in time of danger or else why do they cry to him Therefore the Heathens offered Sacrifices to appease their Gods when they conceived they were Angry and had stately Temples built for this very end That was a sharp return of God's Go to the gods which you have served and see if they can deliver you Idolaters had in such Cases high apprehensions and high expectations from their gods some think the Reason of that Inscription at Athens To the unknown God was to conceal the Name of the Tutelary God unto whose protection they had committed themselves for they conceived if their god's Name was known the Enemies of the City might Thus the Tyrians and Lacedemonians charm him away therefore they settered their Gods and chained them 3. Natural Conscience acknowledges that God in order to deliverance is to be sought unto they cryed in the Text unto their Gods they do not neglect the use of means and hope for deliverance without endeavours this is irrational Natural light teaches another Lesson they do not only lighten the Ship but they also cry to their Gods 4. Natural Conscience acknowledges this also that this God must be under Profession and Adoration Every man cryed to his God the God he worshiped and served and so that word in the Prophet Every one walking in Micah 4. 5. the Name of his God Is it not said of the poor Indians that they offer Sacrifice to the Devil and say There is a good God and he will not hurt them therefore they need not serve him but there is a bad God meaning the Devil and he will torment them if he be not sacrificed unto the very light of Nature teaches a kind of worship in time of danger 1. Reason Why the light of Nature puts upon Prayer in times of danger is because it looks at self-preservation all Natural motions are for self-preservation therefore suggestions to self-murder are unnatural and more immediately from Satan the destroyer of Man-kind every Creature will avoid its own Death and Dissolution and Shall we do this by the light of Nature for our Bodies and do nothing for our Souls shall Creatures that have not Reason avoid Death and shall not poor Sinners that have the light of the Gospel shining round about them avoid Eternal Death and Damnation 2. Because in times of danger the light of Nature carries convictions along with it of a Deity and a Deity used to be looked up unto in time of danger therefore in judgements upon Nations they used to sacrifice to their Gods These Heathen Seamen in the Text now have convictions of some Supream Being that could quiet their storms whether they worshiped the Sun Moon or Stars which is probable they did being proper for their own calling These probably might be the Mariners Gods having such an influence upon the Sea We read of the Moon called the Queen of Heaven Jer. 44. 19. and the Hosts Moon and Starrs these being considerable in Navigation the poor Heathen might easily be drawn in to acknowledg them for Deities and so in their dangers might look up to them for relief All holds out a conviction of a Deity in time of danger it is not what men thinks in such an Atheistical Age as this when they swim in all manner of Earthly delights when they drown their very Reason in the Sea of their sinful pleasures but when they come into dangers when death is set before them when they came into affliction what says Conscience to them then Is there not a God then have they not immortal Souls then is there not an Eternity then 3. Because Conscience-storms are quieted by this means A storm of Conscience and a storm at Sea when they meet will make terrible work So that some thing must be done to quiet Conscience so that duties at Sea and Land are but made a sleepy Sop to allay the rage of an awaken'd barking Concience 4. Because the light of Nature is a reflecting light it can look back to sin and guilt and Persons are never so much upon prayer as when they are upon reflex Acts and Persons are never so much upon reflex Acts as when brought into dangers This Reflexion we read of it to be the distinguishing Character of men to distinguish betwixt Them and Brutes Bring it again to mind and Esay 46. 8. know that you are men O you Transgressors Now Natural Conscience reflecting upon its own actings finding guilt upon search then it puts upon Prayer APPLICATION First then It is a word of Reproof If the light of Nature in times of danger will put men upon Prayer then it reproves Persons Cursing and Swearing in times of danger a sin too ordinary among Sea-men O poor Mariners these Heathens will rise up in judgment against you another day that you that have known so much of the true God heard so much of him and yet you act so much below them Are not you at such times more like Heathens and they more like Christians 1. You sin against greater light you sin under Sun light they sin but under Star-light it may be said in this Case as was said by Christ to the Pharisees If I had not come and spoken unto you you had not had sin but now your sin remains and the more light you sin against the more is your sin aggravated 2. You are to be Reproved you sin in time of Danger and this is to sin daringly in a presumptuous way to sin when God is threatning to strike this is impudent sinning for the child to sin while the Father hath the Rod in his hand this highly aggravates the Offence 3. Such are to be Reproved for this is to sin by being deaf to a voice of the Lord it is sinning against a Call of God's God now calls for Prayer They cryed to him in their distress is any man afflicted let him pray now is a time for Prayer O how sad is this when you should be calling on the Name of God then to be blaspheming of the Name of God! 4. Are not such to be reproved who sin in the face of Death it may be Swearing and Sinking is it not better to sink Praying than Swearing O sad to dye with Oaths and Blasphemy in your Mouths sin in your Lives and sin in your Deaths too Can you look the King of Terrour in the face with cursed Oaths against God in your mouthes O let not that Proverb be turned its used to be said If you will teach a man to pray send him to Sea O let it not be turned if you would teach a man to Swear send him to Sea if you would teach a man to Curse to be Prophane send him to Sea 5. Are not such to be reproved who have had so many Salvations and Deliverances and sin after all these as Ezra said so should Esra 9. 13. poor Seamen say What after such deliverance as this shall we break again thy Commandments
