A Christian Exhortation to Sailors And Persons Engaged in a Sea Faring Life
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The Holy Bible, which it is to be feared, is now too much neglect- ed by many among them, would meet with more frequent and serious perusal ; and to this profitable employment, we may hope that the Divine Bless- ing would be graciously added, by increasing their love to God, and their acquaintance with the pro- mises of the Gospel. Being thus preserved in the fear of the Lord, in their daily occupations on the sea, the poor mariners, when temptations assail them on shore, would be also helped t...o resist the devil in all his devices, to flee the wicked and deceitful company of those, who in almost every sea-port, are trying to lead them into wantonness and drunkenness, 10 and endeavouring to spoil the youth of their inno- cency, and to rob them of the wages, which they have earned, through so many toils and dangers. But, alas ! where, at the present day, shall we find greater wickedness, and more ahominable vice than in some of these places, among our sailors, and their companions in riotous mirth ?
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