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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.
Ezekiel Fog.
15 About ten Years ago in the Island of Barbados: There did arrive one Mr. John Blackleach (from new England) a very honest man, who gave account that in his then Voyage, his Son being Master of the Vessel, and himself Merchant, their men at Sea did Mutiny, at which occasion he and his Son was forced to stand on their Guard for some time, casting his care on the Lord: But whilst under this trouble; being in the Long Reach in or near the Latitude of Barbados, they all did see a great Ship which stood toward them; and while they were Looking on her to see how fast she Came towards them (she being pretty near) vanished away, which struck the men with great fear, and made them humble themselves to the Good old Man, and Desired his Prayers for them.
15 About ten Years agoe in the Island of Barbbados: There did arrive one Mr. Iohn Blackleach (from new England) a very honest man, who gave account that in his then Voyage, his Son being Master of the Vessel, and himself Merchant, their men at Sea did Muttiny, at which occasion he and his Son was forced to stand on their Guard for some time, casting his care on the Lord: But whilest under this trouble; being in the Long Reach in or near the Latitude of Barbadoes, they all did see a great Ship which stood toward them; and while they were Looking on her to see how fast she Came towards them (she being pretty near) vanished away, which struck the men with great fear, and made them humble themselves to the Good old Man, and Desired his Prayers for them.
16. In the month of November, 1669 the Ship Prosperous of Bristol, sailed from thence, being bound for Galloway in Ireland, but was forced into Bruts-Bay in Cornwall, where the Ship brake in pieces, six persons ⟨p. 44⟩being Drowned, others wonderfully cast on Shore and bruised: amongst the Rest John Denny (a Skinner of Bristol) was Cast a Shore by a great Sea: being much bruised and almost Dead: and was by some stripped naked and laid amongst the other dead folk that were taken up, being only covered with some Straw or Rubbish. But by Providence, an old Man Looking on the Dead People, did perceive some Life in the said Denny: and the Lord opened his heart that he stripped himself of his own Shirt and some Clothes, and put on him, and took him from amongst the Dead: through his Labour and Love, by Gods blessing, the said Denny is now well and liveth at Bristol. This my Author had from John Denny's own mouth.