afraid if he had not been asleep It is the Character of the Wicked They are as Esay 57. last the troubled Sea that easts forth mire and dirt and cannot rest Guilt poor Mariners will be to you as the Winds are to the Sea It was said of Caligula the persecuting Emperor that when it thundred and lightned he got under his Bed A poor shelter So when guilt is upon the Soul then there is a storm raised in the Conscience This is the Serpent Amâ—s 9. 5. in the bottom of the Sea that God commands to bite them Now you are Magor-missabibs Terrours to your selves and to all that are about you Now your Hearts will be made to meditate Terrour What a Case was Cain in by reason of the bloody guilt of his own Conscience when he cryed out Every Gâ—n 4. 14 one that meets me will slay me He speaks as if the World were full of men and we read but of very few Persons then in the World But this was his guilt 2. Guilt will raise storms without Jonah's guilt did so his guilt of Rebellion and disobedience to the Lords Commission did cause this great Temptest to be sent after him We read of Jehosaphat a godly Prince that he joyned himself with Ahaziah who did wickedly and they would send out a Fleet together What became of this Naval Expedition of theirs the Text tells us The Lord broke their works and their Ships so 2 Chron. 20. 31. that they were not able to go to Tarshish 1 Kings 9 26. this was a Sea-port Town in the Land of Edom upon the Red-Sea They never reached the Port Jehosaphats guilt raised the breaking storms O what sad thoughts will arise in your hearts at such times when you are in storms O will your guilty Consciences say This is come upon us for our sakes for our Land-sins Land-sins many times brings Sea-dangers You know the Heathens drew up that conclusion He hath escaped Acts 28 4. at Sea and Vengeance follows him at Land That guilt will be followed and Revenged that they concluded 3. Guilt will keep your Souls under the hidings of Gods face at Sea It was a sad Voyage that Paul was in when neither Moon nor Stars appeared for many days but Acts 27. it is farr sadder when the light of Gods Countenance doth lye in when it doth not appear But at that time the Angel came to him and bid him Be of good chear But now to be in such terrible storms and no Angel of Gods presence with you O how sad will this be O what would a smile of Christs reconciled face be worth when sinking when splitting It was sweetly said of that Sea-Captain when his Ship was on fire at Sea and they thought they should all be blown up immediately Now says he Jesus Christ is worth ten thousand Worlds 4. Guilt will sting your Souls at Sea with fears of death If poor Souls for whom Christ dyed may be in fears of death yea all their lives well then may guilty Souls at Sea be afraid of that King of Terrors How sad will it be for you poor Mariners to dye to have none of your Relations about you to be of use to you To dye without sickness To dye such a sudden death To dye out of your own Land Will not all these things come in to help on the trouble of your spirits But now if guilt be taken away Death is unstung You may say then when sinking O Death were is now thy sting And say as that old Puritan Minister did in a storm coming from New-England when Mr. Saxton of Leeds in Yorkshire they all were expecting the Vessel to sink O who is now for Heaven who is bound for Heaven 5. Guilt at Sea will be more dreadful to you than at Land because you are there deprived of those helps which you have here at Land You have not there those helps to unload your Consciences when they are burdened with the sense of sin You may sooner unload the Ship then unload your Soul there you have not any to be the Lord 's Barnabas's Sons of Consolation unto you There you have not those precious Ordinances to be Breasts of Consolation to you when under the Sense of guilt O what would not your Souls give if you should fall under the Load and Burden of your sins for a poor Minister that might tell but you of any glad tydings Would not their feet be beautiful then though their Persons and Ministry be now despised and slighted by you 3. Use Is it so that the guilty Person is usually the secure Person then it is a word of Caution both to Land-men and Sea-faring-men all of us one and other of us take heed then of being Secure under guilt O this is most dangerous Sense of guilt may bring a Soul nearer God bâ—t stupidity under guilt is very dangerous 1. Take heed of Security under guilt if once asleep it will be hard for you to be awakened you see it was thus with Jonah The Lord sends a Tempest after him and the Ship is like to be broken by it The Mariners they were afraid they cry to their Gods they lighten the Ship yet all this while guilty Jonah was sleepy Jonah until the Master of the Ship calls unto him and preaches a rouzing Sermon unto him saying Arise sleeper and pray unto thy God Is Esay 29. 10. not a Spirit of deep sleep and slumber fallen up-you Nay O that poor Ministers had not cause to say The Lord hath judicially poured it upon you And if so is it not hard to awaken such If one should come to the Grave-side and Preach and Pray and Weep would not you wonder And what do poor Ministers do every day is not this their work to preach to the dead to pray over the dead secure Souls in their graves Who for all this stirrs hand or foot after the Lord Jesus Was it not sad in the time of the Plague to hear that doleful Cry in the night Bring out your dead bring out your dead and must that be the cry yea all the cry of poor Ministers Throw out your dead Throw out dead Souls from your Congregations through out dead Souls from your Families Take heed of security under guilt for security hath always been a fore-runner of some great Calamity upon both Nations and Persons the security of Jonah was the fore-runner of this great storm the security of the Old World was a fore-runner of the Flood the security of the Jews was a fore-runner of their Captivity 3. Security under guilt is a sin that hath a wo written upon the Head of it Wo to Amos 6. 1. those that are at ease in Zion To be at Ease and to be Secure is all one in the Scripture-Dialect Jonah was too much at ease now when all the Company was in danger and so are there many that sayl in the same Bottom with him
when all comes to all they are worth less than nothing and undone for ever no grace no peace no Christ no glory and is it worth the while to venture ones life and soul for that which is worth nothing and will do one no good in another world 5. Consider what dangers you are in every moment I need not tell you that you are sailing within a few inches of death sometimes storms sometimes sands sometimes rocks sometimes pyrates sometimes a calm and provisions fail sometimes the Vessel proves leaky and men are fain to pump for their lives you know your dangers better than I I wish you did also know how to secure your selves what have you to hold up your hearts in the greatest of difficulties can you say Christ is my Ark in this storm his bosom will be my harbour if this should prove a wrack What dost thou say man if you can't I wish you could Awake oh sleeper what meanest thou 6. Consider how good a Voyage some make they go out fraught with tears and groans and pass through many a storm devouring seas of difficulties and sometimes almost lost so that they scarce know whether they be in the Sea or out their Masts are spent their Rigging spoil'd their Anchors and Cables broke and yet after all there hath been a calm their Rigging recruited and all recovered and they come home richly laden with grace peace glory and the pearl of great price and they come top and top-gallant into the harbour of rest and have an abundant entrance administred into the everlasting inheritance and would not you be one of those Blessed are the people that are in such a case yea blessed are the people whose God is the Lord. Oh what a triumphant welcome will such have to Glory