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A58036 A plat for mariners, or, The seaman's preacher delivered in several sermons upon Jonah's voyage by John Ryther ... Ryther, John, 1634?-1681. 1672 (1672) Wing R2442; ESTC R33862 122,256 256

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rightoous for Ezra 9. 15 we remain yet escaped as it is this day behold we are before thee in our Trespasses for we cannot stand before thee because of this O how many poor Seamen may say we are yet escaped escaped such a storm such a fatal tempest unto others and yet we are before thee in our Trespasses and cannot stand with comfort and confidence before the Lord because they have again broken his Commandments after their eminent deliverances and salvations And that you may fall down before the Lord in humble confession consider these following Motives 1. This is usually the beginning of a kindly effectual touch of grace upon the heart The poor Prodigal upon his first return unto his Father says Father I have Luk. 15. Act. 19. 18 sinned against Heaven and before thee his first work upon his return is Confession We read of a great success the Gospel had in Paul's day and many believed and as soon as the Gospel touched kindly their Souls they confessed and shewed their deeds saith the Text viz. laying their hainous sins by way of humble confession as Ephraim did so it will be with a poor sinner As a Bullock unaccustomed to the yoke he confessed he had been Lord will the poor Soul say what a vile wretch have I been with Paul of sinners I am chief a Blasphemer a Persecuter an injurious person When Paul was humbled Oh how he confesses then what a wretch he had been 2. This puts poor Souls under a promise O now upon thy knees poor sinner while thou art confessing thy sin thou mayest put into plea and suit Gods promise and Oh what an excellent way is this of dealing with God to be bewailing your sin and at the same time be pleading Gods promise for pardon this is right Evangelical repentance to have one eye upon sin to humble you and another eye upon the promise to quicken you up to believe your pardon usually legal sorrow keeps an eye upon guilt but forgets to keep an eye upon the Promise Now poor Soul it is thy only way to confess under a Promise If we confess 1 Joh. 1. 9. our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness Oh now he is engaged as a faithful God to pardon poor souls Oh Faithfulness is his name and he will not nay cannot deny his name and now he can be just in the pardoning as well as in the punishing of sin 3. Motive to Confession of sins you have comfortable presidents upon record of great sins and sinners pardoned upon confession nay upon the serious purpose of humble confession We read of Gods readiness to pardon even in a case of great guilt this we have in David I said I would confess my sin and thou forgavest me the iniquity of my sin which was a piece of guilt highly aggravated and circumstantiated Mary that was such a poor Penitent that we Luk. 7. 4. 47. read she washed the feet of Christ with her Tears and must not here be most eminent Confessions poured out with these Tears And it is said of her Her sins that are many are forgiven her for she loved much 4. Motive to Confession of sin if you deny it it will be proved against you and Oh what a folly is it for a Prisoner to deny the fact before the Judg when he knows it will be proved against him Thou hast set our iniquities before thee our secret sins in the light Psal 90. 8. of thy Countenance As it is the comfort of Gods people that he keeps a Book of Remembrance of their Sufferings So it is the terror of wicked men that he keeps a Book of Remembrance of their sins There is the Conscience of the poor sinner will be called in as Gods witness against the guilty Malefactor at the Barr that is an observable place in the Prophet We roar all like Bears and mourn sore like Doves we look Isa 59. 11 12. for Judgment but there is none for Salvation but it is far off from us For our Transgressions are multiplied before thee and our sins testifie against us They did bear Testimony against them Oh poor Seamen have not you many times in your extremities and distresses at Sea felt the terror of this Testimony have not the iniquities of your heels compassed you about 5. Motive to Confession of sin The King of Israel is a merciful King It is this merciful King tha● the Soul presents it self before in humble Confession This was the motive to the Servants of Benadad We have heard that the King of Israel is a merciful King and they came with Ropes about their necks Oh poor Souls if you come to this merciful King with ropes about your necks Confessing you deserve to be turned off the Ladder and to have a righteous sentence executed upon you he will meet you with a Pardon in his hand This King sits upon a Throne of Grace upon the Mercy-seat giving out his Pardon 's daily to humble Penitents Now we read that the Book of the Law which contains all in it all poor sinners Enditements it was put into the Ark and the Mercy-seat covering it was above it Oh this was shadowed out by it Mercy triumphs over Justice in the Lord Jesus Christ Oh then poor sinners bring your Confessions to the Mercy-seat Oh let all poor guilty Seamen and all other poor guilty sinners confess their sins over the head of the Lord Jesus Christ The Priest was to confess all the iniquities of Exod. 25 20 the people over the head of the Scape-Goat noting to us that we must take Christ into our Confessions all poor sinners Confessions should fall upon the head of Christ Now poor sinners and poor guilty Seamen ask your own Consciences Whether you had not better carry your Guilt before the Lord in humble Confessions than have the Lords just and righteous lot find it out either to the confusion or condemnation of your immortal precious Souls O let this Text never be forgotten by you when you come under Sea-temptations or Land-temptations Oh but the Lot fell upon Jonah FINIS Books sold by Dorman Newman at the King's Arms and Bible in the Poultry Folio THe History of King John King Henry the Second and the most Illustrious King Edward the First wherein the ancient Soveraign Dominion of the Kings of Great Britain over all persons in all causes is asserted and vindicated With an exact History of the Popes intolerable usurpation upon the Liberties of the Kings and Subjects of England and Ireland Collected out of the Ancient Records in the Tower of London By William Prinn Esq of Lincolns Inn and Keeper of his Majesties Records in the Tower of London A Description of the Four parts of the World taken from the Works of Monsieur Sanson Geographer to the French King and other eminent Travellers and Authors to which is added the Commodities Coynes
