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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

be remembred There is never a deliverance but you may read a wonder in it so many deliverances and salvations at Sea so many wonders God saves you in a miraculous way 1. Is not this a wonder that persons of such great sins and provocations should be persons of such great salvations and preservations that such as sin every Voyage nay it may be at an high rate sin every Voyage should be saved and delivered at such an high rate every Voyage is not this a wonder that men of such sins should be men of such salvations that men that sin against these salvations should not have these deliverances shorten upon them Oh what a wonder is this We should wonder if a person should be continually disobliging any of us and yet we should be still heaping up kindnesses upon him This made the Prophet Ezra say Shall we again break his Commandments after such deliverance as this O do not you provoke the Lord every time that you go out and still he delivers you still he returns you to your Relations to visit your habitations in peace and is not this a wonder 2. Your deliverances are wonderful if you consider your deliverances are great deliverances We read of such And the Lord saved them with a great deliverance or with a great salvation Thus said Sampson Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant Judg. 15. 18. Now any great transactions are remembred and recorded Your deliverances are great if we consider these things 1. They are commanded deliverances by the great God his word of command brings all our deliverances about whether at Sea or Land Which made the Church in distress pray Thou art my King O God command deliverances for Jacob Psal 44. 4. He commands every thing tending to deliverance at Sea in order to deliverance he commands the Winds He maketh the storm a calm Psal 107. 29. He also commands the Seas he says to the proud Waves So far and no farther You read of a decree set to the Sea that it cannot pass Though the Waves thereof toss themselves yet can they not prevail though they roar yet can they not pass over it Jer. 5. 22. It is the great God only that rides Lord Admiral at Sea to command the Seas and the Waves thereof God is said to shut up the Sea with doors and set bars upon it Hitherto shalt thou come and no further and here shall thy proud waves be stayed Job 38. 8 11. Xerxes presumed he could tame the Hellespont for attempting his Bridge of Boats but all this was in vain this is a flower in Gods Crown alone to command the Sea Your deliverances are a fruit and effect of Gods commanding Power therefore great 2. They are great deliverances as they are the curious workmanship as I may call them of the Attributes of a great God Deliverance is said to be wrought for us it is the handy work of God If God will work who can let as the Prophet saith Isa 43. 13 14. And he seems to speak it upon the account of the deliverance of his People For your sake I have sent down to Babylon and have brought down all their Nobles and the Caldeans whose cry is in their ships In every deliverance there is the excellent work of the Attributes of God we may in such a deliverance say Here is the Power of God and here is the Wisdom of God and here is the Love of God and here is the Faithfulness of God c. For as God in the confounding of the Languages at Babel said Go too let us go down as if he derected himself to his glorious Attributes compassing about his glorious Throne Come let us go down Gen. 11. 7. Or as some take it of the Trinity as in the Creation So when God sends us deliverances in our distresses he sets his Attributes at work Go Power go Mercy go Love go Faithfulness go and act your respective parts in this deliverance and must not this be then an excellent and curious Piece that Gods Attributes bring forth 3. They are great deliverances if we consider the great sins and provocations they come over the heads of the great unworthiness of the receiver heightens much the mercy and favour received the reason why persons do not greaten their deliverances is because they do not greaten their sins in the deep sense and aggravations of them O such a Soul would say as David Is this the manner of men O God is not this a great deliverance for such a great sinner to receive 4. They are great deliverances if we consider the time and season of their coming in as this deliverance of the Ships Company where Paul was it was when all hope of being saved was taken away and so were many of the deliverances mentioned in this Treatise So Peter's Sea-deliverance when he began to sink Christ stretched forth his hand immediately he was now sinking and going but see how ready Christ was to save He stretched forth his hand and caught Peter Matth. 14. 