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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

Bread ascertain'd VVaters too secur'd Then shout and sing ye that are thus Immur'd CHAP. XII VVhat Dangers run they for a little gains VVho for their Souls would ne'r take half the pains OBSERVATION HOw exceeding solicitous and adventurous are Sea-men for a small portion of the World How prodigal of strength and life for it They will run to the ends of the Earth engage in a Thousand dangers upon the hopes and probability of getting a small Estate Per mare per terras per mille pericula currunt Hopes of gain makes them willing to adventure their liberty yea their life and encourages them to endure Heat Cold and Hunger and a Thousand streights and difficulties to which they are frequently exposed APPLICATION How hot and eager are Mens affections after the World And how remiss and cold towards things eternal They are careful and troubled about many things but seldom mind the great and necessary matters Luke 10. 40. They can rise early go to bed late eat the bread of carefulness But when did they so deny themselves for their poor Souls Their heads are full of designs and projects to get or advance an Estate VVe will go into such a City continue there a year and Buy and Sell and get gain Jam. 4. 13. This is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Master-design which engrosseth all their time studies and contrivances The Will hath past a Decree for it the Heart and Affections are fully let out to it They will be rich 1 Tim. 6. 9. This Decree of the Will the Spirit of God takes deep notice of it and indeed it is the clearest and fullest discovery of a Man's portion and condition For look what is highest in the estimation first and last in the thoughts and upon which we spend our time and strength with delight certainly that is our Treasure Mat. 6. 20 21. The Heads and Hearts of Saints are full of solicitous cares and fears about their Spiritual Condition The great design they drive on to which all other things are but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 things on the by is to make sure their Calling and Election This is the Pondus the weight and byass of their Spirit if their hearts stray and wander after any other thing this reduces them again REFLECTION Lord this hath been my manner from my Youth may the Carnal minded Man say I have been labouring for the Meat that perisheth disquieting my self in vain full of designs and projects for the World and unwearied in my endeavours to compass an earthly treasure yet therein I have either been checkt and disappointed by Providence or if I have obtained yet I am no sooner come to enjoy that Content and Comfort I promised my self in it but I am ready to leave it all to be stript out of it by Death and in that day all my thoughts perish But in the mean time What have I done for my Soul When did I ever break a Night's sleep or deny and pinch my self for it Ah fool that I am to nourish and pamper a vile Body which must shortly lie under the Clods and become a loathsome Carkass and in the mean time neglect and undo my poor Soul which partakes of the Nature of Angels and must live for ever I have kept others Vineyards but mine own Vineyard I have not kept I have been a perpetual drudge and slave to the World in a worse condition hath my Soul been than others that are Condemned to the Mines Lord change my Treasure and change my Heart O let it suffice that I have been thus long labouring on the fire for very vanity Now gather up my heart and affections in thy self and let my great design now be to secure a special interest in thy Blessed Self that I may once say To me to live is Christ. THE POEM The Face of Man imprest and stampt on Gold VVith Crown and Royal Scepters we behold No wonder that an humane Face it gains Since Head Heart Soul and Body it obtains Nor is it strange a Scepter it should have That to its Yoke the World doth so enslave Charm'd with its chinking Note away they go Like Eagles to the Carcass ride and row Through worlds of hazards foolish creatures run That into its embraces they may come Poor Indians in the Mines my heart condoles But seldom turns aside to pity Souls Which are the slaves indeed that toyl and spend Themselves upon its service Surely Friend They are but Sextons to prepare and make Thy Grave within those Mines whence they do take And dig their Ore Ah! many Souls I fear Whose Bodies live yet lie entombed there Is Gold so tempting to you Lo Christ stands VVith length of days and riches in his hands Gold in the fire tried he freely proffers But few regard or take those Golden Offers CHAP. XIII Millions of Creatures in the Seas are fed Why then are Saints in doubt of daily bread OBSERVATION THere are multitudes of Living Creatures in the Sea The Psalmist saith There are in it things creeping innumerable both small and great beasts Psal. 104. 25. And we read Gen. 1. 20. that when God blessed the Waters he said Let the Waters bring forth abundantly both Fish and Fowl that move in it and fly about it Yet all those multitudes of Fish and Fowl both in Sea and Land are cared and provided for Psal. 145. 15 16. Thou givest them their meat in due season thou openest thy hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing APPLICATION If God take care for the Fishes of the Sea and the Fowls of the Air much more will he care and provide for those that fear him When the poor and needy seeketh water and there is none and their tongue faileth for thirst I the Lord will hear them I the God of Israel will not forsake them Isai. 41. 17. Take no thought for your life saith the Lord what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink or for the body what ye shall put on Which he backs with an Argument from God's Providence over the Creatures and enforceth it with a much rather upon them Matth. 6. 25 31. God would have his people be without carefulness i. e. anxious care 1 Cor. 7. 32. And to cast their care upon him for he careth for them 1 Pet. 5. 7. There be two main Arguments suggested in the Gospel to quiet and satisfie the hearts of Saints in this particular The one is that the Gift of Jesus Christ amounts to more than all these things come to yea in bestowing him he has given that which virtually and eminently comprehends all these inferiour mercies in it Rom. 8. 32. He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him freely give us all things And 1 Cor. 3. 22. All things are yours and ye are Christ's and Christ is God's Another Argument is That God gives these Temporal Things to those he never gave his Christ

