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 â— 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
a good and a merciful God for you to rejoyce in that is better than ten thousand Sail cannot I live without that ship that I have lost There is a pretty story in Esop of the Goose that laid the poor man her Master every day a golden egg and finding such a benefit by her hee thought that his best course was to kill her and then hee should find them all and upon that conceit hee did but finding himself frustrated Ansere Aesopico invento vacuo stupebat miser ac plangebat rem spem periisse hee fell a weeping for the loss of his golden eggs because hee had taken away her life which if had been preserved would have laid him more Thus the Merchant mourns when he loses his goodly ships that brought him in his riches and upon the consideration of their ruine hee laments to think what accommodement they were unto him But I will let pass this discourse and hasten unto another Proposition that I will lay down and it is shortly this 3. That God threatens before he strikes Observ 3 For hee commandeth the stormy wind How cleer and undeniable is this point unto every ordinary capacity that goeth in the Sea where is the Mariner that is bet up to storms and Tempests but knows beforehand when a storm is coming in the Heavens Every Sailor is as perfect a scholar in the great volume of that over-head canopy of the skies I and knows as well by the Physiognomy of the skye out of what part the storm will come as the childe can tell you his A. B C. when posed in it Before the Lord sends out his stormy wind hee usually gives men that are in that employment notice of it Supra civitatem Hierosolymae stâ—tit sydus simile gladio perannum perseveravit When God was about to strike Jerusalem hee gave them warning by a Star that hung in the form of a sword in a perpendicular manner over their heads which dreadful sign hung over the City for a year together either by the strange flying of the clouds or otherwise clothing of the skies with the black thick and sable curtains of a nocturnal darkness or otherwise by laying upon the airy region a condensation of fogg and mist which are usually forerunners and contemporaneous messengers of what the Lord is above preparing to lay upon that Element and besides these they have many other familiar signs and observations to tell them that the storm is a hastening upon them When the Cormorants leave the Seas and betake themselves to the shore or any of the other Sea-foul that ship that is in the Sea would bee very happy if shee were but in the Harbour But to lay down the ground of this point 1. Because hee is not willing to execute judgment Alexander the Great when ever hee laid siege to any City he hanged up three flags 1. white 2. red 3. black if they compounded and surrendered not before the black flag was set up there was no mercy for them Take heed that God do not so with you Sailors if either threatning or fair means would but serve the turn The loving Father is very loth to lay the rod upon the childs back if admonition would but serve the turn And good Physicians that bear tender love to their Patients when upon the dye will shed tears when they will not take their potions prescribed for their health Luke 19.41 And when hee was come near hee beheld the City and wept over it Gen. 18.32 And hee said I will not destroy it for tens sake God takes little pleasure in the cutting off of souls hee is loth to destroy you Sailors but that you wrest judgments out of his hands to sink you 2. Because hee would let the world know that hee is full of patience Omnis minatio amica monitio Every threatning is a gratious warning Psal 103.8 The Lord is merciful and gratious slow to anger and plentious in mercy 3. The Jews when ever they see the Rain-bow in the clouds they will not stand gazing upon it but presently go forth and confess their sins acknowledging that they are worthy of being deluged and drowned with a second flood They are perswaded that that holy Name of Jehovah is written upon the Bow and therefore do they celebrate his Name at those times Oh that Sailors were in this posture to confess their sins to God when they see storms appearing by the heavens To that end men may bee left without all excuse does not the School-masters warning take off the Scholars excuse when hee comes to whipping A people proudly standing at defiance with their enemy when hee sends them in his summons and tenders of peace for a surrender may thank themselves and not blame the enemy when their streets run down with blood blame not God if hee split your ships in a thousand pieces upon the Seas so that your masts swim one way the rudder another and the broken parcels round about you God shewed you his wrath before it came in the face of the skies but you took no notice of it neither prepared you your selves to meet your God Vers 26. They mount up to the Heaven they go down again to the depths their soul is melted because of trouble FOr the division of the words you have three things that are very remarkable in them 1. Their ascension in these words They mount up to the Heaven 2. Their descension in these words they go down again into the depths 3. Their perturbations in these words their soul is melted because of trouble I will begin with the first and give you a brief explication of their ascending and mounting up The word comes of Mons a Mountain shewing that the Seas are oftentimes conglomerated or accumulated into great and dreadful pyramidical hills and mountains They mount up to the Heaven This phrase in the extent of it is but metaphorical and not really and absolutely so that any ship or ships should rise so high in the violentest storm that is but it is to shew that their elevation is exceedingly raised beyond their ordinary altitude usque ad sedem Hyperbole beatorum Olympicam far above and beyond that hight that calm Seas are of for when the Seas are of a virgin-like smoothness and clearness then are all the ships that go upon them at quiet there is no mounting then nor no going up nor no going down but when the ever-moving Ocean that is lyable to continual agitation and subject to every storm and blast is once raised and stirred up by the winds Storms are like to Ovids Chaos when hee sung that there was Tanta est discordia rerum There is an omnium rerum permixtio in them it flyes in rowling billows and raging surges upon the backs of which the great and weighty ships are tossed up as the ball that is jetted to and fro upon the racket In a troubled Sea ships may
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
most high God for delivering mercies is not onely a very acceptable duty with God but also the readiest way to obtain mercy in the like exigency and necessity again Oh that men would praise the Lord Psal 50.23 Who so offereth praise glorifieth mee and then it follows Hee that orders his conversation aright to him will I shew the salvation of God Munera crede mihi placant hominesque Deosq This Scripture now proves it to bee an acceptable performance in the sight of God and that such as give God the most and best of praises they shall have the greatest and the sweetest salvations Improve Neptunum accusat iterum qui naufragium fecit Hee is very injurious to Neptune that complains of being shipwracked when unthankfulness is the cause Alexander the Great by burning Frankincense frankly and freely to the gods gained by conquest the whole Kingdome of Arabia where all the sweet Aromatick trees do grow Ah Sirs you do not know how you might prosper at Sea would you but bee liberal in your praisings of God and thanksgivings to him The people in the Low Countries by giving the Stork leave to build and nest it in their houses to requite the house-keepers shee comes every year at her appointed time Wee read of small or no rain that falls many times in divers parts of Africa and the grand cause is supposed to bee the sandy nature of the soil from whence the Sun can draw no vapours or exhalations which ascending from other parts in great abundance resolve themselves into kinde benign showers refreshing and helping of