28 29 30. Our sinking time is Jesus Christs saving time In the Mount is the Lord seen our extremity is Gods opportunity and are not then these great deliverances never to be forgotten 5. They are great deliverances if we consider they are not only deliverances of Bodies and Ships and Estates sometimes but Souls and where the Ship is lost and the Estate is lost yet for the life to be saved and the Soul delivered is a very great Deliverance a Reprieve when a Prisoner is under the sentence of Death is a great Mercy O when God Reprieves a poor Prisoner this is some Deliverance we read o● some Deliverance God gave to Israel in the days of Shishak a Reprieve is some Deliverance but if it end in suing out the Prisoners Pardon then it is a great Deliverance If it be such a Deliverance in a Storm at Sea as Hezekiah had from a Sickness at Shoar Thou hast delivered me in love to my Soul and cast all my sins behind thy back Isa 38. This is a double Deliverance and sure such Deliverances as these are worth Recording These are to be written in Marble and not in Dust with the Pen of Iron as the Prophet says and not with with point of a Diamond 3. Your Deliverances are wonderful if you consider the many thousands that have perished in less Dangers to an eye of Reason they are distinguishing Deliverances and therefore wonderful hath God dealt with all men that go to Sea as with you Hath not thousands perished by the Sword at Sea in bloody Engagements Miscarried at Sea in dreadful and terrible Storms Hath not the Sea been a Sepulcher for thousands Are not there Millions of the Dead that the Sea must one day give up and yet you Delivered and yet you spared O what distinguishing Mercy is this And shall this be forgotten by you Should not you keep Records of distinguishing Mercy How

us preserve our Vessel from being rent by the loud cracks of Thunder or from being burnt by Lightning or any other accident keep us and save us from tempestuous Weather from bitter Frosts Hail Ice Snow or Whirlwinds and from Captivity and Slavery TEACH me O God to remember thee my Creator in the days of my Youth to continually think upon thee and to praise thy Name for all thy Mercies Bless all our Friends I beseech thee that are on Land and let their Prayers for us be acceptable in thy sight and grant that our next meeting together may be for the better and not for the worse even to the praising and magnifying of thy Holy Name and Salvation of our own Souls in the great day of the Lord Jesus to whom with thee and thy blessed Spirit be ascribed all Honour Power and Glory Adoration and Subjection now and for evermore Amen A Prayer before a Voyage O ETERNAL God even the God of our Salvation the hope of all the ends of the Earth and of them that remain in the wide Ocean under the shadow of whose Wings we are always secure and without whose protection we cannot expect safety I have been O Lord preserved by thee until this moment from many dangers for which I have not expressed my thankfulness in acknowledging those dayly blessings I have received from thee but O Lord forget and forgive those mani●old sins which I have committed against thee and blot them out of thy Book of remembrance PURGE me O Lord I beseech thee from all vile affections and grant I may bring forth the fruits of thy Spirit go along with me with thy blessed Spirit in this my Voyage preserve me from Pirates Robbers and Enemies defend me from Rocks Sands and Shelves and keep me from Thunder and Lightning Storms and tempestuous Weather or any other danger that may dismay me To thee O Lord I commend my Body and Spirit to dispose of me according to thy holy Will and Pleasure if thou art pleas'd to call for my life upon the surface of the Waters I know thy Almighty Word can command the Sea to give up her Dead at the last and great audit But if thou hast determin'd to bring me safe to my desired Haven give me thy Grace which is sufficient for me to walk according to thy holy Will in all things make me to lay hold of Eternal Life which as the Anchor of Hope is both sure and stedfast keep me from all temptations ghostly and bodily and from sudden Death and in thy good time bring me to the Land of the Living there to reign with thee for evermore Amen A Thanksgiving after a Voyage O IMMORTAL God I have seen thy Works O Lord and thy Wonders in the deep thou spakest the Word and the storm Wind arose which lifted up the Waves thereof but when we cried unto thee thou madest the storm to cease so that the Waves thereof were still then did we rejoyce because we were a●rest and thou broughtest us safe to that Haven● where we would be O that men would therefore praise thee O Lord for thy Goodness and declare the Wonders thou dost continually for them I BLESS thy Holy Name for conducting me through those many dangers which encompassed me and praise thy Mercy that the Deep hath not swallowed me up and that I am not gone down into the place of silence I also praise thy holy Name and admire thy loving Kindness towards me that thou hast not delivered up my Body and Goods as a prey into the hands of unreasonable Men but hast brought me to my desired Haven and at last returned me back in safety to my Habitation O LET me never forget to pay those Vows I made to thee when I was in trouble but give me an awful sense and apprehension of thy great Power and possess my Soul with a true Reverence of thy Divine Majesty that I may evermore serve thee in holiness and Righteousness all