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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

be a glorious piece when brought to light CHAP. XXX Millions of Men are sunk into the Main But it shall not those Dead always retain OBSERVATION WHat multitudes of Men hath the Sea devoured Thousands have made their Graves in it What numbers of Men have been ingulfed together in Sea-fights or Storms or Inundations whereby whole Towns have been swallowed up Certainly the dead which are there are innumerable APPLICATION But though the Sea have received so many thousand Bodies of Men into its devouring Throat yet is it not the absolute Lord or Proprietor of them but rather a Steward intrusted with them till the Lord require an account of them and then it must deliver up all it hath received even to a person Revel 20. 11 12. And I saw the Dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and another book was open which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the Books according to their works And the Sea gave up the dead which were in it The Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body is a Doctrine full of singular Consolations to Believers 1 Cor. 15. and most clearly asserted in Scripture Acts 26. 8. Iob 19. 25. 1 Cor. 15 c. And it is well for us this point is so plainly revealed because as it is a most comfortable Truth to the people of God so there is scarce any truth that lies under more prejudice as to Sense or Reason and is more difficult to receive than this is The Epicures and Stoicks laughed Paul to scorn when he preached it to them Acts 17. 32. The Familists and Quakers at this day reject it as a Fable The Socinians say the same Body shall not rise but an aerial Body And indeed if Men set up Reason as the onely Judge of supernatural things it is incredible to think that a Body should be restored that hath been burnt to ashes and those ashes scattered in the wind as History tells us was frequently done by the Bodies of the Saints in Dioclesian's Reign Or when drowned in the Sea and there devoured by several Fishes and those again devoured by others But yet this is not to be objected to the Almighty Power of God that gave them their first being Difficulties and Impossibilities are for Men but not for him Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead Acts 26. 8. REFLECTION And must I rise again where-ever my body fall at death Then Lord how am I concerned to get union with Christ while I live by vertue thereof only my Resurrection can be made comfortable and blessed to me Ah let my body lie where it will in Earth or Sea let my bones be scattered and flesh devoured by Worms or Fish I know thou canst and wilt reunite my scattered parts and in this body I must stand before thine awful Tribunal to receive according to what I have done therein 2 Cor. 5. 10. Thou that commandest me to stand forth amongst the noblest rank of Creatures when I had no being and sawest my Substance being yet imperfect canst as easily reduce me to that Being again What though Reason vote impossible and Sense incredible Though all these Difficulties and Encumbrances grow upon my Faith yet I know my body is not lost for ever the sound of thy last and dreadful Trumpet shall awaken me and thy mighty Power to which all things are possible shall bring me before thy Bar. O Lord I know that I shall stand in that great Assembly at the last day when multitudes multitudes even all the sons and daughters of Adam shall appear together O! if I die Christless it were good for me that there were no Resurrection for then those eyes that have been windows of Lust must behold Christ the Judge not as a Redeemer but as a Revenger That tongue that has vented so much of the filthiness of my heart will then be struck speechless before him and this flesh which I so pamper'd and provided for condemned to everlasting flames O my God let me make sure work for such a day If I now get real union with thy Son I shall awake with singing out of the dust And then as thou saidst to Iacob so to me when I go down into the Sea or Grave Gen. 46. 3 4. Fear not to go down into the deep for I will surely bring thee up again THE POEM It should not seem incredible to thee That God should raise the dead in Seas that be We see in VVinter Swallows VVorms and Flies Depriv'd of Life yet in the Spring they rise What though you Bodies several Fish devour Object not that to the Almighty power Some Chymists in their Art are so exact That from one Herb they usually extract Four different Elements what think ye then Can pose that God who gave this Skill to men The Gard'ner can distinguish thirty kinds Of seeds from one another though he finds Them mixt together in the self-same dish Much more can God distinguish Flesh from Fish They seem as lost but they again must live The Sea 's a Steward and Stewards account must give Look what you are when in the Ocean drown'd The very same at Iudgment you 'll be found I would not care where my vile body lies Were I assur'd it should with comfort rise CHAP. XXXI The Sea-man's