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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
THE Seaman's Preacher; OR, Sea-Dangers and Deliverances Improv'd; i… › APPLICATION.
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. Learn we hence what a Great Evil it is to lose the remembrance of our Dangers and Deliverances. What do many Families? What do many Persons with the Sea-Dangers, with the Sea-Deliverances? Do not they write them in the dust? Do not they bury them in the […] of Oblivion? Do not they cast ⟨p. 130⟩them behind their backs? Do not they trample them under foot? O poor Souls! they little know what they do. 1. Such Deliverances will have a Resurrection in their Consciences one day; though they bury them now, O they will rise again: And Oh! How will they then dread and terrify a poor Soul? 2. Such Deliverances will another day be witnesses and evidences against you. Oh! What a cutting testimony will they give in against the Soul? Hast not thou been graciously and wonderfully delivered in such a Voyage, in such a Storm at Sea, in such a Sickness at Shore, and yet walked unsuitably under all these? To be cast out by mercy, O what a dreadful thing is this! 3. Such deliverances forgotten by us, harden us; either they soften or harden. These Providences are like God's Ordinances in this respect, they either harden or soften. Oh! What a dreadful thing it is to be hardened by Deliverances and Preservation, and yet many are. Sentence being not speedily executed, the hearts of Men are fully set in them to do evil. 4. Such Deliverances will be Great aggravations both of man's sin and misery, if forgotten by them. The goodness of God ⟨p. 131⟩was the aggravation of the sin of David, says God, When I had done so and so for thee, nay, and I would have done more, wherefore hast thou despised the Commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight, 2 Sam. 12. 8, 9. What, for you that had such deliverances as these, to break his Commandment; as Ezra says; O this is an high aggravation! 5. Deliverances and Dangers forgotten will cause the Lord to pull in his hand in a way of mercy, will cause God to give up Persons, and take his Protecting Presence from them, take them from the shadow of his Wings. Souls by forgetting past dangers and deliverances, may put themselves from under God's Protection for the future.
2. Learn we hence what a Great Evil it is to lose the remembrance of our Dangers and Deliverances. VVhat do many Families? VVhat do many Persons with the Sea-Dangers, with the Sea-Deliverances? Do not they write them in the dust? Do not they bury them in the of Oblivion? Do not they cast