the days of my Life Endue me with thy Holy Spirit that I may become acceptable in thy sight and may be fitted at length for future Glories this I beg for thy Son Jesus Christs sake my only Saviour Amen A Prayer in a Storm O LORD our God thou hast commanded us in the day of Calamity to call upon thy Name and thou hast promised to hear us Lord I fly unto thee who art a sure refuge thy Flood-gates are opened and the Floods lift up their ●ofty Waves But thou O Lord most high art mightier than the noise of many Waters yea than the mighty Waves of the Sea Thou canst in a moment if it stand with thy Divine will and pleasure rebuke the Winds and the Sea and turn this Storm into a Calm I KNOW I justly deserve to be cast away and utterly to be rejected by thee but Lord save us or else we perish accept of my unfeigned sorrow for all my sins and transgressions and endue me with a stedfast resolution to forsake them be merciful unto us O God be merciful unto us and save us from perishing in these deep Waters O refresh us with thy Mercy and that soon lest we go down into the place of silence O comfort us in this great distress that though the Sea rage and swell our Hearts may be quiet and still in this time of our disconsolation AND as I earnestly desire to be protected from this great peril and danger which now terrifies us so I earnestly beseech thee that thou wilt for ever fill my heart with ●●ch an awful dread of thy Majesty that I may fear thy Name and praise thy power in the great Congregation awake my dull and drowsie Soul from the sloth of Sin and renew a right Spirit within me fill me with the gifts and Graces of thy Holy Spirit that I may live the life of the Righteous and never forget thy loving-kindness save us now from Death I beseech thee from the mercile●s Waves who are now ready to swallow us up and bring us home in safety for thy Son Jesus Christ his sake our only Lord and Saviour Amen A Thanksgiving after a Storm 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 AND now what shall I render to thee O Lord for this and all other thy great benefits I will offer up unto thee the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving and will pay those vows I so solemnly made unto thee when I was in trouble I will evermore remember that my help is in the Lord who made Heaven and Earth and that thou art that God that can and will deliver me let this thy mercy and loving kindness never depart my memory but let me praise thy goodness and sing of thy power unto my lives end Amen FINIS

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

shall be lost Observations are these 1. Dangers and Deliverances are to be carefully recorded and remembred therefore Paul takes an account of both here in this Voyage 2. Salvations and Deliverances many times are not sent until persons be left hopeless in themselves I shall speak a little to both these upon this present occasion that what you read here may be remarked and remembred 1. Dangers and Deliverances are to be carefully recorded and remembred This Observation hath two parts 1. Dangers are to be remembred 2. Deliverances are to be remembred Thus the Lords poor people used to do in all Ages When Jacob was in danger of his Brother Esau you see how he commemorates it and gives us an exact narrative of it and tells us how he feared him Lord I fear my Brother Esau Psal 34. 4. How often was David in danger by Saul who was his sworn Enemy and how many Psalms have we taking occasion to remember what danger he was in and how comfortably he was brought off I sought the Lord and he heard me and delivered me out of all my fears 2 Cor. 1. 9 10. As Paul tells the Corinthians what danger they were in they were prest out of measure out of strength in so much that they despaired of life c. And so at Sea as well as Land he would have dangers remembred how that they go up to the Heaven one while and sink into the deeps another their Soul melted because of trouble and they at their wits ends c. Peter's danger at Sea is recorded when he began to sink and cried out Master save me or I perish Matth. 14. 28 29 30. And the Disciples when they cried o●t Carest thou not that we perish Mark 4. 38. It is observed the Ship now was full and now comes salvation and deliverance Here was their danger recorded the Ship was full and Christ asleep in the hinder part of the Ship 1. Query is How Dangers should be remembred 2. How Deliverances should be remembred 1. Dangers should be remembred considering we may come into them again Many when dangers are not they sing to their Souls that song and delude themselves The bitterness of Death is past they think they are out of one strom and they shall never come in such another Just as persons do with their Sickness at Land so many do with their Dangers at Sea if God bring them off O they grow hardned and secure again But if God hath brought home one dangerous Voyage we should think it may be the next will be as dangerous Have I escaped one at Sea one at Land if I do not improve it if I do not walk suitable under it O how easily can God bring me into another You never were in such Dangers but you may