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A90365	Pelagos. Nec inter vivos, nec inter mortuos, neither amongst the living, nor amongst the dead. Or, An improvement of the sea, upon the nine nautical verses in the 107. Psalm; wherein is handled I. The several, great, and many hazzards, that mariners do meet withall, in stormy and tempestuous seas. II. Their many, several, miraculous, and stupendious deliverances out of all their helpless, and shiftless distressess [sic]. III. A very full, and delightful description of all those many various, and multitudinous objects, which they behold in their travels (through the Lords Creation) both on sea, in sea, and on land. viz. all sorts and kinds of fish, foul, and beasts, whether wilde, or tame; all sorts of trees, and fruits; all sorts of people, cities, towns, and countries; with many profitable, and useful rules, and instructions for them that use the seas. / By Daniel Pell, preacher of the Word.	Pell, Daniel.	1659 (1659)	Wing P1069; Thomason E1732_1; ESTC R203204	470,159	726

year amounting to an unspeakable value and worth of moneys Fishers kill as many great and massy Sea-beasts every year what in one part and what in another as Butchers do of Kine and Cattel at Land But having presented you with the several benefits that are received by Sea employments which could not otherwise bee if that there were not skill in this Art I hope none will bee so absurd or irrational as to deny the legality of this calling If any will demand of mee wherein the lawfulness of this or any other calling lyes I will say in this when it is manifestly approved of in Scripture But the Sea-mans employment is approved of by Scripture Ergo it is lawful It is first profitable unto mankind Secondly It is of good report and herein lies the lawfullness of this or any other calling Ephes 4.28 Working with his hands the thing that is good Philip. 4.8 God does variously call and dispose of men some to one thing and some to another some to go down into the Seas and othersome to stay on land to follow those several callings they are trained up unto which bee for the publick good and weale of all And indeed if we look into Scripture wee shall find no plea or excuse for any to live out of lawful callings In times past no Roman durst go in the streets if he bore not his badge how hee did lives to that end it might bee known that he lived by his labour not upon the sweat of others I would it were thus in England It is more commendable to weave and un-weave with Penelope than to beidle Amongst the Turks every man must be of some trade the Grand Signeur himself not excepted Aurelianus the Emperour would never suffer any day to pass over his head wherein he exercised not himself in some hard labour or military employment or other Idleness is putvinar Diaboli the Devils cushion or pillow on which he both sits leans Fabius was called the Shield of Rome because he waited upon all opportunities Charls King of Naples was Sirnamed Cunctator because he lost all opportunities Post est occasio calva Time is bald behind The Bee goes not every day to labour but as often as the Heavens offer occasion shee goes Every mans mind is created active apt to some or other ratiocination his joynts are stirring his nerves made for helps of moving and his occasions of living call him forth to action 1. It is an ordinance of God that every one bee exercised and employed in some honest and laudable calling or other When God made man he found him out both work and employment to perform Gen. 2.15 Hee would not have him to bee swallowed up with idleness 1 Thes 4.11 And do your own business working with your hands Hee that follows not some honest employment or other either at Sea or on Land cannot bee free of grievous sining that man is a fit instrument for the Devil to take hold on 2. Every one has received some talent or other or some part of a talent at leastwise from God and to that very end which cannot warrantably bee hid nor buried without sining Matth. 25. When God gave Bezaliel and Aholiab those talents of working his glorious Temple-work it was not given them to ly by but to do the things that God had to bee done God has given many Sea-men an extraordinary dexterous faculty in their Art of Navigation to sail the Seas by now will any say that this talent is not given them for improvement 3. Idleness is abominable abhorred of God and man it is the mater and nutrix of a thousand vices but especially of sinfull and unclean thoughts and desires and many other wicked contrivements 2 Thes 3.11 For wee hear that here are some which walk among you disorderly working not at all but are busie-bodies But further for the exercising of an honest calling which either in the Seas or on Land there bee these things very necessary and convenient 1. Skil Every one that will undertake any thing is to know perfectly the things which hee takes in hand and to bee able to give good grounds and reasons thereof which properly belongs to his own vocation Prov. 14.8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way but the folly of fools is deceit 2. Attention to his own affaires more than to others 2 Thes 3.11 1 Tim. 5.13 And withall they learn to bee idle wandring about from house to house 3. Diligence in going about his affaires Prov. 10.4 Hee becometh poor tht dealeth with a slack hand