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

motions yet he is sure in his executions 2. Poor Souls that are preserved and make no spiritual use of their Preservations they are ready to think God loves them because he preserves them and so they go on in their sins and provocations We must not argue from common Providences to special affection There are no evidences in these things no no more than in sparing the wicked in the Plague-time while many truly-godly were carried into Heaven and glory by it 3. Poor Souls that are under such Perfecutions are hardened 4. Preservations that are not answered in Conversation nothing speaks more sadly a Souls-Rejection by God than this O what a sad argument it is of Rejection for a poor Soul never to be brought nearer God by all its preservations but worse after deliverances This saith as much as God hath let it alone Third Use is a word of Examination to Godly Sea-men If it be so that Prayer is such an excellent meanes for preservation O then examine whether your Preservations have been fruits of prayer answers unto prayer O it is a sweet thing to read answers of prayer in preservation to say Lord thou hast heard my Cry and delivered me 1. A Preservation that is a fruit of prayer is a Perservation that alwaies endears the Soul unto God I will love thee O Lord my strength O what a warm frame of Heart was Ps 18. 1 2. he in at that time O the Lord had delivered and preserved him Hath your Preservations indeared God to you or no What not love him that appeared for you when none else could come into your Relief 2dly A Preservation that is a fruit of Prayer alwaies raises the Souls of the Receivers in praise That which we win by Prayer we wear by praise What is the reason men are so ingrateful and unthankful for these Preservations They are not answers of prayer 3dly A Preservation that is a fruit of Prayer will cause the Soul to believe in the next strait it is brought into It binds the Soul over to believe for the future Answers of prayer always bind over the Soul to believe He hath delivered me and he will deliver c. 4thly Preservations that are answers to prayer they fill the Soul with admiration such Souls go round about their preservations and look stedfastly upon every circumstance and so see the beauty of its preservations The mercy came in when I had given over all hope when near sinking then the storm ceased Here did the power of God appear there the wisdom of God there the love of God 5. Preservations that are Answers to Prayer they are always lived up to Conversations are suited to their Preservations 1. Such walk Humbly under their Preservations they do not puff them up 2. They walk Holily after Preservations 3. They walk Thankfully Jonah 1. 7. And they said every one to his Fellow Come let us cast Lots that we may know for whose cause this evil is come upon us So they cast Lotts and the Lot fell upon Jonah WEe have already had an account how serious these poor distressed Mariners were in their danger as to their use of means 1. Rational means They lighted the Ship 2. Religious means They every one cry to their God And here in the Text they are upon the use of the most extraordinary and best and last means viz To find out the guilty Malefactour who raised the storm that now threatned them with Ship-wrack For whose cause this evil was come upon them Now was their grand Inquiry 1. In the Text we have a serious consultation of a poor distressed Ship-company in eminent danger Dangers will make men serious in their Consultations And they said every one to his Fellow Come let us cast Lots The storm growing upon them though they had used rational and religious means Jonah having not confessed his sin they begin to think that the storm came upon some extraordinary errand and might be some extraordinary Messenger or Pursevant to Arrest some great Malefactor And therefore they fall upon a Consultation to use extraordinary means in order to a discovery of the guilty Person And this is the casting of Lots The use of the Lot being in difficult cases to leave it to the judgment of God to decide the Controversie The Lot was used in Scripture in these cases 1. To decide inheritances They were divided by Lot The Inheritance was also from hence called a Lot And Simeon said unto his Brother come up with me into my Lot that Numb 26. 53. we may fight against the Canaanites 2. The use of Lots was in order to the executing of Sacred and Holy matters Aaron was to cast Judg. 1. 3. Lotts upon the Goats One for the Lord another Lev. 15. 8. for the Scape-Goats So Matthias was chosen to his Office by Lot 4. The use of Acts 1. 26. the Lot was for deciding of Controversies The Lot causeth contention to cease and parteth Pro. 18. 18. between the mighty It unites them and reconciles them The disposing of the Lot is 1 Sam 14. 41. called God's Judgment The Lot is cast into the lap but the disposing thereof is of the Prov. 16. 33. Lord. But the word signifies Judgment the Judgment is of the Lord He decides the controversie And some read it The whole Judgment of it is of the Lord. Thus Achan was discovered by Lot He was taken Josh 7. 14 15. but some read it he was hit the Lot fell upon him as here upon Jonah A Lot saith Dr. Ames is a requesting a divine testimony to decide Mat. 27. 35 They cast Lotts upon his Vesture some controversie by the determining of an event to be manifested in a meer Contingency Now the case of these poor Heathen Mariners was this They attributed some thing of this Nature to Lotts that they were in their use and eye of a deciding discovering Nature So they consult to cast Lotts 2. We have their agreement in their consultation So they cast Lotts they were not divided in this case as many Ships-companies are in storms Some will stay by the Vessel and some will take them to their Boat and both the divided Parties many times lost Dividing in time of common danger and distress is frequently of sad Consequence But we see here they all resolve upon one course which should teach Christian Sea-men to be united in their course and Resolution in time of distress 3. We have the main scope and end of this serious Consultation That we may know for whose cause this Evil is come upon us They had strong apprehensions that the Case was extraordinary and gladly would they find it out They do not every one reflect upon one and say Is it I Is it I O no but they put it off from one another and yet all are in good earnest for a discovery of the cause But Jonah is silent all this while says nothing They had this