come to the like again whether at Sea or Land 2. Dangers should be remembred with consideration to the greatness of them great things should be remembred a great God great Mercies great Deliverances great Sins and great Dangers How should we think O what a Danger was I in at this time by such a Storm at Sea by such a Sickness ashore not only my Life in danger but Lord was not my Soul in danger was I fit to die at such a time had I gotten an interest in Christ if I had been cast away at such a time Men think dangers great for their Bodies but they do not think them so for their Souls they think them great for their Ships for their Estates but they do not think them so for their Eternal conditions O had not my Body Soul Ship and all perished together And was not this a great danger thy Souls danger was the greatest danger hadst thou been drowned at such a time thy Soul had been shipwrackt to all Eternity 3. Dangers should be remembred with consideration to their suddenness how many times do they come suddenly upon us As there is sudden fear so there is sudden danger When the Lord sends the Winds out of his Treasury suddenly and threatens men at Sea with sudden destruction when desolation seems to come as a Whirl-wind c. we should think What if sudden death had come upon me what a condition was my poor Soul in what a dreadful thing would it have been if I had been surprised on a sudden and sent into an Eternal condition in the twinkling of an eye I to be threatned to be swallowed up only with a formal God have mercy upon thee in thy mouth not to have time to pray repent reflect upon thy past life O what a sad thing is this 4. We should think of our Danger with consideration to the frames of our heart● what frames of heart we were then under 1. To the frames of our hearts when in our dangers 2. The frames of our hearts when brought from under them 1. The frames of the heart when in and under them were not you under great fears and hurries of Soul it may be not knowing how it would go with your Souls if you had gone off the stage of this life at the present David when he was in danger took especial notice of the frame of his spirit Innumerable evils have compassed me about Psal 40. 12. 13. He was compassed about on every side with danger and how was it with him then he calls to mind Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me so that I am not able to look up 57. 7. And what then O see how he prays Be pleased O Lord to deliver me O Lord make hast to help me Remember what the frames of our hearts were in our dangers in reference to our fears and secondly what in reference to our faith so also did David when pursued in danger by Saul My heart is fixed my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise We are to remember our fears under our dangers that we may be prepared better for future tryals we are to remember our faith under dangers past that we may be encouraged for the time to come in after straits 2. We are to remember our frames of spirit when God brings us out of our dangers how then we were melted with the present sense of the mercy as those Israelites when God brought them out of danger they believed God they sang and gave praise O what resolutions were there then upon the Soul to be given up anew to God to walk before the Lord in the light of the living Thus also did David when brought out of danger Thy vows are upon me O God c. and at another time The Lord preserveth the simple I was brought low c. and thou helpedst me Psal 56. 12 13. And then what a frame of heart was upon him Return unto thy rest O my Soul c. Psal 116. 6 7. Then he was all for returning to God O now there was fresh endearments betwixt the Soul and God These we are to remember that we may not wear totally the sense of them

Sea 2. God by bringing us into dangers hath a design upon us to convince us of sin many Convictions hath come into the Soul at this door Dangers have often proved inlets to Convictions Oh! What Convictions have many poor Souls lain under while in danger when it may be the dangers hath given them a view of Eternity when Dangers hath presented Death to the Man and Conscience hath cried Now thou art sinking now there is but a step betwixt thee and Eternity betwixt thee and another World Oh then what Convictions hath the Soul lyen under and yet it may be when the Danger is over the Conviction is over too Well though we may forget all yet God remembers all 3. God hath a design upon us in our Dangers to prepare us for our latter end The danger thou art in and hath escaped calls for to prepare for thy Death which must certainly come to pass shortly God by Dangers would have you prepare for Death And Oh! VVhat a cutting Consideration will this be when thou com'st to die that thou who hast been in so many dangers by Sea and Land should have no more learned to die nor ready to die Alas you escaped the last that you might prepare for the next 4. God hath a design upon our Graces by bringing us into danger Danger is to exert and draw forth Grace Thus the Disciples Dangers at Sea were to draw forth their Faith Faith and Patience comes most visibly