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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. 7. And then in the 7th place, Those few that have been recovered by Repentance out of it, oh how bitter hath God made it to their souls! I find it (saith Solomon) more bitter than death, Eccles. 7. 26. Death is a very bitter thing; Oh what a struggling and reluctance is there in Nature against it? But this is more bitter. Poor David found it so, when he roared under those bloody lashes of Conscience for it, in Psalm 51. Ah! when the Lord ⟨p. 46⟩shall open the poor Sinner's eyes, to see the horrid guilt he hath hereby contracted upon his own poor soul, it will haunt him as a Ghost, day and night, and terrify his soul with dreadful forms and representations. O dear-bought pleasure, if this were all it should cost. What is now become of the pleasure of sin? Oh! what gall and wormwood wilt thou taste, when once the Lord shall bring thee to a sight of it, the Hebrew word for Repentance [Nacham] and the Greek word [Metamelia] the one signifies an irking of the Soul, and the other signifies After grief. Yea, it is called A renting of the heart, as if it were torn in pieces in a mans breast. Ask such a poor soul, what it thinks of such Courses now? Oh now it loathes, abhors it self for them. Ask him, if he dare sin in that kind again? You may as well ask me (will he answer) whether I will thrust my hand into the fire. Oh it breeds an indignation in him against himself. That word [[Greek or Hebrew]] 2 Cor. 7. 11. signifies the rising of the stomach with very rage, and being sick with anger. Religious wrath is the fiercest wrath. Oh what a furnace is the breast of the poor penitent! what fumes, what heats do abound in it, whilst the sin is even before him, and the sense of guilt upon him? One night of carnal pleasure will keep thee many days and nights upon the rack of horror, if ever God give thee repentance unto life.
Arg. 7. And then in the 7th place, Those few that have been recovered by Repentance out of it, oh how bitter hath God made it to their souls! I find it (saith Solomon) more bitter than death, Eccles. 7. 26. Death is a very bitter thing; Oh what a struggling and reluctance is there in Nature against it? But this is more bitter. Poor David found it so, when he roared under those bloody lashes of Conscience for it, in