but the hand of the diligent maketh rich 4. Wisdom in observing taking and using all opportunities rightly Prov. 10.5 He that gathereth in Summer is a wise son but hee that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame 5. Courage and Constancy in overcoming all difficulties for what calling soever it bee that a man sets himself to I have observed that if hee want courage and boldness to manage it hee will but bungle in it Prov. 15.19 The way of the slothfull man is as an hedg of thorns Young Eagles peck at the Stars before they prey on dead carkasses Diogenes laying his mony at his head a theef was very busy to steal it from him which troubled him so much that hee could take no rest so at last rather than hee would deprive himself of his sweet sleep hee threw it to him saying Take it to thee than wretch so I may but take my rest Opportunities are headlong and must bee quickly caught as the Eccho catcheth the voice there is no use of after wit Praecipitat tempus mors atraimpendet agentes but the way of the Righteous is made plain 6. A moderation in the desire of gain and care of his wished success Some are so avarous in their gain and gettings that they care not how they come by it And many are so well versed in all the Topicks and common places of profit and gain having got in readiness all money-traps to catch it where ever it is stirring and to bee had per fas nefas Rem rem quocunque modo rem 1 Tim. 6.9 But they that will bee rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtfull lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition The Indians observing that unsatiable desire of Gold in the Spaniards said that it was their God Money and the things of the world may better bee said to bee their God than the true God himself in respect of their inordinateness after them 7. A Religious sanctifying of all our labours both at Sea and Land is required or us 1 Cor. 10.31 Whether therefore yee eat or drink or whatsoever yee doe do all to the glory of God Gen. 24.12 And hee said O Lord God of my Master Abraham I pray thee send mee good speed this day and shew kindness unto my Master Abraham That the great work and

neither fearing God nor Man what havock will you make of their Wines Sugars Fruits c Consider with your selves that you are but hired servants for so much per Moneth and have no order nor allowance from them to drink their Wines or steal their Fruits c. you ought to be content with your Wages I would have Seamen to be of Fabritius his mind or else I will not give a button for ten thousand of them of whom it s said that one might as well turn the Sun from his course as sway him from honest and ingenuous dealing Know this one thing that Gods eye is upon you though the Merchants or the Trustees be at a vast distance from you He is said a Heathen totus Oculus all Eye this is more than thousands of Sailors will either say or believe as if a mans body were all eye to see as well backwards as forwards and forwards as backward Christ saw Nathaniel when he was under the Fig-tree when he th●ught that no eye was upon him Joh. 1 5● and Gods eye is upon you in your ships in the Seas when the Merchants cannot behold you nor cannot tell what you have done Reade but these few Scriptures and consider but Gods All-seeing eye and then tell me if you can play the Thief Joh. 4.29 Psal 139.7 8 9 10 11 12. There be two things that would exceedingly adorn the Seamen of England and raise out of the dust their lost and crackt Credit and esteem with the good people of the Land could they but be found dwelling in them and they are these two 1. A working hand 2. An honest heart 1. A quick and working hand There should be a diligent and quick dispatching and expediting of their Masters businesses and commands without loytering and taking their own ease and pleasures Gen. 24.33 Abrahams servant was so conscientious in the stirring in his Masters business that he preferred it before his meat and would not eat till his errand was told them Send me away says he that I may go unto my Master I would have all the Captains and Mariners in the States service to be of that honest minde and upright spirit that Drusius Livius was of of whom it s said that this great Roman Counsellor bespoke a curious Artificer to build him an house in the City as curiously as Art could make it That I will said he and I will so contrive it that none shall ever see your coming into it or going out of it nor what you do at any time in your house God forbid says he I will have my house built so that the eyes of the whole City may run up and down every corner in it and may clearly see what I do in my house every day I up rise Tell the States that you would have them to build you such Frigots as that all the ships that sail by you in the Seas may see into your Cabins and what you do every day And this would bespeak you honest men Jacob also served Laban with all his might Gen. 31.6 night and day did he take care for his gain and profit Make the like conscience of your service and the discharge of those Trusts that are imposed in you whether in the Merchants or States service and say when you have got your sailing Orders or when your Ships are fraughted Let 's be going Send us away now whilst the wind and opportunity serves Loyter it not in Harbors 2. An honest heart You should do for your Masters as you