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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.
but Providence so ordered it, that the man in the main ⟨p. 42⟩having the hand Lead, there fell a chrockle in the dipsey Line, and in that very interim, the Lead fell in the very place where the Barber was sunk, and the chinckle of the Line fell about the Barbers Fingers, hitched about his Ring, and so Providentially fastened it self, so that as the man in the Sceanes haling up his Lead, found it to come heavier than it use to do; admiring, at last up comes the Barber fastened in the chinckle by his Ring, which the Spectators amazed at, immediately took hold of him, and pulled him into the Frigate, but his Eyes fixed, and Teeth set, and little appearance of life; but by the blessing of God on the immediate means used, and care of him, he soon came to himself, and recovered so, that notwithstanding this shrewd disaster which might have proved Fatal to all, or most of them, yet there was not one man of them all miscarried, but was recovered to their health again, as Monuments of Gods mercy. For truth of this, many of the men are alive at this day; the Chirurgeon now Living in Greys-Inn-Lane; and at the very interim of time, I was then Aboard the said Frigate, and was not only an Eye-Spectator, but an instrument to help preserving of some ⟨p. 43⟩of them, and therefore may Aver it to be Truth.
but Providence so ordered it, that the man in the main ⟨p. 42⟩having the hand Lead, there fell a chrockle in the dipsey Line, and in that very intrim, the Lead fell in the very place where the Barber was sunk, and the chinckle of the Line fell about the Barbers Fingers, hitcht about his Ring, and so Providentially fastened it self, so that as the man in the Sceanes haleing up his Lead, found it to come heavier than it use to do; admiring, at last up comes the Barber fastened in the chinckle by his Ring, which the Spectators amazed at, immediatly took hold of him, and pulled him into the Frigot, but his Eyes fixed, and Teeth set, and little apperance of life; but by the blessing of God on the immediate means used, and care of him, he soon came to himself, and recovered so, that notwithstanding this shroad disaster which might have proved Fatal to all, or most of them, yet there was not one man of them all miscarryed, but was recovered to their health again, as Monuments of Gods mercy. For truth of this, many of the men are alive at this day; the Chyrurgion now Living in Grays-Inn-Lane; and at the very intrim of time, I was then Aboard the said Frigot, and was not only an Eye-Spectator, but an instrument to help preserving of some