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 â—â—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
an Epitome of this part of our discourse NORTH God is Good Knowen Spirit SOUTH Holines It 's the new Creature The Soules lustre Christ at heigh't in vs Is at Enmitie with sin EAST Christ The light of God The Reconsiler to God Injoyed by the Spirit by faith WEST Death In it selfe Certaine out of Christ sad shall haue a ' Resurrection brings to Judgment J fecit CHAP. IV. The things or duties necessary to be done by Christians reduced to as many practical rules as there are points in the Compass LEt us pass now from the speculative part of our Christian Compass in which we have seen the grand principles which are necessary to be known unto the practical part thereof and see what are the duties or the things which we ought to do in order to the arrival to our happiness And here I shall keep me to my Compass and mention as many points for practise as there are noted in our Compass which are thirty two And for a help to memory I shall begin each point with the initial known letters on the points of our Compass Our first point is North which is thus cut out ito its eight points 1. Never stir or steer any course but by light from God N. Let the Scriptures which are Gods word be thy North star This is the original cause of all our misery and miscarriage that we make not Gods commandment our Compass Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my paths said David Psal 119.105 To the law and to the Testimony saith Christ by the prophet Isa 8.10 They are the Scriptures which can make us wise unto salvation I do no more wonder to see men split on the rocks of error or sunk in the sands of sin who cast off or neglect the Scriptures then I do to see a man make shipwrack who wants or useth not his Compass 2. Never Enter upon any designe but such as tends towards Christ N. by E. Let Christ be the rising Sun which thy soul doth alwayes worship While other men run from West to East to gaine riches do thou lance forth in no bottom or business which will not further thee in thy knowledge and enjoyment of Christ Christ is next to God and the word of God principally and primarily points at him to him gave all the prophets witness Act. 10.43 3. Note Nothing enviously which thrives without God N.N.E. Indeed nothing can thrive truely without God though sometimes the wicked who want him do seem to prosper And it 's a great remorse to a poor afflicted Saint to see the prosperitie of the wicked It made the Psalmist once think his voyage Heaven-ward was in vain Psal 73.12 13. But remember not to envy because of the prosperity of the wicked Psal 37. They make a poor voyage that sail with never so fair a wind or never so smooth a sea and yet traffick for nothing but sand or pebles He that trades for Jewels need not envy such at all Though he have foul weather and rough seas yet his traffick will make amends for all Many miscarry for not eying this point of the Compass therefore minde it Note nothing enviously which thrives or seems to prosper without God 4. Never enter upon unwarrantable courses to procure any the most prized or conceited advantage N.E. Many a soul is cast away and sunk in eternal perdition by venturing upon unlawful and not-warrantable designes to advance or inrich it self 1 Tim. 6.9 10. What got Achan by his wedge of Gold Josh 7. What got Gehazi by the talent of silver and changes of raiments 2 Kings 5. Nay what shall it profit a man to get all the world and lose his soul Any thing got in or by a non-warranted way may and will undo the soul though it may please or profit the body 5. Now entertaine the noble commands of God N.E. by N. if hereafter thou expect the soveraign consolations of God Many are willing to have comfort who care not for command My hands will I lift up to thy commandments which I have loved And I will meditate in thy statutes Psal 119.48 Many a soul is ready to lift up his hand to take a comfort which will not stretch it forth or lift it up to take a command But in vain shall you cry for or expect Gods comforts in a storm if you neglect his commands in a calme You who swear and drink and drab ashore or in a calme How can you expect God should hear you in a tempest Meditate upon that place Prov. 1.24 25 26. 6. Esteem not Egypts treasures in comparison of the afflictions of Gods people E. N.E. Heb. 11.26 In this imitate Moses rather to chuse to suffer persecution disgrace c. with the godly then to enjoy the pleasures of sin or to live at ease with the wicked Better is it to go though a very boisterous voyage in a poor vessel with men then to lye upon the shore though in a brave country with wilde beasts Better to go to heaven through many tempests and with much hardship and fear then to swim to hell with full sails and a fair gale of pleasures and honors 7. Err not especially in soul-affairs N.E. by E. Jam. 1.16 Errors in corporal affaires are not so dangerous as in soul-affaires That soul which errs in faith in love in holiness c. makes the worst of shipwracks remember those floating maches I mean Hymeneus Alexander and Philetus 1 Tim. 1.19 20. 