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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... hands overwhelmed with terror and fatigue ; and now hopeless of life , -sub- mit to their approaching fate . Thus brought upon the very margin of a watery grave , " They cry to the Lord , " who in tender compassion regards their ...
... hands overwhelmed with terror and fatigue ; and now hopeless of life , -sub- mit to their approaching fate . Thus brought upon the very margin of a watery grave , " They cry to the Lord , " who in tender compassion regards their ...
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... hands to stand the deck , per- haps for several days and nights together , lashed by the resistless squall , and ... hand is full of laborious employ , But , doubtless , those seamen who are occupied in the whale fisheries , undergo ...
... hands to stand the deck , per- haps for several days and nights together , lashed by the resistless squall , and ... hand is full of laborious employ , But , doubtless , those seamen who are occupied in the whale fisheries , undergo ...
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... hand the sails , and strike the yards or masts , even in midnight shades ; and when the ship , pressed by the heavy squall , lays buried on her lee , labouring over the swelling surge rolling mountains high . Ah ! how hazardous is the ...
... hand the sails , and strike the yards or masts , even in midnight shades ; and when the ship , pressed by the heavy squall , lays buried on her lee , labouring over the swelling surge rolling mountains high . Ah ! how hazardous is the ...
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... hands , whilst their yards and ware- houses would become needless things . Besides , thousands of the industrious poor , who labour daily upon our keys , and in the manufacture of foreign produce , would also be deprived of the means of ...
... hands , whilst their yards and ware- houses would become needless things . Besides , thousands of the industrious poor , who labour daily upon our keys , and in the manufacture of foreign produce , would also be deprived of the means of ...
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... 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.
... 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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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.