God Manifesting His Wonderful Works to Seamen: The Second Sermon to the Sailors Employed in the Whale Fisheries : Preached at Bethel Chapel, Hull, 17th of February, 1811Printed at the office of E. Waller, 1811 - 34 pages |
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... billows sloping topmast high , -comes rushing down , and sweeps the deck fore and aft . Boats , booms , companion , and perhaps part of the crew , are seen floating beneath the direful lee , and heard to cry aloud , help , help ; but ...
... billows sloping topmast high , -comes rushing down , and sweeps the deck fore and aft . Boats , booms , companion , and perhaps part of the crew , are seen floating beneath the direful lee , and heard to cry aloud , help , help ; but ...
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... Now comes with resistless force : Before the boist❜rous wind , The foaming billows fly , And swollen canvass , bends The yards and masts on high , * Psalm civ . ver . 24 , 25 . All hands , quick ! The boatswain loudly cries , 14.
... Now comes with resistless force : Before the boist❜rous wind , The foaming billows fly , And swollen canvass , bends The yards and masts on high , * Psalm civ . ver . 24 , 25 . All hands , quick ! The boatswain loudly cries , 14.
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... God our Saviour , " is lord high admiral of these formidable elements , they are under his command ; winds cannot roar , nor billows rage , without his order : " He raiseth the stormy wind , " 4 • - and " Maketh the storm a calm 10.
... God our Saviour , " is lord high admiral of these formidable elements , they are under his command ; winds cannot roar , nor billows rage , without his order : " He raiseth the stormy wind , " 4 • - and " Maketh the storm a calm 10.
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... billows of tribulation run high , and they were Tossed with tempest , " they " Cast away their confidence , " and again put - back to their native shore , - Where sin lulls all asleep . Ah ! How difficult it is to arrive safe across the ...
... billows of tribulation run high , and they were Tossed with tempest , " they " Cast away their confidence , " and again put - back to their native shore , - Where sin lulls all asleep . Ah ! How difficult it is to arrive safe across the ...
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... billow which buries your bodies in the sea , will kindly waft your happy souls , -home to Christ . Remem- ber with what longing anxiety you look out for land after a tedious voyage , and how glad to set your foot again upon your native ...
... billow which buries your bodies in the sea , will kindly waft your happy souls , -home to Christ . Remem- ber with what longing anxiety you look out for land after a tedious voyage , and how glad to set your foot again upon your native ...
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2dly a-head abundantly Almighty amazing amidst arrive safe astonished behold the OCEAN billows bless his sacred break impetuously chap Christ christian climb the shrouds command consider cries dangerous sea death deck deep delivered distress divine divine grace dreadful duty endless calm enjoy an endless equal eternal faithful favoured globe gospel grace hand heave heaven holiness honour immortal soul incessantly intricate straits jeopardy Jonah laborious labour leaky leeward Lord marvellous masts mercy mind native shore Number obedience obligations perilous perish pious port prayer preserve Princeton University Psalm PUT-BACK religion remarkable instances remind repentance resistless righteousness roar roll ruin safe arrival sail SAILORS Saviour scriptures SCUDDING seaman's seamen set your foot ship and lives ship's shipmates sink souls spiritual squall stormy winds succour surprising deliverance tempest terror and fatigue things thou thousand thousand different treasures tremendous gale truly Verily vessel voyage waters watery grave waves whilst winds and seas wonderful yards
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Page 19 - Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Page 14 - Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Page 14 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works 1 In wisdom hast thou made them all: « The earth is full of thy riches.
Page 24 - No matter which my thoughts employ, A moment's misery or joy ; But, oh when both shall end, Where shall I find my destined place? Shall I my everlasting days With fiends or angels spend ? 5 Nothing is worth a thought beneath, But how I may escape the death That never, never dies!
Page 4 - ... of seeing the light of the glorious gospel spread more and more over this country, and great multitudes of poor, benighted heathen brought by it to the saving knowledge of Christ our Saviour, who gave himself a ransom for all, and who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.