2 Tim. 2.18 Erroneous persons are but bad Pilots And he that errs in the matters of his soul will make but a hard voyage though at last his ship come into the Haven safe Their salvation will be as through fire 1 Cor. 3.15 8. Eschew nothing but sin E. by N. He that will ever do good upon a soul-voyage must fear nothing but sin 1 Pet. 3.11 Job was a good steersman who eschewed nothing but what was evil Job 1.7 8. He did not fear a great multitude neither did the contempt of family terrifie him Job 31.39 Men that will be spiritual sailors must fear no wind or weather sin only sin that because it provokes God is to be feared It 's not a whistling mast not a ratling pumpe not a Lee-shore not a sinking or leakie ship but sin which alone can hazard our soul He that fears and flies from sin shall never need fear to sink CHAP. V. The second sort of duties being the second quarter of the practical Compass WE have passed through the first quarter of our Compass and all the rules in it are negative When therefore you come upon the breaking of or neer to transgress any of them think you heard Christ saying Beware come no neerer I shall now proceed unto our next quarter our Eastern and then also give forth eight points Beginning each with the cardinal letters 1. Establish thy heart with grace
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
albeit with many companions 3. Weigh Not what men speak or think of thee W.N.W. so God approve thee Not he who commendeth himself is approved but whom the Lord commendeth 2. Cor. 10.18 Neither is he a Jew which is one outwardly neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh but he is a Jew which is one inwardly and circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit and not in the letter whose praise is not of men but of God Rom. 2.28 29. It 's the madness and misery of many they minde man more then God and so they may be well repute of and reported by men they are not conscientious not careful of their carriage towards God But be not deceived God is not mocked he knoweth what is in men and at the last day we shall be judged according to Gods law and not according to mans judgement And he that studies to approve himself to God will be see to have been the wisest in that day 4. Never winke at small sin N.W. nor neglect little duties Indeed no command of the great God is little nor is any sin against him little But comparatively we say and that aright that some sins and duties are small An idle word is a small sin in comparison of an oath and profession is a little duty if compared with doing or suffering for the name of Christ Yet beware of little things in Religion A small leak if neglected may sink a ship And a little negligence in looking out at Sea may indanger all unawares walk therefore circumspectly Eph. 5.15 Steer to a hairs breadth in duty and flie from the appearance of evil make conscience of the smallest duty to do it and of the least sin to avoid it 5. Never wish wantonly or rashly for death N.W. by W. nor love life too inordinately Call not for death before it's time neither hanker thou after life when thy time of death is come Jonah did evil to wish to dye Jon. 4.3 Men in a pet under a pain upon some cross or trouble are too apt to cry out O that they were dead Poor souls they know not what they say Are they fit for that which they forwardly wish for What if death should come at a wish would not they cry out Lord take it away Beware therefore of this distemper Thy times are in Gods hand he hath numbered them Neither substract nor add unto Gods number if God will have them many do not wish them few and if God will have them short do not desire them long Consider he is wise and good and supreme and knows what is best neither can any resist his will to lengthen or diminish the dayes which he hath determined us O learn to live and to dye in his will 6. Now Work wisely ere Night come N.W. by N. while you have the light life walk in it before the night comes when none can work Joh. 12.35 36. Defer not nor put off the great things of eternal life unto the uncertain time of thy natural death How many are gone down to the place of the second death by putting off repentance and faith c. till their death Remember therefore the wise counsel of Solomon Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it defer not stay not but do it with thy might for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest