The true master, AND HIS PIXIS NAUTICA: OR, The Expert NAVIGATOR, WITH HIS Metaphorical and Hieroglyphical SHIP, Described and Platformed; to demonstrate the way to PARADISE.  
Written by Tho. Elslyot, Ar. Ar. Conq.  
To the glory of God, and advancement of Christ's kingdom; for the good of the present English Commonwealth and Armies, and for the good of all future Representatives in resemblance of former good Parliaments; AND ALSO, For the advancement of NAVIGATION throughout the whole world.  
Imprinted at London, 1652.   

To his Excellency the Lord General OLIVER cromwell, Esq; Captain General of all the English Forces now or late under the Command of the Parliament of the English Nation, and Lord Governor of Ireland.  
Noble General,  
SEriously considering with myself, what great pains the Parliament of England hath for these many yeers taken in their Diurnal and Nocturnal lucubrations, and constant sitting in the Parliament-House in Westminster, now for the space of these full 11 yeers last past; to the great neglect of their Country-occasions, their wives and families, and much impoverishing divers worthy members in that honourable Assembly, and all under pretence of a perfect Reformation, both in Church and Commonwealth, if an honest man may believe them; and it may be divers of them, in the infancy of this Parliament and Commonwealth, had cordially intended the same; but how the devil hath cast his club over their proceedings, according to the old English Proverb, and the great Jehovah blasted all the spiritual hopes of so great a blessing, of their good intents, and his kindness and mercy, to and upon this Nation and Commonwealth, let the world judge, by the evils past, and daily still threatened; therefore certainly it is to be feared that there are some Achans in the Camp,( which caused Joshua to turn his back of the men of Ai) which must be sought out; for they be troublers of Israel, and of a truth have taken the silver, and wedge of gold, and the rich Babylonish garment, expressed in the 7 of Joshua, and the 21 verse; which hath so displeased the Lord, that he turneth his back of his own people, in this good work of reformation. And therefore, my Lord, not impertinently, but very properly and prophetically was it spoken of that gentleman in the house of Commons, much about the time when the plenipotentiary Commission was given unto the late General the Lord Fairefax, then Sir Thomas Fairefax, about the time of the new modellizing of the Armies now under the Command of your Excellency; who( openly speaking of the late tyrant and murderer, justly destroyed by a providential hand of supernatural power) said, that there was a Jonas in the ship of this Commonwealth and English Nation, that resisted the immediate commands of the Lord of Hosts, and King Jesus his Son, your Lordships and Armies, and this present Commonwealths great Captain General, and he that hath given your Lordship all your recent victories against the enemies of this present Commonwealth. And so long as Jonas was in the ship uncast overboard, in vain was it for the Mariners to labour or velificate against the seas, winds, and storms which the living God had raised against the ship wherein Jonas was;( as appears by the first Chapter of Jonahs prophesy, unto the 15 vers.) until Jonas was cast overboard, and then the storm ceased. But, my Lord I am afraid there be abundance of Jonases in the ship of this present Commonwealth, that if they do not very speedily repent them, and that within few dayes after they shall have notice of this Metaphorical ship, which is to be built by your Lordship, and the Armies, and Commonwealth, with all speed, if you intend to assist King Jesus in deposing of all the kings of the earth, and think yourself fit to be a weddinger at the marriage of the Lamb of righteousness, which is very lively and plainly laid down and expressed, in the 19 of the Revel. of Saint John, of which the penman hereof is confident your Lordship is very well versed in.  
And, my Lord, I let your Lordship further know, that if your Lordship will be a means to save all the blood which will be  shed upon mankind by the ensuing plague( which if this ship be not built and sent to sea) will inevitably follow this Summer upon the males of the English Nation, foreshowen by the great Solar Eclipse, happening to be upon the 29 day of March ensuing; when of a truth parcel of mother Shiptons prophesy will come to pass) and save your honors life into the bargain, that you forthwith call a Council of the most faithful and most Christian Officers, friends, and ministers of Jesus Christ, to consult with your Excellency about the meaning of this Metaphorical and Hieroglyphical form of a ship platformed unto your Lordships hand; and out of them to Elect you a person so qualified, as is in the same described, for the speedy velification thereof, for the purposes in her remonstrances expressed, in such manner and form, and with such velocity as is therein described, to be certain that she return before the 14 of May next; for in case she do not, wo be to the man-kind in England: and as I am a member of Jesus Christ, and of this present Commonwealth, I assure your Lordship, foreseing these great evils to come, out of my duty to the Commonwealth, and the love to my own countrymen, and honor to your Lordship, and soldiery, who hath with Gods blessing freed me from the tyranny of a temporal Prince, by often adventuring of your blood in the field, for the good of the lambs of this present Commonwealth, like as my blessed Saviour by shedding of his innocent blood, for the redemption of my soul from my scarlet sins committed in my youth, and therein hath not only made me free in spirit from the curse of his heavenly Father, due to such miserable sinners as I do confess myself to be; but also hath freed me from the bondage of Satan: therefore about the 16 of Novem. last, I did seriously resolve to abstain from bread or food for six whole months, to make me to humble myself to the living God, the Father of all spirits; humbly and constantly beseeching of him, for the Lord Jesus Christ his sake, to avert his heavy judgements hovering and pendent over the head of this Nation, pointed at shrewdly by the Astrologers this year; being in that confidence that King David was in( expressed in the second book of Samuel, at the 21 vers. of the 7 Chap.) who fasted all the while the child was alive, presuming of the goodness of God; for, said he( at the 21 verse ▪ the said Chapter) Who can tell whether God will be gracious unto me, that the child may live? And without doubt, if David had humbled himself sooner, before the living God had pronounced the letter of Mort against the infant by the prophet Nathan, I am confident God would have been gracious unto him, and the child had lived: and so I am confident also that if the penmans directions be timely observed about the ship herewith first dedicated unto your Excellency and your Armies, and then to the Commonwealth, the judgement determined, shall be susspended, as in Ahabs case, recorded in the 21 Chap. and last ver. in the first book of Kings, upon Ahabs half-way-humiliation. But what should I trouble your Lordship with examples, when your Lordship may very well be my School-master! But, my Lord, it is possible your Lordship may show these presents unto some scoffing Ishmaels, or Davids fools; but they be well described in the 53 Psalm, vers. 1. Take heed you do not believe them; for their ways be corrupt, and will do what they can to ensnare your just soul, which I am confident stands as yet right in the presence of my King, your Generalissimo, and for ever will be confirmed, if your heart stands right with the ways of the Lord, and continues but as perfect in garrison, as it is in Field against your enemies; and so, my Lord, I rest;  
Given from my quarters near the Black-dogg at Newgate, this 7. of March 1651. being four moneths of my voluntary fast of the six months elapsed. I Your Most humble servant and member of Jesus Christ, and of this Commonwealth, Tho. Elslyot Ar. Ar. Conq.   

To all Officers of Military Discipline and all the rest of the soldiery, being Saints of the present English Armies in England and Scotland, under the Command of OLIVER cromwell, Esq; Captain General of all the English Forces in either of the two Nations; as also to those in Ireland, now under his Excellencies command there as Lord Governor of Ireland.  
EVen as, my brethren and fellow-soldiers, our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God the Father, by the determinate will of God, being before the foundations of the world were laid, in fullness of time left the bosom of his heavenly Father, and took our nature upon him, to be born into this miserable world, and here to live a poor, wretched, and miserable life, to the end that he might be crucified for the redemption of mankind, to satisfy his heavenly Fathers Divine Justice and wrath for the sins of the miserable lost sons of our parents Adam and Eve, and to conquer death, sin, and hell, by his death and passion; by means whereof, and faith in him, we be not only freed from the curse of God due to sinners, but also delivered out of the bondage of Satan, that old enemy of mankind: So you likewise, dearly beloved friends, not only have freed myself, but the three Nations, by Gods providence, your noble General and your good endeavours, with the hazarding of your blood, lives and fortunes, from the bondage of tyrannical Kings the restoring of myself and the English Commonwealth to their prestine freedoms and privileges of true English men, and delivering of us from the bonage of the Norman yoke; so that now we be a free people indeed, neither is there any Nation in the world like unto the English Nation, who be both Christians, and a wise and ingenious people; wherefore I have writ this Metaphorical and Hieroglyphical ship, in thankfulness unto you, dedicated unto the noble General in the first place to yourselves in the next, and to every free-born English man, who desires to serve the Lord of Hosts in spirit and truth, and King Jesus your heavenly captain General, who hath owned you and your noble General in the day of battle, and given unto you so many notable victories over your and the Commonwealths enemies, To teach and instruct you how to keep these victories the living God hath given to you, by fetching of justice and mercy into this Nation again, and establishing them here for the age of Methusalah; and do advice you speedily to petition his Excellency for that purpose hereafter remonstrated, which will free you from the plague and other imminent dangers, which the Solar Eclipse this March doth threaten this Nation withall, but especially mankind;( for I fear many of you will not live to enjoy the fruits of your labours) and that you be sure to learn to do unto every man as you would be done unto. And if you do, I who have vowed to eat no bread for six moneths for your sakes, shall be enabled to perform my promise unto you, and to cloath you all in scarlet, and gain all your ariears, according to my engagement: and in case you do not, nevertheless I have out of a good conscience done my duty to God Almighty, and to you; and so I rest  
Given from my quarters this 7 day of March 1651 and in the sixteenth week of my abstinence from food for your sakes, and the glory of Gods mercy in Christ. Your faithful servant to command, and a member of Jesus Christ and of this present Commonwealth Tho Elslyot Ar. Ar. Conq.   

