no people under the heavens would outstrip them in piety That the Sea-man never takes up the Observ 9 duty of Prayer but when hee sees himself involved in an unlikely estate and condition of his ever recovery Then they cry This was an unsavory saying of one of the Sailors to the rest of his companions when labouring under a most dolorous storm My lads bee of good cheer I will go take a turn at prayer both for you and for my self for I am very confident that the Lord will hear mee because I am nâ— common beggar I used prayer as little as any man in the world I have observed it that at such times when wee have been thrown on Sands and when our sails have been rent in pieces by the violence of storm even as one would tear careless paper and linnen that then they have prayed Jonah 1.5 Then the Mariners were affraid and cryed every man unto his God You should never have heard those Sailors at Prayer that Jonah was amongst if that their lives had not been in that dreadful jeopardy It was a graceless saying of one Sailor when in a most inevitable danger that hee had never used any prayer for seaven years together but hee was now fallen into that distress that hee must bee forced to do that which hee neither liked nor never used to do Sailors are not unlike to Agrippa's Dormouse that would not nor could not bee awaked till shee was thrown into the boyling Copper and then the kettle rang with her dolorous Sonnets Ego uror Ego uror Alass I burn I burn It is danger makes many in the Sea go to prayer and not grace conscience or the fear of God The Sailors life is not unlike to Herman Biswick's of whom it is said that it was his judgment that the world was eternal and that there was neither Angels nor Devils Heaven nor Hell nor future life but that the souls of men perished with their bodies And if our Sea-men hold but of this strain they may live as they please But grant they doe not their prayerless lives tell us that the thoughts of Hell and the thoughts of God and of another world is not in their minds they have not another place in their eye but only this present world One of the sadest things that my soul has mourned for and at whilst in the Sea was my serious consideration of the many Vessels that go in the great deeps that neither do nor never did and I fear never will take up the work of prayer Prayer at Sea is like to a poor Beggar or Traveller on Land who goes from Town to Town and from Country to Country but is never invited in or taken notice of by any strangers and travellers we usually say meet but with cold entertainment Oh the many ships both in the States Ah that I should be forced to say that of the ships that go in the Seas which the Lord complained of once in the sons daughters of men Rom. 1.29 Being filled with all unrighteousness wickedness covetousness maliciousness full of envy murther debate deceit malignity whisperers
their voice which is not half so clear nor so pleasant as it was at first Nay they are as much down when their lives are at the stake as the Seryphian Frogs were of whom it is said in Observ 13 Scyrum deportatae mutescunt eaedem alio translatae canunt Carry them into Scyrus and you silence them What Pliny said of Rome I may say of the Sailors at Sea that there was never any earthquake in Rome but it was the fore-runner of some great change event and alteration So no appearance of windsly in the Physiognomy of the skies but some change of weather Praecedunt paenas nuntia figna graves There was one that went up and down Jerusalem 80. years before ever the war begun to bee commenced against it crying a voice from the East a voice against Jerusalem and the Temple a voice against all this people Sailors God gives you some warning many times before hee claps his stormy wind upon your backs let all external signs of storms carry you then out to seek your God let them alone in Seryphia and you shall hear them sing and croak That it is and would bee the Sea-mans greatest wisdom and safest course when hee sees a storm a comming to run unto the Lord that hee would become his friend Then they cry c. You see the heavens grow black and many observations and guessings you have from and of the skies what weather is a brewing will you not then prepare to meet the Lord by sending out your prayers as Ambassadours to plead with him in your behalf Amos 4. ult people that are on Land if they see but a Tempest or a shoure of Hail or Snow a coming they will with all the speed that ever they can make betake themselves either to some good sheltering hedg or the nearest neighbouring house that they can get unto How much more should you then fly even as the young Chickens will under the wings of the old ones when the Kite is hovering to fall upon them to the protecting arms of God that you may bee supported in a shelterless Ocean Shal the sight of a warlike ship coming before the wind with all the clew of sail that ever shee can make and spread Top-gallant sails Stay-sails and Boome-sails call upon you I and startle you too to get your ship into her fighting weed and dress Insomuch that you are in such a toss at those times that you cut down Hammoks knock down wooden stanchions hale out your guns keep your matches lighted and your Ordnance primed your chartages filled your shot and powder upon and betwixt decks and all your men in arms some to stand by the great Guns and other some upon deck by your small shot and will you not bee in the like fear when the Heavens frown above you How should you make towards your God at such times Plutarch reports of Athens that when their City was visited and long punished with mortal sickness that they had recourse to the Oracle of Apollo to know what they should do in their extreamity who made them this answer that their onely way was duplare aram to double their Sacrifices The onely way for Sailors to bee delivered in time of storms is to ply God hard both before and when they are come with prayer Nautae sereno coelo non nihil laxant vela cum autem suspicio tempestatis contrahunt In fair weather Mariners will have their Top-gallant sails out but if foresee foul they presently take them in I would have Sea-men to strive who should bee the first at prayer in such times as these as it is said in Zach. 8.21 Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord and to seek the Lord of Hosts I will goe also The Tulipant which our Herbalists call Narcissus because it is an admirandos flos ad radios solis se pandens a flower that will constantly expose it self unto the fulgency of the Sun but when ever it apprehends the Suns setting or a Tempest a coming it hides it self and will not hazzard its tender flower to bee shaken and rent with the wind Learn thus much from this creature as to betake your selves unto your God when you see storms a mustering in the clouds and starry Sphaeres That hee that has a gratious purpose Observ 14 and design in time of storms to honour God in the remainder of his life may the warrantablierly pray for the prolonging of his life Then they cry c. Psal 119.175 Sailors in storms resemble the Frogs in the Countrymans pond of whom it is said that whilst it thundered they were very silent but no sooner was the thunder over but they betook themselves to their croaking and obstreperous notes again whilst storms are upon the Sailors backs they tell God many a fair story which afterwards they leave undischarged Let my soul live and it shall praise thee As if David were a going to say if it were not for that end I would not wish to live a minute nor a moment upon the face of the Earth Sea-men if this bee not your design in your prayers I cannot see how you can have the face to expect audience from your God at such times Tell mee what is thy end Captain in this storm what is thy end Master what is thy end Boatswain Sea-men what are your ends now in this storm where our lives are at the stake are they not to swear to lye to drink and to dishonour God as you have done are they now fixed upon the glory of God and the honour of God and the obedience of your God Fear not then I will joyn with you in prayer for the Lord will never drown us if our hearts have these resolutions in them Psal 119.17 Deal bountifully with thy servant that I may live and keep thy Word Oh that this were the prayer and the very thought of every poor Sea-mans heart when hee is beset both on head and stern with that affrighting enemy pale death I shall say thus much for the encouragement of all those that go in the Seas that are thus gratiously disposed as it was said to the Emperour Marcus Antonius when in Almany with a very great Army and being beset by the enemy in a dry Country where all passages was stopped up and there being no other likelyhood but that both hee and his whole Army should perish and that for want of water the Emperours Lieutenant seeing him so sadly distressed told him that hee had heard that the Christians could obtain any thing of their God by prayer whereupon the Emperour having a Legion of Christians in his Army hee put them all upon prayer both for him and for his Army and shortly after dureing the time that they were at prayer great thunder fell amongst their enemies and abundance of water upon the Romans whereby their thirst was quenched and the enemy routed and overthrown without any fight at all You shall have
his glorious Majesty hee is able to do all things that are works of power might and strength and are not things against his own nature or things that imply contradiction Reason 2 Because when things are impossible in mans eye then is it the fittest time for the Lord to appear in It is a common saying and a true one That mans extreamity is Gods opportunity Observ 6 That God in his Judgments upon the Seas often times remembers mercy And hee bringeth them c. God is slow to wrath I wish I may not say of the Lords indulgency to profane wretches in the Sea what Sigismund the Emperour used to say of his enemies Is inimicum occidit qui inimico parcit I am affraid Deus non nunquam parcendo saevit That the Lords long sparing will end in rageing and may I so speak hee is seen walking towards sinners in the shooes of Asher which were of ponderous brass Deut. 33.24 25. Observ 7 That the greatest dangers of the Seas and the proudest waves that ever elevated are and should bee no plea for unbelief And hee brings them c. Matth. 14.30 31. When Peter saw the wind boysterous his heart begun to fail him but was hee not reproved for his distrusting of the Lord Poop-lantern ship-covering and yard-arm-rising waves should not daunt and discourage faith in God Were the Seas in a storm as high as the mountains of Merionethshire in Wales whose hanging and kissing tops come so close together that the shepherds sitting on their several mountains may very audibly stand and discourse together but if they would go to one another they must take the pains to travel many miles Sailors should not bee apalled and terrified Dangers are faiths Element and in them it lives and thrives best Such was the high-raised valour of Luther that when hee was to go to the City of Worms they told him of strange things Faith like the Ivie the Hop the Woodbine which have a natural instinct in them to cling lay hold upon the stronger Trees laies hold on God in time of danger as many will doe fresh-water travellers at Sea but quoth Luther if all the Tiles that bee upon every House in the Town were devils they should not scare mee Sailors should have the like courage in storms which one had when in a great straight Certa mihi spes est quod vitam qui dedit idem Et velit possit suppeditare cibum Good hearts may say to the Sea when in a storm what Luther said to his enemies Impellere possunt sed totum prosternere non possunt crudeliter me tractare possunt sed non extirpare Haec est fides credere quod non vides dentes nudare sed non devorare occidere me possunt sed in totum me perdere non possunt Faith will put your heads into Heaven and your ships into an Harbour when in a storm it will set you on the top of Pisgab with Moses and descry the promised Land when you may come to bee denied the sight of Land in storms 1. Great Faith is seen in this as much as any one thing whatsoever that it both can and will beleeve in God as a man may say with reverence whether God will or no it will beleeve in an angry God in a killing God and in a drowning God Job 15.10 Great Faith is not easily shaken 2. Great Faith is never clearer seen than when in the midst of souzing storms and dangers there is great confidence and strength of heart in the soul at such times Observ 8 That God will have every thing wrested from him by prayer And hee bringeth c. Good Sea-men should play the part of Daedalus Templum Cybelis Deorum matris non manibâ—es sed precibus solummodo aperiebatur The gates of Cybeles Temples could not bee opened by hands but prayer quickly threw them open who when hee could not escape by way upon Earth went by way of Heaven and that is the way of prayer Five Motives to put Sea-men upon Prayer 1. Solemnly consider that in the creature there is nothing but emptiness and helplesness 2. Solemnly consider that you cannot have any hopes of winning ought from God but by prayer The Champions could not wring an apple out of Milo's hand by strong hand but a fair maid by fair means got it presently 3. Solemnly consider of God what hee is whom you serve naturally no other but goodness it self Nothing animated Benhadad so much as this that the Kings of Israel were merciful Kings It was said of Charles the great I would to God I could say so of every Tarpowling that goes in the Salt-waters that hee delighted so much in prayer that Carolus plus cum Deo quam cum hominibus loquitur That hee spake more and oftner to and with God than hee did with men Flectitur iratus voce rogante Deus And nothing encouraged Titus Vespatian the Emperour's Subjects so much as this that hee did nunquam dimittere tristem never send any away sorrowful 4. Solemnly consider how many in the Seas go upon the very same errand that you go on to him and mind how they speed and are carried securely out of all their distresses 5. Solemnly consider what Prayer is to God hee loves it Let mee hear thy voice for it is comly 6. Call to mind your former experiences did you ever pray in a storm but you fared the better by it Consider what cases you have been heard in That servent Prayer will prevail with Observ 9 God in the greatest storms I would all the States Tarpowlings were of James the Just's principle of whom Eusebius tells us Genua ejus in morem cameli obditrata sensum contactus amiserunt That his knees were hardned like the Camels by his frequent kneeling to Prayer Prayer is Optimus dermientium cuslos certissima navigautium salus tutissimum viatoribus scutum The slâ—epers best keeper the Sailors surest safety the Travellers protecting Shield And hee brings them out c. Witness the Mariners calm Jonah 1. and witness Christs disciples deliverance in the storm Impartial fire that comes from above has been often times seen to spare yeelding objects and to melt resisting metal to pass by lower roofs and to strike upon all high-Towered pinnacles I wish that our Sailors were as much given to Prayer as Anna the daughter of Phannel of whom it was said that shee never departed out of the Temple but served God night and day in prayer and fasting I wish it were the resolution of them that use the Seas to do as Ambrose the Bishop of Millain did when news came to him that Justina the mother of Valentinian intended to banish him hee told them that hee would never run away but if they had any purpose to kill him they should at any time find him in the Church praying for himself and for his people 1. Vse of Comfort For
