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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

killed in Sea-engagements death is but the day-break of eternal brightness unto them Storms are but sturdy Porters which set open the doors of Eternity a rough passage to eternal happiness Why should they fear to pass the waters of Jordan and take possession of the promised Land that have the Arke of Gods Covenant in their eye than the Mariner has in a storm to drownd I would now observe two things 1. That death is comfortable to one sort of people 2. It is dreadful and terrible unto another 1. It is comfortable to the godly that have walked before God in the Land of the living with a true sincere and upright heart in all holy and true obedience and conformity unto the will of God Such a soul may boldly triumph over and in the face of death 1 Cor. 15.55 O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory Death is not terrible unto such because it is no more but the running and ratling of Joseph's Chariot wheels upon the pavement of this world to waft antient Jacob's soul in the golden streets that are above this sublunary world and that caelestial Orbe into that heavenly Jerusalem Every bullet that thou hears to come singing and flying over thine head that is shot out of the Gun-mouths of Christs enemies is but a Chariot that is sent for thee to fetch thy soul to Heaven Let the seas rise up and drownd thee they are but Chariots to transport thee into future happiness If I should bee slain or drowned at Sea in the wars against the Spaniard Objection then would there bee an end of all my comforts and thereby I should leave Houses Lands Wife Children and all the good things that I have raked together in this life behind mee I would have all our Seamen all our Commanders to take off their eyes from looking upon those things and fix them upon the great and glorious designs that Christ has on foot against the Antichristian powers that are and bee in the world Bee willing Gentlemen I and bee you valiant to do Jesus Christ all the service that you can you shall have better comforts for them regard not your stuff and worldly trash Gen. 45.20 For the good of all the Land of Egypt is yours When General Zelishlaus had lost his hand in the wars of the King of Poland the King sent him a golden hand for it If thou lay out a peny for Christ against his enemies thou shalt have a pound for it You shall have it well paid again in Heaven over and over double and treble 2. It is dreadful to the wicked because that after death comes judgment How dolefull Sailors live eat drink play card dice swear whore sing rant as if they had passed over the judgment day They think not of that day that will be cumbred with distress on every side them accusing sinnes on one side revenging justice on the other a gaping hell beneath them an angry Judge above them a burning conscience within them and a flaming world without them Good Lord what will become of those wicked wretches at that day when the trumpet of the Lord shall sound mountains melt stars fall fire falling sinners fainting poor creatures cry for graves hils and mountains to hide themselves in and heavy is this summons of death this roaring storm is not for our eares but for our hearts it calls us not onely to our prayers but to our preparation Oh with what terrour does the graceless Sea-man stand in now his hand trembles whilst it is lift up to Heaven his very lips quake and quiver whilst hee is praying Lord have mercy upon mee his countenance is pale sorrowful and wan his fear is ready to execute him before the hangman is the condemned malefactor I would to God that our Sea-men had but the like horrour upon them both in calms and storms which the guilty and damned souls of men will have when they stand before that dreadful Tribunal in the day of the great Assize where there will bee the presence of an infinite God to daunt them conscience to give in its evidence against them Legions of unclean spirits to seize upon them and to torment them they would then bee more afraid of death than they are That although those that go down into Observ 7 the deeps which are fearers of the Lord have comfortable promises of Gods protecting grace and mercy yet must they not idlely expect it but wrestle tug and struggle hard with God by Prayer for it Then they cry c. Isa 43.2 When thou passest through the waters I will bee with thee Sailor Sailor Durante pugna non cessat tuba Whilst the storm lasts bee thou at prayer if thou hopest lookest that God should protect thee God will have every thing fetched out by Prayer When God had promised Israel great things Ezek. 36.37 Thus saith the Lord God I will yet for this bee enquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them If thou wouldest bee saved in stormy and tempestuous weather let God hear from thee hee will expect it if thou expectest mercy at his hands The word storm in the Greek springs of two words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signify much sacrificing importing that that should bee a time of much praying Reason 1 Because means must bee used for the obtaining of things promised Noah pitched his Arke within without The Carman cried out to Hercules in the Fable when his Cart stuck in the dirt but would not put forth a finger to help it out God himself has ordained yea commanded that it should bee so and hee that neglects the use of means in such cases tempts but Gods Providence which the Lord Jesus himself dared not to do Matth. 4.7 Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Christ speaks this of himself and not of Satan for that unclean spirit was never so happy since the fall as to bee in a capacity of fearing and submitting unto God in any divine and sacred precept Reason 2 Because Prayer is the ordinary condition of any promise Prayer should in storms resemble the Stars about the North pole which never go down or I would say the ordinary means appointed by God for the obtaining of a promise or of what the soul desires Prayer is causa conditio sine qua non By it wee may obtain any favour from God and without it wee cannot Matth. 7.7 Ask and yee shall have c. God does not in this promise limit any one in their asking but let them bee as large as they will and in what they will and they shall have it Reason 3 Because the Lord loves to bee sued and sought unto by prayer Reason 4 Because by prayer unto God wee shew our dependency upon him in the performance of this sacred duty wee acknowledg the Lord to take care for us 1. Of Encouragement Vse

