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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

order'd we should be maintain'd at his own Cost till we could have Passage to our own Countrey But our English Ships seldom Trading thither we Petition'd the Vice-Roy for Passage in the King of Spain's Gallies which were in the Road bound for Alicant which he graciously granted us after some other Troubles we met with contrary Winds and it was five Weeks ere we could reach the Downs where we arriv'd in Sept. 1644. The Commander of the Ship was Captain Smith of Rotherhithe Mr. Thomas Saunders my Wives Brother being in Mayorck not long after we came from thence saw our Boat hung for a Monument upon the side of the Great Church there and Mr. Robert Hales was there 1671. and assures me that he saw the Naked Ribs and Skeleton of it then hanging in the same place Wanly's Hist Man p. 642. The Merciful Preservation and Deliverance of Captain Blose and his ships Company who were Cast away in an Island of Ice near Russia this present year 1697. October the 7th 1696. We came from Archangel in Russia in the Riga Merchant Burthen 300 Tuns 18 Guns Samuel Blose Commander The 8th we had the Wind at North West by West we plied to Windward and it blew very hard the 10th we took two Reefs in our Topsails the 12th we took in our Topsails and Reefed Costs the 13th about One in the Morning we Sprung a Leak in so much that we were forced to set both our Pumps to Work and bear away before the Wind yet still the Water increased and the 14th we cut our Main-Sail from the Yard and let him fly over-board the Weather being so excessive thick by reason of the extraordinary much Snow that then fell that we could not see the Land nor any place where we could run our Ship Ashore to save our Lives The 15th in the Morning about One of the Clock by Fortune unexpected of us before we see any Land we struck upon an Island called by the Russes Mussoves lying in the Missen Gulf which by the Miraculous hand of God 〈…〉 gotten well ashore for as God of his wonderful goodness so order'd it we struck about High Water and as the Water fell away our Ship dryed so that we got all safe to Land without any harm and if it had pleased God we happen'd ever so little either to one side or the other we should have all perish'd amongst the Islands of Ice When we got all ashore we made us a Tent and when it was Day looking about us saw something like Houses so our Captain and a Dutch Merchant Passenger that we had on Board of our Ship and our Doctor went to see what they were thinking to find some Inhabitants but they could ●ind none then we went Aboard our Ship and got all our Beef ashore that we could find about One hundred Weight of Bisket Bread which was all the Bread we could find then we Calculated that our Beef at Four Pieces a day would serve us till the middle of May and every Man one Bisket a Day but that would last but a small time Besides we got a shore Three Boxes of Candles which was a great comfort to us in our necessity by reason we had not above Three hours Day Then we got all our things we had saved to the House that we saw and going about discover'd a great many more Houses and we went to them to see what we could find expecting to see some People but there was none but empty Cask so we came home to the place that we had carried our things to again but as God would have it just against the House that we had taken for our Habitation in the Snow we saw Two Cask and we went and found them both full of Rye Meal which was a Joy beyond measure to us in our Extremity and then we found another Cask with a Kneeding-Tub in it December the First the Dutch Merchant and Four more of our hands went out and took a Compass and Provision with them upon Discovery hoping to see some body to speak to that we might know where we were but they could find no Inhabitants the Course they steered was S. E. but when they came to turn back their Compass unhung and they not minding it went up and down a long time and at length came to the same place where they were when they first turned back then they looked more earnestly upon their Compass and found it unhung they hung it and came the direct way home again but when they came in sight of a House that was about Two Miles off of our House the Merchant and one more Travelling better than the other Three went before and promis'd them to make a Fire against they came but the Weather being so severe they were not able to come along but were Starved with the Cold before they could get up to us So the Lord of his great Mercy made Provision for us until the First of March it being a Sabbath day and we at our Devotion one of our Boys being at another Ho●se Boiling of our Victuals saw some Men upon the Island he fell down being much surpriz'd but soon got up again and run and told us upon which we left our Prayers and run to see what they were our Merchant could speak the Language which was the preservation of all our Lives for otherways they would have Murther'd us for breaking down their Houses and Eating their Provisions that we found upon the Island for they would not be perswaded but we were Pirats and Robbers by reason that we werre Building of a Small Vessel for our own Security of carrying us to the Main when the Ice broke up but our Merchant speaking their Language perswaded them and promised them to make them Satisfaction for what Dammage we had done them for we broke down Two of their Houses for Firing So they ●●rned us out