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Commerce » Carried on by means of ships
they will scatter dust on their heads, and cry with tears, and bemoaning, "alas, alas, that great city, which enrich'd all the traders by sea, by the consumption she made: how is she reduc'd to a desert, in an instant!"
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Mariners (sailors) » Perils of
this done, all hands aloft they frapp'd the ship tought with her cables, and for fear of striking upon the sands, they struck the main sail, and so drove. the next day the storm work'd the ship with great fury; they threw some of her lading over board: and the third day we lent our hands to send the tackling after. read more.
For several days, we had not seen either sun or stars: the tempest still bore hard: all our hopes of escape quite sunk, and our spirits droop with fasting: when Paul presented himself, and said, "well, my friends, it had been, if I could have prevail'd upon you, to have sav'd your selves all this perplexity and loss by staying at Crete. yet now I advise you to discard your fears: your lives are all safe, though the vessel will be lost. for an angel of that God, whose minister I am, and whom I serve, this night appear'd to me, and said, Paul, be not afraid: you must be brought before Cesar: and upon your account, the whole company now with you, will God preserve. take courage then, my friends, for I have this confidence in God, that what has been told me, shall be effected, notwithstanding we must be shipwrack'd upon some island." It was the fourteenth night that we had been driving up and down in the Adriatick sea, when the ship's crew about midnight suspected they were making to land: they threw the line and sounded twenty fathom water: a little further they sounded again, and came to fifteen fathom: then for fear of striking upon the rocks, they dropt four anchors astern, and lay impatient for the day. but the crew under pretext of dropping their anchors to moor, had hoisted out the boat; designing to make off: upon this Paul said to the centurion and his men, "except the crew stay aboard, you can't be safe:" and immediately the soldiers chopt the cable, and set the boat adrift. while they were waiting for day, Paul advis'd the whole company to take some refreshment: "these fourteen days, said he, you have been very abstemious, and not made a meal: therefore, pray, take something to recruit your strength: and be assur'd every one of you shall be preserv'd." having said this, he took bread, and gave thanks to God, the whole company present: then he broke it and began to eat, at which they all took heart and fell a eating likewise, the whole number then on board being two hundred and seventy six. when they had eat enough, they threw the wheat over board to ease the ship: at day-break they made an unknown land, with a creek, where they resolv'd, if it were possible, to run the ship ashore. accordingly, having heaved in their anchors, they drove with the sea, then loos'd the helm, bois'd the mizen-sail to wind, and made to shore: when falling into the confluence of two currents, they ran the ship a-ground: where the fore-castle stuck fast and would not give, but her stern was shatter'd by the violence of the waves. the soldiers propos'd to dispatch the prisoners, for fear any of them should swim for their lives; but the centurion, who had a mind to save Paul, prevented their design: and order'd all that could swim immediately to get off to shore, and the rest to get upon the planks, or other pieces of the wreck: and by this means it happen'd that they all came safe to land.
For several days, we had not seen either sun or stars: the tempest still bore hard: all our hopes of escape quite sunk, and our spirits droop with fasting: when Paul presented himself, and said, "well, my friends, it had been, if I could have prevail'd upon you, to have sav'd your selves all this perplexity and loss by staying at Crete. yet now I advise you to discard your fears: your lives are all safe, though the vessel will be lost. for an angel of that God, whose minister I am, and whom I serve, this night appear'd to me, and said, Paul, be not afraid: you must be brought before Cesar: and upon your account, the whole company now with you, will God preserve. take courage then, my friends, for I have this confidence in God, that what has been told me, shall be effected, notwithstanding we must be shipwrack'd upon some island." It was the fourteenth night that we had been driving up and down in the Adriatick sea, when the ship's crew about midnight suspected they were making to land: they threw the line and sounded twenty fathom water: a little further they sounded again, and came to fifteen fathom: then for fear of striking upon the rocks, they dropt four anchors astern, and lay impatient for the day. but the crew under pretext of dropping their anchors to moor, had hoisted out the boat; designing to make off: upon this Paul said to the centurion and his men, "except the crew stay aboard, you can't be safe:" and immediately the soldiers chopt the cable, and set the boat adrift. while they were waiting for day, Paul advis'd the whole company to take some refreshment: "these fourteen days, said he, you have been very abstemious, and not made a meal: therefore, pray, take something to recruit your strength: and be assur'd every one of you shall be preserv'd." having said this, he took bread, and gave thanks to God, the whole company present: then he broke it and began to eat, at which they all took heart and fell a eating likewise, the whole number then on board being two hundred and seventy six. when they had eat enough, they threw the wheat over board to ease the ship: at day-break they made an unknown land, with a creek, where they resolv'd, if it were possible, to run the ship ashore. accordingly, having heaved in their anchors, they drove with the sea, then loos'd the helm, bois'd the mizen-sail to wind, and made to shore: when falling into the confluence of two currents, they ran the ship a-ground: where the fore-castle stuck fast and would not give, but her stern was shatter'd by the violence of the waves. the soldiers propos'd to dispatch the prisoners, for fear any of them should swim for their lives; but the centurion, who had a mind to save Paul, prevented their design: and order'd all that could swim immediately to get off to shore, and the rest to get upon the planks, or other pieces of the wreck: and by this means it happen'd that they all came safe to land.
Worldly » Care, folly of » Dilemma
upon which the steward said in himself, what shall I do, now my master strips me of my employment? dig I cannot: and 'tis shameful to beg: I see it now,
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Jesus answer'd them, yet a little while is the light with you: walk while ye have the light, lest darkness surprize you: for he that walketh in darkness, does not know whither he goes.
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Pilate replied, what shall I do then with Jesus, who is called Christ? they all cried out, let him be crucified.
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and thus he reason'd with himself, what shall I do for want of room to store up my crop?
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