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APPLICATION.
Is it so, that our Dangers and Deli∣verances should be remembred by us? then it is a word of information:
1. Learn we here how acceptable it is to God, that we thankfully congratu∣late our Mercies. No Musick like a sound of Trumpets off the waters: so O what sweet Musick, doth it make in Gods ears, that you thankfully record Sea-Mercies, and Sea-Deliverances; this is Musick of the Waters; this makes melody in Gods ears. Sea-Pray∣ers and Sea-Praises▪ come up acceptably before the Lord; he is so pleased with them, that he hath called them Sacri∣fices: O that men would offer the Sa∣crifice of Praise; this is the sound of Trumpets you should carry to Sea with you, outward bound, and homeward bound.
2. Learn we hence what a great evil it is to lose the remembrance of our Dangers and Deliverances. What do many Families? what do many Persons with the Sea-Dangers, with the Sea-De∣liverances? do not they write them in the dust? do not they bury them in the Grave of Oblivion? do not they cast