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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.
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
But why doth God stay so long before he sends deliverances and salvations? 1. Because he delights to draw forth a spirit of prayer; if men will not pray when sinking, when drowning, when dying, they will never pray. O see how Jonah prays in his distress: And Jonah prayed to the Lord out of the Fishes belly, and said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of Hell cried I, and thou heardst my voice, &c. When my Soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord; and my Prayer came in unto thy holy Temple, (Jonah 2. 1, 2, 3, 7.) O Sirs, God loves prayer so well; that he stays with his deliverances, that we might sue them out by prayer. Out of the Depths have I cried unto thee, saith David, (