inter vivos nec inter mortuos which was writ upon the cradel-rocking waves and surges of Neptune's restless and turbulent Ocean which was and is a place that is not for study or any other weighty undertaking of this nature I hope you will look for no extraordinary strains of wit and fancy from it because it is an impossible thing that the head should bring forth any extraordinary conceptions in such a confused and head-disturbing and brain-perplexing employment where the winds roar it over head Sailors rant it within board and guns roar it and thunder it without board and the Seas run on hills and mountains before the winds where there is nothing but reeling and staggering and staggering and reeling every day one uprises If there had not been an unwithstanding providence leading mee and stirring of me up dayly to the work Many are the Symbols and Emblems of true thankfulness and grateful acknowledgment In the Sun-dyal with all the hours thereon by distinct figures the motto is in umbra desino to the Sun onely I owe my motion and being The shel full of Pearl lying open to the Sun and the dew of Heaven with this word Rore divinâ— The Olive growing amidst the craggy clifts without rooting or moysture with this motto or wreath coming out of it A Coelo All these examples prompt me to express my thankfulness to you whom I shall live and dye admiring to that end I might do that generation of people some good that go in the Seas whom I find to have nothing writ too in any Subject I ever saw extant I should never a gone about such a work in such a placâ— which is onely for transportation and not for commoration and body-tyring lucubrations Worthy Sir I freely bestow upon you this my Nec inter vivos nec inter mortuos and withall I give you the highest interest in it that is possible for a man in the Dedication of a Book to bestow upon a person that it is dedicated to I humbly beg your acceptance of it and I will not doubt but that you will find some thing in it that will bee worth your perusal there is a great part I will assure you though not all of the sweet experiences that my soul has tasted of when in the Seas Such was the excellent condescending frame of Artaxerxes's spirit King of Persia that hee thought it as well becoming a Royal mind to accept of small things from others as to give great things unto them Worthy Sir your name is sweet fragrant savory and famous in our Israel and with and amongst the people of God and the Lord has bestowed a publick frame of heart and spirit upon you to do all the good you can in your generation both to Church and Commonwealth which is a thing I much bless God for in my spirit and admire My prayers shall bee for you and yours that God would blesse both you and them with the dews of heaven in this life and crown you and yours in the life to come In the interim my prayer shall bee that you may live and dye Adinstar Isabellae Arragoniae Reginae quae habuit duos flosculos unus vocabatur Scelenitropos i.e. Flos Lunae Alter Heliotropos i. e. Flos Solis cum lemmate sequor aeternum specto So prayeth he who resteth Sir Your worships devoted 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. To the much Honoured Vertuous and most worthy Lady the Lady MARGARET HUNGARFORD Wife to the Right Worshipful Sr. EDWARD HUNGARFORD Now deceased Daniel Pell wisheth increase of all true Honour and Happinesse Madam I Take the boldness to present you with this small Treatise of my experience travel and hard pains I took during the time I was at Sea which is the very first printed fruits of my weak endeavours as induced to think that the goodness candor and dulce of your nature is such that you will bee pleased to accept of so small a present as a little monument of that great respect I oblidgedly and deservedly bear you Artaxerxes a Persian Prince was so humbly minded that hee thought it as well becoming a Royal mind to accept of small things from others as to give great things unto them I hope that your Ladyship will bee so minded too I wish this piece may prove as delightful to you in the reading and perusing as Orpheus's Musick was to the stones and beasts of the field to their hearing of whom History says that they were not able to stay in their center nor continue in their stations but start up and dance after it Historians relate how stones followed Amphion to the Theban walls That lofty Ossa and high Panchaia danced when they over-heard the Odrissian Lyre and Dolphins grew tame at the melody of Arions Harp couching their scaly backs to bear him out of Neptunes foaming surges Madam if I tell your Ladyship that I see these good things in you since I came into your family to whom I am much obliged and shall ever acknowledge you as an instrument of much good to mee God reward you let it not bee thought by you nor by the world that I am of that temper either to give you or the world flattering and daubing titles for that is very much inconsistent with my constitution Your motto may bee that of Solomons Prov. 31.26 Shee openeth her mouth with wisdom and in her tongue is the law of kindness and my Principle 1. I have observed that you are a very great follower countenancer and encourager of a holy good powerful and godly Ministry which these sad and black-nighted times of the world do so much undervalue Mee thinks I wonder why people are so sotitsh now a days I hear neither any in the City nor the Country say that they are weary of the Sun for its shining of the air in which they breath of their food from whence they have their nourishment nor of their rayment and apparrel which keeps off the cold from them why then of the Word What wrong has the Gospel done them or the painful and Godly Ministry in this Land who preach themselves to their graves for the good of soules certainly were the Gospel down as our English Atheists could wish it wee should long for it as much again as those people do for the Sun of whom Procopius reports that near to the Pole where the night continues many moneths together the Inhabitants in the end of such a long night when the Sun draws near to make its appearance to them will get up into the tops of all high trees and Mountains striving who should have the first sight of that glorious lampe and caelestial luminary that is set in the Heavens for the comfort of the world and no sooner do they see it but they dress themselves in their best apparrel as rejoycing
at its appearance filling the air with many loud acclamations 2. That there is a tenderness of heart and spirit in you mourning for and under sin which renders you Elect holy and beloved amongst the Saints that know you I would all the new upstarts in England were of this good old sin-mourning temper Rom. 7.24 Oh wretched man that I am who Acts 24.16 Herein do I exercise my self 3. That you make it your constant care and business to look to your life and conversation and I do know it that it is the desire of you soul that it should bee such and in such a way of holiness as does become the Gospel of Christ Philip. 1.21 4. That it is the great care and desire of your soul that all under you should bee engaged in the daily worship and service of God Joshua 24.15 But as for mee and my house wee will serve the Lord. 5. That you are a discourager of what you apprehend to bee evil in your family Psal 101.2 3 4 5 6 7. Hee that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight Were all Families so ordered it would bee better both in the City Country and the whole Land than it is at this day Prov. 14.1 Every wise woman buildeth her house 6. That you are exemplary in your Family and truly it is good so to bee if the Mountains overflow with waters the Valleys are the better for it and if the head bee full of ill humours the whole body fares the worse for it Give mee leave now my much Honoured Lady to present a few things to you which may tarry with you when Providence may call mee from you 1. Think of your dying day It is said that there stands a Globe of the world at the one end of the Library in Dublin and a Skeleton of a man at the other it seems they that go into that Library need not stand long to study out a good lesson What if a man were Lord or Lady King or Queen of all the known parts of the world yet must hee dye I like not the Proverb I no more thought of it than I did of my dying day It is written of the Philosophers called Brachmani that they were so much given to think of their latter end that they had their graves alwaies open before their gates that both going out and coming in they might bee mindful of their death There was once a discourse betwixt a Citizen and a Mariner my Ancestours said the Mariner were all Sea-men and all of them died at Sea my Father my grand Father and my great grand Father were all buried in the Sea then sayes the Citizen what great cause have you when you set out to Sea to remember your death I but says the Mariner to the Citizen where I pray did your Father and your grand Father die why saies hee they died all of them in their beds truly then saies the Mariner to the Citizen what a care had you need to have every night when you go to bed to think of your bed as a grave and the clothes that cover you as the earth that must one day bee thrown upon you You are wise and know how to apply it 2. Lay up treasure in Heaven God has done much for you in the bestowing the riches honours dignities and great things of this life upon you by making you taller by the head and shoulders than thousands both in City and Country are Matth. 6.19 20. Is a Scripture I would commend to your leasurable considerations 3. Take heed of the bewitching honors entertainments and the deluding and heart-insinuating great things of this world It was a good saying of Luther I hope your Ladyship will make it yours when offered great things that hee protested to the Lord hee would not bee put off with the things of this life for his portion Psal 17.14 Men of the world have their portion in this life That is all it seems that ever they are like to have The Rubenites Numb 23. having taken a liking of the Country which was first conquered because it was commodious for the feeding of their Cattel though it was far from the Temple where they might have fed their souls to enjoy it they renounced all interests in the Land of Promise It is said of the Locusts that came out of the bottomless pit that they were like unto Horses and on their heads were as it were Crowns of gold and their faces were as the faces of men their hairs as the hair of women their teeth as it were the teeth of Lyons c. Rev. 9.7 8. in which Scripture wee have quasi Horses quasi Crowns quasi faces quasi teeth and quasi hairs of men In part such are all the honours and comforts of this life 4. Bee much in prayer hard and private wrestling with God in your closer for Heaven and Salavation If a man were assured that there were a great purchase in Spain Turkey Italy c. or some other remote parts would hee not run ride sail and adventure the dangers and hazzards of the Sea and of his enemies also if need were that hee might come to the enjoyment and possession thereof Heaven is better than Earth and a life in glory than a life in this sinful World and that you may prefer that above this in this lower world and may also live and bee with the Father and the Lamb in the highest glory when this life is ended for ever more shall bee the hearty prayer of him Madam Who is your Ladyships most humbly devoted DANIEL PELL From my Study in your own most Honourable House and Family London May 6. 1659. To the Right Worshipful Mr. HENRY HUNGARFORD Esquire And one of the Members of the Honourable House of Parliament D. P. Wisheth the grace mercy peace and love of God the Father in this life and eternal bliss and glory in the life to come Reverend and Right Honourable Sir Uno non possum quantum te diligo versu Dicere si satis est distichon ecce duos If I cannot in one verse my mind declare If two will serve the turn lo here they are SO great an honourer and admirer am I of you and the House and Family that you are descended of and belong unto that I cannot praetermit you without the presenting of this small Tract and Treatise which is of no great worth or value but onely an act or an expression of that superlative respect and service I bear you Certainly if I should I should then bee an Adinstar Niciae cujusdam Pictoris of whom it was said tantam in pingendo diligentiam adhibuit ut saepe numero intentus arti cibum sumere oblivisceretur è famulo quaereret LAVINE pransus ne sum a very forgetful person I question not but that you will find some thing in it worth your reading although you have travelled all or the greatest part of all the known parts of the
world in Books and Study Ennius could find and pick out gold out of a Dunghil The laborious Bee will fetch hony out of a flower before shee leaves it And I hope that you will see some thing in this peece worth the relishing I will assure you it was never writ studied nor composed on Land but in a turbulent Sea where there is nothing but a Chaos of hurry and confusion and so I hope you will pardon the weakness of the work for had I been on Land or had I had the time when on Land I would have sent it out into the world more accurrately furnished accomplished But Quid moror istis I cannot but speak of it to your praise and worth that I am very much affected and taken with that good life and conversation that you live and lead in my Ladies family and bless God in my soul many times for that gratious and pious voice of Prayer that I hear daily out of your Chamber into my Study that is adjacent I pray God bless you and bestow the riches of his grace and sweet comfortable Spirit upon you for that is the thing you daily press for Quo pede caepisti progrediare precor This I shall say the more you pray and the more holily and spiritually you live and walk the more serviceable will you bee both to your good God Nation and Country God has many times called you out of the world into a Parliamentary way and that undoubtedly to do your Country all the good you can your Motto and the Motto of the whole House now assembled may and should bee Adinstar Alphonsi Regis Arragonum qui in Symbolo habuit lumen ardens cum lemmate Aliis servio mihi consumor Or if you will Ludovicus's the King of France Qui in Symbolo habuit Pelicanum revocantem ad vitam sanguine proprio pullos emortuos God grant that the affairs of this Land may bee carried on for the peoples good and may resemble Virgils Eccho where all things went well Omnia sonant Hyla Hyla lemma Sanguis meus estis vivite Thus should the whole House bee and do for the Land and Country that has chosen them I would have our Parliament House to resemble that good Bishop Socrates tells of who did when a terrible fire was in Constantinople fastning on a great part of the City and Churches in it go to the Atar and falling down upon his knees would not rise from thence till the fire-blazing in the windows and flashing in every door was vanquished and extinguished Do what in you lies to put out the fire of the sword and the fire of Division that is gone forth and broke out upon us in this Nation I have met with this passage Non sit jam quod clamant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. O Jupiter pluit calamitates that a certain Rustick having blamed Antigonus while hee lived grew after some tryal had of his succession to recant his errour and to recount his crime and digging one day in the field was questioned what hee did there hee said O Antigonum refodio I seek Antigonus again Oh dig and delve for peace that you may see both order and decency in Church and State restored and the Land left in a blessed frame to the Posterities that are to come after you and betray as not in our good and wholesome Laws but maintain them you certainly see enough of that profane and giddy hair brainedness that has been all along in the heads of the illiterate who have sought to bring the whole Land into confusion and themselves into the saddle Honoured Sir I take my leave of you I present this peece unto you I pray accept of it and the God of Heaven bless you and guide you shall bee the prayer of him who is Sir 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 April 20. 165◠To the Right Worshipful Mr. GILES HUNGARFORD Esquire D. P. Wisheth all prosperity in this life and felicity in the life to come Reverend and Worthy Sir IT is an usual saying Si musae Latine loquerentur inquit Varro Plantino sermone loquerentur Although I take the boldness to present you with this my Nec inter vivos Nec inter mortuos upon the 107. Psalm which was writ upon a frowning and tempestuous Sea whom I know to bee a person every way so well studied read and accomplished not in the least inferiour to him whom a great University Tutor much boasted of that was a Pupil to him fac periculum c. try him in the Tongues Rhetorick Logick and Philosophy c. in what you will hee is able to answer you I hope you will expect no such high strained stile and phrase from mee which the Muses would delight to speak in and whom it would far better become than mee for the Sea is no place to write and polish books in no more than hard riding is to him that would make a Map or true description of a Country I confess such is the great respect I bear you I speak now ex imis praecordiis that if it were not for that and also for that worth and merit that I clearly see in you together with that sweet mixture of ingenuity wisdome and good nature besides a great many more good things that is possible for to be in a person of your rank and quality I should scarce have adventured to have offered you this peece of my travelling Operam Oleum I beg your acceptance of it and shall assure you that you have a very high room in my thoughts which is indeed reserved for all such as both know and fear the Lord. I freely bestow this peece upon you and give you all the interest in it that possibly can bee bestowed upon you I hope you will both see and also find something in it worth the reading and the while in your perusing Sir You are descended of a very high and honourable Family a Family whom I much honour and respect and that is one of the grand inducements that puts mee upon an appearance unto you and the onely way to heighten your honour still is to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I know no one thing this day upon the face of the earth that stamps such a Nobility and eminency upon our Gentry in the land as Piety and Religion doth Nobility by blood as one well said is but a fancy or an imagination but this hath a reality in it and where it is it evermore begets a splendor and a lustre But I will not further the prayers of him shall bee for you and yours who rests Sir Yours to serve you in the Service of Christ DANIEL PELL From my Study at my Lady Hungarfords in Hungardford house upon the Strand London May 4. 1659. TO ALL
