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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

be remembred There is never a deliverance but you may read a wonder in it so many deliverances and salvations at Sea so many wonders God saves you in a miraculous way 1. Is not this a wonder that persons of such great sins and provocations should be persons of such great salvations and preservations that such as sin every Voyage nay it may be at an high rate sin every Voyage should be saved and delivered at such an high rate every Voyage is not this a wonder that men of such sins should be men of such salvations that men that sin against these salvations should not have these deliverances shorten upon them Oh what a wonder is this We should wonder if a person should be continually disobliging any of us and yet we should be still heaping up kindnesses upon him This made the Prophet Ezra say Shall we again break his Commandments after such deliverance as this O do not you provoke the Lord every time that you go out and still he delivers you still he returns you to your Relations to visit your habitations in peace and is not this a wonder 2. Your deliverances are wonderful if you consider your deliverances are great deliverances We read of such And the Lord saved them with a great deliverance or with a great salvation Thus said Sampson Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant Judg. 15. 18. Now any great transactions are remembred and recorded Your deliverances are great if we consider these things 1. They are commanded deliverances by the great God his word of command brings all our deliverances about whether at Sea or Land Which made the Church in distress pray Thou art my King O God command deliverances for Jacob Psal 44. 4. He commands every thing tending to deliverance at Sea in order to deliverance he commands the Winds He maketh the storm a calm Psal 107. 29. He also commands the Seas he says to the proud Waves So far and no farther You read of a decree set to the Sea that it cannot pass Though the Waves thereof toss themselves yet can they not prevail though they roar yet can they not pass over it Jer. 5. 22. It is the great God only that rides Lord Admiral at Sea to command the Seas and the Waves thereof God is said to shut up the Sea with doors and set bars upon it Hitherto shalt thou come and no further and here shall thy proud waves be stayed Job 38. 8 11. Xerxes presumed he could tame the Hellespont for attempting his Bridge of Boats but all this was in vain this is a flower in Gods Crown alone to command the Sea Your deliverances are a fruit and effect of Gods commanding Power therefore great 2. They are great deliverances as they are the curious workmanship as I may call them of the Attributes of a great God Deliverance is said to be wrought for us it is the handy work of God If God will work who can let as the Prophet saith Isa 43. 13 14. And he seems to speak it upon the account of the deliverance of his People For your sake I have sent down to Babylon and have brought down all their Nobles and the Caldeans whose cry is in their ships In every deliverance there is the excellent work of the Attributes of God we may in such a deliverance say Here is the Power of God and here is the Wisdom of God and here is the Love of God and here is the Faithfulness of God c. For as God in the confounding of the Languages at Babel said Go too let us go down as if he derected himself to his glorious Attributes compassing about his glorious Throne Come let us go down Gen. 11. 7. Or as some take it of the Trinity as in the Creation So when God sends us deliverances in our distresses he sets his Attributes at work Go Power go Mercy go Love go Faithfulness go and act your respective parts in this deliverance and must not this be then an excellent and curious Piece that Gods Attributes bring forth 3. They are great deliverances if we consider the great sins and provocations they come over the heads of the great unworthiness of the receiver heightens much the mercy and favour received the reason why persons do not greaten their deliverances is because they do not greaten their sins in the deep sense and aggravations of them O such a Soul would say as David Is this the manner of men O God is not this a great deliverance for such a great sinner to receive 4. They are great deliverances if we consider the time and season of their coming in as this deliverance of the Ships Company where Paul was it was when all hope of being saved was taken away and so were many of the deliverances mentioned in this Treatise So Peter's Sea-deliverance when he began to sink Christ stretched forth his hand immediately he was now sinking and going but see how ready Christ was to save He stretched forth his hand and caught Peter Matth. 