stripes came but from the arm of a Creature these that the Text speaks of are set on by the omnipotent arm of God Of the former there was a determinate number set down in their law as forty stripes and sometimes they would remit one of that number too in mercy to the offender as you see in the example of Paul 2 Cor. 11. 24. Of the ●ews I received forty stripes save one but in Hell no mitigation at all nor allay of mercy The arm of his power supports the Creature in its being while the arm of his justice lays on eternally Soul consider these things do thou not persist any longer then in such a desperate way of sinning against the clear conviction of thine own Conscience which in this case must needs give testimony against thee Well then go to God with the words of David Psal. 66. 13 14. and say unto him I will pay thee my vows which my lips have uttered and my tongue hath spoken when I was in trouble Pay it Soul and pay it speedily unto God else he will recover it by Justice and fetch it out of thy bones in Hell O trifle not any longer with God and that in such serious matters as these are And now I have done my endeavour to give your former Mercies and Promises a Resurrection in your Consciences Oh that you would sit down and pause s● while upon these things and then reflect upon the past Mercies of your lives and on what hath past betwixt God and your Souls in your former straights and trou●bles Let not these plain words work upon thy spleen● and make thee say as the Widow of Sarephta did to th● Prophet Elijah 2 Kings 17. 18. What have I to do wit● thee O thou man of God Art thou come to call my sin to remembrance But rather let it work kindly on thy heart and make thee say as David to Abigail 1 Sam. 25. 32. 33. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel which sent thee this day to meet me and blessed be thy advice 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 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 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 Now to the end that you might have right thoughts and apprehensions of death which may put you upon serious preparation for it and that when ever your turn comes to conflict with this King of terrours under whose hand the Pompeys Caesars and Alexanders of the world who have been the terrours of Nations have bowed down themselves I say that when your turn and time comes as the Lord onely knows how soon it may be you may escape the stroke of its dart and sting and taste no other b●tterness in death than the natural evil of it To this end I have drawn the following Questions and Answers which if you please may be called The Sea-man's Catechism And Oh that you might not dare to launch forth into the deeps untill you have seriously interrogated and examined your hearts upon those particulars Oh that you would resolve before you go forth to withdraw your selves a while from all clamours and distractions and calmly and seriously Catechise your own selves in this manner Quest. 1. What may the issue of this Voyage be Answ. Death Prov. 27. 1. Boast no● thy self of to morrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth Jam 4. 13 14. Go to now ye that say To day or to morrow we will go into such a City and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain VVhereas you know not what shall be on to morrow for what is your Life It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away Quest. 2 What is Death Ans. Death is a separation of Soul and Body till the Resurrection 2 Cor. 5. 1. VVe know that if our earthly house of this T●bernacle be dissolved Iob 14. 10 11 12. Read the words Quest. 3. Is Death to be despised and slighted if it be so An. O no! It 's one of the most weighty and serious things that ever a creature went about So dreadful doth it appear to some that the fear of it subjects them to Bondage all their lives Hebr. 2. 15. And to deliver them who through fear of death were all their lives subject to bondage And in Scripture It 's called the King of terrours Job 18. 14. Or the black Prince as some translate Never had any Prince such a title before To some it hath been so terrible that none might mention its Name before them Quest. 4. What makes it so terrible and affrighting to Men Answ. Several things concur to make it terrible to the most of Men As first its Harbingers and Antecedents which are strong Pains Conflicts and Agonies Secondly its office and work it comes about which is to transfer us into the other world Hence Rev. 6. 8. It 's set forth by a Pale Horse An horse for its use and office to carry you away from hence into the upper or lower region of Eternity and a pale horse for it's gastliness and terror Thirdly but above all it 's terrible in regard of its consequence for it 's the door of Eternity the parting point betwixt the present world and that to come the utmost line and boundary of all temporal things Hence Heb. 9. It 's appointed for all men once to die and after that the Iudgment Rev. 6. 8. And I looked and behold a pale Horse and his name that sat on him was Death and Hell followed him Ah it makes a sudden and strange alteration upon mens conditions to be pluckt out of house and from among friends and honours and

