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A58039	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.	Janeway, James, 1636?-1674.; Ryther, John, 1634?-1681, attributed name.	1698 (1698)	Wing R2445; ESTC R222746	69,767	178

of Affliction into the Wine of Consolation The Commander of the Vessel knows the Major and replys readily and chearfully Major Gibbons not one hair of your head shall perish nor any of your Ships Company if it lye in my power either to supply you or preserve you O the Wisdom of God that hath ways we know not of to Relieve in the greatest straits and cause himself to be seen in the Mount The Commander of this French Pyrat was one that some years before Major Gibbons had shown signal Kindness to when his life was in danger at Boston in New England Thus the Lord appeared a God hearing Prayers in Extremitys which appearances are not to be forgotten in succeeding Generations O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the Children of men Secondly About the year 1636. there arising a storm and tempest of troubles in the Church of Scotland five Ministers eminent for Piety Learning and their Honourable success in the Ministry were so hard born under by a prevailing Party imposing upon their Consciences that they were forced to Embarque themselves for America three of their names were Mr. Levinston Mr. Mackleland and Mr. Blaire with two more whom my Author could not call to mind These good men Say●●d half the Channel over about 500. Leagues where they met with great distress of weather which broke off the Rudder of their Ship and occasioned a desperate leak to spring in her which exposed them to eminent danger but they in this distress endeavour to hang on their Rudder again but often were they frustrated in their attempt to a total despair of effecting it They also laboured with the like unsuccessfulness to find out and stop the leak this poor Ships Crew had laboured also by pumping to keep the Ship above water until all their few hands were feeble and all their hearts faint so that as so many dispairing persons of life they cease all endeavours and yield themselves to death expecting every moment to be Entombed in the belly of the devouring deeps during the time of this their great distress the Ministers kept on their course as at other times of Worship viz the reading of a Chapter in course and taking observations from it with Prayers and Preaching which they did by turns at the crisis of this deplorable case it fell to be the Lott of Mr. Mackleland to perform this Exercise a man Austeer in his life reserved in his speech and of great Piety who was often observed to let fall many remarkable Prophetical Expressions of future events the Chapter that at that time came to be read in course by him was the 3● of Exodus which he had read all along until he came to the 12th verse where he made a full stop the verses run thus 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 same Argument and then rose up comfortably assuring his stedfastness 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 infeebled 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 stopt providentially of it self whether it was some noak of a plank started by the destress of weather which occasioned the Leak and by the surges of the Sea clapt into the place again or what it was else could not be known But however this lookes 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 long that it brought them back to the North of Ireland where they continued some time although but short they were very instrumental in the Converting of many souls which seed-plot remains to this day and soon after they passed into Scotland This Relation was given by several Ministers of the North of Ireland also the Reader may take notice the Author of that Book called the Fullfilling of the Scriptures pag. 487. mentions this remarkable Providence though not so largely with these two additional but very considerable circumstances first That a poor Sea-man was made the instrument to preserve the same Vessel by fastening the Rudder whose company they had all shun'd others having given it over Secondly Several Passengers being Aboard who shipt themselves for America upon only external accounts expecting a fat soyle and outward advantage in that place and not as the others upon the account of Conscience to enjoy the purity of Ordinances they did all dye upon the Sea save one being five in number And who is so blind as cannot see here the out stretched Arm of an Omnipotent God commanding deliverance for his poor distressed persecuted praying believing Servants and also for all them that Sayled with them O who would not Pray at Sea and trust in him who raises the dead in the saddest of their Extremities and distress and speaks forth much of the power and goodness of God calling upon all to trust in him let the dangers and straits be never so great 3. A Vessel of ours about the year 1636. being at New-found Land a Fishing being somewhat of the latest in the year until the Ice came in great flakes and being ready to hoise Sayle for the return home they sent out in the Boat six of the men to weigh their Anchor but while they were about it a sad Providence

