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 Harlot's 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-man's Catechism.Being an Essay toward their much de•••d Reformation from the Horrible and Destable 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.And they said, Come, let us cast Lots, that we may know for whose [cause] this evil is come upon us, Jonah 1. 7.Knowing therefore the terrors of the LORD, we persuade Men, 2 Cor. 5. 11.By John Flavel, Minister of the Gospel. The Fourth Edition.London, Printed for M. Fabian in Mercers Chapel at the lower end of Cheapside, 1698.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 Harlot's 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-man's Catechism.Being an Essay toward their much de•••d Reformation from the Horrible and Destable Sins of Drunkenness, Swearing, Vncleanness. 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.And they said, Come, let us cast Lots, that we may know for whose [cause] this evil is come upon us, Jonah 1. 7.Knowing therefore the terrours of the LORD, we perswade Men, 2 Cor. 5. 11.By Iohn Flavel, Minister of the Gospel. The Fourth Edition.London, Printed for M. Fabian in Mercers Chappel at the lower end of Cheapside, 1698.Title page of Navigation spiritualized, London, 1698Navigation spiritualizedNavigation spiritualiz'dJohn Flavel, 1698

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What such a Leak is to a Ship, that is the smallest sin neglected to the Soul; it is enough to ruin it ⟨p. 94⟩eternally. For as the greatest sin, discovered, lamented, and mourned over by a Believer, cannot ruin him; so the least sin indulged, covered, and connived at, will certainly prove the destruction of the sinner. No sin, though never so small, is tolerated by the pure and perfect Law of God, Psal. 119. 96. The command is exceeding broa•; not as if it gave Men a latitude to walk as they please, but broad, i. e. extending it self to all our words, thoughts, actions, and affections: Laying a Law upon them all; conniving at no evil in any Man, 1 Pet. 2. 1.

What such a Leak is to a Ship, that is the smallest sin neglected to the Soul; it is enough to ruine it ⟨p. 94⟩eternally. For as the greatest sin, discover'd, lamented, and mourned over by a Believer, cannot ruine him; so the least sin indulged, covered, and connived at, will certainly prove the destruction of the sinner. No sin, though never so small, is tolerated by the pure and perfect Law of God, Psal. 119. 96. The command is exceeding broa•; not as if it gave Men a latitude to walk as they please, but broad, i. e. extending it self to all our words, thoughts, actions, and affections: Laying a Law upon them all; conniving at no evil in any Man, 1 Pet. 2. 1.

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