14. 28 29 30. Our sinking time is Jesus Christs saving time In the Mount is the Lord seen our extremity is Gods opportunity and are not then these great deliverances never to be forgotten 5. They are great deliverances if we consider they are not only deliverances of Bodies and Ships and Estates sometimes but Souls and where the Ship is lost and the Estate is lost yet for the life to be saved and the Soul delivered is a very great Deliverance a Reprieve when a Prisoner is under the sentence of Death is a great Mercy O when God Reprieves a poor Prisoner this is some Deliverance we read o● some Deliverance God gave to Israel in the days of Shishak a Reprieve is some Deliverance but if it end in suing out the Prisoners Pardon then it is a great Deliverance If it be such a Deliverance in a Storm at Sea as Hezekiah had from a Sickness at Shoar Thou hast delivered me in love to my Soul and cast all my sins behind thy back Isa 38. This is a double Deliverance and sure such Deliverances as these are worth Recording These are to be written in Marble and not in Dust with the Pen of Iron as the Prophet says and not with with point of a Diamond 3. Your Deliverances are wonderful if you consider the many thousands that have perished in less Dangers to an eye of Reason they are distinguishing Deliverances and therefore wonderful hath God dealt with all men that go to Sea as with you Hath not thousands perished by the Sword at Sea in bloody Engagements Miscarried at Sea in dreadful and terrible Storms Hath not the Sea been a Sepulcher for thousands Are not there Millions of the Dead that the Sea must one day give up and yet you Delivered and yet you spared O what distinguishing Mercy is this And shall this be forgotten by you Should not you keep Records of distinguishing Mercy How

this That Salvations and Deliverances many times are not sent until persons be left helpless and hopeless I shall give you a touch of this Now all hope of being saved was taken away no small tempest lay upon them now they were gulft in despair of ever coming off with their lives Yet this often is the condition of Nations Ship-Companies and Persons where God intends to save and deliver The proofs of the last Observation about Dangers and Deliverances being recorded and remembred proves this also Thus was Peter saved the Disciples saved when just at sinking But why doth God stay so long before he sends deliverances and salvations 1. Because he delights to draw forth a spirit of prayer if men will not pray when sinking when drowning when dying they will never pray O see how Jonah prays in his distress And Jonah prayed to the Lord out of the Fishes belly and said I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord and he heard me out of the belly of Hell cried I and thou heardst my voice c. When my Soul fainted within me I remembred the Lord and my Prayer came in unto thy holy Temple Jonah 2. 1 2 3 7. O Sirs God loves prayer so well that he stayes with his deliverances that we might sue them out by prayer Out of the Depths have I cried unto thee saith David Psal 130. 1. Driven to it by deep and bottomless straits into which I am plunged And it seems to be an allusion to Marriners in their distresses and dangers of being shipwrackt crying unto the Lord. What will any man perish and never pray House when he had so long been starving in the Fields with his Husks amongst the Swine 4. Because God will have all his Salvations and Deliverances look like his own hand and arm his own arm brings salvation with him he will have the print of his own hand upon it that poor sinners may say This is the finger of God the doings of God and it is marvellous in our eyes Alas Men would attribute it to themselves if Salvation did not come in such a way when all hope of being saved is taken away Oh! every thing is beautiful in its season Is not Salvation and Deliverance now in season now they begin to despair as to probable or visible hopes O now God works like himself now he appears in a deliverance to be God which set the Disciples a wondring What manner of Man is this that the Winds and Sea obey him Mark 4. 41. And at another time when he deliver'd his Disciples at Sea and calmed the Winds then they that were in the Ship worshipped him saying Of a truth thou are the Son of God Matth. 14. 32 33. 