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<HEAD>THE STATE OF A CHRISTIAN, lively &s;et forth by an Allegorie of a Shippe under Sayle.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 31.14. Iob 9.26. I&s;ay 23.1. Rev. 8.9.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>_MY Body is the <HI>Hull;</HI> the <HI>Keele</HI> my backe; my Necke the <HI>Stem;</HI> the <HI>Sides</HI> are my Ribbes; the <HI>beames</HI> my bones; my fle&s;h the <HI>plankes;</HI> Gri&s;tles and ligaments are the <HI>Pintells</HI> and <HI>knee-timbers;</HI> Arteries, veines and &s;inewes the &s;everall <HI>&s;eames</HI> of the &s;hippe; my blood is the <HI>balla&s;t;</HI> my heart the <HI>principall hold;</HI> my &s;tomack the <HI>Cooke-roome;</HI> my Liver the <HI>Ce&s;terne;</HI> my Bowells the <HI>&s;inke;</HI> my Lungs the <HI>Bellowes;</HI> my teeth the <HI>Chopping-knives,</HI> except you divide them, and then they are the 32. <HI>points of the Sea-card</HI> both agreeing in number; Concoction is the <HI>Caldron;</HI> and hunger the <HI>Salt</HI> or <HI>&s;awce;</HI> my belly is the <HI>lower Decke;</HI> my kidnies <HI>Clo&s;e Cabbins</HI> or receptacles; my thighes are <HI>long Galleries</HI> for the grace of the &s;hip; my armes and hands the <HI>Canhookes,</HI> my midriffe is a large Parti|tion or <HI>Bulk-head;</HI> within the circumference of my head is placed the <HI>Stee|ridge roome</HI> and <HI>chiefe Cabbins,</HI> with the <HI>Round hou&s;e</HI> where the <HI>Ma&s;ter</HI> lyeth, and the&s;e for the more &s;afety and decency are inclo&s;ed with a dou|ble fence, the one <HI>Dura mater</HI> &s;omething hard and thicke, the other <HI>Pia mater</HI> very thinne and &s;oft, which &s;erveth in &s;tead of hangings; The eares are two doores or <HI>Scuttles,</HI> fitly placed for entertain|ment; the two Eyes are <HI>Ca&s;ements</HI> to let in light; under them is my mouth the <HI>Stowidge</HI> or <HI>Stewards roome;</HI> my lippes are <HI>Hatches</HI> for receit of goods; my two No&s;trills &s;erve as <HI>Gratings</HI> to let in ayre; at the one end &s;tands my chin which is the <HI>Beakehead;</HI> my forehead is the <HI>upper decke;</HI> all which be|ing <HI>trimmed</HI> with my fat in &s;tead of <HI>pitch,</HI> and haire in &s;tead of <HI>Ockham,</HI> are <HI>coloured</HI> with my skinne.</P>
<P>The <HI>fore-decke</HI> is humility; the <HI>&s;tearne</HI> Charity; active obedience the <HI>&s;ailes;</HI> which being <HI>hoy&s;ed</HI> up with the &s;everall <HI>Yards, Halliers</HI> and <HI>Bow|lings</HI> of holy precepts and good purpo&s;es, are let downe againe by fickle|ne&s;&s;e, faintings, and incon&s;tancy; Rea&s;on is my <HI>Rudder;</HI> experience the <HI>helme;</HI> hope of &s;alvation my <HI>Anchor;</HI> pa&s;&s;ive obedience the <HI>Cap&s;taine;</HI> holy Re|venge the <HI>Cat</HI> and <HI>Fi&s;h</HI> to <HI>hawle</HI> the <HI>&s;heate Anchor</HI> or <HI>la&s;t hope;</HI> feare of of|fending is the <HI>Buoy;</HI> vertues are the <HI>Cables;</HI> Holy de&s;ires and &s;odaine eja|culations the <HI>&s;hroudes;</HI> the zeale of Gods glory is my <HI>Maine-ma&s;t,</HI> preme|ditation the <HI>forema&s;t;</HI> de&s;ire of my owne &s;alvation the <HI>Mizzen-ma&s;t;</HI> &s;aving knowledge the <HI>Bolte&s;prit;</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ircum&s;pection a <HI>&s;ounding line;</HI> my <HI>Light</HI> is illu|mination, Iu&s;tice is the <HI>Card,</HI> Gods word the <HI>Compa&s;&s;e;</HI> the meditation of lifes brevity a <HI>Foure-houre gla&s;&s;e;</HI> Contemplation of the Creatures the <HI>Cro&s;&s;e-&s;taffe</HI> or <HI>Iacobs &s;taffe;</HI> the Creede a <HI>Sea grammer;</HI> the life of Chri&s;t my <HI>Load &s;tarre;</HI> the Saints falls are <HI>Sea-markes;</HI> Good examples <HI>Land-markes;</HI> Repen|tance <HI>Pumps</HI> out the &s;inke of my &s;innes; a good Con&s;cience keepes mee <HI>cleane;</HI> imputative righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e is my <HI>Flag,</HI> having this <HI>Motto</HI> (BEING CAST DOVVNE WE PERISH NOT) The <HI>Flage-&s;taffe</HI> is &s;incerity; the &s;hip is <HI>victualed afre&s;h</HI> by reading, hearing, receiving; Bookes are <HI>Long-boates;</HI> Letters are little <HI>Sciffes</HI> to carry and recarry my &s;pirituall <HI>merchandize;</HI> Per|&s;everance is my <HI>&s;peede,</HI> and patience my <HI>name,</HI> my <HI>fire</HI> is lu&s;t, which will not be cleane extingui&s;hed; full feeding and &s;trong drinke is the <HI>fuell</HI> to main|taine it, who&s;e <HI>flame</HI> (if it be not &s;uppre&s;t) is jealou&s;ie; who&s;e <HI>&s;parkes</HI> are evill words; who&s;e <HI>a&s;hes</HI> is envie; who&s;e <HI>&s;moake</HI> is infamie; La&s;civious talke is as <HI>flint</HI> and <HI>&s;teele;</HI> Concupi&s;cence as <HI>tinder,</HI> opportunity is the <HI>match</HI> to light it; Sloath and idlene&s;&s;e are the <HI>Servants</HI> to prepare it.</P>
<P>The Law of God is my <HI>Pilot;</HI> Faith my <HI>Captaine;</HI> Fortitude the <HI>Ma&s;ter;</HI> Cha&s;tity the <HI>Ma&s;ters mate;</HI> my will the <HI>Coxen;</HI> Con&s;cience the <HI>Preacher;</HI> Application of Chri&s;ts death the <HI>Chirurgion; Mortification</HI> the <HI>Cooke;</HI> Vivi|fication the <HI>Calker;</HI> Selfedeniall is an <HI>Apprentice</HI> of his; Temperance the <HI>Ste|ward;</HI> Contentation his <HI>Mate;</HI> truth the <HI>Pur&s;er;</HI> thankefulne&s;&s;e the <HI>Pur&s;ers mate;</HI> Reformation the <HI>Boat&s;wain;</HI> The 4 humors, Sanguin, Choler, &amp;c. are the <HI>Quarter ma&s;ters;</HI> Chri&s;tian vigilancy undertakes to &s;upply the office of <HI>Starbord</HI> and <HI>Larborde</HI> watch; Memory is <HI>Clerke of the Checke;</HI> A&s;&s;u|rance the <HI>Corporall;</HI> the <HI>Armour</HI> Innocency; the <HI>Mariners</HI> Angels; Schi&s;|matickes are <HI>&s;earchers</HI> &s;ent aboard; my under&s;tanding as <HI>Ma&s;ter Gunner</HI> culls out from tho&s;e two <HI>Budgecaskes</HI> of the New and old Te&s;tament cer|raine threates and promi&s;es which is my onely <HI>powder</HI> and <HI>Shot;</HI> and with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the <HI>Gunners mate,</HI> holy anger again&s;t &s;inne, <HI>chargeth</HI> my tongue, which like to a <HI>peece of Ordnance</HI> &s;hootes them to the &s;hame and o|verthrow of my &s;pirituall <HI>Adver&s;aries.</HI></P>
<P>My <HI>Noble Pa&s;&s;engers</HI> are Ioy in the holy Gho&s;t &amp; the peace of Con&s;cience, who&s;e <HI>retinue</HI> are divine graces; my <HI>ignoble</HI> or rather <HI>mutinous pa&s;&s;engers</HI> are wordly cogitations and vaine delights, which are more than a good many; be&s;ides &s;ome that are <HI>arrant theeves</HI> and <HI>traytors,</HI> namely pride, envie, pre|judice&punc; but all the&s;e ile bid farewell when I come to my journeis end, though I would but cannot before.</P>
