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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.
3. Your Dangers are Wonderful in this Respect, they are not Dangers in which your Bodies are concerned only, but they are Dangers in which your Souls are concerned; It is not only the danger of a Ship-wracked Vessel, and a Ship-wracked Estate, and a Shipwrack'd Body, but a Shipwrack'd Soul. Here ⟨p. 135⟩is the great danger, lest thou make a lost Voyage for thy Soul: If thou had died in such a Storm, or died in the Term of such a Voyage; Oh! What would have become of thy Soul, thy precious, thy immortal Soul? Had not thou died in a Carnal, in a Christless state and condition? Had not thy poor Soul perished to all Eternity, if thou then had miscarried? Was not thou then a stranger altogether to Christ, and a Work of Saving Grace upon thy Heart? Had not thou then the guilt of all thy sins upon the back of thy Soul unpardoned? And O what danger was this! And wilt thou forget such dangers?
3. Your Dangers are VVonderful in this Respect, they are not Dangers in which your Bodies are concerned only, but they are Dangers in which your Souls are concerned; It is not only the danger of a Ship-wrack'd Vessel, and a Ship-wrack'd Estate, and a Shipwrack'd Body, but a Shipwrack'd Soul. Here ⟨p. 135⟩is the great danger, lest thou make a lost Voyage for thy Soul: If thou had died in such a Storm, or died in the Term of such a Voyage; Oh! VVhat would have become of thy Soul, thy precious, thy immortal Soul? Had not thou died in a Carnal, in a Christless state and condition? Had not thy poor Soul perish'd to all Eternity, if thou then had miscarried? VVas not thou then a stranger altogether to Christ, and a VVork of Saving Grace upon thy Heart? Had not thou then the guilt of all thy sins upon the back of thy Soul unpardoned? And O what danger was this! And wilt thou forget such dangers?
4. Your Dangers are such at Sea, as none but a God can deliver from; all your skill cannot; O, then is the greatest Artist at his Wits end! The Psalmist tells us, (