neither canst thou ever perform what thou hast vowed to whom hee replied in the storm Vers 26. Their soul is meltâ—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
Age are infallibly Divine but I dare conclude it that this Psalm is and proceeded from God into Davids heart and herein is and lies the excellency and dignity of it For the Division of the words there be four things presenting and offering themselves unto our consideration 1. The Persons in this word They. 2. Their Posture in these words going down 3. Their Business or Occasions in these words that do business 4. and lastly Great waters in these words In the great waters The Persons they are to be considered under a threefold respect and denomination as they are most commonly 1. Juveniles 2. Cognoscentes 3. Servi These Lads are ad instar Halcyonis contra ventum like that bird Naturalists write of which evermore brests her self against the wind These are they that can live Fame frigore illuvie squalore inter saxa rupesque membraque saepe torrida gelu habent Juveniles They are then young men that use the Seas such as are robore nati full of manhood resolution strength and valour men that are of rugged and undaunted Spirits and dispositions Sea-headed Sea-brain'd Storm-proof hardy and stout to act and perform their hard and laborious Water-service even in all weathers that blows whatsoever And is there not a necessity now that they should be of this Tarpowling and Brass-pot-like metal who have perpetually the Freta indignantia froth-foming and hill-swelling Seas to ride over in their unruly and uncommandable wooden Chariots By these dangers are despised difficulties adventured on terrors contemned fears laughed at cowardize vanquished generosity and manhood is the onely thing that is in repute and esteem with them And is there not a necessity that it should be so and that every one that will take upon him to go to Sea should be a Ludibria rerum humanarum fortiter contemnens ac aleam fortunae novercantis ridens one that can pluck up a good heart in the midst of the stormiest Seas or proudest Waves that ever elevated Youth now is the prime time for the Sea because the body is in its best abilities to endure the Cradle-rocking Waves of restless Amphitrite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Old Age cannot brook the unkindness of the bouncing and rowling billows of the Seas for it makes their bones both to crack and ake and it s very frequently seen that when men that have used the Seas long The Sea is Navigandi locus ac tamen commorandi non It s good for navigation but bad for habitation and are come into yeers once that they betake themselves to their heels and bid farewell unto it as Gulls and Cormorants will hasten to banks or sheltring places when they see a storm a coming upon the Sea They can endure it no longer Let this word then ring in the ears of those many thousands of young and stout valiant and hardy pieces that go both in the Merchant and the States Service of England Had I but that faculty that Pericles that famous and learned Athenian Orator had I question not but it would take place of whom it s said that when ever he came up before the people ere he left them he did in animis Auditorum aculeos relinquere leave an itching upon their spirits I have read of Alphonsus King of Spain how that he was petitioned to succour a decaid Knight but inquiring into the reason of his poverty said Had he young spent his estate in my service I would supplied him when old It s well if God say not of you at last who forget God that you served the States the Merchant and the Devil and now when you come to dye you would have heaven and pardon of sin Go get you to hell So of Hermanius in the Bohemian History that that great Courtier when he came to die cried out most bitterly that he had spent more time in the Palace than in the Temple This will be the cry of Sailors one day that they have spent more time in the Seas and in the States and Merchants service than ever they spent in Gods Remember young men that as you are in your prime for States Common-wealths or Merchant Service that you are also in the same plight and equipage for Gods though you be now in your warm blood yet there is a time of infirmities a coming on wherein your fiery spirits will be cooled and your blood-shedding hands exceedingly weakned The time is coming when you shall say Eccl. 12.1 We have no pleasure in the gallant Ships that sail the Seas We take no delight in seeing the brave Gallies that go with Oars nor in the thundring and firing of Guns or in the sound of that ear-pleasing noise of Trumpets that play their Warlike Levets upon the gilded Poops of the State of Englands Ships Some there be though God knows very few amongst you which do both serve and really and sincerely fear and love the Lord and God will remember them and all their obedience Jer. 2.2 I remember thee the kindness of thy youth God is a great observer and notice-taker of the kindness of those that serve him in their youth and he takes notice also of the hard-heartedness of those that neither fear him nor obey him Isa 1.2 3 4. Hear O Heavens and give ear O Earth The Heavens and the Earth blush at the graceless lives that you live and lead in the Seas Lay it to heart I beseech you and consider how flexible and how obedient some young men are unto God and how vile stubborn rebellious and obstinate you are against him Serve God with as much vigour strength heartiness and cheerfulness as you serve the States or the Merchant you will hazard and venture your lives over and over for them what will you do for God then Will you throw out of doors all Religion and the worship and fear of God Will you do the hard Service of the Common-wealth of England and will you not do the sweet blessed and easie Service of the Lord which will in the end bring you greater Salary than they can give you Live then in Prayer Reading Meditating and all the good means that you may in time have that carnal part that 's in you killed and sacrificed unto God 2. Cognoscentes As none will say but that the Sea requires the yong mans Service What a learned man in one case said of the unlearned people of the world I may say of the unlearned unskilful Mariner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To be destitute of learning is to dance in the dark To go to sea without Nautical accomplishments is the only way to throw the ships upon the Rocks So I think none will deny but that it calls for judicious knowing and understanding men to be employed in it And such as have good skill in the Mathematicks and in the use of those many Navigating Instruments which Mariners take to Sea with them viz. Square Cube Astrolaby c. and in all
their pleasure Shall not this set an edge upon your spirits to do your utmost in the suppressing of these intolerable evils What is become of that Heroick and Warlike spirit that in former Wars have acted in you Hark! Hark! is not the Drum beating and the Trumpet sounding Hath not God bid England sound the Trumpet and beat the Drum and prepare war against the enemies of Christ God is setting on England to break the yoak of Christs and Sions enemies and many of you are sitting down in the Nation one in one place and another in another One Commander sits down with his hundred pound per annum that hee got in the late Wars and another sits down with his two hundred and perhaps another with his four or five hundred Thus it was with Alexanders Souldiers and it is the same with many of you that when they grew rich they would follow him no longer in the Wars What one of Englands late famous Sea-Generals said of some Sea-Captains the like may bee said of the Souldier sayes hee You are grown so wealthy by being Captains three or four years that you are afraid to fight What a shame is it that now your swords rust in your Scabbards and your Pistols in your Holsters which have been formerly very valiantly in your hands in the high places of the field That I may give you one sound alarm more where ever your quarters bee in this Land of ours let me tell you that you will grow aged therefore you have need to run wel and to do all the good you can both for God the world and Christ his Son It is usual for those that run races to whip and spur hard when they come within sight of the Goal Have not many of you gray hairs upon your heads or at leastwise will have very shortly and will you not have one fling at Spain and at the gates of Rome before you dye and go to your graves 2. A word unto the Sea-men This is a time wherein the ten Kings of Europe have given their power to the Beast but they are a tumbling down and if they fall surely many will fall with them I have read concerning Joshua that valiant Souldier that when he was a young man and more in the strength of nature he was then least in vigor and valour for God and sometimes in cases of danger concealed himself but when he grew older found the strength of nature declining and decaying then he be stirred himself for God I bring but this in as an instance now to our English Souldiery that they may take notice of this rare president weigh but what God is a doing and will do When the tree is falling the Proverb is Run for the Hatchet It is an old Proverb Gentlemen and a true one Post folia cadunt lirbores After the leaves are once off the trees the trees themselves do fall at last God hath prospered you against the Spaniard hitherto keep shaking of the tree and it will fall or break at last Bee every one of you willing now when the Monarchy of Spain is staggering and tottering to contribute all the help that lyes within you against them What It is not enough that the Merchandizings of this Nation bee kept up though sufficient reason enough for it but there is far greater work in hand Therefore what Domitians Empress said unto him the Emperour when fishing and angling O noble Emperour it doth not become you said shee to fish for Trouts and Gudgeons but for Towns and Castles The same I say to you Stand to your Arms. Now I will a little touch upon the means whereby wee may in England under God bring down the Spaniard Mahumet would never enter into any City and especially the City of Damascus lest he should be ravished with the pleasures of the place and so should forget to go on with the great work he had in hand This is a president for the Souldiery of England whether great or small who ly perfuming and effeminating of themselves in London and in the Land Mary Queen of Scots that was mother to king James was wont to say That she feared Mr. Knoxes prayers more than she did an army of 10000. knocking men Plutarch in the life of Pyrrhus said of Cyneas that rare Thessalian Orator that he overcame more by sweet words speeches than Pyrrhus did by the sword So more by prayer than by strength and the Pope of Rome and these I finde to bee twofold 1. By Prayer 2. Shipping 1. By Prayer In Salem was the arrows of the Bow broke Psal 76.3 and the shield and the sword Prayers and complaints unto God are the Churches best weapons to fight their merciless enemies with all Exod. 17 11. Whilst Moses held up his hands Israel prevailed but when he let his hands go down then Amalek prevailed 1 Chron. 5.20 When some of Israel who warred with the Hagarites the sons of Ishmael in the midst of the battel cried unto God hee heard them and gave them their enemies into their hands This was that which Solomon desired after the building of the Temple 1 King 8.44 45. When thy people shall go out to battel and shall pray unto the Lord toward the house that I have built hear thou in heaven their prayers and judge their cause O admirabilem piarum precum vim quibus caelestia cedant hostes terret manus illa quae victoriae suae trophaea in ipsis Caeli orbibus figit Oh the admirable power of godly prayers to which heavenly things give place that hand terrifies the enemies which fasteneth the tokens of its victory in the celestial orbes Bucholcerus St. Augustine gave this reason why David put off Sauls Armour when hee went to fight with the Philistim Mystica ratione significavit arma Ecclesiae non esse carnalia sed spiritualia The Churches weapons are not carnal but spiritual and David was not armed with iron but with faith and prayer Prayer is the very best whole Canon that is in England Luther calls it Bombarda bellicosissima The Lord in Scripture is called a man of War and he may be taken to fight against all the Navies and Gunn'd Armadoes in the world for four Reasons 1. Because he gives victory 2. Because he fighteth the battels of his people 2 Chron. 33 7 8. 3. In respect of his prudence and policy as a wise Captain will watch all opportunities of advantage against his enemy he knows how to bring down the crafty and how to take them napping 4. He will encounter his enemy boldly though not with so sâ—eming a strength as they have Pray unto this God If that the people of God in England would but joyn in their prayers together I am confident they would bee of greater force than if wee had a thousand Canons marching in the fields of Spain Therefore what a shame is it that there is no more zeal for God and for his
