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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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, Judg. 16. 24. They praised their God, &c. Then Dagon must be extolled. Oh let shame cover they face!
Consid. 1. An Heathen will do more for a dung-hil-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, Iudg. 16. 24. They praised their God, &c. Then Dagon must be extolled. Oh let shame cover they face!
Consid. 2. That the abuse of Mercy and Love, is a sin that goes near to the heart of God. O! he cannot bear it. It is not the giving out of mercy that troubles him, for that he doth with delight; but the recoiling of his mercies upon him by the creatures ingratitude, this wounds. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be ye horribly afraid. And again, ⟨p. 60⟩Hear O heavens, and give ear O earth, Isa. 1. 2. q. d. O you innocent Creatures which inviolably observe the law of your Creation, be you all astonished and clothed in black, to see Nature cast by sin so far below it self; and that in a Creature so much superior to you as Man, who in the very womb, was crowned a King, and admitted into the highest Order of Creatures, and set as Lord and Master over you; yet doth he act not only below himself, but below the very beasts. The Ox knoweth his owner, (i. e.) There is a kind of gratitude in the beasts, by which they acknowledge their benefactors that feed and preserve them. Oh! What a pathetical exclamation is that,