upon the stage in times of most eminent danger 5. God by bringing us into Dangers hath a design upon our Souls he sometimes by danger of drowning the Body hath saved the Soul and hath caused it to say Periissem nisi periissem I had perished if I had not perished Some have escaped Shipwrack of Soul by Shipwrack of Body And shall we forget such Dangers when God hath such gracious designs in them upon us 2. He drives on gracious ends and designs in our Deliverances And shall we then forget them c. 1. He spares us that we may account his long-suffering Salvation he gives by sparing of us space to Repent and Oh! What 〈◊〉 dreadful thing is it not to remember wherefore we are spared and delivered He gave her space to Repent but she repented not Psal 56. ult The Prisoner is Reprieved that he might sue out his Pardon And will he forget the end for which he is Reprieved 2. He delivers that we may live to him Why was David's feet deliver'd from falling it was that he might walk before the Lord in the light of the living He gives us our lives that we might give them back again to God Jer. 7. 10. Men are not deliver'd from dangers to live to themselves to live to their lusts to Drink and Swear and Rant and Roar as a great many poor Wretches do That say as they did We are deliver'd to do all these abominations Psal 50. 15. 3. God hath another end in Deliverance that we might glorifie him in paying our Vows to him I will deliver thee And what then when out of Trouble never remember it more cast it behind thy back O no And thou shalt glorifie me He aims at a revenue of glory out of your deliverances 4. God hath another end in delivering of us that we might enter into New Engagements to be more the Lords as in times of great dangers there use to be great engagements betwixt God and the Soul so in times of Great Deliverances there are great Engagements pass betwixt God and the Soul New Dedications to God New Deliverances call for New Dedications of the Soul to God now the Soul should be set apart for God more than ever 5. God hath another end in delivering of us that we might break off our league with sin thus it was with them Shall we break his Commandments after such great deliverance as this APPLICATION Is it so that our Dangers and Deliverances should be remembred by us then it is a word of Information 1. Learn we here how acceptable it is to God that we thankfully congratulate our Mercies No Musick like a sound of Trumpets off the VVaters so O what sweet Musick doth it make in God's Eares that you thankfully record Sea-Mercies and Sea-Deliverances this is Musick of the VVaters this makes Melody in God's Eares Sea-Prayers and Sea-Praises come up acceptably before the Lord he is so pleased with them that he hath called them Sacrifices O that Men would offer the Sacrifice of Praise this is the found of Trumpets you should carry to Sea with you outward bound and homeward bound 2. Learn we hence what a Great Evil it is to lose the remembrance of our Dangers and Deliverances VVhat do many Families VVhat do many Persons with the Sea-Dangers with the Sea-Deliverances Do not they write them in the dust Do not they bury them in the 〈◊〉 of Oblivion Do not they cast them behind their backs Do not they trample them under foot O poor Souls they little know what they do 1. Such Deliverances will have a Resurrection in their Consciences one day though they bury them now O they will rise again And Oh! How will they then dread and terrifie a poor Soul 2. Such Deliverances will another day be witnesses and evidences against you Oh! VVhat a cutting testimony will they give in against the Soul Hast not thou been graciously and wonderfully delivered in such a Voyage in such a Storm at Sea in such a Sickness at Shore and yet walked unsuitably under all thefe To be cast out by mercy O what a dreadful thing is this 3. Such deliverances forgotten by us harden us either they soften or harden These Providences are like God's Ordinances in this respect they either harden or soften Oh! VVhat a dreadful thing it is to be harden'd by Deliverances and Preservation and yet many are Sentence being not speedily executed the hearts of Men are fully set in them to do evil 4. Such Deliverances will be Great aggravations both of man's sin and misery if forgotten by them The goodness of God was the aggravation of the sin of David says God When I had done so and so for thee nay and I would have done more wherefore hast thou despised the Commandment of the Lord to do evil in his sight 2 Sam. 12. 8 9. VVhat for you that had such deliverances as these to break his Commandment as Ezra says O this is an high aggravation 5. Deliverances and Dangers forgotten will cause the Lord to pull in his hand in a way of mercy will cause God to give up Persons and take his Protecting Presence from them take them from the shadow of his VVings Souls by forgetting past dangers and deliverances may put themselves from under God's Protection for the future Vse 2. Is it so that we are to Remember our Sea-dangers and deliverances then it is a word of Exhortation be exhorted then to call to mind and keep in mind what God hath done