all that fear the Lord that when they cry they have a God to hear them when they call they have a God to answer them when they need they have a God to help when they mourn they have a God to pitty them when ready to bee overwhelmed with the great waves of the Sea they have a God to defend them So that I may say of such that go in the Seas blessed are the people that bee in such a case yea happy are all they that have the Lord for their God Psal 144.15 who is easily prevailed withall by Prayer That in tempestuous and ship-hazzarding Observ 10 storms it is every mans duty to stand still Charles the fifth gave the Emblem Vlterius stand no● still but go on further But in this case us amplius procedas and look up to God for life and for Salvation And hee bringeth c. If the Lord must bring ships out of their distresses then let Sea-men look up unto the Lord for deliverance and trust not too much to their own art and skill Vicount Hugo de Millains motto was on a ship without tackling to stay it with In fil●ntio spe fortitudinem My strength is in silence and in hope Haedera undemis invenit quo se alliget 〈◊〉 Ivie being weak upon a time looked upon the Elme and spoke on this wise I am not able to stand of my self pray let mee lean on you Sailors you are not able to save your selves in storms lean upon your God That God is the great Saviour and deliverer Observ 11 of mankind Sailors are evermore hurling out of their mouths the demiculverin shot of their own praises Decempedalia sesquipedalia verba You shall seldom hear them say that God ever delivered them out of a storm in and out of all their storms and Tempests And hee bringeth c. The sweet singer of Israel quickly spies out the Sea-mans deliverer But this is more than many a beetle-headed Sailor can do Every eie observes not the stupendious and astonishing mercies of the Lord. Dextra mihi Deus est said a profane man my right-hand was my God or else I had lain my bones in the danger I was surrounded with Another said Haec ego feci non fortuna but never prospered after Wee see that Nebuchadnezzar trusted in his princely City Babel and that Babel became a Babel of confusion to him Xerxes trusted in his multitude of men and his multitude incumbered him Darius trusted to his wealth and his wealth sold him Eumenes in the valour of his Regiment called the Silver-shields and his Silver-shields sold him and delivered him up to Autigonus Roboam in his young Counsellors and his young Counsellors lost him the ten Tribes Caesar in his old Senatours and the Senate conspired against him Domitian in his Guard and his Guard betrayed him Adrian in his Physicians and his Physicians poysoned him so that the proverb ran Multitudo Medicorum perdidit Adrianum Imperatorem Observ 12 That although men at Sea in their dangerous storms seem as it were both forgotten and forsaken yet does the Lord at last very frequently make it evident unto them and to the world that hee does not forget them And hee brings c. Observ 13 That the evil and unworthy deservings of men at Sea does not alwaies interrupt the course of Gods goodnesse towards them And hee brings c. Vers 29. Hee maketh the storm a calm So that the waves therof are still THe words offer unto us two things to bee considered of 1. The Agent 2. The Act or the Effect 1. The Agent that is the Lord in these words Hee maketh the storm a calm 2. The Act or the Effect So that the waves thereof are still That the cessation of all storms and Observ 1 Tempests is by through and from an irresistable and an uncontroulable omnipotentiary power that is in God Hee maketh the storm a calm c. Xerxes finding Helespont to be a little unsmooth would needs throw Irons into it to fetter it so impatient Or if you will take the point thus That God is the great allayer and principal calmer of the raging winds and Seas Philosophers tell us that the winds are allayed several waies 1. When the air is over-burdened troubled and softned by vapours contracting themselves into rain 2. When vapours are dispersed and subtilized whereby they are mixed with the air and agree fairly with it and they live quietly then is the wind allayed 3. When Vapours or Fogs are exalted and carried up on high so that they cause no disturbance until they be thrown down from the middle Region of the air or do penetrate it 4. When vapours gathered into clouds are carried away into other Countries by high-blowing winds so that for them there is peace in those Countries which they fly beyond 5. When the winds blowing from their nurseries languish through their long travels finding no new matter to feed on then does their vehemency abate and expire 6. Rain oftentimes and for the most part does allay winds especially those which are very stormy Observ 2 That the insensiblest of creatures have an ear unto their makers speech It is said of Caesar that hee could with one word quel the discontentedest motion that ever rise in his Army What is the Lords power then in the stilling of the winds and do out of an obediential subjection yeeld to his will to carry on his purposes and designs whether of good or evil of preservation or of destruction towards a people He maketh the storm a calm c. If the Lord speak unto the winds they have an ear to hear him if to the Sea the Sea is attentive to listen to his divine pleasure and bee it good or bee it evil they are both of them loyal and fiducial Souldiers under Heavens Flag or Standard to execute his pleasure Jonah 1.4 Observ 3 That God can when hee sees it fit preserve a people from ruine in and after an incredible unlikely unexpected and miraculous manner Hee maketh c. Acts 27.20 When all hopes of being saved failed the Mariners then began the Lord to stir for them The Lord oftentimes keeps his hand for a dead lift That the great waters stilness and Observ 4 peaceableness at any time is by and from Gods calling off the flying and Sea-disturbing winds Hee maketh c. That it is the Lord that makes changes Observ 5 of conditions in the Sea and gives calmness out of his indulgent kindness and by and by storms for the abuse of the mercies of his calms Hee maketh c. The Seas are quickly alarm'd and beat up into dreadful waves even in all quarters at the commands of the Lord and shall puzzle and torment wicked men as much as those Ciniphes that bred in terra Egypti de fimo muscae quaedam sunt minutissimae inquietissimae inordinatè volitantes in oculos irruentes non permittentes homines quiescere