the earth that yeeldeth none and this is the reason many times why God poures not down his blessings and benefits in such an abundance as sometimes hee hath been wont to do because your hearts are as dry and barren as the barren grounds and sands of Africa for if vapours of melting prayers tears prayses and thanksgivings go not up to heaven mercies will soon bee stopt in their passage down If Sea-men were not so much behinde hand with God in the tribute of praise and good life God would soon lay a charge upon all his creatures both in heaven and in earth that they should pay their tribute unto man the Sun his heat Ah Sirs I am afraid that many in the Sea do vitam gentilem agere sub nomine Christiano live even Turks under the name of Christians The Sailor sometimes is like a Rubrick or Sunday letter very zealously red and all the week after you may write his deeds and his unthankfulness unto his God for Sea deliverances in black the Sea his calmness the Winds their gentleness the Moon her light the Stars their influences the Clouds their moysture the Sea and Rivers their Fish the Land her Fruits the Mines their Treasures c. And when neglected God shuts up the windows of heaven and locks up the treasuries of his bounty and so lets Winds and Seas rage and roar and the creatures gnash and grin their teeth at a people for their ingratitude Ingratitude is a sin supposed to taint the very influences of the Stars it dries up the Clouds infects the very Air makes Winds terrible and boysterous blasts the very fruits of the earth Cyprian attributes the great dearth in his time to the want of thankfulness and truly I shal attribute the many ships that are cast away unto their unthankfulness unto their God for had they been more thankful more holy and humble for those storms God delivered them out of they had never gone so sadly to the pot as they have done Here is quoth Cyprian a very great and general sterility or barrenness of the fruits of the earth and what is the reason of it because there is such a sterility of righteousness and purity Men complain now a dayes that springs are not full Sea-men deal with God as the Heathen who would when they had served their torns upon their gods as Prometheus c. put them off with beasts skins stuffed with straw If they get but out of the storm they never look behinde them who sate upon the floods all the time to deliver them themselves not so healthfull nor the Seas so calm as formerly they have been nor the Winds so quiet and peaceable nor the showers so frequent the earth so fruitful nor the heavens so obsequious unto them as they have been to serve their pleasure and natural profit to God the creatures are obedient and on his errands they go Deu. 28.38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field and shalt gather but little in for the locust shall consume it It is sin that makes the Sea so dangerous and so dreadful sin that makes the heavens as iron over head and the earth to grow so full of thorns and brambles But to proceed I shall not adventure pluribus morari but rather bee tanquam Canis ad Nilum in a restless Sea where I can neither hold my pen in my hand nor keep my paper and ink upon board scarce The Arguments why Sea-men should praise God are briefly these 1. Because God had such a special Reason 1 eye and provident care over you in the preserving of you in all the unlikeliest and irrecoverablest dangers and calamities that you have been exercised withall in the Seas 2. Because God did so much for Reason 2 you which hee would not do for others That when God hath delivered men out Observ 4 of their Sea-streights and calamities Sceva told all his friends that at the siege of Dyrrachium where he so long resisted Pompeys Army that he had two hundred and twenty Darts sticking in his Shield Densamque tulit in pectore Sylvam Ah set your deliverances before people it is their duty not onely to praise God for his goodnesses towards them but also to set the fruit of those mercies before others to taste of Oh that men would praise the Lord c. Vers 37. Let them exalt him in the Congregation Portus Olympiaca vocem acceptam septies reddit If any knock or speak at the Gate or Portal of Olympus it returns a sevenfold Eccho of the knock or speech Your mercies should make you speak Sirs Observ 5 That although a man hath nothing to speak of Gods wonderful deliverances in the Seas but what is known unto others as well as to himself yet is it a part of Gods praise and of his thankfulness to make Gods works known and the continual matter of his talk and discourse Oh that men would praise the Lord Psal 105.2 Talk yee of all his wonderful works Talk not of one or two of some of them but of all of them which you have seen and known done and wrought for you in the Seas Observ 6 That freedome from perils in the Seas and injoyment of life are two mercies that call for many thanks at the hands of those that go down into them He that hath but a subjects purse may have
Heathens were wont to say Mutus sit oportet qui non laudaret Herculem I may say Let that Sea-mans tongue be tyed up forever that is not alwayes blessing of the Lord for his mercies towards him Vivat Dominus vivat regnet in aternum Deus in nobis said Luther say you so Saylors therefore there is great reason that you should live in a far higher way of holiness than you do 7. Consider that you have been made acquainted with many and more precious deliverances than all the people under the whole heavens again and will you bee no better for all and after all 8. Consider that you have many eyes upon you out of the land how you will behave your selves after mercy They expect you should bee good 9. Consider that you have many tryals for faith and alas who more faithless than you 10. Consider that you might grow better for of all the people in the world none are so much cast down as you your spirits are broken many times by storms and you are laid low upon the back of despair 11. Consider that you are put to far harder shifts shorter and barer commons than others are and will not you bee more humble less proud and stomachful consider how ill it becomes you Ah Sirs your lives are too much like to Leâ—â—is 11. of France who did write in a letter to our Edward the 4. Couzen if you will come over to Paris wee will pamper our flesh and you shall have the choysest beauties in the City to sport with Your delights are too strong when you go to Naples Livorno and Genoa 12. Consider that you are generally a people of a very low rise and fortune in the land both as to state and breeding and will not you grow better sirs 13. Consider that none see so much of the Creation as you do nor none so much of the work of the Lord and will you out-top the whole world in prophaneness will you never behave your selves as that the world may no longer proverbialize you 14. Consider that you go oftentimes safely out and come safely back and will you bee no better for all this mercy 15. Consider that you are oftentimes going to fight and at that time your Hamocks are cut down your Chests stowed in the Hold your Guns haled out and your Decks be-decked with all sorts of dismangling bullets and will not you bee a more serious people Holiness would well become you 16. Consider that the deep Seas upon which and through which you sail Ulysses sayes Homer longed much to be near his own Country when been long cut of it Fumum de patriis posse videre focis Hee saw the smoke of his own Country chymneys shall one day as well as the earth surrender up her dead unto the Eternal and Almighty God and as men dye whether Swearers Drunkards or Adulterers so shall they rise it is a folly for any to think if they bee drowned in the Sea God will never finde them out more They whose bones lye in the bottome God will finde out Sirs I am tyred and spent with writing to you in a rowling restless element and therefore being almost at my desired Port When Ovid was and had been a long time travelling of it in the world hee then thought much of home Nescio qua natale solum dulcediue cunctos Ducit immemores non sinit esse suâ— I will strike and lower down my Fore-top-sail for a little sail