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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

knees says You should I am sure be Christians and men I see you are in taking away our miserable lives you do us a pleasure but know as we never wrong'd you nor yours you must dye also your selves and one day give an account of this Cruelty to the Judge of Heaven and Earth Suddenly upon which an Irish Priest says Let us not take their lives but we will put them in this Island of the Lake a Boat being at the River all the eight Naked and without Meat are turn'd into that Island where after four days staying some of the Company dy'd with Hunger and Cold but not this Woman nor any of her Children a day after the two Boys found the Hyde of a Beast which had been kill'd at the root of a Tree which they and the Mother endeavoured to cast over them then ●ying upon the Snow the next day a little ●oat goes by to whom she calls for God's ●ake to take her out but they refus'd ●eing Irish she desir'd a little Bread but ●hey said they had none she begs a Coal ●f Fire which she obtain'd for they had ●ome fewel in the Boat and thus with ●ome fallen Chips made a fire and the ●oys taking a piece of the Hyde lay'd it ●pon the Coals and began to gnaw the ●eather but alas without an extraordi●ary Divine support what could this do Thus they lived ten days without any vi●ble supplies and that good Woman pro●est it was by Faith and Joy in God she ●iv'd nor had she any Bread but Ice and ●now nor any Drink but Water but she ●hought God put more substance in it and ●ound it as it were clammy The next ●ay a Boat carryed her out to the side of ●he Band-water where yet she had been ●ost but that she could not suffer to see her Children dye in her sight and therefore 〈◊〉 though the two Boys were young and so ●tarv'd that they had no strength she ●ressed them to go out of her sight under ●retence of seeking some fire the poor Children had not gone far until they saw ●wo or 3 great Dogs eating a man who had ●een kill'd the Children were not afraid of the Dogs who needed not fear any thing but to live in such a Condition and one of them came running and leaped upon one of the Children without doing him the least hurt and would run a little before and then tarry until the Children come up and so led them on where an House whence Smoke appeared which was an Irish mans Protected by the English in Antrum by which means they were marvellously pleased and the Mother sent for and succour'd by a party from Antrum Although this Providence be not a Sea-deliverance yet it is a remarkable preservation from danger by Water and Hunger at Land 7. In the first setling of the Bohemi● Islands off the Cape of Florida about the year 1642. there were at that present great troubles in the Burmoudas one Captaine Sale who had been Governour the year before comes for London and here informing some of his Acquaintance and Persons of Worth and Estate how things then stood they undertake fo● him and got him a Ship and all thing● necessary for the discovery of these Island● which he had inform'd them of s● they proceeded to Burmoudas whe●● they took in several Passengers Captai●● Sale being Cheif and Captain Lane and his Family which came from London with him as his Assistant in the management of the Designe so they in pursute of the Voyage came to an Island call'd Cicatra ●he lay down in the Platts where they could not at present find an Harbour So they sent out their Shallop upon a discovery which upon Return inform'd them of a better place to Ride in But sending out the Shallop again upon a discovery before she Return'd there arose a dreadful Storm that carried her immediately upon the Rocks and stav'd her with very much difficulty most of the People were sav'd and some Provisions Then were they Reduc'd to very great straits formidable to flesh and blood a Barren Island no inhabitants no likelyhood of Releif little Provisions left in this great strait most of them resolv'd to travel up to the wester end of the Island and there to abide Captaine Lane and his Family and his Son who was his Leiutenant they Resolv'd to seek for some kind of Provisions and so stay'd on the Island But Captaine Sale and one Mr. Bounly who had been Master of the Ship and some other Sea-men and one Mr. Shadwel in all eight Resolv'd to go to Virginia and took what Provisions they could get which was one Shark but before they made to the Land they were in very great wants For from this Island from whence they departed to Virginia was three hundred Leagues in their now great Extreamity Providence car'd for them so that they got another Shark and were glad to eat him Raw. They were a 11 days going to Virginia and the Boat a very little one that they could scarcely Steer in her for fear of danger Yet the Lord in this deep Distress made his Arm bare for their Salvation and brought them safe to a place call'd Nuse mum to one Mr. Richard