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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.
1. Your Dangers are Wonderful in this Respect, they are often such as threaten a sentence of Death to be executed upon you. May it not be said of poor Sea-men, as was of them; For we would not (Brethren) have you ignorant of our trouble, which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired of Life, but we had the sentence of death in our selves, that we should not trust in our selves, but in him that raiseth the dead, who delivered us from so great a Death, and doth Deliver, 2 Cor. 1. 8, 9, 10. O how many Sea-faring Men may say thus! Our Dangers have been such, as we have often despaired of Life; there hath but been a little betwixt us and Death; nay, betwixt us and Eternity; And shall we forget such dangers, when we have been so near death in them? As he said to David, As the Lord lives, there is but one step betwixt thee and death. O how often have you been near sinking, near drowning, and yet God hath then appeared for you, with an outstretched Arm, and in the ⟨p. 134⟩Mount hath been seen, And will you not remember this?
1. Your Dangers are Wonderful in this Respect, they are often such as threaten a sentence of Death to be executed upon you. May it not be said of poor Sea-men, as was of them; For we would not (Brethren) have you ignorant of our trouble, which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired of Life, but we had the sentence of death in our selves, that we should not trust in our selves, but in him that raiseth the dead, who deliverid us from so great a Death, and doth Deliver, 2 Cor. 1. 8, 9, 10. O how many Sea-faring Men may say thus! Our Dangers have been such, as we have often despaired of Life; there hath but been a little betwixt us and Death; nay, betwixt us and Eternity; And shall we forget such dangers, when we have been so near death in them? As he said to David, As the Lord lives, there is but one step betwixt thee and death. O how often have you been near sinking, near drowning, and yet God hath then appeared for you, with an outstretched Arm, and in the ⟨p. 134⟩