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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.
And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why doth thy Wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought out of the Land of Egypt with great Power, and a mighty hand? Wherefore should the Egyptians say, for mischief did he bring them out to slay them in the Mountains, and to consume them from the face of the Earth? Turn from thy severe Wrath, and repent of this Evil against thy People,—upon the reading of these verses over again he declared to them, the Case which Moses was here interceding for, compared with his Expostulation in the 12 verse, did parallel their case, and considering the happy event of that Argument, which Moses used (mentioned in the 14 verse, which runs thus:) and the Lord Repented of the Evil which he thought to do unto his People—he could not but comfortably hope, that they might have the same Effect: Nay he goes further, and his Spirit raised into a peremptory prediction, that he durst assure them from his great Lord and Master, that not one hair of their heads should fall to the ground; after this he went to Prayer, urging God with the ⟨p. 12⟩same Argument, and then rose up comfortably assuring his steadfastness in believing the same; he advises the Sea-men and the Company in the Ship to refresh themselves by taking some meat, the long fasting and hard labour having much enfeebled them. Then he encouraged them to make another Attempt to fasten the Rudder, without which they could not possible make towards any point for shore. He after advised them to clear the ship, as well as they could, from water by pumping, which they did happily Effect, the Leak being stopped providentially of it self—whether it was some noak of a plank started by the distress of weather which occasioned the Leak, and by the surges of the Sea, clapped into the place again, or what it was else could not be known. But however this looks like life from the dead to these poor men, who had received but a little before a sentence of Death in themselves, that they might trust in him who raiseth the Dead. Soon after this, God who had heard in Heaven great Tears and Prayers, Commands the Wind Tack about to the West, and to blow so strong a gale that they were forced to bear up before it, and it continued so ⟨p. 13⟩long, that it brought them back to the North of Ireland, where they continued some time;
And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why doth thy Wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought out of the Land of Egypt with great Power, and a mighty hand? Wherefore should the Egyptians say, for mischief did he bring them out to slay them in the Mountains, and to consume them from the face of the Earth? Turn from thy severe Wrath, and repent of this Evil against thy People,—upon the reading of these verses over again he declared to them, the Case which Moses was here interceeding for, compared with his Expostulation in the 12 verse, did parallel their case, and considering the happy event of that Argument, which Moses used (mentioned in the 14 verse, which runs thus:) and the Lord Repented of the Evil which he thought to doe unto his People—he could not but comfortably hope, that they might have the same Effect: Nay he goes further, and his Spirit raised into a peremptory prediction, that he durst assure them from his great Lord and Master, that not one hair of their heads should fall to the ground; after this he went to Prayer, urging God with the