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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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Consid. 3. It is a sin that kindles the wrath of God, and will make it burn dreadfully against thee unthankful sinner; it stirs up the anger of God, in whomsoever it be found, though in the person of a Saint, 2 Chron. 32. 25. But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him: for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Jerusalem. And so you read, Rom. 1. That the Heathen, because they were not thankful, were given up to vile affections; the •orest Plague in the world. It is a sin that the God of Mercy scarce knows how to pardon, Jer. 5. 7. How shall I pardon thee for this? This forgetting of the God that saves us in our extremities, is a sin that brings desolation and ruin, the effects of God's high displeasure, upon all our temporal enjoyments. See that remarkable Scripture, Isa. 17. 10, 11. Because thou hast [forgotten] the God of [thy salvation] and hast not been [mindful] of the rock of [thy strength▪] Therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips; in the day shalt thou make thy plant ⟨p. 61⟩to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish, but the Harvest shall be an heap in the day of grief and desperate sorrow. The meaning is, that God will blast and curse all thine employments, and thou shalt be under desperate sorrow, by reason of the disappointments of thy hopes.
Consid. 3. It is a sin that kindles the wrath of God, and will make it burn dreadfully against thee unthankful sinner; it stirs up the anger of God, in whomsoever it be found, though in the person of a Saint, 2 Chron. 32. 25. But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him: for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Ierusalem. And so you read,