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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30588	The seaman's spiritual companion, or, Navigation spirituallized being a new compass for seamen consisting of thirty-two points : directing every Christian how to stear the course of his life through all storms and tempests : fit to be read and seriously perused by all such as desire their eternal welfare / published for a general good, but more especially for those that are exposed to the danger of the seas by William Balmford, a well-wisher to seamen's eternal welfare and recommended to the Christian reader by J.F. ; to which is prefixt a preface by Benj. Keach, the author of War with the Devil.	Balmford, William.	1678 (1678)	Wing B609; ESTC R28344	69,700	162

yet intirely one Having his understanding lightned ●o know therefore the Son of God must shed ●is precious blood be made a Sacrifice And that it is the Spirit that sanctifies And fits the soul for Death I say again After a soul this knowledge doth obtain He 's fit for notion these things being known Which must be first yet must not be alone These be the Four Chief Points we must divide Each Quarter into Seven Points besides North. Your First Point being North you must endeavour By Light from God to steer your Course if ever You do intend to steer your course for heaven Steer by this sacred light which God hath given The Holy Scripture let them be thy guide For want of which many hath turned aside Make Gods Commandements thy Compass and Thy light to steer to fair Emanuel's Land We need not wonder why some do miscarry Who lays aside their Compass and contrary Unto the sacred Rule Gods Word lays down Doth steer their Course by fancies of their own Good David steer'd by this thy Word saith he Is both a Light and Lanthorn unto me The Prophet Esay speaking in the name Of great Jehovah doth command the same That from Gods Law they should not turn aside But make his Testimonies all their guide Unto this sacred truth Paul testifies Who saith the Scripture makes men wise Unto Salvation and to this agree The sayings of our Lord O search saith he The holy Scriptures there thou 'lt be directed No safety where this Compass is neglected It is the mischief of our present day And the true Cause why many's cast away Satan that roaring Lyon goes about To shipwrack souls his work it is no doubt To make men question and at last deny The Holy Scriptures just Authority The Holy Scripture is more useful far Unto a Christian than the Northern Star Is to a Seaman who sometimes can steer Some Leagues although his Compass be not there But Christians cannot steer one course aright If not directed by this Sacred Light Which doth proceed from God the mighty Lord And shineth forth from his most Holy Word He that doth throw the Holy Scriptures by Under pretence to steer more certainly By Natures various and uncertain light Instead of steering of his Course aright Is like the man who throws his Compass by That he may steer by the uncertain tide Of his conjectures and when all is done He doth but light a Candle to the Sun The Scripture is that Light whose glorious rays Proceed from God by them direct thy ways North by East North by East the second Point must be Learn this Point well and thou shalt clearly see From that bright beam that from Gods Word doth shine Whose ever-blest Authority's divine When man by breaking Gods Command became The Author of his own rebuke and shame Justly provoking God who gave him breath To lay on him the punishment of Death Man though unworthy so much favour found From God Almighty that he did propound A way to save him who had thus undone Himself by sinning God propounds his Son To free poor man from Deaths eternal stroke And take from off his neck that heavy yoke And to restore lost man to life again That he for ever living might remain In steering to this point it doth behove Thee to remember Gods most precious love In all soul matters now direct thine eye To Gods free promise and on that rely The Sun whose glorious presence fills the earth With its desired light moves from the North So Christ our Rising Sun whose glorious face Makes glad the earth proceeds from Gods freed grace The Suns first differenc'd motion and the least From his full Nothern point is by the East The first appearance of Gods love to man Was in the promis'd seed there first began Gods love to show it self this promis'd seed ●s Christ the Son of God who is indeed Our Rising Sun to him direct thine eye To him do all the Prophets testifie Take Counsel of Gods Word let it advise Gods Word will teach