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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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all your Deliverances will one day add to your Condemnation your Salvations at Sea from sinking will but sink you so much the deeper in Hell if the Lord be not merciful to you 2. Use Is it so that the light of Nature puts upon Prayer in time of danger Then it is an Use of Exhortation to all Masters of Ships especially to set up Prayer the Master of the Ship came unto the Prophet and said arise sleeper and pray to thy God c. Why was Jonah a Servant how was the Master concerned with Jonah he was a Passenger yet he now sees in time of danger that all aboard were upon their duty you will have your times of Watch kept up and why not times of Prayer Here is a Pattern for yea Sea-Commanders to call upon your sleepy Companies to pray 1. You are in deaths often and should not such be in duty often what not in prayers often Men will never pray if not in danger may not you hear the Winds and the Seas saying often to you as Jonathan to David As I live there is but a step betwixt thee and death 2. You are under more Temptations than many others What in the midst of Temptations and not pray Little does your Relations know it may be what Temptations you meet with in the remote parts of the Earth O but God and your Consciences know The Temptations of Countries are sad Temptations especially when they meet with suitable matter in constitutions when a Country-temptation and a mans Constitution meet together O how sad is this It is said of Israel they mingled with the Heathen Psalm 106. 3● and they soon learned their works They learned to sin with them and if the truth were known so I doubt do many of you 3. You are under more vows than other Psal 56. 13. men We see here These poor Heathens vowed a vow Have not you don so many a time Of all men in the World The vowes of God are upon Sea-men and will not you pay the vowes your Souls have uttered to the Lord in the dayes of your distress Is it not better Eccles. 5● 5. not to vow than to vow and not pay For God takes no pleasure in the Sacrifice of Fools Have not you vowed to be more holy to be more close walking to set up the worship of God in your Vessels But how have you come off with God Have you not come off as those Heathen-Mariners did who in a storm promised If their Gods would deliver them they would offer up Candles in sacrifice to them as big as the Masts of the Ships but when they got to Land they made one of Twelve in the pound serve 4. You are under more Advantages to exert and draw-out Prayer They that go down into the Sea they see the wonders of the Lord and these should both excite to Prayer and Praise 5. You must give an account to your Families your Ship 's Companies are your Families and you must give an account of them you would not wrong them in their Wages or in their Bodies and why then will you wrong their Souls you have a charge of Souls But more of this herafter 6. If you never pray out of danger how can you expect to be heard in danger will not God say as in that Case You fasted not at Zach 7. 5. all unto Me was it not to your selves 3. Use Then it is a word of Information 1. It informs us of the sin of those that never pray neither Calm nor Storm that are possest with a dumb Devil O that God would cast him out O the light of Nature condemn this Heathens and Pagans condemn this What never pray and yet called Christians O how strange is this are not many of your Houses and many of your Vessels haunted with a dumb Devil 1. You do not give the true God so much Honour as these Heathens gave to their false gods They cryed to their gods 2. The wrath of God hangs over the head of such as call not upon the Name of Jer. 10. 29. the Lord He threatens to pour his wratb upon the Families of such 3. This is the Character of wicked Men Psal 14. 4. They eat up my People like bread and call not upon the Name of the Lord. 4. Such are under no Promise They that Joel 2 32. call upon the Lord shall be saved 5. Such as call not upon the Lord are from under Gods protection And is it not sad to go to Sea from under the protection of God 4. Use Have any of you prayed in your Dangers at Sea and God hath answered It is a word to such 1. Read often your Answers to Sea-Prayers over as a Person doth that receives a Letter from her Husband at Sea or in some remote Country she reads it over and over again and again or as a Man that hath an answer from a Friend he cannot understand it at first until he hath read it over and over Hath the Lord sent you Answers read them often over and you will see more of God in your mercies 2. Hath the Lord answered your Prayers O then walk up to your Answers After such deliverance as this shall we again break His Commandments Walk as the Redeemed of the Lord from Death and Psal 56. 13. Danger say with David Thou hast delivered my Soul from Death and wilt thou not deliver my Feet from falling that I may walk before the Lord in the Land of the Living This should be the Language of Sea-men after their Deliverances 3. Hath the Lord answered any of your Prayers O then pay your vows May not you all say Thy vows are upon me O God! In Psal 56. 12. times of danger they used of old to make vowes A Vow is a promise made with Prayer Numb 21. 2. 3. and paid with Thanksgiving The law of vowes to the Lord was unalterable What Lev. 27. 10. was vowed must be offered 4. Hath the Lord answered your Prayers in times of Danger at Sea O then keep a Memorial of them be not as Israel was of old and they soon forgot his works or posted made haste to forget his works as the word testifies Register them remember the years of the Lords right hand We see how God would have the appearances of his mercy Gen. 32. latter end remembred that Manifestation of God at Peniel when the Angel wrestled with Jacob must have its Memorial kept up and therefore many years after a City is built that bears its Name the City of Penuel Judg. 8. 8. and also that famous appearance of Gods for Jacob at Mahanaim a City bore its Name to keep up the Memorial of it which was a Jesh 21. 38. City of Refuge 5. You that have received mercyes in answer to Prayer at Sea That duty you were most convinced of be sure you take up and that sin you were most convinced of