<P>Heaven is my <HI>Country,</HI> where I am <HI>regi&s;tred</HI> in the Booke of life; my <HI>King</HI> is <HI>Iehovah;</HI> my <HI>tribute</HI> Alme&s;deeds; <HI>they which gather it</HI> are the poore; Love is my Countries <HI>badge,</HI> my <HI>language</HI> is holy conference; my <HI>fellow companions</HI> are the Saints.</P>
<P>I am poore in performances, yet rich in Gods acceptation; The founda|tion of all my good, is Gods free Election; I became bound into the Corpo|ration of the Church to &s;erve him in my bapti&s;me; I was inrolled at the time when he fir&s;t called me: my freedome is Iu&s;tification, it was purcha|&s;ed with the blood of Chri&s;t, my evidence is the earne&s;t of his &s;pirit; my priviledges are his &s;anctifying Graces; my Crowne (re&s;erved for me on high) is Glorification.</P>
<P>My <HI>Maker</HI> and <HI>Owner</HI> is God, who <HI>built</HI> me by his Word which is Chri&s;t, of earth which was the <HI>materiall:</HI> he <HI>fraught</HI> it with the e&s;&s;ence of my &s;oule which is the <HI>Trea&s;ure;</HI> and hath &s;et me to <HI>&s;aile</HI> in the <HI>&s;ea</HI> of this world, till I attaine to the <HI>port</HI> of death, which letteth the terre&s;triall part into the <HI>harbour</HI> of the grave, and the cele&s;tiall into the kingdome of hea|ven; in which <HI>voyage</HI> conveniencie of e&s;tate is as <HI>&s;ea-roome;</HI> good affections &s;erve as a tyde, and prayer as a <HI>a pro&s;perous gale a winde</HI> to helpe for|ward.</P>
<P>But innumerable are the <HI>Impediments</HI> and <HI>perills;</HI> for here I meete with the proffers of unlawfull gaine, and &s;en&s;uall delights as &s;o many <HI>Sirens;</HI> the baites of pro&s;perity (as <HI>high bankes</HI>) on the right hand or <HI>weather&s;hore,</HI> and there with evill &s;ugge&s;tions, and crabbed adver&s;ity (as <HI>Rockes</HI>) on the left hand or <HI>Lee-&s;hore</HI> ready to <HI>&s;plit</HI> me; the feare of hell like <HI>quicke&s;ands</HI> threaten to &s;wallow me; Originall &s;inne like weedes clog me, and actu|all tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions like &s;o many <HI>Barnacles</HI> hang about me, yea every &s;inne I commit <HI>&s;prings</HI> a new <HI>leake;</HI> my &s;en&s;es are as &s;o many <HI>&s;tormes</HI> of <HI>raine, haile</HI> and <HI>&s;now</HI> to &s;inke me; lewd affections are <HI>roaring billowes</HI> and <HI>waves;</HI> &s;elfe-confidence or to rely upon any thing but divine a&s;&s;i&s;tance, is to <HI>lo&s;e the bolt-&s;prit;</HI> Re&s;titution is heaving goods <HI>over board</HI> to &s;ave the &s;hip; Melancholy, is want of <HI>fre&s;hwater;</HI> the &s;coffes of Athei&s;ts and contempt of religion in all places, is a notable <HI>becalming;</HI> the lewd lives and evill examples of the mo&s;t a <HI>contagious ayre;</HI> Idlene&s;&s;e <HI>furres it,</HI> and is a &s;hrewd <HI>decay</HI> both of <HI>Hull</HI> and <HI>Tackling.</HI> <Q>Moreover &s;ayling along and keeping watch (for they that are Chri&s;ts friends you know mu&s;t looke for all they meete to be their <HI>enemies</HI>) we no &s;ooner looke up but pre&s;ently we ken <HI>a man of warre,</HI> and then we mu&s;t be for warre too, and provide for a <HI>skir|mi&s;h.</HI></Q></P>