Miscelaneous Observations These stand by themselves like the Quoe genus in the Grammer being deficients or redundants not to bee brought under any rule because the Seas are a debilitating to my spirits onely give me leave to throw you in a few Miscelaneous yet I hope delightful and pleasing Observations and then I question not but that I shall have given you a taste and relish of every thing in order though not in that multiplicity that I might have done 1. They that go down to the Sea in ships Amongst the rest of that amaene bundle of novelty that they have in their travels those sundry and strange kind of sensitive creatures that be in the Indies are some in which God has kindled many kinds of living and going fire walking to and fro in the Earth some creeping under feet some flying over head viz. in the Snake Adder Cockatrice flying Serpents and other strange kind of Flies In the evening if any bee disposed to walk in the Woods Sea-men tell us that there bee great swarms of flies which will keep a very great buzzing and humming about the trees and cost such a light and lustre as if there were sparks of fire or lighted matches hanging upon the boughs which will sting and burn to death Numb 21.4 And the Lord sent fiery Serpents among the people and they bit the people and much people of Israel died 2. Amongst the rest of that eye-delighting and mind-contenting novelty that they have in their travels those great and many Woods that bee in the Indies and elsewhere are some there bee such vast and unknown wilderness-places in the world in which grow such a rankness and thickness of trees that they cannot bee travelled through nor known how great and how far they reach it is not known to the Indians themselves what is on the other side of them and who or what lives beyond them 3. Amongst the rest of that eye-delighting and mind-contenting novelty that they have in their travels the Magellan Straits is very wonderful in respect of those terrible winds that bee frequently in them and upon them which fall with such vehemency as if the very bowels of the earth would set all at liberty or as if the clouds under the Heavens were called together to muster their fury and lay on their force upon that one place the Sea in it self naturally is of a very heavy and ponderous substance History tells us that Ferdinando Megalanus was the first that compassed the world and found out this Southern passage call'd Fretum Magellanieum and after him followed Sr. F. D. yet notwithstanding in this place it is so rowld up with storms that the very roots of rocks are unbar'd so that ones eye may almost behold the bottoms of the deeps the Seas swell run and rage in such monstrous hills and mountaines sometimes there that it is no small terrour to the Mariner when hee is either under sail or at an anchor Anchors are like false friends give way and the wind is so violent as if the mountains would rend and the heavens and the earth would come together 4. Those wonderful cloud-climbing and heaven-aspiring Promontories that bee in many parts of the world many or the most of them lye in the view of the ships that go in the Seas and other some lye-upon the very skirts of the Sea These are Natures bulworks Some writers tell us that the Land of Canaan was but threescore miles in length and twelve score in breadth and that it is exceeding mountainous so the hillier mountainouser any Country is the greater it is in this little land were there 1 Chr. 21.5 A thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword cast up as the Spaniard says at God Almighties charge and they call them heaps of rubbish or offals that were left at the Creation of the world and so remain as so many warts or pimples disfiguring the face and beauty of the earth the difficulty of their ascent is admirable the horridness of their craggs is wonderful and an uninhabited wilderness are many of them upon which and in which live nothing else but wild beast The Alpes Mount Ararat Mount Chego and Teneriffe c. are estimated to bee far higher than the clouds Upon these it is no matter of wonderment to see Snow lying all summer long although those parts have a greater heat from the Sun than wee have in England and the reason seems to bee this because that the Sun does leave its work as imperfect and has not that force and power to melt the Snows that bee upon them by reason of those chill aires that bee upon them Nay such an intollerable chilness is there upon some of their snowy and frosty tops Corpus-zant Sometimes Sea-men will aver that there will come down many of these Corpus-zants insomuch that they have seen upon evey yard-arme one as so many blazing lighted candles that they are altogether inhospitable and not to bee endured to breathe in for an hour 5. The Corpus-zant which is so called in the Spanish and Italian Language and in Latin Corpus Sancti which they say it is this is a very strange thing it seldom appears but before the ensuing of some dreadful storm It is like unto the light of a candle and is never seen but in the darkest and windiest nights upon the Sea It most commonly chuses to light upon the Truck of the Antient-staff about which the ships-colours do fly and there it will lye a long time like the light of a candle and what it is or from whence it comes or whither it goes none can well tell Sometimes Sea-men say that they will light in other parts of the ship and when they have endeavoured to touch them they would vanish away The sight of this thing did much admire mee 6. The Male-stream-well Male-stream-well which lies on the back of Norway this well draws water into it during the flood which continues for the space of six hours and twelve minutes with such an avarous indraught and force Mariners call this dreadful Gulph the Navel of the Sea that it makes a very hideous and most dreadful noise the waves tumble in with such a violence one upon the neck of another that would daunt the stoutest heart to hear it and suck up the strongest ships that should dare to come within a league of it and at the Ebb the water returns with the like violence that it went in in the Flood so that should the ponderousest thing that is bee thrown into it the strength of it is such that it would carry it up again 7. The Water-Spouts Water-spouts that bee to bee seen in the Southern parts of the world of which certainly David speaks of Psal 42.7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy Water-spouts It is observed by those
they are provided for that are without fuel in Island and elsewhere In this Island there is another very remarkable passage that there bee several waters in it which are of such a vehement ardency that they will boyl both fish foul and beef in And in these waters the people both dress and cook all their victuals and bays which the people take up and reserve for winter Certainly hee that guided the Kine which bare the Ark 1 Sam. 6.12 guides and orders that these parcels of wood faggots or fuel should come unto those that would bee starved if they were not thus helped every year and besides if there were not a visible hand of providence appearing for this people that live in a Country where doubtless wood will not grow or otherwise for firing it has been destroyed these peeces that swim upon the floods of the Seas might go from them and into the middle of the Sea rather than unto them if not directed c. 17. Their aspect of the Sea which is sometimes of such an ignifluous lustre as if it were full of Starrs insomuch that if a peece of wood or any other ponderous thing should be thrown into it at such times in the night it will show it self as if it were full of firesparkles Whence that Proverb As true as the Sea burns 18. The sight of those two burning Islands Hecla and Helga is another these are often times covered over with Snow yet burn within and belch out very terrible and vehement sparks of fire 19. Their viewing and walking up and down in the goodly sumptuous princely and stately Cities that bee in the world viz. Constantinople Grand-Cair Genoa Venice Naples Rome c. 20. A sight of those fearful and unusual Lightnings and Thunderings that bee sometimes in the Occidental and Austral parts of the world which are with such vehemency and dreadfulness that one would think that the Heavens and the Earth would come together I have heard the honestest and godliest of men that use the Seas say that when they have been in the Indies if they did but see a cloud appearing in the bigness of ones hand they need no other warning but that a most dreadful storm would ensue Insomuch that they have been forced to make all the haste they could to get sails furl'd yards peak'd and their ships fitted to endure it as well as they could The Observation was this That the most or the greatest part of Gods glorious and wonderful works are seen by Sea-men The point then will afford us these two uses 1. Of Reproof And 2. Of Exhortation 1. Vse Reproof 1. Is it thus then that you that are Sailors and Sea-men do see most of the Lords works yea more than all the people in the world besides Platonists by the sight of Nature see more yea and will shame thousands of our Sailors for they could say that all that pulchtitude and beauty that shines in the creature was but Splendor quidam summi illius boni pulchrum coelum pulchra terra sed pulchrior qui fecit illa Surely this point looks with a sour look upon you that make no improvement nor application of things unto your selves for better amendment than you do I may say unto you in the words of Job 35.11 who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven that God hath taught us more than the beasts of the field and hath made man wiser than the fowls of heaven therefore God looks for another manner of glory and understanding from you that are men than hee doth from them and more from those that are Christians than from natural and carnal men It is a notable saying of Mr. Calvins Diabolica ist aec scientia said hee quae in natura contemplatione nos retinens a Deo avertit That is a Devillish kinde of knowledge that in the contemplation of nature keeps men in nature and holds them back from God After this manner may I speak unto you that it is a devillish kinde of knowledge that you have of the Seas and of the Creation if that all you see know and hear of keep you still in nature what better art thou than a beast for all thy travel Give mee leave to tell you thus much 1. That there is a seeing eye in the world an eye that is much in Quaelibet herba Deum stella creaturaque and upon Gods works Isa 40.26 Job 26.8 Hee bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds and the cloud is not rent under them A seeing eye looks on nothing that is either in Sea or Land but thinks of God in it I have read of one that was so spiritual and heavenly-minded that when hee was in the world where hee had a full view of many wonderful things hee said there was nothing that ever hee did behold but hee saw God in it When I cast mine eyes upon the Earth I saw that God was every where When I looked upon the Heavens I considered with my self that that was his Throne When I looked into the depths of the Sea I beheld the power and wisdome of God in the creating of them And when I looked upon the many creeping things that were in it they told mee that God was there I looked also into the breathing air with all the inhabitants of it and it told mee that God was there whose proper Attribute is to bee every where I looked up into the Starry sphere and spangled roof of heaven which glisters with innumerable stars from whence I learned that that is a Christians Country who is in Christ and from thence do I look for my Saviour and the longer I do look upon those glorious and burning and shining Tapers of the heavens which are estimated the very least of them to bee bigger than the whole earth I consider that God hath undoubtedly great and just expectations from man that hee will do some work and service for his Maker Most Masters will not allow their servants to sport and idle whilst their candles are burning but if they finde them so doing they will blow them forth Certainly Sea-men you may conclude that God looks for great things from you who see so much of the Creation that others see not Will it not bee tollerabler for the ignorant Indian c. and the miserable heathen that is in the world than it will bee for you who have no other light but the light of nature to walk by I may compare the generality of Sea-men unto a Traveller who doth in his vagaries leave all things behind him in his way he passes by stately Towers and comely Turrets brave buildings both of Marble Brick and hewn stone goodly Cities Towns and Countries comely and beautiful people and other some both black and tawny and these hee beholds for a while and admires them and passeth on and leaveth them afterwards he goes thorow the â—ields
than to hear this out of Scripture Psal 7.11 That God is angry with the wicked every day If God bee angry with the wicked every day then I will pawn my salvation upon it that hee is not pleased with you every day But Sea-men to fasten this truth upon your spirits and to drive it into your heads pray consider what a dreadful storm the Lord sent out after Jonah when hee sinned against him and provoked him to anger Jonah 1.4 But the Lord sent out a great wind into the Sea and there was a mighty Tempest in the Sea so that the ship was like to bee broken Did not Jonah now and those Heathen that hee sailed amongst acknowledge that that storm came upon them for their sins This was more than ever I heard English Sailor say or confess in all my life during that too long time I have spent amongst them where is the Sailor that wil say when the masts are a going down by the board in a storm or the ship is a going to bee cast away upon the Rocks or upon the Sands and shore what is the Lords design now Some iniquity or other is amongst us some carnal filthiness some stinking and abominable impurity that wee have not been humbled for nor turned from that has brought this misery upon us now are our lives jeoparded and at the very stake by reason of that swearing drinking and audacious gracelesness that is amongst us I dare bee bold to say it that the ungraciousness of that generation of People that goes down into the Sea and is amongst them does put the Lord many and many a time to rouse up his wind-Lyons Seems not this to bee the language of all storms Isa 1.24 Ah I will ease mee of mine adversaries and avange mee of mine enemies or wind-Eagles to flye about their eares with a raging austerity and heart-daunting cruelty yet notwithstanding this generation cannot bee got to abate in swearing reform in drinking and return from their filthy doings Sailors if ever you would travel the Seas with safety and freedom from storm and Tempest follow the Example of the wild-geese that fly over Caucasus where the Eagles roost lest they should bee heard in their gagling they will not take any such flight or voyage before their mouthes bee well crammed with pebbles and then they know that they are far enough out of danger If you would not now have God to send down storms upon you let him not see you drunk nor let him not see you profaning of his holy Name yea bee sure of this that you never let him hear you swearing I am confident were you but an humble and a godly sort of people neither beasts of the field the Seas you swim in and the winds that are above you would never hurt you so much as they do and so you should find more peace more quiet and less dread and terrour than now you do What is it that sin will not do it will batter down Cities I have read a notable passage of some Heathens who when at Sea and in a very dangerous storm where they were all like to bee cast away began every one apart to examine themselves what was or should bee the reason of so dreadful a storm and after they had cast up all by quaerying with themselves what have I done and what have I done said another that his occasioned this storm it amounted to this they remembred that they had Diagoras the Atheist on board and rather than they would perish they took him by the heels and hurled him over board and then the storm ceased and the Seas were at quiet with them If any one would ask mee now what is the reason that the State-ships meet with such hard storms and so many Sands and dangers I should tell them this it is because they are so full of filthy Swearers Drunkards and Atheistical Adulterers These have made my heart for to tremble more than all the dreadful storms that ever I have been in in all my life Nations Towns and Countries and lay them level with the ground and therefore well may your sins bring many ships to ruine Hos 4. vers 2 3. It is that profaneness that is amongst you that puts the Lord upon suffering of your ships to blow up and to fall upon Rocks and Sands c. Think not that the strongest ship or ships in the world are able to keep you from drowning when there is nothing but swearing and carnal filthiness amongst you It was but a foul mistake and also a carnal conceit that Dionysius was of that great Sicilian Tyrant when hee said that his Kingdome was bound to him with chains of Adamant for time soon confuted him Is there not now as strong a conceit in you about your valour and the strength of your ships Alas one sturdy storm will make them rock and tremble I and carry them unto the bottome or throw them upon the shoar if but licensed and impowred by God The strongest walled Cities in the world cannot keep judgement out if sin bee but within neither are they sufficient Canon-proof against the Arrows and Canon-bullets of an heavenly vengeance the height of a Cities proud-daring and out-braving Turrets may for a time keep the earth in awe but they cannot threaten heaven nor stand it out against the Lord the sinfuller a City a Nation a Country a Ship or Family is the weaker are they and the more do they lye open to Gods dreadful thundring and lightning upon them Isa 40.15 I will tell you of a story that will make your ears to tingle when you have heard it and it is of that famous City of Jerusalem which was the glory and beauty of the whole earth It thought it self so strongly fortified and manned within that there were an impossibility of ever being stormed and ruined but alas sin being in its full weight within set open the sluces and flood-gates of Gods displeasure and so let in the raging surges of cruel and intestine wars and brought it unto a heap of stones and to an uninhabitable place After Titus Vespasianus Souldiers had set the Temple on fire it was observed all the industry and skill that ever could bee used imagined or thought on could not quench it Titus sayes the history would gladly have preserved it What is it that God cannot do who is able to marshal and draw into a body even all the scattered forces that lye upon the face of the Creation together and draw forth their vigour vertue and so arm them and that which is more set on every degree of that vigour force that is in the creature according to the strength of his own powerful Arm Gods anger is able to change and alter the very nature of all creatures yea the smallest and the weakest and feeblest of them shall not onely go but run upon Arrands of Destruction in obedience to their chief Generalissimo who can