of our Houses and took our Meal from us The Men that came over were in Number 500 Ten Men in a Boat they came there to kill Seales They asked us what we had seen We told them Nothing but Two Ravens They made very strange of it and would not believe it For they told us That none of them could live there but Six Weeks in the Year whether they catcht Fish or not the Island was so Haunted Soon after the Russians came there that Man that saved his Life and got well home with the Merchant when the other Three were Starved with the Cold Died that was Four that was Dead our Complyment at first was 27 but then we had but 23 Living Then our Merchant went to the Russians and desired them to put us ●ver and he would satisfie them for it They granted we should have Six Boats and 60 Men to Drag us over the Ice for it was Seven Leagues from the Main and all full of Islands of Ice between insomuch that they were 24 hours coming over when they came upon the

knees says You should I am sure be Christians and men I see you are in taking away our miserable lives you do us a pleasure but know as we never wrong'd you nor yours you must dye also your selves and one day give an account of this Cruelty to the Judge of Heaven and Earth Suddenly upon which an Irish Priest says Let us not take their lives but we will put them in this Island of the Lake a Boat being at the River all the eight Naked and without Meat are turn'd into that Island where after four days staying some of the Company dy'd with Hunger and Cold but not this Woman nor any of her Children a day after the two Boys found the Hyde of a Beast which had been kill'd at the root of a Tree which they and the Mother endeavoured to cast over them then ●ying upon the Snow the next day a little ●oat goes by to whom she calls for God's ●ake to take her out but they refus'd ●eing Irish she desir'd a little Bread but ●hey said they had none she begs a Coal ●f Fire which she obtain'd for they had ●ome fewel in the Boat and thus with ●ome fallen Chips made a fire and the ●oys taking a piece of the Hyde lay'd it ●pon the Coals and began to gnaw the ●eather but alas without an extraordi●ary Divine support what could this do Thus they lived ten days without any vi●ble supplies and that good Woman pro●est it was by Faith and Joy in God she ●iv'd nor had she any Bread but Ice and ●now nor any Drink but Water but she ●hought God put more substance in it and ●ound it as it were clammy The next ●ay a Boat carryed her out to the side of ●he Band-water where yet she had been ●ost but that she could not suffer to see her Children dye in her sight and therefore 〈◊〉 though the two Boys were young and so ●tarv'd that they had no strength she ●ressed them to go out of her sight under ●retence of seeking some fire the poor Children had not gone far until they saw ●wo or 3 great Dogs eating a man who had ●een kill'd the Children were not afraid of the Dogs who needed not fear any thing but to live in such a Condition and one of them came running and leaped upon one of the Children without doing him the least hurt and would run a little before and then tarry until the Children come up and so led them on where an House whence Smoke appeared which was an Irish mans Protected by the English in Antrum by which means they were marvellously pleased and the Mother sent for and succour'd by a party from Antrum Although this Providence be not a Sea-deliverance yet it is a remarkable preservation from danger by Water and Hunger at Land 7. In the first setling of the Bohemi● Islands off the Cape of Florida about the year 1642. there were at that present great troubles in the Burmoudas one Captaine Sale who had been Governour the year before comes for London and here informing some of his Acquaintance and Persons of Worth and Estate how things then stood they undertake fo● him and got him a Ship and all thing● necessary for the discovery of these Island● which he had inform'd them of s● they proceeded to Burmoudas whe●● they took in several Passengers Captai●● Sale being Cheif and Captain Lane and his Family which came from London with him as his Assistant in the management of the Designe so they in pursute of the Voyage came to an Island call'd Cicatra ●he lay down in the Platts where they could not at present find an Harbour So they sent out their Shallop upon a discovery which upon Return inform'd them of a better place to Ride in But sending out the Shallop again upon a discovery before she Return'd there arose a dreadful Storm that carried her immediately upon the Rocks and stav'd her with very much difficulty most of the People were sav'd and some Provisions Then were they Reduc'd to very great straits formidable to flesh and blood a Barren Island no inhabitants no likelyhood of Releif little Provisions left in this great strait most of them resolv'd to travel up to the wester end of the Island and there to abide Captaine Lane and his Family and his Son who was his Leiutenant they Resolv'd to seek for some kind of Provisions and so stay'd on the Island But Captaine Sale and one Mr. Bounly who had been Master of the Ship and some other Sea-men and one Mr. Shadwel in all eight Resolv'd to go to Virginia and took what Provisions they could get which was one Shark but before they made to the Land they were in very great wants For from this Island from whence they departed to Virginia was three hundred Leagues in their now great Extreamity Providence car'd for them so that they got another Shark and were glad to eat him