thee to be truly wise When worldly men to get themselves possest Of earthly treasures run from East to West ●rom youth to age until grim Death betrays Them to their graves they pass away their days To search the Holy Scripture let thy mind Launch forth into these deeps and thou shalt find ●uch treasures as on earth thou canst not have ●hough earth set open to thee her golden cave Treasures that will indure after death That will not leave thee when thou leav'st thy breath That man which labours for Earths empty pleasure While he neglects the seeking of that treasure Is like a Merchant that to th' Indies trades Only for pibles while other Merchants lades With Golden Ore like him that trades for sand While others with rich treasures fills the land When thou hast learn'd this point thou mayst proceed● And learn the third point with like care and heed Mind this third point as highly thy concern North North East 'T is North North East that thou art next to learn This point is just i' th middle plac'd between The North and North East point as may be seen I' th' Seamans Compass it is five points at least Nearer the Nothern point than 't is the East God in propounding Christ for mans salvation That Act of Grace sprang from his meer Compassion● Unto his Creature Man that God I say In making Christ that promis'd seed the way Whereby poor man may be restored again To life eternal ever to remain He 's the Chief Author of mans happiness And Christ the way by which we have access Unto that glory Do not envy then At the prosperity of wicked men All their joy continues but a day ●Tis but a moment and they must away While vainly they imagine all is well They leave their pleasures and go down to hell North East by North. North East by N. this point is one point nigher Our Eastern Point and therefore doth require That care and diligence be daily shown To learn this Point as Scripture lays it down That God 's the Author of our further joy ●n saving him who did himself destroy He did not only thus propound his Son To be mans Saviour but when that was done That man the better might believe the same ●nd be supported while the promise came That this his promise might be kept alive ●n every Age he did the same revive ●els Noah from whence the promis'd seed should spring That unto man should this salvation bring Confirm'd the same to Abraham again ●n terms more full he did himself explain That all the earth should of his love partake ●nd be redeemed for his mercies sake ●ut yet more fully unto Israel ●ho did in Egipt under Pharoah dwell When by his powerful and mighty hand He 'd brought them forth from the Egyptian lan● He did present their Saviour to their Eye In Types and Figures that they might thereby Have

Glo● brig● Is Christ the Son of God that gives it Light Whose Beauty when thou sees it will delig● the● Whose Riches is sufficient to invite thee To venture all the Loss thou may sustain That thou that sacred Country may obtain Abram did see 't far off and did rejoyce Moses beheld it also and made choyce ●'endure Storms abide tempestuous Weather And Happy Moses if he gets but thither Is not this Country worth thy observation Or settest thou so lightly by Salvation ●ook out dear Souls and hear the Watch-man's voyce ●ehold the Glorious Country and rejoyce ●hat you can see the Country tho not nigh ●bserve your Compass well and stear thereby ●ill thou arrives at Canan's sacred Shore ●here Pleasures will attend thee ever more 4. But in the Fourth place Thou mayst there observe ●hat Care the Seaman taketh to preserve ●ch Rope and Cable that it may hold fast ●e Anchor that the Ship may not be cast ● Rocks or Sands or forc't in any sort ● Storms or Tempests from their wished Port. Hope is the Anchor of the Soul No Storm ●here Faith to Hope 's united can do harm ●ith is the Cable and if so be thou find ●ith not sufficient to resist the Wind ● strong Temptations mark what Scripture saith ●y Hope is strengthened when thou adds to Faith ●mptations like a Tempest raises strife ●d but the Vertues of a Holy Life ●to thy Faith thy Hope will never fail ● then thy Anchor 's cast within the Vail ●ere will thy Anchor hold both firm and sure ●d this thy Anchor keeps thy Soul secure 5. How doth the Seamen when the Wind 's contrary Wait with Desire and with patience tarry Till the unconstant Wind do change no less Doth want of Winds bring Seamen to distress Calms cross Winds do both alike presage The ill success of an unprosperous V'age A Spiritual Seaman's thus becalm'd when ●eac● Has this Effects to make his Lusts increase Ephraim had Peace allow'd him as a fa●or But its