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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.
A Thanksgiving after a Storm.
I PRAISE and glorify thy holy Name, O Lord, for all thy mercies and blessings vouchsafed unto me, especially for this thy last great Deliverance, wherein I was encompassed in that wide Ocean, whom thou hast set bounds and limits to; if thou, O Lord, hadst not been on my side, the Sea had swallowed me up quick, and I had gone down into the deep of silence; but thou hast been my God and my Deliverer, and hast put a new Song into my Mouth, even a Song of Praise and Thanksgiving unto my God.
I PRAISE and glorifie thy holy Name, O Lord, for all thy mercies and blessings vouchsafed unto me, especially for this thy last great Deliverance, wherein I was incompassed in that wide Ocean, whom thou hast set bounds and limits to; if thou, O Lord, hadst not been on my side, the Sea had swallowed me up quick, and I had gone down into the deep of silence; but thou hast been my God and my Deliverer, and hast put a new Song into my Mouth, even a Song of Praise and Thanksgiving unto my God.
I ACKNOWLEDGE O Lord, that thou art the God of all the Earth, and of them that remain in the broad Sea: Blessed for ever, and magnified be thy Name, that thou hast not cast me out of thy sight, nor turned thy Mercy from me; I have escaped thy raging Sea, and the noise of the proud Waves have done me no harm, if thy Almighty Providence had not protected me, the streams had gone over my Soul: But the stormy Wind and Tempest I have narrowly escaped, the storm is ceased, and I am safely delivered.