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Navigation spiritualized: or, A new compass for seamen consisting of XXXII points of pleasant observations, profitable applications, and serious reflections: all concluded with so many spiritual poems. Whereunto is now added, I. A sober consideration of the sin of drunkenness. II. The harlots face in the Scripture-glass. III. The art of preserving the fruit of the lips. IV. The resurrection of buried mercies and promises. V. The sea-mans catechism. Being an essay toward their much desired reformation from the horrible and detestable [sic] sins of drunkenness, swearing, uncleanness, forgetfulness of mercies, violation of promises, and atheistical contempt of death. Fit to be seriously recommended to their profane relations, whether sea-men or others, by all such as unfeignedly desire their eternal welfare. By John Flavel, minister of the Gospel.Navigation spiritualiz'd: or, A new compass for seamen consisting of XXXII points of pleasant observations, profitable applications, and serious reflections: all concluded with so many spiritual poems. Whereunto is now added, I. A sober consideration of the sin of drunkenness. II. The harlots face in the Scripture-glass. III. The art of preserving the fruit of the lips. IV. The resurrection of buried mercies and promises. V. The sea-mans catechism. Being an essay toward their much desir'd reformation from the horrible and destable [sic] sins of drunkenness, swearing, uncleanness, forgetfulness of mercies, violation of promises, and atheistical contempt of death. Fit to be seriously recommmended to their profane relations, whether sea-men or others, by all such as unfeignedly desire their eternal welfare. By John Flavel, minister of the Gospel.
London: printed for M. Fabian, 1698
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A New Compass for Sea-Men: OR, Navigation Spiritualiz'd. › Chapter 1 › REFLECTION.
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REFLECTION.
Hence should the graceless heart thus reflect upon it self. O my Soul! into what a Sea of troubles ⟨p. 4⟩art thou launched forth! And what a sad case thou art in! Full of Trouble and full of Sin, and these do mutually produce each other. And that which is the most dreadful Consideration of all, is, That I cannot see the end of them. As for the Saints, they suffer in the World as well as I; but it is but for a While, 1 Pet. 5. 10. and then they shall suffer no more, 2 Thes. 1. 7. But all tears shall be wiped away from their eyes, Rev. 7. 17. But my Troubles look with a long Visage: Ah! they are but the beginning of sorrows, but a parboiling before I be roasted in the flames of God's eternal wrath. If I continue as I am, I shall but deceive my self, if I conclude I shall be happy in the other World, because I have met with so much sorrow in this: For I read, Jude 7. that the Inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, though consumed to ashes, with all their Estates and Relations, (a sorer Temporal Judgment than ever yet befell me) do, notwithstanding that, continue still in everlasting Chains, under Darkness, in which they are reserved unto the Judgment of the Great Day. The Troubles of the Saints are sanctified to them, but mine are fruits of the Curse. They have spiritual Consolations to balance them, which flow into their Souls in the same height and degree, as Troubles do upon their Bodies, 2 Cor. 1. 5. But I am a stranger to their Comforts, and intermeddle not with their Joys,