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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81874	The spiritual sea-man: or, A manual for mariners. Being a short tract, comprehending the principal heades of Christian religion: handled in an allusion to the sea-mans compass and observations: which was first drawn up at sea, and fitted for the service of sea-men; yet such as may serve all Christians to help them in their passage over the troublesome sea of this world. / By John Durant preacher of the Gospel, and sometimes in the Navy.	Durant, John, b. 1620.	1654 (1654)	Wing D2681; Thomason E1547_2; ESTC R209458	33,660	105

immediately to the West and its first differenced motion from South is by West Even holy men at and in the height of holiness are by death It 's appointed for all once to dye As sin hath brought death upon all so holiness doth not exempt any I mean death natural 'T is true in a spiritual divine sence Saints do not shall not cannot dye but in a literal humane sense even the highest Saints that have come up to highest degrees of Sanctity have and must drink of deaths cup and it 's much for the advance and strengthening of holiness in our hearts to see our selves alwayes stepping towards the grave going to set in the point or place of death 3. See that sin S.S.W. which is the sting of death as taken out and away by Christ if ever you expect to dye in peace Often minde and think upon that Scripture 1 Cor. 15.55 56. And search thy soul to see whether upon good ground thou canst say O death where is thy sting It 's not sword or plague or devouring monsters at Sea or land which can make death stinging if the soul can see the blood of Jesus to have cleansed it from all it's sins Death onely stings with poison and pain such as live and dye in their sins But to souls who are true believers who are washed with the blood of Jesus death is a Bee having much hony but no sting at all 4. Store up wisely some provisions every day for your dying day S.W. Dying men need cordials and so do dying Christians search and lay up promises study and store up experiences How will you be able to see sin as gone except you be well acquainted with sin-pardoning promises and except you have eye-divine experiences Mark how and by what God at any time speaks peace to your soul in the blood of Jesus Treasure up every hint and intimation of Grace and Glory which at any Sermon in any duty upon or after any eminent danger and deliverance which thou hast had What reviving comforts what conscience-cordials unto a dying soul are the remembrances of such and such discoveries and tasts of God at such and such a time Verily the experiences of our life are often choice refreshings in or at our death 5. Set worldly sayings and things under your feet before death come to look you in the face S.W. by S. It 's the world and the things of it which next to sin make death bitter we therefore fear to dye because we are loath to leave the world houses bonds relation c. make the thoughts of death dreadful whereas were we weaned from those we should with much ease and quiet of minde be willing to go down to the grave 6. Still and stand wait as upon your watch with loins girded and lamps trimmed up Be not so mad as the foolish virgins to have a lamp without oile nor so foolish as the wise were to slumber and let your lamps be untrimmed but see your lamp be ready your oile prepared you your selves as wise waking watchful ready servants who upon any call or knock can go out to open to your Lord and to meet your bridegroom study Christs words Luk. 12.35 36 37. 7. Seriously weight soul works S.W. by S. and all in the balance of the Sanctuary lest when thou come to be weighed at the night of death thou be found to have deceived thy self and be too light It will be a dreadful word if be said to thee in the night thou art to dye as it was said to Belshazzar in his thou art weighed and found too light judge thy self by Gods weights his weights are internals sincerities Christs righteousness but words weigh nothing with God pretences semblances are too light with him all mans righteousness in his balance weigh not as the dust of the balance God loves truth in the inward parts and they alone hold weight in his soul that are found in his sons robes 8. Wind thy soul about Christs neck W. by S. and so thou mayest dye in by S. peace Simeon with Christ in his arms could sing and dye Luk. 2.29 Though the Papists hang about a Crucifix as many of them have done yet I am confident it hath been rather a hindrance then a help to them Superstition cannot be a solid comfort yet Christ embraced by faith and hugged with delight makes death very pleasant The Sun never set clearer in the fairest evening when in came to it 's Western point then the soul can and doth when it lies down with Christ in his arms and goes with him as it were in his bosom to his buriall Chap. VII The last quarter of a Christians practice according to his Compass I Have thus run over three quarters of my Compass I must now finish the fourth yet I desire my Reader to stay and to proceed no further till he hath well learnt the former The points of our Christian Compass are not so soon learnt as our Sea-Compass is But yet to finish this I shall mention and pray mind well these eight points of our last quarter 1. Whatsoever thy condition be in this world W. eye God as the disposer of it and therein be contented Philip. 4.11 The turbulent Sea is not so restless as the discontented minde of man Man under discontent foams and rages and casts up nothing but mire and filth whereas the contented soul sails alwayes as in smooth waters and makes all fair weather within even then when it is foulest without Did discontented souls but know and remember how much they dishonour God by not resting in that which his providence brings upon them and how great enemies they are to themselves in fretting against or under that which they cannot help they would then wholly cease from their discontent and strive to rest in the will of God A contented minde may well be called and counted a kingdom for it hath much of the kingdome of God in it Certainly godliness with content is great gain 2. Walk not according to the course of the most W. by N. but after the example of the best The most are the worst and the best are alwayes the fewest the broad way of the multitude leads to death whereas the narrow of the few that walk wifely leads to life Indeed it 's not easie to finde out the narrow path of life and peace The broad way of death is open and obvious to every eye as the vast ●●ean is to every one at Sea but the narrow way like the chanel at the end or entrance of some Isle as it 's with ours in the West is hard to be discerned and to finde out It 's thy wisdom to study to know exactly the narrow way which the fewest finde in which thou mayest safely arrive the Haven of happiness and not to rowle up and down the broad Sea of the wide world with the multitude and so perish without any comfort

