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A36938 The Christian's compass, or, The mariner's companion being a brief compendium of the principles of religion, in the things which are necessary to be known and practised by all who profess the name of Christ / long since prepared, and now published by John Durant ... Durant, John, b. 1620. 1658 (1658) Wing D2671; ESTC R8810 36,678 107

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God Concerning our next Cardinal point viz. Christ who is our star in the east I will name no more points in number concerning him neither but four 1. Christ is the first and clearest light the true Sun which ariseth upon the world by which all are enlightned Joh. 1.9 He is our Sun of Righteousness and till he arise there is no healing for us Mal. 3.2 He is that light which alone makes day as the Sun in the East doth Luke 1.78 79. The whole world lyes in a Night of dismal damnable darkness until Christ as the Day-spring from on high visite it to give light to them that fit in darkness 2. God alone is in him reconciling himself to the world 2 Cor. 5.19 We can never be reconciled justified adopted c. but in and by Jesus Christ and he is made all to us in these grand soul-saving matters 1 Cor. 1 30. Christ is the Way as well as the Truth the way of God to us as well as the light of God upon us no man cometh to the Father but by him as it is Joh. 14.6 3. Jesus Christ is onely made ours by the union and in-dwelling of himself in us through the spirit It 's the spirit alone who can annoint our eyes to see and behold this Sun 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 Ioh. 16.8 9 c. Where God intends to bring any to himself in his son he there giveth the Holy Ghost none can call Jesus Lord but by the spirit 1 Cor. 12.3 How then can any come by him and be one in Christs body but by the same spirit 1 Cor. 12.13 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 Other 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 Eph 4.24 Although Christ in free-grace takes sinners when sinners yet he leaves them not so but makes them Saints or sanct●fied ones 1 Cor. 6.11 This know Though the unholiest soul may have Christ yet none but the holy soul can onely say I have Christ though Christ did not condemn or cast off that great sinner Ioh. 8.3 yet hee cautions her against sinne ver 11. 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 to holiness Exod. 15 11 When we come to perfection in holiness then is our Sun at the height in us and in order unto this we are to improve the promises 2 Cor 7 1 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 height of holiness hath Christ in the height in him 4. This holinesse is that which is directly opposite to sin 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 all 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 sight 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 of death from themselves 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 gain so out of Christ it's loss yea the greatest loss Phil. 1 21 3 Death is but the souls or rather the bodyes 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 appeare 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 Matth. 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 prints in the compass so necessary are these four heads and the particulars under them to be known I shall not passe from this without an addition of some other things from the connexion of these points in our Christian Compass 1 From the North-point we pass to the East God passeth forth to the world by Christ He comes only 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 passe on in our thoughts to Christ For God out of Christ is no lightsome nor chearing 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 soul so holinesse appears even as the Sun doth as it riseth Southward Christs passage in the soul is in the Southern line of holinesse 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 holinesse will enable us to bear the cold of death
their affairs observations and experiences in order to the raising of their hearts to see and praise God for his goodness see ver 3. But more express to help exact meditation remember that here is set forth 1. The man at Sea upon civill accounts verse 23. 2. The spiritual work or duty of him in that his businesse and this is set forth in many branches 1 He is to eye God in his works and wonders v 24. 2. He is to eye God in every storm and tempest 1 As the author of it v. 25 2 As the helper in it v 29 Therefore 3 He is to consider his danger in every storm how neer to death and how full of dread or fear v. 26 27. 4 He is to know his duty in that danger v. 28. 5 He is to consider his joy at the end of danger as ver 30. 