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 Veloha●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

whilst you do float above When the Lord would stir up David and melt his heart and bring it unto a kindly sorrow for all his mercies hee takes this course 2 Sam. 12.7 Did not the Lord do thus and thus Did hee not make thee King of Judah and of Israel Did he not give to thee thy Masters wives and houses into thy bosom and if this had not been enough hee would have done more for thee therefore recount the particular kindnesses and Sea-deliverances the Lord has bestowed upon thee does not the Lord seem to say I delivered thee at such a time and in such a storm did not I deliver thee from such a Rock and from such a sand God keeps a reckoning Sirs of what hee does and also of all your deliverances it is but wisdom then to kiss the Son lest hee bee angery to kisse him with a kiss of adoration and subjection all your daies 3. Consideration That thankful hearts are evermore full of thankful thoughts and these are such as are evermore suitable unto the benefits that are received Psal 116.12 What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits Hee has delivered mee out of this and the other storm from this and the other shore from many Rocks and Sands both in this and also in the other parts of the world I have met with a story of a Company of Sailors in Zara called by some Jadera a Town in Sclavonia that they consecrated a Church to St. John di Malvatia which they built out of their own wealth and wages to express their thankfulness for their great deliverance out of a storm in which they had like every man of them to have gone to the pot This they vowed when at Sea and when come on Land they were as good as their words where are your thanks Sailors what shall I now bestow upon him How has hee preserved mee when shot has flown like hail When dangers have been unfordable and miseries innumerable then has the Lord stept in to deliver mee Ah Sirs what cause have you that use the Seas to fall down before the Lord in all thankful acknowledgment to him for your deliverances at Sea even as the Wise men of the East did before Christ and offer unto him Gold Incense and Myrrhe aurum fidei thus devotionis aromata pietatis mentes humiles probos mores animos dignos Deo The Gold of faith the Frankincense of Devotion the Myrrhe of Godliness humble minds good manners souls worthy of God 4. Consider That thankful hearts are evermore full of admiring thoughts I wonder at the goodness of God says a good and an honest heart that hee should come and step down so seasonably to deliver mee when I was in a Sea far from any eye or heart to pitty mee Ah how has mercy taken the pains to come and meet us How has mercy as it were fallen into our mouths and into our laps even very unexpectedly Abraham's servant was very full of admiring thoughts when hee saw providence so working for him Gen. 14.21 as the womans coming to the well and her willingness to give him and his Camels as much water as they pleased Ah stand amazed at Gods deliverings of your souls in the stormy and tempestuous Seas 5. Consider That thankful hearts are evermore full of awful and trembbling thoughts at the Judgments of God both executed and threatned upon others in the Seas when they see themselves so threatned in storms and others to bee cast away in them and yet notwithstanding they themselves spared this strikes thoughts of fear into them and upon them Psal 119.20 My flesh trembles for fear of thee and I am afraid of thy righteous Judgments 6. Consider That thankful hearts are evermore full of viewing and observing thoughts Oh how has the Lord delivered mee in this late storm and Tempest in what danger was I in but now our Sails rent our Mast fell about our ears wee pumped and toyled night and day for our lives Cables broke and at another time our Anchors came home and our ships drive And thus such hearts cannot but say Exod. 15.13 Thou in thy Mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed 7. Solemnly consider that thankful hearts after Sea-deliverances are full of improving thoughts and will not you bee so too Gentlemen You that use the Seas Such a soul has his whole mind taken up with the mercies of the Lord and hee plots contrives and designs how hee may make a good use and a good improvement of all that he has done for him in the Seas Pliny writes of Egypt It is well if it may not too truly be said of those that use the Seas that shee was wont to boast how shee owed nothing to the Clouds or any forein streams for her fertility being abundantly watered by the inundation of her ovvn River Nile I am affraid that you think that you are not beholden to your God and beheld with his eyes in the great deeps Such a soul sets all his Sea-deliverances in print and layes them up in the wardrobe of his heart The holiness goodness mercifulness and majesty of God is evermore much in such a souls eye 8. Consider That all good men are for it and that with tooth and naile and will you not then bee thankful unto the Lord I will tell you who bee against it the Devil and wicked men but I pray God preserve you from such Counsellors Psal 65. Praise waiteth for thee O God in Sion Psal 29.2 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name Worship the Lord in the beauty of holynesse 9. Consider That God himself is for it Mal. 2.2 If yee will not hear and if yee will not lay it to heart to give glory unto my name saith the Lord of hosts I will even send a curse upon you 10. Consider That God commands it The shortest cut to ruine men is unthankfulness Trumpeters delight to sound when where they are answered with an Eccho 11. Consider That God expects it 12. Consider That God prizes it and commends it 13. Consider That God is hereby much honoured by it Psal 50. ult 14. Consider That God will fully and freely reward it A word or two now of Use and so I will leave the point because it is so painful to mee to write and lay down at large what I might and what every point would bear I do acknowledge that Spices when they are pounded and beaten small they do evermore smell the sweetest and points of doctrine or Scriptures when they are branched forth expounded and broken up into parts are evermore the profitablest For my part I know not what to say to the generality of Sea-men because they put me to as great a stand as the Turky Painter was once put to when he was to set forth all the several Nations of the world according to their Country dress and habit hee left one