Eccl. 9.10 The soul who puts off his great work till the last may dye ere he hath begun to do that which he can never sufficiently do should he work all his dayes Take the present time for every work which God by his Word Spirit Providence or any other way doth call thee unto 7. Name Nothing when thou pleadest with God for thy soul N.N.W. but Christ and free Grace Prayer is and ought to be thy standing daily work and Christ and free Grace ought to be they constant argument in thy prayers whatever thou wishest or wouldst have of God say as Daniel Do it for the Lords sake Dan. 9.17 Cast thy desires thy hopes thy soul and all upon the merits of a dying Christ and upon the tenders and promises of free Grace In the time of thy life at tho hour of thy death and then when thou shalt be brought to thy tryal after death renounce all things and plead none but Christ Cry pardon Lord justication Lord peace Lord life glory all for thy Christs fake and upon the account of thy free Grace 8. Now wellcome Christ if at death thou wilt be welcomed by Christ N. by W. Entertain Christ in the world if thou wilt be entertained by Christ when thou goest out of the world Many say unto Christ depart now as those Job 21.13 To whom Jesus Christ will say Depart then Observe Christ in every approach and providence to thy soul to the world c. and say Oh welcome Jesus Let the Messengers in preaching of Christ be beautiful even in their face to thee Let the providences and occurrences of the grand changes in the world by which Christ cometh to make way for and to set up his own kingdom let these be dear and welcome to thee Fret not against murmur not under any dispensation in which Christ comes neer to thee or others Welcome Christ in a sickness though sharp in asermon though plain in a providence though terrible In all things in every thing wherein Christ is O bid him welcome now so wil he bid you welcome when you come to dye If you ask where hee 'l bid you welcome Take it in a word Hee 'l bid you welcome to his fathers house and hee 'l carry you into a Mansion which he hath prepared for you in his fathers presence Thus are we come about our compass We have run from North to North in a round From God to Christ from Christ to holiness from holiness to death and by death we are in our Christian circle come about to God againe And thus we have our principal Points in our Sea or Saint-Compass CHAP. VIII The point on which the Christian Compass must turn and the box in which it must be kept I Had thoughts to have passed presently to my first head of spiritual Navigation But I must add a word or two more The occasion is this I perceive my Sea-compass is lifted up upon a point or pin which it turns and runs round upon and there is a box in which it 's kept and stands Hereupon I shall add two words answerable to these two things First for the point upon which our Compass must stand and turn I cannot think of any other but conscience A tender quicke enlightened and inlivened conscience is the onely point upon which we must erect the practical rules of our Christian Compass Minde that therefore Herein imitate that great Pilot Paul Labour alwayes to have a conscience void of offence towards God and man That
use of all in thy spiritual Navigation 11. The ship hath not onely merchandize and treasure in its hold but it carryes force and strength upon its decks Here are instruments of war guns c. to secure from enemies and pirates as well as commodities to traffick withall And surely O my soul it becomes thee to mind the weapons of thy warfare that whole Armor of God which out of the magazine of the Scriptures thou art to be furnished withall There are enemies pirates upon the soul-Sea Men yea and divels of wrath and war that way-lay thee Expect an onset and provide None ever did pass over the Sea of the world but met with pirates Thou must resist and fight yea and that unto blood to secure thy self from being taken or sunk And remember this and look about thee O my soul thou carryest petty pirates within thee that will never fight for thee flesh will not fight against the world and Satan nay which war against thy soul Look to it therefore to watch against those within that thou mayest the better maintaine thy fight without 12. Still by our helme stands the compass that the steersman may alway eye it As soon as his hand is on the helme his eye is on the compass with what exactness and strength doth he hold the helme to steer to a point by that Thus it becomes thee O my poor soul to eye thy compass in all thy stirring steering up and down the world It s not enough to hand and hold the helme to put forth strength to stir do indeed this good against idleness But thou must eye the rule that while thou stirrest it may be within as we