To all and every free-born person of this English Nation and Commonwealth.  
WHereas( my brethren) I am very sinsible of the great taxes and burdens that do at present lie upon you, and all the whole Commonwealth, occasioned partly by divers of your stubbornesses to the honourable Parliament of England, who either Jew-like, or Herodian-like, desired rather to have a temporal King, called caesar in that age, and charles Stuart in this age, then to have their King Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, who hath  shed his innocent blood for to redeem your souls from eternal damnation, albeit it was expressly against the second Petition of the Lords prayer, which you stand so much for; and whereas his Excellency and the present English Armies, I am confident, be right sorry to see you so every day taxed and ranted, sequestered or plundered, if you would live peaceably and quietly in the present Commonwealth, and join together, and repair to his Excellency or his Counsel of war, to Petition his excellency and armies to be a means to help to take off your taxes and burdens, upon condition you will join with them for the fitting and setting out of the ship described by the ensuing remonstrance, to bring home Justice and Mercy again into this land; for after they be seated in their proper places in this Commonwealth, there will be little or no use for further taxes or burdens in this Commonwealth; for of a truth then will the Lamb and Lion couch and lye down together, according to that ancient prediction of the Prophet Esay. Therefore, that Gods Judgements may be turned from this Nation, and yourselves in particular, threatened this month, by the unusual Solar Eclipse happening the 29 of March 1652, and other eminent dangers besides, if you follow this seasonable advice, your taxes vnd burdens shall be taken off, and so I rest,  
Your Fellow-friend and servant, and member of Jesus Christ, and of this Present Commonwealth. Tho. Elslyot Ar. Ar. Conq. Given from my quarters this 7. day of March 1651. in the 16 week of my abstinance from food, for yours and the soldieries sakes, and the glory of Gods mercy in Christ.   

The true REMONSTRANCE of the Metaphorical and Hieroglyphical new platformed Ship of Thomas Elslyot Esq; and member of Iesus Christ, and member of the English Commonwealth, and a free-born person of the English Nation, and Esquire at Arms, and Conqueror of the Gentleman of the Long rob,( now or late Satan of this present Commonwealth) by Gods providence, his own innocency and sufferings, and by the justice of the honourable Lord Chief Iustice roll, and the rest of the Reverend Iudges of the Upper Bench in Westminster, before the Keepers of the Liberties of England by authority of Parliament, the last Michaelmas-Term; presented to his Excellency and the Saints of the English Armies, and to every free-born English-man who loves Justice and Mercy.  
HOw that onely one Almighty and Invisible God, the sole Lord and Creator of the heavens and earth, being Eternal, yea Eternity itself, Did content himself in the three persons of the holy Trinity, the Father, the Son, and holy Ghost, revealed to his creatures reasonable since the beginning of this present world, or what he was doing before the foundations of the world were laid ( non consiat) by his revealed Word, unto his creature Man: and therefore all the ancient metaphysics, Prophets, Apostles, Fathers of the Church, and Philosophers, have been silent, as holding it a great presumption, and an absurd scrutamen and investigation, for the creatures to prie or too curiously to inquire into the secrets of their Creator, having no warrant or ground thereof, out of the holy Writ, contained in the two books of the holy Bible( being the Old and New Testaments.) And the courteous Reader, whosoever he be, must not expect from the Penman hereof, any such matter. Nevertheless, the Panman hereof doth first agree the holy Trinity with all the ancient Fathers, and doth much approve of the truth and antiquity of the Works of Mercurius Trismegistus, who( the Penman hereof doth believe) did live in the time of Serug, Abraham's great grandfather, and was a King, a Priest, and a Prophet; who be onely truly written in the University of Oxford, and in the Penman's possession, that ever he could hear of, and nowhere else in this Nation. And the Penman hereof doth also agree the Hierarchy of Angels expressed opinionatively by Thomas Aquinas, Johannes Paulus Palenterius, and the rest of the School-men and ancient Fathers: and is of opinion, that as all the nine orders of good Angels be but ministering spirits for the heirs of salvation, as Saint Paul well testifies; yet he believes that no more but three of the Orders do administer betwixt heaven and earth, and that the other six Orders do day and night administer in the Coelum Empoereum, in the presence of the holy Trinity, for their Makers divine Worship, for the purposes aforesaid.  
But leaving those holy spirits to their ready, subtle, and nimble performance of the will and commands of their great Creator, and my Maker invisible, the Penman hereof will briefly descend to Man, as being a man himself; and in brief declare unto the world his duty, and the duty of every Christian man( that expects to be saved by the sole merits of Jesus Christ, through the mercy of God the Father, and sanctification of the holy Ghost, when Christ shall judge the world in flaming fire;) which, in a word, is no more, but to serve the ever-living God as a Spirit of omnipotency, in spirit and truth, and in simplicity and truth of the inward man; and not hypocritically, and with outward Forms and Will-worship( as this Age doth too manifestly evidence) the sad effects whereof, and for want of neighbourly love to our fellow-creatures, in doing to every man as we desire they should do unto us, have pulled most deservedly upon these Nations those heavy Judgements which these late yeers have produced, to the glory of God's Justice; whereas these Nations might easily have escaped them, if they would but have known for what cause the righteous Judge of heaven and earth had made the world, and would have walked more after the Spirit, and less after the flesh: for albeit Man consisteth of both, yet the Spirit being the nobler part, ought to be preferred before the flesh the base.  
And therefore the Penman hereof doth first remonstrate unto the world, That( the wise Opifex rerum) the great JEHOVAH, the Creator of heaven and earth, so declared by Moses to the children of Israel, God's own peculiar people in that Age, which for ever be blessed and hallowed( being incomprehensible to his creature Man) Hath, by his holy Word, and miraculous works, expressed himself by five divine Attributes to his creature; as namely, by his Power, his Wisdom, his Truth, his Justice, and his Mercy, which was to show to Men and Angels how the world was made, for the expression of the two last of the five divine Attributes of the ever-living God( Justice and Mercy) which be totally fled out of the English Horizon, or at least are so obscured and eclipsed from the eyes of the free-born persons of the English Nation, that truly of late yeers they have either been under a cloud, or else they have hide themselves in some den or cave in the bowels of the earth, not visible to any honest or Christian man; or else they have taken shipping at some Port of this Nation( unknown as yet to the Penman hereof;) and having stolen aboard in some invisible Bottom, they have left and departed from Brute's shore, now possessed by the anciently-free-born people English men, and have sailed to the terra incognita, or else keep their residence supper altum maris, in old Law-French called Sur le hault deal more, in English, Upon the height of the Ocean: or else ever since Sir Francis Drake's time they be couched beyond the Meridian-Line in the Antipodes; and likely made that Voyage to Sea with him, & taught him how to pass thorough the Magellanical Straights: but if they did of a truth, the Penman hereof is most confident they never as yet came back again.  
Therefore the Penman hereof, for the future good of this present infant-Commonwealth of three yeers old, the late new-born babe called the English Commonwealth, now in the vegetation thereof; and to the end that first it may be well nursed, and in its youth it may be virtuously brought up and educated in all the virtues and learning, divine and moral, and feats of arms, until it grow to the perfection of a perfect man( for of a truth it must be a very great Warrior and Conqueror, and shall subdue all the Nations of the earth, and Regions under the Sun, and bear rule over them, under King Jesus, until the second coming of Christ, and shall live Methusalahs age) doth advice the English Nation, first to build a ship, consisting of timber and iron-work, metaphorically signifying of the two natures; spiritual and temporal, in resemblance of the two natures of the true King Christ the head thereof; to go to sea, and search, try, explore, and find out, if possible, in all or any of the Regions under the Sun, where those two Divine attributes of the ever-living God, Justice and Mercy, be resident, be hide, or have obscured themselves so long from the English Horizon; and having found them, to bring them back again into this Nation and Commonwealth, to attend the marriage of the Lamb of righteousness, Christ the head of the same.  
But here is all the doubt, that they being found, will not come back without a new national engagement, taken solemnly by this Commonwealth, and that in the presence of Divine Majesty, that they may be admitted to their pristine jurisdiction; that is to say, that they being the principal attendants of King Jesus, the head of the English Commonwealth, may be used by all free-born English men in the same, and civilly steer all the actions, thoughts, words and deeds of the people thereof, from the highest to the lowest.  