5. Because he will by such salvations set off his love to poor Souls Was not the love of Christ set off highly in taking that season to save the Ship when it was full to save them when they were finking Is not that great Love that steps forth to save in an Extremity O what Love was this to save this Ships Company when all hope of being saved was taken away Love always chuses the fittest times to appear and evidence it self Lastly Because he will have his deliverances endearing deliverances to Souls O how doth such an appearance of God at such a time endear the Soul of the Receiver Therefore saith David I will love the Lord or love the Lord dearly my Rock and my Deliverer c. But I will proceed to give you also a taste of the Application and not be large because I have been large upon the former which was mainly intended 1. Then learn we hence that God may for gracious ends known to himself delay a mercy or a deliverance and yet fully intends to give in that mercy Jacob may wrestle all night and yet be put off but in the break of day the mercy comes The Woman of Canaan may cry to Christ for her Daughter and at present be put off yet at last she shall carry it The believing Soul may not have the Dove come with an Olive-branch in her Mouth until Evening Christ's manifesting of his love to poor Souls is called his Supping with them And I will sup with you Now supper comes not up till Evening 2. Learn we hence that God's timing our deliverances and salvations is best for us his time is the best time Our time is always ready but saith Christ My 〈◊〉 is not yet If we had our Mercies in our time we should not see that beauty in them for every thing is beautiful in its season and God chuses the fittest seasons to seud them because he will put a beauty upon them 3. Learn we hence that no case is desperate to God though it be so to Man One would have thought this a desperate case in such a Storm lightning the Ship the casting out of the Tackling of the Ship neither Sun nor Stars appeared and all hope of being saved taken away yet all this was but desperate to them it was not so to God now their extremity becomes God's opportunity and he takes this juncture of time to appear in Thus David Psal 42. 7 8. all God's waves and God's billows had gone over him a desperate case yet God then he believes would command his loving kindness in the day-time and his Song should be with him in the Night Faith is an excellent Grace at a desperate stand 4. Learn we hence that God's thoughts are not as our thoughts when we think of nothing but sinking and perishing then doth God think of saving and delivering They thought all hope of being saved was taken away but God looks through the Storm and Cloud and comforts them As the Disciples when they thought it had been a Spirit in their Storm that appeared to them No saith Christ be not afraid be of good chear it is I Mark 6. 50 51 52. Vse 2. Is it so that the salvations and deliverances that many of us have are not until we be brought to extremities then it is a word of Exhortation Then look up to God in the most desperate case when you know not what to do in your Storms at Sea in your Straits at Land O then let your eyes be up unto the Lord you see how many deliverances have come down in extremities as answers to Prayer O Pray hard let going to Sea being in Storms at Sea being brought to Extremities at Sea learn you to Pray FINIS PRAYERS The Mariners Prayer O GOD the great Creator of Heaven and Earth thou dost whatsoever thou pleasest in the Sea and in all deep places I the most unworthiest of all thy Servants am at this time called upon to behold thy Wonders in the Deep and to perform my Duty in great Waters Guide me I beseech thee in all times and in all places Be thou our skilful Pilot to steer us and protect us from all Dangers and rebuke the Winds and the Seas when they molest

A Token for Mariners 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 LONDON Printed by Hugh Newman and Sold at his Shop at the Grashopper in the Poultry 1698. THE Preface to the Reader And Particularly to Mariners and other Seafaring-Men THough God's Wonders are every where visible and his Mercies no where hid from the Eyes of Men yet more particularly are they Evident to Sea-faring Men whose Business is in the Great Waters and their Lives Exposed more than others to Iunumerable hazards and dangers of Contending Winds and Seas Rocks Quicksands and Inhospitable Shoaers These as it were carry their Lives in their hands and their best Security is Wholly to Rely on the Providence and Protection of him whose Power the Winds and Waves obey Seeing there is so small a partition between them and Eternity the Striking on a Treacherous Rock over which many times the Flattering Water smoothly glides gives them their Winding-sheet in a Rumpled Wave Nor is this all their danger the Springing of a Plank a Leak not to be found nor suddenly stopped Running on a Shoal or the Falling of a Water-spout frequently carry with them the same Inevitable Fate and often makes them at their Wits Ends before they end their Lives for a certain Prospect of Vnavoidable Death must needs be Terrible to Flesh and Blood and in a great measure remove that Constant Presence