rightoous for Ezra 9. 15 we remain yet escaped as it is this day behold we are before thee in our Trespasses for we cannot stand before thee because of this O how many poor Seamen may say we are yet escaped escaped such a storm such a fatal tempest unto others and yet we are before thee in our Trespasses and cannot stand with comfort and confidence before the Lord because they have again broken his Commandments after their eminent deliverances and salvations And that you may fall down before the Lord in humble confession consider these following Motives 1. This is usually the beginning of a kindly effectual touch of grace upon the heart The poor Prodigal upon his first return unto his Father says Father I have Luk. 15. Act. 19. 18 sinned against Heaven and before thee his first work upon his return is Confession We read of a great success the Gospel had in Paul's day and many believed and as soon as the Gospel touched kindly their Souls they confessed and shewed their deeds saith the Text viz. laying their hainous sins by way of humble confession as Ephraim did so it will be with a poor sinner As a Bullock unaccustomed to the yoke he confessed he had been Lord will the poor Soul say what a vile wretch have I been with Paul of sinners I am chief a Blasphemer a Persecuter an injurious person When Paul was humbled Oh how he confesses then what a wretch he had been 2. This puts poor Souls under a promise O now upon thy knees poor sinner while thou art confessing thy sin thou mayest put into plea and suit Gods promise and Oh what an excellent way is this of dealing with God to be bewailing your sin and at the same time be pleading Gods promise for pardon this is right Evangelical repentance to have one eye upon sin to humble you and another eye upon the promise to quicken you up to believe your pardon usually legal sorrow keeps an eye upon guilt but forgets to keep an eye upon the Promise Now poor Soul it is thy only way to confess under a Promise If we confess 1 Joh. 1. 9. our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness Oh now he is engaged as a faithful God to pardon poor souls Oh Faithfulness is his name and he will not nay cannot deny his name and now he can be just in the pardoning as well as in the punishing of sin 3. Motive to Confession of sins you have comfortable presidents upon record of great sins and sinners pardoned upon confession nay upon the serious purpose of humble confession We read of Gods readiness to pardon even in a case of great guilt this we have in David I said I would confess my sin and thou forgavest me the iniquity of my sin which was a piece of guilt highly aggravated and circumstantiated Mary that was such a poor Penitent that we Luk. 7. 4. 47. read she washed the feet of Christ with her Tears and must not here be most eminent Confessions poured out with these Tears And it is said of her Her sins that are many are forgiven her for she loved much 4. Motive to Confession of sin if you deny it it will be proved against you and Oh what a folly is it for a Prisoner to deny the fact before the Judg when he knows it will be proved against him Thou hast set our iniquities before thee our secret sins in the light Psal 90. 8. of thy Countenance As it is the comfort of Gods people that he keeps a Book of Remembrance of their Sufferings So it is the terror of wicked men that he keeps a Book of Remembrance of their sins There is the Conscience of the poor sinner will be called in as Gods witness against the guilty Malefactor at the Barr that is an observable place in the Prophet We roar all like Bears and mourn sore like Doves we look Isa 59. 11 12. for Judgment but there is none for Salvation but it is far off from us For our Transgressions are multiplied before thee and our sins testifie against us They did bear Testimony against them Oh poor Seamen have not you many times in your extremities and distresses at Sea felt the terror of this Testimony have not the iniquities of your heels compassed you about 5. Motive to Confession of sin The King of Israel is a merciful King It is this merciful King thaâ— the Soul presents it self before in humble Confession This was the motive to the Servants of Benadad We have heard that the King of Israel is a merciful King and they came with Ropes about their necks Oh poor Souls if you come to this merciful King with ropes about your necks Confessing you deserve to be turned off the Ladder and to have a righteous sentence executed upon you he will meet you with a Pardon in his hand This King sits upon a Throne of Grace upon the Mercy-seat giving out his Pardon 's daily to humble Penitents Now we read that the Book of the Law which contains all in it all poor sinners Enditements it was put into the Ark and the Mercy-seat covering it was above it Oh this was shadowed out by it Mercy triumphs over Justice in the Lord Jesus Christ Oh then poor sinners bring your Confessions to the Mercy-seat Oh let all poor guilty Seamen and all other poor guilty sinners confess their sins over the head of the Lord Jesus Christ The Priest was to confess all the iniquities of Exod. 25 20 the people over the head of the Scape-Goat noting to us that we must take Christ into our Confessions all poor sinners Confessions should fall upon the head of Christ Now poor sinners and poor guilty