But since without them there will be no happiness nor amendment of things, nor yet freedom from the present evils at this day seated and reigning in the same Commonwealth; the penman hereof could well advice, that this engagement be presently made, and that this ship be forthwith built and set to sea, that within three, four, five, or six moneths at farthest, it may sail over all the inhabited world, and find, and bring with her those divine Attributes of Justice and Mercy back again, with all speed into this Nation, to exercise their several divine qualities of justice and mercy with all speed in this Commonwealth, for fear that when the Prince of peace and righteousness should come riding hither upon his white horse spoken of in the 6 Chapter and 2 verse, and in the 19 Chap. of the Revelations of Saint John, on purpose to mary this Nation, in mercy, righteousness, truth and justice, to himself; if he do not miss or but find the two divine attributes wanting, which be his attendants, and the wedding-garment of his heavenly Father: for of a truth if he do, it is to be feared that he will deal with it as he did with the man in the Gospel of Saint Matthew, witnessed to all eternity by the Evangelist, in the two and twentieth Chapter, and the 13 verse, that had not on him the wedding garment of his heavenly Father, the two divine attributes aforesaid, of Justice and Mercy.  
And therefore the Penman hereof doth first advice, that an ingenious and prudent Master-Ship-Carpenter be sought out, who is well skilled in Navitectury, Architectury, and Carination, and be sure that his materials of timber be well seasoned, sound, valid, and no ways putrid, and his Iron-work perfectly good and well wrought, and tempered with the Vulcans hammer; and one that can perfectly carine, and well form and fabricate the bottom of this vessel, first in timber-work, making the keel thereof( if she be 550 tons burden) as sharp, mince, and tenuous as the edge of a sword, to lay half as deep in the water( when she is launched) equally as her proportion of water she draws in sailing; to percute and glide sharply, nimbly, and eagerly through the Merdres of the liquidity of the watery element, fish-like, or more piscino; and then with thin plates of Iron or Steel to cover the keel of her, which must be very well pitched and oiled, mixed with Saltprenellal powder, which hath been nine times boiled off the original liquour, before the Saltpremella, vulgarly called Sampernella, a degree above Salt-nitre, be calcined, ustrinated, or beaten to powder; which will ever guard the keel upon the ships sailing, or lying at Anchor, from any corruption, or furring: and then to see in order to her staunchness, tidiness, unleakiness, that she be well and surely colcked.  
This done in order to the foundation, the rest of her structure will easily follow;( for she will be quickly decked masted & rigged) only that she may be velociously and nimbly navigated, velificated, and sailed, for the purpose aforesaid, besides the usual maritimal Masts ●nd sails now adays used, it were necessary, that besides( her mainmasts, her fore-mast pole-sprit before, and meesning-mast behind) she had four pole-sprits arms, or maine-yards extraordinary, two fore and of the ship, for clothing of her, when she comes into the deeps beyond Saint Georges Channel, beyond the lands end of England, that may be used upon the Oceanus Magnus, but will not be so useful in the narrow seas, or near any main continent, in regard her Velificators and Navigators( upon accidental storms, or shallow waters) cannot so easily command her, if she be clothed with so many sails; and if that her wings be too long for her body, she is subject( Hawk-like) to precipitate, which will be dangerous to the sailors, and her passengers, if many be.  
And if the said ship be thus fitted with Cables, Anchors, Skiff, Long-boats, proper tackle, together with a convenient Rudder, and helm in her Steeridge, and a proper Bidickle for two Compasses; Then the next thing in order to this long voyage and velocious passage, will be, to gain an expert Navagator, well versed and experienced first in the seamans Compass, or Mariners carded, called Pixis Nautica, and in all things appertaining to Pilatation, Navigation, and velification; and also such a person as is well skilled in the several Arts and Sciences of Astrology, Cosmograpy; Geometry, but especially in logic, Philosophy, Arithemitick, and that is a perfect Mathematician, well grounded, red, and experienced in the Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, and is not ignorant in the use and experiment of the Cross-staff, Jacobs-staff, and sometimes heaving of the Mariners Log, and knows truly how to take an observation upon the Meridian Horoscope, by certain judgement of the raising or declining of the two Poles, Girdles, or Zones of the Celestial world, bounded by the two tropics of Cancer and Capricorn; and that knows certainly his latitude, longitude, altitude, and profundity, upon the elevation or loring of his degrees, passing to, from, or under the Equinoctial Line. And first of all, it will be necessary that this expert Navigator of this ship, thus built and fitted for the intended voyage, so speedily( with Gods assistance) to be set out by the Saints of the Armies of the English Commonwealth, and free-born persons of the same, be a member of Jesus Christ, well skilled in all the several liberal Sciences, and also a good Cosmographer, and very well versed in the first Chapter of Genesis, written by Moses upon the creation of the world, and have the spirit of the wisdom of King Jesus, perfectly to expound, construe, and understand the meaning of the Holy Ghost, at and in the ninth verse of the said first Chapter, revealed in the book of God to miserable man many hundred years after his fall and the universal deluge, to the end he may know what was truly ( ab origine) sea, and what dry land, and how to distinguish betwixt the Oceanus Magnus, and narrow seas, indraughts of seas or waters, arms of seas, bays, gulphes, ingurgitations, dead seas, and the red-sea, great stagnes, or standing pools or pounds, lakes, vivaryes, rivers navigable and unnavigable, rivulets, brooks, springs, and all living or running waters through the veins and pores of the earth, whatsoever were upon the original frame of the world, and since have been contingent upon the general deluge of the world, and since by several excursions, violent eruptions, springs, tides, and sea-gainings, and gettings of water upon the land, by several ebbings and flowings of the sea after her first creation, and bounding thereof by the living God, since the fall of man, and since the general deluge of the world, expressed by Moses in the seventh Chapter of Genesis: and to be sure he be well able to expound the 11 verse of the said Chapter; always remembering from the penman hereof, that there was no flowing or ebbing of seas, before the fall of man; and that the earth was cursed for his sake, witness the third Chapter of Genesis, and the 17, 18, 19 verses; albeit the gentle reader may see the earth was cursed, yet the sea was not, but her bounds first set her by the living God, were not broken, nor the fountains of the great deeps broken up, nor the windows of heaven opened, until the 600 year of Noahs life, in the second month, the 17 day of the month, witnessed by Moses in the aforesaid seventh Chapter of Genesis, and the 11 verse; neither doth the penman hereof believe that there was any ebbing or flowing until then: neither needed there any; for the earth was in its creation more noble then the seas or waters, for that the bodily part of man, the Lord thereof, was formed out of earth, as appears by the second of Genesis and 7 verse: yet the microcosm of mans body, which is his flesh, blood, and bone, and every several Muscle, vein, Nerve, Artery, and Ligament of mans body, be composed and intermixed with the four elements of earth and water, fire and air, vivificated and quickened by the Spirit of God: the two first, in resemblance of the earth, whereof his body is made; and the two last in resemblance of the Spirit of the great JEHOVAH, inspired into man when man became a living soul, also witnessed and fully proved by the last-recited Text; and man being made Lord of the whole world, as appears by the Prophet David in the 8 Psalm, and in the first Chapter of Genesis, being created after God's own image, and having dominion given unto him of all God's creatures, both by and in the land and sea, as appears by the 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 verses of the same first Chapter of Genesis. And therefore this is sufficient to convince any Christian man, that is not an atheist and an heathen, That there was no ebbing or flowing of Seas, until after the Fall of man; neither would there ever have been any until this time, had man not sinned against his Creator, but continued in the state of innocency.  
And as the said Navigator must thus be expert in the Seas, so also( if he be a real Cosmographer) he must be very skilful in the several Regions, Kingdoms, Nations, and People, inhabitants in all and every, or any part or place of the four parts of the world, described by the names of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, being one onely entire dry land and continent, as appears by the 9 and 10 verses of the first Chapter of Genesis: albeit even in Paradise itself, or that Edenical garden of pleasure wherein man was placed;( then seated in Asia mayor, being in the East-parts of the world) there were several great Rivers, witness Moses in the second Chapter of Genesis, some of them known by their names at this day; and in Moses's time( albeit much corrupted by the Deluge) the name of the first being Pison, which is that Ganges now in the East-Indies, which compassed in those days the land of Havilah, whence the Penman hereof doth believe Solomon sent his ships from Eziongeber and Eloth, at the side of the Red-sea, for his gold of Ophir, witnessed in the 7 Chapter of the second book of Chronicles, at the 17 and 18 verses, and in sundry other places of holy Writ. And the name of the second River was Gihon, which some have supposed to be the river Nilus, which descends from Prester-( alias Presbyter) John's Country, called the Lunae montes; but the Penman hereof rather believes it to be the great River which runs thorough all Aethiopia, and falls into the Mediterranean Sea on this side the scape de bono speranzo, not far from the indraught to Prester John's Country. And the third was Hiddikel, that which runs toward the East of Africa, upon which the Babel and other Cities spoken of in the 10 Chapter of Genesis, and the 8, 9 and 10 verses thereof, were founded by Nimrod the first Tyrant in the world. And the name of the fourth was Euphrates, that famous River still known by that name in Asia, and so often mentioned in all parts of holy Writ.  
