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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

any thing And thus Providence train'd them up in the School of Faith but further she gave an account of one Remarkable thing In the last day of the week upon a time it proved a very stormy Day and they being abroad a hunting for some support could get nothing The Husband and Son comes home very much troubled and the men that were gon into the Woods they could get nothing and they being very much troubled one took up a Resolution not to come home knowing their Captain would not suffer them to go and hunt on the Lords Day on the other hand they thought he would wounder what was become of them and fear lest evil had befallen them so they alter their Resolution to come home but empty of any Reliefe this very Evening before the Sabbath in this perplexety of thoughts there flys over their Heads three gray Geese a wonder it was for such Geese that were never seen before nor after O says she to her Husband that we had some of them against to morrow observing they lighted in a Bottome she acquaints her Husband he says they have no shot left O says she here is a Porrenger melt it or cut it into peices which he did for expedition and charged his Peice and at the first shot kill'd them all These things and many more my Author had from her own Mouth after her marvellous Preservation O that men would Praise the Lord for his wonderful Works to the Children of Men. 8. We have a very wonderful Deliverance recorded an honest poor man in Maulden in Essex one Gregory Crow who with his man and boy was in his Boat going to fetch Fullers-Earth but by the way meeting with a Stom his Boat was driven upon a banck of sand and there sunk The men were glad to hang upon the Mast but poor Crow seeing his New-Testament in the water which he prized highly caught it up and took it into his Bosom the tyde being gone they were left upon the sand at least ten miles from land now in this great Distresse they made their Prayers to the Lord that he would send some means of Deliverance For now within half an hour it would be flood but in this little time before Flood they found a Chest wherein was five pounds six Shillings eight pence but honest Crow cast it into the Sea again saying If the Lord will please to save our lives he will provide us a little food and so they went again up the Mast where they to Admiration hung by the Arms and Leggs for ten hours together only the Boy was so weary and beaten with the Waves that he fell off and was drowned now their fears encrease upon them and they know not what to do But Crow advises his man to cut down the Mast and when the F●ood comes again to fit upon it and so sayes he it may please God to drive us to some Ship this Councel was taken they commit themselves to God upon this Mast and thus continu'd Tuesday Night Wednesday and Wednesday Night in which time the man was so tir'd out with Hunger Watching and Cold that he dyed now was Crow left alone in this sad and deplorable Condition who pray'd now the more earnestly for some Succor and Relief but durst not Sleep lest the Sea should beat him off the Mast and when this distress'd miserable object was almost spent his flesh sodden with Sea water and his eyes almost closed up with the Salt now in his Extremity the Lord makes it his opportunity and s●●eps in by his Providence persents a Ship going for Antwerp observe here the Finger of God The Wind not being favourable was driven out of the way and espying something a far off in the Sea but supposeing it to be some Fisher-boy steer'd from it Crow seeing this held up his Cap and shaked it over his head whereby at length they were mov'd to go to him and so they took him in when he came into the Ship being half dead careful of his New Testament he pluckt it out of his Bosome and gave it to some to dry They in the Ship were careful of him and with great difficulty recover'd him and carryed him with them to Antwerp where the fame of his being miraculously deliver'd drew many to see him and relieve him with necessaries Fox's Book of Martyrs 9. A Ship of Holland being driven against her will came to a Place call'd Zembla where the Pole is elevated Seventy Six degrees they among many delays and great dangers scarce reach'd the Aurange Islands for now they were set fast in a Consolidated body of continu'd Ice which threatn'd them every moment at last being reduc'd to their ultimate hope they resolve to return the same way they came but now they find the Ship quite frozen up not far from shore and now they think they should winter in Zembla and waite for a better Season wherefore taking out Boards and Plancks they built for themselves and their Stuffe a poor shelter and by a good Providence the Tide had thrown up a good quantity of Timber they not knowing from whence it came it proved a great advantage to them during their abode here they had continual fights with Bears which sometimes were driven away with making great out-crys other whiles with Shot● they found their flesh unwholesome for food For in this place the Maritine wild Beasts are the food to the wild Beasts of the land the fat of the Bears they made use of to burn for lights in the night these poor creatures were at last after all other Humane Benefits left by the Sun in this Barren Country and left amongst none but wild Beasts The vast Mountains of Snow with great difficulty they remove lest the Habitation should be overwhelm'd and if at any time they went forth their jawes were so benum'd they could scarce recover their former heat now the Bears in the dark being dull of fight did not venture out to disturbe them but multitudes of Foxes which they took in Traps and made of them both Victuals and Rayment and yet after all these dangers and difficultys God preserved them though indeed some of them dyed they were 12 of them The chief of them was one Jacob Hamskerk who returned afterwards to Amsterdam Gro●ius in his Annalls 10. In the year 1616 a flemming named Pickman well known in England and Holland for the art he had in getting out of the Sea the great Guns of that Spanish Fleet that was forced upon the Coast of Ireland and Scotland in the year 1588. coming from Dronthem in Norway laden with Boards was overtaken by a Calm during which the current of the Sea carryed him on a Rock or a little Island towards the extremity of Scotland where he was in some danger of being cast away to avoide a wrack he commanded some of his men to go into the shallop and to tow off the Ship these having done so would needs go upon a