greatest danger 's near the Coast VVhen we are nearest Heav'n the danger 's most OBTERVATION THough Sea-men meet with violent Storms yet if they have Sea-room enough they are not much dismaid but if they find themselves near the shoar they look upon their condition as very dangerous The sight of the Shore is to them as Soloman speaks of the Morning in another case like the shadow of death if not able to Weather it For one Ship swallowed up in the Ocean may perish upon the Coast. APPLICATION The greatest Streights and Difficulties that many Saints meet with in all their lives is when they come nearest to Heaven and have almost finished their Course Heaven indeed is a glorious Place the Spacious and Royal Mansion of the great King but difficilia quae pulchra It hath a streight and narrow entrance Luke 13. 24. O the difficulty of arriving there How many hard tugs in Duty What earnest contention and striving even to an Agony as that word imports Luke 13. 24. Multitudes put forth and by profession are bound for this fair Haven but of the multitudes that put out how few do arrive there A man may set out by a glorious profession with much resolution and continue long therein he may offer very fair for it and not be far from the Kingdom of God and yet not be able to enter at the last Matth. 7. 22. Yea and many of those who are sincere in their profession and do arrive at last yet come to Heaven as I may say by the gates of Hell and put in as a

in remote parts far from your Friends and Relations and destitute of all means and accommodations Did you not say in that condition as Hezekiah did in a like case Isai. 38. 10 11 12. I said in the cutting off of my days I shall go to the gates of the grave I am deprived of the residue of my years I said I shall not see the Lord even the Lord in the land of the living I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world Remember thy self man canst not thou call to mind the day when the Arrows of death came whisking by thee and it may be hit those next thee took away those that were as lively and as lusty as thy self when you began your Voyage and yet they were cast for death thou for life and that when there was but an hairs breadth betwixt thee and the grave Tell me Soul What friend was that stood by thee then when thou wast forsaken of all friends When it may be thy Companions stood ready to throw thee over-board Who was it that pitied and remembred thee in thy low estate Who was it that rebuked thy disease of as one very aptly expresses it restrained the humours of thy body from overflowing and drowning thy life for when they are let out in a sickness they would overflow and drown it as the Waters would the earth if God should not say to them Stay you proud waves Who was it man that when thy body was brought low and weak and like a crazy rotten Ship in a storm took in water on all sides so that all the Physitians in the World could not have stopt those Leaks consider what hand was that which quieted and calmed the tempestuous Sea careened and mended thy crazy Body and launched thee into the World again as whole as sound as strong as ever Was it not the Lord that hath done all this for thee Did not he keep back thy Soul from the Pit and thy Life from perishing Yea when thou wast chastened with pain upon thy Bed as Elihu speaks Iob 33. 19 20 21. and the multitude of thy bones with strong pains so that thy life abhorred bread and thy Soul dainty meat thy flesh consumed away that it could not be seen and thy bones that were not seen stuck out yet then as it is vers 28. he delivered thy Soul from going down into the Pit and caused thy Life to see the Light Had the Lamp of life been then extinguisht thou hadst gone into endless Darkness Hell had shut her mouth upon thee Now tell me Soul What hast thou done with this precious mercy Hast thou walked before the Lord in a deep sense thereof and answered his end therein which was to lead thee to Repentance Or hath thy stupid or disingenious heart forgotten it and lost all sense of it so that God's end is frustrated and thy Salvation not a jot furthered thereby O If it be so wo to thee for the blood of this Mercy which thy Ingratitude hath murther'd like the blood of Abel cries to God against thee What a Wretch art thou thus to requite the Lord for such a Mercy He saw thy Tears and heard thy groans and said within himself He shall not die but live Alas poor Creature if I cut him off now he is eternally lost I will send him back a few years more into the World I will try him once more it may be he will bear some fruits to me from this deliverance and if so well if not I will cut him down hereafter He shall be set at liberty upon his Good Behaviour a little longer And is all this nothing in thine eyes Wretch that thou art Dost thou forget and flight such a favour as this Is it worth no more in thine eyes Well it would be worth something in the eyes of the poor Damned Souls if they might have so many years cut out of their Eternity for a meer intermission of their Torments much more as a time of patience