And therefore the Penman hereof being fully assured that the first earthly Paradise or Garden of Eden, described by Moses in the said second Chapter of Genesis, was before the Deluge placed in Asia mayor( now so called) being that part of the world Eastward, where the living God placed the man whom he had made and formed out of the dust of the earth; the true description whereof, the Penman hereof did think fit to remonstrate to the world, to the end that if the intended Voyage aforesaid be forthwith undertaken by the Navigator aforesaid, and should happen to miss of his purpose in the Antipodes, and not to find the Lord Justice and Lady Mercy, the two divine Attributes aforesaid, That then that he may not lose his Voyage, but to be sure to make a quick and safe return, to the glory of God, and honour of the English Nation, and to his own future happiness in this present infant-Commonwealth, it will be necessary onely for him, after he hath loosed from his Port, and after he hath left the Lands-end of England, and made the height of the Azores Islands, which be thought to be the centre of the Ocean, and middle of the Mediterranean-Seas, and are called Michael Flores, Corves Westerly, Mederas, Terceras, Piqquo Phiole, and S. Georges, more South and by East, lying in the bowels of the Mediterranean-Sea, or Oceanus magnus, and being no dry land appointed by God in the Creation, that can be said to be appearing in the vegetable earth, spoken of by Moses, in the 9 and 10 verses of the first Chapter of Genesis, but cast up by violent and accidental subterraneous fires proceeding out of the earth, occasioned by too much sulphurous and bituminous matter in the bottom of the Seas or depths in that place, which the Navigator must leave in his Start-board-hand, and keep his course directly according to his Compass, or Pixis Nautica, South South-east, and appoint more Southerly, until he come with the height of the Canary-Islands, likewise cast up long since the Creation by subterraneous fires, like as the Azores Islands were. And from thence( the Canary-Islands being left also on the Startboard-hand) the next work in point of Navigation is, to consider that now( to keep their intended course for the Antipodes) they must think upon the elevation of the height of his degree to the Meridian Horoscope, to pass under the Equinoctial Line, and to be well advised that his sailors that be men of full bodies and sanguine complexions, do take heed to keep a spare and wary diet, for fear of the Epidemical disease called the Calenture, which is incident to all human bodies born under the tropic of Cancer; and to remember to leave Cuba three degrees on the Start-board-hand to the West; and upon the taking or hitting of the Straights of Magellanica, perfectly to be sure to keep his course well to the South and by West, betwixt the terra incognita, and the terra Della fogo, and the Islands of Cacofogo, likewise vomited out of the bowels of the earth, from the depths of the Seas in the Southern declination from the Equinoctial Line: and having passed those Islands, it will behove the aforesaid Navigator to direct his course South and by West, and appoint more westerly, until he have acquired the Longitude and Profundity of the West-Indies, which with much care and diligence will bring him along with Sir Francis Drake and Sir Martin Forbisher, unto the mouth of the Straights of Magellanica, and there will be little or no use of the four additional Pole-sprit sails fore and of the Ship aforesaid.  
Nevertheless in this place, before he quiter pass the straights of Magellanica, and lose the view of the Horoscope of the Meridian of this side the Globe of the world, together with the Horizon, and do enter into the Oceanus Magnus of the other side of the terrestrial Globe called the Antipodes, it will behove him to make use of his Geometry, first to know how the living God, the wise Opifex rerum, and true work-master of this Terrestrial Globe, hath made the interwoven piece of earth and water, separated and divided in the orderly way described by Moses in the first Chapter of Genesis, to hang perpendicular in the Air, even as if a man could by art make a great ball, onion, or apple, or any thing else that is round, to hang in the middle of any spacious room, without touching staying, or supporting of the same: for of a truth the great Terrestrial Globe of earth and sea, even so hangeth in the middle of the air, and hath nothing to support the pendency thereof, but the Word of the great Jehova, witness the Prophet David in several of his divine Hymns or heavenly psalms, penned by a divine and prophetical spirit; and that the Antipodes East, is that which we in this side of the Globe do account West, upon the falling of the Sun every day from our Horizon; and that which is their West upon the departure of the Sun every day from their Horizon, upon her assent or rising to our Horizon, and elevating of the Meridian Horoscope, is our East; so that our Meridian Horoscope is their midnight, and their Meridian Horoscope is our midnight: neither must the said Navigator understand that in the orderly composure of this Geometrical Globe, the wise Opifex rerum hath made it so to exist or be, as our Carpenters or Masons do make their Globe or Lanthorn-work; for then the Navigator aforesaid will be as fearful as many of the passengers and sailors who were in the ship with Sir Francis Drake and Sir Martin Forbusher, to pass by, shoot through, or velificate the streights of Magellanica, to enter into that unknown Region of the other side of this terrestrial Globe, called the Antipodes.  
But the penman hereof would not have the said Navigator to be ignorant of Astrology, before he attempt the passage of this unknown Region; for it was the unexperiencedness of Sir Francis Drake of this Art, which made him touch with the Molucco-Islands in his motion in and to that Horizon, when neither he knew well the location, altitude, or magnitude of the Orion or the Pleiades, spoken of by holy Job in his 38 Chapter, and 13 verse of the same; which caused his passage so vagative, tedious, and uncertain: for albeit our late confectioners of the Celestial and terrestrial Globes have reasonable well illustrated and dimensioned the Stars of the Coelum stelliferum, most useful for Navigation and velification on this side of our Horizon, or Globe of the world; yet let the said Navigator take heed of that ignorance that should betray him, or foolhardiness that at leastwise should tempt him to pass through the straights of Magellanica, unless he take heed first to keep a good observation of his Jacobs-staffe in the order of the stelliferous lights in that Horizon, which when both Sun and Moon shall fail him, he shall always be sure, as he fell from this part of the Terrestrial Globe, and left our Horizon; so always if he have but a regard of Orion and the Pleiades, albeit he set or departed our Horizon with the Sun, in the southwest and more Westerly parts of the speculative world, as to our understandings in relation to our Terrestrial Globe, yet he shall be sure to rise again from the Antipodes in the North northeast and more Easterly parts of the universal Terrestrial Globe of our Horizon, if he miss of his purpose in the Antipodes or Merdres of the undal or watery Regions there, if he do not wept the indraught of the gulf of Persia, in the northeast longitude and latitude of the inheritance of Japhet the second son of the Patriarch Noah, which Divine Providence destined and allotted unto him and his children for his aweful, filial, and modest respects to his father, in that he had covered his nakedness in the fit of his fathers drunkenness, well witnessed by Moses in the 8 Chapter of Genesis, and in the 4 verse; and in token of the same, the living God caused the Ark to rest upon the mountaines of Ararat, or armoniac the utmost confines thereof, upon the abatement of the waters, after the hundred and fifty dayes increase thereof, to drown the Terrestrial part of the old world, for their grievous injustice and violence done one to another, and for want of charity and mercifulness to have been done by one to another: and the same judgement this infant-Commonwealth cannot escape( witness this fearful plague this present Summer) in case the Navigator aforesaid should happen to lose his intended voyage, and not to meet with the Lord Justice, and Lady Mercy, the two Divine Attributes aforesaid, and bring them again into this English Infant-Commonwealth and Horizon, to the great Cities of London and Westminster, which lie in 52 degrees Northerly from the elevation of the Meridian Horoscope, to do justice on divers persons at this day, in the high places thereof, and so do well; and also to enlarge the poor prisoners of debt, and members of Jesus Christ, to pled the cause of the widow, judge the fatherless, and relieve the oppressed, witnessed by the Prophet Isaiah in his first Chapter and seventeenth verse, to be a sacrifice wonderfully acceptable to the great Jehovah the righteous judge of heaven and earth, unto whom the penman hereof would advice the Navigator aforesaid, to humble himself in spirit and truth, and that in the truth and simplicity of the inward man, and not hypocritially, as the Presbyterian gang do at this day in the English Commonwealth; to the end he may be taught the other three Arts and Sciences of logic, Philosophy, and arithmetic, before mentioned, together with the use of such Mathematical, and Geometrical instruments, as will be needful for the pursuit of the aforesaid intended voyage, for the purposes aforesaid, through the Antipodical Merdres and depths of Neptunes undal surges, and of the unknown Regions of Jupiter and Saturne, Celestial and Terrestrial: and being thus furnished, fitted, and accoutred( with Gods help) the said Navigator may safely adventure to pass, shoot, and velificate through the streights of Magellanica, setting and keeping a direct course to the northeast passage under the Meridian Horoscope, or Equinoctial-line of the Antipodes; and to be sure that he fail not to make the Abucca Islands some 12 degrees distant from the Equinoctial-line on that side of the Terrestrial Globe, where he may come to an Anchor, and make enquiry for his purposes aforesaid: but losing from hence, and after some few dayes, he must begin to think of passing under the Equinoctialline in that Horizon, where he must take good heed of an Epidemical disease; subject both to himself and sailors, and others the shipcompany, called the Episarchia; And therefore he must be fain to take care to keep himself and them to bodily exercise, and vigilancy, albeit he give them an allowance of two biscuits & a full quarter Can