say are according to compass Many who are not idle are yet all imployed who though they stirr yet it s not according to compass and it is a thousand to one if they run not aground upon some rock or sand But let the word be in thy hand in thy heart keep it that it may guide thee Remember and retain it O my soul as a certain truth That they make shipwrack of their soul who eye not and steer not according to compass CHAP. XI Here are some occasional meditations to stir up and to direct in this work I Have now almost done onely to these Maritine meditations which I call mixed as being of sundry sorts I shall and twelve more occasional ones drawn from some particular occasion and then I 'le conclude On the Boatswains whistle What a shrill sound doth this whistle make How is it heard both fore and aught above and beneath deck And how ready is every one at the sound thereof Surely there is no vertue in this whistle onely the Seamen know the sound and use thereof and 't is therefore that they are so ready at its call to come Both John and Jesus piped O my soul but the refractory Jews stirred not surely they knew not what that sound meant But shew thy life and skill O my soul and upon any sound of the words whistle stir upon every blast of sacred breath which sounds that sacred silver pipe up and see what it means O let the sound thereof be shrill and powerful on thy heart On a peece of plank floating on the Sea Yonder swims the sad signe of the wrack of some I conclude the sinking of the passenger from the swimming of the plank Blessed Lord Why suffer me to ask it why didst not save some one upon that peece of timber might not that board or broken peece have been as in Pauls case a little ark to save some from drowning by carrying them to shoar But pardon my presumption in this question Yet it may be there wanted a Paul in the vessel to whom thou mightest have given all that did sail therein But why should I so imagine and uncharitably sink them lower who are gone down into the bottom of the great deep Turn in O my soul upon thy self reflect and see what might have befaln thee That plank might have been thy floating tomb or monument that some other passenger might have read on it thy departure by drowning Be not high minded then but fear Admire mercy in preserving thee The same hand that broke that vessel in peeces whereof that plant was can split thee at his pleasure And the next passengers may see he broken peeces of the ship in which thou wert and read a better lecture on them then thou dost on this making better use both of instruction and improvement by example On a Seaman which fell asleep in the shrouds and fell down into the Sea while the Sermon was preaching c. What another Eutychus is here yet ther 's a difference Eutychus in the Acts chap. 20. was asleep in the window and he sunk down from the third loft saith the holy historian but this young man was asleep in the shrowds of a ship and sunk down into the Sea Eutychus was dead with the fall this young man but almost drowned Eutychus had a fairer excuse for his drowziness for it was in the night then this young man who fell asleep at the noon of the day Yet O my soul canst not say this to excuse this young man He had not so holy so rowzing a preacher as Eutychus had Alas how far thou O my soul beneath Paul Well let the young man learn to be less drowzie and be thou more awaking and stirring in preaching Yet tell others O my soul 't is dangerous sleeping in Sermon-time Bid them to look about them to attend to the word of life lest they sleep the sleep of death and sink down from a corporal to a spiritual sleep never to awake till they are row zed up to give an account for that Sermon at which they slept and dyed On a great distraction in the Navy suddenly and safely ended on a Sabbath day 'T was but this morning we received orders to prepare and be in readiness to fight It was indeed in an evil time because it was upon a good day A fight is as well a misery on the Sabbath day as a flight and both are equally to be prayed against Yet necessity hath no law And Joshua's seven dayes compassing about Jericho will be a president for us to lye about those ships in a warlike posture seeing we are put upon it But O my soul what cannot God do He that made Jericho fall at the sound of Rams horns hath male ships give up and yield at the sound of fellow-Seamen exhorting to yeeld to subjection We shall not need I see sometimes to use our guns words can conquer when God will Now I know indeed that the Lord can make wars to cease or as the word is Psal 46.9 Turns war into a Sabbath when a Sabbath might have turned into a war Verily I 'le praise the Lord and sing it s the Lord that stilleth the noise of the Seas the voice of their waves and the tumults of their people