and would not you be glad to be of this number but Sir what shall I do to make such a Voyage If I should give you advice will you take it Oh but will you indeed if you will not lay down this book and read no farther But methinks I hear some saying Oh that we did but know what we shall do to be saved what we shall do to secure this pearl of great price Oh a Christ a pardon and heaven upon any terms in the world Well then if you take this following advice my soul for yours if you miscarry Direction 1. Venture not out but in a Directions sound fight and good bottom let your ground-work be well laid in deep humility and solid knowledg labour to know your selves your corrupt natures your absolute need of Christ his excellency secure for yours and all 's well Labour to see sin the greatest evil in the world and to loth your selves and justifie God under a sense of your own unworthiness beg that you may not be deceived with an hypocritical profession but that your hearts may be right in Gods statutes he that 's sincere is safe 2. Have not too many Owners let God be your owner and you are safe enough none of his Vessels miscarry Yield your selves to the Lord make over all you have to him never more your own than when most his 3. Let all your tackling be of the best let your Judgment be well convinced and established that 's your Mast let your affections be divine they are your Sails let your hope cast Anchor upon Christ and the Scripture-promises let your Vessel be well ballasted with humility lay in good provisions such as are strengthning wholsome lasting get in the whole armour of God and resist your adversary therewith and he will fly from you 4. Let your lading fraught be such Commodities as will go off well in that other Country Oh how many that are bound for another world that are loaded with rags dung dross faith love meekness patience zeal heavenly-mindedness these are the wares that can never want a good market 5. Make up your accounts exactly when you go out go to the great office insure all whatever it cost you it 's that may be done you may run a sad riskow if you don 't the comfort and peace that you will have in it wil abundantly recompence your pains charge in this business How joyfully then â—ay you look dangers in the face though the Sea run mountains high though the waves therof roar though every billow look as if it brought death with it yet how comfortably may such a one look he knows that if the vessel break and his body be drowned yet Christ lives and he shal immediately be cast upon a happy shore where in amoment all wants shall be supplied all losses shall be made up in the glorious perfect and eternal fruition of God And he that gets Heaven Christ and Glory by his losses hath no great reason to be afraid of them 6. Labour to make the best advantage of opportunity don't lose your markets when the wind presents hoise sail and away The opportunities that God gives you at Land in his Ordinances must not be slighted the Lords day is your great market-day wherein you may buy the richest peniworths and when affections are striving the spirit of God is moving upon your spirits striving with your fouls and pleading with you then have a care of loosing such an opportunity that 's a brave gale and the wind sits fair if you be then ready such a wind may send you amain to your port or else you may lie becalm'd or windbound eat out your comforts and lose more than you are aware of 7. Take heed of the great rocks Presumption and Despair take heed of the great Pyrat the Devil take heed of running a ground the love of the world ruins thousands and if you strike here it 's dangerous but if you stick here you are broken Ship-wracked lost take heed of all the sins that poor Seamen are too subject to Swearing cursing raging damning jeering at godliness neglect of prayer hardness of heart atheism may I not add drunkenness uncleanness c. 8. Look oft to your Compass the Word of God and then you can't steer amiss read and meditate upon the Scriptures the Bible is an excellent companion 9. Get a good Convoy Pilot Factor Christ is all count all as dung and dross in comparison of him let your eye be still to him your heart upon him and know this you can't overvalue him whom never yet any did sufficiently prize let your hearts be much above let not sea and land make you forget heaven think you never make agood port till you are safe in the arms of Christ 10. Keep an exact Journal observe what way you make by this God may have glory you may have past experiences to feed your faith and hope upon for the future O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men 11. Let losses make you more diligent to get and secure that which can't be lost 12. In a
poor sinner will go thus was it with Jonah 3. In the 4 Verse we have Gods displeasure in Jonah's Punishment but the Lord sent a great wind into the Sea Observe the Lord is sole Commander at Sea the winds do not rise accidentally but they have their Commission from God though Jonah would not obey Gods Commission yet the winds do Here the Lord sends a Pursevant in a storme after a rebellious Prophet the Winds and the Sea are God's servants O let Sea-men tremble at this God can cause these his servants to execute his will upon them when he pleaseth it is greatly the sin of such Persons that they look not higher then natural causes but alas every storm should read a Lecture to you of God when you are at Sea We may further observe guilt cannot flee from God God sends after guilt guilt carried to Sea will have a storm sent after it O tremble poor Sea-men when you go out to carry unpardoned guilt abroad with you Again observe Persons employed and especially commissioned by God may in their Temptations go cross to their Commissions thus did Jonah here thus did 1 Kings 13. the young Prophet who bare that brave Testimony against the Altar at Bethel yet he failed afterwards and went cross to his Commission Now the Text it self contains in it a discovery of the effects and consequences of this storm God sends after Jonah 1. Here is a description of the Persons under these Effects 2. The Effects themselves 1. The Persons Then the Marriners were afraid They are the most undaunted of Men the hardiest of Men being so frequently in these deaths and dangers they little regard them and yet these persons are afraid not the Passengers were affraid but the Marriners that used to encourage the poor trembling Passengers 2. We have the Effects themselves In fear They were afraid though they had been probably in many stormes before yet here being some things extraordinary in the Case to be discovered this fear fell upon them Now their courage and magnanimity were daunted this storm made them lower their Top-sails of courage and confidence 2. Effect of this storm was every one cryed to his God which argues the greatness of their fears it puts them upon seriousness stormes will change Mariners notes turn their Swearing into Praying it may be Swearing by their Gods was their practice before but now Praying is their practice They cryed which notes the earnestness Acts 27. 