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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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Arg. 3. It is a sin which God hath severely threatened to punish, and that with temporal and corporal plagues: For by reason of Oaths, the land mourns, Hos. •. 2, 3. That is, it brings the heavy Judgment of God upon whole Nations, under which they shall •ourn. And in Zech. 5. 2, 3, 4. you have there […] Roll of curses, (i. e.) a Catalogue of judgments and •oes, the length thereof twenty Cubits (i. e. ten yards.) •o set out the multitude of woes contained in it▪ ⟨p. 30⟩it's a long Catalogue: and A flying Rill, to denote the swiftness of it; it flies towards the house of the Swearer, it makes haste. The Judgments that are written in it linger not, but are even in pain to be delivered. And this flying Roll full of dreadful Woes, flies and enters into the house of the Swearer: and it shall therein remain, saith the Lord, it shall cleave to his family; none shall claw off these woes from him: And it shall consume the Timber thereof, and the Stones thereof, (i. e.) bring utter subversion, ruin, and desolation to his House. O dreadful sin! What a desolation doth it make! Your Mouths are full of Oaths, and your Houses shall be full of Curses. Woe to that wretched Family into which this flying Roll shall enter; Woe, I say, to the wretched Inhabitants thereof. The Curse of the Lord (saith Solomon) is in the house of the wicked; but He blesseth the [habitation] of the just, Prov. 3. 33. Tuguriolum, (i. e.) saith Mercer, his poor little Tenement or Cottage. There is a Blessing, the promises like Clouds of Blessing, dwell over it, and drop mercies on it: but a Curse is in the house of the wicked. Ah, how many stately Mansions are there, in which little other language but Oaths and Curses are heard! and these are as so much Gunpowder laid under the foundation of them, which when Justice shall set fire to, Oh what work will it make! Woe to the Inhabitants thereof. Well then, break off this sin by Repentance, unless you intend to ruin your Families, and bring all the Curses of God into your Houses. If you have no pity for your selves, yet pity your Posterity; have mercy for your Wives and Children, don't ruin all for the indulgence of a lust