Brunkets House where they were curtiously Entertain'd and after the Relation upon what account they were put to these Hardships and Necessities Captain Sale had a Vessel provided laden with necessaries to go for Cicatra to Relieve those they had left there in such Distress and they arriv'd there And O now what Comfort must this be after such long wishing and gradual Dying to see that there was now Hopes of Life brought to them but several of them were starv'd to Death before their Arrival Captain Lane is now sent to fetch some Provisions who had been in unspeakable Extreamity He came down in a little Boat his Son also the Lieutenant and two Servants but when they had gotten in their Provision and going home with hopes of a new Life Behold the stupendious providence of God all of a sudden Death creeps in and Arrests them For in a narrow place where the Tyde runs swiftly the Boat is sunk all are drowned but one man who carried the desolate Widdow the sad Tydings● what an unwelcome Messenger this was you may easily conjecture about three months after arrived a Vessel to them the master of her my Author and so Mrs. Lane her Son and Daughter Maid Servant and Man Servant where all brought up about forty miles where they were entertain'd by my Author for six weeks and gave an account of some notable passages of Gods Providence in preserving them Worthy never to be forgotten Her Husband and the men went out to see what they could get for 〈◊〉 every Day and they had for the most part just for the Day and she told my Author that she as a tender hearted Mother would lay something by for her younger Children but she observ'd that the next Day they never got

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

prevents them a great flake of Ice interposes between them and their ship and carryes them adrift so that by all means that they and the ship could use they could not recover their Vessel again whereby they were exposed to an inevitable ruine neither having Food nor any other Accomodation to keep them warm they having continued thus three daysand three nights they began to be Hunger-starv'd and accounting themselves all dead men they began to consult one with another what course to take they at last though with great regret and grief resolve one of them must dye to become Food for the rest each person begg'd to have it his Lot to dye first to be freed from that torment that they languished under so that they were forced to determine it by Lot He upon whom the Lot fell desired to go to one end of the Boat there to recommend his soul to God by Prayer before he dyed the rest being in a deep Agony upon apprehension of shedding the blood of one of their Comerades But while they were sat together lamenting and imploring God's favour to prevent such a fact according to that they wished and desired The person separated by Lot for death dyed upon the place where he was praying which in their deplorable Condition occasioned great Joy to the rest that hereby they were not forced against their wills to take his life so looking upon this as a good Omen they proceeded to satisfie their Hungers upon the dead body the Boat was still A-drift not frozen up so that by that time their Food was spent they were brought ashore many Leagues to the Norward of New-England where the five landed alive where the poor Barbarians did commiserate them and help them as they could three of them dyed with the distress they had been in the other two made a shift to get to New-England and so at last by a good hand of God upon them came to their Habitations in the West of England having both lost their heels with the extremity of the cold in the Boat This Relation my Author had from one of these two Sea-men with whom he came afterwards a Passenger from Ireland to whom he shewed his heels so lost 4. A small Vessel about 45 Tun the Masters name Phillip Hangare coming upon the Coast of New-England they suddenly sprang a leak and so foundred There were in this poor miscarrying Vessel 18 Sea-men and Passengers 12 of the men got into the Long-boat and as that was suddenly brought to their minds in this surprise they threw into their Boat also some small matters of Provisions but they were wholly without fire These 12 men at that time of the year about Michaelmas and as Paul said in his Voyage Sayling was become dangerous Sayled five hundred Leagues and were to a Miracle preserved all that time in this small Boat five weeks but it pleased the Lord who appears in our straits most to send them great relief by causing some flying Fish to fall into the Boat which they eat raw and were unto them more acceptable than the greatest rarities and dainties at another time God's Providence now proving the Caterer they catch'd a Shark and that Ravenous Fish that uses to prey upon men now becomes a prey to these poor distressed Creatures but they were glad of food in the want of fire and have an heat in their