Mr. James Janeway's legacy to his friends containing twenty seven famous instances of Gods…

8. We have a very wonderful Deliverance recorded, an honest poor man in Maulden in Essex, one Gregory Crove, who with his man and boy, was in his Boat going to fetch Fullers-Earth; but by the way meeting with a Storm, his Boat was driven upon a bank of sand, and their sunk; the men were glad to hang upon the Mast, but poor Crove seeing his New-Testament in the water, which he prized highly, caught it up, and took it into his Bosom; the tide being gone, they were left upon the sand, at lest ten miles from land; now in this great Distress they made their Prayers to the Lord, that he would send some means of Deliverance: For now within half an hour it would be flood, but in this little time before flood they found a Chest wherein was five pounds six Shillings ⟨p. 28⟩eight pence, but honest Crove cast it into the Sea again saying, If the Lord will please to save our lives he will provide us a little food; and so they went again up the Mast, where they to Admiration hung by the Arms and Legs, for ten hours together; in which the Boy was so weary, and beaten with the Waves that he fell off, and was drowned; now their fears increase upon them, and knows not what to do. But Crove advises his man to cut down the Mast, and when the flood comes again, to sit upon it, and so, says he, it may please God to drive us to some Ship; this Counsel was taken, they commit themselves to God upon this Mast, and thus continued Tuesday Night, Wednesday, and Wednesday Night; in which time the man was so tired out with Hunger, Watching, and Cold, that he dyed; now was Crow left alone in this sad and deplorable Condition, who prayed now the more earnestly for some Succour and Relief, but durst not Sleep, lest the Sea should beat him off the Mast; and when this distressed miserable object was almost spent, his flesh sodden with Sea water, and his eyes almost closed up with the Salt, now in his Extremity the Lord makes it his opportunity, and steps in by his Providence, presents a Ship going ⟨p. 29⟩for Antwerp: (observe here the Finger of God:) The Wind not being favourable was driven out of the way, and espying something a far off in the Sea, but supposing it to be some Fisher-boy steered from it. Crove seeing this, held up his Cap and shake it over his head, whereby at length they were moved to go to him, and so they took him in;

8. We have a very wonderful Deliverance recorded, an honest poor man in Maulden in Essex, one Gregory Crove, who with his man and boy, was in his Boat going to fetch Fullers-Earth; but by the way meeting with a Storm, his Boat was driven upon a banck of sand, and their sunk; the men were glad to hange upon the Mast, but poor Crove seeing his New-Testament in the water, which he prized highly, caught it up, and took it into his Bosom; the tyde being gone, they were left upon the sand, at lest ten miles from land; now in this great Distresse they made their Prayers to the Lord, that he would send some means of Deliverance: For now within half an hour it would be flood, but in this little time before flood they found a Chest wherein was five pounds six Shillings