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6. PART.
Free favours to such as go to Sea.
Psalm▪ 107.23, 24.
THEY that go down to Sea in Ships,
And are employ'd upon the deeps:
These see the work of God most plain,
His wonders on the watry main.
25, 26.
For storms arise at his command,
And make the waves on tiptoes stand;
They mount to Heaven, then down they go,
Making mens souls to melt for wo.
25, 28.
They reel and stagger Drunkard-like,
And are as men whom terrour strike:
Then in their grief to God they cry
Who brings them out of misery.
29, 30.
He makes the storm a calm of peace,
So that the raging waters cease:
Then are they glad (the storm blown o're)
When Landed at the wished shore.
31.
O now that men would praise the Lord,
His goodness that they would record:
Declaring both with tongue and pen
His wonders to the sons of men.