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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.
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.
The next Observation is this, That Salvations and Deliverances many times are not sent until persons be left helpless and hopeless. I shall give you a touch of this. Now all hope of being saved was taken away, no small tempest lay upon them; now they were gulfed in despair of ever coming off with their lives: Yet this often is the condition of Nations, ⟨p. 149⟩Ship-Companies, and Persons, where God intends to save and deliver. The proofs of the last Observation about Dangers and Deliverances being recorded and remembered, proves this also. Thus was Peter saved, the Disciples saved, when just at sinking
The next Observation is this, That Salvations and Deliverances many times are not sent until persons be left helpless and hopeless. I shall give you a touch of this. Now all hope of being saved was taken away, no small tempest lay upon them; now they were gulft in despair of ever coming off with their lives: Yet this often is the condition of Nations, ⟨p. 149⟩Ship-Companies, and Persons, where God intends to save and deliver. The proofs of the last Observation about Dangers and Deliverances being recorded and remembred, proves this also. Thus was Peter saved, the Disciples saved, when just at sinking