Raw. They were a 11 days going to Virginia and the Boat a very little one that they could scarcely Steer in her for fear of danger Yet the Lord in this deep Distress made his Arm bare for their Salvation and brought them safe to a place call'd Nuse mum to one Mr. Richard Brunkets House where they were curtiously Entertain'd and after the Relation upon what account they were put to these Hardships and Necessities Captain Sale had a Vessel provided laden with necessaries to go for Cicatra to Relieve those they had left there in such Distress and they arriv'd there And O now what Comfort must this be after such long wishing and gradual Dying to see that there was now Hopes of Life brought to them but several of them were starv'd to Death before their Arrival Captain Lane is now sent to fetch some Provisions who had been in unspeakable Extreamity He came down in a little Boat his Son also the Lieutenant and two Servants but when they had gotten in their Provision and going home with hopes of a new Life Behold the stupendious providence of God all of a sudden Death creeps in and Arrests them For in a narrow place where the Tyde runs swiftly the Boat is sunk all are drowned but one man who carried the desolate Widdow the sad Tydings● what an unwelcome Messenger this was you may easily conjecture about three months after arrived a Vessel to them the master of her my Author and so Mrs. Lane her Son and Daughter Maid Servant and Man Servant where all brought up about forty miles where they were entertain'd by my Author for six weeks and gave an account of some notable passages of Gods Providence in preserving them Worthy never to be forgotten Her Husband and the men went out to see what they could get for 〈◊〉 every Day and they had for the most part just for the Day and she told my Author that she as a tender hearted Mother would lay something by for her younger Children but she observ'd that the next Day they never got

us preserve our Vessel from being rent by the loud cracks of Thunder or from being burnt by Lightning or any other accident keep us and save us from tempestuous Weather from bitter Frosts Hail Ice Snow or Whirlwinds and from Captivity and Slavery TEACH me O God to remember thee my Creator in the days of my Youth to continually think upon thee and to praise thy Name for all thy Mercies Bless all our Friends I beseech thee that are on Land and let their Prayers for us be acceptable in thy sight and grant that our next meeting together may be for the better and not for the worse even to the praising and magnifying of thy Holy Name and Salvation of our own Souls in the great day of the Lord Jesus to whom with thee and thy blessed Spirit be ascribed all Honour Power and Glory Adoration and Subjection now and for evermore Amen A Prayer before a Voyage O ETERNAL God even the God of our Salvation the hope of all the ends of the Earth and of them that remain in the wide Ocean under the shadow of whose Wings we are always secure and without whose protection we cannot expect safety I have been O Lord preserved by thee until this moment from many dangers for which I have not expressed my thankfulness in acknowledging those dayly blessings I have received from thee but O Lord forget and forgive those mani●old sins which I have committed against thee and blot them out of thy Book of remembrance PURGE me O Lord I beseech thee from all vile affections and grant I may bring forth the fruits of thy Spirit go along with me with thy blessed Spirit in this my Voyage preserve me from Pirates Robbers and Enemies defend me from Rocks Sands and Shelves and keep me from Thunder and Lightning Storms and tempestuous Weather or any other danger that may dismay me To thee O Lord I commend my Body and Spirit to dispose of me according to thy holy Will and Pleasure if thou art pleas'd to call for my life upon the surface of the Waters I know thy Almighty Word can command the Sea to give up her Dead at the last and great audit But if thou hast determin'd to bring me safe to my desired Haven give me thy Grace which is sufficient for me to walk according to thy holy Will in all things make me to lay hold of Eternal Life which as the Anchor of Hope is both sure and stedfast keep me from all temptations ghostly and bodily and from sudden Death and in thy good time bring me to the Land of the Living there to reign with thee for evermore Amen A Thanksgiving after a Voyage O IMMORTAL God I have seen thy Works O Lord and thy Wonders in the deep thou spakest the Word and the storm Wind arose which lifted up the Waves thereof but when we cried unto thee thou madest the storm to cease so that the Waves thereof were still then did we rejoyce because we were a●rest and thou broughtest us safe to that Haven● where we would be O that men would therefore praise thee O Lord for thy Goodness and declare the Wonders thou dost continually for them I BLESS thy Holy Name for conducting me through those many dangers which encompassed me and praise thy Mercy that the Deep hath not swallowed me up and that I am not gone down into the place of silence I also praise thy holy Name and admire thy loving Kindness towards me that thou hast not delivered up my Body and Goods as a prey into the hands of unreasonable Men but hast brought me to my desired Haven and at last returned me back in safety to my Habitation O LET me never forget to pay those Vows I made to thee when I was in trouble but give me an awful sense and apprehension of thy great Power and possess my Soul with