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

out their hearts do exceedingly fail them and there is nothing else then but crying weeping wailing and wringing of the hands for that lamentable and deplorable condition that they see themselves irremediably involved in now are they in a confusion ransacking and running to and again to throw the ponderousest of their goods over bord that their Vessel may bee the lighter What Dolor cordis is there amongst the Sea-men when the ship is dangerously leaky yea what animi molestiae and what Suspiria flebilia ab imo pectore one while they work and another while they weep to see themselves irrecoverably at deaths door Undique facies pallida mortis Death is now on every side them and with David they cry Psal 39.13 O spare mee that I may recover strength before I go hence and bee no more Being once in a dangerous and leaky Vessel in which the hearts of the Mariners were greatly daunted in respect that wee were very far from Land when wee arived safe on shore I could not but turn about and in the first place look up unto my God with a thankful feeling of heart and in the second look back upon the Sea from whence wee were delivered and write down this upon his undeserved mercy Psal 56.13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death and now doe they unloose every knot of sail that they can make to run unto the nearest shore that they can get unto to save their lives and ever and anon are they sending up one or other unto the top-mast head to see if hee can descry either Land or ships in the Seas which if they can but espy towards them they will make with the greatest cheer that can bee I have known some that have been seven or eight dayes in this very praecedent case and condition that I am now speaking off wherein they have most laboriously pumped and sailed as for their lives and at the last when they have been both despairing and desponding of life in respect that all their strength has been spent with hard working and the ship they sailed in filled even half full of water the Lord has looked down upon the travel of their souls and sent them one ship or other within the sight of them when they have been far out of sight of any Land towards which they have made with all the speed that in them lay and by firing of Guns which is commonly a signal of that ships distress that fires they steered their course directly towards her and taken out the men that would have been lost in her and in a little time the ship that they sailed in has sunk into the bottom Again others in leaky ships when that they have been denyed the sight of any ship in the Seas to flye to have got safe to Land notwithstanding that dreadful distress But now to look back upon and over this deliverance permit mee to move these two questions and they will magnifie it 1. Who is it that sends the Sea-man a ship out of the Seas to take him up when there is no possibility of keeping the ship that hee is in on flote and above water is it not the Lord 2. And who is it also that gives the Leakship leave to arrive safe on shore whereas in the eye of reason shee might rather have perished in the Seas having so far to sail before shee could come to any port and besides could see no support nor succour from ships in her way Is it not the Lord 2. They that go down to the Sea in ships in their passage and re-passage from Country to Country and Nation to Nation have been oftentimes most sadly set at and assaulted by the Turk and other Pyrats insomuch that when the enemy has come up very near unto them almost within the reach of his Ordinance God has most wonderfully many a time appeared for them either by calmning of the winds in that part of the Sea their pursuing enemies have been in or by giving of them a strong gale of wind to run away from them when the enemy has lain in a calm with his sails flat to his Masts God has many and many a time calmed the winds for the English when they have been pursued with the Turk c. insomuch that the Seas have layn to admiration like a Mare mortuum de quo antiqui feruns sine vento sine motu By which means God has kept them from unmerciful thraldom and captivity And the enemy for want of wind has not been able to come up with and to his desired prize or otherwise by granting them a stiff gale until the going down of the Sun by which they have made their escape from the Pyrat in the black of the evening for then has not the enemy been able to see his chase nor to cast for the best because the chased very gladly alters his course This has the Lord Almighty done for many a Merchant ship blessed and for even blessed bee his sweet Name hee has denyed to fill the enemies sails with wind when they have had strong intentions to make spoil and prey of them Oh the many Sea-men that have been thus delivered 3. They that go down to the Sea in ships often and sundry times when they have been surrounded with way-lying Pyrats and Robbers I sometimes with two or three for one which is contrary to that well known rule Ne sit Hercules contra duos notwithstanding in their hot disputes and exchange of Ordnance one against the other even when shot has flown like hail on every side them some striking their Hulls I say no more but this Good Lord how bold and witty men are to kill one another what fine devices have they found out to murther a far off to slay many at once and to fetch off lives at pleasure what honour do many place in slaughter the monuments of most mens glory are the spoils of the slain and subdued enemy whereas contrarily all Gods titles sound of mercy and gracious respects to man some their Shrouds and othersome their men and though they have been most desperately beset both on head and on stern they have most couragiously by the assistance of the Lord cleered themselves out of their hands with very little and small damage I and other sometimes got the victory in their quarrels by sinking of the enemy and sending him down into the bottoms Oh the many Sea-men that have been thus delivered 4. They that go down to the Sea in ships many times when they are in chase of a pestilent enemy this I have seen satis superque satis and when wee have come almost up with him within Demi-culverin distance so that Ordnance has been levelled upon him and the shot has flown over and beyond him the Sea has presently layn all on a calm and as it were the winds have been called off from filling our sails insomuch that there has been a stop put

