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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

houses it went out for want of matter but here the breath of the Lord like a stream of brimstone kindles it The pleasure was quickly gone but the sting and torment abide for ever Who knoweth the power of his anger Even according to his fear so is his wrath Psal. 90. 11. Oh consider how will his Almighty Power rack and torment thee Think on this when sin comes with a smiling face towards thee in the temptation Oh think If the humane nature of Christ recoyled when his cup of Wrath was given him to drink if he were fore amazed at it how shalt thou a poor worm bear and grapple with it for ever Arg. 9. Consider further how closely soever thou carriest thy wickedness in this world tho it should never be discovered here yet there is a day coming when all will out and that before Angels and men God will rip up thy secret sins in the face of that great Congregation at the day of judgment then that which was done in secret shall be proclaimed as upon the house-top Luke 12. 3. Then God will judge the secrets of men Rom. 2. 16. the hidden things of darkness will be brought into the open light Sinner there will be no sculking for thee in the Grave no declining this Bar thou refusedst indeed to come to the Throne of Grace when God invited thee but there will be no refusing to appear before the Bar of Iustice when Christ shall summon thee And as thou canst not decline appearance so neither canst thou then palliate and hide thy wickedness any longer for then shall the Books be opened the Book of God's Omniscience and the Book of thine own Conscience wherein all thy secret Villany is recorded for though it ceased to speak to thee yet it ceased not to write and record thy actions If thy shameful sins should be divulged now it would make thee tear off thy hair in indignation but then all will be discovered Angels and men shall point at thee and say Lo this is the Man this is he that carried it so smoothly in in the world Mr. Thomas Fuller relates a story of Ottocar King of Bohemia who refusing to do his homage to Rodolphus the first Emperour being at last sorely chastised with war condescended to do him homage privately in a Tent but the Tent was so contrived by the Emperours Servants saith the Historian that by drawing one cord it was all taken away and so Ottocar presented on his knees doing Homage to the Emperour in the view of three Armies O Sirs you think to carry it closely you wait for the Twilight that none may see you but alas it will be to no end this day will discover it and then what confusion and everlasting shame will cover thee Will not this work then Arg. 10. Lastly consider but one thing more and I have done By this sin thou dost not only damn thine own soul but drawest another to hell with thee This sin is not as a single bullet that kills but one but as a chain-shot it kills many two at least unless God give repentance And if he should give thee repentance yet the other party may never repent and so perish for ever through thy wickedness and oh what a sad consideration will that be to thee that such a poor soul is in Hell or likely to go thither by thy means Thou hast made fast a snare upon a Soul which now thou canst not untie thou hast done that which may be matter of sorrow to thee as long as thou livest but though thou canst grieve for it thou canst not remedy it In other sins it is not so If thou hadst stoll'n anothers Goods restitution might be made to the injured party but here can be none If thou hadst murthered another thy sin was thine own not his that was murthered by thee but this is a complicated sin defiling both at once and if neither repent then oh what a sad greeting will these poor wretches have in hell● h●w will they curse the day that ever they saw each others face Oh what an aggravation of their misery will this be For look as it will be matter of joy in Heaven to behold such there as we have been instrumental to save so must it needs be a stinging aggravation of the misery of the damned to look upon those that have been the instruments and means of their damnation Oh methinks if there be any tenderness at all in thy Conscience if this sin have not totally brawned and stupified thee these Arguments should pierce like a sword through thy Guilty Soul Reader I beseech thee by the mercies of God if thou hast defiled thy Soul by this abominable sin speedily to repent Oh get the blood of sprinkling upon thee there is yet mercy for such a wretch as thou art if thou wilt accept the terms of it Such were some of you but you are washed 1 Cor. 6. 11. Publicans and Harlots may enter into the Kingdom of God Matth. 21. 