to every mess, more then ever he did since hi● passing under, and declination of our Meridian Horoscope, on our side of the Globe in our Horizon; and to be sure that the next land that they pass by, be the Iranaick Islands, where if they please to touch, they may have most pleasant waters, and varieties, or fruits to refresh their parched and wearied bodies, roasted in their voyage so near the torrid Zone as before hath been declared; where also they may make inquiry for the purposes aforesaid. But if the said Navigator should fail thereof his intended purpose, then must he high from thence in his course from the Pole Antartique, unto the Pole Artick of that Horizon, on that side of the Globe, and be sure that he come faire with the longitude and latitude of the Zaerazans Islands, which lie just under Prester Johns territories, and be the certain Antipodes thereunto; and failing also of their purposes there, leaving the Seraphims and purals great Promontory of Sulphurous and bituminous matter, much like the Region of Terra Delfogo on curside of the Terrestrial Globe afore mentioned; there will be no help for the Navigator aforesaid, but he must come into the Horizon of our terrestrial Globe again, and attempt to adventure through the Indraught of the gulf of Persia, and so find out a ready passage into the Indian seas, and to be sure that he do not wept the mouth of the great river Ganges, anciently called Pison, in the East-Indies, before spoken of, in the second Chapter of Genesis, and there to make diligent enquiry for Paradise, and for a place or province that anciently was called there in the old world the land of Havilah, that did afford Solomon his gold of Ophir, with which he adorned his beautiful temple in Jerusalem, and know of a certain that there is Bdellium, and the Onix-stone also, and many rich commodities besides, if that were the Navigators Merchandise or errand, for which he must make this long-intended voyage in the ship so built, fitted and prepared as aforesaid, and after the aforesaid expert Navigator hath( with Gods providence) certainly made and be come unto the mouth of the aforesaid river, and before that he enter therein for the finding out of the Paradise of God, or Garden of Eden, out of which man for his sin and disobedience was deservedly expulsed, to the glory of Gods Divine Justice, and to the perpetual shane of rebellious, murderos, and foolishly-traiterous Adam our first parent, who did not only wilfully rebel and prevaricate against the good and holy commandement of his good and munificent Creator, who had made him Lord of all the works of his creation, well witnessed in the 8 psalm before spoken of; which commandment expressed in Genesis, is recorded in the 17 verse and the second Chapter, and was most holy, good, reasonable and profitable for man, to have kept, and cordially, and diligently to have observed, as, if the penman hereof were permitted by the spirit( that he doth writ this grand remonstrance to the world) to declare the same, or yet permitted in this place truly to expound and unfold unto the world the true meaning and mystery of the last verse of the third Chapter of Genesis: for, to say the truth, what it was that moved our first parents, beside our mother Eve, and the evil Angels, to eat the forbidden fruit, the penman hereof may not declare, unless it were such curiosity as the penman hereof to satisfy his curiosity in seeing the Turkes Sultanas and Concubines nakedness, for which he had like once to have lost his life at Conshantinople: even so unfortunate Adam, in his curiosity to see his own and his wives nakedness, did wilfully murder and destroy himself, and his brood, and future posterity; but of a truth, the true sting of this deadly poison, that hath so contaminated and infected miserable Adam, and all his posterity, and that caused Adams sin to be so exceedingly sinfully sinful, was not only his disobedience, but his infidelity and ingratitude, in denying of the Justice and Mercy of the living God, who had made him Lord of all the works of his creation, and pre-ordained all the Angels of heaven to be his servants, and to wait upon him; and yet he was such an infidel, as neither to believe Gods word, nor yet gratefully to yield obedience thereunto; but in stead thereof, became discontented with his Creator, and with the station wherein his wise maker had set him, just as the Angels also were; and so he would be wiser then his Creator had appointed him to be; and therefore since h●s Creator had appointed him to be wise in the knowledge only of that which was good, yet he could not rest contented in that good condition, but he must needs know evil too, which he did achieve to the knowledge of certainly: but there was never any knowledge or learning since the foundation of the world was laid, purchased at so dear a rate, when for the learning thereof, both the now-divels, Serpent, and the woman, Adams school-Masters, and himself the apt scholar, and the whole universe his proper dominions, and general creation, were uncosmographied, and blotted out of the book of life; witness Gods final and irrevocable judgement and decree upon them, and pronounced against them in the third Chapter of Genesis, the 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19 verses. And lest man should ever presume to come or return to his place again, contrary to Gods determinate will and decree, whoso reads the last verses of the same Chapter, may easily know what a strong and a strict guard there is kept at the East side of the garden of Eden, which be no less then Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turneth every way to keep the three of life.  
And therefore if it should happen that the said Navigator do find the Garden itself, from which the Navigator must bring these two divine apple of the three of Life, the Lord Justice, and Lady Mercy; the Penman could well advice him to be wondrous wary how first he begins to move or steer his course upon the Merdres of the Indian Seas: for he must expect, at or near the mouth of the River Ganges, to be sorely and often assaulted with several powerful and pestiferous Sea-Monsters, and fishes of prey, yea, even mighty Leviathans, and their young whelps, more powerful then any corrupt Parliament, or counselor of State, or high Court of Justice-man whatsoever. And mighty and immense Crocodiles, bigger and more fierce and devorative then either corrupt, perjured, traitorous, or factious Committees of Parliament, be they powerful members of the honourable house of Parliament, or greedy sub- or hedge- Committee-men in the several Counties of the English Nation, yea, now or late sitting at Goldsmiths Hall for Sequestrations or Compositions of Delinquents, or else for the fifth and twentieth parts, since the beginning of the Parliament in the English Nation. And Mighty Sharks of an incredible bigness, far bigger then any in the Latitude of Bermuda in the Mediterranean Seas, and more rapinacious( if possible may be) then any Sequestrator whatsoever. mighty Seals, or great Sea-Calfs, far bigger then those are in the Hebriedes Islands towards the North seas of Ireland and Scotland, or any corrupt or exacting Excise-man of the English Nation, who devour both fish and flesh, and whatsoever comes to their jaws. Monstrous Sea-horses, more fierce, velocious, and obnoxious, then either the Traytors Glyn or Postmaster Prideaux be, or any horse or other beast they keep, or let to hire( themselves onely excepted.) And Grampasses wonderfully enriched with fat, over-grown with swallowing and devouring of the minor fishes of the sea; not much unlike the corrupt Treasurers of Parliament-Committees, sub-Treasurers of the navy and Army in England. And grand Porpusses, that grunt again with the pinguidity of the rapine of the multitude of those princely fishes called the Herrings, by them daily devoured: not much unlike the Parliament's corrupt Officers of the Custom-house in the English Nation. And swift Dolphins, evermore pursuing of the innocent flying fish; which, albeit the wise Opifex rerum hath in his wisdom provided them Vespertilian wings, yet cannot possibly escape the violent persecutions, or nimble rapes of their enemies the Dolphins; well to be compared to those corrupt Informers, Serjeants at Arms-men Pursuivants, and other their Pieddees, and Villains in Buckram, and Wagstaves of the English Commonwealth and Nation, all under pretence of Supreme Authority. Together with those devouring Pikes higher up in the River, sometimes in fresh waters, & sometimes in salt waters, that prey at no aim; not much unlike those, Martins, Dallisons Coxes, Phelps, Kirks, and many more of their fellows, Committees Clerks of the English Commonwealth. And together also with those two pure remoras, well Scobelized and Frostified, with one John Roseforth Yeoman, calling himself Rushworth, now a learned Gentleman of the Long rob; and one Goodman Bishop's son, late Goodman Bradshaw's son of Cheshier's man: who, if the Navigator be not very wary, will stop the course of his velification up the River Ganges, if they can but get between the Rudder and the lower Keel of the ship aforesaid, and be but acquainted with the Navigators Message or errand to bring back the Lord Justice and Lady Mercy again into the English Commonwealth; and if the danger of the Indian Rajeras which be petty Kings in the great Moguls territories, and live only upon robberies, be well considered, together also with the natural fierceness of the wild, rapinous, and indomable beasts of prey, besides many venomous and pestilent beasts engendering and naturally breathing in the Indian Horizon, on land, much about the Herculean Pillars, which never yet could be passed by any, and that any history maketh mention of, save Alexander the great, who in that age of the world did conquer Porus the great Mogul or Emperor, or chief King of India, who made a voyage on purpose upon the banks of the river of Ganges by land, and did with much difficulty and loss of many of his old Macedenian and graecian souldiers, march up the river Ganges, as high as Hercules Pillars, and about two dayes journey above: but being a heathen Prince, and assaulted with divers evil spirits, who keep their residence in those parts, a little below the very local Paradise, or Garden of Eden, described by Moses as aforesaid, who were afraid lest he should come near Ophir, so called by the Prophet Samuel, or the penman of the first book of Kings, and second book of Chronicles, and rob those hell-hounds of the gold, Bdellium, and Onix-stones, and other the riches of these parts; for the lucre thereof, unjustly to be given to several of the simplo inhabitants in those parts of