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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
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.
O LORD our God, thou hast commanded us in the day of Calamity to call upon thy Name, and thou hast promised to hear us; Lord, I fly unto thee, who art a sure refuge; thy Floodgates ⟨image 88⟩are opened, and the Floods lift up their •ofty Waves. But thou, O Lord most high, art mightier than the noise of many Waters: yea, than the mighty Waves of the Sea: Thou canst in a moment, if it stand with thy Divine will and pleasure, rebuke the Winds and the Sea, and turn this Storm into a Calm.
I KNOW I justly deserve to be cast away, and utterly to be rejected by thee; but Lord save us, or else we perish; accept of my unfeigned sorrow for all my sins and transgressions, and endue me with a steadfast resolution to forsake them; be merciful unto us O God, be merciful unto us and save us from perishing in these deep Waters; O refresh us with thy Mercy, and that soon, lest we go down into the place of silence, O comfort us in this great distress, that though the Sea rage and swell, our Hearts may be quiet and still in this time of our disconsolation.
I KNOW I justly deserve to be cast away, and utterly to be rejected by thee; but Lord save us, or else we perish; accept of my unfeigned sorrow for all my sins and transgressions, and endue me with a stedfast resolution to forsake them; be merciful unto us O God, be merciful unto us and save us from perishing in these deep Waters; O refresh us with thy Mercy, and that soon, lest we go down into the place of silence, O comfort us in this great distress, that though the Sea rage and swell, our Hearts may be quiet and still in this time of our disconsolation.
AND as I earnestly desire to be protected from this great peril and danger which now terrifies us, so I earnestly beseech thee, that thou wilt for ever fill my heart with ch an awful dread of thy Majesty, that I may fear thy Name, and praise thy power in the great Congregation; awake my dull and drowsy Soul, from the sloth of Sin, and renew a right Spirit within me; fill me with the gifts and Graces of thy Holy Spirit, that I may live the life of the Righteous, and never forget thy loving-kindness; save us now from Death I beseech thee, from the merciless Waves who are now ready to swallow us up, and bring us home in safety for thy Son Jesus Christ his sake, our only Lord and Saviour.