inch or two between them and their Graves continually The next Gust may over-set them the next Wave may swallow them up In one place lies lurking dangerous Rocks in another perilous Sands and every-where stormy Winds ready to destroy them Well may the Sea-men cry out Ego crastinum non habui I have not had a Morrow in my hands these many Years Should not they then be extraordinary serious and heavenly continually Certainly as the Reverend Author of this New Compass well observes nothing more composeth the heart to such a frame than the lively apprehensions of Eternity do and none have greater external advantages for that than Sea-men have 2. Consider Sea-men what extraordinary help you have by the Book of the Creatures the whole Creation is God's Voice it is God's excellent Hand-writing or the Sacred Scriptures of the Most High to teach us much of God and what reasons we have to bewail our Rebellion against God and to make conscience of obeying God only naturally and continually The Heavens the Earth the Waters are the three great Leaves of this Book of God and all the Creatures are so many Lines in those Leaves All that learn not to fear and serve God by the help of this Book will be left inexcusable Rom. 1. 20. How inexcusable then will ignorant and ungodly Sea-men be Sea-men should in this respect be the best Scholars in the Lord's School seeing they do more than others see the Works of the Lord and his Wonders in the great Deep Psal. 107. 24. 3. Consider how often you are nearer Heaven than any People in the World They mount up to heaven Psal. 107. 26. It has been said of an ungodly Minister that contradicted his Preaching in his Life and Conversation That it was pity he should e're come out of the Pulpit because he was there as near Heaven as ever he would be Shall it be said of you upon the same account That 't is pi●y you should come down from the high-towring Waves of the Sea Should not Sea-men that in stormy Weather have their feet as it were upon the Battlements of Heaven look down upon all earthly Happiness in this World but as base waterish and worthless The great Cities of Campania seem but small Cottages to them that stand on the ●lpes Should not Sea-men that so oft mount up to Heaven make it their main business here once at last to get into Heaven What Sea-men shall you only go to Heaven against your Wills When Seamen mount up to Heaven in a storm the Psalmist tells us That their souls are melted because of trouble O that you were continually as unwilling to go to Hell as you are in a storm to go to Heaven 4. And lastly Consider what engagements lie upon you to be singularly holy from your singular deliverances and salvations They that go down to the Sea in Ships are sometimes in the Valley of the shadow of Death by reason of the springing of perilous Leaks and yet miraculously delivered either by some wonderful stopping of the Leak or by God's sending some Ship within their sight when they have been far out of sight of any Land or by his bringing their near-perishing Ship safe to shore Sometimes they have been in very great danger of being taken by Pirates yet wonderfully preserved either by God's calming of the Winds in that part of the Sea where the Pirates have sail'd or by giving the poor pursued Ship a strong gale of Wind to run away from their Pursuers or by sinking the Pirates c. Sometimes their Ships have been cast away and yet they themselves wonderfully got safe to shore upon Planks Yards Masts c. I might be endless in enumerating their Deliverances from Drowning from Burning from Slavery c. Sure Sea-men your extraordinary Salvations lay more than ordinary engagement upon you to praise love fear obey and trust in your Saviour and Deliverer I have read that the enthralled Greeks were so affected with their Liberty procured by Flaminius the Roman General that their shrill Acclamations of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Saviour a Saviour made the very Birds fall down from the Heavens astonished O how should Seamen be affected with their Sea-Deliverances Many that have been deliver'd from Turkish Slavery have vowed to be Servants to their Redeemers all the days of their Lives Ah Sirs will not you be more than ordinarily God's Servants all the days of your Lives seeing you have been so oft so wonderfully r●deemed from Death it self by him Verily do what you can you will die in God's Debt As for me God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you 1 Sam. 12. 23 24. That by the perusal of this short and sweet Treatise wherein the jucicious and ingenious Author hath well mixed utile dulci profit and pleasure you may learn the good and right way even to fear the Lord and serve him in truth with all your hearts considering how great things he hath done for you This is the hearty Prayer of Your Cordial Friend earnestly desirous of a prosperous Voyage for your precious and immortal Souls T.M. The AUTHOR to the READER WHen Dewy-cheek'd Aurora doth display Her Curtains to let in the New-born Day Her heavenly Face looks Red as if it were Dy'd with a modest Blush 'twixt Shame and Fear Sol makes her blush suspecting that he will Scorch some too much and others leave to chill With such a Blush my little New-born Book Goes out of hand suspecting some may look Vpon it with Contempt while others raise So mean a Peice too high by flattering Praise It s Beauty cannot make its Father dote 'T is a poor Babe clad in a Sea-green Coat It s gone from me too young and now is run To Sea among the Tribe of Zebulun Go Little Book thou many Friends wilt find Among that Tribe who will be very kind And many of them Care of Thee will take Both for thy own and for thy Father's sake Heav'n save it from the dang'rous Storms and Gusts That will be rais'd against it by Mens Lusts. Guilt makes Men angry Anger is a Storm But Sacred Truth 's thy shelter fear no harm On Times or Persous no Reflection's found Though with Reflections few Books more abound Go Little Book I have much more to say But Sea-men call for thee thou must away Yet e're you have it grant me One Request Pray do not keep it Prisoner in your Chest. BOOKS Lately Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside MR. Flavel's Fountain of Life open'd or a Display of Christ in his Essential and Mediatorial Glory in 42 Sermons Quarto His Treatise of the Soul of Man Quarto Divine Conduct or Mystery of Providence Burgesses Golden Snuffers a Sermon Preach'd to the Society for Reformation of Manners Sylvester's Reformation Sermon How 's Reformation Sermon Singing of Psalms Vindicated from the Charge of Novelty in