is this there is such swearing cursing and profaning of the holy Name of the Lord amongst you that a gracious heart that goes in ships with you would think that he were rather in an hell conversing with Devils than Men and Christians How ought all our Sailors in the time of storms to say with the Church unto their God Lam. 3.40 Let us search and try our waies and turn again to the Lord. Jonah was searched out in the storm and Achan when the Camp was troubled no better way or course to pacify an angry God than to seek for all that filthiness that is upon and in your hearts and spirits and so to throw it over board and take out the new and sacred lesson of piety and uprightness of heart and spirit 14. To put the godly upon the growth Reason 14 in holiness and make their hearts the better Storms are gods pruning-knives Corrupt blood must be drawn out before the Leech falls off and all carnal filthiness parted with before the storm end Boysterous storms are Gods people's kitchin-scullions to scour off their rust their dross canker to let Sea-men bleed withall for they have a great deal of corrupt blood in their veins and though they carry Chirurgions with them at Sea yet God is their best Physician This course God takes that they may bring forth more fruit Joh. 15.2 And every branch that beareth fruit hee purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit Flowers have a sweeter savour after a shower than ever they had before so a gracious soul a brokener heart after a storm than in a calm Wheat under the flail parts with its chaff Gold when put in the fire loses it dross Reason 15 15. To put people into a greater fear of sinning and offending that have smarted so much for sin It is a common Proverb That the burnt child dreads the fire It was Job's resolution Chap. 34.32 If I have done iniquity I will do no more I think it would bee the Sea-mans greatest wisdom not onely to say so but to have a care of offending God who is able to hurl the Seas into dreadful waves and raging surges about his ears Reason 16 16. To keep people from back-sliding If you should alwaies have fair weather at Sea The game hunting dogs of Cicily lose their sport oftentimes by reason of the sent and sweet smel of flowers And so thoughts of God and Heaven if all calms and no storm and every thing as you would have it that were the onely way to have you to forget your God Israel soon cast God out of their thoughts and hearts when they got into Canaan but oftner in their thoughts when in a pinching and hard-faring Wilderness The Bee is quickly drowned if shee fall but into the pot of hony and a good heart is soon over-run with weeds and corrupted if not under imbitterments and afflictions Reason 17 17. To wean people from the world and all the earthly comforts and merchandizings of it Whilst there is sweetness to bee sucked out of the dugs of worldly comforts they will not care for the relinquishing of them but when God laies wormwood upon them then they will grow weary of them and even bee ad instar canis ad Nilum as the dog at the river Nilus that dare not stay to take his full draught for fear of the Crocodile The Uses of this doctrine are various but especially they are these five 1. Information 2. Circumspection 3. Meditation 4. Reprehension 5. Consolation 1. Vse This doctrine may inform you and let you see that every boysterous Storm and Tempest that breaks out upon the face of the great deeps is no other but an arrow shot out of the bended bow of Gods displeasure against you or one of the lower tier of his indignation that is fired upon you Nahum 1.3 The Lord hath his way in the whirl-wind and in the storm and the clouds are the dust of his feet If shiphazarding storms fall upon you you may conclude that the Lord is in them and not far from you I and that hee is not well pleased with you 2. Vse This doctrine may serve to put you upon a serious meditation and deliberative ponderating upon the Power and terrible Majesty of God who has the whole universe at his command to wage war against whom hee pleases but especially in these three things 1. What is the cause or occasion of immoderate storms 2. What is his end in the sending of them upon you 3. And lastly what improvement you should make of them 3. Vse This doctrine may serve for a word of advice to startle you and to tell you that you have great need to look about you if so bee that all perilous and ship-wracking storms and Tempests are of the Lords commissionating and raising I mean not onely to make the best provisions that you can to prevent dangers for common reason prompts you to that but my advice is this that you would live every day preparedly seeing your lives are the deepliest engaged and in the greatest hazzards of any under the whole Heavens if a man were to go over some narrow bridge under which hee knew that there was deep water how gingerly and how carefully would hee tread I and if there were no way else to go but that what prayers would hee put up that hee might go safely over and if not that God would cancel all his scores my thinks it should bee thus with you who are in greater dangers in the raging Seas 1. Sin less swear less and drink less than you do if you would have God to preserve you in time of storms 2. Please God more if you desire favour and preservation in the day of calamity and irremediable adversity 3. Make it your business to get sin daily pardoned or otherwise you may look for nothing but an open hostility from the winds and Seas 4. Vse This doctrine may serve to reprove and to lash that bold profaneness and atheisticalness that is amongst the generality of Sea-men and Sailors who never have it in their thoughts when the greatest storm that ever blew is from the Lord but a thing in course or common and ordinary and so never acknowledge the hand of God in those dreadfull judgments that hee lays upon the Seas and those affrighting and heart-melting sorrows that they are often plunged into There be four things that I would reprove you for 1. Ignorance 2. Carelesness 3. Want of the fear of God 4. Negligence 1. Ignorance This is an Epidemical distemper that all or the greatest part of Sea-men are aegrotant off or in Suffer this doctrine to reprove you and I am sure it will tell you to the full that it is the Lord that sends out his stormy wind fulfilling his Word upon you I and also condemn you for your infidelity and paganism in this very particular 2. Carelesness Who more loose who more prophane and who more secure
and the rest of our feral and remote Antagonists 4. It is of wonderful use to the purifying of the air off and from its many infections and contagions the winds are the cleansing engines of the world or the airs sweeping-brooms by which the air is kept both sweet and salubrious and this they do by their oblique and ubiquitary motion which would otherwise corrupt and stench as standing pools Job 37.11 But the wind passeth and cleanseth them Jer. 4.11 This benefit every Land and Country hath of the winds both to fan and sweep the foul corners of the air that are amongst them 5. It is of wonderful use as to the scattering of the clouds here and there in this and in the other Country How are the clouds seen sometimes in a very pendulous manner to hang over the very heads of parched Countries as if unwilling to dilate and part with their watry liquor because of the sinfulness of those Countries Clouds fly and hang over them yet drop no fatness God allows all Countries excepting Egypt which is supplied in a wonderful manner by the River Nilus the benefit of the clouds and of the Heavens hee misses not the smallest of those many Islands that he has lying here and there up and down in the world but remembers them all yea the uninhabitablest place that is in the world both procul prope for the use and benefit and accommodement of mankind by these are the Lords water-pots or cloudy water-bowls of the Heavens shaked and poured down upon the dry and thirsty places of the Earth All Gardens Orchards Corn-fields valleys hils and desarts that bee in the world are watered by them Job 37 11. Hee scattereth his bright cloud The winds are of very considerable and important use as to the conducting and convoying of the aquatical clouds of the Heavens to water the many Islands Territories and Countries of the Lords that bee in and throughout the world It seems that God has a special care of every Country and corner in the world that none of his Gardens and Orchards should parch for want of water and therefore hee has cloudy tankards in the Heavens which flye upon the wings of the wind to fall upon what place hee pleases to supply them 6. It is of wonderful use in its various vertibility and instability Non ita Carpathiae variant Aquilonibus undae The wind is a very varying and turning thing in respect that all parts in the world are served by it one while it serves to carry some Mariners into the North some out of the East into the West and other some again out of the West into the South It stays not long in one quarter but is a meer Camelaeâ—nce mutabilior Eccl. 1.6 The wind goeth toward the South and turneth about unto the North it whirleth about continually and the wind returneth again according to his circuits And hereby is it the more commodious because if it should have its abode any long time either in the Eastern Southern Northern or Western parts of the world then the opposit parts would bee greatly obstructed in their sailing into those parts from whence the wind should blow Great is the Wisdom of our infinite and good God who has ordered and created all things for the good of man in that hee has thus appointed and disposed of the winds to bee one while in one place and another while in another both to fetch Mariners that are far from home and also to carry them out that are desirous and have busines and occupation to do from home 7. It is of wonderful use to alter Seasons it cannot bee gainsaled that the winds have not an altering influence in all Seasons because they bring in our heat and by and by comes in our cold Job 37.17 How thy garments are warm when hee quieteth the Earth by the South wind When the wind comes out of the South how is every one warm and cheerful both in City and in Country although but in a thin and Summers garment but when it comes out of the blustering North or the frigid and mordacious Oriental of the world how is every one then cold within doores and without doors I even in the thickest habit that they can put on Job 37.9 Out of the North cometh forth the cold Now undoubtedly that cold comes upon the wings of the winds out of and from under the Artick and also heat in the same manner from the Antartick of the world When the wind comes out of the North or out of the East how quickly is the heat of the Earth cooled and taken away but as soon as ever it comes out of the South how is the Earth warmed and all the Animals of the world revived Psal 107.43 Who so is wise will observe these things 8. It is of wonderful use to dry up the wetness and dirtiness that is upon the face of the Earth how are all foot-paths and all horse-rodes shoveled and cleansed by the winds It is wonderful to think how an Easterly wind will sweep all the beaten paths and corners that are in the world this wind is called in Scripture a supping wind Hab. 1.9 because it drinks up the moystures that have been laid upon the Earth by the clouds Psal 107.43 Who so is wise will observe these things 9. It is of wonderful use to clear the Heavens for us and to feed us with the light of those glorious lamps and luminaries that are hung up in the Heavens to make the world comfortable to us how would the Sun the Moon the Stars and the face of Heaven bee absconded over-shaddowed and obumbrated to us with clouds fogs mists and ascending vapours that are as so many curtains drawn over those great and glorious Lanterns of the Heavens if the winds did not sweep them and reduce them to an annihilation 10. It is of a wonderfull and most dreadful use in the hand of the Lord to break and ruine the greatest and the strongest ship or ships that ever crossed the salt-waters 2 Chron. 20.37 The ships were broken that they were not able to go to Tarshish And the great Spanish Armado that came against us to invade our Land were broken and scattered by the winds so that they were frustrated in their Dice-games and carried into the bottoms when that they thought they should have had the full possession and enjoyment of this English Island 7. Vse A word of Exhortation and that unto all you that go in the Seas Is it thus indeed that all perilous storms and ship-wracking Tempests are both of the Lords raising sending and impowering give mee leave then to commit three sweet words unto you and I will pray hard both in private and publick that they may be a heart-wining and an heart-perswading word but before I hand them unto you I will lay down a few of those natural symptomes prognosticks and common observations of the approaching of winds and storms only as
going into a place many a Sea-man may bee sent out to Spain and France and do business there by proxie and yet not go into France nor into Spain and on this wise would I bee understood of the Sailors going to Heaven for it is my judgment 1. That none can enter into the kingdom of heaven but they for whom it is prepared now it is not prepared for filthy and unclean swearers cursers adulterers and drunkards 1 Cor. 9.10 All such shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Matth. 20.23 But it shall bee given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father Charon in Lucian requested Mercurius to shew him Jupiters palace above how quoth Mercurius would such a Catiff as thou whose conversation hath been in hell and altogether with black shades and impure ghosts thinkest thou to set thy foul feet in that pure palace Ah what a dishonour would it bee to Heaven that thou shouldest ever come there 2. None can enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but such as are prepared for it Now all villanous deboyst and graceless wretches are not prepared for it therefore they shall never come there 3. None can ever come to Heaven but such to whom it is promised now Heaven is not promised to the wicked and abominable James 2.5 but to the godly 4. None can come to Heaven but the friends of God now I fear that God has few friends amongst the Sailors because they like not his wayes nor cannot endure his Word therefore unlike to come to Heaven 5. None shall enter into Heaven but such as are born again this is a sad word may some say I but it is a true one Then I may conclude that there bee hundreds if not thousands of Sailors that never were born again and therefore they shall never enter into the Kingdom of Heaven till they bee born again John 3.3 Except a man bee born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God What will become of you poor Sailors that have no hand-writing of the work of Grace and of the Image of God stampt upon you as yet for to shew for Heaven 6. None shall ever come to Heaven but holy ones whither shall such swearers as our Sailors go then whither shall such drunkards as our Sailors are go then Now the Sailors life is like King Eldred's reign prava in principio pejor in medio pessima in ultimo Nought in the beginning worse in the middest and worst of all in the end and therefore I fear unlike to come to Heaven whither shall that irreligious crew that goes in the Seas go surely to Hell Heb. 12.14 and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. 