commonly carries the ship into the Harbour And what Socrates used to say of and to his Scholars I will say to you the States Tarpowlings if I can but provoke you to learn and to fear my God whom I serve which is the desire of my soul that you might that is as much as I desire and as much as I can look for for from you therefore What Pasquillus said of Rome I will say of you and of the Sea Roma vale vidi satis est vidisse revertar Gran-mare vale vidi satis est vidisse revertar Farewel thou angry Sea farewel you Sailors all I have seen both you and it it is enough I will return Qui in peregrinis locis ad patriam aspirant If not I hope I shall bee able to sing with the Poet. Ferre volo cunctos casus patienter acerbos Littora dum patriae lacrymans portusque relinquo FINIS A Table directing to some of the principallest and remarkablest things in this Treatise A. ANselms penitent and humble expression page 357 Ataliba what that Indian Prince said page 349 Antisthenes's brave mind page 396 Aristippus what he said to the Tarpowlings when at sea amongst you page 358 Alexanders Macedonians how they sought the Emperours favour again page 451 Alexanders usual deportment in all Siedges page 405 Answer that the stormy wind gave when demanded why cast away so many ships page 487 Apis an Idol in Aegypt what it did ibid. Ability of God to muster up the Winds to destroy men page 386 Advice to Sea-men good page 385 Advice to Merchants page 383 Africa how dangerous to bee travelled the Seas compared unto it page 428 Athens what it did when the Plague was in it page 480 Achilles how cast down for the loss of his precious friend Patroclus page 557 Advice what to doe when goe to Sea page 394 Advice how to bear storms at Sea in four things page 399 Armies divers that God has on foot page 334 Alphonsus King of Spain what hee said to one page 5 Antonius what good he did in his preaching page 601 Agamemnons brave instructions to his Souldiers before the Battel began page 27 Austin how he begins his Sermon to young men page 44 Athanasius's brave carriage what page 63 Alipius how enticed page 75 Aristippus how willing to be reconciled to his enemie page 81 Aristotles wisdome and patience page 108 Antigonus how he bore with bad tongues ibid. Augustus how studied to overcome his passion page 109 Anger has a bad name amongst the Hebrews page 110 Alexanders Harper how put metal into the Emperour page 143 Aurclianus how careful of losing a day page 166 Augustines judgement why David put off Sauls armour page 176 Auroughscoun what page 250 Assa panick what page 250 Arbor Triste page 66 Asp what page 259 Arabian Spider what page 299 Alexander how kept Homers Iliads page 512 Alligator page 228 B. BErnards good exhortation to his Brother page 389 Bias's counsel to the Mariners when amongst them in a sad storm page 353 Bellerophon when went to Heaven was thrown neck-break out of it page 415 Bernards humble expression page 118 Boat-Swains exhorted to call their men up to prayer page 94 Boat-Swains if irreligious how harmful they are ibid. Boat-Swains how reproved and for what page 89 Bird what sort brest themselves against the Wind. page 3 Bruso Zeno's Servant what page 15 Bernard what said to his friends page 41 Bonosus a Beast how hurtful page 75
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Maintain your dignity and execution of Justice in your ships and that within her certain bounds let equity mercy and justice kiss each other It was St. Augustines censure that Illicita non prohibere consensus erroris est not to restrain evil it to maintain evil Impunitas delicti invitat homines ad malignandum sins chief encouragement is the want of punishment Commanders should boldly and heedfully crush break the neck of all quarrels and dissentions that rise amongst Sailors within board Dulce nomen pacis the very name of peace is sweet said the Orator And the Suevians thought it should be Soveraign when they had enacted that in a fray where swords were drawn if but a woman or a childe at a distance cried but Peace they were bound to end the quarrel Captains should cry aloud Peace and stamp down that Aâ—na-like sparkling and inflamed spirits otherwise you will finde the smart of it If a School-masters eye be alwayes upon his scholar to observe him if he still correct and check him for his faults it is a sign that he bears singular love and affection to him and will in time bring him to a good Genius but if he let him loyter and play and abuse his fellows never call him to an account for it it s a sign then that he little regards him It was a sweet saying of one to his friend whom he prayed hard for I have desired to live no longer dear friend than to see thee a Christian and now seeing my eyes behold that sweet day I desire to leave thee and to go unto my Saviour Should not Commanders have these yerning bowels over Sea-men and say Oh my soul even travels sory our conversion and to see you Christians before our Voyage breaks up I long to see you live lead a converted life in the world and that will be happiness enough unto me A religious Commander hath the like thoughts that John had 2. Ep. 1.4 I have no greater joy than this that my children walk in the truth I have no greater delight in the world than to see the men that are under me walking in the truth Nothing delights me more than to see my Master godly my Lieut. heavenly my Gunner religious my Boatswain pious my Carpenter conscientious and all my Sea-men well disposed under me Young men no sooner come to Sea amongst a pack of filthy fellows but they are as prone to be corrupted with them especially with your old Sailors as Fred. 3. King of Sicilia was with the bad lives of the corrupt Church of Rome which he no sooner pryed into but out of liking of it he began to doubt of the veriâ—y of the Gospel Liberty is an enemy to Law disorder to Justice faction to Peace and errour to true Religion Captains should take upon them that resolution I have met with concerning one and say unto all his men round about him Animos actusque singulorum agnoscam si quid in eis vitii invenirem statum ego castigam I will take an exact knowledge of all the men that are under my charge so as to correct and amend whatsoever is evil amongst them States Ships should bee places of Justice and good Discipline Houses of Correction and Chappels for the worship of God I wish that that Distich that is writ in Zant over the place of Judgement were writ upon all the Entring-Ladders of all the ships in England and not only writ in a good legible hand but also strictly executed and performed Hic locus Odit Amat Punit Conservat Honorat Nequitiam Pacem Crimina Jura Bonos Our Ships do Hate Love punish conserve do good Wickedness Peace Vice the Laws unto the good And I could further also wish that that Distich that was writ over King Henries Table were writ over all the Tables that bee in the great Cabbins of all the ships in England Qusquis amat dict is absentem rodere amicum Hane mensam vetitam noverit esse sibi Who speaks of the Absent one defaming word Know I forbid him coming to my board Some Captains Cabbins are little better than meer Cock-pits and Stages on which is acted nothing else in the world save their scorn derision and contempt of others for their small failings These Lads will tell you exactly how many Atoms there bee in other mens eyes but they will never tell you what Beams and Trees there bee in their own 9. Do what ever in you lyes to call Seamen off and out their vile courses and wicked practices to that end you may beget a generation of men that would bee some credit to the cause and quarrel in hand and also fitâ—seful and instrumental to carry on the glorious designs of Christ that are on foot for him against the Anti-christian powers of the world Shame as much to let men go out of your ships unreformed and unbettered by being under your Commands as a School-master will with Scholars that take not their learning or as a Physician doth to see many patients dying under his hands I know it that an honest heart will irk ill and fret and grow discontented at it if hee should see men never a whit the bettered by Command nor