<P><Q>Now the <HI>Gallyon</HI> that hath our <HI>Pinnace in cha&s;e,</HI> and alwayes watcheth for advantages to &s;urpri&s;e it, is the <HI>Piracy</HI> of hell, the &s;ynagogue of Sa|than; her <HI>fraight</HI> is Temptations and per&s;ecutions, with all the <HI>Engines of mi&s;chiefe;</HI> in which the Devill is <HI>Ma&s;ter;</HI> m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lice the <HI>Ma&s;ters mate;</HI> cruelty the <HI>Captaine;</HI> Murder the <HI>Cooke;</HI> Flattery the <HI>Calker;</HI> profanene&s;&s;e a <HI>quarter ma&s;ter;</HI> riot the <HI>Steward;</HI> never content his <HI>mate;</HI> pride the <HI>Cocke&s;on;</HI> &s;uper&s;tition the <HI>Preacher;</HI> hypocri&s;ie the <HI>Boat&s;wain;</HI> covetou&s;nes the <HI>Pur&s;er;</HI> lu&s;t the <HI>Swabber;</HI> fury the <HI>Gunner;</HI> pre&s;umption the <HI>Corporall;</HI> &s;edition the <HI>Trumpeter;</HI> drunkenne&s;&s;e the <HI>Drummer;</HI> vices are the <HI>&s;ayles;</HI> cu&s;tome the <HI>Maine-ma&s;t;</HI> Example of the multitude the <HI>Forema&s;t;</HI> Lu&s;ts and pa&s;&s;ions the <HI>Cables;</HI> blindne&s;&s;e of mind the <HI>Rudder;</HI> hardne&s;&s;e of heart the <HI>helme;</HI> the wi&s;edome of the fle&s;h the <HI>Card;</HI> the my&s;tery of iniquity the <HI>Compa&s;&s;e;</HI> the five &s;en&s;es, or if you will &s;coffing Athei&s;ts, prophane fowle-mouthed drunkards, and all the rab|ble of hell are the <HI>Marriners;</HI> lewd affections the <HI>Pa&s;&s;engers;</HI> little con|&s;cience the <HI>Load-&s;tarre,</HI></Q> &s;he hath <HI>two Tyre of great Ordnance planted in her,</HI> here&s;ie and irreligion (being either for a fal&s;e God or none) Oathes bla&s;phemy and cur&s;es are the <HI>powder</HI> and <HI>&s;hot,</HI> which they &s;pit again&s;t all that wor&s;hip the Lambe, or fight under the en&s;igne of faith; her <HI>armour</HI> is carnall &s;ecurity; the <HI>Flag in her top,</HI> is infidelity, the <HI>motto (There is no God but Gaine)</HI> Her <HI>balla&s;t</HI> which keepes her upright, is ignorance; mo&s;t of her <HI>tackling</HI> &s;he has from <HI>Rome,</HI> and <HI>Am&s;terdam;</HI> Antichri&s;t as <HI>Pilot, &s;teares</HI> her in &s;uch a <HI>cour&s;e</HI> that &s;he goes on &s;wiftly, proudly, &s;ecurely, &s;corning and &s;coffing (<HI>Sennacharib</HI> like) to heare that any Lord &s;hould deliver this poore pinnace out of her hands; yet in the &s;equell this &s;illy <HI>Pinke</HI> having the <HI>in&s;urance</HI> of Gods omnipre&s;ence, findes not only <HI>&s;uccour</HI> from the Stock of the Churches prayers, which like another <HI>Merchant man</HI> comes in to the <HI>re&s;cue,</HI> but likewi&s;e that Gods Almighty power and providence is neare at hand as a &s;trong <HI>Ca&s;tle</HI> of defence to free her, whereby &s;he <HI>e&s;capes</HI> even as a bird out of the &s;nare of the hunter, to pray&s;e the Lord, who hath not given her as a pray unto their teeth, that would have &s;wallowed up all quicke, but delivered her from &s;uch &s;welling waters, flouds of affliction, and &s;treames of per&s;ecution, as el&s;e had gone over her, and even drowned her &s;oule, as it is <HI>P&s;alme</HI> 124, while this great <HI>Gallion</HI> (though, it &s;eeme like that <HI>Invincible Armado) flyes,</HI> and <HI>(having no Anchor)</HI> when the <HI>&s;tormes</HI> of Gods wrath <HI>ari&s;e, downe &s;he &s;inkes</HI> to de&s;peration, and peri&s;heth in the bottomle&s;&s;e pit or burning lake of fire and brim&s;tone, where weele leave her to receive a ju&s;t recompence of reward.</P>
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