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book_n	fear_v	lord_n	remembrance_n	1,962	5	9.9520	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35938	Gods protecting providence, man's surest help and defence in the times of the greatest difficulty and most imminent danger evidenced in the remarkable deliverance of divers persons from the devouring waves of the sea, amongst which they suffered shipwrack : and also from the more cruelly devouring jawes of the inhumane canibals of Florida / faithfully related by one of the persons concerned therein, Jonathan Dickenson.	Dickinson, Jonathan, 1663-1722.	1699 (1699)	Wing D1389; ESTC R13049	66,852	110

which he also desired us not to touch with and that if we kept faithfull to the Lord He would desend and preserve us and that we needed no such means of preservation for if our waies did please the Lord he would make our Enemies to be at peace with us And he further said That Prophe●● was fulfilled and a Remnant were wilnesses of it That Swords should he beat into Plonghshares and 〈◊〉 into Pruning-hooks and that those who make use of the Sword should perish with the Sword Speaking concerning some Friends of the Ministry in Old England he said Many Friends about us that were rich men and had publick testimonies were much 〈◊〉 with their Wordly concerns which was a great hindrance to their publick service and I would be often speaking to them about it For said he I found it to be hindrance to me and so I gave it all up into my Son's hands be allowing me and my Wife so much a year and then I was at liberty and had the World under my ●eet Which I would of ●●he telling them He often said That this place 〈◊〉 Gods Plantation That in Jamaica and Carolina there were 〈◊〉 few 〈◊〉 but that this place had a great Fame abroad wherever he had been for an honest laborious and good people Whereupon he exhorted us many times To keep up our fame and told us the means how By being f●●●●full to God and keeping in love one which another● and by forgiving our ●respasses one against another Often exhorting us to love one another mentioning that expression of our Saviour By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye love one another He likewise pressed us To meet often together using this Schripture as a motive thereto For they that feared the Lord Met often together and spake often one unto another and a book of remembrance was written He further said The Lord had given him the desire of his heart in coming hither and that if he dyed here he was very well satisfied and he believed his Wife would also be well satisfied and that as the Lord had given her to him and him to her so they had given one another up and that when he came from her it was as if he was going to his grave That neither Gold nor Silver Riches nor ●●mour should have parted them but that he did it only in obedience to the Lord and to keep his peace with God He said that had been convinced about 4. 5. years had born a faithfull testimony against the hireling Priests had been in Prison seven times for his testimony the Lord had alwaies been his Preserver Deliverer by waies that he thought not of And so Friends said he will He be to you if you be faithfull to him And that several who had been committed Prisoners with him had used indirect means to get at liberty but it was alwaies my resolution said he not to bow a knee to Baal yet the Lord wrought my Deliverance And further he said severall times That in his late Afflictions he had seen more of the wonders dealings of the Lord than ever he had seen before or ever should have seen if he had not gone through them and that he felt the Lord with him which did out ballance all Speaking of his patient bearing his sufferings and how he was supported by the Lords power under all and of his inquiry of the Lord about it the Lords answer was LET PATIENCE HAVE ITS PERFECT WORK Speaking how sick he was at Jamaica for about twenty weeks yet said he I mist but one meeting He also said That he desired of the Lord that he might not dye by the hands of those Barbarians For said he They thirsted or longed as much after our flesh as ever we did after Victualls On the 3 d. day of the 2 d. month some Friends coming into the room to visit him at the sight of them he seemed to rejoice and putting forth his hand was ready to embrace them in much love and in a very tender frame of spirit The Friends expressed their gladness to see him but said They were sorry to see him so very weak to which he replied Although my body be weak my mind is sound and memory good And further said The Lord hath been very good to me all along unto this very day and this morning hath sweetly refres●ed me And further added The Lord hath answered my desire for I desired content and that I might come to this place to ●ay my bones amongst you And afterwards said It is a good thing to have a conscience void of offence both towards God and towards man On the 4th day of the 2d month being the 1st day of the week about the 5th hour in the morning he desired a Friend to write for him to his dear Wife To remember his dear love to her and to let her know of his travels being here that the Lord was with him That his outward affairs were seiled that She had wherewith all to live on He further said divers Friends being present That the Lord was with him all things were Well that he had nothiug to do but to Dye And accordingly on this day he departed and on the 3d. day following being the 6th day of the 2d month was buried in Friends burying ground in this Town of Philadelphia And now having brought my relation concerning this good man to the last Period of his life I might very well here put a period to my Preface but that I foresee some persons may be ready to say Here is an account of very strange passages but of what credit is the Relator May We depend upon his Authority without danger of being imposed upon To ●uch I answer He is a man well known in this Town of good credit and repute on whose fidelity and veracity those who have any knowledge of him will readily relie without suspecting fallacy But that in the mouth of two or three Witness●s every thing may be established besides him his Wife a person whose residence when at home is in this Town viz Joseph Kirle the Master of the Barkenti●e in which they suffered shipwrack a man of an honest character amongst his Neighbours had the perusall of it before it went to the press and approved it With which I shall conclude wishing my Reader much satisfaction in the reading of it But never the unhappiness of experiencing in proper person the truth of it A Journal of the Travels of severall Persons with their sufferings being cast away in the Gulph amongst the Cannabals of Florida c. Persons Names viz. Mariners Joseph Kirle Commander of the Barkentine Reformation Richard Limpeney Mate Solomon Cresson Joseph Buckley Thomas Fownes Thomas Jemmet Nathaniel Randall John Hilliard the Masters Boy Ben. the Masters Negro Passengers Robert Barrow Jonatha● Dickinson Mary Dickinson Jonathan Dickinson a sucking Child six months old Benjamin