Eben-ezer, or, A small monument of great mercy [electronic resource] : appearing in miraculous deliverance of William Okeley, William Adams, John Anthony, John Jephs, John ---, carpenter, from the miserable slavery of Algiers, with the wonderful means of their escape in a boat of canvas ... . o entitle thcmfelves to the Credit ofit; {ot its Cold and Silver,not Copper, or baferMetals,i\\^i they who drive the Coyning Trade,ftrive to Counterfeit. Let then every one that Reads , underftandyand ferioufly fit down, and confider with him-felf, whether he has not had many eminent Per- fonal Deliveranc
Eben-ezer, or, A small monument of great mercy [electronic resource] : appearing in miraculous deliverance of William Okeley, William Adams, John Anthony, John Jephs, John ---, carpenter, from the miserable slavery of Algiers, with the wonderful means of their escape in a boat of canvas ... . o entitle thcmfelves to the Credit ofit; {ot its Cold and Silver,not Copper, or baferMetals,i\\^i they who drive the Coyning Trade,ftrive to Counterfeit. Let then every one that Reads , underftandyand ferioufly fit down, and confider with him-felf, whether he has not had many eminent Per- fonal Deliverances in one kind or other, whichthis Marvellous Providence of God towards usmay not rcfrefh his memory withal; and if hefhail hence be taught to blufh at his forgctfuincfsof lapfed Mercies; if this Narrative lliali recoverany loft Providences, and fix them on, and rivetinto his Soul; if he (hall find himfclf awakenedtoduethankfulnefsto God for all his benefits to-wards him; let him joyn with me in afcribing allthe Power, and therefore all the Glory, to theAlniighty, and let him kindly Accept the Afli-ftanceof him, who fliall reckon it amongft hisother Mercies,* to have teen Serviceable to anyone in Reviving a better frame of Heart. Iam, ? . Reader, Thy Friend and Servant, W. Okcley. a. A SMALL MONUMENT OF GREAT : ME^CT sEcr. I. J Brief JcroH/it ofthofe rrovidcncej which led torpurds our Captivity in Algiers. THI S Narrative would be too Uappyif it fhould not meet with fonlc hajiyundimfatient Spirits, that grudge thetime thats fpent in Preface and Introdftitioniand fuch as thefe, are wild to come at the Storyf the Boat; all the reft is but one great tedious^pertinency, theylc not give a Figg for all the* Other. / a A Small Moimment other. 1 fhall make never the more hafT: for un-reafonablc Importunity j but the Remedy is intheir own hands, they may turn over a fewleaves, and meet with it in its proper place, ifthey fit upon Thorns. But to the more judici-ous and conrideratc,it wil
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