Seamen ask your own Consciences Whether you had not better carry your Guilt before the Lord in humble Confessions than have the Lords just and righteous lot find it out either to the confusion or condemnation of your immortal precious Souls O let this Text never be forgotten by you when you come under Sea-temptations or Land-temptations Oh but the Lot fell upon Jonah FINIS Books sold by Dorman Newman at the King's Arms and Bible in the Poultry Folio THe History of King John King Henry the Second and the most Illustrious King Edward the First wherein the ancient Soveraign Dominion of the Kings of Great Britain over all persons in all causes is asserted and vindicated With an exact History of the Popes intolerable usurpation upon the Liberties of the Kings and Subjects of England and Ireland Collected out of the Ancient Records in the Tower of London By William Prinn Esq of Lincolns Inn and Keeper of his Majesties Records in the Tower of London A Description of the Four parts of the World taken from the Works of Monsieur Sanson Geographer to the French King and other eminent Travellers and Authors to which is added the Commodities Coynes
my Relations To Scoff and Mock at Godliness O May'st thou not hear God saying to thy Soul Is this thy kindness to thy Friend wilt thou thus requite the Lord foolish and unwise man with Evil for so much Good David was delivered and see what use he made of it To walk before the Lord in the Land of the living viz. To walk as under his eye It was writ upon a City-Walls in England now demolished This City saved by the Lord being eminently delivered So may be writ on many of your backs This man saved by the Lord Delivered by the Lord then what should be written of such mens Conversation but Holiness to the Lord should not the line of mercy that draws them so often out of the water make Moses's of them should not that line bind them fast to the Lord Jesus should not the mercies of God prevail with poor Souls I beseech you by the mercies of God saies Paul Second word of Counsel O Labour to keep the sense of them fresh upon your spirits when we lose the sense of the mercy then we are easily drawn into sin against the God of mercy O while mercies are new they affect us as every Condition at first is taking but afterwards it is not so It is with mercies as with the Children of Israel they sang and gave praise But yet we find all off again Psal 106. 12. They made hast to forget they ridd post as it is in the Heb. to forget 1. Keep the sense of danger upon your hearts When we lose the sense of our dangers we lose the sense of our duties O what a danger was I in at such a time what distress and said with good Jehosophat I know not what to do It is good to reflect on past dangers so David there came a Lyon and a Bear c. 2. Keep the sense of the Deliverance on you if it wear off the beauty of the mercy is blasted it will then look like an old withered mercy God would have his mercies fresh to us to look with a fresh Complexion 3. Keep the sense of your Vows upon you the Vows that your Souls uttered in the time of your distress 4. Keep the sense of your present frames of Heart you had upon you when you were in danger whether your sins compassed you about in that day or no Consider whether you were under the smiles of his reconciled face or no in dangers O what would you not then have given for the Pardon of your sins 5. Keep the sense of your sins upon you that stared your Consciences in the face in your dangers Is that sin mortified yet Is that sin forsaken These things we should keep fresh upon our Souls after our Deliverances Third word of Counsel O then let your Preservations from past dangers be obligations upon you to trust God in future straits The Lord delivered me saies David out of the Paw of the Lyon and the Paw of the Bear and what then and he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistin This was the great sin of Israel that they did not trust God when they came into present Straits How long saies God will this people provoke Numb 14. 11. me by their unbelief for all my Signes and Wonders Thus the Lord Jesus reproved his Disciples for not considering the Loaves So poor Souls should by former Experiences be encouraged in present Exigences Fourth word of Counsel O beg of God your Deliverances and Preservations may be all sent sanctified unto you There are many Souls have unsanctified mercies unsanctified enjoyments Deliverances and Salvations alas these will harden poor Souls because Sentence is not speedily Executed therefore are the hearts of sinners hardened They escape this danger and the other and Eccles 8. 