38. of their Spirits as Persons in distress cry to the true God so they cryed to their false God 3. Effect and cast out the Wares to lighten it which still spoke their fears this is one of the last things you doe at Sea to save your lives Paul did so with the Ship he was in cast the Wheat over-board here are all endeavours used to prevent Ship-wrack 3. Thing in the Text is a description of the guilty Person 1. Jonah was in the sides of the Ship Jonah whom the Mariners least suspected for they cast lotts we see to know who it was the unsuspected Person is often the guilty Person 2. We have an account of his posture he was gone into the sides of the Ship and was fast asleep Was he praying no though that would have been more proper more comely work a great deal for a guilty Person What a strange sight is here in the Ship Pagans and Gentiles praying And a Prophet yea a guilty Prophet sleeping nay observe the word fast asleep O what a Potion had he taken that he could be sleeping and the Vessel sinking neither the Windes roaring nor the Ships beating nor the Mariners praying nor the Ships lightning none of these awakens Jonah O what a sound sleep was he in The first Observation is this that stormes of danger causes stormes of fear the Marriners were afraid I will begin to handle this as being that part of my work intended for the awakening of the Souls of poor Seamen These Marriners were poor blind Heathens as you see by praying to their Gods and they were afraid now if the glimmering of the light of Nature did make them afraid O then well may poor sinners be afraid that have the light of the Gospel shineing into their hearts by conviction when they come into stormes if Heathens who had no light nor sight of a future state of their immortal Souls only as Death was terrible to them as it doth untie the Marriage knot between the Soul and Body were afraid then how may Sinners that know if they suffer Ship-wrack in a storm uninterrested in Christ they perish Body and Soul to all Eternity well I say may such Souls be afraid in stormes You see what those Marriners say if peradventure that we perish not They only meant of the perishing of the out-ward man what then may such Souls say that know they are not interested in Christ and yet must inevitably perish in their stormes To be sinking at Sea and have no bottom for thy poor Soul to build its hopes upon when thou shalt lanch out into that vast Ocean of Eternity it will daunt and amaze the stoutest Marriner and sinner in the world the Disciples we read of them sometimes in their stormes and in their fears they sometimes cry out why carest thou not that we perish well then may Prophane Sinners cry out in their stormes and dangers 1. Because Death is before men in stormes therefore they are in fears thus it was with those in my Text they see nothing but death before them O when poor Sea-men get a sight of the King of terrours in stormes O how doth their countenances fall how are their notes changed If many poor Souls be afraid of death are kept in bondage through the fear of death all their life long and yet Christ came to deliver them from death well may poor Sinners then be afraid of death O what sad cryes have many Souls uttered under the Fears and Horror of Death one cryes O that I might live Heb. â— â—5 a little longer though but as a Toad another cryes out Ten Pounds for an hour Ten Pounds for an hour Another I think it was one of the Kings of France I charge you name not Death in my hearing upon pain of Death Another I cannot dye yet I must dye then I say to thee O poor Christ-less Soul how can thou think of facing this grim Serjeant Death when he comes to break up a Writ of Eternal wrath upon thee whether by Sea or Land 2. Reason why in stormes and dangers men are full of fears because then Conscience stings them fear ariseth out of guilt a guilty Conscience is a thousand Witnesses and will not this O you poor guilty Sea-men dread you can you deny that Evidence that cryes out of your own Bosomes and this when you are in dangers Jonah's guilty Conscience when awakened did fly in his face I know for my sake this great Tempest is upon us it
is said of our first Parents they were afraid when they saw they were naked guilt will cause fear to stir in the heart you poor Sea-men that carry unpardoned guilt upon the backs of your Consciences every Voyage how should you but be afraid of every storm that doth arise you carry the Jonah in the Vessel every Voyage it is a wonder you ever return you go to Sea unpardoned and you return home unpardoned go to Sea Christless and return Christless Well! long goes the Pitcher to the Water but at last it comes broken home Remember Marriners the sinking storm will come the stroak of Death will come and then what fears will haunt you you will never be free from fears until you get your Consciences cleansed by the blood of Christ cleansed Consciences from guilt are the best Commodities you can carry to Sea with you you will clean your Ships and will you not clean your Consciences 3. Because in stormes of danger Eternity is before them Therefore they are afraid if the poor Heathens in the Ship had any notions of Eternity how confused and dark were they indeed some of them have had some dark glimmerings from the light of Nature of an Eternal state but could not tell where to place it As the Philosophers which had so many various Notions about their Summum Bonum O but now in times of danger not only Death is before men but Eternity We read of one riding upon the pale Rev. 6. â— Horse whose name was Death O but sinners who followed him what Train had he and Hell followed with him Are you not convinced poor Sea-men that after Death comes Judgement and what can you play with the thoughts of Hell and Judgement O what a meditation might this be to you when upon the great deeps what is this vast Ocean to Eternity but as the drop to the Buckets compared to Eternity This Ocean is not the Main Eternity is the Main Eternity is the Main Sea You that sail upon the Seas should have such meditations as these your Lives are your Voyages your Soules are your Vessels and Ventures the World is your Sea the Windes are your gales of Prosperity or Adversity but Eternity is your Port If you get in well you make a rich voyage of it thy Soul is made for ever O how will Marriners be afraid when they strike in going in but Men that are not sensible of Eternity have none of these fears 4. Reason because stormes of danger occasion poor sinners to look into their states and hearts Conscience makes quick reflections and recoyles in times of danger and affliction when David was Psal 77. 