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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.
2. Learn we hence, that God's timing our deliverances and salvations, is best for us; his time is the best time. Our time is always ready, (but saith Christ) My […] is not yet. If we had our Mercies in our time, we should not see that beauty in them; for every thing is beautiful in its season: and God chooses the fittest seasons to send them, because he will put a beauty upon them.
2. Learn we hence, that God's timing our deliverances and salvations, is best for us; his time is the best time. Our time is always ready, (but saith Christ) My 〈…〉 is not yet. If we had our Mercies in our time, we should not see that beauty in them; for every thing is beautiful in its season: and God chuses the fittest seasons to seud them, because he will put a beauty upon them.
3. Learn we hence, that no case is desperate to God, though it be so to Man: One would have thought this a desperate case, in such a Storm, lightning the Ship, the casting out of the Tackling of the Ship, neither Sun nor Stars appeared, and all hope of being saved taken away; yet all this was but desperate to them, it was not so to God: now their extremity becomes God's opportunity, and he takes this juncture of time to appear in. Thus David, Psal. 42. 7, 8. all God's waves and God's billows had gone over him; a desperate case! yet God (then he believes) ⟨p. 155⟩would command his loving kindness in the day-time, and his Song should be with him in the Night. Faith is an excellent Grace at a desperate stand.