for you and in this Exhortation I address my self to Sea-faring men whose lives are a course and series of VVonders in their frequent Salvations and Preservations witness this Treatise as you see the wonders of God in the Deeps viz. The wonders of his Creation so do you see the wonders of his Salvation How often may Wonderful be Written upon the Head of Salvations that you are every Voyage receiving from God you never go out and come home but God works Wonderfully and appears Wonderfully for you Is not he a Wonder-working-God for you every Voyage The Exhortation is to call to mind and keep in mind to Record and Register your Dangers and Deliverances and not to do as Israel is said to do who soon forgot his Works How often doth God bring in this sin of theirs in one Psalm They forgot his works and the wonders he had shewed them Psal 106. 13. Psal 78. 11. 1. Keep them in mind for they are wonderful Dangers and Deliverances They are Wonders these are to be remembred Marvellous thin●s did he for them in the sight of their Fathers c. He devided the Sea and caused them to pass through and he made the waters to stand as an heap Psal 78. 12 13. And it is brought in again in that Psalm They remembred not his hand nor the day when God delivered them out of the hand of the Ene●y c. Psal .. 73. 42. And in another place Th●y forgot God their Saviour which had done great things in Egypt Wondrous works in the Land of Ham Psal 106. 21. 22. This heightens the sin exceedingly to forget such Great and Wonderful Dangers and Deliverances 1. Your Dangers are Wonderful in this Respect they are often such as threaten a sentence of Death to be executed upon you May it not be said of poor Sea-men as was of them For we would not Brethren have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia that we were pressed out of measure above strength insomuch that we despaired of Life but we had the sentence of death in our selves that we should not trust in our selves but in him that raiseth the dead who deliverid us from so great a Death and doth Deliver 2 Cor. 1. 8 9 10. O how many Sea-faring Men may say thus Our Dangers have been such as we have often despaired of Life there hath but been a little betwixt us and Death nay betwixt us and Eternity And shall we forget such dangers when we have been so near death in them As he said to David As the Lord lives there is but one step betwixt thee and death O how often have you been near sinking near drowning and yet God hath then appeared for you with an outstretched Arm and in the Mount hath been seen And will you not remember this 2. Your Dangers are Wonderful in this Respect they are sudden and surprizing they are wonderfully sudden How are you often all on a sudden threatned with nothing but present Death and Destruction It may be said of Sea-men as of those in Job Snares compasses them about and sudden fear troubleth them Job 22. 10. It doth not only trouble them but all on a sudden trouble them before they know almost where they are as we say VVe read of some whose Calamity shall come suddenly Suddenly shall he be broken without Remedy Prov. 6. 15. O how terrible is such a case or such a danger And hath not God often threatned to make this your case and condition O then do not forget such dangers that have so suddenly lookt you in the Face 3. Your Dangers are VVonderful in this Respect they are not Dangers in which your Bodies are concerned only but they are Dangers in which your Souls are concerned It is not only the danger of a Ship-wrack'd Vessel and a Ship-wrack'd Estate and a Shipwrack'd Body but a Shipwrack'd Soul Here is the great danger lest thou make a lost Voyage for thy Soul If thou had died in such a Storm or died in the Term of such a Voyage Oh! VVhat would have become of thy Soul thy precious thy immortal Soul Had not thou died in a Carnal in a Christless state and condition Had not thy poor Soul perish'd to all Eternity if thou then had miscarried VVas not thou then a stranger altogether to Christ and a VVork of Saving Grace upon thy Heart Had not thou then the guilt of all thy sins upon the back of thy Soul unpardoned And O what danger was this And wilt thou forget such dangers 4. Your Dangers are such at Sea as none but a God can deliver from all your skill cannot O then is the greatest Artist at his Wits end The Psalmist tells us Psal 107. 27. the Marriners in their Storms are at their wits end or as some read it all their wisdom is swallowed up they know not what course to Steer the Dutch Annorators carry it Now their very Pilots are at a loss Now all their courage cannot contribute to their deliverance though men of the greatest natural courage and magnanimity in the world Yet now their hearts melt because of troubles as it is said of the Marriners in Jonahs Ship The Marriners were afraid O now when Death and Eternity the Grave and Judgment to come looks them in the face Then they are Magor-Missabibs terror to themselves and to all about them O now the danger is such it must be the only finger of God that can help I have heard of a Ship in Yarmouth Road that in a great Storm they feared the Anchor would come home and the Master discoursing with a Youth in the Ship that God had begun lately to work some Convictions upon O says he Master if God do but lay a Finger upon one Strand of the Cable it will hold and in the morning many Ships were lost near them and there was but one Strand in the Cable left O the finger of God only can sometimes save in dangers It was a good saying of a Godly Commander of a Ship in eminent dangers None now but that God that saved the Children of Israel at the Red Sea can save us out of this distress and as soon as he had said it the Wind altered and saved them And will you forget such dangers as none but a God can save from 5. Your dangers at Sea are such as many thousands have perished in how many have gone to Sea that never returned more that have been swallowed up in the belly of the great Deeps How many have perished by the Sword at Sea how many by violent Storms and that God should put a difference betwixt you and others and you should forget it this exceedingly heightens and aggravates the guilt How many have lost their lives how many have lost their limbs and yet in such dangers God hath brought you off this is never to be forgotten 2. Your dangers are not only wonderful but your deliverances are so too and therefore should

