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A token for mariners
A token for mariners containing many famous and wonderful instances of God's providence in sea dangers and deliverances, in mercifully preserving the lives of his poor creatures, when, in humane probability, at the point of perishing by shipwreck, famine, or other accidents. much enlarged, with the addition of many new relations, one whereof happening this present year, and never before printed. Mostly attested by the persons themselves. Also The seaman's preacher, being a sermon on the right improvement of such mercies. And prayers for seamen on all occasions.A token for mariners containing many famous and wonderful instances of God's providence in sea dangers and deliverances, in mercifully preserving the lives of his poor creatures, when, in humane probability, at the point of perishing by shipwrack, famine, or other accidents. much enlarg'd, with the addition of many new relations, one whereof happening this present year, and never before printed. Mostly attested by the persons themselves. Also The seaman's preacher, being a sermon on the right improvement of such mercies. And prayers for seamen on all occasions.
London: printed by Hugh Newman, 1698
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.
2. Dangers should be remembered with consideration to the greatness of them; great things should be remembered, a great God, great Mercies, great Deliverances, great Sins, and great Dangers. How should we think, O what a Danger was I in at this time by such a Storm at Sea! by such a Sickness ashore! not only my Life in danger, but Lord, was not my Soul in danger? was I fit to die at ⟨p. 117⟩such a time? had I gotten an interest in Christ, if I had been cast away at such a time? Men think dangers great for their Bodies, but they do not think them so for their Souls; they think them great for their Ships, for their Estates, but they do not think them so for their Eternal conditions; O, had not my Body, Soul, Ship, and all perished together. And was not this a great danger? thy Souls danger was the greatest danger; hadst thou been drowned at such a time, thy Soul had been shipwrecked to all Eternity.
2. Dangers should be remembred with consideration to the greatness of them; great things should be remembred, a great God, great Mercies, great Deliverances, great Sins, and great Dangers. How should we think, O what a Danger was I in at this time by such a Storm at Sea! by such a Sickness ashore! not only my Life in danger, but Lord, was not my Soul in danger? was I fit to die at ⟨p. 117⟩such a time? had I gotten an interest in Christ, if I had been cast away at such a time? Men think dangers great for their Bodies, but they do not think them so for their Souls; they think them great for their Ships, for their Estates, but they do not think them so for their Eternal conditions; O, had not my Body, Soul, Ship, and all perished together. And was not this a great danger? thy Souls danger was the greatest danger; hadst thou been drowned at such a time, thy Soul had been shipwrackt to all Eternity.
3. Dangers should be remembered with consideration to their suddenness; how many times do they come suddenly upon us? As there is sudden fear, so there is sudden danger. When the Lord sends the Winds out of his Treasury suddenly, and threatens men at Sea with sudden destruction, when desolation seems to come as a Whirl-wind, &c. we should think, What if sudden death had come upon me, what a condition was my poor Soul in? what a dreadful thing would it have been if I had been surprised on a sudden, and sent into an Eternal condition, in the twinkling of an eye? I, to be threatened to be swallowed