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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

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

and sorrowfull Motion The Motion is that which the Marriners in Jonahs Vessel put in execution Come let us cast Lots c. only with this difference they cast Lots to find out the dilinquent and these which of them should dye first to be a Sacrifice for ravenous Hunger to feed upon Concluding as he in that case John 11. 50. It is expedient for us that one man should dye for the People and that the whole Ships Company perish not Life being sweet Skin for Skin and all a man hath will he give for his life they at last bring it through many a sad debate to a result they cast the Lott the disposing of which is of the Lord one of the Company is arrested by the Lott here is the Condemned Prisoner O but where is the Executioner to be found to act his office upon a poor Innocent is it not death to them now to think who shall act this bloody part in the Tragedy But before they fall upon their involuntary Execution Major Gibbons calls them to Prayer considering that in the Mount the Lord is often seen and that many times our extremity proves Gods opportunity he also askes the poor man if he was willing to dye but O what a hard Question is that to Answer He replys if it might preserve the rest of the lives he could be the more willing to which he hath this Answer All events are in the hands of God we must not dispute them to Prayer they go and O sure these Prayers must melt hearts of Adamant and Behold while they are at it God sends a visible commentary upon that Scripture Esay 58. 9. Then shalt thou call and the Lord shall Answer thou shalt Cry and he shall say here I am For while they were calling God was Answering there leaps a mighty Fish into the Boat and as it is said of the Whale that swallowed up Jonah God prepared a Fish for the Lord here prepared or provided a Fish that a poor creature might not be swallowed up but O what joy was here at such a token for good not only it at present releiving and refreshing their huuger which no Queston made them quick Cooks but when they looked upon the Finger of God in it sending it as an answer to prayer they conclude it an happy Omen of their deliverance and a pledg of approaching mercy but alas it is not long before their hearts grow faint again their Countenances pale their Spirits sink now as low as they were lifted up high and now the poor Sea-men are like their Ship one while mounted up in the hopes to Heaven and another while they are sunk down again in despair as low as hell they know not now of another cake another Morsell they are reduced to their former exigency which brings them to a resolve to steer in this strait their old course to Lotts they go again the Second time only they have such an honour for the Providence of God they will not put him into condemnation that God hath acquited the Lott now falls upon another person and O now they receive the old trouble and intestine Combats how they shall find in their Hearts to punish one that never had offended any of them and while one thinks of it sayes he Alas poor man what hath he done to deserve this sentence another crys Will not this blood cleave to my Conscience another day though I went to this expedition a Prest Souldier another says for his part he sees no way but death therefore he cannot take away life when he sees not any life can be preserved by it but they are called again to look upward before they put the Knife to the Throat of this Sacrifice and they remember the last encouragement to put life into the almost dead-mens Prayers they pray now with a pledge in their hands and are ready to tell God the last time he gave them a Pawn an Earnest and O it is not vain to seek the Lord for lo● while they are seeking to him he is sending to them as the Prayers flye to Heaven Mercy is dispatched upon the wing from Heaven O turn aside and see this great sight while they are praying Behold a second Answer from above A great Bird lights and fixes her self upon the Mast which one in the Company espies and up he goes and there she stands until he took her with his hand by the wing brought her down to the Company and O what life from the dead is this to them a second time Sure they will hearken to the voyce of the second Sign if not to the voyce of the first and now that which they hoped by the first Providence viz that it was a fore-runner of the compleat deliverance Now they are by this second confirmed in the Faith and now they begin to think as I can easily imagin if God will save them out of this distress O what manner of persons they will become what manner of lives they will live what Sacrifices of Thanksgiving will they offer up to God! but while they are thus thinking they have no visible hopes but that it must be a third Miracle that brings them out of this their miserable condition they have the same disappointments upon them still only now they divert their Hunger all they can by telling of and remembring the Loaves as I may say their experiences in this extremity of theirs and comforting themselves that if they come to a third strait it would they hoped be an outlet from their present misery and calamity They are reduced the third time to the former course and strait to cast Lotts and when they were to go to the heart-aking work to put him to death upon whom the Lott fell they go to their Old Friend in a day of Adversity to God by hearty and humble Prayer And O now they do as the Prophets man at the Sea-side look again and again but alas Master they cry there is nothing Prayer is done concluded nothing appears O but as the Prophets Man looked seaven times so says this good man Major Gibbons look again as Jonah I will look again towards his Holy Temple says he to one of the Company Go up to the top and see what you can espy and at last he makes a Sayl viz. espys a Ship this puts new life into all their spirits they bear up with the Vessel they Man their Boat they desire in the manner of perishing humble Suppliants to Board them which they are Admitted the Vessel proves a French Vessel yea a French Pyrate Major Gibbons Petitions him for a little Bread to sustain their lives who had been several days wishing for death but could not find it in their Extremity and take the Ship and Cargo So sweet is life that all that a man hath will he give for his life and now behold God draws forth to these Poor Perishing men his best Wine to the last nay turns the Water