and mercy O consider what pity and goodness thou hast abused Quer. 2. Wast thou never cast upon miserable streights and extremities wherein the good Providence of God relieved and supplied thee How many of you have been beaten so long at Sea by reason of contrary winds and other accidents till your Provisions have been even exhausted and spent To how short allowance have you been kept And what a mercy would you have esteemed it if you could but have satisfied Nature with a full draught of Water Certainly this hath been the case of many of you Oh what a price and vallue did you then set upon those common Mercies which at other times have been slightly over-look'd and when you have seen no hopes of relief Have you not looked sadly one upon another and it may be said as that Widow of Zarephtah did to the Prophet 1 King 17. 12. And she said As the Lord thy God liveth I have not a cake but a handful of meal in a barrel and a little oyl in a cruse aud behold I am gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress it for me and my son that we may eat it and die Even such hath been your case yet hath that God whose Mercies are over all his Works heard your sorrows and provided Relief for you either by some Ship which Providence sent to relieve you in that distress or by altering the Winds and sending you safe to the Land before all your Provisions have been spent And hast thou kept no Records of these gracious Providences yea Dost thou abuse the Creature when thou art brought again to the full enjoyment of it and possibly receivest the Creatures whose worth thou so lately hast seen in the want of them without thanksgiving or a sensible acknowledgment of the goodness of God in them I say dost thou thus answer the expectations of God Well beware lest God teach such an unworthy Creature by woful experience that the opening of his hand to give thee a Mercy is worth the opening thy Lips to bless him for it Beware lest that unthankful Mouth that will not bless the Lord for Bread and Water have neither the one or the other to bless him for I can give you a sad instance in the case and I have found it in the Writing of an eminent Divine who saith he had it from an eye and ear-witness of the truth of it A young Man lying upon his Sick-bed was always calling for meat but when the meat he called for was brought unto him he shook and trembled dreadfully at the sight of it and that in every part of his body and so continued until his food was carried away And thus he did as often as any food was brought into his presence and not being able to eat one bit pined away but before his death he freely acknowledged the Justice of God in this punishment For said he in the time of my Health I ordinarily received my

oath to walk in Gods law And so 2 Cor. 1. 23. I call God for a record upon my soul. And the usual form in the Old Testament was The Lord do so to me and more also Now hereby God hath the Glory of his Righteousnes and Justice given him by the Creature and therefore it is a ●hoice part of the Divine Worship or of that homage which a creature oweth to his God And if this ●e so then how easily may the sin of rash and pro●ane Oaths be hence argued and aggravated The more excelle●t any thing is by an institution of God ●y so much more horrid and abominable is the abuse ●hereof O how often is the dreadful Majesty of Heaven and Earth called to witness to frivolous ●hings and oft to be a witness of our rage and fu●y as 1 Sam. 14. 39. Is it a light thing to rob him of his peculiar Glory and subject poor souls to his ●urse and wrath who has said He will be a swift wit●ess against you Mal. 3. 5. Your tongues are nimble 〈◊〉 committing this sin and God will be swift in pun●shing for it Arg. 3. It is a sin which God hath severely threatn●d to punish and that with temporal and corporal ●lagues For by reason of Oaths the land mourns Hos. ● 2 3. That is it brings the heavy Judgment of God upon whole Nations under which they shall ●ourn And in Zech. 5. 2 3 4. you have there 〈◊〉 Roll of cuses i. e. a Catalogue of judgments and ●oes the length thereof twenty Cubits i. e. ten yards ●o set out the multitude of woes contained in it it 's a long Catalogue and A flying Rill to denote the swiftness of it it flyes towards the house of the Swearer it makes haste The Judgments that are written in it linger not but are even in pain to be delivered And this flying Roll full of dreadful Woes flyes and enters into the house of the Swearer and it shall therein remain saith the Lord it shall cleave to his family none shall claw off these woes from him And it shall consume the Timber thereof and the Stones thereof i. e. bring utter subvertion ruine and desolation to his House O dreadful sin What a desolation doth it make Your Mouths are full of Oathes and your Houses shall be full of Curses Wo to that wretched Family into which this flying Roll shall enter Wo I say to the wretched Inhabitants thereof The Curse of the Lord saith Solomon is in the house of the wicked but He blesseth the habitation of the just Prov. 3. 