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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.
1. We should Commemorate our Dangers with our Deliverances, because God gives them to that end. The Lord doth not give us our Deliverances to cast them at our heels, nor brings us out of our Dangers, that we might forget them, as tho we had never been in any of them. God expects that we should faithfully Register and Record them; therefore it was a great Provocation to the Lord, that the Children of Israel so soon forgot his works: If you do but forget the kindness of a Friend, you think it is disingenuous; but O then, What is it to forget that God that hath delivered you out of six troubles, and in seven troubles? God loves and expects his kindness should be kept upon Record.
1. We should Commemorate our Dangers with our Deliverances, because God gives them to that end. The Lord doth not give us our Deliverances to cast them at our heels, nor brings us out of our Dangers, that we might forget them, as tho we had never been in any of them. God expects that we should faithfully Register and Record them; therefore it was a great Provocation to the Lord, that the Children of Israel so soon forgot his works: If you do but forget the kindness of a Friend, you think it is disingenious; but O then, What is it to forget that God that hath delivered you out of six troubles, and in seven troubles? God loves and expects his kindness should be kept upon Record.
2. We should Commemorate our Dangers and Deliverances, because it was freely of his grace to bring us out of the one, and put us under the other; Is it not of his mere mercy that he rescued and pulled us out of our dangers? Might not we else been swallowed up of them? And may not we all say in this case, as the Psalmist in that? Had it not been the Lord who was on our side then, the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our Soul, then the proud Waves had gone over our Soul, Psal. 124. 4, 5. May not you who have been so often delivered at Sea in eminent dangers sing this Song▪ What, and now forget such dangers? and cast behind your backs such Deliverances. Oh! the freer any favour is, the more it should be remembered; Doth God see any thing in us, or in our Families, more then others, to bestow such deliverances for? One Man goes to Sea, and he is taken; another goes to Sea, and he is sunk; another goes to Sea, and he dies the Term of the Voyage; And why doth the Lord preserve you? Is not this Free-Grace? not because you are more Righteous, but because he is more Gracious; And should not this be Remembered?