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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 3: III. CAUTION.
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Arg. 3. It is a sin that defiles and destroys the body, 1 Cor. 6. 18. He that committeth adultery, sinneth against his own body. In most other sins the body is but the Instrument, here it is the Object against which the sin is committed; that body of thine, which should be the Temple of the holy Ghost, is turned into a sty of filthiness; yea, it not only defiles, but destroys it. Job calls it a fire that burneth to destruction, Job 31. 12. or as the Septuagint reads it, a fire that burneth in all the Members. It is a sin that God hath plagued with strange and terrible diseases; that Morbus Gallicus, and sudor Anglicus, and that Plica Polonica whereof you may read in Bolton's four last things, page 30. and Sclater on Rom. 1. 30. These were judgments sent immediately by Gods own hand, to correct the new sins and enormities of the world; for they seem to put the best Physicians besides their Books. Oh how terrible is it to lie groaning under the sad effects of this sin? As Solomon tells us, Prov. 5. 11. And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed. To this sense some expound that terrible Text, Heb. 13. 4. Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled; but Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge: (i. e.) with some remarkable judgment inflicted on them in this world: if it escape the punishment of men, it shall not escape the vengeance of God. Ah! with what comfort may a man lie down upon a sick bed, when the sickness can be looked upon as a Fatherly Visitation coming in Mercy? But thou that shortenest thy life, and bringest sickness on thy self by such a sin, art the Devils Martyr; and to whom canst thou turn in such a day for comfort?
Arg. 3. It is a sin that defiles and destroys the body, 1 Cor. 6. 18. He that committeth adultery, sinneth against his own body. In most other sins the body is but the Instrument, here it is the Object against which the sin is committed; that body of thine, which should be the Temple of the holy Ghost, is turned into a stye of filthiness; yea, it not only defiles, but destroys it. Iob calls it a fire that burneth to destruction,