11. so they think they shall alwaies escape It will here be demanded When a Deliverance is sanctified 1. When it is joyned with Holiness We read of Deliverance and Holiness upon Obad. 17. Mount Zion when Deliverances shine in the Holiness of mens Conversation To be delivered and follow your sins more greedily that is no signe Deliverance is sanctified 2dly When they abide upon the Heart they are sanctified when they remain with a Soul Many many have Preservations from danger and as soon as they are delivered all is past and gone with them as a tale that is told It may be they never think of them till they come into another danger or another strait 3dly When deliverances are sanctified they are admired After such Deliverance as this O how their Hearts admired the mercy You lose the beauty of a mercy for want of admiring-frames of Heart In this Deliverance saies the Soul here was the appearance of the several attributes of God here in this circumstance was the wisdome of God and the Power of God! 4thly When Deliverances do kindly humble and break the Soul then they are sanctified what save such a worm put forth his power to save at such a time from Death and Hell such a poor vile wretch that deserved to have been lodged in that Pit where there is no Redemption many years agoe 5thly When Deliverances are sanctified they endear the Soul exceedingly in love with God Thus David I will love thee O Psal 18. â— Lord my strength why The Lord is my rock my fortress my Deliverer ask your Hearts now you that have been eminently delivered at Sea or Land if your Preservations be thus sanctified Fifth word of Counsel Register your Preservations and Deliverances you will find much yea very much benefit in such a Course Thus all the Saints did Did not Heman remember the years of the right hand Psal 77. of the Lord There are these Remarkable Jer. 2. 2. days you should in an especial manner remember 1. The day of the first love in drawing you into Christ this God remembers I remember the love of thine Espousals 2. The day of your Deaths that you Jer. 2. 2. should remember O that my people were wise Lam 1. 9. to consider their latter end Jerusalem came down wonderfully because they considered not their latter end 3. The days and times of your Delâ—verances Thus did the Lords Saints or else we should have been bereaved of many precious Scriptures As that excellent place when David changed his Behaviour before Abimelech O what an admirable Psalm was penn'd upon that occasion Psal 34. and also the 40th Psalm He brought me up also out of the miry-pits c. 1. O do you remember them they will be a strengthning of your Faith for time to come A man will not lose a Receipt or an Acquittance lest it be call'd in Question and Will you lose your Experiences of Gods goodness to you Experiences are poor Souls Receipts as I may say now you may be called into Question as to your Estates O these then will be Comfortable for you to read over 2. They will be strengthening
aside if ever you expect to find mercy from me and these are your duties that you must conscientiously take up as ever you think to have my comfortable presence with you Oh now how ordinary is it for poor Seamen to wear off and loose such Convictions but though you forget them God remembers them and will call you to an account for them 3. God will call you to an account for your Salvations and Preservations are there any men in the world men of so many deliverances and mercies as Seamen are Oh what deaths and dangers do they pass through every Voyage how may it be said to many of them as Jonathan did to David As I live there is but a step betwixt thee and death What few steps inches are betwixt Seamen and death nay and damnation if they miscarry before an interest gotten in the Lord Jesus Christ and can you think nay dare you think that God gives you such mercies and preservations to spend them upon your lusts to gratifie your flesh withal may not you hear God sometimes saying to you as in that case Are you delivered to do all these Jer. 1. abominations Oh will not God say to you Did not I give thee thy life poor sinner when many others miscarryed did not I bring thee off in a most miraculous manner when others were swallowed up and what use didst thou make of such a preservation 4. God will call Seamen to an account for all their Provocations Oh poor Souls you no sooner commit them but you forget them Oh but God hath a book of Remembrance in which they are all recorded and out of which you shall be judged the secret of all hearts in that day shall be manifest all the hidden things of darkness shall be brought to light all secret guilt at home or abroad in the foreign parts of the Earth all your secret sins are set in the light of Gods countenance 5. God will call Seamen to an account for their Afflictions Many of them they meet with great trials one while breaches upon their Estates comes upon them as the breaches of the Sea one Voyage it may be rich and the next impoverished or if not so it may be taken by the Turks or some cruel Enemies and then under great slavery and misery and after all redeemed Oh will not God call to an account for this What better were you for your slavery did it make you sensible of your spiritual captivity did it bring you out of Soul-bondage did it occasion you to consider this slavery of your bodies to the Turks is nothing to the slavery of your souls to sin and Satan As it is said by God I sent you into the Land of Chaldea for your good so will God say I sent you into Sally I sent you into Argier but was it for your good Oh what a pity it is to see bodies of poor Seamen redeemed and their souls Captives still to see them Drunkards Swearers unclean and what not after they have been slaves Oh what pity it is to hear them talk of their slavery and see their souls lie still in irons and fetters Captives to the Prince of darkness which is worse bondage than that you talk on when men are sent up into the Country to the King of Fess 6. God will