33. Tuguriolum i. e. saith Mercer his poor little Tenement or Cottage There is a Blessing the promises like Clouds of Blessing dwell over it and drop mercies on it but a Curse is in the house of the wicked Ah how many stately Mansious are there in which little other language but Oathes and Curses are heard and these are as so much Gunpowder laid under the foundation of them which when Justice shall set fire to Oh what work will it make Wo to the Inhabitants thereof Well then break off this sin by Repentance unless you intend to ruine your Families and bring all the Curses of God into your Houses If you have no pity for your selves yet pity your Posterity have mercy for your Wives and Children don't ruine all for the indulgence of a lust Arg. 4. But that is not all It brings Soul-judgments and spiritual plagues upon you It brings Hel● along with it And if thou be not afraid to sin yet methinks thou shouldst be afraid to burn if the love of God can work nothing upon thy brawny heart yet methinks the Terrors of the Lord should startle and affright it To this purpose I beseech you weigh these Scriptures and methinks unless God hath lost all his Authority with you and Hell all its Terrors it should startle you The first is that dreadful Scripture James 5. 12. But above all things my Brethen swear nat neither by Heaven neither by the Earth neither by any other oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest ye fall into Condemnation O view this Text seriously Methinks it should be like the ●ingers that came forth and wrote upon the wall that dreadful Sentence that changed the Countenance of a King and that in the height of a frolick humour and made his Knees smite together Mark Above all things a form of vehemency and earnestness like that Ephes. 6. 16. But above all taking the shield af Faith As Faith hath a prelation there before all the Graces so Swearing here before all other Vices Swear not i. e. vainly rashly profanely for otherwise 't is a lawful thing and a part of Gods worship as I have shewed but swear not vain Oaths by the Creatures Heaven or Earth c. Which is to advance the creature into the room of God A sin to which the Jews were much addicted But Let your yea be yea and nay nay i. e. accustom your selves to short and plain Affirmations and Negations to a simple and candid expression of your minds And the thundering Argument that backs it is this lest ye fall into Condemnation i. e. lest for these things the Judge of Heaven and Earth pass a Sentence of condemnation to Hell upon you Oh Sirs Dare you touch with this hot iron Dare you from henceforward commit that Sin that you know will bring you under the condemnation and judgment of God Do you know what it is for a soul to be cast at Gods bar Did you never see a poor malefacter tried at the Assizes and observe how his face gathers paleness how his Legs tremble and Death displays its colours in his cheeks when sentence is given upon him But what 's that to Gods condemnation What is a Gallous to Hell Another Text I would commmend to your consideration is that Exod. 20. 7. The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain Where vain Oathes are especially included Now what doth God mean when He saith He will not hold him guiltless The meaning is plain his sins shall be reckoned and imputed to him they shall lie upon his Soul he shall be bound over to answer God for them O terrible sentence What Soul can bear it or stand before it Blessed is the man saith David to whom the Lord imputeth not inquity Surely then cursed is that man to whom God will impute them And to the Swearer they shall all be imputed if he break not off his sin by repentance and get a Christ the sooner O Soul How dar'st thou think of going before the Lord with the guilt of all thy sins upon thee When Christ would administer the very spirit of Joy in one sentence to a poor Sinner Matth. 9. 4. He said Son be of good cheer thy sins are forgiven And when God would contract the sum of all misery into one word He saith His sins shall lie down with him in

so many delights and hurried in a moment into the Land of Darkness to be cloathed with flames and drink the pure wrath of the Almighty for ever This is it that makes it terrible Quest. 5. If Death be so weighty a matter am I prepared to die Answ. I doubt Not I am afraid I want many things that are necessary to a due preparation for it Quest. 6. What are those things wherein a due preparation for Death consisteth Answ. Many things are necessary First Special and Saving Union with Jesus Christ. This is it that disarms it of its sting O Death where is thy sting Thanks be to God who hath given us the victo●y through our Lord Iesus Christ 1 Cor. 15. 55 56. So Joh. 11. 26. VVho soever liveth and believeth in me shall never die Whosoever liveth i. e. is quickned with a new spiritual Life and Principle and so puts sorth the principal act of that life viz. Faith he shall never die i. e. eternally This hornet Death shall never leave its sting in his sides Secondly To entertain Death comfortably the evidence and knowledge of this Union is necessary 2 Cor. 5. 