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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 Sober Consideration Of the SIN of DRUNKENNESS. › Caution 1: I. CAUTION.
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Arg. 2. It degrades a man from the honour of his Creation, and equalizeth him to the beast that perisheth. Wine is said to take away the heart, Hos. 4. 11. (i. e.) the wisdom and ingenuity of a man, and so brutifies him; as Nebuchadnezzar, who lost the heart of a man, and had the heart of a beast given him, Dan. 4. 32. The heart of a man hath is generosity and sprightliness, brave vigorous spirit in it, capable of, and fitted for noble and worthy actions and employments; but his lust effeminates quenches and drowns that masculine vigour in the puddle of excess and sensuality. For no sooner is a man brought under the dominion of this Lust, but the government of Reason is renounced, which should exercise a coercive power over the Affections; and all is delivered ⟨p. 12⟩up into the hand of Lust and Appetite; and so they act, not by discretion and reason, but by Lust and Will, as the Beasts do by Instinct. The spirit of Man entertains it self with intellectual and chaste Delights, the soul of a Beast is only fitted for such low, sensitive and dreggy Pleasures. Thou hast something of the Angel, and something of the Beast in thee; thy Soul partakes of the nature of Angels, thy Body of the nature of Beasts: Oh how many pamper the Beast, while they starve the Angels! God in the first Chapter, put all the Creatures in subjection to thee; by this Lust thou puttest thy in self Subjection to the creature, and art brought under his power, 1 Cor. 6. 12. If God had given thee the feet or head of a beast, Oh what a misery wouldst thou have esteemed it! And is it nothing to have the heart of a Beast? Oh consider it sadly.
Arg. 2. It degrades a man from the honour of his Creation, and equalizeth him to the beast that perisheth. Wine is said to take away the heart, Hos. 4. 11. (i. e.) the wisdom and ingenuity of a man, and so brutifies him; as Nebuchadnezzar, who lost the heart of a man, and had the heart of a beast given him, Dan. 4. 32. The heart of a man hath is generosity and sprightliness, brave vigorous spirit in it, capable of, and fitted for noble and worthy actions and imployments; but his lust effeminates quenches and drowns that masculine vigour in the puddle of excess and sensuality. For no sooner is a man brought under the dominion of this Lust, but the government of Reason is renounced, which should exercise a coercive power over the Affections; and all is delivered