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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. 4. Drunkenness wastes and scatters thine estate, Poverty attends excess: the Drunkard shall be clothed with Rags, and brought to a morsel of bread. Solomon hath read thy fortune, Prov. 21. 17. He that loveth Wine and Oil shall not be rich, Luxury and Beggary are seldom far asunder. When Diogenes heard a Drunkards house cried to be sold; I thought, quoth he, it would not be long ere he vomited up his house also. The Hebrew word [Greek or Hebrew] and the Greek word [Greek or Hebrew], which signify Luxury; the former is compounded of two words, which signify, Thou shalt be poor; and the latter signifies the losing of the possession of that good which is in our hand. The Drunkard and the Glutton shall surely come to poverty, Prov. 23. 21. In the Hebrew it is, He shall be disinherited, or dispossessed. It doth not only dispossess a man of his Reason, which is a rich and fair inheritance given to him by God, but it also dispossesses him of his estate: it wastes all that either the provident care of thy Progenitors, or the blessing of God upon thine own industry, hath obtained for thee. And how will this sting like and Adder, when thou shalt consider it? Apicius the Roman, hearing that there were seven hundred Crowns only remaining of a fair estate, that his Father had left him, fell into a deep Melancholy, and fearing want, hanged himself, saith Seneca. And not to mention the miseries and sorrows ⟨p. 15⟩they bring hereby upon their Families, drinking the tears, yea, blood of their Wives and Children: Oh what an account will they give to God, when their reckoning day comes! Believe it, Sirs, there is not a shilling of your estates, but God will reckon with you for the expense thereof. If you have spent it upon your lusts, while the necessity of your families, or the poor, called upon you for it; I should be loth to have your account to make, for a thousand times more than ever you possessed. O woeful expense, that is followed with such dreadful reckonings!
Arg. 4. Drunkenness wastes and scatters thine estate, Proverty attends excess: the Drunkard shall be cloathed with Rags, and brought to a morsel of bread. Solomon hath read thy fortune, Prov. 21. 17. He that loveth Wine and Oyl shall not be rich, Luxury and Beggary are seldom far asunder. When Diogenes heard a Drunkards house cryed to be sold; I thought, quoth he, it would not be long ere he vomited up his house also. The Hebrew word and the Greek word , which signifie Luxury; the former is compounded of two words, which signify, Thou shalt be poor; and the latter signifies the losing of the possession of that good which is in our hand. The Drunkard and the Glutton shall surely come to poverty,