1. ●or we know that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God c. And then he cannot only be content but groan to be uncloathed vers 2. A mistake in the former will cost me my Soul and a mistake here will lose me my peace and comfort Thirdly In order to this evidence it's necessary that I keep a good conscience in all things both towards God and Man 2 Cor. 1. 12. This is our rejoycing even the testimony of our Conscience that in sincerity and godly simplicity not in fleshly wisdom but by the Grace of God we have had our conversation in the world This good Conscience respects all and every part of our work and duty to be done and all and every sin to be renounced and denied So that he that is early united unto Christ by Faith hath the clear evidence of that Union and the evidence fairly gathered from the testimony of a good Conscience witnessing his faithfulness as to all duties to be done and sins to be avoided he is fit to die Death can do him no harm but alas these things are not to be found in me Quest. 7. But what if I die without such a preparation as this is what will the consequence of that be Answ. Very terrible even the separation of my Soul and Body from the Lord to all Eternity John 3. 36. He that believeth on the Son bath everlasting life and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him He shall not see life there 's the privative part of his misery separation from the blessed God And the wrath mark it not anger but wrath not the wrath of a man bat of God at whose rebukes the Mountains skip like frighted men and the Hills tremble The wrath of God not only flashes out upon him as a transient flash of lightinng but abideth dwells sticks fast there is no power in the world can loose the soul from it Vpon him not the body only nor the soul only but on him i. e. the whole person the whole Man Here is the principal positive part of that man's misery Quest. 8. Can I bear this misery Answ. No My heart cannot endure nor my hand be strong when God shall have to do with me upon this account I cannot bear this wrath Angels could not bear it it hath sunk them into the depths of misery Those that feel but a few sparks of it in their Consciences here are even distracted by it Psal. 88. 15. Christ himself had never born up under it had he not been subported by the infinite power of the divine nature Isai. 42. 1. Behold my servant whom I uphold How then shall I live when God doth this what will be done to the dry tree Oh! there is on abiding of it it is insufferable The sinners in Zion are afraid trembling surprizeth the hypocrite who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire who can endure the everlasting burning Isai. 33. 14. Quest. 9 If it cannot be born is there any way to prevent it Answ. Yes there is hope in I srael concerning this thing And herein I am in better case than the damned I have the may-be's of mercy and they have not Oh what would they give for a possibility of Salvation Isai. 1. 16 17 18. Wash ye make ye clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do evil learn to do well c. Come now let us reason together and though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as snow Isai. 55. 7. Let the wicked for sake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon Though my disease be dangerous it is not desperate it doth not scorn a remedy Oh there is Balm in Gilead and a Physician there There is yet a possibility not only of recovering my Primitive glory but to be set in a better case than ever Adam was Quest. 10 How may that be Answ. By going to the Lord Jesus Christ Rom. 8. 1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Iesus Rom. 8. 33 34. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect It is God that justifieth Who is he that condemneth It is Christ that died yea rather that is risen again Quest. 11. But what is it to go to Christ Asw. To go to Christ is to embrace him in his Person and Offices and to rest intrely and closely upon him for pardon of sin and eternal life being deeply sensible of the want and worth of him Joh. 1. 12. To as many as received him he gave power to become the sons of God even to as many as believed on his Name John 3. 36. He that believed on the Son hath life 1 Cor. 1. 30. And of him are ye in Christ Iesus who of God is made unto us Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption Acts 4. 12. Neither is there Salvation in any other c. Acts 13. 39. And by him all that believe are Iustified from all things from which ye could not be Iustified by the Law of Moses Isai. 45. 22. Look unto me and be ye saved Acts 2. 37. Now when they heard this they were pricked to the heart c. Quest. 12. B●t will Christ receive me if I go unto him Answ. Yes yes He is more ready to receive thee than thou are to come to him Luk. 15. 20. And he ●●ose and came to his Father But when he was yet a great way off his Father saw him and had compassion on him and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him The Son doth but go the Father