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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 4: IV. CAUTION.
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Quer. 1. And first I shall demand of you, Whether you never had experience of the power and goodness of God, in restoring you to Health from dangerous Sickness and Diseases? Have you not sometimes had the sentence of Death in your selves? and that possibly when you have been in remote parts far from your Friends and Relations, and destitute of all means and accommodations. Did you not say in that condition, as Hezekiah did in a like case? Isai. 38. 10, 11, 12. I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave, I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living; I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. Remember thy self, man, canst not thou call to mind the day when the Arrows of death came whisking by thee, and it may be hit those next thee; took away those that were as lively and as lusty as thy self, when you began your Voyage, and yet they were cast for death, thou for life, and that when there was but an hairs breadth betwixt thee and the grave? Tell me, Soul, What friend was that stood by thee then, when thou wast forsaken of all friends? When it may be thy Companions stood ready to throw thee over-board, Who was it that pitied and remembered thee in thy low estate? Who was it that rebuked thy disease? of (as one very aptly expresses it) restrained the humours of thy body, 1from overflowing and drowning thy life? for when they are let out in a sickness, they would overflow and drown it, as the Waters would the earth, if God should not say to them, Stay you proud ⟨p. 56⟩waves. Who was it, man, that when thy body was brought low and weak, and like a crazy rotten Ship in a storm, took in water on all sides, so that all the Physicians in the World could not have stopped those Leaks; consider, what hand was that which quieted and calmed the tempestuous Sea, careened and mended thy crazy Body, and launched thee into the World again, as whole, as sound, as strong as ever? Was it not the Lord, that hath done all this for thee? Did not he keep back thy Soul from the Pit, and thy Life from perishing? Yea, when thou wast chastened with pain upon thy Bed (as Elihu speaks) Job 33. 19, 20, 21. and the multitude of thy bones with strong pains, so that thy life abhorred bread, and thy Soul dainty meat;