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An essay for the recording of illustrious providences
An essay for the recording of illustrious providences wherein an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events which have happened this last age, especially in New-England / by Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England.An essay for the recording of illustrious providences wherein an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events which have hapned this last age, especially in New-England / by Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England.
printed by Samuel Green for Joseph Browning, 1684
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.
Yet further;
That Worthy and now blessed Minister of God Mr. James Janeway, hath published several other Remarkable Sea-Deliverances; of which some belonging to New-England were the Subjects. He relates (and I am informed that it was really so) that a small Vessel (the Masters Name Philip Hunger) coming upon the Coast of New-England suddenly sprang a Leak, and so Foundered. In the Vessel there were eighteen Souls, twelve of which got into the Long Boat. They threw into the Boat some small matters of Provision, but were wholly without fire. These twelve Men sailed five hundred Leagues in this small Boat, being by almost miraculous Providences preserved therein for five weeks together. God sent relief to them by causing some flying Fish to fall into the Boat, which they eat raw, and were well pleased therewith. They also caught a Shark and opening his belly, sucked his blood for drink. At the last the divine providence brought them to the West-Indies. Some of them were so weak as that they soon died▪ ⟨p. 20⟩but most of them lived to declare the Works of the Lord.
That Worthy and now blessed Minister of God Mr. Iames Ianeway, hath published several other Remarkable Sea-Deliverances; of which some belonging to New-England were the Subjects. He relates (and I am informed that it was really so) that a small Vessel (the Masters Name Philip Hungare) coming upon the Coast of New-England suddenly sprang a Leak, and so Foundered. In the Vessel there were eighteen Souls, twelve of which got into the Long Boat. They threw into the Boat some small matters of Provision, but were wholly without fire. These twelve Men sailed five hundred Leagues in this small Boat, being by almost miraculous Providences preserved therein for five weeks together. God sent relief to them by causing some flying Fish to fall into the Boat, which they eat raw, and were well pleased therewith. They also caught a Shark and opening his belly, sucked his blood for drink. At the last the divine providence brought them to the West-Indies. Some of them were so weak as that they soon died▪