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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... winds rush from their secret repositories , and with dreadful violence drives the yielding flood into hideous ... wind and seas , hearken to their Sovereign's voice , and retire to rest . Now the ship that laboured , ( steadied by a ...
... winds rush from their secret repositories , and with dreadful violence drives the yielding flood into hideous ... wind and seas , hearken to their Sovereign's voice , and retire to rest . Now the ship that laboured , ( steadied by a ...
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... swallowed them up alive . Over whose breathless corpse they incessantly float - threatened with the same unhappy fate , But more especially , let us imagine to ourselves , their 149 imminent danger in a storm . The wind blowing 8.
... swallowed them up alive . Over whose breathless corpse they incessantly float - threatened with the same unhappy fate , But more especially , let us imagine to ourselves , their 149 imminent danger in a storm . The wind blowing 8.
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... wind blowing with terrible force , and roaring aloft with frightful noise ; beneath , and all around , is a dreadful gulf , and billows sloping topmast high , -comes rushing down , and sweeps the deck fore and aft . Boats , booms ...
... wind blowing with terrible force , and roaring aloft with frightful noise ; beneath , and all around , is a dreadful gulf , and billows sloping topmast high , -comes rushing down , and sweeps the deck fore and aft . Boats , booms ...
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... wind , or otherwise sent you succour , in a few minutes more , you must inevitably have perished in a watery grave . . Further , SEAMEN are exposed to the utmost risk , in consequence of their frequent TRANSITION out of one extreme ...
... wind , or otherwise sent you succour , in a few minutes more , you must inevitably have perished in a watery grave . . Further , SEAMEN are exposed to the utmost risk , in consequence of their frequent TRANSITION out of one extreme ...
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... crosses the heavens from South to North ; betwixt the sparkling lustre of which , there is a striking resemblance , but especially if the wind be Southerly , and the night dark ! abode of creatures , whose multitudes are innume- rable ; 13.
... crosses the heavens from South to North ; betwixt the sparkling lustre of which , there is a striking resemblance , but especially if the wind be Southerly , and the night dark ! abode of creatures , whose multitudes are innume- rable ; 13.
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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.