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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.
The Exhortation is to call to mind, and keep in mind, to Record and Register your Dangers and Deliverances, and not to do as Israel is said to do, who soon forgot his Works. How often doth God bring in this sin of theirs in one Psalm? They forgot his works, and the wonders he had showed them, Psal. 106. 13. Psal. 78. 11.
The Exhortation is to call to mind, and keep in mind, to Record and Register your Dangers and Deliverances, and not to do as Israel is said to do, who soon forgot his Works. How often doth God bring in this sin of theirs in one Psalm? They forgot his works, and the wonders he had shewed them, Psal. 106. 13. Psal. 78. 11.
1. Keep them in mind, for they are wonderful Dangers and Deliverances; They are Wonders, these are to be remembered. Marvellous thin•s did he for them, in the sight of their Fathers, &c. He divided the Sea, and caused them to pass through, and he made the waters to stand as an heap, Psal. 78. 12, 13. And it is brought in again in that Psalm. They remembered not his hand, nor the day when God delivered them out of the hand of the Ene•y, &c. Psal.. 73. 42. And in another place, Th•y forgot God their Saviour, which had done great things in Egypt, ⟨p. 133⟩Wondrous works in the Land of Ham, Psal. 106. 21. 22