would do for your selves Nay you should esteem of their business before and above your own Upright Jacob did thus in Labans service Gen. 30.30 And the Lord hath blessed thee since my coming as if he were a going to say I have followed thy business honestly and closely and my own have I neglected And now when shall I provide for mine own house also It s wonderful to think what Jacob endured in Labans service Gen. 31.40 41. Heat scorched him by day and frost nipt him by night besides his losse of sleep and nocturnal rest I confesse that Seamens service is full of danger hardship night-watching and day-labouring but to go through-stitch with all they do out of a good principle is the life of all that is that which makes the service venerable Put on put on Masters of Ships and Seamen for honest hearts and principles God knows you are people that are the furthest on stern of any people in the world Use all fidelity in the keeping employing and encreasing of Merchants goods for their gain and advantage that you can Purloin not nor waste them in riotous eating and drinking What care took Jacob that nothing might miscarry in his hand Gen. 31.38 39. when his Master thought that he had robbed him he could not finde a rag amongst all his stuff that was his And will not you take the like on the behalf of those that employ you 2. Vnto the State In this service there be five sorts of men that deserve sharp Reproof and they are those that go under the Notion 1. Of Captains 2. Pursers 3. Gunners 4. Boatswains 5. Carpenters 1. Of Captains The Sea Captain is a Lad that has his faults slips spots and blemishes as well as another Alexander was continent yet immoderate Sylla was valiant yet violent Galba eminent yet insolent Lucullus generous yet delicious Marcellus glorious yet ambitious Architus patient yet avaritious Is there not very many that are now employed in the Seas who are no more fit for that function than the suit of a Giant is for a short-grown Dwarf Many creep into the States service that are both a disgrace to it a dishonour unto God and a gravaminous burthen to the ships and men they go amongst Let me tell the States of England thus much That the entertaining and countenancing of heretical erroneous factious and unpeaceable persons in their ships has exceedingly hurt poisoned and infected the silly and ignorant Sailors There would not have been found those damnable Errours in the heads hearts and mindes of Seamen that be now to be seen with great confidence and boldness at this day amongst them had there but been a careful keeping out of Command all such worthless persons who leave nothing else but a stink in every ship and Countrey they breathe in In former times when there was as much Peace in England as there is now as much Piety as there is now as much Honesty as there is now nay more Honesty and Sincerity whatever any in this Age cry up and boast of none but well-bred and accomplished men both of parts and estates were put into Commands at Sea It s a true saying that Ex quolibet ligno non fit Mercurius Every log of wood will not make a Scholar and I may with as great verity say that every uncomb'd Sailor will not make a Captain every one that knows the Rigging or the navigating and carrying of a

An honest heart would reflect on these things I do not deny but that sometimes you may have occasion for so doing but many times will and pleasure is all the reason 2. Quietness and gentleness This is as sweet a flower amongst all a mans virtues and enamelments as any other whatsoever of such rare worth is it that the Apostle deemed them that were without it to bee a dishonour unto God Christ and their profession 1 Thes 4.11 And that yee study to bee quiet Mich. 6.8 And what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God Heb. 11.12 Follow peace with all men let them bee what they will bee and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. But now whilst I press this vertue upon you mistake me not I would not have you of this temper when there is occasion given you to the contrary amongst your men no no. I have observed that a carrion crow will sit upon the back of a silly sheep and pull the very wooll of it from its skin when as this bird durst not do so to the Wolf or Mastive I leave the Application unto you I confess too much meekness and soft spiritedness at Sea is a meer peble though at land an excellent Jewel He that is of this temper commonly throws himself upon the Rocks of many injuries patience and mildness of spirit is ill bestowed where it is not deserved and especially where it exposes a man to wrongs and insultations Sheepish dispositions are good for others but worst of all for themselves I do not deny but that it is good to be of a meek and harmless carriage but if any one would dare to teare off my coate there is good reason then to bid him look to himself 3. Sobriety This vertue will bee as sweet oyntment poured out upon your names And the want of it will both crack and stain your credits in the States Service The Apostle presses on the Romans with very strong and cogent arguments to take up the practice of it Rom. 13.12 13. The night is far spent the day is at hand let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armour of light Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envying Let this Scripture bee your pattern I would