Stomacks to eat that raw and digest at this time what would have made them sick at other times but alas another want they had was drink as well as fire but they were forced to open the belly of this Shark and suck his blood for drink at last that God who hath a desire to the work of his own hands gives them hopes to release them out of this insupportable misery by letting them come to a discovery of Land in the West-Indies but alas they were so weak that when they came ashore one or two of them dyed but most of them lived to declare the works of the Lord. This the Author had from one of the 12 that were thus miraculously preserved but since cast away at Sea 5. Captain Jonas Clark of New-England going for Virginia the Vessel was Cast away in a strange amazing manner about two hours before day among the Indians where the Ship-wrackt men lay ashore in great fear but three days after they thought to get their ship off again to which end the Master with some others went into the boat they came threescore Fathom from the shore where there arose a great Sea and broke in upon them but the second Sea came and turned the boat up four men under water all were drowned but Captain Clark who was kept under water by one of the men until his breath was gone but then God appeared and set him at liberty from him in a most Miraculous way and inabled him to swim to the shore they that were alive now were in great straits and perplexities not knowing what to do but yet some of their eyes were up to God at last they Unanimously resolve to Travel and when they had Travelled one night and part of a day meeting with many Swamps and thick places so that all hope failed them of going along so they stood still as wayfaring men astonish'd not knowing what course to take and though before they were afraid of any Indians now they were glad to pray to the Lord for the sight of an Indian which in this extremity and perplexity within half an hour the Lord was pleased to grant The Indian was all alone which was observable also when they got to him they asked the way to the English and they did perswade him by entreaty to go along with them but within one hours time he carryed them to a Town of the Indians which did sadly fright and amaze them but they still looked up to the Lord to help and save them and at last they got to the English and so were preserved This Relation the Author had from Captain Clarks own hand a person of known Godliness and Integrity 6. The last Providence called to mind a strange and stupendious passage of a Godly Gentlewoman who in the first breaking forth of the Rebellion in Ireland was forced to fly for her life with some other persons in her Company especially three Children one of them upon her Breast But alas these poor trembling Travellers had not gone long before they were striped Naked by the Irish who to admiration spared their lives but passing on to the foot of a River others met them and would have cast them into the River but this Godly Woman not being dismay'd ask'd a little liberty to Pray and as she lay on frozen ground Naked she got a little resolution not to go on her own feet to so unjust a death upon which having call'd her upon her resolution they drag'd her by the heels along the ground with the rest of the Company she turns upon them and on her

therefore had he cause enough of inward Joy the Ship came immediately in and he highs away presently to Ja-ga to know if it were an English Ship who resolved him that it was it happened to be the St. Maloes Merchant Captain Royden Commander who hasten'd to dispatch his Business took in his Negroes and was ready to sail and our English-man heard never a word what should become of him the King never offering to sell him this put him on a resolution to endeavour to make an escape and to that end had prepared a piece of Timber which he had drawn near the water-side on which he intended to paddle to the Ship which then lay about a League from the Shore Just by the Sea-side as he was about to launch his little floating Stick he espied a Great Aligator which will devour a Man at a Mouthful this made him alter his Resolution and resolve rather to live with Inhumane Infidels than to throw himself into so imminent a danger which would have been little less than self-murther But the next day which I may call a day of Jubilee Almighty God opened the heart of the King to let the poor English Man go he sent him in a Canoe placed between a Negroe's Legs with some others to Guide this small Vessel for fear he should leap over board and swim to the Ship At a distance from the Ship he hail'd her in the English Tongue which was no small cause of admi●ation to those on Board to hear an English Tongue out of their Canoes The Negroes gave him leave to stand up and shew himself to the Captain to whom he gave an Account how four were left there and only he preserv'd It was a pretty while before they could strike a B●rgain