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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 New Compass for Sea-Men: OR, Navigation Spiritualiz'd. › Chapter 14 › APPLICATION.
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Yea, such are the blessed fruits thereof, that they are to account it all joy, when they fall into divers afflictions, Jam. 1. 2. David could bless God, that he was afflicted; and many a Saint hath done the like. A good woman once compared her afflictions to her children: For (saith she) they put me in pain in bearing them; yet as I know not which child, so neither which affliction I could be without.
Yea, such are the blessed fruits thereof, that they are to account it all joy, when they fall into divers afflictions, Iam. 1. 2. David could bless God, that he was afflicted; and many a Saint hath done the like. A good woman once compared her afflictions to her children: For (saith she) they put me in pain in bearing them; yet as I know not which child, so neither which affliction I conld be without.
Sometimes the Lord sanctifies affliction to discover the corruption that is in the heart, Deut. 8. 2. It is a furnace to show the dross. Ah! when a sharp Affliction comes, then the pride, impatience, and unbelief of the heart appears. Matura vexata prodit seipsam. When the Water is stirred, then the mud and filthy sediment that lay at the bottom rises. Little (saith the afflicted Soul) did I think, there had been in me that pride, self-love, distrust of God, carnal fear, and unbelief, as I now find. O where is my Patience, my Faith, my Glory in tribulation? I could not have imagined the sight of Death would have so appalled me, the loss of outward things so ⟨p. 53⟩have pierced me. Now what a blessed thing is this, to have the heart thus discovered?
Sometimes the Lord sanctifies affliction to discover the corruption that is in the heart,