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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	david_n	lord_n	saul_n	3,363	5	9.9017	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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