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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 15 › REFLECTION.
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REFLECTION.
O my Soul, what Marrow and Fatness, Comfort, and Consolation, mayest thou suck from the Breast of this Truth, in the darkest day of trouble? Thou seest how the flowing Sea drives to over-whelm the Earth. Who has arrested it in its course, and stopped its violence! Who has confined it to its place? Certainly none other but the Lord. When I see it threaten the shore with its proud, furious, and insulting Waves, I wonder it doth not swallow up all: but I see it no sooner touch the Sands, which God hath made its bounds, but it retires, and as it were with a kind of submission, respects those limits which God hath set it.
O my Soul, what Marrow and Fatness, Comfort, and Consolation, maist thou suck from the Breast of this Truth, in the darkest day of trouble? Thou seest how the flowing Sea drives to over-whelm the Earth. Who has arrested it in its course, and stopt its violence! Who has confin'd it to its place? Certainly none other but the Lord. When I see it threaten the shore with its proud, furious, and insulting Waves, I wonder it doth not swallow up all: but I see it no sooner touch the Sands, which God hath made its bounds, but it retires, and as it were with a kind of submission, respects those limits which God hath set it.
Thus the fiercest Element is repressed by the feeblest things; Thou seest also, how full of wrath and fury wicked men are, how they rage like the troubled ⟨p. 58⟩