the world, and divers others, they daily bewitch the lost sons of Adam to make contracts with them, to serve them idolatrously, and to forsake the worship of the ever-living God, the holy one of Israel: for of a truth the penman hereof is bold to remonstrate unto the world, that the devil is so good a fortune-teller, that he could easily tell that Alexander the great being a heathen Prince, should not come near the Garden of Eden or local Paradise, from whence both miserable man himself, and his brood, and the serpent into which he entered, were cast out upon the fall of man: nevertheless Alexander the great, at the end of two dayes journey or march with his Army, after he had also set up a statue of the Image of Mars in remembrance of his many victories, and had sacrificed thereunto, he returned down again upon the banks of the river of Ganges; and his great horse Bucephalus happening there to die, he most superstitiously did entomb him, and built a famous City in remembrance of his horse, and called the name thereof Bucephalia; but whether it bear the same name to this day, the penman hereof cannot perfectly remonstrate to the world; only as it appears by Hannibal Roselli the Italian, and divers other Authors which the penman hath seen in France, Germany, Italy, Rome, Madrill, and at Venice, and some at Constantinople, both in the Greek, and latin Tongues, and some in Syriack, Chaldean, Persian, and Phenician Languages( in which the penman hereof had some skill in those dayes) it appeared to the penman hereof, that his march upon the river Ganges, and his conquest made over wild beasts and venomous beasts, and his labour and travail therein, was more toilsome, and laborious unto him, then all the territories he conquered: for there he met with and was encountered with a wild and fierce beast, called an Odons, which slay above 60 of his Numidian horsemen, and his old Commilitones, as my Author called them: his colour is black, his bigness is as great and like to a Bull: he hath two straight horns in his front like Unicorns, mouthed like a Wolf; fore-parted and pawed like unto a Lion, his hinde-parts like unto a stoned-horse, or hind-parts of a Bull, and his skin is very hard, and impenetrable with any Lance: well compared to some corrupt Parliament-men, now or late of the English Nation. And also with Troops of Elephants; but these he defeated with the grunning of swine whipped, which his School-master Seneca had taught him to do( brought in Tumbrels for that purpose) well compared to bugbearing Sir John Presbyter with his simplo Synod, and out-cowed Citizens of London, countenanced underhand evermore by the traitorous and worst part of the corrupt Parliament-men of England. And also with several fell Dragons, well compared to the traitorous Prideaux and his complices, corrupt members of the high Court of Justice, who laboured divers members sitting in that honourable assembly, to break the faith of the Lord General and Army given at Exeter to Sir John Stowel, and others, upon the rendition of the town, on purpose to bring a curse from heaven upon them, and so to destroy them; much like the counsels of Baalam, which caused the trespass to be committed by Zimri and Cozbi, and divers other of the people of the Lord, for which 24000 of them fell by the plague, as appears by the 25 of Numbers, and at the 9 verse: but let the traytors take heed they do not provoke the holy one of Israel too much, for fear lest it befall them as afterwards it befell the soothsayer Baalam, who would entrap the Lords people, as the traitor Prideaux, Glinne, and their complices, have conspired to do these many yeers against the Lords Army, which example is left by Moses, recorded to all future ages in the 31 Chapter of Numbers aforesaid, and at the 8 verse. And also in many places, where he came too near the river side; he was assaulted by several Wyverns, much-like unto Griffins, and very fierce and venomous, well compared to a corrupt council of States-man, who is well known to the penman, yet his name shall be here concealed; but if he repent not sooner, he and the old Vulpones, Sodomitical, and treacherous favourite, may both fortune to be hanged at White-hall-gate, for doing of injustice, and ride the same horse that Trecillian, Bambre, and Baugh the then Kings Attourny did in Richard the seconds time, if the Lord Justice and the Lady Mercy can be brought from Paradise by the said Navigator; the one of them with his Buckram-bag, and the other with the Jewels which lately proceeded out of the late Tyrant his Masters Coffers, about their necks; and one goodman Cooks son in Essex also for company. And he was assaulted also with several Tygres, well compared to corrupt Judges in Westminster-hall, whose colours well resemble their bloody tyrannous scarlet robes. And also with several fierce Panthers, much like the traitor Prideaux, who albeit he stands charged with high treason, yet both Wolf-like, and Panther-like, he still continues his rapines amongst the lambs of this Commonwealth, and all for want of the Lord Justice, and the Lady Mercy. And also with several Anthelopes, well compared to all corrupt Maiors of Corporations, assisted evermore with a corrupt Recorder of the same, being always a gentleman of the long rob, a perfect Wolf of the English Nation; and they be one to another evermore, as the fierce Lions of Africa, and their Jackalles, be one to another: or else they be assisted with some fierce Bear or Bears-whelpe of this Nation, being called a sergeant at Law. And also divers immense Foxes of a greater magnitude then any Country breeds, and Man-keen, well compared to corrupt Prothonotaries and Registers of divers Courts of Justice in the English Commonwealth, both Ecclesiastical, legal and civil. And also with Badyers, Pates, or Grayes, of a Lupunary instinct and nature; with several little Badgerets, well compared to corrupt Jeffery kindle-cole-ing Attornyes Clerks, solicitors, and other their imps, proper and apt to stir up and raise contentions, Law-suits, troubles, and vexations, betwixt neighbour and neighbour; clean contrary to the directions of that most famous Doctor of the Gentiles. Saint Paul, who expressly forbids the same, in the 6 Chapter of his Epistle to the Corinthians, from the first to the 13 verse. And for vermin, such as Hedge-hogs, Pole-cats, or great Wood-cats; wild and savage, but very fierce Wesels, Ferrets, Rats and Mice, fitly compared to Burn-bayliffs, Serjeants at Mace, Marshals-men, and Catch-poles, both for the innumerableness and mischievousness of them. Besides also, he was assaulted with divers fiery Serpents, and great Cerustaes, Sloworms, gliding Serpents, and Toads, and mighty Locusts, very noisome, venomous and pestilent; fitly to be compared to Sir John Presbyter, his Priests, and all his gang or Hierarchy of unclean spirits, who daily sting, bite, and poison, and invenome all people passing by that way. Neither can the penman hereof possibly express these several kinds, nor yet the multitude of Hornets, Wasps, and immense Drone-bees, Gnats, Muskeets, and other sorts of pestiferous, noisome, and troublesone flies, wherewith this poor Prince Alexander the great, and his soldiers, and their Horses, were tormented, vexed, stung, bitten and disquieted; not unaptly compared to busy Constables, Headburroughs, and their Beadles in London, Marshals-men, together with exacting and prowling petty Judges and Officers in many Courts of Justice, in the English Commonwealth, such as be Box-keepers, Bag-bearers, criers, tipstaffs, Vergers, the corrupt Judges Foot-cloth-men, with their Clerks of Petitions, Bayles, recognisances, Fines, and such like, together with the Warden of the Fleets well-rivetted Deputy( anciently one of the doest knaves in England) and his men, Wardens, Waiters, Turn-keys, Cellar-keepers, and Chamber-sweepers; together with the Just-asses of the Peace, well Longing, far louder, better Elveshead, and Pywatertoned, and Sabbatarianized, with their Clerks, never out of league with a crew of bawds, Whores, pimps, Panders, Sharkes, and Crowders, always assisted with perjured, Calcatted, and pernicious under-Sheriffs, their Deputies and Clerks; besides general Clerks of the peace, and Clerks of the Assizes, evermore-attended with their gaolers, Prison-keepers, or their Deputies; together also with their infernal Officers, as under-keepers, Turn-Keyes, Book-keepers, Clerks of Prisons, Waiters, Vulcanists, or Yeomen of the boult or Hand-cuff, Tormenters, Dericks Yeomen of the Halter, and Hang-men, the very pest and vermin of the English Nation. And therefore the penman hereof considering all these enemies seriously, that the Navigator must inevitably encounter withal, when he hath sailed above Hercules pillars, or Alexanders statue, where the river Ganges( which springs in the Garden of Eden) beginneth to grow unnavigable, then upon necessity he must be compelled to march at least ten dayes journey through the land anciently called Havilah in Moses time, and Ophir in Solomons time, where upon his entrance thereof, he must expect day and night to be grievously assaulted with evil Angels and soul spirits of mighty power, subtlety and pestilency, a touch whereof Saint Paul doth give unto the Ephesians in the 6 Chapter and 11 verse, and most elegantly doth describe these spiritual monsters, whose chief residence in the world be in those parts, out of their envy to mankind, both before their and his fall, and since; when he calls them principalities, powers, rulers of darkness in this world, and spiritual wickednesses in high places; and especially when they understand that man is to enter into Paradise again, to fetch the two golden apple of Justice and Mercy from the three of Life.  
And also that the said Navigator shall also let him know, that he hath a Commission under King Jesus, from the General and Saints of the English Nation and Armies( who be the Lambs bride) to bring from thence not onely the apple and fruit of the three of life, but also some of the leaves thereof, to heal the Nations of the world, whom their Masters Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Tartan, have so long and grievously wounded. But above all, it is not to be expressed with what malicious raging, and hideous assaults, and fiery torments, with thunderings, lightnings, and earthquakes( as if the foundations of the earth were upon a present dissolution, and returning to their first Chaos) the said Navigator will be assaulted withal, affrightened, amazed, amused, and astonished, when the Navigator having the Book of Life in his hand, and shall red but the three first verses of the twentieth Chapter of the Revelations, in those evil spirits hearing.  