call Seamen for an account for their time they have abundance of time many of them and God will account with them for it what improvement they made of it what use they put it to It is a talent the improvement of it is accountable 5. Poor Seamen to move you to read and practise what you here meet with consider your day goeth away your glass runs apace you are sailing for Eternity you being under sail for another world why should not your eyes and hearts be much upon that Country to which you are bound Dost thou know whether thou shalt make this Voyage that thou art going on Canst thou assure thy self of a safe arrival or a safe return Canst thou say as Abraham did when he went to offer up his Son I and the lad will go yonder to worship and we will return Can you promise your dear Relations a meeting again in this world when you part with them and should not you then be serious in reading in practising in improving any thing that concerns the peace of your precious souls 6. That poor Seamen may read and practise Oh that they would consider how lost time will sting their poor souls another day have not many of you much time for reading prayer heart-examination though it is true such are your circumstances sometimes that your time will not give you leave for such serious employments yet again at other times you have abundance of leisure is not this a great sin among Seamen idly to game their time away or to talk it away or sinfully to sport it away but when you come into a storm at Sea or upon a death-bed at land what will your souls say to it then Oh that I had redeemed my time Oh that I had been more diligent to make my calling and election sure Oh that I had spent more time in reading prayer heart-examination than I have done and less in sinful pleasures in sinful company in sinful conference It was a sad saying of a distressed soul when going to die Ten pounds for an hour Ten pounds for an hour Oh poor soul what wouldst thou not give for a day or two reprieve from hell and death if there might be hope of a pardon 7. That poor Seamen may read and practise Oh that they would consider they have as great need for grace as any men under heaven have Oh what need have Seamen and their poor Relations of grace as in that case is said by the Apostle You have need of Patience So I may say in this Oh poor Seamen you have need of patience to bear your storms quietly and Oh how many that do not possess their Souls in patience in tempests and storms but are in as great a storm as the Sea it self whose hearts are like the troubled Sea that cast forth nothing but mire and dirt who belch out their Oaths Blasphemies against God and like that King Ahaz sin more and more in the time of their distress who are like a Bull a wild Bull in the net full of the fury of the Lord. If the winds blow they swear What need have you of faith for your Souls for your Bodies for your Relations Is not faith a storm-grace and may not Jesus Christ say to many why are you fearful Oh you of little faith nay why are you so bold and presumptuous Oh you of no faith 8. That poor Seamen may read and practise Oh that they would consider their account will be aggravated by what they meet with here if they practise it not as Christ said to those Jews so may I say in this case If I had not comne and spoken
4. Take heed of security under guilt for the Lords judgments come upon such in a way of surprize Such Nations or Persons are not prepared to meet the Lord in the way of his judgements they are taken all on a sudden as the Foolish Virgins were by the coming and appearing of the Bride-groom Now it is very sad to have any judgment come upon us by way of surprize Sudden things bring much astonishment along with them such poor guilty Souls as are secure will say I never thought of this never thought of my death this Voyage never thought of sinking O what a Fool am I that should no more think of my latter end 5. Security under guilt grieves the Spirit of God Jonah had now grieved the Spirit of God and it let him sleep for it is the Spirit of God that is the great keeper of the Soul awake Nay we keep awake no longer than the Spirit doth keep jogging of us one way or other The Spirit of the Lord came upon Sampson and what then did he sit still O no! He arose and shook himself But when Mat. 26. 45. the Spirit of God is grieved it sayes to the Soul as sometimes Christ did to his Disciples Now sleep on And how sad is it for the Spirit to let a poor Soul alone to say Sin on sleep on He that is filthy let him be so still and he that is unclean let him be so still But now methinks by this time I here some poo souls say I am the afraid Mariner now I see my danger my danger not of drowning only but of damning the fears of my sinking is turned now to fears of sinking into Hell of going down into the bottom of Hell Now I feel a storm in my own bosom And what are outward storms to inward storms and O now sayes the Soul What shall such a guilty Soul as I do that hath such a load of unpardoned guilt upon the back of my Soul what shall I do under sense of guilt 1. Direction to the guilty sinner or Mariner Cry to the Lord under sense of thy guilt O what shall I cry sayes the Soul If peradventure that thou perish not as these in Text did What poor Soul if thou have but a Peradventure to cry upon