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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. 3. Have you not been eminently protected and saved by the Lord, in the greatest dangers and hazards of life; in fights at Sea, when men have dropped down at your right hand and at your left, and yet the Lord hath covered your heads in the day of battle? And though you have been equally obnoxious to Death and Danger with others, yet your name was not found among theirs in the list of the dead? Or in Shipwrecks, ah, how narrowly have some of you escaped! A plank hath been cast in, you know not how, to save you, when your Companions, for want of it, have gone down to the bottom; or you have been enabled to swim to the Shore, when others have fainted in the way, and perished. In what a variety of strange and astonishing Providences hath God walked towards some of you, and what returns have you made to God for it? Oh Sirs, I beseech you, consider but these two or three things, that I shall now lay before you to consider of.
Quer. 3. Have you not been eminently protected and saved by the Lord, in the greatest dangers and hazards of life; in fights at Sea, when men have dropt down at your right hand and at your left, and yet the Lord hath cover'd your heads in the day of battle? And though you have been equally obnoxious to Death and Danger with others, yet your name was not found among theirs in the list of the dead? Or in Shipwracks, ah, how narrowly have some of you escaped! A plank hath been cast in, you know not how, to save you, when your Companions, for want of it, have gone down to the bottome; or you have been enabled to swim to the Shore, when others have fainted in the way, and perished. In what a variety of strange and astonishing Providences hath God walked towards some of you, and what returns have you made to God for it? Oh Sirs, I beseech you, consider but these two or three things, that I shall now lay before you to consider of.
Consid. 1. An Heathen will do more for a dung-hill-Deity, than thou, that callest thy self a Christian, wilt do for the true God, that made Heaven and Earth, Dan. 5. 4. They praised the Gods of Silver, and of Gold, and of Brass, of Iron, Wood, and Stone. When the Philistines were delivered from the hand of Sampson, the Text saith,