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Mr. James Janeway's legacy to his friends containing twenty seven famous instances of Gods…
Mr. James Janeway's legacy to his friends containing twenty seven famous instances of Gods providences in and about sea dangers and deliverances, with the names of several that were eye witnesses to many of them : whereunto is added a sermon on the same subject.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1674
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. God doth not bring our salvations and deliverances, until we be brought to an extremity; because they are most prized and welcomed until then. O now deliverance will be prized: The longer that a mercy tarries, the more welcome it is when it comes; God loves to make all his mercies welcome to us. O how welcome is life, to a person under a sentence of death! O how welcome ⟨p. 131⟩is a discovery of the love of Christ to a poor Soul, that hath long groaned under the burden of unpardoned guilt. O how welcome was the Prodigals Fathers House, when he had so long been starving in the Fields, with his Husks, amongst the Swine!
3. God doth not bring our salvations and deliverances, until we be brought to an extremity; because they are most prized and welcomed until then. O now deliverance will be prized: The longer that a mercy tarries, the more welcome it is when it comes; God loves to make all his mercies welcome to us. O how welcome is life, to a person under a sentence of death! O how welcome ⟨p. 131⟩is a discovery of the love of Christ to a poor Soul, that hath long groaned under the burthen of unpardoned guilt. O how welcome was the Prodigals Fathers House, when he had so long been starving in the Fields, with his Husks, amongst the Swine!
4. Because God will have all his salvations and deliverances look like his own hand and arm, his own arm brings salvation with him; he will have the print of his own hand upon it, that poor sinners may say, This is the finger of God, the doings of God, and it is marvellous in our eyes. Alas, men would attribute it to themselves, if salvation did not come in such a way, when all hope of being saved is taken away. Oh! everything is beautiful in its season; Is not salvation and deliverance now in season? now they begin to despair, as to probable or visible hopes. O now God works like himself, now he appears in a deliverance to be God; which set the Disciples a wondering,1