a true Reverence of thy Divine Majesty that I may evermore serve thee in holiness and Righteousness all the days of my Life Endue me with thy Holy Spirit that I may become acceptable in thy sight and may be fitted at length for future Glories this I beg for thy Son Jesus Christs sake my only Saviour Amen A Prayer in a Storm O LORD our God thou hast commanded us in the day of Calamity to call upon thy Name and thou hast promised to hear us Lord I fly unto thee who art a sure refuge thy Flood-gates are opened and the Floods lift up their ●ofty Waves But thou O Lord most high art mightier than the noise of many Waters yea than the mighty Waves of the Sea Thou canst in a moment if it stand with thy Divine will and pleasure rebuke the Winds and the Sea and turn this Storm into a Calm I KNOW I justly deserve to be cast away and utterly to be rejected by thee but Lord save us or else we perish accept of my unfeigned sorrow for all my sins and transgressions and endue me with a stedfast resolution to forsake them be merciful unto us O God be merciful unto us and save us from perishing in these deep Waters O refresh us with thy Mercy and that soon lest we go down into the place of silence O comfort us in this great distress that though the Sea rage and swell our Hearts may be quiet and still in this time of our disconsolation AND as I earnestly desire to be protected from this great peril and danger which now terrifies us so I earnestly beseech thee that thou wilt for ever fill my heart with ●●ch an awful dread of thy Majesty that I may fear thy Name and praise thy power in the great Congregation awake my dull and drowsie Soul from the sloth of Sin and renew a right Spirit within me fill me with the gifts and Graces of thy Holy Spirit that I may live the life of the Righteous and never forget thy loving-kindness save us now from Death I beseech thee from the mercile●s Waves who are now ready to swallow us up and bring us home in safety for thy Son Jesus Christ his sake our only Lord and Saviour Amen A Thanksgiving after a Storm I PRAISE and glorifie thy holy Name O Lord for all thy mercies and blessings vouchsafed unto me especially for this thy last great Deliverance wherein I was incompassed in that wide Ocean whom thou hast set bounds and limits to if thou O Lord hadst not been on my side the Sea had swallowed me up quick and I had gone down into the deep of silence but thou hast been my God and my Deliverer and hast put a new Song into my Mouth even a Song of Praise and Thanksgiving unto my God I ACKNOWLEDGE O Lord that thou art the God of all the Earth and of them that remain in the broad Sea Blessed for ever and magnified be thy Name that thou hast not cast me out of thy sight nor turned thy Mercy from me I have escaped thy raging Sea and the noise of the proud Waves have done me no harm if thy Almighty Providence had not protected me the streams had gone over my Soul But the stormy Wind and Tempest I have narrowly escaped the storm is ceased and I am safely delivered AND now what shall I render to thee O Lord for this and all other thy great benefits I will offer up unto thee the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving and will pay those vows I so solemnly made unto thee when I was in trouble I will evermore remember that my help is in the Lord who made Heaven and Earth and that thou art that God that can and will deliver me let this thy mercy and loving kindness never depart my memory but let me praise thy goodness and sing of thy power unto my lives end Amen FINIS

prevents them a great flake of Ice interposes between them and their ship and carryes them adrift so that by all means that they and the ship could use they could not recover their Vessel again whereby they were exposed to an inevitable ruine neither having Food nor any other Accomodation to keep them warm they having continued thus three daysand three nights they began to be Hunger-starv'd and accounting themselves all dead men they began to consult one with another what course to take they at last though with great regret and grief resolve one of them must dye to become Food for the rest each person begg'd to have it his Lot to dye first to be freed from that torment that they languished under so that they were forced to determine it by Lot He upon whom the Lot fell desired to go to one end of the Boat there to recommend his soul to God by Prayer before he dyed the rest being in a deep Agony upon apprehension of shedding the blood of one of their Comerades But while they were sat together lamenting and imploring God's favour to prevent such a fact according to that they wished and desired The person separated by Lot for death dyed upon the place where he was praying which in their deplorable Condition occasioned great Joy to the rest that hereby they were not forced against their wills to take his life so looking upon this as a good Omen they proceeded to satisfie their Hungers upon the dead body the Boat was still A-drift not frozen up so that by that time their Food was spent they were brought ashore many Leagues to the Norward of New-England where the five landed alive where the poor Barbarians did commiserate them and help them as they could three of them dyed with the distress they had been in the other two made a shift to get to New-England and so at last by a good hand of God upon them came to their Habitations in the West of England having both lost their heels with the extremity of the cold in the Boat This Relation my Author had