Halelviah or, Britans Second Remembrancer, bringing to Remembrance (in praisefull and Poenitentiall Hymns, Spirituall Songs, and Morall-Odes): Meditations, advancing the glory of God, in the practise of Pietie and Vertue; and applyed to easie Tunes, to be Sung in Families, &c. Composed in a three-fold Volume, by George Wither. The first, contains Hymns-Occasionall. The second, Hymns-Temporary. The third, Hymns-Personall. That all Persons, according to their Degrees, and Qualities, may at all Times, and upon all eminent Occasions, be remembred to praise God; and to be mindfull of their Duties |
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Hymn XXXVII. For a Seaman.
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Hymn XXXVII. For a Seaman.
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The Seaman is here personated instructing himself, by expressing the pleasures; profits, and perils of his calling; and petitioning God to keep him thankfull for his deliverances, and mindfull to performe the vows, he made in times of extream danger.
Sing this as the former.
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We, whom affaires employed keep,Where mightie-waters be,
There view the terrors of the Deep;
Great wonders, there, we see.
And, in that place,
Gods helping grace,
We tast, so many waies,
That none are bound
More oft, to sound
Their dear Protectors praise.
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The barren Flood, which Landmen dread,To us, doth pleasures yield;
And, we thereby, are cloth'd and fed,
As from a fruitfull field.
That, we, likewise,
Might rightly prize,
The blessings we receive;
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To watch and pray,
Some, just occasions have.
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To cheer us in our painfull trade,The Sea, sometime, doth smile:
Strange prospects, there, a means are made,
Long journyes, to beguile.
A loftie Course,
As on a Horse,
Vpon the waves we ride;
And, then the wind,
Attends behind,
Or, lackies, by our side.
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Sometime, again, that, heed we mayGods mercies, and our sin;
Black stormes, the skies do overlay;
The Seas, to swell begin.
The Billows roare,
And, on the shoare,
They Spit their Snowie-fome,
And, perils great,
The passage get,
Betwixt us, and our home.
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The raging Winds our tacklings breaksAnd rends both shrouds and sailes,
Our bruized vessell, sprinketh Leaks,
And, then, our courage failes.
One while, we plow
The Sands below;
Anon, aloft we rise,
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With an intent,
To saile above the skies.
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Opprest with dangers and with fear,Then, loud we call on God:
Who doth vouchsafe our cries to hear,
And, calmes the raging Flood.
From death and wrack,
He plucks us back,
By his Almightie hand;
And (having lost
Our hope, almost)
VVe, safe are brought to land.
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For thy protections Lord, therefore,Still thankfull keep thou me;
As well, when I am safe on shore,
As where great perils be.
Let me not breake,
The vows I make,
VVhile times of danger last;
And, new begin
My Course of Sin,
Assoone as fears are past.
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For, he who taketh no regard,What, in distresse he vow'd;
Shall cry at length, and not be heard,
Nor finde compassion show'd.
When, wave nor storme,
Can us reform;
Nor Mercy, daily shown;
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Far greater fears,
To bring presumption, down.
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