grave of oblivion where few have taken any notice of them many of these I have gleaned up both from my own experience and from the mouthes of others that have been both good and pious I never knew any one that ever undertook to write any thing upon this subject nor to gather up the Sea-mercies that I have done If they bee not savoury unto thee or any that reads them let me tell you thus much it is an argument of a carnal heart Did Jacob Gen. 33.10 undervalue his deliverance from the hand of his brother Esau as you do Did David look upon it as a small mercy that hee had so good a friend as Jonathan 1 Sam. 20.36 Did the Apostle Paul and the rest of those passengers that escaped that dreadful storm and shipwrack look lightly and think lightly of that deliverance Act. 27. God knows you are men that are at this day trampling these mercies under your feet Swine tread not corn nor trample Acorns under feet more brutishly than many do their deliverances at Sea Use 2. Of Exhortation Bee perswaded to bee much in thankfulness and more than ever you have been Ah souls consider what you owe unto your God you are in so great a debt to him that do what you can you will never bee able to come out of it I may say unto you in the words of Job 33.29 Thanks laid out this way are laid up non percunt shall I say of them sed parturiunt Is 32.8 The liberal man deviseth liberal things and by liberal things he shall stand One would think that he would the rather fall by being so bountiful but indeed he takes the right course to thrive Giving is the only way to an abundance God looks not that mens thankfulness should come from them ● as drops of blood from their hearts or that it should be squeezed out of them as wine out of the grape but that it flow from us as water out of a spring as light from the Sun and as hony from the Comb. Lo all these things worketh God oftentimes with man Even all those deliverances that I have been telling you of Let mee press these things upon you 1. Acknowledge that it is the Lord and hee alone that hath wrought all these deliverances both for you and for others and that not for your merits or for theirs but his own mercies sake 2. Praise his most glorious Name with your tongues and call upon others so to do 3. Obey God the more in your lives and intreat every Sea-man so to do 4. Love him intirely in your hearts and beseech every Sea-man so to do 5. Depend wholly upon him in all your distresses for the time to come and bid other Sea-men so to do 6. Bee evermore in a diligent circumspection and godly fear of provoking of the Lord unto anger and beseech other Sea-men so to do But to proceed Exod. 9.30 I know that yee will not yet fear the Lord God 4. And lastly If it bee demanded of mee What is meant and understood by the Lords Wonders in the deeps I shall give you my most humble thoughts in brief before you had it Works of the Lord and now his Wonders why his Works which wee have spoken of before are wonderful works and works and wonders in this place are both relatives and concomitants and as they go and may bee taken together I shall say of them Deus conjunxit nemo separet Such excellency and eminency is there in the works of the Lord that a seeing eye cannot but look upon the meanest of them as matter of wonderment and astonishment All the deliverances that have been presented and now stand in view upon the Stage before the whole world are nothing else but Gods wonders in the deeps and all those fishes in the Seas of which I have run upon and told you of are Gods Wonders in the deeps viz. the Whale the Sea-horse the Granpisce and the Sea-monster c. Again every wave is a wonder and he that hath a seeing eye in a storm may see ten thousand wonders how one mountainous wave rowls and follows in the heels of another which make most dreadful and amazing downfalls and hollows in so much that it is a terrible thing for a strong brain to look out of a ship into them and amongst them When the Seas are congregated into mountainous heaps rowling tonanti voce ships are jetted up unto the heavens and this is matter of wonderment Yonder is a wave a coming sayes the Sea-man that will bee with us by and by yea and break in upon us and in it comes over the ships waste and when that is over yonder is another a coming that will rowl over our Poops and Lanthorns and when delivered from that a while they sail and by and by rises another billow that threatens to run over the Main-yard arm which is four or six Fathom higher and above the ship insomuch that the Mariner is exceedingly affrighted lest that the ships decks should bee broke with that intolerable weight of water and also of being run down into the bottome But thus much shall serve for an account of those Works and Wonders that Sea-men do see in the Seas and so I proceed Vers 25. For hee commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind which lifteth up the waves thereof IN our handling of these words I will not stand upon that curious quaint and fine-spun division that might bee made of them beleeve mee the Sea will not permit it onely thus much I shall promise to give you all that this Scripture will afford us and that which is materially in it In the words then you have these two things 1. Gods Sovereign and Supreme power 2. The creatures ready and willing obedience The Seas like the Heliotrope or your solsequii flores Sun following flowers which stand constantly gazing and opening unto the Sun from whom they draw their life and nourishment even follow the blowing blustring winds if they be stiff and strong they make the Seas for to rage and roar For hee commandeth c. The particle for in this verse is used as a note of the effect or sign and in our common speech when wee would express our selves in something that others are either ignorant of or desirous to know we then take an occasion to proclaim it and say yonder 's ships in the Offin of the Sea for I see their white sails and yonder 's Guns fired to wind-ward for I see the smoak flying and ascending so that wee may read the word thus Because hee commandeth the winds to blow therefore is it that the waves are lifted up When the winds have blown hard in the remote parts of the Seas whether in the East West North or South the effects thereof are usually seen in far distant parts of the Seas that that storm never light upon for the winds disturb the Seas by blowing upon one part when they travel not

