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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

And is it not a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God who hath said He will take vengeance for these things THE POEM Devouring Whales and ravenous Sharks do follow The lesser Fry and at one gulp do swallow Some hundreds of them as our Sea-men say But we can tell far stranger things than they For we have Sharks ashore in every Creek That to devour poor Men do hunt and seek No Pity Sense or Bowels in them be Nay have they not put off Humanity Extortioners and Cheaters whom God hates Have dreadful open Mouths and through those Gates Brave Persons with their Heritages pass In Funeral-state Friends crying out Alas O give me Agur's wish that I may never Be such my self or feel the hands of either And as for those that in their paws are grip'd Pity and rescue Lord from that sad plight When I behold the squeaking Lark that 's born In Falcon's Talons crying bleeding torn I pity its sad case and would relieve The Prisoner if I could as well as grieve Fountain of Pity hear the piteous Moans Of all thy Captive and Oppressed Ones CHAP. XXV In Storms to spread much Sail endangers all So carnal Mirth if God for Mourning call OBSERVATION IN Storms at Sea the wise Navigator will no● spread much Sail that is the way to lose Masts and all They use then to furl up the Sails and lie a Hull when not able to bear a Knot of Sail or else to lie a Try or Scud before the Wind and Seas It is no time then to hoist up the Top and Top-gallant and shew their bravery APPLICATION When the Judgments of God are abroad in the earth it is no time then to make mirth Ezek. 21. 10 11. Should we then make mirth It contemneth the rod of my son as every tree i. e. As if it were a common Rod and ordinary affliction whereas the Rod of my Son is not such as may be had of every Tree but it is an Iron Rod to such as dispise it Psal. 2. 9. O it is a provoking evil and commonly God severely punishes it Of all persons such speed worst in the common calamity Amos 6. 1. VVo to them that are at ease in Sion that are not grieved for the afflictions of Ioseph as ver 4. It may be as one observes upon the Text they did not laugh at him or break Jests upon him but they did not condole with him And what shall be their punishment See vers 7. Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive God will begin with them first Solomon tells us Eccles. 3. 4. There is a time to weep and a time to laugh a time to mourn and a time to dance Only as Master Trap notes upon the Text we must not invert the order but weep with Men that we may laugh with Angels To be merry and frolick in a day of tribulation is to disturb the order of seasons That is a terrible Text Isai. 22. 12. which should make the hearts of such as are guilty in this kind to tremble In that day did the Lord of Hosts call to mourning and to girding with sackcloath and behold joy and gladness slaying Oxen killing Sheep drinking VVine c. Well what is the issue of this Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die O dreadful word Surely my Brethren Sympathy is a debt we owe to Christ Mystical Whatever our Constitution Condition or Personal Immunities be yet when God calls for Mourning we must hear and obey that call David was a King an expert Musician a Man of a sanguine and chearful constitution yet who more sensible of the evil of those times than he Rivers of water ran down his eyes at the consideration of them Melancthon was so affected with the Miseries of the Church in his days that he seemed to take little or no notice of the death of his Child whom he entirely loved At such a time we may say of laughter Thou art mad and of mirth What doth it REFLECTION Blush then O my Soul for thy levity and insensibility under God's angry Dispensations How many of the precious Sons and Daughters of Sion lie in Tears abroad while I have been Nourishing my heart as in a day of slaughter The voice of God hath cried to the City and Men of understanding have heard its voice Mic. 6. 9. But I have been deaf to that cry How loth my God have I been to urge my sensual Heart to acts of Sorrow and Mourning Thou hast bid me weep with them that weep but my vain heart cannot comply with such commands Ah Lord if I mourn not with Sion neither shall I rejoyce with her O were mine eyes opened and my heart sensible and tender I might see cause enough to melt into Tears and like that Christian Niobe Luke 7. 38. to lie weeping at the feet of Christ. Lord What stupidity is this Shall I Laugh when thou art Angry and thy Children weeping and trembling Then I may justly fear lest when they shall sing for joy 〈◊〉 heart I shall howl for vexation of spirit Isai. 65. 13 14. Surely O my Soul such laughter will be turned into mourning either here or hereafter THE POEM In troublous Times Mirth in the Sinners face Is like a Mourning-Cloak with Silver Lace The Lion's roaring makes the Beasts to quake God's roaring Iudgments cannot make us shake What Belluine Contempt is this of God To laugh in 's face when he takes up the Rod Such laughter God in tears will surely drown Vnless he hate thee e're he lay it down These Rods have Voices if thou hear them well If not another Rod's prepar'd in Hell And when the Arm of God shall lay it on Laugh if thou canst no then thy Mirth is gone All Sion's Children will lament and cry When all her beauteous Stones in dust do lie And he that for her then laments and mourns Shall want no joy when God to her returns CHAP. XXVI A little Leak neglected dangerous proves One Sin connived at the Soul undoes OBSERVATION THE smallest Leak if not timely discovered and stopt is enough to sink a Ship of the greatest burden Therefore Sea-men are wont frequently to try what Water is in the Hold and if they find it fresh and increasing upon them they ply the Pump and presently set the Carpenters to search for it and stop it and till it be found they cannot be quiet REFLECTION What such a Leak is to a Ship that is the smallest sin neglected to the Soul it is enough to ruine it 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