2. That they shall go to Heaven my meaning is if any will use the Seas they shall nolenti volenti climb the great water-mountains that are in it which are made by the stormy winds which will in David's sense mount them up to Heaven but neither hee nor I do say that they shall go into Heaven I will not take upon mee neither dare I flatter wicked wretches and therefore I have cleered up the proposition and yet again on the other hand I pitty them when I consider how much those that use the Seas are without the grace and fear of God Observation 3 That all Sea-men generally go to heaven against their wills They mount up to the heaven I would they were as unwilling to go to Hell as they are to go to Heaven in a storm I should then have great hopes that none of them would ever come there and David tells us that their souls are melted because of trouble from whence this point arises and is also firmly grounded that it is small pleasure for them to go to Heaven in a storm And as they have no mind to bee jetted up to the Heavens in a storm I fear that they have as little stomack to go to that Heaven in which God Christ Saints and his holy Angels live in I mean as to walk in that way that leads thither but truly it were the greatest piece of wisdom for all our Sailors let the wind bee never so cross and contrary to strive to get thither if they can by any means although they make a thousand yea a million or the greatest number of boardings that can bee reckoned up it will bee worth the pains so to do Observation 4 That when Sea-men are near to heaven they find no entrance or admission but are sent back again after a violent praecipitant and disrespected manner Sailers are like to Belerephon who got upon the back of his winged horse Pegasus and when thinking to ride in horse all at the gates of Heaven Jupiter looks out throws him down to the Earth again insomuch that hee had like to have broken both their bones They go down again to the depths c. I would I could or were able to perswade every soul in the Sea to look seriously into one text of Scripture which will tell them that Christ will disown and reject many that have strong hopes I and as good thoughts as any of you have of their Salvation Matth. 7.21 Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but hee that doth the will of my Father which is in heaven Then I fear that ther will be the fewest Sailors of any people under the Heavens that will come thither my reason is they do not Gods will but their own and the Devils I fear wee shall see but few Sailors saved at the day of Judgment Seaman call thy condition into question and debate the case with thy self and say what shall not I enter into Heaven Captain ask thy own heart this question Master say thou unto thy self shall not I enter into Heaven Boatswain Gunner Carpenter Vulcan left the Earth out of a dislike and went to Heaven but says the Poet the clown was no sooner there but Jupiter grew to be displeased with him and thereupon threw him down and before hee got unto the Earth a whole summers-day was run out from Sun to Sun and in Lemnos Isle he broke his leg I leave you to find out my meaning move this question ever and anone Christ says that every one shall not why mayest not thou doubt that thou shalt bee one of them Thou mayest justly fear it if thy life bee naught That Sea-men had need to have good Observation 5 heads and innocent hearts in respect that they are by the stormy Charriots of the winds so often times tossed and transported to the heavens They mount up to heaven c. It is not every head or brain that can brook and endure to soar into the volatile region of the air The Sea-man stands in much need to have such an head as Polyphemus had of whom it is said that hee was so tall that hee rubbed the hair of his skul off upon the Heavens A good head
even as others did with their Hecatombs but did he prosper afterwards Dionisius was the great ringleader of that jovial crew that went against Proserpinas Temple in Locris which they both robbed and spoyled and in the head of that wretched company he made this out-braving speech Videcis ne amici quam bona navigatio abist is Diis sacrilegis tribuatur See you not my friends what a fortunate Navigation the gods have vouchsafed us in this our sacriledge but did hee ever prosper after Object 3 Mee thinks I hear many Sailors saying unto mee Good Sir There bee many ships that use frequent prayer according to the States Articles of War yet suffer shrewdly and also come to dreadful ruines I even when others go free and clear Ans I will not deny now but that such ships may suffer sadly yet not Gods sore anger many miseries may befall those ships that have good godly and religious people in them that are not the effects of Gods fury were not the Disciples of Christ soundly tossed in a storm and also the Apostle Paul Act. 27.41 And falling into a place where two Seas met they ran the ship a ground and the forepart stuck fast and remained unmoveable but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves And yet for all this God loved Paul never the less That trembling hearts in the time when Observ 10 Gods judgements are abroad upon the face of the great deeps are more acceptable unto the Lord than hard and flinty hearts are Matth. 14.26 But streightway Jesus spake unto them saying Bee of good chear it is I bee not afraid Psal 147.11 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him Most Sea-men in the time of their greatest dangers are both void of fear tears and grace for I have observed that they are so inured and bet up to storms and wars that dangers are no dangers to them and storms no storms to them which are indeed no other than the visible tokens of Gods displeasure Are not many Sea-men Sigismund-like who was the young King of Hungary when hearing of the great Turks coming against him proudly said What need we fear the Turks who need not at all fear the falling of the heavens which if they should fall we were able with our spears and halberes to hold them up from falling upon us Sailors say what need we fear the Seas or the winds our ships are strong enough An humbler spirit would better become you but if I know any thing let mee tell them thus much that that frame of heart is not lovely in the eyes of God Jer. 5.22 Fear yee not mee saith the Lord will yee not tremble at my presence You may conclude upon it that God loves not not likes not such a judgement-out-braving temper The greatest plague that could bee seen in Pharaoh was his hardness of heart under all those judgements that God sent upon him and Egypt Sea-men God will not nay I dare tell you of it that hee likes not of you Observ 11 That the generality of the Sea-men are a very holy praying pious religious and precious kinde of people Then they cry c. Under favour I am but telling you of the Sea-mans piety as it was the Hebrews custome to give those that were vile and abominable good names and titles to make them the more despicable and contemptible When they would set out a whorish woman in the defamatoriest dress that they could devise they would call her a sanctified woman and so when they had a minde to set out wicked and prophane men and that unto the life Nautae plurimum in tempestate Deum advocant quem non crederent esse in caelis The Sea-man will call upon God in a storm and when out of it he lives as if he would tell the world that he beleeves that there is neither a God in heaven nor a Devil in hell What a many invocations be there amongst Sailors in time of storms what various devotions and general recourse to their prayers and how many absurdities are committed amongst them confessing themselves one to another others in a loud voyce making confession of their sins stretching out their throats towards heaven as if God were either deaf or thick of hearing they would call them holy men to that very end they might render them the more odious Alas Alas I may better say of the generality of Sea-men even that which was said of Basilides that great Russian Emperour who refused the celestial globe of gold wherein the cunning Artificer as it were in emulation of the Lord had curiously framed the model of heaven so that nothing was wanting of the number of the spheres or of the life and motion that was sent unto him as a very rare present and out of good affection from the German Emperour but his answer was I do not mean to busy my self in the contemplation of Heaven Is not this the Sailors resolution and also all their piety That bold and graceless wretches are Observ 12 made to quake and tremble in Tempestuous storms Then they cry c. Belshazzars mettal melts in the fiery furnace of a rugged storm Dan. 5. Tells us They that said but in now What I swim not in the Sea its air I tread At evey step I feel my lofty and advanced head To knock out a star in Heaven Sing another tune Those that out-faced the heavens and out-braved the stars and neither feared God nor man are now at their wits end Deut. 28.67 Would God it were morning for the fear of thine heart which thou shalt fear and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see that hee was impudently hardy to profess defiance against the God of Heaven by the prophanation of his holy Vessels and also by other external and visible testimonies of his enmity and despight but as soon as hee saw his doom written upon the wall down fell the high-hoysed proud vanting flag of his spirit It is at these times with the Sailors especially when the ship is leaky or upon and near to the Rocks and Sands that lye in the Seas as it was with that great worldly Roy or Monarch Dan. 5.6 Then the Kings countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him so that the joynts of his loyns were loosed and his knees smot one against another Now are the Sailors countenances as pale as clouts and their hearts as feeble and as full of fear as ever they can hold Now is it with them as it is said in Deut. 28.66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee and thou shalt fear day and night and shalt have none assurance of thy life The hearts of wicked men are as much down in storms as the Cucko's is at the going away of the Summer of whom Naturalists tell us that before they betake themselves to their winter-quarters they express their loth to depart by their faultering and doubling of
in this verse as the Taches and Loops were amongst the Curtains of the Tabernacle The Taches put into the Loops did couple the Curtains of the Tent and sew the Tent together that it might be one Exod. 26.10 11. So doth this very particle couple with the other phrase In the words you have these two things 1. An act of mercy 2. An object of misery And hee brings them out of their distresses Here is transcendent mercy shewed to them that are oftentimes drowned and plunged into irrecoverable misery There is nothing difficult in the words but the view of them is very obvious unto the meanest capacity that is Observ 1 That God loves not to give deliverance till it bee welcome Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble and he bringeth them out of distresses When the ship is upon the sand rapping and knocking as if at every blow shee takes upon the ground would make her flye into a thousand peeces then and not till then comes deliverance Act. 27.44 And the rest some on boards and some on broken peeces of the ship and so it came to pass that they escaped all safe to land When the ship is half full of water with dangerous leaks then and not till then doth the Lord many times appear for them by sending some ship or other into their sight unto which they will make and thereby miraculously they are delivered from drowning by flying out of theirs into that When the ship that Christ and his Disciples were imbarked in was covered all over with waves then and not till then did Christ appear to abate and asswage the storm even but then when there was in the very eye of reason little or no possibility of being saved When Israels Bricks were doubled then and not till then was Moses sent and this is Gods usual time and method to deliver when there is no visible helps or hopes within sight for deliverance 1. Because mercy will not be valued if men should not be thus dreadfully put to it The sound man cryes puff Reasons a fig for the Physitian the Souldier a rush for his enemy when in a strong hold and so the Mariner a straw for storms when in a good harbor but when in the hazards of their lives the mercy then is highly prized 2. Because God would have the glory of his power wisdome and free goodness clearly beheld Act. 27.30 31. And as the ship-men were about to flee out of the ship when they had let down the boat into the Sea under colour as though they would have cast Anchors out of the fore-ship Paul said to the Centurion and to the Souldiers Except these abide in the ship yee cannot bee saved God is tender of his glory power wisdome and honor he would have it seen by the eyes of men 3. Because hee will have the tribute of praise out of every salvation and this is one reason why mercy and deliverance is so oftentimes delayed in the Seas Observ 2 That God in his providence hath a special hand a seeing eye and a prudent care in and over all his creatures for good And hee bringeth them out of their distresses Psal 104.10.21 Psal 107.6 Beasts of the field Fowls of the air Fish in the Sea and all crawling and creeping things upon the face of the earth are preserved and cared for by him If God stept not out of heaven may I so speak to fetch poor souls out of the griping talons of the stormy Seas where no succour and relief can come unto them from the land except it come out of heaven When God would express the tenderness of his love and care to to his people he makes it out by naming the very tenderest part that is in the body Zach. 2.8 Every little thing you know will offend the eye that which wee call the eyes Apple Philosophers call the Chrystalline humour Isbon in Hebrew Ish in Latine Pupilla of pupa because within there is the pretty resemblance of man or otherwise because man is prized and preferred before and above all the creatures besides Heb. 13.5 the Seas and the winds would tear them and their ships to peeces They would soon take down the proudest high decked ships that ever came upon the Seas if God watched not over them both by night and by day How soon would the Sea drink them up even as that great water-drinking Behemoth in Job 33. who drinks up a River I could abundantly inlarge my self in and upon this point but it is such tedious writing in the Sea that I shall bee short and give you in a few inductions to the bargain 1. I would have Sea-men to minde how undeservedly God is with them in their distresses even many wayes A gracious soul spoke on this wise when in a storm and tempestuous night Surely I shall not perish there be so many stars eyes of providence over my head because it was a bright and clear night one while strengthening of you and another while comforting of you Act. 27.22 And now I exhort you to bee of good cheer for there shall bee no loss of any mans life among you but of the ship This was the Apostles experience This was Davids experience Psal 23.4 Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with mee thy rod and thy staffe they comfort mee 2. Minde how God doth deliver you out of storms and also the manner and means thereof and the very nick of time that God appears for you and works it in All which circumstances well heeded and observed will make your Sea-deliverances the more wonderfully Sea-men may well say of their deliverances as Moses said of the burning Bush Exod. 3.3 I will now turn aside and see this great sight Ah turn about souls and look with a thankful eye upon all your preservations and the more marvellously glorious in your eyes Paul was a great observer of the deliverance that hee and those that sailed with him partaked oâ— Act. 27.44 And the rest some on boards and some on broken peeces of the ship and so it came to pass that they escaped all safe to land Call to minde the times when you were shipwracked in Italy Spain or France c. and observe the manner of your deliverances 3. Minde how God delayes and defers sometimes to abate violent storms and to deliver you till that your wills bee conquered into a conformable contentment and obedience unto Gods will to bee delivered or not delivered This was Peters experience Matth. 14.30 31. that Christ reached him not his hand till he was a sinking And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him This was Abrahams experience Gen. 22.12 13 14. That God was not seen but in the Mount and Isaac was not delivered from being made a sacrifice of till the knife was at his throat Have you not found it many times that