31. Though but few such are recovered yet how knowest thou but the hand of mercy may pull thee as a brand out of the fire if now thou wilt return and seek it with tears Though it be a fire that consumeth unto destruction as Iob calls it Iob 1. 12. yet it is not an unquenchable fire the blood of Christ can quench it And for you whom God hath kept hitherto from the contagion of it O bless the Lord and use all Gods means for the prevention of it The seeds of this sin are in thy nature no thank to thee but restraining grace that thou art not delivered up to it also And that thou mayest be kept out of this Pit conscionably practice these few Directions Direct 1. Beg of God a clean heart renewed and sanctified by saving grace all other endeavours do but palliate a cure the root of this is deep in thy nature Oh get that mortified Matth. 15. 9. Out of the heart proceed fornication adulteries 1 Pet. 2. 11 12. Abstain from fleshly lust having your Conversation honest The lust must first be subdued before the conversation can be honest Direct 2. Walk in the fear of God all the day long and in the sense of his Omniscient eye that is ever upon thee This kept Ioseph from this sin Gen 39. 9. How can I do this wickedness and sin agains● God Consider the darkness hideth not from him but shineth as the light If thou couldst find a place where the eye of God could not discover thee it were somewhat Thou darest not to act this wickedness in the presence of a Child and wilt thou adventure to commit it before the face of God See that Argument Prov. 5. 20 And why wilt thou my Son be ravisht with a strange woman and embrace the bosome of a stranger For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord and he pondereth all his goings Direct 3. Avoid lewd Company and the Society of unclean

all Process at Law or from the Law is stopt Rom. 8. 1. But if thou be an impenitent persisting sinner thy debt remains upon thine own score And be sure thy sin will find thee out where-ever thou goest Num. 32. 23. i. e. God's revenging hand for sin will be upon thee Thou maist lose the sight and memory of thy sin but they lose not the sight of thee they follow after as the Hound doth the fleeting game upon the scent till they have fetcht thee up And then consider How fearful a thing it is to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 10. 31. How soon may a storm arrest and bring thee before the Bar of God REFLECTION O my Soul what a case art thou in if this be so Are not all thy sins yet upon thine own score Hast not thou mane light of Christ and that precious Blood of his and hitherto persisted in thy Rebellion against him And what can the issue of this be at last but ruine There is abundant mercy indeed for returning sinners but the Gospel speaks of none for persisting and impenitent sinners And though many who are going on in their sins are overtaken by Grace yet there is no Grace promised to such as go on in sin O if God should arrest me by the next Storm and call me to an account for all that I owe him I must then lie in the Prison of Hell to all Eternity for I can never pay the debt nay all the Angels in Heaven cannot satisfie for it Being Christless I am under all the Curses in the Book of God a Child of Hagar Lord pity and spare me a little longer O discover thy Christ unto me and give me Faith in his Blood and then thou art fully satisfied at once and I discharged for ever O require not the debt at my hand for then thou wilt never be satisfied nor I acquitted What profit Lord is there in my Blood O my soul make hast to this Christ thy Refuge-City thou knowest not how soon the avenger of Blood may overtake thee THE POEM Thy sins are debts God puts them to account Canst tell poor wretch to what thy debts amount Thou fill'st the treasure of thy sins each hour Into his Vials God doth also pour Proportionable wrath Thou seest it not But yet assure thy self there 's drop for drop For every Sand of Patience running out A drop of Wrath runs in Soul look about God's Treasure 's almost full as well as thine When both are full O then the dreadful time Of Reckoning comes thou shalt not gain a day Of patience more but then there hastes away Heaven's Pursivant who comes upon the wing With his Commission seal'd to take and bring Do'st still reject Christ's tenders Well next storm May be the Bailiff ordered to perform This dreadful office O then restless be Till God in Christ be reconcil'd to thee The Sum is great but if a Christ thou get Fear not a Prince can pay a Beggar 's debt Now if the Storm should rise thou need not fear Thou art but the Delinquent is not there A pardoned Soul to Sea may boldly go He fears not Bailiffs that doth nothing owe. CHAP. XIX To save the Ship rich Ladings cast away Thy Soul is Shipwrackt if thy Lusts do stay OBSERVATION IN Storms and Distresses at Sea the Richest Commodities are cast over-board they stand not upon it when Life and all is in jeopardy and hazard Ionah 1. 