wilde beast betakes himself to his Den and the wounded Hart to his medicinable herb Dictamnum the pursued Malefactor to the Horns of the Altar and under the Law the chased Man-killer to the City of Refuge Sea-men are a generation of people that can carry the damnable burthen of their Oaths Drunkennesses When the destroying Angel was abroad the Israelites fled into their chambers Ex● 12.32 A good example for Sailors in time of storms for they that use the Seas deserve little better at Gods hands than those whom the Angel cut off they may well think that when God is killing and sinking others with a vengeance that they deserve the same and so ought to lay it to heart as the Israelites did in their chambers and Adulteries in calms as easily as the Sea can bear the great and heavy loaded ships or as Sampson did the gates of Gaza upon his shoulders but in storms when grim-countenanced death stares them in the face the top-gallant sails of their high hoysed spirits are a little lowred and melted 10. To bring their hearts into better Reason 10 rellish and esteem with calms If Sea-men were to live on land any long tract of time Prov. 27.7 The full soul loatheth the hony-comb One dish too often is stalling and cloying and Sardanapulus never liked any dish twice they would as little estimate it as those that never set their foot upon the salt waters but spend and end their dayes in Lands and Countries of peace and ease it is a general rule that most things are rather valued Carendo potius quam fruendo in their want than in their enjoyment I have observed that when wee have had a week or a fortnights sweet and tranquil weather so that wee have both sailed and anchored in as much quietness and stability as if wee had been lodging in beds and houses upon land but these continued mercies have been little prized by the Mariners Calms at Sea are devoured like Acorns by the Hog at land who never looks up at the hand that beats them down and little considered of as high favours from the Lord and begot little warmth love and affection in their hearts to God again It is very just with God to take his abused and unconsidered mercies from them and give them storms and tempests rowling raging Seas that never valued the kindnesses of God in mild and lovely weather When the Mariner is ruggedly dealt withall for a fortnight or three weeks in stormy and turbulent weather then how welcome is and would the tydings of a cessation of those winds and Seas that are up in arms against them be Ah souls it is a mercy that every day is not a day of sorrow of dread and terrour to you Calms have been very sweet to my soul and have drawn out my heart very much to bless my God for them and shall they not have the like impression with you Fear then lest God take mercy from you and license his indignation to arrest you Reason 11 11. To purifie the Seas It is not the fairest and calmest day that purifies the air but thundrings lightnings and blustering storms and winds that are the airs cleansing brooms and so consequently the same unto the Sea Storms do undoubtedly refine and purifie the salsitude of the Seas and that liableness that is in them unto depravity and coruption 12. For the furtherance and increase Reason 12 of Repentance God sees it fit to lay on storms and chastisements that they may bathe themselves in tears that their Repentance may bee true 2 Chron. 7.13 If my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked wayes then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their Land Every storm should be as the Alarm that is struck upon a drum to call all that go in the Seas to Repentance and godly sorrow for their sins and the voice of storms seems to bee this Aut paenitendum aut pereundum I may better say that to Sea-men which holy Anselm said unto himself than that hee should speak it of himsel In his Meditations he confessed that all his life was either damnable for sin committed or unprofitable for good omitted and at last concludes Quid restat O peccator nisi ut in tota via tua deplores totam vitam tuam Oh what remains Sea-man but that thou shouldest not onely in storms but in thy whole life lament the God-provoking sins of thy life When the Lord once gets a people into fetters then does hee shew them their work and their transgressions Job 36.9 and makes their ears open to discipline good hearts when they are locked up in the stormy bolts and fetters of the Seas they then consider that it is for some sin or other and their ears are open and attentive to hear God speaking unto them Ezek. 36.31 Then shall yee remember your own evil waies and your doings that were not good and shall loath your selves in your own fight for your iniquities and for your abominations God many times sends down storms upon the Seas that hee may put that impaenitent crew that frequents them into a godly frame and compunction of heart for their sins but the Lord knows there is little reformation or amendment amongst them Non est poenitens sed irrisor qui adhuc agit unde poenitea That Sailor is but a counterfeit that makes a show of piety in a storm and wears the Devils and not Gods livery in a calm notwithstanding those dreadful dangers that they do daily converse withall this is the Lords complaint against the Sailors in England if I know any thing of the will and mind of that God whom I serve Jer. 8.6 I hearkned and heard but they spake not aright no man repented him of his wickedness saying What have I done Every one turned to his course as the horse rusheth into the battle Reason 13 13. To put them upon the searching of their hearts what sin it is that the storm has come down upon them for Aristippus told the Tarpaulings hee sailed with when they wondered why hee was not affraid in the storm as well as they that the odds was much for they feared the torments due to a wicked life hee expected the reward of a good one the Mariners did so in that storm they were in Jonah 1.7 And they said every one to his fellow Come and let us cast lots that wee may know for whose cause this evil is upon us so they cast lots and the lot fell upon Jonah There is some cause or other why such dreadful Tempests come upon you if you would but enquire them out and for my part I look upon it as a wonderful mercy that every day in the Sea is not a day of storm and a day of terrour so that you can neither sail nor take any comfort my reason