of Mind that should support their Spirits amidst all Dangers From this there is no way to secure themselves but by laying hold on him that is Mighty and able to save to the utmost on God who is a present help at need whose eyes are in all places in Heaven and Earth and in the Great Deep and those that Cry to him in their Distress he will surely hear them and Deliver them out of all their Troubles if they are sincere in heart and walk uprightly with him For a Praying Paul's sake we find though the Ship was broken and perished on a Rock on the Coast of the Island antiently Melita now called Malta all that were in it were saved when they expected nothing less than to be swallowed up in that dangerous Ocean as we find it in the Acts Chap. 27. Therefore the best thing I can Recommend to Mariners and others that Navigate the Deep is to have a stedfast Relyance on God in all their Dangers nay at all times for that is the best and surest Anchor-hold and Security that can be had recourse to and therefore I have furnished this Book with many Wonderful and Remarkable Sea-Deliverances to show them that their hopes are not in vain for the Wonders he has already wrought he will doubtless continue to all that fear and put their Trust in him This Collection is taken mostly from the Mouths of those who have experienc'd God's Mercy this way and whose Dangers have been as great as any could be on this side the Grave yet God in his Mercy delivered them out of all The rest are taken from such Reverend Authors that their Credit and Integrity is Indisputable being purposely Written to raise the Minds of Men to Contemplate and Adore the Love and Goodness of the All-wise Creator of the Vniverse and may indifferently serve to this end as well at Land as Sea though chiefly intended for Sea-faring Men to put them in Mind when they Read it of their Danger and what they may expect in their Danger from the Death they apprehend in it if they apply their hearts to true Wisdom When all help or hopes fail or seem to be at a loss then fix your hearts and eyes stedfastly on him who is able to do all things and to whom nothing is impossible on him in whose hands is all the Breath of Life who can stop the shafts of Death in their winged motion check the Bellowing Thunder in the Midd-Volley and turn the Raging of the Winds to a sudden Calm But not to be Tedious in a Preface I recommend this to you as a suitable Companion in your Voyages or Travels nay in your houses or at all times that you may know these things are the Lord 's doing tho they are Marvellous in our eyes And so Conclude subscribing my self Christian Reader Your Friend and Servant J. J. REMARKABLE SEA Deliverances ONe Major Gibbons a man well known in new England a Gentleman of good education good parts and of good Conversation as the Author hath been credibly informed by them that knew him was bound upon a voyage to Sea himself being Supra Cargo with such commoditys as those parts of America doth afford after going out from Boston several days by hard weather and contrary winds the Ships company were much distressed and through the Continuance of the contrary winds Provisions now begin to faile them and O how feeble doth Spirit grow when Bread the Staffe of life faileth now Hunger becomes more dreadfull to them then the every moment threatning Billows of the devouring Ocean and they that one while feared drowning now fears Starving they are brought to the last meal in the Barrel and the last oyl in the Cruse and say as she did We will Eat this little that is left and dye and now when they thought they had eaten the last what conflicts must they needs have within themselves who knew not where to have another morsel to fortify the tyred and spent Spirits with the constant toyl and hard labour how they look one upon another as men already under a Sentence of death and by one anothers looks Strike terror to one anothers Hearts They look on every side Psal 142. 4 5. as David says I looked on my right hand but there was no man that would know me Refuge failed me or perished from me They look downward and see nothing but the Belly of destruction opening for them they look upward the onely and last refuge and remedy in this deplorable estate was out of the depths they cry'd to the Lord But though they look out of the Ship as Noah did out of his Ark upon the waters and send forth the Dove of Prayer that winged Messenger to Heaven yet she brings no Olive branch no Answer the waters asswage not the winds calm not they are like the Prophets Servant when he bid him 1 Kings 18. 43. go up now and look to-wards the Sea and he went up and looked and said there is nothing and this strikes them into dolefull and dismall Lamentations out of which Lamentations at last Springs up a tragical