continu'd for forty hours and all of them safely Arriv'd at Barbadoes The Masters name of the Ketch was Thomas Woodberry of Salom. This the Author had from a very known person of Integrity and Godliness now living at Salom. 12. In the year 1606. in the Wars betwixt the Netherlands and the Spaniards upon the Spanish Ocean fell out this observable and remarkable action taken notice of by Grotius in his Annals of the Low-Country Wars Admiral Hauteen being sent to intercept the Spanish Fleet coming from America and the Indies he had with him four and twenty Vessels but of these six were beaten back by Tempests soon after Frasciardo with eight great Gallions having a prosperous Gale fell upon them unprovided and e're they were aware but the Galleys that were with him not being driven by the Wind kept by the shore but one of them being grappl'd with a ship of Zealand that was next the Admiral so affrighted the rest that as soon as they saw it they in the very beginning of the Night Retreated with all hast Hauteen thus left by his Companions being a man of an Undaunted spirit for two whole days did not leave off the Fight though most of his men were in that time lost but with his torne ship casting off all fear of danger protracted the Victory but after he saw no hopes of Relief and that the Waves pour'd in upon him that none of them might come alive into the Enemies hands at once they Unanimously agreed upon a Resolute and Terrible action For kneeling down upon their Knees they like dying but desperate men beg of God that he would please to pardon in that they sought to shun the Mockeries and Cruelties of the Spaniards by that sad and lamentable death so they set fire to the Gun powder by which blow threescore men were kill'd two half dead lived a little while being taken by the Spaniards with wonder beholding their dreadful Countenances and their words with their strange Resolution and Obstinacy in Death 13. In the year 1607. about the time when the Plantations of Virginia began to be a little settled by King James some Britains went to Guyana but a dangerous Sedition arose in the Voyage and the Ship being lost part of the Company remained in the Island where continually vexing the Barbarians with their unkind usage they at last were set upon by War as Enemies by force of which and the want of Victuals they committed themselves to the Sea in a Boat made only of an Hollow Tree there these poor distressed Creatures were tossed with continual Tempests betwixt Despair and Hope of Life but at last they were driven upon the Rocks after great misery endured by them in their little Boat for Ten days together and now their danger was leslessen'd for here they must fall into the hands of the Spaniard who pardon'd them in regard they came not to those Parts of their own accord but by the stress of Weather Thus were these poor distressed Men saved and preserved when all hope of being saved was taken away 14. The Phoenix Frigot in the time when Captain Wheston Commanded her and Mr. May was Master being Commanded to carry some Persons of Quality from Rye to Deep in France the Captain and several of the Gentlemen that belonged to the Frigot was Ashore the Captain sends the Long-boat Aboard and Order'd the Frigot to weigh and come to sayl and stand too and fro off in the Bay and he would come out in his Pinnis and the Gentlemen that was with him were namely Sunebank Giles his Chyrurgion Mr. Goodwin his Chaplain Mr. Perkins his Barbar and Gentleman Mr. Richards and some three more Gentlemen Reformadoes Abraham Car Coxswain and about 12 Seamen for his Crew that set out of Rye and crossed the Bay to meet the Frigot under Sayl and when they came near being a good way a-head waved to the Frigot to keep her way and not to come a playse for her which she did with a fresh Top-sail Gail of Wind till she came up with the Pinnis and then the Coxen would a-laid her Aboard of the Larboard-side but the Captain supposing himself far enough a-head Commanded him to shout a-head of her and lay her aboard of the Starboard-side which he assuming to do the Ship giving a saw and having fresh way the Pinnis was not past but the Cotwater of the Ship cut the Pinnis in the middle and run right over that she lay in a moment of time in 100 pieces and all the Men floating for their lives in the interim of which time with a Cry they gave a leap in which leap the Captain catcht hold o● the Railes of the Head Mr. Richards on the Captain 's heels Mr. Giles the Chyrurgion on Richard's heels Mr. Goodwin on Giles's heels and some other person on his so that with that spring or leap no less than 4 or 5 providentially catcht about one the others heels or middle as Boys when at playing Truss and in hoysting in the Captain they preserved 4 or 5 more with him the Coxen sunk down and brought some of the Tallow of the Lower part of the ship on his cloaths and came up again at the Stern where he was taken up by the Seamen some by swiming others by the assistance of the Oar and pieces of the Boat by God's blessing kept them from drowning till the Long-boat took them all up except the Captain 's Barber Mr. Perkins whom it seems had sunk it s thought his last time but Providence so order'd it that the Man in the main Channel having the hand Lead there fell a chrockle in the dipsey-Line and in that very interim the Lead fell in the very place where the Barber was sunk and the chinckle of the Line fell about the Barbers Fingers hitcht about his Ring and so providentially fasten'd it self so that as the Man in the Sceanes haling up his Lead found it to come heavier than it used to do admiring at last up comes the Barber fastned in the chinkle by his Ring which the Spectators amazed at immediately took hold of him and pulled him into the Frigot with his Eyes fixed and Teeth set and little appearance of Life but by the blessing of God on the immediate means used and care of him he soon came to himself and recovered so that notwithstanding this shrewd disaster which might have proved fatal to all or most of them yet there was not one Man of them all miscarry'd but was recover'd to their health again as Monuments of God's Mercy For truth of this many of the Men are alive at this day the Chyr●rgion now living in Grays-Inn-Lane and at the very interim of time I was then aboard the said Frigot and was not only an Eye-spectator but an Instrument to help in preserving of some of them and therefore may Aver it to be Truth Ezekiel Fog 15. About Ten years ago in the Island of Barbados there did arrive one Mr.