seasoned with grace and godliness when the Voyage breaks up but it may bee that corrupt hearts and consciences will never check nor flash in the faces of some for their negligence herein and so it is no trouble to them but good Commanders cannot so stop the mouth of conscience nor so lightly answer their God for their remisness in doing that good which they might have done in their publick advancements But to bee short my friends I have one thing more in my eye which is of very great consequence and concernment I would present unto all that either for the present or for the future shall bee in Command in any of the States ships of England And it will bee worth the while that you take a stricter a speedier course to discharge that trust which the State and Commonwealth reposes in you For my part I must needs condemn that Epidemical negligence and remisness that is amongst the Sea-Commanders because it was never my hap as yet to finde any of them so conscientious and carefull in the thing as they ought to have been All the men that ever I have been under who have bore command have lived in their ships and places more like Drones and self-seeking men than any thing else wanting extreamly a publick spirit The thing is this then Take special and circumspect heed and care over all the young men that bee in your ships in what relations soever whether as servants unto your selves to the State or unto others with you and allow not of any evil in them amongst them I will give you now good reason why you should take upon you this carefulness and vigilancy over them Reason 1. Because if you do not they will learn to
preserve them and to carry them away from the fire for it is a common thing amongst the Mariners in such cases to run away with the boat and leave all the rest to the mercy of the fire yet notwithstanding boats have been sent off from shore with all speed and their lives have been saved 49. Others have been delivered after this miraculous manner when the ship hath sprung a dangerous and an incurable leak which could in no manner art Now have the Sea-men trembled within themselves and their inward desires have been like those of Moses Deut. 3.25 I pray thee let me go over and see the good Land that is beyond Jordan that goodly Mountain and Lebanon The Lord has given them leave to come safe on Land when that they thought that they should have drowned in the Sea and skil bee stopped their lives being greatly hazarded the Lord has sent unto them a fish that has gone into the leak and made it up with its own body as firm and as tite as ever the ship was before to the admiration of all that were in the Vessel insomuch that when they have brought the ship on shore they have found the fish lying in the leak as fast as any planck about the Vessel 50. Others for want of victuals in their long voyages in the Seas have been forced to put into strange and uninhabited places into which they have come thinking to find relief yet could they not see with their eyes neither man beast nor foul yet in some time tarriance there the Lord has to admiration provided for them insomuch that great flocks of fouls have been seen to come out of other parts I may say of this wonderful preservation as it is said of Israels manna Joshua 5.12 Neither had the children of Israel manna any more but they did eat of the fruit of the Land of Canaan that year and light in those inhospitable places where the poor people were like to starve and lay them eggs in great abundance and thus they did for many daies till at such times they got supplies and then the fouls went away and left them but not till then 51. Others have been no less wonderfully delivered when sprung great and dangerous leaks in time of dreadful storms they have been thrown upon the sands and when thinking themselves past all hopes of being saved God has turned all for good by calming of the Seas and winds The sight of this truth appeared to bee no small mercy in my eye Seems not this to be the language of those many Sands that ly up and down in the Seas that sin has filled the great deeps with them and many other unequal shallows by which ships are most dreadfully perplexed and ruined many and many a time If mankind had not sinned nothing should have lain in his way to harm him in the Seas As that curse at mans unhappy fall fell upon the whole world Gen. 3.18 to this day all grounds are cumbred with Thorns and Thistles and so the Sea with thousands of Rocks and Sands and also stoping of the leak and to boot besides both their ship and lives again 52. Others again have wonderfully been preserved when in boats that have been towing at a Friggots stern the ships way being so furious and violent through the Seas the boats bows has been pulled out and all the men thrown into the naked Sea some lying here and some lying there in a most dreadfull condition insomuch that hee that is a spectator of these lamentable accidents would think that never a one of them should bee saved and besides it is a long time ere a ship can bee put upon the stayes when shee has her freshest way 53. Others again have been most wonderfully preserved when storms have come down upon them in the dreadfullest rage that ever was seen or heard insomuch that their cables break and are thereby forced from their anchors and that which ponderates and proves the greatest inconveniency in the circumstance is their propinquity unto Sands being thus put to it in a Moonless and Starless evening This seems also to be the language of all the in-Sea-lying Rocks We know that the Mariner would have us to depart the deeps and lye in the bowels of the Earth with the rest of our fraternity but truly here we are ordered for to lye and to be a trouble unto mankind that he might not have all the sweetnesse safety and security in his trading it is something terrible in respect that they are thrown upon them and at every held the ship has laid her very hatches in the water and the poor men looking at every rowl that the Vessel should overset upon them I have known some in this condition that have lived and got off again both with ship and lives 54. Others have been very admirably preserved when sailing in the Seas without any mistrust or jealousy of Sands or runing on ground yet has it pleased the Lord to put into the hearts of some or other in the ship and given them secret hints to sound the Sea and no sooner have they fadomed their depth but the ship has struck and by a speedy handling of the Helm through the blessing of the Lord they have very narrowly escaped 55. Others again have been wonderfully preserved in this respect when they have unawars come on ground or upon a Sand-bank it has but been upon a smal point of it I cannot look upon any of these prementioned deliverances but my soul tels me that there is the visible finger of the Lord in them Psal 92.6 A brutish man knoweth not neither doth a fool understand this whereas had the ship run directly upon it shee had been lost without all recovery The often sight of this pretious deliverance I hope will lye warm upon my heart as long as I live But to break off what shall I now say of all and after all these remarkable and notable deliverances My thinks I cannot pass by the point that was laid down without one short word or two of use 1. Of Reprehension 2. Of Exhortation Use 1. Of Reprehension If it bee thus 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 How are such to bee checked that out of blinde eyes hard hearts and sottish spirits never look upon these pre-mentioned mercies and deliverances as either mercies or deliverances but hurl them at their heels and value them no more than they do their old shooes The end of my gathering up these your mercies and deliverances is only to stir up your hearts unto thankfulness and to let the people that live on land both see and know what God doth for you in the deeps the truth of it is these are buried mercies that I have been telling of and such mercies as have lyen in the
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 Exâ— 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