And note, that he will make the Navigator, if he be not a perfect Christian, to retreat, and to proceed no further in his intended Voyage towards Paradise, albeit he be never so near it, and have passed so far on his voyage, and with such difficulties as before is rehearsed. And if none of these furious affrights can deter the Navigator aforesaid from his intended Voyage, then all the gold of Ophir being at hand, Bdellium and Onix-stones, together with all the riches of India, shall be proffered by those subtle and evil spirits, unto the Navigator aforesaid, to persuade him to stay his voyage to Paradise: but the Navigator must beware that he be not corrupted or tempted by those evil spirits: but the Navigator's answer must be the same that his Saviour's was, upon the same occasion, and well witnessed and recorded to future ages of eternity, in the 4 Chapter of Saint Matthew's Gospel, and the 10 verse.  
And let the Navigator be sure that he more the ship well before he come to an Anchor, for fear of violent storms raised in those parts, by those evil spirits: and be sure also that they have regard of their provisions of victuals; for those evil spirits are very subtle and nimble thieves, and will be apt to steal, or any wise destroy the bread and biscuit of the ships provisions( knowing that God hath made bread the staff of mans life) on purpose to destroy mankind, or drive him to despair for hunger, or otherwise to tempt him as the devil did, when he kept our blessed Saviour, and now crucified and glorified King Jesus, forty days and forty nights, until he was an hungry; and then he came upon him subtly with several temptations( thinking to have tempted him) but he was deceived, as by Saint Matthew it is recorded to all eternity in his Gospel, in several places of the fourth Chapter thereof; and with many more temptations, trials, fightings and combatings, too many for the penman hereof to express.  
And the penman hereof doth further remonstrate, that after the Navigator hath passed the borders of Havilah or Ophir, he must expect to ascend several high mountaines, before he can come to the East parts of the garden, which be guarded with Cherubims and a flaming sword; and of a truth, the said river Ganges, which proceeds out of Paradise, whose ascent is very high, descends lower upon the fall thereof, then Nilus doth from the Lunae montes, or James river in Virginia doth descend from the fals above the City of James-Town, so called in those parts, or any water if poured down from the top or uttermost ascent of the mountaines of Ararat in armoniac, near unto the place where Alexander the great, and the famous Darius, the last Median and Persian great Monarch, joined battle; which is by learned men, and many ancient writers, held both to be the place where Noahs Ark restend after the deluge, as before hath been remonstrated; as also to be the highest inland mountain or ascent in the world, but especially in Asia mayor, where the penman hereof is confident the garden of Eden was, perfectly described by Moses in the second Chapter of Genesis, as before hath been sufficiently evidenced.  
And therefore the penman hereof doth further remonstrate unto the world, that since this voyage will prove so tedious, so troublesone, so hazardous, and so jeopardous unto the Navigator, and so fatal to the devil and his Angels, and to all wicked men, and so full of utility and benefit to the present Commonwealth and Armies of the English Nation, and so full of joy and earthly comfort and consolation to every free-born person of the same, in this present Life, and future happiness and eternal beatitude in the world to come, It will be necessary for the Navigator aforesaid, to have a good guard of his person assigned him by the noble General and Officers of the present Armies of the English Nation, to guard his person and ship from Sea-pyrats, aswell in his velifications by sea, as in his several marches by land, as often as this expert Navigator shal have occasion to cast Anchor, and move by land any way in order of the completement of this voyage: which must consist only of three full Foot-companies, every company numbered and allowed to be thereto 120 old souldiers, but the best and newest refined Saints of the whole three Armles in England, Ireland, and Scotland, such as only have red, understood, or practised the counsel of Saint John Baptist, which he gave unto the roman souldiers in the 3 Chapter of Saint Lukes Gospel, expressed in the 14 verse thereof, when they came also to him to be baptized of him in Jordan; and be men of sound constitutions of body, ingenious mindes, and healthy complexions, manly, valiant, prudent, and patient of labour and travail; and be very willing to go the voyage intended( by Gods providence, thus marshaled and disciplinated under their three Captaines, whose names must be Fidele Prudence, Sperant Fortitude, Charitable Vigilancy, with each of them his Lieutenant and Ensign, assisted with three Serjeants, four Corporals, and two complete Drums, and other Trophies belonging to military discipline. And they being thus ordered for conduct, there will remain 108 souldiers, which being divided into three divisions, will make eighteen Files, that is six Files of musketeers upon the right divison, and six upon the left division; and the other six Files of Pikes placed in the middle division: and these will be always fit, thus marshaled and marched, for any service, be it to guard the said Navigator upon all his landings, in point of exploration, or otherwise upon his advance by land from the side of the great river Ganges upon the Indian soil, against the fury of the wild beasts aforesaid, being either ravenous, pestilent, or venomous. And they must also testify to the Lord Justice, and the Lady Mercy, that the new Engagement or national Covenant of the English Commonwealth and Armies, hath been solemnly taken by every member of the English Nation. And the Navigator aforesaid is to take good heed that this ship be very well victualled, and Ammunitioned, both with Basilisquoes, Canons, Demicanons, Culvering, Demy-Culvering, Mignian and Saker, together with two, if not four small Drakes, Chambers or Morter-peeces, upon the upper Decks of the said ship; together with good store of ship-Muskets, and Callivers; together with wast-bands for the same; pendants and streamers, and in all postures fit for a m●n of War: and for horse, there will be little or no need for them, but that near unto the aforesaid place before recited, where Alexander the great was assaulted with the evil spirits, the Navigator must be sure also, if he find not the Lord Justice and Lady Mercy, in some other places of his voyage, undoubtedly he must be fain, yea forced to pass through, maugre all opposition whatsoever; therefore it will be necessary, that, before he undertake the said voyage, there be a general day of humiliation kept( unto the living God) for a blessing upon the Navigator in the undertakings aforesaid, by the Saints of the English Armies and Commonwealth.  
After which, the solemn Engagement formerly prescribed to be taken by the people of the Armies, is to be red again, and confirmed by the people and souldiers of the Army, and again solemnly subscribed by the people and Armies, with a cordial protestation, and a general exclamation; that as the cursed Jews upon the crucifying of Christ, in the 19 Chapter and 15 verse of Saint Johns Gospel, denied king Jesus their true and undoubted King before Pilate and the whole world, and affirmed that they had no king but caesar; so the English people and the soldiery of the Armies thereof, have not, nor will for ever hereafter have any king but Christ; and that a Duplicate of this Engagement, Protestation, and general acknowledgement of the People and Armies, be sent forthwith to be enrolled upon the records of this Commonwealth; as also with the Judge-Advocate general of the Armies; and that the original of this Engagement, Protestation, and general acknowledgement, may be delivered to the Navigator aforesaid, to the end that in this long voyage he may never want a wind.  
Being thus fitted, he shall be evermore assured to have the Spirit of the holy Ghost to fill the Sails of the said Ship, after they be hoisted, and the Anchors levated: so that in very short time, with Gods gracious assistance, which he may be as well assured of, as that the Penman hereof is the author hereof, and had not at the time of the penning hereof, any other help of human learning then the Bible, nor yet so much as a Map, or Terrestrial Globe, or Celestial Globe, to pen to the Navigator the description of this voyage aforesaid, which the Penman hereof will hazard his life that the Navigator will perform in a very short time, if he be fitted and accoutred as is hereby advised and declared.  
The onely difficulty will be, that when the Navigator comes to Anchor near to the head of Ganges, and can sail no further, but must be forced to come to Anchor upon the banks of the River, and to travail by Land above Hercules pillars, and Alexander's statue aforesaid, to Paradise, That then he fit the three Foot-Companies marshaled as aforesaid, with all convenient armor Military, and usual Arms of Muskets, firelocks, Pocket-pistols, and Pikes, as also with good store of Powder and Shot, Fire-balls, and casting Colthrops, to annoy the feet of the wild, pestilent, and ravenous beasts aforesaid; likewise, bows, and good store of barbed Arrows envenomed, to destroy those violent Mankeen, and pestilent beasts that they must expect inevitably to encounter with, upon their landing, after they be come to an Anchor.  
And as the said Navigator must take great care that he thus arm, prepare, and marshal three Foot-Companies of the Saints of the English Armies temporally; so he must also arm them spiritually, for the combating with, fighting, and counter-assaulting of the evil spirits wherewith they shall without all doubt be grievously vexed, when they come near the confines of Havilah and Ophir, as hath been sufficiently remonstrated to the whole world. And therefore the Penman hereof doth seriously advice the Navigator, before he comes near, or attempts to pass by or thorough any of those parts so possessed, guarded, and inhabited with evil spirits, That he and his whole company do cordially humble themselves in spirit to God the Father; the onely Father of all spirits, with the New Engagement and English Protestation spread before him, according to the example of good King Hezekiah and let the Navigator pray to the Lord of hosts, that, for the Lord King Jesus Christ his sake, he will command three Companies of the Saints triumphant, under their Captain-General King Jesus, who is also already mounted upon his white horse, and gone forth conquering and to conquer, as before hath been declared; to every Company consisting also of an hundred and twenty patriarches, Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, Saints, and spirits of godly men depared, marshaled and disciplinated according to Celestial Military discipline, under Michael, Raphael, and Adriel, three of the archangels of the living God, and old combatants with Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Tartan, the three of the first great orders of Angels called Seraphims; of that immense power in celestial places, that, most Dragon-like, with their tails they drew the third part of the stars of heaven with them, upon their first combat that happened betwixt Michael and his angels, and the devil and his angels, as holy Writ sufficiently testifies.  