6. He is to remember to praise the Lord for his goodness upon the whole verse 31. Now upon these heads meditate thus 1. O my soul the way in which thou art is safe for 't is lawful to traffick by Sea as by Land There is no wickedness in thy way unless thou thy self do make it The Lord as well allowes approves and prospers those whose business is to do in the great waters as whose callings are on the shore 2. But what of God do I see and eye in my way I am to walk with God Enoch-like Gen. 5.24 and as a childe of Abraham Gen. 17.1 So Noah did who was the first that ever swam in ship Hee walked with God righteously on the dry and God secured him in a ship of his own invention in the mighty waters I am not to be as the ship at sea a sensless instrument not kowing whether I sail or what I carry or where I am Neither am I only to eye Winde and Tide but I am to see God to contemplate him in all These waters are his work He made them and gathered them thus together Gen. 1.10 He holds these windes that blow in the hollow of his fist Prov. 30.4 he brings these windes out of his treasure Jer. 10.13 And he rides upon the wings thereof Psal 60.4 Mount my soul above these windes and waters and see thy God in them for they are his works And surely wonderfull is God in working vvhat wisdome in ordering vvhat power in bounding and ruling these unruly things Job 38.8 9 10 11. see the place and meditate thereon 3. Doth a tempest arise Sit down O my soul and see that it comes from God He made the tempest to finde out a sinful Jonah He permits this to try my saith to stir up my prayer to demonstrate his own power As afflictions arises not out of the dust so neither do Tempests come by chance A God is in all he raiseth and he can still vvhen he pleaseth the boysterous windes and waters 4. Yet consider what is thy danger How neer to death What a step what an inch between thee and the grave Bee not as the fool over-hardy nor as the hardened prophane Athiest that scoffs at windes and feareth no weathers Tremble O my soul the next gust may overset thee the next wave may swallow thee up O be not unaffected with nor inconsiderate of thy danger 5. Vp then and call upon thy God Jon. 1.6 That is thy duty in thy danger Slumber not but poure out prayers to him that made and can still the Tempest at his pleasure hold thy sails with fervent Sighs hand thy cords and tackling with a Heart secretly praying Let thy best anchor be within the vail pray in faith cry in hope The Almighty can with a word make a calm Psa 65.7 Christ can say Be still and Windes and Sea must and will obey him Mat. 8.27 Have thy hand at the helm and thy eye at heaven God it may be raised the storm to awake thee from thy soul-sleep Rise up therefore and call upon God hee 'l bring you out of your distresses 6. Reflect O man then what was thy joy when the winde began to slack and the storm to cease It 's good to eye what comforts God gave in at such a time Forget neither thy soul-meltings in a storm nor thy heart-cheering upon a calm O how did God as it were build up thy broken heart was not thy soul almost shattered as thy sails and were not all thy comforts broke as thy cords But what reviving after death and what a resurrection as from the grave hadst thou in such a place at such a time c. was not thy soul refreshed as with wine and thy spirit recovered as with a cordial when after that or the other Tempest God gave a calm 7. Then praise thy Lord O my soule and forget not ALL nar not ANY of his benefits Record recal to mind the great goodness of thy God and praise thou his miraculous mercy Set forth to others thy experiences and let the children of men know by thee what are the wonderful works of Jehovah Tremble at the thought of being as too many are altogether forgetful of deliverances Be not as those whose sinning at land evidences they forget every storm and danger every mercy and deliverance at Sea But Oh do thou my soul praise the Lord for his wonderfull works to thee the poorest of the children of men Inlarge these and the like Meditations upon this Scripture and by them try the like way of meditaring upon other Scriptures CHAP. X. Mixed maritine or Sea-meditations to stir up spiritual affections I Have hinted an example of meditation upon Scripture I will now offer some mixed Meditations relating to Sea-affairs such as may serve to excite and direct in this third and last part of Divinity viz. affectionate 1. What a little thing is between me and death It 's but this board of which the ship is made if that break I am gone my burial place is alwayes by me I shal need no Sexton to dig my grave my dead body will make its way to the bottom of the waters and there shall be my grave till the great day 2. With what care doth the Pilot eye the Compass to direct How exactly doth he observe and consider all his land marks And how careful is the steersman at the helm to hearken to and to follow his direction O what negligent creatures are we in our spiritual Navigation How short do we come of this care and circumspection As if the shipwrack of our souls were a lesser matter then the shipwrack of this vessel 3. How sharp do all the ships crew look out to espy land to discover shoar and harbour whereto they sail And what welcome newes is it to hear that he at the topmast head hath descryed or discovered Land though it be afar off Ah my soul why art thou so lazie to look out So backward to cast thine eyes to use thy Prospective to discover Emmanuels Land which is afar off What! is not the