5. The Mariners cast forth the Wares that were in the Ship into the Sea to lighten it And Act. 27. 18 19. they cast out the very tacklings of the Ship How highly soever Men prize such Commodities yet reason tells them It were better these should perish than Life Satan himself could say Job 1. Skin for skin and all that a Man hath will he give for his Life APPLICATION And surely it is every way as highly reasonable that Men should mortifie cast out and cut off their dearest Lusts rather than their Immortal Souls should sink and perish in the Storm of God's wrath Life indeed is a precious Treasure and highly valued by Men You know what Solomon saith Eccles. 9. 4. That a Living Dog is better than a Dead Lion And we find Men willing to part with their Estates Limbs or any outward Comfort for the preservation of it The Woman in the Gospel spent all she had on the Physicians for her Health a degree below Life Some Men indeed do much over-value their Lives and part with Christ and Peace of Conscience for it but he that thus saves it shall lose it Now if Life be so much worth What then is the Soul worth Alas Life is but a vapour which appeareth for a little while and then vanisheth away Jam. 4. 14. Life indeed is more worth than all the World but my Soul is more worth than Ten thousand Lives Nature teacheth you to value the first so high and Grace should teach you to value the second much higher Mat. 19. 26. Now here is the case Either you must part with your Sins or with your Souls if these be not cast out both must sink together If ye live after the fl●sh ye must die Rom. 8. 13. God saith to you in this case as to Ahab when he spared Benhadad 1 King 20. 40. Because thou hast let go a Sin which God hath appointed to destruction therefore thy Life shall go for his Life Guilt will raise a Storm of Wrath as Ionah did if not cast out REFLECTION And must Sin or the Soul perish Must my Life yea my Eternal Life go for it if I spare it O then let me not be cruel to mine own Soul in sparing my Sin O my Soul this foolish pity and cruel Indulgence will be thy ruine If I spare it God hath said He will not spare me Deut. 26. 20. It is true the pains of Mortification are sharp but yet it 's easier than the pains of Hell To cut off a right hand or pluck out a right eye is hard but to have my Soul cut off eternally from God is harder Is it as easie O my Soul to burn for them in Hell as to Mortifie them on Earth Surely it is profitable for me that one member perish rather than that all be cast into Hell Mat. 5. 24. I see the Merchant willing to part with rich Wares if embarqued with them in a Storm And those that have Gangreen'd Legs or Arms willingly stretch them out to be cut off to preserve Life And shall I be willing to endure no difficulties for my Soul Christ reckon'd Souls worth his Blood And is it not worth my Self-denyal Lord let me not warm a Snake in my Bosom that will at last sting me to the heart THE POEM Thy Soul 's the Ship its Lading is its Lusts God's Iudgments stormy Winds and dang'rous gusts Conscience the Master but the stubborn Will Goes Supra Cargo and doth keep the Bill Affections are the Men

the VVinds do rise The Storm increases Conscience gives Advice To throw those Lusts o're-board and so to ease The Vessel which else cannot keep the Seas The VVill opposes and th' Affections say The Master's Counsel they will not obey The case is dangerous that no man can doubt Who sees the storm within and that without Lusts and Affections cannot part no rather They are resolv'd to swim or sink together Conscience still strives but they cannot abide That it or Reason should the Case decide Lust knows what Reason in like cases still Determines well Then chuse ye whom ye will Shall 's make the Devil Iudge This case has been Before him and he judg'd That skin for skin And all men have they 'll part with for their life Then how unreasonable is this strife They that their sins do with their persons ship Do for their Souls prepare a dreadful whip CHAP. XX. Christ with a word can surging Waves appease His Voice a troubled Soul can quickly ease OBSERVATION WHen the Sea works and is tempestuous it is not in the power of any Creature to appease it When the Egyptians would by their Hieroglyphicks express an Impossibility they did it by the Picture of a Man treading upon the Waves It is storied of Canute an ancient Danish King That when a mighty storm of Flattery arose upon him he appeased it by shewing that he could not appease the Sea But one of his Courtiers told him as he rode near the Sea-side That he was Lord of the Sea as well as Land Well said the King we shall see that by and by and so went to the Water-side and with a loud Voice cried O ye Seas and Waves come no further touch not my feet But the Sea came up notwithstanding that charge and confuted the flattery But now Jesus Christ hath the command of them indeed It is said of him Mat. 8. 