18. Minde well Gods dreadful dealings with others in the Seas how hee lets the winds fall upon them It is reported of a Cable that it spoke on this wise when it broke in a grievous storm and let the ship run upon the sands both to the fatal loss of the ship and all the passengers that were in her Grande peccatorum intus onus me extra fregit The grievous burden of sin within board layd a greater stress upon mee than the storm without did and therefore I was not able any longer to hold the ship and the wicked that were in her from perishing but the Lord bid mee break and let them go for they were not worthy the holding and preserving from the jawes of death You are wise and know how to apply this and the Seas seize upon them insomuch that both ship and men go down into the uninhabited bottoms Is not the news coming to your ears very often that such and such a sail is cast away such and such a ship was split to peeces in the occidental or oriental parts of the Seas Cast up the sad sorrows that others taste of and consider what God hath done for you in sparing you with your lives in those many storms that you have been in and in those many voyages that you have made Who so is wise c. 19. Minde how God hath disposed of the winds and granted unto them a very varying and altering motion insomuch that they blow not alwayes one way The Sea-man makes no doubt of it but if hee have wind to carry him into forein Countries hee shall have a wind to bring him back again which hee might have so ordered and decreed if but been pleased but his providential care for the good of man hath made them changeable whereby they blow one while out of the East and another while out of the West one while out of the North and another while out of the South by which ships are carried out of all parts in the world and so again returned Who so is wise c. 20. Minde how the Lord hath had a tender eye over you in stormy and blowing weather when Pilots have undertaken to carry you into forein harbors promising and protesting to you that there hath been a competent and sufficient profundity of water to swim your ships in Mee thinks this mercy should bee sufficient to make a Sailor melt if hee were composed of marble whose very Physiognomy hath a Magnetick force to ravish souls with the goodness of God and when come to the trial your ships have been run on ground where you have lyen beating for two hours together as if the ship would flye into shivers at every billow that hath rushed upon her and heaved her up and thrown her down yet after some expenditure of time the flood hath heightned and carried you off clear both with ship and lives Who so is wise c. 21. Minde how the Lord hath taken a fatherly care of you when your ships have unexpectly been on fire that it hath entred into the heart of some one or other to go down into the Hold not dreaming of any thing have espied the very initials of fire burning upon the cordage and timber of the ship Ah that I should say of Sea-men as the Rabbins say of the Jews who throw the book of Hester upon the ground before they read it because the name of God is not in it Sailors throw their precious deliverances at their heels by which means it hath been extinguished and the ship and your lives miraculously preserved Who so is wise c. 22. Minde how the Lord undertakes for you when you are come to an Anchor either in France Holland Italy Could I tell of more of your mercies I would for as the Apostle saith I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ I shall say unto you and unto the world that I am not ashamed to tell of the mercies that the Lord bestows upon you in the deeps c. when the wind hath come fair off the land you have taken the greater boldness to anchor under it thinking your selves secure enough but in a little time the wind hath wheeled about and been upon your backs and yet through an over-ruling providence hath favoured you till you have got up your Anchors and freed your selves from the shore by turning it up into the Sea and then the storm hath grown on amain which would have hazzarded your lives if you were in that place at an anchor again Who so is wise c. 23. Minde how the Lord hath favoured you when been coming to an appointed port or station where there hath been a very intricate sailing by reason of those many sand banks that have lain on every hand you steering and holding in stormy weather a direct course upon them and the ships you have been sent too to anchor by considering your danger This inquiry now that I have made of the Lords appearances for you in the great deeps is but small and I have but played the part of the skilful Mathematician who takes special notice of the many parts of the world and is able exactly and distinctly to set them out to any one as they lye in this and the other climate but yet when hee hath done all hee leaves a great space for a terra incognita and that unknown World for ought I knovv may be five times bigger than all the knovvn World Your deliverances are far more than I can tell of have fired some peeces of Ordnance one towards you and another from you which is the usual sign of danger you have thereby altered your course and been delivered Who so is wise c. 24. Minde how the Lord hath troubled some of you that are and have been in command in your sleep by dreams when sailing in the night how that the ship hath been near to land insomuch that you have started out of your beds and gone and looked over the ships head out of fear What was once said of Henry the third King of France that he had not the ingenuity to discern his friends from his foes may bee said of the Mariner in dark nights at Sea had hee not the Lord to direct him and presently got a sight of it whereas both the ship and your lives had been at the stake if the Lord had not looked out for land for you Who so is wise c. 25. Minde how the Lord hath and doth still very frequently help you when in dark and heart-danting evenings how doth hee establish your hearts when there are great and hot disputes amongst your selves about the lights that are upon the Sea-coasts both in this and other Countries insomuch that you have gone on in a great deal of boldness upon such a point and preter-navigated all rocks sands and dangers Who so is wise will c. 26. Minde how the Lord hath looked down

