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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.
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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, (Psal. 107. 27.) the Mariners in their Storms, are at their wits end; (or as some read it) all their wisdom is swallowed up, they know not what course to Steer, (the Dutch Annotators carry it,) Now their very Pilots are at a loss; Now all their courage cannot contribute to their deliverance, though men of the greatest natural courage and magnanimity in the world: Yet now their hearts melt ⟨p. 136⟩because of troubles; as it is said of the Mariners in Jonahs Ship, The Mariners were afraid. O now, when Death and Eternity, the Grave and Judgment to come looks them in the face! Then they are Magor-Missabibs, terror to themselves, and to all about them; O now, the danger is such, it must be the only finger of God that can help! I have heard of a Ship in Yarmouth Road, that in a great Storm, they feared the Anchor would come home, and the Master discoursing with a Youth in the Ship, that God had begun lately to work some Convictions upon, O says he, Master if God do but lay a Finger upon one Strand of the Cable, it will hold; and in the morning many Ships were lost near them, and there was but one Strand in the Cable left. O the finger of God only can sometimes save in dangers. It was a good saying of a Godly Commander of a Ship in eminent dangers, None now but that God that saved the Children of Israel at the Red Sea, can save us out of this distress; and as soon as he had said it, the Wind altered, and saved them; And will you forget such dangers as none but a God can save from?
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, (Psal. 107. 27.) the Marriners in their Storms, are at their wits end; (or as some read it) all their wisdom is swallowed up, they know not what course to Steer, (the Dutch Annorators carry it,) Now their very Pilots are at a loss; Now all their courage cannot contribute to their deliverance, though men of the greatest natural courage and magnanimity in the world: Yet now their hearts melt ⟨p. 136⟩