my Relations To Scoff and Mock at Godliness O May'st thou not hear God saying to thy Soul Is this thy kindness to thy Friend wilt thou thus requite the Lord foolish and unwise man with Evil for so much Good David was delivered and see what use he made of it To walk before the Lord in the Land of the living viz. To walk as under his eye It was writ upon a City-Walls in England now demolished This City saved by the Lord being eminently delivered So may be writ on many of your backs This man saved by the Lord Delivered by the Lord then what should be written of such mens Conversation but Holiness to the Lord should not the line of mercy that draws them so often out of the water make Moses's of them should not that line bind them fast to the Lord Jesus should not the mercies of God prevail with poor Souls I beseech you by the mercies of God saies Paul Second word of Counsel O Labour to keep the sense of them fresh upon your spirits when we lose the sense of the mercy then we are easily drawn into sin against the God of mercy O while mercies are new they affect us as every Condition at first is taking but afterwards it is not so It is with mercies as with the Children of Israel they sang and gave praise But yet we find all off again Psal 106. 12. They made hast to forget they ridd post as it is in the Heb. to forget 1. Keep the sense of danger upon your hearts When we lose the sense of our dangers we lose the sense of our duties O what a danger was I in at such a time what distress and said with good Jehosophat I know not what to do It is good to reflect on past dangers so David there came a Lyon and a Bear c. 2. Keep the sense of the Deliverance on you if it wear off the beauty of the mercy is blasted it will then look like an old withered mercy God would have his mercies fresh to us to look with a fresh Complexion 3. Keep the sense of your Vows upon you the Vows that your Souls uttered in the time of your distress 4. Keep the sense of your present frames of Heart you had upon you when you were in danger whether your sins compassed you about in that day or no Consider whether you were under the smiles of his reconciled face or no in dangers O what would you not then have given for the Pardon of your sins 5. Keep the sense of your sins upon you that stared your Consciences in the face in your dangers Is that sin mortified yet Is that sin forsaken These things we should keep fresh upon our Souls after our Deliverances Third word of Counsel O then let your Preservations from past dangers be obligations upon you to trust God in future straits The Lord delivered me saies David out of the Paw of the Lyon and the Paw of the Bear and what then and he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistin This was the great sin of Israel that they did not trust God when they came into present Straits How long saies God will this people provoke Numb 14. 11. me by their unbelief for all my Signes and Wonders Thus the Lord Jesus reproved his Disciples for not considering the Loaves So poor Souls should by former Experiences be encouraged in present Exigences Fourth word of Counsel O beg of God your Deliverances and Preservations may be all sent sanctified unto you There are many Souls have unsanctified mercies unsanctified enjoyments Deliverances and Salvations alas these will harden poor Souls because Sentence is not speedily Executed therefore are the hearts of sinners hardened They escape this danger and the other and Eccles 8. 11. so they think they shall alwaies escape It will here be demanded When a Deliverance is sanctified 1. When it is joyned with Holiness We read of Deliverance and Holiness upon Obad. 17. Mount Zion when Deliverances shine in the Holiness of mens Conversation To be delivered and follow your sins more greedily that is no signe Deliverance is sanctified 2dly When they abide upon the Heart they are sanctified when they remain with a Soul Many many have Preservations from danger and as soon as they are delivered all is past and gone with them as a tale that is told It may be they never think of them till they come into another danger or another strait 3dly When deliverances are sanctified they are admired After such Deliverance as this O how their Hearts admired the mercy You lose the beauty of a mercy for want of admiring-frames of Heart In this Deliverance saies the Soul here was the appearance of the several attributes of God here in this circumstance was the wisdome of God and the Power of God! 4thly When Deliverances do kindly humble and break the Soul then they are sanctified what save such a worm put forth his power to save at such a time from Death and Hell such a poor vile wretch that deserved to have been lodged in that Pit where there is no Redemption many years agoe 5thly When Deliverances are sanctified they endear the Soul exceedingly in love with God Thus David I will love thee O Psal 18. ● Lord my strength why The Lord is my rock my fortress my Deliverer ask your Hearts now you that have been eminently delivered at Sea or Land if your Preservations be thus sanctified Fifth word of Counsel Register your Preservations and Deliverances you will find much yea very much benefit in such a Course Thus all the Saints did Did not Heman remember the years of the right hand Psal 77. of the Lord There are these Remarkable Jer. 2. 2. days you should in an especial manner remember 1. The day of the first love in drawing you into Christ this God remembers I remember the love of thine Espousals 2. The day of your Deaths that you Jer. 2. 2. should remember O that my people were wise Lam 1. 9. to consider their latter end Jerusalem came down wonderfully because they considered not their latter end 3. The days and times of your Del●verances Thus did the Lords Saints or else we should have been bereaved of many precious Scriptures As that excellent place when David changed his Behaviour before Abimelech O what an admirable Psalm was penn'd upon that occasion Psal 34. and also the 40th Psalm He brought me up also out of the miry-pits c. 1. O do you remember them they will be a strengthning of your Faith for time to come A man will not lose a Receipt or an Acquittance lest it be call'd in Question and Will you lose your Experiences of Gods goodness to you Experiences are poor Souls Receipts as I may say now you may be called into Question as to your Estates O these then will be Comfortable for you to read over 2. They will be strengthening