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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 2: II. CAUTION.
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But tell me, Sirs, Should a Man come aboard you at Sea, and ask of you, as Christ did of those two Disciples going to Emmaus, Luke 24. 17. What manner of communication is this that ye have hy the way? O what a sad account would he have from most of you! It may be he should find one Jesting, and another Swearing, a third Reviling Godliness and the Professors of it, so that it would be a little Hell for a serious Christian to be confined to your Society. This is not (I am confident) the manner of all. We have a company of more sober Seamen, and blessed be God for them; but surely thus stands the case with most of you. Oh what stuff is here from persons professing Christianity, and bordering close upon the confines of Eternity, as you do!
But tell me, Sirs, Should a Man come abaord you at Sea, and ask of you, as Christ did of those two Disciples going to Emmaus, Luke 24. 17. VVhat manner of communication is this that ye have hy the way? O what a sad account would he have from most of you! It may be he should find one Iesting, and another Swearing, a third Reviling Godliness and the Professors of it, so that it would be a little Hell for a serious Christian to be confined to your Society. This is not (I am confident) the manner of all. We have a company of more sober Seamen, and blessed be God for them; but surely thus stands the case with most of you. Oh what stuff is here from persons professing Christianity, and bordering close upon the confines of Eternity, as you do!
It is not my purpose to write of all the diseases of the Tongue; that would fill a Volume, and is inconsistent with my intended brevity. Who can recount the evils of the Tongue? The Apostle saith, ⟨p. 23⟩It is a world of Iniquity, Jam. 3. 6. And if there be a world of Sin in one member, Who can number the Sins of all the members? Laurentius reckons as many sins of the Tongue, as there are Letters in the Alphabet. And it is an observable Note that one hath upon