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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. Is not this a wonder, that persons of such great sins and provocations, should be persons of such great salvations and preservations? that such as sin every Voyage, nay, it may be at an high rate sin every Voyage, should be saved and delivered at such an high rate every Voyage? is not this a wonder, that men of such sins, should be men of such salvations? that men that sin against these salvations, should not have these deliverances shorten ⟨p. 138⟩upon them. Oh what a wonder is this! We should wonder if a person should be continually disobliging any of us, and yet we should be still heaping up kindnesses upon him: This made the Prophet Ezra say, Shall we again break his Commandments, after such deliverance as this? O do not you provoke the Lord every time that you go out, and still he delivers you, still he returns you to your Relations, to visit your habitations in peace! and is not this a wonder?
2. Your deliverances are wonderful, if you consider your deliverances are great deliverances. We read of such; And the Lord saved them with a great deliverance; or with a great salvation. Thus said Sampson, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant, (Judg. 15. 18.) Now any great transactions are remembered and recorded. Your deliverances are great, if we consider these things; 1. They are commanded deliverances by the great God; his word of command brings all our deliverances about, whether at Sea or Land. Which made the Church in distress pray, Thou art my King, O God, command deliverances for Jacob, (Psal. 44. 4.) He commands every thing tending to deliverance at Sea; in order to deliverance, he commands ⟨p. 139⟩the Winds; He maketh the storm a calm, (