to go upon to the Lord A divine it may be may keep thy Soul from sinking Many a poor Soul have by the help of an it may be gone to the Lord Jesus O guilty Souls cry after Christ what said the Disciples in that storm they were in Lord carest thou not that we perish What did Saint Peter in the storm when sinking Master save me or else I perish So poor guilty Soul cry hard after Christ Carest thou not Lord that a poor Soul should perish hast thou not said that thou camest into the World that Whosoever believes in him might not perish but have everlasting life 2. Art thou sensible of guilt Then own the punishment of thine Iniquity Thus did Jonah For my sake is this storm come upon you O what an ingenuous confession was here after God had awakened his Conscience Conscience will be ingenuous when God works kindly upon it We read a promise made to the Accepting the punishment of Lev. 26. 41. our Iniquity If they with a good will acknowledg it so the Italians reads it If they accept it as a Love-token from the hand of a Friend Jonah accepted his punishment under the sense of guilt two wayes 1. By Confession 2. By Submission Take me up and cast me into the Sea O thus own your guilt though it be before others Lord if thou cast me into Hell sayes the guilty sinner Thou art righteous 3. Though you be not heard at first cry again Thus did Jonah I will look again towards thy holy Temple O poor guilty sinner what may a look out of the Belly of Hell towards the Lord Jesus Christ do what though you see not mercy coming to you at first yet look again it may be the next look it will bring it it is an excellent frame of Heart to turn Faith's eye often Christ-ward under Sense of guilt this was the way that healing came to the stung Israelites The sting was the guilt of sin The Brazen Serpent typed out the Lord Jesus Christ Their looking was believing Their healing was justification by pardoning grace 4. Art thou under the Sense of guilt take heed of drawing black Conclusions against thy own Soul This was the infirmity of Jonah I said I am cast out of thy sight Jonah 2. 4. If Satan can but drive a poor guilty Soul upon the Rock of despair he then hopes to split it for ever this was the Rock that guilty Judas was split upon this is the Devils fiery dart with which he doth not only think to wound the Soul but to strike it as I may say through the Liver to all Eternity 5. Art thou under Sense of guilt O now thou wilt highly prize Christ The whole need not the Physitian but the sick O now thou wilt cry with David Heal my Soul for I have sinned against thee Lastly Art thou under Sense of guilt then know that there is a fulness of grace in the heart of Christ therefore we read of sheading grace aboundantly upon Souls what Tit. 3. 6. though there be abundance of guilt in thy heart yet there is abundance of grace in Christs heart a spring of grace in his heart and it runs freely upon guilty Souls He abundantly Pardons or multiplyes Pardons Esay 55. 5. Jonah 1. 6th So the Ship-Master came unto him and said unto him what meanest thou O sleeper Arise and call upon thy God if so be that God will think upon us that we perish not In the verse before you had a discovery of the deportment of a Ship-Company that were in distress In this verse we have a discovery of further means they use for their preservation some means you have had an Accompt of Did they swear in their distress did they prophane the Name of their Gods did these Heathen Mariners do as many who profess themselvs Christians do viz. Take the Name of God in vain and so as that wicked King who sinned more and more in the time of his distress O no They cryed to their Gods In this Verse here you have further means used for preservation of their whole Ships-Company in this great storm 1. Reprehension of guilt So the Ship-Master came unto him and said unto him What meanest thou O sleeper 2. Here is exhortation to a duty The duty is To arise and call upon God 3. Here is the Motive or Encouragement the means are to be used upon If so be that God will think upon us that we perish not Here is no certainty alas Idolaters can speak at no Certainty O say they though there be not a Certainty yet there is a Probability of it That our Prayer will be heard and our Persons
a day of trouble a time of danger Is it Psal 50. 14. not a day of trouble when it may be but a few steps are betwixt you and death nay betwixt you and Hell Is not it a day of trouble when your sins encompass you about when the fears of death take bold on you when you must never see Wives and Children Friends and Relations more well what should you do then O then call upon God and I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me Thou for any thing I know may have thy mercy for a while unasked but I tell thee from the Lord Thy preservations and deliverances may be Curses to thee When men are delivered from Sea and fall into their Wickednesses again they are a Curse to them when they say They are delivered Jer. 7. 10. to do all these abominations You have your deliverances but you have not them in a way of promise you have them not in a way of prayer these unsought-for mercies are usually Curses to the Receivers 3. Because Prayers in times of danger usually are accompanied with the Exercise of grace now the greatest deliverances come in away of the exercise of grace Grace lyes dormant until it be awakened by danger they are not sleepy habits that usually deliverance comes in upon but when grace is exserted When came that Preservation to the Disciples at Sea in that dreadful storm but when the Ship was covered with waves Marke 4. 