have the Sea-Captains and every land Captain Commander as saithful as Pontius Centurio was to Caesar the Emperour who was one of his Captains and being taken by Scipio Pompey's Father in Law had his life offered him with an honourable place in Pompey's Army if he would but forsake Caesar and serve Pompey But he faithfully answered Scipio that though he thanked him greatly for his kind offer yet would he not accept of life upon such unequal conditions choosing rather for to dye than to falsify his faith to Caesar 4. Fidelity It is very requisite that none should go or bee employed as Commanders in the States ships of England but such as are both faithful trusty and well affected to the present governement otherwise the States may hereby suffer damage I could wish that the States of England would do by those whom they employ either at Sea or Land if once unfaithful as the Lacedemonians did in one case by their King Pausanias who finding it out that hee held correspondence with their enemy Xerxes they sent for him home and when he came back perceiving that his treason was discovered he took Sanctuary in the Temple of Pallas and the Lacedemonians fearing to violate the priviledge of the place durst not fetch him out to punishment but rather than hee should escape unrevenged they made up the doore with stones and starved him unto death Men that are unfaithful and disaffected in your ships should bee called in and not trusted in such disloyal hands Consider you that are trusted by the States with Seafaring Commands what sweet Scriptural Examples you have of the fidelity of those that were employed in great and weighty affaires What think you of Abraham's servant unto his Master Gen. 24. What think you of Jonathan's faithfulness unto David and of David's unto Jonathan 1 Sam. 20.15 2 Sam. 9.1 What think you of Jacob's faithfulness unto Laban Gen. 31.38 and what think you of Jehojadah's trustiness unto Joash 2 King 11.4 Behold Nehemiah cap. 7.2 Behold Daniel The Romans so highly esteemed of faith in all their publick affairs that in their City they had a Temple dedicated to it and for more reverence sake offered sacrifice to the Image of Faith cap. 6.4 Behold Joseph Gen. 39.8 Behold Rahab with the spies Josh 2.4 Behold the work-men about the Temple 2 King 12.15 All these are set forth as examples of honesty fidelity and godliness And these Examples are not like to unprofitable fables which feed the eye for a while and then are cast aside and seldom ever looked on more but here they are inserted for particular uses practises and applications and to bee practised by every one that is in any kind of trust Darius junior accounted nothing more sacred than faithfully to keep and perform all his Leagues Covenants Promises that ever hee made Xenophon whether great or small 2. Pursers These are Gentlemen that take in all the ships provisions viz. Bread Bear Beef Pork Butter Pease Cheese and Fish c. And whilst they take in this they think with themselves that hee is a sorry Cook that will not bee now and then licking of his fingers These lads shame no more to play with the mouse in the Bread-roome I mean to bee sharing in every victualling than Dorio that impudent slut of whom Terence tells of that when shee was reproved for her lewd life Non te Pudet Dorio minime dum obrem Shee answered when asked if she were not ashamed no in good truth as long as I get gain by it I leave the application These lads are like to the Mountain Stork of whom it is said that shee has a greedy and hungry worm in her Gorge and Crow A Purser is an homo manibus aduncis picacissimis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If Sea-Captains did not wink at their Pursers they could not trade so handsomely as they do I would gladly have Sea-Captains to do by them as Themistocles the honest Praetor of Athens did by Simonides the Poet who when he came to importune him for an unjust thing he answered him thus Neque tu bonus poeta esses si praeter leges carminis caneres neque ego civilis praetoressem si praeterquam quod leges permittunt tibi gratificarer As thou Simonides shouldest be no good Poet if thou shouldst swerve from the rules of Poetry so neither can I be a good Magistrate if to gratifio thee I should swerve from the rule of the Laws and never lives contentedly but cries out for

There bee three things that are too visibly amiss in you and I would desire you all that are in these places If that our Masters Boatswains that are in the Statesships were but pious and religious their lives would have as great an influence upon their men as Hilarion's had upon Hierome It is said of Hierome that having read the godly life and Christian death of Hilarion he folded up the book said well Hilarion shall bee the Champion whom I will follow Seamen would say if they did but see good things in you the very same of you I will follow our Master our Boatswain our Captain c. I may say unto al the Masters Boatswains of ships in England that Longum iter per praecepta brevius per exempl● Every thing in you should bee exemplary whilst on shipboard No evil should bee seen in you left that they should learn it and take encouragement to be profane in what ships of the States of England soever to amend them It would bee more credit to you amongst men and more pleasing unto God I will promise you It would vexe a mans soul to