though the Captain was resolv'd not to leave him behind Several times the Negroes padled away with their Canoe resolving not to part with him but what with his entreaties and promises he perswaded them to the Ship again and they deliver'd him on board for Forty five Copper Bars and Iron Bars each Copper bar being about the bigness of a Youths little finger the Iron bars a little bigger Now were his joys compleated he thought himself as it were caught up into the Third Heavens he could hardly perswade himself but it was a Dream or Vision and that he did not really see English faces or embrace English bodies It was some time before he could throw himself at the Captains feet and acknwledge his infinite cause of joy in himself and thankfulness to him for his deliverance from such a severe Captivity that he that lately was a slave to Infidels that worship they know not what should now see the Faces of Christians and joyn with them in Worshiping the true God and to him first he offer'd up the Sacrifice of hearty thanksgiving that had sent his Angel to redeem him from so cruel a bondage When he came on board his hair was very long and his skin tawny Malatto-like having gone naked all the time he was there and frequently anointing himself with Palm-Oyl he looked like a Tawny Moore but immediately the Seamen aboard with Christian-like hearts apparelled him The Master commanded to hoist sail and having a fair wind they sailed to Barbadoes where Captain Royden was to tarry some time but the Relator earnestly desiring to go to his Native Country and his Relations got passage to the Downs in the Katherine of London Captain South Commander which through Gods goodness in a few weeks arrived in the Downs where the Relator was put on shore to his Unkle Mr. Richard Watts of Deal his great joy and satisfaction who took this relation from his own mouth The Relation of Dr. William Johnson concerning a most Remarkable Sea-Deliverance in his own words 27. We went aboard from Harwich on Michaelmas day Sept. 29. 1648. in the William and John of Ipswich Daniel Morgan Master and having a fair wind we set Sail I being Sea-sick went to bed but about four a Clock in the Afternoon the Master of the Ship came into our Cabin with more hast than he was wont which made me ask him whither all was well who like a tender-hearted man who is loth to tell his dying Friend that he is so nigh his end replyed all is well yet when I saw him shift himself with such hast I rose from my Bed and crawled upon the Deck where I saw a sad spectacle the Ship having sprung a leak or rather a plank was ready to sink upon which every man was affrighted one was at his Prayers another wringing his Hands a third his eyes shedding of tears when he had no need of more salt water but after this they fell to work but were busie in doing nothing The Masters Mate who went to search the Leak told us with a sad countenance trembling hands gnashing of Teeth a quivering Tongue and words half spoken That the Leak could not be stopt and the water came in so fast upon us that we must perish in this moment Upon which we presently cast out our Long-boat and shot off eight or nine Guns to another Ship who came out with us to come to our relief then with some difficulty we all got into the Boat and God be thanked came clear of the Ship whose sails now lay flat upon the Water and now we were rowing we know not whither for the other Ship came not to our relief which made us have hard thoughts of them without cause for we understood that both the Ship and all the men perished in the same hour Now were we without all hope for it blew half a storm and we were in a small Vessel many Leagues from the Shore without Compass or provision to sustain us being starved likewise with Cold as well as for want of Victuals having nothing in our Boat but a small Kettle which served to cast out the water and three bags of pieces of eight of three hundred pound Sterling which would neither feed us nor keep us warm in this distress we went to Prayers and it pleased God to hear us and send a Ship to us even in the moment of Death which we endeavoured to come to and he likewise to us but the storm was so great we could not reach one another though when it was dark he hung out a light and we to let him know we were alive ordered that when a wave took us up we should give a great shout which we did so loud that I believe our cry was heard to Heaven for by Gods miraculous assistance we got near the Ship and soon after all safe into it the next day it blew fair for Norway whither we were bound and about twelve at noon we saw the Coast which being ragged and full of Rocks we resolved to stay till next morning before we went in and then sate down to meat and eat very heartily being kindly entertain'd by the honest Norwegian about ten a clock at

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

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