6. under much affliction then he reflects upon The vulgar lattin reads it Scopabam I swept my heart himself or Heman whoever it was that writ that Psalm I communed with my own heart and made diligent search O thus sayes the Soul in time of danger and distress O my Soul how is it with thee what hopes haste thou if thou should dye in this storme at Sea or of this sickness at Land what is thy state for Eternity art thou a pardoned Soul or no art thou an interested Soul in Christ or no well may many poor profane Sea-men be afraid when they thus sink down into the consideration of their eternal states 5. Because usually stormes makes men serious dangers usually bring men into serious frames of spirit when judgements are abroad then sinners grow serious was it not thus with you in the time of the Plague when every day you looked that the destroying Angel would fetch a blow at your Souls you see here dangers make the very Heathens serious for they now fly to their devotions such as they are every one cryed to his God Will not a Prisoner be serious when he is to appear before a Judge so a poor Soul in a storm at Sea when he thinks he is going to appear before the Judge of the quick and dead O how shall I stand before that Tribunal how shall I lift up my face to him can such a wicked Wretch as I stand before so holy a Throne well may it be said when Gods Judgements are abroad The Sinners in Zion are afraid and fearfulness surprizeth the Hypocrite because dangers use to make men serious we have that Land-Proverb If you wil teach a man to pray send him to Sea Application Is it so that dangers at Sea usually bring fears with them hence note our natural security and stupidity that untill dangers come we are not afraid they were secure till the storme came as the old World was until the flood came many poor sinners and poor Seamen are not afraid of Death or Hell untill they be at the door they put the evil day farre from them they say they have made an agreement with Hell and Death The over-flowing scourge shall not come nigh them Thus many never think what will become of their Souls until they be ready to sink at Sea or until they lie upon a death-bed and is not this dreadful stupidity to neglect doing that which must be done or their Souls are undone for ever 2. If dangers usually be attended with fear then it informs us what a happy condition the People of God are in who are reconciled to God to whom God hath said As for you it shall go well with you say Esay 3. 10. unto the righteous it shall go well with them And this made David say once at what time I am afraid I will trust in God And at another time I will not be afraid of evil tydings my heart is fixed trusting in the Lord. The hearts of Believers are not like Nabal's whose heart dyed in him like a stone when the Destroyer was to come upon him O what dangers was David in and what sayes he the Lord is my Light Psal 27. 1 2 3. and my Salvation whom shall I fear The Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid 3. It informes us of the misery of poor Souls out of Christ especially in their times of danger O how are the poor souls grinded with fears all fear hath torment in it How doth the fears of Death and Hell walk in their Consciences in their stormes and torment and enbondage them If Beleivers may be kept in bondage through the fears of Death Heb. 2. 15. what bondage then are poor Christ-less Souls in when awakened by dangers In dangers such Souls have no God to go to in their storms they have no refuge in the over-flowing scourge they have no hiding place in a scattering day they have no resting place to retire their poor Souls unto they are in dangers without hope yea without heart their hearts sink in them like Lead in the mighty waters alas poor Sea-men if your Souls be out of Christ your Souls will be sunk before your Vessels when storms are upon you Alexander used to say of any great danger
say if Masters of Families and Parents of Children do not warn those under their trust to turn from sin and give them not holy examples God will require their blood at their hands And What a dreadful thing will this be to have the blood of so many miscarrying Souls to all Eternity to answer for 2. Take heed of neglecting your charge This will lye heavy upon you in your distresses and dangers When men shall Reckon with Consciences what charges will Conscience bring in against then what Inditement will it bring in against you upon this Account what did you pray with your Companies when you had opportunities Did you walk before them as giving an example of the fear of the Lord to them Did you what you could for the good of their precious Souls Will it not be terrible in your storms when you are Sinking to have not only your own guilt to lie heavy upon you but other mens guilt too have not many upon their death-beds complained sadly of the neglect of Family-duties of the neglecting Souls under their Charges 3. Take heed of neglecting your Charge for those you have neglected will one day witness against you and O how sad will this be to have poor wronged Souls witness against you crying out If we had seen better examples given us we should have more dreaded sin we should have stood in more awe of offending God But O how were we hardned by your means Lastly Take heed of neglecting your Charge This will cause the Anger of the Lord to hang over your heads What more displeasing to God than neglect of his Worship than undervaluing precious Souls will not this grieve the Lord and will it not be sad to sayle under a black Cloud of Gods displeasure What course can you stear at Sea and be safe while God is Angry with you you at Sea observe Clouds and say There is wind in such a Cloud rain in such a Cloud But is there not a Cloud over your heads which you observe not and out of this Cloud one day will come the sinking storme even the Cloud of Gods wrath if you look not to it You would not leave your Relations when you go to Sea Angry and will you go to Sea with the Anger of God upon you If the Anger of God send a storm who can stand before it The next Observation and the last is this Calling upon God is an excellent means for preservation from Sea-Dangers We see these poor Heathens made it their practice now in danger every one to call upon his God they had their Temples their Altars their Asylums to fly to in time of distress but alas these were poor shifts Refuges of lies to them lying Vanities as all Idols are called O but now calling upon the true God this is the only means of safety God is our only Refuge from the Storm But let us inquire a little what Prayers these are that are such excellent means for preservation at Sea in times of danger For it is not every calling upon God that God will hear 1. Earnest and fervent Prayers these are the preserving prayers usually in times of danger Dangers usually put men upon earnest Prayers Out of the depths have I cry'd unto thee an Allusion to the cries of shipwrackt men as hath been formerly hinted going to be swallowed up of the deeps O what doleful and earnest crys do they give The Lord takes notice of Mariners crys Ps 107 28. Then they cry to him in their troubles and he bringeth them out of their Distress Their Crying speaks the earnestness of their Spirits in calling upon God We read of effectual Jamâ— 5. 