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A39673	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.	Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.	1698 (1698)	Wing F1173; ESTC R216243	137,316	227

at several Meditations which the spiritual Seaman is to be acquainted with unto which thou hast an excellent Supplement in this New Compass for Seamen This Collection is prefixt that at once thou mayest view all the Compasses both the Speculative Practical and Affectionate by which thou must steer Heaven-ward What further shall be added by way of Pre●●●e is not to commend this New Compass which indeed 2 Cor. 3. 1. needs no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Letters of Commendation or any Panegyrick to usher it into any honest heart but to stir up all especially Sea-men to make conscience of using such choice helps for the promoting the sanctification and salvation of their Souls for the making of them as dexterous in the Art of Spiritual Navigation as any of them are in the Art of Natural Navigation Consider therefore 1. What rich Merchandize thy Soul is Christ assures us one Soul is more worth than all the world The Lord Iesus doth as it were put the whole world in one scale and one soul in the other and the world is found too light Mat. 16. 26. Shouldst thou by skill in Natural Navigation carry safe all the treasures of the Indies into thine own Port yea gain the whole world and for want of skill in spiritual Navigation lose thy soul thou wouldst be the greatest loser in the world So far wilt thou be from profiting by any of thy Sea-voyages There is a plain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in those words of Christ What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul More is meant than is spoken 2. What a leaking Vessel thy body is in which this unspeakable inconceivable rich Treasure thy soul is embarked O the many diseases and distempers in the humors and passions that thy body is subject to It is above 2000 years ago that there have been rekoned up 300 Names of Diseases and there be many under one name and many nameless which pose the Physicians not only how to cure them but how to call them And for the affections and passions of the Mind the distempers of them are no less deadly to some than the diseases of the body But besides these internal causes there are many external causes of Leaks in this Vessel as poisonous malignities wrathful hostilities and casual mishaps very small matters may be of great moment to the sinking of this Vessel The least Gnat in the Air may choak one as it did Adrian a Pope of Rome a little hair in Milk may strangle one as it did a Counsellor in Rome a little stone of a Raisin may stop ones breath as it did the Poetical Poet Anacreon Thus you see what a leaking Vessel you sail in Now the more leaky any ship is the more need there is of skill to steer wisely 3. Consider what a dangerous Sea the World is in which thy Soul is to sail in the leaking ship of thy body As there are not more changes in the Sea than are in the World the world being only constant in inconstancy The fashion of this world passeth away 1 Cor. 7. 31. so there are not more dangers in the Sea for ships than there are in the world for souls In this world Souls meet with Rocks and Sands Syrens and Pyrates Worldly Temptations worldly Lusts and worldly Company cause many to drown themselves in perdition 1 Tim. 6. 9. The very things of this world endanger our Souls By worldly Objects we soon grow worldly It is hard to touch Pitch and not be defiled The lusts of this world stain our glory and the men of t●is world pollute all they converse with A man that keeps company with the men of this world is like him that walketh in the Sun tanned insensibly Thus you have hinted the dangerousness of the Sea wherein you are to sail Now the more dangerous the Sea is the more requisite it is the Sailer be an Artist 4. Consider what if through want of skill in the heavenly Art of spiritual Navigation thou shouldst not steer thy C●●rse aright I will instance only in two consequents thereof 1. Thou wilt never arrive at the Haven of Happiness 2. Thou shalt be drowned in the Ocean of God's wrath As true as the Word of God is true as sure as the Heavens are over thy head and the Earth under thy feet as sure as thou yet livest and breathest in this Air so true and certain it is thou shalt never enter into Heaven but sink into the depth of the bottomless pit Am I not herein a Messenger of the saddest Tidings that ever yet thy Ears did hear Possibly now thou makest a light matter of these things because thou dost not know what it is to miss of Heaven and what it is for ever to lie under the wrath of God but hereafter thou wilt know fully what it is to have thy Soul lost eternally so lost as that God's mercies and all the good there is in Christ shall never save it and as God hath set and ordered things can never save it Hereafter thou wilt be perfectly sensible of the good that thou mightest have had and of the evil that shall be upon thee this is God's peculiar Prerogative to make a Creature as sensible of Misery as he pleaseth then thou wilt have other thoughts of these things than now thou hast Then the thoughts of thy mind shall be busied about thy lost Condition both as to the pain of loss and the pain of sense so that thou shalt not be able to take any ease any moment then that thy torments may be increased they acknowledge the truth of thy apprehensions yea the strength of them shall be encreased thou shalt have true and deep apprehensions of the greatness of that good that thou shalt miss of and of that evil which thou shalt procure unto thy self and then thou shalt not be able to choose but to apply all thy loss all thy misery to thy self which will force thee to roar out O my loss O my misery O my unconceivable unrecoverable loss and misery Yea for the increasing of thy torments thy Affections and Memory shall be enlarged O that to prevent that lose and misery these things may now be known and laid to heart O that a blind Understanding a stupid Judgment a bribed Conscience a hard Heart a bad Memory may no longer make Heaven and Hell to seem but trifles to thee Thou wilt then easily be perswaded to make it thy main business here to become an Artist in Spiritual Navigation But to shut up this Preface I shall briefly acquaint Sea-men why they should of all others be Men of singular Piety and Heavenliness and therefore more than ordinarily study the heavenly Art of Spiritual Navigation O that Sea-men would therefore consider 1 How nigh they border upon the Confines of Death and Eternity every moment There is but a step but an