37. Jesus Christ was there then though asleep 1. There is in Prayers in time of danger faith exercised Now to go to God in faith in time of trouble O what a great mercy is this Of all men in the World Who have more need of faith then Sea-men Can you go through your dangers and difficulties without Is it not this the Ariadne's clew that the Poets feigned would lead and extricate through all Labyrinths You Say such a Vessel is gone to the Straits you will go to the Straits every Voyage you make without faith this is your Anchor and the promise is your Cable that in all storms and dangers you must make use of 2. In Prayer in time of danger there is Patience exercised Then mens Patience is tryed God loves to see us lye quietly submitting to his will and then comes deliverance the cryes of impatience do but clip the Wings of Mercy that it cannot fly so swiftly towards us as it would To how many thousand Sea-men may the Lord say as once to those Disciples Why are ye so fearful O ye of little faith O ye of little Patience Is repining and murmuring the way to deliver think you 3ly In Prayer in time of danger there is exercised Repentance and Confession of sin Thus Jonah when God and his Conscience arrests him then the Malefactor and grand Delinquent confesses This is the going of the Pump when Repentance is in exercise Now Deliverances usually comes in upon this exercise Whosoever knows the Plague of his 1 Kings 8. 38. own heart and shall pray to me then saies God I will hear In time of danger your hands must be upon the particular Plague-Sore if God hear and help 4th In time of danger thre is exercised Justifying of Nehe. 9. 33. God Thou art Righteous but we are Wicked Thou hast punished us less than our Iniquities Ezra 9. 13. have deserved say they Lord this storme is justly come upon us we were lately sinning Ezra 9. 13. against thee we have sinned again after such Deliverances that now thou may'st be Righteous if there should be no escaping And usually when the Lord hath brought poor Souls to this then comes in the mercy of Jer. 29. 11. Deliverance 5. Truth of Grace is exercised in such a time then we shall seek the Lord with our whole heart 4. Prayer is an excellent means to preserve in Sea-dangers because now Persons answer God's expectations The Lord is so great a lover of Prayer from such poor worms as we are That he sends dangers on purpose upon us to draw Prayer from us What a sweet word is that My Dove that art in Cant. 2. 14. the clefts of the Rock and the secret places of the Stairs let me see thy Countenance let me hear thy Voyce for it is sweet and thy Countenance is comely When poor Souls are in dangers so the Church at this time hunted by Enemies and so in secret places of the staires The words are a Metaphor taken from Doves in danger pursued into the holes of the Rocks by Birds of prey yet then Thy voyce is sweet The old Proverb is If you will learn a man to pray send him to Sea If so then it is a pitty they should learn to swear there Now Deliverances do not come in until Persons answer the Lord's expectations Hos 6. ult In their affliction says God they will seek me early he expects this from you They Esay 26. 16. poured out a Prayer to thee while thy chastisement was upon them In Trouble they visited thee 5. Prayer is an excellent means to preservation in Sea dangers Because God will now make praying Souls know Their Extremities are Gods opportunities They shall now have a Testimony in their Souls from Heaven that God is a present help in time of trouble and that then when they go through the waters he will be with them We read of some calling upon God in the Esay 43. 2. Fires O but what answers do they get Esay 24. 15. He shall say I am your God God loves to Zach. 13. 9. deliver in nicks of time When all hope was taken away then he sent his Angel to Paul Acts 27 20. when Peter began to sink then the Lord immediatly Math. 14. 30. put forth his hand and caught him O God loves to enchance the price of all his mercies and Deliverances therefore he gives them out when the case is desperate APPLICATION Is it so that prayer is an excellent means for preservation at Sea in time of Danger First it is a word of Counsel 1. To Persons whose prayers God hath answerd and whose persons God hath delivered in great and eminent dangers Of all persons they should look to it that they sin not against the Lord who hath done such great things for them First word of Counsel is Live answerably to your Preservations How uncomely nay how sinful is it daily to live upon mercy and daily to live below mercy After such Deliverances as this shall we break again his Commandements May not a None-Such be written upon the head of this Deliverance and Preservation yea and may not a None-Such be writ on the head of this sin and Provocation Check your selves in your sins by the Remembrance of your mercies Was I delivered to do all these abominations Was I delivered from Sea and saved from Hell at such a time To live in such a sin To be Drunk To Swear To abuse