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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 5: V. CAUTION.
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V. CAUTION.
The fifth and last danger I shall warn you of, is, Your contempt and slighting of Death. Ah how light a matter do many of you (at least in words) make of it? It seems you have little reverential fear of this King of terrors; not only that you speak slightly of it, but also because you make no more preparation for it, and are no more sensible of your preservations and deliverances from it. Indeed, the heathen Philosophers did many▪ of them profess a Contempt of Death, upon the account of Wisdom and Fortitude; and they were accounted the bravest men, that most despised and slighted it: But alas, poor Souls, they saw not their enemy against whom they taught, but skirmished with their eyes shut. They saw indeed its pale face, but not its sting and dart. There is also a lawful contempt of death: we freely grant, that in two Cases a believer may contemn it; first, when it is propounded to them in a temptation, on purpose to scare them from Christ and duty, then they should slight it; as Rev. 12. 11. They loved not their lives to the death. Secondly, When the natural evil of death is set in Competition with the enjoyment of God in Glory, then a believer should despise it, as Christ is said to do, Heb. 12. 2 though his was a shameful death. But upon all other accounts and considerations, it is the height of stupidity and security to despise it.
THe fifth and last danger I shall warn you of, is, Your contempt and slighting of Death. Ah how light a matter do many of you (at least in words) make of it? It seems you have little reverential fear of this King of terrours; not onely that you speak slightly of it, but also because you make no more preparation for it, and are no more sensible of your preservations and deliverances from it. Indeed, the heathen Philosophers did many▪ of them profess a Contempt of Death, upon the account of Wisdom and Fortitude; and they were accounted the bravest men, that most despised and slighted it: But alas, poor Souls, they saw not their enemy against whom they taught, but skirmisht with their eyes shut. They saw indeed its pale face, but not its sting and dart. There is also a lawful contempt of death: we freely grant, that in two Cases a believer may contemn it; first, when it is propounded to them in a temptation, on purpose to scare them from Christ and duty, then they should slight it; as