5. 10. and then they shall suffer no more 2 Thes. 1. 7. But all tears shall be wiped away from their eyes Rev. 7. 17. But my Troubles look with a long Visage Ah! they are but the beginning of sorrows but a parboiling before I be roasted in the flames of God's eternal wrath If I continue as I am I shall but deceive my self if I conclude I shall be happy in the other World because I have met with so much sorrow in this For I read Iude 7. that the Inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrha though consumed to ashes with all their Estates and Relations a sorer Temporal Judgment than ever yet befel me do notwithstanding that continue still in everlasting Chains under Darkness in which they are reserved unto the Iudgment of the Great Day The Troubles of the Saints are sanctified to them but mine are fruits of the Curse They have spiritual Consolations to ballance them which flow into their Souls in the same height and degree as Troubles do upon their Bodies 2 Cor. 1. 5. But I am a stranger to their Comforts and intermeddle not with their Ioys Prov. 14. 10. If their hearts be surcharged with Trouble they have a God to go to and when they have open'd their Cause before him they are eased return with comfort and their Countenance is no more sad 1 Sam. 1. 18. When their Belly is as Bottles full of new Wine they can give it vent by pouring out of their Souls into their Father's Bosome But I have no interest in nor acquaintance with this God nor can I pray unto him in the Spirit My griefs are shut up like fire in my bosome which preys upon my spirit This is my ●orrow and I alone must bear it O my Soul look round about thee What a miserable case art thou ●n Rest no longer satisfied in it but look out for a Christ also What though I be a vile unworthy wretch yet he promiseth to love freely Hos. 14. 4. and invites such as are heavy laden to him Mat. 11. 28. Hence also should the gracious Soul reflect sweetly upon it self after this manner And is the World so full of trouble O my Soul what cause hast thou to stand admiring at the indulgence and goodness of God to thee Thou hast hitherto had a smooth ●assage comparatively to what others have had How hath Divine Wisdom ordered my Condition and cast my Lot Have I been chastised with Whips others with Scorpions Have I had no peace without Some have neither had peace without nor within but terrours round about Or have I felt trouble in my flesh and spirit at once Yet have they not been extream either for time or measure And hath the World been a Sodom an Aegypt to thee Why then dost thou thus linger in it and hanker after it Why do I not long to be gone and sigh more heartily for Deliverance Why are the thoughts of my Lord 's coming no sweeter to me and the day of my full deliverance no more panted for And why am I no more careful to maintain peace within since there is so much trouble without Is not this it that puts weight into all outward troubles and makes them sinking that they fall upon me when my spirit is dark or wounded THE POEM My Soul art thou besieged with troubles round about If thou be wise take this Advice to keep these troubles out Wise Men will keep their Conscience as their eyes For in their Conscience their best Treasure lies See you be tender of your inward peace That shipwrackt then your Mirth and Ioy must ceas If God from you your outward Comforts rend You 'll find what need you have of such a Friend If this be not by sin destroy'd and lost You need not fear your Peace will quit your cost If youl 'd know How to sweeten any grief Though ne'r so great or to procure relief Against th' afflictions which like deadly Darts Most fatal are to Men of carnal hearts Reject not that which Conscience bids you chusc And chuse not you what Conscience saith Refuse If sin you must or Misery under lie Resolve to bear and chuse the Misery CHAP. II. In the vast Ocean Spiritual Eyes des●ry God's boundless Mercy and Eternity OBSERVATION THE Ocean is of a vast extent and depth though supposedly measurable yet not to be sounded by Man It compasseth about the Whole Earth which in the account of Geographers is Twenty one thousand and six hundred Miles in compass yet the Ocean invirons it on every side Psal. 104. 25. and Iob 11. 9. Suitable to which is that of the Poet. Tum freta diffudit rapidisque tumescere ventis Iussit ambitae circumdare littora terrae Ovid He spread the Seas which then he did command To swell with Winds and compass round the Land And for its Depth who can discover it The Sea in Scripture is called The Deep Job 38. 30. The Great Deep Gen. 7. 11. The gathering together of the Waters into one place Gen. 1. 9. If the vastest Mountain were cast into it it would appear no more than the head of a Pin in a Tun of Water APPLICATION This in a lively manner shaddows forth the infinite and incomprehensible Mercy of our God whose Mercy is said to be over all his works Psal. 145. 9. In how many sweet Notions is the Mercy of God represented to us in the Scripture He is said to be Plenteous Psal. 4. 5. Abundant 1 Pet. 1. 3. Rich Eph. 2. 4. in mercy then that his Mercies are unsearchable Ephes. 3. 8. High as the Heaven above the Earth Psal. 10. 4. Which are so high and vast that the whole Earth is but a small point to them yea they are not only compared to the Heavens but to come home to the Metaphor to the Depths of the Sea Mic. 7. 19. which can swallow up Mountains as well as Mole-hills and in this Sea God hath drowned sins of a dreadful height and aggravation even Scarlet Crimson i. e. deep dyed with many intensive aggravations Isa. 1. 18. In this Sea was the sin of Manasseh drowned and of what magnitude that was may be seen 2 Chron. 33. 3. Yea in this Ocean of Mercy did the Lord drown and cover the sins of Paul though a Blasphemer a Persecutor Injurious 1 Tim. 1. 13. None saith Augustine more fierce than Paul among the Persecutors and therefore none greater among sinners to which himself willingly subscribes 1 Tim. 1. 1●● yet pardoned How hath Mercy rode in triumph and been glorified upon the vilest of Men How hath it stop● the slanderous mouth of Men and Devils It hath yearned upon Fornicators Idol●ters Adulterers Thieves Covetous Drunkards Revilers Extortioners to such hath the Scepter of Mercy been stretched forth upon their unfeigned repentance and submission 1 Cor. 6. 9. What doth the Spirit of God aim at in such a large accumulation of Names of Mercy But to convince poor sinners of the abundant fulness