And then, besides the Navigator and his Militant Souldiers outward and temporal armor, he must be sure that before yet they must adventure to pass by, thorough, or come near the confines of Havilah or Ophir, to come near or approach the garden of Eden, he and his three Foot-Companies must put on the girdle of Sincerity, breastplate of righteousness, shoes of the preparation of the Gospel of peace, shield of faith, helmet of salvation, and sword of the Spirit, being all the armor of God, expressed by Saint Paul in the sixth Chapter of his Epistle to the Ephesians, and from the 10 to the 19 verse of the same.  
And the Penman hereof doth further advice and admonish the Navigator aforesaid, that missing of his purpose in all the parts of the world, and being necessitated to enter into the Paradise of God for the divine Attributes aforesaid, called[ the Lord Justice and Lady Mercy] being thus perfectly and completely fitted and accoutred baulk, armed cap a pied, and wanting nothing that might stay, hinder, or resist his voyage to the further end, save a Herald at Arms, to declare( to the Cherubims and guards of the flaming sword turning every way, which keep the way of the three of life, figuratively growing in paradise) the message of the Navigator aforesaid, and to let them know the Commission he hath to enter thereinto, notwithstanding their Commissions be as ancient and vetust as the fall of Man, to keep man out. And therefore the Penman hereof doth seriously advice the Navigator aforesaid, again( when he hath approached within the view thereof) to humble himself and his company to the Father of all spirits, and in the Name of King Jesus, and incessantly and urgently to beseech him to sand that old and true princely ambassador of good tidings and Evangelical truth, Gabriel the Archangel, who brought the news first into the world of the birth of John the Baptist, and Jesus Christ the Emmanuel of righteousness, witness Saint Luke in his first Chapter, at the 13 and 31 verses of the same: who being come, and having delivered the Navigator's message, then shall the Navigator be forthwith admitted into the garden of Eden, and be shewed all the trees, herbs, and plants growing in the garden, which were appointed by God for man to eat, as also the three of knowledge of good and evil. Then will the Navigator be driven to explore, try, and search out amongst all the trees of Paradise, for the three of life.  
But if he chance to have the Book of life, and look well into the last Chapter of the Revelations of Saint John, and into the second verse of the same, he will, with the perusal of the 25 Psalm of the Prophet David, and well expounding of the 8, 9, and 10 verses of the same, easily find and perceive which is the three of life, from which he must pull the two golden apple of Justice and Mercy. And let him be sure, that, according to the number of the Nations expressed in the great Map of the world, being contained in Europa, Asia, Africa, and America, he bring along with him so many leaves of the three of life, which will be very convenient for the use and application of the General and Saints of the English Armies in all places of the world where they shall set their foot, and happen to subdue and conquer with their sword, under their Captain-General King Jesus: after the Nations have been wounded, smitten; and subdued with the sword, those leaves shall and will, if perfectly applied, heal so many of the people thereof, as the holy One of Israel hath appointed to Salvation, by conversion of them to faith in Christ, and observing of Christs new commandment that he gave to his disciples, witnessed in said Johns Gospel at the 12 verse and in the 15 Chapter.  
And when thus the Navigator hath achieved the sum and end of his voyage, after solemn exultation of spirit to the Father of all spiits, and cordial thankfulness, and serious Protestation, with an unfeigned purpose to hold the new national English Covenant and Engagement made by the General Saints, of the Army, and the English Commonwealth, by the Navigator, and his three Companies of the soldiery aforesaid with him, on their own and English Armies and Commonwealths behalf; and a short repetition of the Lords prayer from the bowels of their souls, and a short supplication for Gods protection, for Christ his sake, in their return, Then it will be necessary they return for England with all speed; and in order thereunto, tread the same footsteps, by which they came; first descending of the exceeding high mountain, upon which they came to the garden of Eden; and it is an exceeding high mountain, and no other save that which is mentioned in the fourth Chapter of Saint Matthews Gospel, and at the 8 verse; into which our blessed Saviour was taken by the tempter, when he shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory thereof, and proffered to give the same unto Christ, if by any means he could have persuaded Christ to have committed idolatry: & therefore the land of Havilah and Ophir being so near thereunto, it is no marvel but the Navigator and his company must be careful upon their return, of the silver, the wedge of gold, and Babylonish garment, stolen, taken, and hide by Achan, expressed in the 7 of Joshua and the 21 verse, and forbear to meddle with any treasure, or other things in the devils territories, but soberly and civilly return to the ship at Anchor in the said river of Ganges; and having shipped his men, and hoisted up his sails, let him sail and velificate down to the mouth of the river back into the Indian sea, and direct his course due South, leaving India on the startboard-hand, and until he make the famous and fertile Islands of Japan commended by all travellers to be the delightfullest place in the habitable world, which possible might be the cause that moved the great Atheist Sir Matthew de Renze, about 15 or 16 yeers ago, dying in Dublin in Ireland, upon making his Will, and ordaining another Atheist like himself name Sir Henry pierce, sometimes Secretary to the Lord Falkland, sometimes Deputy of Ireland, and one Master monk of the customhouse, his Excetors, and willed that after twenty or thirty dayes, there should be a ship built, bought, or hired at Waterford in Ireland, to take in his soul there, and to make a voyage on purpose to carry his soul to the Islands of Japan, but not to land or come to an Anchor, but to return within view thereof; which was accordingly done and performed by the Executors, as the penman hereof hath credibly heard, when he lived in Ireland: but mark the sequel; for albeit the ship and sailors that undertook this voyage, had a quick and nimble passage thither from Ireland, yet in the view of the Islands, was the ship, and men and all, at noon-day, in faire calm weather, by a whirlwind, occasioned by a Corpes peasant, so termed by mariners, ingurgitated and swallowed up into the Ocean, and never seen more: a fearful example for all Atheists to take warning by. And when the late tyrannical Deputy heard tell thereof, he sent for Sir Matthew de Renzies son, now or late alive in London, and imprisoned him in the Castle of Dublin, and hooked a good end of his wealth, which his father had left to him at his death, for making of such an Athestical Will, and some other crimes supposed to be done by his son or father in his life time.  
And from these Islands of Japan, if the Navigator steer and direct his course southwest and by West, with Gods providence in short time he will come into the latitude of Madagaskar, and from thence to the scape de bono speranzo; and having doubled the scape, and left the african shore on the startboard-hand, and directing of his course due North, he will acquire the latitude of the Azores Islands, about 400 miles from the lands end of England, and so straight up the narrow seas due West, until he come to the Isle of Wight; and so going through the Needles, & leaving the Isle upon the startboard-hand, he may sail up to Portsmouth, where will be most convenient for him to land his men; who may declare to their fellow-soldiers the wonderful difficulties that they and their Navigator have gone through, suffered, and endured, for the perfecting of the voyage aforesaid; and desire them solemnly to join in thanksgiving with them for their safe return and deliverances from so many eminent dangers as they have gone through in the voyage aforesaid; but above all, for Gods infinite love, mercy, and kindness unto them in Jesus Christ, their heavenly King, who had vouchsafed to bring them safe into paradise, and to permit them to pull the two golden apple of Justice and Mercy, and abundance of the leaves also from the three of life, to be brought into this Nation once more, to be planted here in this infant-Commonwealth of free-born English men, and poor humbled Saints militant of the Armies in England, Ireland, and Scotland.  
And this being done, present news hereof may be forthwith sent to the Noble General and the whole Armies, and to every freeborn person of the English Commonwealth, who desire to see, and be cordially acquainted with the two Divine Attributes of Almighty God, the Lord Justice and the Lady Mercy: and that there may not only be a speedy preparation made for the entertainment of them, when the Navigator aforesaid hath undertaken the voyage aforesaid, in the said ship, in such manner as the penman hath hereof chalked him out the way, and performed his voyage, and brought them accordingly; but a grand, cordial, and unanimous inthronizing of them in the hearts of every faithful Christian man of the English Commonwealth; so as we may be ready all of us to meet King Jesus, the sweet bridegroom of our souls, when he cometh to mary this present Commonwealth to himself, which will be either in Judgement or Mercy, before Midsummer-day next, one thousand six hundred fifty two, albeit the fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; and therefore those fools be totally corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity; there is none doth good: and as it was said in the days of the Prophet David in the Commonwealth of Israel, just so it is now in the English Commonwealth; and therefore well did he speak the words before rehearsed, and complain to the living God, being ●●mplete with Divine sorrow for the iniquity of that age in Israel, as appears by his 53 psalm and the first verse; but if the Prophet were alive again in the English Nation, he would complain to some purpose.  
And therefore the penman hereof, whilst the ship is at sea, will daily pray for her safe return, and always rest,  
A servant to his Excellency, Army and Commonwealth, whilst he is a member of Jesus Christ in the flesh, or of this present Commonwealth, or is alive to be Tho. Elslyot Ar. Ar. Conq.  
FINIS.