into the South but where are your thanksgivings all this time to God for your safe goings our and returnings home Go but to the Planets and they will tell you that they will not deal so with the Sun as you deal with your God wee say they receive much light from the Sun and for a testimony of our thankfulness wee do not detain it but reflect it back again upon the Sun Go to the Earth Sailors and shee will tell you that shee will not deal so with the Heavens as you do with your God shee will tell you that shee receives much rain from the Heavens and out of a testimony of much thankfulness shee detains it not but returns it back in Vapor again and after this manner may you hear her speaking Cessat decursus donorum si cesset recursus gratiarum Mercies from above would soon cease If my thanksgivings and returnings from below went not up It is said of the Lark that shee praises the Lord seven times a day with sweet melodious ditties Atque suum tiriletiriletiriletiriletirile cantat Alauda Isa 20. The beast of the field shall honour mee the Dragons and the Owls because I give waters in the Wilderness and rivers in the Desart to give drink to my people my chosen 1. Reason Because your lives were at the stake as Isaac's was upon the Altar's when the knife was at his throat yet did the Lord call and look forth very seasonably The Romans used to stick and bedeck the bosom of their great God Jupiter with Laurel as if they had glad tidings of fresh victories and that out of a testimony of their thankfulness for what they had out of the Heavens for you and spake to the winds when they were up in a rampant kind of hostility and rebellion against you and bid them be quiet and do you no harm otherwise you had perished in many a storm ere this day and is not this worthy a great many thanks Who can bee too thankful to that God that has been so careful and tender-hearted over you when in the Seas where there was no eye to pitty you 2. Reason Because in that storm if God had given it commission thou hadst been shortly after either in Hell I have met with a story of one when being risen from the dead therefore you that live ungodlily in the Seas think of it he was asked in what condition he was in when he was there he made answer No man will beleeve no man will beleeve no man will beleeve They asked him what hee meant by that he told them no man will beleeve how exactly God examines how strictly God judges and how severely hee punishes or Heaven or may I not leave Heaven out and thou hadst been in Hell where the Devils would have fallen upon thee to tear thee to peeces Ah Sirs your lives hang but upon small wyers and what would become of you if God should not spare you Bee affected with this mercy 3. Reason Because had the storm but had licence to have destroyed you and the ships you sailed in which the Lord would not suffer you had never come home with your rich lading nor never had that mercy granted you of ever seeing or enjoying of your loving friends wives children houses lands and acquaintance again and shall not all this move you unto thankfulness If this will not I know nothing in the world that will prevail with you I pray God that Sea-men do not with their deliverances at Sea as Pharaoh did with the miracles that were done before his face Exod. 7.23 Of whom it is said That hee would not set his heart to the miracle 4 Reason Because you have now at the present a still quiet and peaceable Sea to sail in and upon which in the storm you had not such was the proud vantingness of it that you durst not loose a knot of sail nor keep your Top-masts unlowred and un-peaked and the waves run mountain-high rageing and rowling on every hand you in such a miserable manner It seems strange to mee that Sea-men are not bettered by all the storms they meet with by all the calms God bestows upon them Iron is never cleaner than when it comes out of the furnace nor brighter than when it has been under the sharp file the Sun never shines clearer than when it comes from under a Cloud the Coale that has been covered with ashes is thereby the hotter the quicker every thing brightens betters but the rusty Sailor Gods mercies judgments in the Seas do not scour him as that you were at your wits-end but Oh what sweet peace and tranquil weather have you now insomuch that your Vessels go now upright without that nodding staggering and reeling which they were put to before How still are the waves how clear above bee the skies and Heavens how well escaped are you from the shore the Rocks and sands which you were so near to in the storm Are you not affected with this mercy The Lord soften your hard hearts then Give mee leave to present you with a few motives unto this duty of thankfulness 1. Consider Soul what an unspeakable mercy it is that God should hear thy Prayers in a storm when thou wast almost overwhelmed that God should hear prayers nay prating and babling rather than praying which is but an abomination unto the Lord that God should hear the prayers of the righteous that is nothing strange because hee hears them alwaies but that God should hear your prayers Sirs which are most sorry and sinful prayers The Stork is said to leave one of her young ones where shee hatched them The Elephant to turn up the first sprig towards Heaven when he comes to feed and both out of an instinct of gratitude to their Creator Sailors let not brute creatures excel you for whatsoever is not of Faith is sin this is wonderful Ah will not you bee thankful unto the Lord Sirs I have red of a Lyon that had but got a thorn in his foot as hee was walking and ranging in the Forrest for and after his prey and being exceedingly pained with it hee made after a foot-Traveller which hee spied in the Forrest making signs to him that hee was in distress which the Traveller seeing and apprehending that his case was dangerous if hee ran hee stood still to know the Lyons pleasure to whom the Lyon declared himself and the poor man pulled it forth and the Lyon to requite him followed him as guarding of him from all wrongs by other wild-beasts quite through the Forrest Ah Sirs will not you express your thankfulness to your good God 2. Consider the particular dealings of God with you he deals not so with every one Do you not see God in the winds Mercavab Velohaâ—ocheb how is hee to bee seen in the Chariot which he rides in though not the Rider says a Rabbi some goes down into the bottoms amongst the dead
most high God for delivering mercies is not onely a very acceptable duty with God but also the readiest way to obtain mercy in the like exigency and necessity again Oh that men would praise the Lord Psal 50.23 Who so offereth praise glorifieth mee and then it follows Hee that orders his conversation aright to him will I shew the salvation of God Munera crede mihi placant hominesque Deosq This Scripture now proves it to bee an acceptable performance in the sight of God and that such as give God the most and best of praises they shall have the greatest and the sweetest salvations Improve Neptunum accusat iterum qui naufragium fecit Hee is very injurious to Neptune that complains of being shipwracked when unthankfulness is the cause Alexander the Great by burning Frankincense frankly and freely to the gods gained by conquest the whole Kingdome of Arabia where all the sweet Aromatick trees do grow Ah Sirs you do not know how you might prosper at Sea would you but bee liberal in your praisings of God and thanksgivings to him The people in the Low Countries by giving the Stork leave to build and nest it in their houses to requite the house-keepers shee comes every year at her appointed time Wee read of small or no rain that falls many times in divers parts of Africa and the grand cause is supposed to bee the sandy nature of the soil from whence the Sun can draw no vapours or exhalations which ascending from other parts in great abundance resolve themselves into kinde benign showers refreshing and helping of the earth that yeeldeth none and this is the reason many times why God poures not down his blessings and benefits in such an abundance as sometimes hee hath been wont to do because your hearts are as dry and barren as the barren grounds and sands of Africa for if vapours of melting prayers tears prayses and thanksgivings go not up to heaven mercies will soon bee stopt in their passage down If Sea-men were not so much behinde hand with God in the tribute of praise and good life God would soon lay a charge upon all his creatures both in heaven and in earth that they should pay their tribute unto man the Sun his heat Ah Sirs I am afraid that many in the Sea do vitam gentilem agere sub nomine Christiano live even Turks under the name of Christians The Sailor sometimes is like a Rubrick or Sunday letter very zealously red and all the week after you may write his deeds and his unthankfulness unto his God for Sea deliverances in black the Sea his calmness the Winds their gentleness the Moon her light the Stars their influences the Clouds their moysture the Sea and Rivers their Fish the Land her Fruits the Mines their Treasures c. And when neglected God shuts up the windows of heaven and locks up the treasuries of his bounty and so lets Winds and Seas rage and roar and the creatures gnash and grin their teeth at a people for their ingratitude Ingratitude is a sin supposed to taint the very influences of the Stars it dries up the Clouds infects the very Air makes Winds terrible and boysterous blasts the very fruits of the earth Cyprian attributes the great dearth in his time to the want of thankfulness and truly I shal attribute the many ships that are cast away unto their unthankfulness unto their God for had they been more thankful more holy and humble for those storms God delivered them out of they had never gone so sadly to the pot as they have done Here is quoth Cyprian a very great and general sterility or barrenness of the fruits of the earth and what is the reason of it because there is such a sterility of righteousness and purity Men complain now a dayes that springs are not full Sea-men deal with God as the Heathen who would when they had served their torns upon their gods as Prometheus c. put them off with beasts skins stuffed with straw If they get but out of the storm they never look behinde them who sate upon the floods all the time to deliver them themselves not so healthfull nor the Seas so calm as formerly they have been nor the Winds so quiet and peaceable nor the showers so frequent the earth so fruitful nor the heavens so obsequious unto them as they have been to serve their pleasure and natural profit to God the creatures are obedient and on his errands they go Deu. 28.38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field and shalt gather but little in for the locust shall consume it It is sin that makes the Sea so dangerous and so dreadful sin that makes the heavens as iron over head and the earth to grow so full of thorns and brambles But to proceed I shall not adventure pluribus morari but rather bee tanquam Canis ad Nilum in a restless Sea where I can neither hold my pen in my hand nor keep my paper and ink upon board scarce The Arguments why Sea-men should praise God are briefly these 1. Because God had such a special Reason 1 eye and provident care over you in the preserving of you in all the unlikeliest and irrecoverablest dangers and calamities that you have been exercised withall in the Seas 2. Because God did so much for Reason 2 you which hee would not do for others That when God hath delivered men out Observ 4 of their Sea-streights and calamities Sceva told all his friends that at the siege of Dyrrachium where he so long resisted Pompeys Army that he had two hundred and twenty Darts sticking in his Shield Densamque tulit in pectore Sylvam Ah set your deliverances before people it is their duty not onely to praise God for his goodnesses towards them but also to set the fruit of those mercies before others to taste of Oh that men would praise the Lord c. Vers 37. Let them exalt him in the Congregation Portus Olympiaca vocem acceptam septies reddit If any knock or speak at the Gate or Portal of Olympus it returns a sevenfold Eccho of the knock or speech Your mercies should make you speak Sirs Observ 5 That although a man hath nothing to speak of Gods wonderful deliverances in the Seas but what is known unto others as well as to himself yet is it a part of Gods praise and of his thankfulness to make Gods works known and the continual matter of his talk and discourse Oh that men would praise the Lord Psal 105.2 Talk yee of all his wonderful works Talk not of one or two of some of them but of all of them which you have seen and known done and wrought for you in the Seas Observ 6 That freedome from perils in the Seas and injoyment of life are two mercies that call for many thanks at the hands of those that go down into them He that hath but a subjects purse may have
that men would praise the Lord. Psal 105.5 Remember his marvellous works that hee hath done his wonders and the judgments of his mouth A gratious heart files all the Lords dealings with his soul either at Sea or Land in his heart and steers the same course the Sea-man does in the great deeps who makes it his daily business in long Voyages to keep his Quotidian reckonings for every elevation hee makes whereby hee judges of his advancings and deviations Mens memories should bee deep boxes or store-houses to keep their pretious Sea-mercies in and not like hour-glasses which are no sooner full but are a running out Bind all your sea-deliverances and preservations as fast upon your hearts as ever the Heathen bound their Idol Gods in their Cities in the time of wars siedges and common calamities which they evermore bound fast with Iron chaines and strong guards and sentinels lest they should leap over the walls or run out of their Cities from them Ah Sirs look to those things which Satan will bee very prone to steal from you who is like unto a theef that breaks into an house but will not trouble himself with the lumber of earthen or wooden vessels A gratious heart will resolve that the Orient shall sooner shake hands with the West and the Stars decline the azured Skies than he will forget the Lords deliverances out of gloomy stormy tempestuous and heart-daunting Seas Sirs you stand in need to be called upon for your hearts are not unlike to the leads and plummets of a Clock that continually drive downwards and so stand in need of winding up but falls foul on the plate and jewels Hee does and will steal away your hearts from minding the precious jewels of your Sea-deliverances I find in Scripture that the people of God of old were very careful and heedful to preserve the memory of their mercies I wish all the States Tarpowlings were of the like temper 1. By repeating them often over in their own hearts Psal 77.5 6 11. I will remember the works of the Lord surely I will remember thy wonders of old Sea-men should say of their Sea-deliverances as Lypsius once did of the Book he took so much delight in pluris facio quum relego semper novum quum repetivi repetendum The more I read the more I am tilled on to read The more I think of what God hath done for me the more I still delight to think of it Vers 6. I call to remembrance my song in the night Paul when hee was amongst the Mariners writ down all their transactions in the time of their danger Acts 27.7 The wind not suffering us we sailed under Crete over against Salmone Vers 18. And being exceedingly tossed with a Tempest the next day they lightned the ship Vers 27. But when the fourteenth night was come as wee were driven up and down in Adria about midnight the ship-men deemed that they drew near to some Country Vers 28. And sounded and found it twenty faothms c. 2. By composing and inditing of pretious pious and melodious Psalms Remember the time of your inconsolabili dolore oppressi this was Davids practice Psal 38. which hee titles A Psalm of David to bring to remembrance Again in the 70. Psalm Wee have the very same title A Psalm of David to bring to remembrance In our late wars many had such a pretious spirit breathing in them that they have put the victories and battels of England into sweet composed meeter to the end they might bee remembred Ah Sirs call all your deliverances in this and in the other part of the world to remembrance 3. By giving names to persons times and places on purpose to remind them of Gods mercies This was Hannahs course in the 1 Sam. 1.20 And called his name Samuel saying The States ships resemble the tall Tree in Nebuchadnazzar's