17. fervent Prayers working-prayers so the Greek read it Are You working for life and death and the Seas working and the Vessel working and shall not your Prayers be working 1. Should not your prayers be fervent now life lies at stake for it men will pray hard for their lives a poor Prisoner O how will he plead for his life Let me continue a Prisoner my Lord Let me be Banished any thing if my life may be but spared O what will not a man do or give for his life And this is the case it is upon your lives and will not you pray fervently now 2. Your Souls lye at stake though this is not so much taken notice of yet this is the great danger What if thou dye this storm and be found without an interest in Christ O if you would but think when you go out to Sea O Lord What will become of my Soul if I never return this Voyage would there not be some hopes of you poor Sinner hath not the Lord said Without Holiness no man shall see him hath not the Lord said What will it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own Soul hath he not said Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God! O now what will become of your Souls if you should be cast away before you could witness any thing of this nature wrought in you then know your Souls are concerned 3. Your Wives and Children lye at stake they are also concerned will not this move you think How many of your Wives follows you with prayers both in private and publick and would not this be both ingratitude and unfaithfulness for you not to pray when in danger 4. What not pray fervently in time of danger Heathens do so How did the worshippers of Baal 1 King 18. 28. call upon him and do not you wear the name of Christians upon you and what let poor Heathens outstrip you 5. What not pray earnestly in times of danger now is a time for fears to get about the heart and fear usually sends out prayer the Marriners now were affraid We do not read of the calling upon their Gods until we read of their fears O now terrours and fears of death take hold on them and the sorrows of death Psa 107. 26 27. as David Phrases it compasseth them about Now they are at their wits end or their wisdom is swallowed up as it is read and their Soul is melted because of trouble And should not this be a time of fervent Prayer 2. The Prayers that are such excellent means for preservation are the Prayers of James 5. 16. the Righteous The Prayer of the Righteous availeth much O poor sinners look that you get out of your Natural estates If you would have your Prayers heard with God The Sacrifices of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord What avails the Prayers of poor Drunkards and Swearers may not God say to such in their dangers when they cry unto him as he did to them Go to the Gods whom you have served and let them deliver you O poor Souls Do not you with the same mouth send forth blessing and cursing and do you think the Prayers of such will be heard And do not many of you
to others You will not believe what Sermons some of your Deliverances are to Relations to Acquaintances Another man's experience may strengthen my Faith And he hath said David put a Psal 40. 3 4. new song in my mouth even praise unto our God What then many shall see it and fear and trust in God 3. God will lose his glory by you How can you glorifie him if you do not remember the Lords mercies towards you and thou shalt glorifie me what Shall you gain by them and God be loser by them that gave you them You would not have your Owners losers and will you have God a loser O how much of the glory of God hath been lost by losing the Remembrance of your Deliverances 4. Remember them for they are written down in Gods book of Remembrance If you forget them God will remember them When the Lord brings forth this Book of Memento's against your Souls O how sad will it be Soul doest thou not remember thou was in such a danger at Sea such a time such a dark Night so nigh sinking so nigh splitting and never thought'st to come off with thy life and I appeared for thee and was seen in that strait but thou was worse and worse after thy Deliverances Alas the Soul hath quite forgot these things You will not you poor Sea men you will not be able to stand before the Lords Memento's in that day 5. O Remember them or else you will have great guilt upon you your forgetfulness is the grave of Gods mercies Will you deal thus with the mercies of God Was it not sad think you when they threw the dead by 20 and 40 and whole Cart-loades into a hole at once in the time of the Plague and is not this sad for God to bestow upon you whole Cart-loads of Deliverances and mercies and you bury all in forgetfulness It was charged upon Israel They soon forgot his works The second Word is a word of terrour to such persons as God hath delivered without their prayers from great and eminent dangers and yet have lost the sense of such Preservations and mercies This is a terrible Condition to have Preservations lost upon you to have all your deliverances as water spilt upon the ground 1. Such Preservations are but Reservations to greater wrath do not you say The bitterness of Death is past because you are safe returned from your Voyage another woe is to come yea a greater woe Though one is past there is still wrath to come We read of some that shall flye but yet shall not escape and shall not be delivered why what was the matter though they dig into Hell thither the Lord would follow them mine hand shall take them O whither can Sinners go out of the reach of Gods arme It may be they will climbe up to Heaven Thence saith the Lord I will bring them Amos 9. 4 5 6. down yea though they hide themselves in the Top of Carmel I will search and take them out thence O but it may be they will take another Course and go to Sea to hide themselves from God Thence will I command the Serpent and he shall bite them Thus the displeasure of the Lord followed them 2ly Such Preservations will be great Aggravations 1. of your sin and guilt 2. Of your Condemnation and punishment 1. Of your sin and guilt Shall we break his Commandements again after such a deliverance as this what sin against so gracious a God Thus requite the Lord O what unkindness is this Suppose a person in meer Compassion had redeemed another from the slavery of the Turks where else he might have lived and died and this person redeemed should after this not only forget all but affront and abuse the person that redeemed him Would not this be monstrous ingratitude among men Yet the sin runs higher in this Case What will you thus requite the Lord is this your Kindness to your Friend to your God that delivered you when none could that was your Arm and your Salvation in a needful time of trouble This will aggravate sin If I had not come and spoken unto you you had not had sin viz. your sin had not been so circumstantiated So if the Lord had not delivered you so often so eminently you would not had such sin 1. This is to sin against mercy and is not this a great aggravation What to sin against the best Friend you ever had in the world O who can tell what mercy hath done for them was not thy Creation from mercy and were not all thy Preservations from mercy 2dly This is to sin against Resolutions and Vows And will not this aggravate sin O is not this terrible To sin against Resolution from time to time how often hath thy poor Soul resolved after such a deliverance and such a Preservation to leave this wickedness and prophaneness and yet never wast so good as thy word How often have many of your Souls said as the Prodigal did I will arise and go to my Father but yet have sitten still in your sins to this day and all the purposes of your Heart have fallen asunder 3dly This is to sin against Convictions and light No Sins are so aggravated as they-against-light Have not your Consciences reproved you and convinced you many a time 4thly This is to sin against Experience as well as Conscience which was the great aggravation of the sin of Israel For all Gods signs and wonders to distrust God O what experience have you had of the faithfulness power wisdome of God in delivering of you what and you sin 5thly There is high ingratitude in it O what unthankfulness is it after so many deliverances to sin against the God of them 2dly Such Preservations are Aggravations of punishment and Condemnation How will you answer to have the book of Gods Remembrances opened unto you and all your deliverances read out of it Such as you have forgotten and buried many years ago Did not I preserve thee in such a storme at Sea in such a danger at Land gave thee thy life at such a time when but a step betwixt thee and Death O How will this sting your Consciences 3dly Such Preservations are the greatest Ecâ—lâ—s 8. 