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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.
For as God in the confounding of the Languages at Babel, said, Go too, let us go down, (as if he directed himself to his glorious Attributes, compassing about his glorious Throne) Come, let us go down. Gen. 11. 7. (Or, as some take it of the Trinity, as in the Creation.) So when God sends us deliverances in our distresses, he sets his Attributes at work; Go Power, go Mercy, go Love, go Faithfulness, go and act your respective parts in this deliverance; and must not this be then an excellent and curious Piece that Gods Attributes bring forth? 3. They are great deliverances, if we consider the great sins and provocations they come over the heads of, the great unworthiness of the receiver, heightens much the mercy and favour received; the reason why persons do not greaten their deliverances, is because they do not greaten their sins, in the deep sense and aggravations of them. ⟨p. 141⟩O such a Soul would say, as David, Is this the manner of men? O God, is not this a great deliverance for such a great sinner to receive? 4. They are great deliverances, if we consider the time and season of their coming in; as this deliverance of the Ships Company where Paul was, it was when all hope of being saved was taken away; and so were many of the deliverances mentioned in this Treatise. So Peter's Sea-deliverance, when he began to sink, Christ stretched forth his hand immediately; he was now sinking and going, but see how ready Christ was to save; He stretched forth his hand and caught Peter, (Matth. 14. 28, 29, 30.) Our sinking time, is Jesus Christs saving time. In the Mount is the Lord seen; our extremity is Gods opportunity; and are not then these great deliverances never to be forgotten? 5. They are great deliverances, if we consider they are not only deliverances of Bodies, and Ships, and Estates sometimes, but Souls; and where the Ship is lost, and the Estate is lost, yet for the life to be saved, and the Soul delivered, is a very great Deliverance; a Reprieve when a Prisoner is under the sentence of Death, is a great Mercy: O when God Reprieves a poor Prisoner, ⟨p. 142⟩this is some Deliverance; we read o• some Deliverance God gave to Israel in the days of Shishak; a Reprieve is some Deliverance, but if it end in suing out the Prisoners Pardon, then it is a great Deliverance.