is this there is such swearing cursing and profaning of the holy Name of the Lord amongst you that a gracious heart that goes in ships with you would think that he were rather in an hell conversing with Devils than Men and Christians How ought all our Sailors in the time of storms to say with the Church unto their God Lam. 3.40 Let us search and try our waies and turn again to the Lord. Jonah was searched out in the storm and Achan when the Camp was troubled no better way or course to pacify an angry God than to seek for all that filthiness that is upon and in your hearts and spirits and so to throw it over board and take out the new and sacred lesson of piety and uprightness of heart and spirit 14. To put the godly upon the growth Reason 14 in holiness and make their hearts the better Storms are gods pruning-knives Corrupt blood must be drawn out before the Leech falls off and all carnal filthiness parted with before the storm end Boysterous storms are Gods people's kitchin-scullions to scour off their rust their dross canker to let Sea-men bleed withall for they have a great deal of corrupt blood in their veins and though they carry Chirurgions with them at Sea yet God is their best Physician This course God takes that they may bring forth more fruit Joh. 15.2 And every branch that beareth fruit hee purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit Flowers have a sweeter savour after a shower than ever they had before so a gracious soul a brokener heart after a storm than in a calm Wheat under the flail parts with its chaff Gold when put in the fire loses it dross Reason 15 15. To put people into a greater fear of sinning and offending that have smarted so much for sin It is a common Proverb That the burnt child dreads the fire It was Job's resolution Chap. 34.32 If I have done iniquity I will do no more I think it would bee the Sea-mans greatest wisdom not onely to say so but to have a care of offending God who is able to hurl the Seas into dreadful waves and raging surges about his ears Reason 16 16. To keep people from back-sliding If you should alwaies have fair weather at Sea The game hunting dogs of Cicily lose their sport oftentimes by reason of the sent and sweet smel of flowers And so thoughts of God and Heaven if all calms and no storm and every thing as you would have it that were the onely way to have you to forget your God Israel soon cast God out of their thoughts and hearts when they got into Canaan but oftner in their thoughts when in a pinching and hard-faring Wilderness The Bee is quickly drowned if shee fall but into the pot of hony and a good heart is soon over-run with weeds and corrupted if not under imbitterments and afflictions Reason 17 17. To wean people from the world and all the earthly comforts and merchandizings of it Whilst there is sweetness to bee sucked out of the dugs of worldly comforts they will not care for the relinquishing of them but when God laies wormwood upon them then they will grow weary of them and even bee ad instar canis ad Nilum as the dog at the river Nilus that dare not stay to take his full draught for fear of the Crocodile The Uses of this doctrine are various but especially they are these five 1. Information 2. Circumspection 3. Meditation 4. Reprehension 5. Consolation 1. Vse This doctrine may inform you and let you see that every boysterous Storm and Tempest that breaks out upon the face of the great deeps is no other but an arrow shot out of the bended bow of Gods displeasure against you or one of the lower tier of his indignation that is fired upon you Nahum 1.3 The Lord hath his way in the whirl-wind and in the storm and the clouds are the dust of his feet If shiphazarding storms fall upon you you may conclude that the Lord is in them and not far from you I and that hee is not well pleased with you 2. Vse This doctrine may serve to put you upon a serious meditation and deliberative ponderating upon the Power and terrible Majesty of God who has the whole universe at his command to wage war against whom hee pleases but especially in these three things 1. What is the cause or occasion of immoderate storms 2. What is his end in the sending of them upon you 3. And lastly what improvement you should make of them 3. Vse This doctrine may serve for a word of advice to startle you and to tell you that you have great need to look about you if so bee that all perilous and ship-wracking storms and Tempests are of the Lords commissionating and raising I mean not onely to make the best provisions that you can to prevent dangers for common reason prompts you to that but my advice is this that you would live every day preparedly seeing your lives are the deepliest engaged and in the greatest hazzards of any under the whole Heavens if a man were to go over some narrow bridge under which hee knew that there was deep water how gingerly and how carefully would hee tread I and if there were no way else to go but that what prayers would hee put up that hee might go safely over and if not that God would cancel all his scores my thinks it should bee thus with you who are in greater dangers in the raging Seas 1. Sin less swear less and drink less than you do if you would have God to preserve you in time of storms 2. Please God more if you desire favour and preservation in the day of calamity and irremediable adversity 3. Make it your business to get sin daily pardoned or otherwise you may look for nothing but an open hostility from the winds and Seas 4. Vse This doctrine may serve to reprove and to lash that bold profaneness and atheisticalness that is amongst the generality of Sea-men and Sailors who never have it in their thoughts when the greatest storm that ever blew is from the Lord but a thing in course or common and ordinary and so never acknowledge the hand of God in those dreadfull judgments that hee lays upon the Seas and those affrighting and heart-melting sorrows that they are often plunged into There be four things that I would reprove you for 1. Ignorance 2. Carelesness 3. Want of the fear of God 4. Negligence 1. Ignorance This is an Epidemical distemper that all or the greatest part of Sea-men are aegrotant off or in Suffer this doctrine to reprove you and I am sure it will tell you to the full that it is the Lord that sends out his stormy wind fulfilling his Word upon you I and also condemn you for your infidelity and paganism in this very particular 2. Carelesness Who more loose who more prophane and who more secure
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
but it is an abiding and a staying upon them and turning of mercy upside down and looking first upon the one side and then upon the other that affects the heart 2. Take notice of the freeness of Gods dealings with you in the Seas if you would bee thankful to your God it is out of meer mercy and goodness without any merit or desert in you and though there bee much sinfulness amongst you swearing by the highest in Heaven and by the vilest in Hell Ah Sirs I wish I could get you to minde what God doth for you and that I could work upon you in what I have writ to you as Antonius de Padua once did upon the hearts of a people whom he once preached to he thundred so out of the holy Law of God that they would go one in the streets smiting of their breasts tears drilling down their eyes crying out Misericordia domine Misericordia Mercy Lord Mercy and all the abominable oaths that you cast forth in storms which is like to the mire and dirt the Sea casts up as the Prophet sayes yet doth God appear for you in them David was wonderfully affected with Gods dealings with him Gen. 32.10 2 Sam. 7.18 19. 