11. Hardners in Sin If they do not Soften they Harden These Providences are like Ordinances either great softners or else great hardners Because sentence is not speedily executed therefore the Hearts of Sinners are hardned O what a terrible thing it is to be hardened and set in sins Such Persons under their preservations they put the evil day far from them and so are hardned they think because God forbears them and spares them at present he will never pass sentence upon them because they are Reproved they think the Sentence will never be executed We read of some that put the evil day far from them What though God hath leaden feet he hath iron-hands saith one Though he be slow in his
Channel which is a great aggravation of your Affliction there you shall miscarry Nay Here in the River as some have done of late if God have a controversy with you 5ly O give not God cause to take up a Controversy against you for then you will have nothing to plead for your selves when God in his Providences is pleading against you O then poor Sea-men you will be Speechless you will have nothing to say for your selves Thus it was with Jonah He justifies God in his righteous Judgment and condemns himself For my sake is this storm come upon you Then you will in your Souls conclude the Lord is righteous but you are wicked and this storm is now the fruit of your wickedness Hast thou a word to say poor drunken Seaman poor profane Seaman why thou shouldst not perish this storm why thou shouldst not sink to the bottom this storm 6ly O give not God cause to take up a Controversy against you The Controversy will be against your Souls if you do Now this is the sadest Controversy in the world a Controversy against a Ship is not so sad a Controversy against Estates nay Lives is not so sad But for a Controversy to lie against precious Souls this is sadest of all This night thy Soul shall be taken away The Controversy lay against his Soul O for God to say to a poor Sea-man in a stormy night Thou fool this night will thy Soul be taken away this is a sad story thy soul is now to be cast away Few pity cast-away Souls Alas the body is but the Cabbinet the Soul is the Jewel And though the Cabbinet should be cast away if thou knew that thy Soul were safe the breaking or drowning of the Cabbinet would not be so Terrible to thee Second word of Counsel If extraordinary storms be not sent from God without a cause then be counselled poor Sea-men and your Relations to make your peace with God O venture not to Sea untill this work be done Dost thou know what a venture thou runnest every voyage that thou makest and thy Soul unreconciled to God O then you of the Tribe of Zebulun might Rejoyce in going out then you might leave your dear Relations with comfort if not to see them again in this world yet to see them in a better where you shall be ever with the Lord. O the Advantages of Sea-men and their Relations being at peace with God if they were seriously considered would stir you all up with might and main to this work 1. If you were at peace with God then you might lift up your face with confidence to God in all your dangers and distresses What is it that daunts and strikes Terror to the hearts of Seamen in their distresses but this They have not made their peace with God when Conscience asks the Question Is all Peace do not Pâ—aâ— 40. 12. they answer as he did What peace seeing the Witchcrafts and Whoredoms of Jezabel are so many now your iniquities take hold upon you that you cannot look up and what then O then Davids heart fail'd him But now poor Souls that are reconciled to God they know all things shall go well with the Righteous and this makes them look comfortably up to God in their distresses 2ly If you were at peace with God then you might expect all your disappointments and losses would be sanctified to you Many of you go to Sea and meet with Shipwracks though it is a great mercy to have your lives spared yet many of you have breaches made upon you as the Breaches of the Sea breaches upon your Estates it may be God gives an estate for one 7 years and takes it away the next and after that he hath lifted you up he casts you down Now O what a mercy would this be if your Souls and your Relations might prove gainers by these losses and peace made with God would bring on this mercy All things shall work together for the good of such all his dispensations are measured out in love to such No storm is in wrath to such O sayes God to such Fury is not in me 3ly If you were at peace with God then you might expect to carry the especial blessing of Gods protection out with you This was the blessing that Moses blessed the Tribe of Zebulun with Rejoyce O Zebulun in they going out whether it was to war or to trade as Interpreters hold it may be both it was a great blessing to go cut Rejoycing under their hopes of the protection of God O then his Banner over you would be love every Voyage and this the best Ancient or Ensigne that your Ship can carry forth with you This is your best colours to put forth in case you meet with an Enemy This Banner can cover your heads in the day of Battel This especial Protection of God is the Best Pilot to steer you You may talk of a Protection from Man but this is the only Protection that will do you good 4. If you were at peace with God you might then expect his comfortable Soul-reviving presence in all your storms and dangers And Is not his presence brave Company in distress O what a cordial was that word to their fainting Spirits when the Disciples were in that terrible storm at Sea Be of Mark 6. 50. good cheer It is I be not afraid they cry Lord save us and then Christ appears to them and calls to them O what a comfortable night had Paul though in that storm when the Angel stood by him and said Paul be of good cheer all that sayl with thee are given to thee For God to give you the comfort of that promise When thou goest through the water I will be with thee This raises wonderfully the heart of a poor Believer If you were at Peace with God then you would in some comfortable measure be lifted up above fears and can there be fear but there is torment in it O what a mercy would it be when in the Valley of the shaddow of Death then to fear no evil but to have your heart fixed trusting in the Lord. But this hath been hinted before 6. If you were at Peace with God then Death would not have that dread in it This would unsting Death Then your hearts would not so sadly meditate Terror when Death the King of Terrors shall look you in the Face Might not you then say O death where is thy sting O Grave or Sea where is thy Victory while others tremble at the thoughts of it you might tryumph in your comfortable expectations of it holding out your Hands and Arms saying Now Lord let thy Servant depart in Peace Then you may make ready to swim to the bosome of the Lord Jesus it is but thy Body thy Cabinet that is lost that is cast away The Jewel and Treasure is taken up by Christ that comes safe to shoar through all the storms and tempests that can blow 7. If