26. That he rebuked them And Mark 4. 38. He quiets them with a word Peace be still as one would hush a Child and it obeyed him APPLICATION Conscience when awakened by the terrors of the Lord is like a raging tempestuous Sea so it works so it roars and it is not in the power of all the Creatures to hush or quiet it Spiritual Terrors as well as spiritual Consolations are not known till felt O when the Arrows of the Almighty are shot into the Spirit and the Terrors of God set themselves in array against the Soul when the Venome of those Arrows drink up the Spirits and those Armies of Terrours charge violently and successively upon it as Iob 6. 4. What Creature then is able to stand before them Even God's own dear Children have felt such Terrours as have distracted them Psal. 81. 15. Conscience is the seat of Guilt It is like a Burning-glass so it contracts the Beams of the Threatnings twists them together and reflects them on the Soul until it smoke scorch and flame If the wrath of a King be like the roaring of a Lion then what is the Almighties wrath which is burning wrath Job 19. 11. Tearing wrath Psal. 50. 22. Surprizing wrath Job 20. 23. And abiding wrath Job 3. 36. In this case no Creature can relieve all are Physicians of no value some under these terrors have thought Hell more tolerable and by a violent hand have thrust themselves out of the World into it to avoid these gnawings Yet jesus Christ can quickly calm these mystical Waves also and hush them with a word yea he is the Physician and no-other It is the sprinkling of his Blood which like a cooling Fomentation allays those heats within That Blood of sprinkling speaks Peace when all other have practised upon the Soul to no purpose and the reason is because he is a Person in whom God and Man Justice and Mercy meet and kiss each other Eph. 2. 14. And hence Faith fetches in peace to the Soul Rom. 5. 1. REFLECTION Can none appease a troubled Conscience but Christ Then learn O my Soul to understand and daily more and more to savour that glorious Name even Jesus that delivers not only from the wrath to come but that which is felt here also Oh if the foretaste of Hell be so intolerable if a few drops let fall on the Conscience in this life be so scalding and insufferable what is it to have all the Vials poured out to Eternity when there shall be nothing to divert mitigate or allay it Here men have somewhat to abate those Terrours some hopes of Mercy at least a possibility but there is none O my Soul how art thou loaded with Guilt And what a Magormissabib wouldst thou be should God rouze that sleepy Lion in thy bosom My condition is not at all the better because my Conscience is quiet Ah the day is coming when it must awake and will lighten and thunder terribly within me if I get not into Christ the sooner O Lord who knows the power of thy wrath O let me not carry this guilt out of the World with me to maintain those everlasting flames let me give no sleep to mine eyes nor slumber to my eye-lids till I feel the comfort of that Blood of Sprinkling which alone speaketh Peace THE POEM Amongst the dreadful works of God I find No Metaphors to paint a troubled Mind I think on this now that and yet will neither Come fully up though all be put together 'T is like the raging Sea that casts up mire Or like to Aetna brea●hing smoke and fire Or like a rouzed Lion fierce and fell Or like those Furies that do howl in Hell O Conscience Who can stand before thy power Endure thy gripes and twinges but an hour Stone Gout Strapado Racks whatever is Dreadful to Sense is but a toy to this No Pleasures Riches Honours Friends can tell How to give ease in this 't is like to Hell Call for the pleasant Tymbrel Lute and Harp Alas The Musick howls the pain 's too sharp For these to charm divert or lull asleep These cannot reach it no the wound 's too deep Let all the Promises before him stand And set a Barnabas at his right hand These in themselves no comfort can afford 'T is Christ and none but Christ can speak the word And he no sooner speaks but all is still The storm is over and the mind tranquil There goes a power with his Majestick Voice To hush the dreadful'st storm and still its noise Who would but fear and love this glorious Lord That can rebuke such Tempests with a VVord CHAP. XXI Our Food out of the Sea God doth command Yet few therein take notice of his hand OBTERVATION THE Providence of God in furnishing us with such plenty and variety of Fish is not slightly to be past over We have not only several sorts of Fish in our own Seas which are caught in their Seasons but from several parts especially the Western parts of England many Sail of Ships are sent yearly to the