from one of these two Sea-men with whom he came afterwards a Passenger from Ireland to whom he shewed his heels so lost 4. A small Vessel about 45 Tun the Masters name Phillip Hangare coming upon the Coast of New-England they suddenly sprang a leak and so foundred There were in this poor miscarrying Vessel 18 Sea-men and Passengers 12 of the men got into the Long-boat and as that was suddenly brought to their minds in this surprise they threw into their Boat also some small matters of Provisions but they were wholly without fire These 12 men at that time of the year about Michaelmas and as Paul said in his Voyage Sayling was become dangerous Sayled five hundred Leagues and were to a Miracle preserved all that time in this small Boat five weeks but it pleased the Lord who appears in our straits most to send them great relief by causing some flying Fish to fall into the Boat which they eat raw and were unto them more acceptable than the greatest rarities and dainties at another time God's Providence now proving the Caterer they catch'd a Shark and that Ravenous Fish that uses to prey upon men now becomes a prey to these poor distressed Creatures but they were glad of food in the want of fire and have an heat in their Stomacks to eat that raw and digest at this time what would have made them sick at other times but alas another want they had was drink as well as fire but they were forced to open the belly of this Shark and suck his blood for drink at last that God who hath a desire to the work of his own hands gives them hopes to release them out of this insupportable misery by letting them come to a discovery of Land in the West-Indies but alas they were so weak that when they came ashore one or two of them dyed but most of them lived to declare the works of the Lord. This the Author had from one of the 12 that were thus miraculously preserved but since cast away at Sea 5. Captain Jonas Clark of New-England going for Virginia the Vessel was Cast away in a strange amazing manner about two hours before day among the Indians where the Ship-wrackt men lay ashore in great fear but three days after they thought to get their ship off again to which end the Master with some others went into the boat they came threescore Fathom from the shore where there arose a great Sea and broke in upon them but the second Sea came and turned the boat up four men under water all were drowned but Captain Clark who was kept under water by one of the men until his breath was gone but then God appeared and set him at liberty from him in a most Miraculous way and inabled him to swim to the shore they that were alive now were in great straits and perplexities not knowing what to do but yet some of their eyes were up to God at last they Unanimously resolve to Travel and when they had Travelled one night and part of a day meeting with many Swamps and thick places so that all hope failed them of going along so they stood still as wayfaring men astonish'd not knowing what course to take and though before they were afraid of any Indians now they were glad to pray to the Lord for the sight of an Indian which in this extremity and perplexity within half an hour the Lord was pleased to grant The Indian was all alone which was observable also when they got to him they asked the way to the English and they did perswade him by entreaty to go along with them but within one hours time he carryed them to a Town of the Indians which did sadly fright and amaze them but they still looked up to the Lord to help and save them and at last they got to the English and so were preserved This Relation the Author had from Captain Clarks own hand a person of known Godliness and Integrity 6. The last Providence called to mind a strange and stupendious passage of a Godly Gentlewoman who in the first breaking forth of the Rebellion in Ireland was forced to fly for her life with some other persons in her Company especially three Children one of them upon her Breast But alas these poor trembling Travellers had not gone long before they were striped Naked by the Irish who to admiration spared their lives but passing on to the foot of a River others met them and would have cast them into the River but this Godly Woman not being dismay'd ask'd a little liberty to Pray and as she lay on frozen ground Naked she got a little resolution not to go on her own feet to so unjust a death upon which having call'd her upon her resolution they drag'd her by the heels along the ground with the rest of the Company she turns upon them and on her

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

many sunk sometimes and perished by your sides How many that went out with you that never Returned One taken and another left one sunk and another saved 4. Your Deliverances are Wonderful if you consider the way that sometimes God takes to bring them about O what strange ways doth God take to deliver when he hath a mind to deliver sometimes he brings down to the very Gate of the Grave he brings to the Doors and Bars of the Sea and then shuts these doors as Job speaks He brings to the next door to perishing and then he delivers Master save me or I perish and then he lends an Arm witness many of these deliverances here mentioned Sometimes he doth it by strange means low and contemptible as the poor man that we Read of that delivered the City Eccles 9. 