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An essay for the recording of illustrious providences
An essay for the recording of illustrious providences: wherein, an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events, which have happened in this last age; especially in New-England. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green, 1684
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.
CHAP. I.
OF Remarkable. Sea-Deliverances. Mr. Anthony Thacher's Relation, concerning his and his Wives being marvellously preserved alive, when all the Ships Company perished. The wonderful preservation of Major Gibbons and his Company. Several other Remarkable Sea-deliverances mentioned by Mr. Janeway, wherein New England Men were concerned. Mr. Grafton's preservation. A Vessel lately coming from Bristol for New-England saved out of great distress at Sea. Some providentially met with by a New-England Vessel in an open Boat, many Leagues off from any shore, strangely preserved. An account of a Remarkable Sea-deliverance which happened this year. Another like unto it above twenty years ago. Page. I.
OF Remarkable. Sea-Deliverances. Mr. Anthony Thacher's Relation, concerning his and his Wives being marvelously preserved alive, when all the Ships Company perished. The wonderful preservation of Major Gibbons and his Company. Several other Remarkable Sea-deliverances mentioned by Mr. Janeway, wherein NewEngland Men were concerned. Mr. Grafton's preservation. A Vessel lately coming from Bristol for New-England saved out of great distress at Sea. Some providentially met with by a New-England Vessel in an open Boat, many Leagues off from any shoar, strangely preserved. An account of a Remarkable Sea-deliverance which hapned this year. Another like unto it above twenty years ago. Page. I.