3. Eye the seasonableness of all your Sea-deliverances God doth and ever did take the fittest time to accomplish every thing in Eccl. 3.1 To every thing there is a season Eccl. 3.1 And God makes every thing beautiful in his time vers 11. The season of the mercy puts a beauty and lustre upon it even as the Sun puts its beauty upon the Rainbow Was it not a seasonable mercy to the man that went from Jerusalem to Jericho and falling among Theeves had all that ever hee had taken from him I and more than that wounded and left for dead upon the ground and in that very juncture and extremity of time the good Samaritan comes providentially by and takes compassion of him Luke 10.33 That King Ahasuerus could not sleep in the night 1 King 17.18 19. before Mordecai should have been hanged of all the nights in the year besides and that a book should bee brought him and instead of other books which were his exercise the book of the Chronicles and of all places and passages in it that should bee turned to which had relation to Mordecaie's good service in discovering the Treason of the two Chamberlains which moved the King to save him from the Gallows Ah Sirs I would have you to say to your God what Luther once said before he was better informed to the Pope Leo 10 An. 1518. Prostratum pedibus me tibi offero cum omnibus quae sum habeo vocem tuam vocem Christi in te praefidentis loquentis agnoscam I humbly prostrate my self with all that I have and am at thy feet That when Peter was sinking Christ should then put forth his hand and still the waves Ah Sirs eye the seasonableness of all Gods mercies with you Mee thinks I hear many a gracious Sea-man say Ah wee had been drowned at such and such a time and cast away at such a time if God in his mercy had not prevented it 4. Minde the unexpectedness of delivering mercies at Sea I profess for my part when wee have been in storms and run upon sands I have thought it an impossible and a very unlikely thing to escape insomuch that I have had occasion to say as Sarah did to Abraham who would have thought it Gen. 21.7 Mercies come crouding in many times upon you that use the Seas unlooked for 5. Eye the mercies of God towards you in all those places that you either do or have traded into in the world how many Voyages thou hast made through and over the dangerous deeps and how God hath blessed thee prospered thee and delivered thee abroad gon out with thee and come home with thee Moses takes special notice of what God had done for Israel in bringing them out of Egypt and also of their journey through the wilderness of Canaan and so sets them all down in a local method in the Red Sea they passed through it on dry land Pharaoh and his host was drowned therein and in Rhephidim God gave them water out of the Rock Exod. 17. and victory over Amalek in the Wilderness of Sin At night and at morn they had flesh and Manna In Sinai God gave them his holy Law Exod. 16. Paul in a local method mindes the converting grace of God as to the place bestowed upon him at Damascus They that will go into the Elysian fields saies the Poet must over Acharon and Phlegeton and the several other Rivers of Hell before they can come into those pleasurable and delightful rich and flowery Meadows and so through many storms over the Seas before they can come at the beautiful and wealthy Countries in the forein parts of the world Vbi definit humanum auxilium ibi incupit divinum and his deliverance afterwards when hee was let down through the windows in a basket at Lystra Derbe and Iconium Act. 14. at Philippi Chap. 16. at Thessalonica Chap. 17. at Corinth Chap. 18. at Ephesus Chap. 19. c. But I proceed to a word of Application 1. Of Exhortation 2. Of Reproof Vse 1 1. Of Exhortation Is it thus then that God hath done all these things for you Ah Sirs bee exhorted to lay up all your Sea-deliverances let them lye the nearest your hearts of any thing in the whole world besides and let all your new mercies bee as goads in your sides and as spurs to a better life Vse 2 2. Of Reproof unto those that go down into the Seas and forget all their mercies and let them lye loose upon their hearts and spirits Sirs the Lord complains of you as hee did of Israel Jer. 3.8 When your condition was as Lyricus said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one wave after another passing over your heads then did the Lord appear for you but you have not come off like men with God in thankfulness Amos 4.6 to the 12. Thus and thus did I for you but you returned not to mee What shall not your escapes work upon you and shall not the ruines of others startle you how many Vessels bee there sunk in the Seas and you notwithstanding have come safe home out of them Ezek. 16.56 Thy sister Sodome was not mentioned c. the Chalde Paraphrast sayes was not for instruction the word in the Hebrew was not in thy mouth they had quite forgot the destruction of Sodome insomuch that it was neither in their thoughts nor mouthes The ruines of others is little thought of by you and your Sea-deliverances are forgot by you That miraculous eminent and remarkable Observ 9 Sea-mercies and deliverances benefit not hard flinty stony and impure hearts in the Seas Oh that men would praise the Lord. As if the Psalmist should say they have the greatest mercies of any people in the world bestowed
upon them but they are neither affected with them nor one jot the better for them Beleeve it this is a foul blot in the Sailors Scutchion Gods kindnesses and your amendment should alwayes go together yet I do confess that both the back and also the bones may bee broken in many a man and yet the heart bee too whole and unbroken Ahaaz sinned the more hee was punished Plentiful showers leave both Heaths Forrests and wilderness places unfruitful The generality of Sea-men are not unlike to Pharaohs seven ill favoured Kine which eat up the well-favoured tag and rag and although every one in the dream eat up a whole Cow a peece yet looked they still as leanly and as ill favouredly on it as they did before You devour the Lords mercies in the Seas and are not bettered by them but look as ill favouredly on it as ever you did Nine Plagues would not prevail with Pharaoh What do you think then how many storms will with Sailors 2 Chron. 28.22 And Sea-men swear and tear more when Gods judgements fall upon them in the Seas than they did before insomuch that all good people that live in the ships with them may even say as the Voyce that was heard in the Temple of Jerusalem a little before the destruction of it Migremus hinc Migremus hinc Migremus hinc Let us bee gone or else wee shall have the ships fired from heaven about our ears there is such swearing and cursing in them May I not say of such that they are able to scare all that are ought out of ships What Monica Austins mother said in one case I may say to the godly that go to Sea amongst prophane wretches Quid hic faciemus cur non ocyus migramus cur non hinc avolamus What do wee here in the Sea why depart wee not out of it why make wee no more haste from it A word or two to you Gentlemen and that of Terrour 1. It is an argument of extream hardness and naughtiness of heart not to be wrought on by storms 2. When storms work not upon men I pray God it bee not a dreadful sign of their reprobation and of Gods utter renouncing of them It is a black sign certainly of Gods displeasure when judgements better not a people 3. Such as are not bettered by storms they are very near to a curse Gentlemen If you will abuse your Sea-deliverances to serve your lusts swear whore drab and drink God will rain hell out of heaven upon you rather than not visit you for such sins Salvian Heb. 6.7 8. What will become of you Sirs you that have all means of reformation the Lords mercies and deliverances in the Seas judgements strive with you and mercies have attempted to allure you storms have called upon you and have been as Ambassadors sent from heaven to bid you amend and turn holy and yet all will not do do you think that God will strive with you long Is not that man in a sad and fearful case think you when all means leaves him meat nourishes not physick works not Ingentia beneficia flagitia supplicia good turns will aggravate the Sea-mans unkindnesses nor the Patient sleeps not all give him up for a gone man Let mee tell you that if you grow not better you are at the very next door to bee cursed Abused sea-Sea-mercies will bring upon you sure certain speedy ponderous and inevitable judgements Quaento gradus altior tanto casus gravior the higher Sea-man thou art in mercy Nay others shall sport in hell when you shall fry in it the more grievous will bee thy fall and misery for thy abusing of it If Babylon bee destroyed shee