Effects was that an evil savor Made Ephraim to stink Wherefore the Lord His own Inheritance hath oft abhorr'd Good David in a Calm did suffer more Than he had done in all his Life before When God gave David Peace instead of Strife Then Lusted he after Vriah's VVife When Israel was at Peace on every side This was the time that they did most backslide Thus Calms we see have done us many harms As ever did cross Winds or hasty Storms Then pray with Seamen that you may be neithe● Harmed by Calms cross VVinds or storm● VVeather When thou art over-mastred by Corruptions They are like cross Winds making Interruptions Observe these cross VVinds and use Diligence Seamen sometimes can with cross Winds dispence They 'll work against the Wind so must thou But yet observe when the VVinds do blow VVith a fair Course observe these gentle Gales And then be sure thou spread out all thy Sails By fair VVinds here I would be understood To mean the Holy Ghost that promis't Good VVhich breaths into thy Soul gently moves To every Good and every Sin reproves VVhen ever thou perceives that sacred VVind To breath into thy Soul be sure thou mind ●ts holy Breathing If it do invite thee To Holyness let Holyness delight thee ●f it reproves at any time for Sin Be sure thou takest no Delight therein VVhen Spirit 's Breathing calls for thy Affections ●nto the Scriptures follow its Directions Thus if each sacred Gale of VVind thou eye And close with every Opportunity And let no fair VVind slip in any sort T will hasten thee to thy desired Port. 6 VVhat Pains a Seaman taketh in a Storm To keep his Vessel and himself from harm Some tend the Sails while other some do stand By this and th' other Rope There 's not a Hand At such an hour find a time to cease But as the storm their labours do increase ●ome ply the Pump while others stand to sound And all to keep themselves from being drown'd Why then poor soul do'st thou securely sleep Till thou with Jonah perish in the deep How many a Storm poor soul hast thou been i● Yet not so much as wakened with thy Sin How do the Waves like mighty Armies com● Threatning to send thee to thy longest home How oft hath that pale Messenger of Death Been threatning to take away thy breath And sleeps thou yet poor soul O hear the noi● Of God in Judgment whose tempestuous Voy● Once shook the Earth If thou 'lt not now awak● E're long he will both Earth and Heaven shake Then will it be Tempestuous round about him Then woe to them that now do live without hi● This Tempest now is sounding in thine Ears And canst thou sleep with Jonah free from fears Awake poor drowsie Soul at last bethink the● Or else thine own Iniquity will sink thee Rouse up rouse up ply thy Pump my Sou● My Vessel leaks waters has fill'd it Hould Empty thy self my soul of all vain pleasure If ever thou intend to save that treasure Thy precious soul I mean that is more worth Than all the fading Treasures of the Earth Sea-men in Storms they must be sure to mind Their Sails or else some cross contrary wind May sink and over-set they may be driven On Rocks or Sands so you that sail for Heave● fil● Mind your Affections labor to be skill'd In these your Sails and know with what they ● with vain Pleasures thy affections be ●ill'd full they 'l sink thee to Eternity ●ut if with holy breathings then no Storm ●an be so strong to do thee any harm ●torms drive thee faster to thy wished Shore ●here thou shalt never meet with Tempest more 7. How doth each Marriner while he takes care ●or the preserving of his own affair ●mprove his pains alike for all the Crew ●he safety of the whole is in his view ●f that provision any person makes ●o save his private Cabbin all partakes ●ach one's concern is so with others mixt ●hat it doth make a harmony betwixt ●hat little Common-wealth O then what cause ●ast thou my Soul to slight the Sacred Laws ●hich God hath in his Holy word made known ●hat is to make anothers case thine own When thou art seeking for thy own Salvation ●emember O my Soul the whole Creation ●od hath to man an Universal Love ●nd would have none to Perish Let this move ●y heart to pitty every one that I ●e walking in their own Iniquity ●et me in using of my best indeavour ●o save my soul from perishing for ever ●hink with thy self my soul 't will not suffice ●hat thou art sav'd alone thou must likewise By Life and Doctrin or what-ever may Seek to put others also in the way To save themselves My Soul thou canst not b● Rightly indeavouring thy self to free From Death's eternal Soul-amazing snare But others of thy labours will have share When wicked men behold thy good behaviour It makes