Ch, 27. Paul's dangerous The pelt layon es, all hope that we fhould be laved, was then taken away. ao. All hope that could be grounded on vi- fible probability. at. But after long abfeinence, Paul flood forth in the midit of them, and Paid, Sirs, pè Ihould havehearkened unto me,and not have loóféd fromCrete, and to havegained this harmand lófs. al. To have efcaped this lots. dz. And now I exhort you tobe ofgood cheer : for There (hall he no lofs of any man's life among you, but of the fhip. z3. For there flood by me this night the angel of God, whofe I am, and whom I frerve, 24. Saying, Fear nut, Paul; thou muff he brought before Celar : and lo, Godlhath given theeall them that fail with thee. 28. Note. r. Godufeth his Angel for the fatty and comfort of his Servants. a. Paul mentionetn G d in his Relations to us ; t. He is our Owner, whore tape arc: t. O.a- Ruhr, whom me ferve ; and its implied, Our father, and Proteáor, In whom we craft. 3. Mányt ad Men fare the better, for onegood Man that is among them. ag. Wherefore firs, be of good cheer : for I believe God, thatit lhall he even as it was toldme. z6. Howbeit we mull be cafe upon a certain Bland. 2S. I truft my Gad and would have you truft him. 27 But when the fourteenth night was cone, as we were driven up and down in Adria about midnight, the fhipmen deem- ed that they drew near to fome countre : 28. And founded, and found it twenty fa- thoms : and when they had gone a little further, they founded again, and found it fifteen fathoms. zy. Then fearing left they fhould have fallen upon rocks, they cafefour anchors out ofthe ftern, andwifh- ea for the day: 59. They ftopt the (hipand durit gono fur- ther. 3o. And as the Ihipmen were about to flee out of the fhip, when they had let down the boat into the fea, under colour as though they wculd have calf anchors out of the forefhip, 3e. Paul laid to the centurion, and to the fouldiers, Except thefe abide in the fhip, yecannot be faved. 30 Nite. God that decreed that they Could nor perish, decreed silo that the skilful Stamen Could abide in the Ship. Means and End are in the fame decree. Acts. euoyage. Ch. 1,7: 3t. Then the fouldiers cut off the ropes of the'boat, and let her fall off. 33. And while thedaywas coming on,Paul belought them all to take meat, laying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarred, and continued falling, having taken no- thing. 34. Wherefore I pray you take there meat ; for this is foryour health : for fhail not anhair fall from the head of any of you. 33. Note. Not that they had eat nothing in fourteen days; But lay Tome Expoltors. no fen meal, or fo little as was next to nothing; But o. thers more probably fay, (You have eaten no- thing all this (one)day, expelling the fourteenth day as Critical.) 55. And when he had thus fpoken he took bread, and gave thanks to Goa in prefence of them all, and when he had broken it, he began to eat. 35. Nee. Ifthofe in England that (corn at o. pen Thankfgiving to God, even at NobleTables and great Fealts, and think itdefervetha Priem the more than four to be prefent at fuch a Reli- gious ExerciCe, had been in this Ship, or in 7e. vas's, fear might have taught them better. 36. Then were they all ofgood cheer, and they alto took ,Dome meat. 37. Andwe were in all in the fhip, two hundred three- fcore and fixteen fouls. 37. Note. And though Paul Preach'd to them, the ít ,refs Heathens accufed him rot for a Con- venticle ; what shall we think the Pijells would have donehad they been now among them. 38. And when they had eaten enough, they lightned the fhip, and cafe out the wheat into the lea. 38. Noe. Even future provi ion is call away to rave life atprefcnr. That is a duty in fuch a cafe cf neceffity, which in other cafes would have been a great fin. 39. And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they difcovered acertain creek with a fhoe, into the which they were minded, if it were poffible, to thrust in the fhip. 40. And when they had taken up the anchors, theyct mmitted themfelver unto the fea, and loofed the rudder-bands and hoifed up themain fail to the wind, and made toward fhoe. 41. And falling into a }dace where two feas met, they ran the (hip aground ; and the forepart flock fait, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with theviolence of the waves. 39. This was a !hallow near a neck of Land called an I)11mus where the Sea is en both fides it. The Malrhaf0s call it to this day St. Paul'.; Landing place. 4 And
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