may thank her self for it her pride If Sodome bee destroyed and burned into ashes shee may thank her wantonness for it If Jerusalem bee inhabited by Turks and Infidels Deus noluit punire ipsi extorquent ut pereant God takes no delight in the shipwracking of Sailors but they wrest judgements perforce out of his hands shee may thank her infidelity and Idolatry for it If woe bee to Capernaum and Bethsaida they may thank their contempt of the Gospel If ships bee destroyed in storms they may thank their abuse of Gods mercies to them in the Seas Mutet ergo vitam qui vult accipere vitam Let him turn to God betimes that would have God to favour him in the time of need I know that many a Sea-man will not bee born down but that hee is very godly It is true God in his judgements upon the Seas oftentimes remembers mercy But he will not do so alwayes and he abuses not the Lords mercies either to swearing or drinking but behold I have obeyed God as Saul said 1 Sam. 15.14 If thou hast done so then what means this bleating of the Sheep and the lowing of the Oxen in mine ears so that the bleating of the Sheep and the lowing of the Oxen proclaimed Saul a disobedient person If you will say that you have given God thanks and that you fear him and love him for all that hee hath done for you then what means the crying of the sands against you after you escaped off them And if you will say that you have not abused your Sea-mercies what then means the crying of the Rocks which you escaped in the Seas against you And what means the loud cryes of the winds and Seas which God hath delivered you from Give mee leave to lay down a few serious considerations and I will shortly and succinctly winde up my discourse and bid farewel unto you The Lord is merciful as it is said of Octavius Vtinam nescirem literas would I knew not my letters when he was put upon the assigning of a mans death God will not alwayes be so When Bacchus turned himself into a Lion he made all the Mariners in the ship leap overboard What think you of God then It was the language of a ship in a storm when ready to perish O crudelem Oceanum O volucrem fortunam O Caecos Nautas O praeposteros viros You may bless God that it hath not been so with you 1. Consider that you are mercied so as none are mercied and will you that live every day upon mercy bee no better for mercy 2 Consider that none are so near to death every day as you are there is but a three or four Inch plank betwixt you and death and will not you grow better 3. Consider that your sins go nearer to the heart of God than others do 4. Consider that the sin of swearing is a very unbeseeming thing in Sea-mens mouths in respect they live upon mercy 5. How unbeseeming Sea-men is the sin of drunkenness you live upon mercy and are Gods Hospitals in the Seas hee looks after you 6. Consider that more depends upon you than doth upon others that lies upon your backs look how you will discharge your selves than doth upon others The
late outlandish Traveller spied in it page 528 Elephants how sayed to expresse their thankfulnesse unto God page 593 England likened to the Song of the Lacedemonians three Dances page 186 Epaminondas how valiant for his Country page 87 Edward an English King how challenged all France page 188 Eagle page 231 Elephant and what written upon his tongue page 244 Ebone Tree page 263 Aegyptians how set out inconsiderate men page 283 English how delivered when set at by the Turks page 292 Eumenes's silver Shields how betrayed him page 520 Earl Ulster how often driven back when going for Ireland page 511 Experimental deliverances page 34 Ebbing and flowing of Seas what page 163 Englands desire of three things to be accomplished page 169 England what it has done against Spain page 171 English should resemble Hanibal upon the Alps. page 172 England is not to bee medled withall by a forein enemy page 140 Aesops Grashopper what it did page 100 Elysian Fields hard to be come at page 603 Examples how Swearers have been punished page 103 F. FLying Fish what page 199 Fowls in Green-land how said to leave it page 232 Fire-flies page 238 Fogo a burning Mountain page 273 Flyes in the Indies how buzze and huâ— in the Woods page 268 Fox in the Fable how pleaded page 314 Fire-lights on Sea-coasts what page 10 G. GOld Mines how discovered page 9 God how said to bee a Man of Warre page 177 Greeks how wonderfully affected with a temporal deliverance page 564 Goose in Aesop sadly dealt withall page 405 God in the Winds page 569 Ginger page 264 Gregories Fox how cunning page 312 Greenland how supplied with wood page 276 Grashoppers what page 239 Graecians how affected with their deliverance page 502 Gauls how would let no Vines grow in their Country page 78 H. HAven the word what it comes of page 533 Hermite how carried away by an Angel in the evening page 490 Haven-towns how exhorted to pray for Seamen page 533 Harbours how feigned to speak and call aloud to Sea-men when in storms page 532 Hurtful qualities in all the four Winds page 440 Heraclitus what an admirer of the Sea page 586 Holland in what advised page 138 Heron and Falcon how they fight page 137 Harbours not to be tarried long in by Commanders page 78 Hold breaking up very unwarrantable page 64 Heathen how said to deal with their gods page 595 Hecla and Helga how said to burn page 277 Hopfoy page 238 Heron. page 237 Henry 5. K. England how discouraged page 186 Heliotrope page 328 I. IEroms observation of the wicked on Land applied to the wicked at sea page 551 Jewes how perswaded that the name Jehovah is written upon every Rainbow page 405 Jerusalem how warned by a Starre for a whole year together page 404 Julius Caesar how used to carry three things when followed the Warres 1. His Pen. 2. His Books 3. His Laws page 419 Jupiter how said to have his hands full of Thunder-bolts page 583 Jew how affected with his deliverance over the plank that was laid upon a bridge page 584 Juno's Statue how compared page 583 James the just a wonderful pâ—â—ying soul page 517 Jewes how deal with the Book of Esther page 507 John K. Portugal his great love to his Country page 230 Isidores observation how infectious bad men be page 112 Joseph how carried himself in Potiphars house page 114 James Abbes cryed up to bee saved by a wicked page 121 Jerom what said of Asela page 157 Joshua what said of him whilst young and after when ancient page 175 Italian Proverb what page 134 Island how wonderfully supplied with wood page 276 K. KNowledge requisite to goe to Sea withall page 12 L. LOg that was hurled out of Heaven by Jupiter upon the Froggs how compared page 426 Language of a storm page 546 Land how sweet and welcome it is to them that have been long out of it ibid. Locrian Law what it was page 529 Lions when enter into choler what they doe page 451 Lion what he did for the poor man that pulled the thorn out his foot page 568 Lark how often she praises her Creator in a day page 565 Locust page 264 Lapland page 275 Lucianus Timon what said of him page 223 Luther not discouraged at sad tidings page 515 Lacedemonian Law what page 35 Loadstone how its use not found out till the coming of Christ page 9 Lying reproved at Sea page 105 Luther what said of prayer page 177 Libbard how pursues his prey page 314 M. MOtto or Language of all sunk ships page 553 Mercy of God great that hee lets not all the Devils in Hell loose upon the Saylors backs page 554 Mercy of God great that any prophane ships keep up above water page 556 Motto of Seamens employment page 550 Merchants how compared to the Nightingale in their losses page 401 Mercies of old how preserved in several particulars page 588 Masters if godly what good they may doe in ships page 94 Masters and all States Officers should bee of Clavigers mind page 97 Menelaus what he said unto the Graecians when cowardly page 145 Mahumet how would not enter into any City for fear of temptations page 175 Mary Queen of Scots what she said page 176 Maps what they say of England page 139 Mariners how careful of one another when in danger page 134 Magistrates Commission how sufficient for Sea-men to fight any enemy page 124 Malestreamwell what page 271 Magellan