us through the spirit It 's the spirit alone who can anoint our eyes to see and behold this so 1 Cor. 2.9 10 c. It 's the spirit who uniteth us to Christ 1 Cor. 6.17 It 's the spirit who doth fit us for and bring us to Jesus Christ Iohn 16.8 9 c. 4. The way of the spirit uniting us to Christ is by an act of power on his part and by an act of faith on our part The spirit uses no other grace either to fasten Christ on us or us to Christ but Faith Believing is the all and the onely means of having Christ Others things may predispose but faith alone takes hold of and intitles us to Christ Other graces will follow but not as things joyning us to Christ but as fruits of our being united unto Jesus Christ Ioh. 3.16 last 5.29 Eph. 3.17 Ioh. 1.12 13. with others As Christ is the onely foundation so these things are fundamentally necessary to be known of him Now concerning our next point viz. Holiness which is our South I would fain possess my self and others with these four principles about it 1. That whoever is in Christ is a new creature 2 Cor. 5.17 which new creature is renewed in holiness Ephes 4.24 Although Christ in free grace takes sinners when sinners yet he leaves them not so but makes them Saints or Sanctified ones 1 Cor. 6.11 This know Though the unholyest soul may have Christ yet none but the holy soul can truely say I have Christ 2. Holiness is the souls highest lustre it s the Sun in the South at the highest The holy soul is in the right and full aspect of God as South is towards the North. God is and surely we are when we are holy glorious in holiness Exod. 15.11 3. Holiness is Christ filling the soul As the Sun which passeth from East to South is highest in the South so Jesus Christ is at his highest in the heart when the heart is most holy A soul in the hight of holiness hath Christ in the hight in him 4. This holiness is that which is directly opposite to sine As the clearest light is to the greatest darkness so is holiness to sin Sin Eclipses holiness and holiness scatters sin Holy and undefiled are all one in Scripture they are parallel expressions of one and the same thing Heb. 7.26 Phil. 2.15 2 Pet. 3.11 14. Our last principal point is the West that is our night-point our death-principle And certainly it 's necessary for us to know something of death Moses propounded the thought and fight of death to Israel as well as life Now with reference to death take four principles 1. Death is certain There is none that liveth and shall not see death It 's the certain wages of sin men do but deceive themselves when they put off the thoughts for all must dye the Sun of our life will set in death when our dayes come about to this Western point it will be night Heb. 9.27 Psal 49.7 9. 2. If we dye in our sins out of Christ we are undone for ever Joh. 8.24 Miserable are the wisest the richest the greatest of men who cannot dye with Christ in their arms As to dye in Christ is gaine So out of Christ it's loss yea the greatest loss Philip. 1.21 3. Death as but the souls or rather the bodies night The setting Sun will rise again it 's our benighting to dye but it 's not our annihilating All even the worst shall rise again and be brought to appear before Jesus Christ As the Sun which sets in the West shall rise in the East So they that go hence by death shall rise by Christ 1 Cor. 15. Apoc. 20.12 4. After death comes judgement Men that dye shall arise to be judged either for life or death the second time Good men shall arise to life wicked men to death Heb. 9.27 Mat. 25. Do not slight this truth for it 's a principle in Religion Heb. 6.2 These are things all of them very necessary to be known As necessary as the four points in the Compass so necessary are these four heads and the particulars under them to be known I shall not pass from this without and addition of some other things from the connexion of these points in our Christian Compass 1. From North-point we pass to the East God passeth forth to the world by Christ He comes onely down to us by his Son No man cometh to God but by him Joh. 14.6 And as soon as we have thought of God it becomes us to pass on in our thoughts to Christ For God out of Christ is no lightsome nor cheering thought God out of Christ is a consuming fire 2. From East we proceed to South And indeed as Christ cometh into and advances upon the South so holiness appears even as the Sun doth as it riseth Southward Christs passage in the soul is in the Southern line of holiness 3. From South we come to West Even the most Southern sanctified Saints that are must pass on to death Holiness fits for but frees not from death The warmth of Southern heat i.e. holiness will enable us to bear the cold of death the better but yet dye we must our holiness will not keep us from it To the West we must there the grave and night of death waits for us all there our Sun must set and our dayes end 4. From the West we come to the North again and indeed so it is When we dye we return to God The Spirit of every one returns to God Eccles 12.7 onely some go to him as a Judge others as to a Father Having looked upon the points of our Compass in their ordinary connexion consider it again in its opposition And remembring still our North point is God our East Christ our South Holiness and our West death then consider and remember those things as worthy our nothing and knowing 1. God and holiness are things not to be served God looks not on any thing in a direct line of approbation but upon holiness Holiness brings the soul into a right light of aspect and communion with God 2. Even Christ himself as coming into the world for us must dye As the Sun which rises in the East must set in the West And indeed that Christ whose rising star was first seen in the East of Jerusalem Did set upon the West when he dyed upon the Cross on Calvary which was on the West of the Holy City The first of these things noted and known will teach us to labor and to press after holiness to perfect it in the fear and love of God for without it none shall fee God The 2. of these remembred will sweeten death unto us for why should we fear to follow Christ Sith he hath tasted of death before us and for us why should we be so loath to dye To help your ey and thereby to fix these things the better look upon the following Compass as