accursed thing you Land-men search your Shops for it and every one search your hearts for it It is not many times visible there is it is true a visible cursed thing many times carried to Sea with you viz your drunkenness your neglect of the worship of God your swearing your Sabbath-breaking But is there not where these are not accursed covetuousness the accursed wedg of gold accursed defrauding and cheating in a more hidden way and accursed uncleanness in a more secret way that it may be few know of it 2. You must search your hearts for the cause of your evils For few know their own hearts who knows them it is a very hard thing to know them aright we may think we know them be very ignorant of them if they that search them somtimes be ignorant of them how ignorant are they then of them that never look into them Ps 19. 12 which made David say who can understand his error cleanse thou me from secret faults 3. You must be diligent in the searching out the causes of your evils for you may very easily overlook them you may easily over-look in the search the wedg of gold it may lye in a little room and the Babylonish garment may lye in a little room 4. You must be diligent in the searches for our Hearts are very prone to be partial We have a Peter within that often calls to us Master spare thy self We say of a beloved sin that usually is the cause of Gods contending with us as David did of his beloved Son deal gently with my Son Absolom for my sake We are very indulgent to our right hands and to our right eyes 5. You must be diligent in your Search for while you are upon it if it be possible Satan will blow out your Candle I mean your Conviction in the light of which you Search It may be God convinces you of your duty and you fall upon search but before you have made any thing of it you will have Satan blow your light out and so you will give over as the woman sought her lost groat lighted her Candle and swept her house so had you need to do in this inquiry after the cause of your distresses and Afflictions 3. If you would find out the cause of your Afflictions and tryals then make Inquiery by the word Then is the only Rule to find out the Jonah This way would these poor Heathen Mariners have taken but that they were ignorant of any such Rule therefore they cast Lots There can be no search made to any purpose without the word It is upon this account called a Lamp a Lanthorn If a sin we seek for evade discovery and run into the dark corners of our Hearts we are to follow the search still in the light of the word And if guilty Jonah had but been kept awake to have askt his Soul the Question O my Soul Is this according to the word of the Lord that came to thee was thy Commission to go to Tarshish or to Ninevie Is it according to Rule for thee to go one way when God bids thee go another he had then soon come to a discovery of the cause of this storm upon easie Inquiry We should in such a case say as Paul did in that controversie But what saies the Scripture 1. Make your Inquiry by reading the word O that Sea-men would Sail by this Compass and when you meet with a sin set out in the word and markt by the Lord that you would say Here is a Sea-marke for thee to avoyd here is a Rock that thou must be careful thou split not upon a Sand thou must be careful thou fall not foul upon Here is a Gulph thou must be careful thou be not swallowed up in You talk of the Gulph of Venice and the Gulph of Lyons but the Word tells you of the Gulph of Drunkenness and of the Gulph of uncleanness and of the Gulph of swearing and Sabbath-breaking And O how many are swallowed up precious Souls of poor Sea-men cast away in these Gulphs Do you in reading the word observe what marks God hath given such and such sins and how they have caused his displeasure As soon as ever the sin of drunkenness came into the world God set a brand upon it It came in by a sad hand indeed even â—en 19. â—6 37 â—8 by Lott But O what a punishment God set upon it suffering it to be fellowed with another sin the great sin of Uncleanness nay the highest even Incest O what sin came in at this door what Murders Quarrellings Passions Adulteries even the door of Drunkenness but see a further mark set upon it as the sad effects of it The first Daughter bare a Son and Judg 11 4 2â— called his name Moab the other bare a Son and called his name Ben-ammi the Father of the Children of Ammon unto this day Now this Posterity apostatized to Idolatry and became both of them as dwelling near Canaan great Enemies to poor Israel Some read Deut. 23. 3 4. and was not this a black mark upon that sin that such a Father should have such a Posterity begot in the sin that should in after Generations be inveterate Enemies to Gods people Take but another Instance because this is one of the sins of Seamen that is often a cause of the Lords controversie with you in storms at Sea Esa 23. 1 2 3. Wo to the crown of Pride and the Drunkards of Ephraim whose glorious beauty is as a fading flower c. Behold the Lord hath a mighty and stronge one which is a Tempest of haile and a Destroying storme as a flood of mighty waters overflowing shall cast down to the Earth with his hand The Drunkards of Ephraim shall be troden under feet This is a Prophesie of the wrath of God upon the Ten Tribes for their drunkenness did much abound and this mighty strong one as a destroying storm to come upon them which was made good in Salmaneser the King of Assyria's coming to beseige Samaria and carry them Captive when the Turks carry so many English Sea-men Captive into Sally into Argiers is it not good inquiring Is not our Drunkenness the cause of this Evil coming upon us mark well then consult the word what it saies of Drunkenness 2. Consult the word in your reading of it and observe what a mark God hath put upon uncleanness which I doubt is another Rock that many a poor Sea-mans Soul is split upon Saies Solomon I discerned among the simple ones among the youths a young-man voide of understanding Here is a brand upon him What was he one that fell in with the strange Woman what became of him Prâ— 7. â— 26. 27. He was led of her till a dart struck through his Liver as a bird hasteneth to the snare and knoweth not it is for his life her house is the way to Hell going down to the Chambers of death He is
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