dream Dan. 4.20 Whose height reached unto the heaven and the sight thereof to all the earth They go into all parts in the world as much admired are they as Venus was by the Gods Who came flocking about her when shee went to heaven because I have asked him of the Lord to that very end shee might for ever perpetuate the Lords goodness towards her Abraham to keep alive the goodnesse of God towards him in the sparing of his Son would call the place where hee should have been sacrificed Jehovah-Iireth i.e. God will provide Gen. 22.14 The Jews that they might keep in remembrance the daies of their deliverance from bloody-minded Haman they titled them Purim i. e. Lots Esth 9.26 in memory of Lots cast by Haman which the Lord disappointed And very commendable is this Scriptural practice amongst us in England for I have observed it and I like it very well that our Military Grandees to perpetuate their dreadful Land and Sea-fights do give their warlike ships and battels such titles To keep alive that great and desperate engagement which our Army had with the Scots in Scotland one of their warlike ships is called the Dunbar Gentlemen Captains and Sea-men many of your Ships derive borrow their names from the stour-charged and fought Battels of the Souldiery in England to that end you may imitate their valour at Sea which they to the life performed on Land Some are called the Treddah some the Naseby and other some the Dunbar some the Plymouth some the Gainsborough and othersome the Massammore c. Be valiant Sirs the Souldiery fought apace when in those Battels To keep up the memory of Naseby great fight they have another ship which they call the Naseby To keep up the memory of Worcester fight they have a brave warlike ship which they call the Worcester To keep up the enemies defeating at Wakefield in Yorkshire they have a gallant warlike ship called the Wakefield To remember the fight at Nantwich they have a warlike ship called the Nantwich To remember their victory at Plymouth against the enemy they have a ship which they call the Plymouth To keep up the memory of that famous bout at Massammore when the three Nations lay at the stake they have a ship called the Massammore To remember that great fight that was fought at Treddah they have a warlike Vessel called the Treddah To perpetuate the memory of that great and hot dispute that was once at Selby in Yorkshire they have a famous ship they call the Selby To keep up the memory of that bout they had with the enemy at Portsmouth they have a warlike ship they call the Portsmouth To keep up the memory of their taking of Gainsborough they have a brave Prince-like ship called the Gainsborough To keep up the Memory of the dispute that they once had at Preston Bee valiant Sirs your ships have their names from valiant Exploits on Land and the States will deal as kindly with you as the Russians do by those they see behave themselves couragiously the Emperour
Heathens were wont to say Mutus sit oportet qui non laudaret Herculem I may say Let that Sea-mans tongue be tyed up forever that is not alwayes blessing of the Lord for his mercies towards him Vivat Dominus vivat regnet in aternum Deus in nobis said Luther say you so Saylors therefore there is great reason that you should live in a far higher way of holiness than you do 7. Consider that you have been made acquainted with many and more precious deliverances than all the people under the whole heavens again and will you bee no better for all and after all 8. Consider that you have many eyes upon you out of the land how you will behave your selves after mercy They expect you should bee good 9. Consider that you have many tryals for faith and alas who more faithless than you 10. Consider that you might grow better for of all the people in the world none are so much cast down as you your spirits are broken many times by storms and you are laid low upon the back of despair 11. Consider that you are put to far harder shifts shorter and barer commons than others are and will not you bee more humble less proud and stomachful consider how ill it becomes you Ah Sirs your lives are too much like to Leâ—â—is 11. of France who did write in a letter to our Edward the 4. Couzen if you will come over to Paris wee will pamper our flesh and you shall have the choysest beauties in the City to sport with Your delights are too strong when you go to Naples Livorno and Genoa 12. Consider that you are generally a people of a very low rise and fortune in the land both as to state and breeding and will not you grow better sirs 13. Consider that none see so much of the Creation as you do nor none so much of the work of the Lord and will you out-top the whole world in prophaneness will you never behave your selves as that the world may no longer proverbialize you 14. Consider that you go oftentimes safely out and come safely back and will you bee no better for all this mercy 15. Consider that you are oftentimes going to fight and at that time your Hamocks are cut down your Chests stowed in the Hold your Guns haled out and your Decks be-decked with all sorts of dismangling bullets and will not you bee a more serious people Holiness would well become you 16. Consider that the deep Seas upon which and through which you sail Ulysses sayes Homer longed much to be near his own Country when been long cut of it Fumum de patriis posse videre focis Hee saw the smoke of his own Country chymneys shall one day as well as the earth surrender up her dead unto the Eternal and Almighty God and as men dye whether Swearers Drunkards or Adulterers so shall they rise it is a folly for any to think if they bee drowned in the Sea God will never finde them out more They whose bones lye in the bottome God will finde out Sirs I am tyred and spent with writing to you in a rowling restless element and therefore being almost at my desired Port When Ovid was and had been a long time travelling of it in the world hee then thought much of home Nescio qua natale solum dulcediue cunctos Ducit immemores non sinit esse suâ— I will strike and lower down my Fore-top-sail for a little sail commonly carries the ship into the Harbour And what Socrates used to say of and to his Scholars I will say to you the States Tarpowlings if I can but provoke you to learn and to fear my God whom I serve which is the desire of my soul that you might that is as much as I desire and as much as I can look for for from you therefore What Pasquillus said of Rome I will say of you and of the Sea Roma vale vidi satis est vidisse revertar Gran-mare vale vidi satis est vidisse revertar Farewel thou angry Sea farewel you Sailors all I have seen both you and it it is enough I will return Qui in peregrinis locis ad patriam aspirant If not I hope I shall bee able to sing with the Poet. Ferre volo cunctos casus patienter acerbos Littora dum patriae lacrymans portusque relinquo FINIS A Table directing to some of the principallest and remarkablest things in this Treatise A. ANselms penitent and humble expression page 357 Ataliba what that Indian Prince said page 349 Antisthenes's brave mind page 396 Aristippus what he said to the Tarpowlings when at sea amongst you page 358 Alexanders Macedonians how they sought the Emperours favour again page 451 Alexanders usual deportment in all Siedges page 405 Answer that the stormy wind gave when demanded why cast away so many ships page 487 Apis an Idol in Aegypt what it did ibid. Ability of God to muster up the Winds to destroy men page 386 Advice to Sea-men good page 385 Advice to Merchants page 383 Africa how dangerous to bee travelled the Seas compared unto it page 428 Athens what it did when the Plague was in it page 480 Achilles how cast down for the loss of his precious friend Patroclus page 557 Advice what to doe when goe to Sea page 394 Advice how to bear storms at Sea in four things page 399 Armies divers that God has on foot page 334 Alphonsus King of Spain what hee said to one page 5 Antonius what good he did in his preaching page 601 Agamemnons brave instructions to his Souldiers before the Battel began page 27 Austin how he begins his Sermon to young men page 44 Athanasius's brave carriage what page 63 Alipius how enticed page 75 Aristippus how willing to be reconciled to his enemie page 81 Aristotles wisdome and patience page 108 Antigonus how he bore with bad tongues ibid. Augustus how studied to overcome his passion page 109 Anger has a bad name amongst the Hebrews page 110 Alexanders Harper how put metal into the Emperour page 143 Aurclianus how careful of losing a day page 166 Augustines judgement why David put off Sauls armour page 176 Auroughscoun what page 250 Assa panick what page 250 Arbor Triste page 66 Asp what page 259 Arabian Spider what page 299 Alexander how kept Homers Iliads page 512 Alligator page 228 B. BErnards good exhortation to his Brother page 389 Bias's counsel to the Mariners when amongst them in a sad storm page 353 Bellerophon when went to Heaven was thrown neck-break out of it page 415 Bernards humble expression page 118 Boat-Swains exhorted to call their men up to prayer page 94 Boat-Swains if irreligious how harmful they are ibid. Boat-Swains how reproved and for what page 89 Bird what sort brest themselves against the Wind. page 3 Bruso Zeno's Servant what page 15 Bernard what said to his friends page 41 Bonosus a Beast how hurtful page 75
the Egyptian ibid. Spots soon seen in the Ermin page 64 Suspicious ships should not bee neglected to hee spoke withall page 65 Song that the poor bird sung when got out of the Fowlers hands ibid. Suevians estimation of peace page 70 Ships how they should bee governed ibid. Strong drink should bee kept out of ships page 77 Sailors that are naught too like the unsavoury Elder tree ibid. Star the Mariner sails by what page 12 Sailors prophane life like to King Eldreds Reign page 413 Sea-men how they will go forth in windy nights to see if they can espye any star in the heavens page 420 Sea-men how fearful of Rocks and Sands page 430 Sea-men how unkindly they deal with Prayer page 483 Saylors in storms how compared to the Froggs in the Country-mans Pond page 481 Saylors how resemble the Siryphian Froggs page 478 Swearing ships worse habitations than the stinking Jakes and Channels about the City of London page 490 Saylors like to the people in the time that Juvenal lived in page 489 Seas turbulent and dangerous to Passengers because of prophane men in ships page 350 Security taken napping at sea as the old World was page 364 Sea how compared to lovely Paris in Hectors eye page 376 Sea-men exhorted in their employments to imitate the Nobilities of Rome ibid. Storms as well as Calms come from the hand of God page 379 Signs of the coming of storms be fifteen page 373 Ships at sea how resemble the Owl in the Embleme page 535 Saylors imployment how compared to the picture of the naked man in the Almanack page 530 Sea-ports should resemble the Emblem of the Candle page 535 Sea-men how they sit in the Waves and upon the Flouds like him in the Emblem page 536 Sea compared to the English Colledge at Valladolid in Spain for danger page 536 Sea-port Towns if naught how they endanger and threaten the whole Land with ruine page 538 Sunk ships bespeak Sea-men to make seven good applicatory uses page 550 Ships that have fair names upon them oftentimes very foulely miscarry page 547 Sea-mans life and conversation page 548 Sea how compared to Pandora's Box for danger page 542 Ships brought to ruine by reason of sinful men that saile in them page 555 Sea-men if godly need not fear the seas page 544 Saylors life what it is page 458 Sea compared to Proteus page 454 Syracucian when in a storm to save himself threw his wife over-board page 455 Sea how compared to the river Hypanis page 438 Seas why turbulent and Winds boysterous be divers in respect of the prophane wretches that goe in them ibid. Storms how the uttering of Gods voyce in wrath against them that use the seas page 340 Sea-mens large vowes to their God when in storms page 461 Sea-men in want of fear how compared to Sigismund page 475 Sea-men how they call upon God in storms and never in calms page 476 Sea-mans employment as dangerous as the Snails going over the bridge page 533 Story of one risen from the dead page 566 Storms better not bad men page 567 Stork how she expresses her thankfulnesse page 568 Saylors of Zara what they offered to their God for a deliverance in a storm page 570 Sea-men deal with their God as Egypt with the Clouds page 572 Seas upon a time how spoke to a pack of swearing Saylors and asked them why they was not affraid page 560 Shipwrack many suffer and why page 547 Saylors compared to Bees page 452 Sea-men how should prepare for storms page 394 Storms what Gods aimes are in them page 395 Sceva how he told of all his deliverances to his friends page 573 Seamen what they should say of their deliverances page 588 Sea-men how they deal with God page 580 Ship how covered over with Celestial curtains page 318 Storms how dreadful sometimes in Egypt page 329 Sea-lights when burn dimme make the Mariners curse and rage page 509 Seas as difficult to Navigate as the Hircinian Forrests bee to travel through page 510 Sigismund Emperour what used to say of his enemy page 514 Seas in storms run as high as the mountains in Mirioneth-shire in Wales page 514 Spaniard how may be dealt withall page 182 Spanish Ambassadors proud Ambassage into England page 185 Sea-men exhorted to bee as valiant for England as the two Scipio's were page 185 Sea-men exhorted to charge the Spaniard stoutly page 187 Sea-men how they see the riches honours and beauties of Countries page 191 T. TRojans how glad after their long Warre when came within the sight of their own Country page 545 Toledo the Arch-Bishop how hee despaired of Solomon page 410 Thankfulnesse how gainful it was to Alexander page 578 Tyger what page 254 Toddy-tree what page 265 Terebinth-tree page 266 Torrid Zone how people live in it page 273 Troy how ruined when secure page 298 Torpedo what page 226 Tumbler page 441 Titus Vespasian how sweetly spoken page 517 Travellers on Land what course they take page 11 Teneriff how difficult to goe up to the top of it page 600 Tree in Pliny how delightful page 2 Theodore how careful of his Childrens education page 35 Turkycock how said to rage page 106 Thistle in the Scottish coyn what it said page 139 Trumpet sounds England stand to thine Arms. page 143 Turks how allow none to be idle page 166 Thescus how guided by Ariadnes thred page 500 Thresher what said of him page 222 Thrush how brings evil upon her self page 205 Turk what said of England when looking for it in a Map page 183 V. ULysses what said of eloquence page 45 Voluptuous Londoner how feasted his five senses page 100 Vines in India how compared page 21 Virgils observation of a storm page 542 Ulysses how sadly hee raged when like to bee drowned in a storm page 556 Venice how lived a thousand years in one form of Government page 529 Use of comfort to those that use the Seas that God is the great Commander of them and of the winds page 360 Voyages are all to bee begun in the fear and by the good leave of God page 387 Vulcan so proud that hee would dwell no longer on earth but c. page 415 Vses of Information Circumspection and Reproof page 361 Unthankfulness reproved page 576 577 W. VVInd what it doth page 36â— Wars of old what they did when they went into them page 388 Wonders the greatest in England are her famous and stately Fabricks of warlike ships page 382 White-hall how a curb both to Sea and Land page 489 Winds how overthrow Sambelicus and his Army whilst at dinner page 338 Wind-Armies bee four page 331 Walnot tree how better for beating page 504 Winds are allayed six several wayes page 522 Waves of the Sea what called by some page 524 World if travelled what to be done page 194 Whale what said of him page 212 Wilde-Ass what page 247 Water-spouts at Sea what page 271 Wilde-Cows what page 255 Wilde-Goat what page 254 Wilde-Bore what page 255 Waters of the Sea why called great page 152 Water in Sicily what page 153 War how ought to begin and bee carried on page 145 World how often it hath been fought for page 170 World divided how few Christians in it page 271 Williams valour when went to Sea page 124 West-Indies how tame Fowls are page 241 Weeping-tree page 266 X. XErxes trusting in a multitude of men how betrayed page 520 Xerxes angred at Helespont how threw Irons into it page 521 Y. YEars ago could not sail far at Sea because wanted the use of the Loadstone page 9 Z. Zebra what page 250