15. sometimes by unthought of and unexpected means as he that Relieved Major Gibbons as this Story mentions he was a French Pyrate As that Ship I have heard off that when she sprang a Leak and they all had like to have perished all on a sudden the Leak stopt and they knew no Reason but when they came into the next Port to search her there was a great Fish had wrought himself into the Leak that they were glad to cut him out was not here a miraculous deliverance That Jonah should be swallowed up by the Whale O what a miracle was this and so he was preserved and how have some been saved by sudden shifts of Winds when near sinking and perishing these are to be remembred to the Lord while you live Oh! methinks this one Motive should set on the Exhortation if I should use no more to Remember your Dangers and your Deliverances But secondly another Motive is this to Remember your Dangers with your Deliverances this will in your great distresses and extremities contribute some hope to you to read over your Register your ancient Records how good God hath been at such a time and such a time how seasonably he stept in and delivered in such a strait and such a strait Oh then says the Soul why should I despair and cast off all hope now hath not he appeared and saved in Deaths often before now for past experiences are good supports for Hope in present exigencies and extremities thus David argues when at a great strait Thou hast delivered me and wilt deliver me and thus Paul Thou hast delivered me and wilt deliver me Haman found this a good way to Remember the years of the Lords right hand 3. Remember your Dangers and Deliverances for God Records them they are filled up by God and he will mind you of them another day if you forget them now he keeps his Journals and Records he hath his Book of Remembrance of your forgotten Mercies as well as your forgotten sins God will one day read over all those Deliverances you have forgotten Oh poor Soul did not I deliver thee in such a Danger in such a Distress in such a Death when there was no Hope when there was no Help yet all this hast thou forgotten forgotten thy Mercy and forgotten the God of thy Mercy Oh! will not this sting you to the Heart when God shall cause your strangled and murdered Mercies to walk in your Consciences when he shall give them a Resurrection there 4. Motive to Remember your Dangers and Deliverances the Vows of God are upon you Oh! what did you say to God in the day of your distress and calamity Lord if thou wilt now appear and be a present help in time of trouble it shall never be forgotten i● shall be remembred to the Lord as long as we have a day to live but when God brings poor Souls off many do not only forget their Vows but deny them In Ancient times it was usual in eminent dangers whether at Sea or Land to make Vows We read that Jonahs Mariners they Vowed Vows Jonah 1. 16. David did thus Thy Vows are upon me O God! I will render praises unto thee c. Psal 56 11. and in another place I will pay thee my Vows which my lips have uttered and my mouth hath spoken when I was in trouble Psal 66. 13 14. But because this is so ordinary to make Vows at Sea and brake them a Shoar let me enlarge a little upon it 1. Why should you forget your Vows after your Deliverances They were not rash Vows there might have been some excuse if you had made them rashly you might then have had a Plea for saying it was an Error but in times of distress men are serious when Death and Eternity is set before them and they upon the brink of another world dare you sinners rashly Vow in this day of your distress O no your Consciences will bear witness against you that you were in sober-sadness at that day 2. Why should you forget your Vows after your Deliverances for God will require payment Nay this is not only the Reason why we should not forget to pay but why we should not delay to pay When thou vows a vow to the Lord thy God thou shouldst not slack to pay it for the Lord thy God will require it yea will surely require it of thee and is would ●e sin in thee Deut. 23. 21. Take it for granted he will do it yea he will surely do it 1. He will require it so as to call to a payment day he will demand it he will send unto you a Summons to pay the Vows you made to him in the day of your Distress Oh! how often is Conscience Gods Officer that he sends to you to demand Payment O says Cons●ience Sinner pay what thou owest to the God of thy deliverances is not he a God to whom the Vows must be performed 2. He will require it so as to punish the non-payment and so requiring is here taken and in many other places the Lord doth very often severely punish Vow-breaking breaking of Vows doth cause God often to destroy the works of your hands Say not before the Angel It was an error wherefore should God be angry at thy Vows and destroy the works of thy hands Eccles 5. 4 5. Some Expositors refer this to the Priest before whom the sin of rash vows was to be confest others carry it to Christ the Angel of the Covenant who sees through all our subtil excuses and equivocations and punishes them O God is angry when men go so flatly against their Vows O then God is angry and destroys the work of their hands viz. disappoints their endeavours and denies them success Lastly to forget your deliverances and dangers is the greatest ingratitude and unthankfulness in the world hath God given you so many wonderful deliverances so many miraculous preservations to be buried in the grave of oblivion will you murder your mercies and then bury them It is commonly said Murder will out Murdered Mercies will one day make terrible work in walking in your Consciences The next Observation is