see what loose cold lukewarm and indifferent principles there bee amongst you in the performance of your duties in these things 1. In the strict observation of the Sabbath Let mee tell you thus much in respect that there is not an heavenly zeale love and fervour in your souls to and for this day that you do much harm in the ships you go in If Sea-men observe you to bee remiss and indifferent in the keeping of it they will bee as careless as you I profess I wish from the bottom of my soul that every irreligious Master and Boatswaine throughout the whole Navy of England were turned out of their places to that end men might bee put in that have a zeale for God and a care to thunder up the careless Sea-men upon this day unto the worship of God It was never my hap to see any thing of God either in the Masters or Boatswaines that have been in command in those ships that I have gone in For if there had there would have been a greater appearance of it in the rousing up of the men that were under them To what end doest thou bear the name of Master in this or that Friggot if thou lettest and sufferest the Sailors to live masterless upon this day who should more stir up Sea-men unto the serving of God than thou because thou hast not an heat to serve God thou leavest them in this and the other corner of the ship to serve the Devil Whilst Sea-men are not called up to those publick duties that are performed in your ships they are but consulting with their own carnal hearts and carnal thoughts are their companions all the time they are absent those they dandle I may say of the Sabbath day as once Alsted of his Germans that if the Sabbath day should bee named according to the Sailors observing of it in the Sea De●●●niacus petius quam Dominicus diceretur It should not then be called Gods day b●● the Devils and are the babes and brats of their own braines which are more pleasing to them than a sin-opening and sin-convincing Sermon To what end dost thou bear the name and office of a Boatswaine in the States ships if thou givest the Sea-men the liberty to profane the Lords Day and to live as they list What a filthy shame is this that our Masters and Boatswaines have no better things in them Is this commendable for you to live like drones and sots in ships that should bee examples of good If one could but look into every ship in England what their carriages bee every day in them might not one spy here a knot of wretches spending their time in filthy discourse whilst others are at Prayer and in another corner a pack of Varlets profaneing of the Sabbath whilst others are at the Sermon and this is allowed of by our God-less and Christ-less Masters The common sort of Sailors are lad● that ●are not for Sabbaths but had rather pass de delitiis ad delitias è coeno ad coelum as Hierome hath it They would dance with the Devil all day and sup with Christ at night They would live in Dalilah's lap all their lives long and then go to Abraham's bosome when they die Our Masters Boatswains are of the Athenian strain of whom it was said Athenienses scire quae rectae sunt sed sacere nolle You know what is right but you have no great stomack to it and Boatswaines I will tell you what Masters and Boatswaines look for some heavy judgement to arrest you before you go out of the world Better that you anger all the Sailors in the Seas by being godly and conscientious and pressing of them unto those publick Ordinances which the States allows of for the instructing of that wilde generation of men than to have God to bee angry with you for being ungodly and careless in your places where you might advance and promote much good 2. In the crushing and discountenancing of all swearing and drunkenness in your ships You can hear God-dishonouring oaths rapping out of your Sailors mouths on every hand you and sit in their company whilst oathes flie like Gun-powder in your eares and faces and yet not open your mouths to reprove them who should now take upon them a courage for God in this case but you If you did but let them see once your dislike they would the sooner leave it but when they see that you can digest it and endure it and sit in their company they take it for granted that you see something that is good in them and hereby you do a great deal more bolster graceless fellows in their wickedness than you are aware of How knowing and privy also are you to all that swinish drunkenness that is amongst your Sailors Masters and Boatswains of ships should have as ardent desires for the good of poor Seamens souls as reverend Claviger had over his relations Of whom it is said If I may but see grace in my wife and children Satis habeo satisque mihi meae uxori filiis filiabus prospexi I shall then account them sufficiently cared for If I could but see grace in the men under me and a leaving of their swearing drinking whoring I should then think them happy men and yet it is buried wincked at unpunished and untold unto your Commanders Nay when men come on board like beasts or creatures bereaved of sense and reason and can neither go see sit nor stand but as they are carried in mens arms to their Cabbins or to their Hammocks this is but a matter of laughter with you Art thou now I will put the question to thee fit to go Boatswaine of a ship that can turn thy back on these things And art thou fit to bee a Master and a Ruler of a