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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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and so requiring is here taken, and in many other places, the Lord doth very often severely punish Vow-breaking; breaking of Vows doth cause God often to destroy the works of your hands. Say not before the Angel, It was an error, wherefore should God be angry at thy Vows, and destroy the works of thy hands? (Eccles. 5. 4, 5.) Some Expositors refer ⟨p. 148⟩this to the Priest, before whom the sin of rash vows was to be confessed; others carry it to Christ, the Angel of the Covenant. who sees through all our subtle excuses and equivocations, and punishes them. O, God is angry when men go so flatly against their Vows; O then God is angry, and destroys the work of their hands, viz. disappoints their endeavours, and denies them success.
and so requiring is here taken, and in many other places, the Lord doth very often severely punish Vowbreaking; breaking of Vows doth cause God often to destroy the works of your hands. Say not before the Angel, It was an error, wherefore should God be angry at thy Vows, and destroy the works of thy hands? (Eccles. 5. 4, 5.) Some Expositors refer ⟨p. 148⟩this to the Priest, before whom the sin of rash vows was to be confest; others carry it to Christ, the Angel of the Covenant. who sees through all our subtil excuses and equivocations, and punishes them. O, God is angry when men go so flatly against their Vows; O then God is angry, and destroys the work of their hands, viz. disappoints their endeavours, and denies them success.
Lastly, to forget your deliverances and dangers, is the greatest ingratitude and unthankfulness in the world; hath God given you so many wonderful deliverances, so many miraculous preservations, to be buried in the grave of oblivion? will you murder your mercies, and then bury them? It is commonly said, Murder will out. Murdered Mercies will one day make terrible work, in walking in your Consciences.