a Kings heart Oh praise the Lord. Sirs you usually pay people in forein parts for your Anchorage in their Harbours for your Pilotage into them for boyage in the Seas and lightage upon land and will you return nothing unto your God You are the Lords Tenants you sit on very great Rents and great Rents you have to pay surely you had need to bee stirring do what you can you will dye in Gods debt Now thankfulness stands not in words and complements if you would express your thankfulness unto God Sirs then do thus 1. Labour to come out of all your storms and Sea-dangers as Job did out of his affliction Job 23.10 When hee hath tried mee I shall come forth as gold It would bee a brave thing that every Sailor that goes into the Furnace of a fiery stormy and raging Sea Beleeve it Sirs God looks for it at your hands What is said of the statue of Juno in the holy City near to Euphrates in Assyria that it will evermore look towards one let them sit where they will in her Temple shee stares full upon them and if you go by shee follows with her eye the same shall I say of the Lord go where you will on Sea or Land the Lords eye follows you should come out of it as gold doth out of the fire when they come on land Ah who would not but take a turn at Sea then to bee purified from their dross 2. Offer unto God the ransome of your lives as the Law runs Exod. 31. leave some seal or pawn of thankfulness behinde you The Gracians paint Jupiter in their Temples with his hands full of thunderbolts Sirs be afraid of unthankfulness Heathens after a ship-wrack a storm or a fit of sickness will offer something or other to their gods for every preservation That thanksgiving is to bee suspected that lyes in nothing but words Give God your hearts hee gives you his mercies Give God your lives hee gave you them when you were in danger 3. Let God have soul-thankfulness from you if wee receive but any benefit or special kindness from our friends our hearts acknowledge it and our tongues confess it Sirs Do what you can you will dye in Gods debt and wee cannot bee at quiet till wee some way or other requite it 4. Let God also have mouth-thankfulness from you let your tongues walk apace and speak at the highest rate you can to the praise of God Psal 124.2 3. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side then had the Seas at such and such a time swallowed us up and at another time drowned us 5. Let God have life-thankfulness from you this God had of and from David in full measure Psal 145.2 Every day will I bless thee and I will praise thy name for ever and ever I have known that those that have undertaken to buy and redeem poor captives out of a Turkish bondage slavery they have vowed to bee their servants all the dayes of their lives A certain Jew when travelling over a deep River in the night where the bridge was broken down saving onely that there was one narrow plank laid over to foot it on he rid very safely over and being asked the next day how he got over he knew nothing and going back through the peoples intreaty swounded away and dyed at the consideration of his deliverance Ah Sirs will not you be Gods servants all the daies of your lives who has delivered you so often out of storms and raging Seas and inevitable dangers 6. Let mee intreat you to look back upon mercy and then tell mee if you can bee unthankful Act. 27.1 And when they were escaped then they knew that the Island was called Melita They viewed their mercy on every side 7. Compare your selves with others others have been denied to be delivered and lye ship and men in the bottome of the Sea and you and your ships are still floating and swimming whilst others are drowned 8. Are not others that have tasted of your deliverances in the Seas often and many a time blessing and thanking of God both in private and publick and will you bee unthankful 9. Bee resolute for the duty of thanksgiving unto God 10. Consider what thou hadst been and where thou hadst been if mercy had not prevented Psal 89.48 and an hand been reached out of heaven as it were to have helped thee 11. Certainly if thou wert but changed from the state of a sinner thou wouldest bee oftner in the thanking of thy God than thou art 12. Were but our Sea-men a generation of people that were much and often in godly sorrows Now if you will not bee thankful unto the Lord for all your deliverances take heed lest hee say Judg 10.13 Wherefore I will deliver you no more they would bee oftner in their thanksgivings unto the Lord. 13. Were but those that use the Seas filled with divine relishes of Gospel graces they would bee thanking of their God oftner than they are He that is the fullest of the spirit of grace is the onely fittest man to bee thankful unto God 14. Were but those that use the Seas much in minding of the mercies and deliverances of the Lord bestowed upon them they would bee a far thankfuller people than they are I have read of one that was in very great debt and yet notwithstanding that he slept as well as if hee had had the greatest estate that could bee to pay it with a great Gentleman in the Country observing it desired him that hee would bee pleased to sell him his bed Ah Sirs you are much in debt to God Psal 5.15 I will sing unto the Lord because hee hath dealt mercifully with mee 15. Did but those that use the Seas take up their joyes and delights in God they would be more thankful unto their God than they are Ah may I not say Psal 78.42 They remembred not his hand nor the day when hee delivered them from the enemy Observ 7 That the Lords creating of the Seas for the use of Navigation to that end men who can neither flye nor swim might the more facilly and commodiously commerce one with another in all and throughout all the forein parts of the world is a point of Gods great praise Oh that men would praise the Lord Heraclitus was such an admirer of the Sea that he said if wee wanted the Sun we should be in perpetual darknesse if wanted the Sea live like barbarous people God has founded the Earth upon the Seas and established it upon the floods Psal 24.2 Aristotle looked upon this as one of the greatest wonders of nature and well hee might that God should set the solid Earth upon the back of the waters for mans conveniency Psal 104.6 7. Jer. 5.22 That the saving and delivering mercies Observ 8 of God at Sea are and ought to bee carefully had and kept in a perpetual remembrance Oh

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

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 wh●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-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