Streights what storms lye in them page 268 Murder a Soul-damning sin page 227 Mearmaid what page 228 Muscetos what they doe in the West Indies page 238 Monkies page 251 Muscat what page 251 N. NOva Zembla what manner of place it is page 275 Noddy what said of her page 240 Numa's confidence in the gods page 525 North-wind what called by one page 441 Neptune how feigned to hold the two terrours of the Seas in chains page 544 Nautical skill how requisite to go to Sea withall page 7 Navy of Solomon how ordered when sent it out to Sea page 8 Numa Pompilius how strict in Religion page 31 Navigation how warrantable page 159 Narsetes got the victory at Sea by prayer page 178 O. OLympus what an high mountain it is page 367 Orpheus's musick what it was page 289 Ordinances of Heaven what page 272 Ostrich what page 234 Oculists what they observe of the eye page 197 Officers in States ships what they should do page 98 Octavius Augustus how hee dealt with a rude young man page 312 P. PAris streets how once swimmed with blood page 143 Paphos Queen how thankful page 501 Pelican page 230 Passown what page 249 Porcupine what page 250 Platonists what said by page 278 Palm tree what page 261 Prayer if not used at Sea endangers in four things page 466 Plato's counsel to Alcibiades the same given to Sea-men page 475 Prayer wonderfully priviledged page 470 Pliny never liked the East wind page 440 Pope Gregories fancy of the
English page 435 Prayer how should resemble the stars about the North-pole page 460 Prayer begged at the hands of all the godly and powerful Ministry in England for poor Sea-men page 542 Pliny's expression of Rome given to men that use the Seas page 478 Pliny's judgement what the wind is page 367 Prayer how prevalent with God page 482 Perpetual life-danger of Sea-men page 420 Philostrates's life compared to Sea-men page 392 Prophane Sea-mens Motto ibid. Prayer forced is never ought page 486 Plutarchs report of men dejected what done withall page 401 Paulinus how hee bore his great trial under the savage Goths page 352 Patience an excellent vertue the heathen thought it so when page 353 Praising of God in several directions page 576 Pythagoras scholars what their custome was page 109 Plato how answered Socrates in his rashness page 25 Persons what should not bee taken in into Navy ships page 32 Physiognomer what hee said of an Emperour page 80 Plato's great desire to convert Dionysius page 61 Paul how desirous to have them saved that sailed with him page 52 Pepper-tree how it grows page 263 Pemblico a bird page 242 Q. Question fifteen page 150 R. REasons why Sea-men should bee thankful unto their God for their deliverances are five page 565 Reasons laid down are sixteen why storms arise upon the Seas page 348 Reasons two strong ones why men are so fearful in storms page 455 Righteous man of what worth page 36 Reasons five why young men should bee looked after in the Sea page 73 Roman Ambassadors what said of them page 78 Romans highly esteem of faithfulness page 84 Roman General what a command he bore page 30 Romans cannot indure any without a calling page 166 Rome how once laid down to the ground page 180 Rocks in the Sea what their language is page 322 Richard the first how travelled to the Holy Land page 124 S. SEa compared to Plutarchs Moon page 427 Sea summoned in by the Mariners why it did drown so many of them as it did page 427 Speech objurgatory to the rest less Sea ibid. Speech of Galienus the Emperour when lost all that ever hee had page 402 Sea-men how compared to all high pinacles page 409 Sea-men too confident of going to heaven page 410 Seneca's speech page 401 Sea-men in storms are nearer heaven than any in the world besides page 409 Ships when cast away may bee concluded on that it was when the Mariners were swearing page 487 Several Reasons why Sea-men are the worst people in the world page 488 Sea-mans life and conversation page 393 Sea what it saith to prophane men ibid. Sea-mens lives very uncertain page 388 Ships uncertainty of ever returning whilst at Sea page 383 Sailors Motto what page 417 Sea-mans head what compared to page 416 Ships how rest less in the Sea page 27 Sailors Motto what page 445 Seasons six in which Sea-men are evermore out of their wits page 445 Sea hath four ill things in it page 446 Sea-mans Motto in a storm page 418 Sea-mans night-watching in time of storms page 418 Ship-leak springing how terrible page 426 Sea-mans day labouring in time of storms page 417 Sea-men how seemingly good in time of danger page 484 Shark what said of him page 206 Sea-horses what said of them page 209 Sea-men compared to the Nightingale page 191 Sea-swine what said of them page 222 Sea-calf page 224 Sea-turtle ibid. Stork what said of her page 234 Strange-sheep in Cusko page 249 Sivet-cat what shee is page 251 Scorpion what page 258 Strumbilo how it burns page 273 Sea-men too like the traveller that leaves all things behinde him page 281 Sea like the Sea in Pauten page 301 Ship-masters how reproved and for what page 91 Ship-masters exhorted to imitate Tiberius in his honest minde page 90 Sabbath day how sweetly it is observed at Sea page 95 Swearing complained of and exclaimed against at Sea page 101 Subjects that should bee preached on at Sea laid down page 102 Swearing ships but unhealthful air to breathe in page 103 Sea-men if ever they would bee good and Religious must practise seven things page 111 Socrates how fearful of Alcibiades page 115 Spanish Proverb what page 116 Sea-men prophane how compared to Pharaohs seven ill-favoured Kine page 118 Sun how said to shine and would not shine were it not for the godly page 119 Sea-men must practise six things if ever they would have credit ibid. Sea-men exhorted to practise nine very singular good things page 123 Sea-men counselled in three good things page 125 Sea-men should rather dye than stain their credits ibid. Sea-men prophane too like to those in Luthers time page 126 Ships when miscarry may be said that they never sought God in their going out page 132 Ships what order they observe in their going to Sea in nine things page 133 Sea-men how valiant they should bee when they hear of an enemy page 141 Spaniard in what to bee disgusted page 141 Spaniard how massacred many English page 144 Sea or Land a controversie whether bee greater page 153 Sea-men when come out of the West-Indies how glad they are when they can once see the North star page 154 Sea-water how far it excels Land-water in strength page 156 Seas wonderful beneficial to all Countries in five things page 161 Sea-men exhorted to bee of Themistocles temper page 172 Sea separates many Nations a great mercy page 162 Sorrow and pleasure how they fell out page 598 Sea-men how wished a bottle of Nepenthe in storms page 596 States ships how said to resemble Nebuchadnezzars tree page 589 Ships how said to derive their names from the stout fought Battels in England page 290 Ships what several names they have to perpetuate the memory of Englands Battels page 591 Ships that carry the names of Englands Battels upon them are terrible page 592 Sea what manner of place it is page 4 Ship how shee commended the Pilot that steered her well in a storm page 598 Sea hath no lanes foot-paths nor high-wayes to travel by page 12 Sea-men counselled to bee of Fabritius's minde page 16 Sea-men far more on stern in matters of good than any in the world besides page 18 Scipio how of a brave spirit page 21 Sea-Captains some how compared to Thales page 22 Sin the only of Commanders being hurled out ibid. States how little they set by men at Sea whose carriages are naught page 23 Ships carry famous Titles and wherefore page 26 Sea-men too like the Cypress tree page 29 Sea-men that are prophane should bee cast out of ships page 33 Ships have good names but want of government in them page 30 States ships might prosper wonderfully had they but these men in them page 35 States ships should bee little Churches and Chappels page 42 Sea-man how defined page 46 Sea-men how backward to all good in divers particulars page 48 Sabbath day how sweetly it is observed at Sea page 55 Sea Commanders some too like Harpocrates