Gloâ— brigâ— Is Christ the Son of God that gives it Light Whose Beauty when thou sees it will deligâ— theâ— Whose Riches is sufficient to invite thee To venture all the Loss thou may sustain That thou that sacred Country may obtain Abram did see 't far off and did rejoyce Moses beheld it also and made choyce â—'endure Storms abide tempestuous Weather And Happy Moses if he gets but thither Is not this Country worth thy observation Or settest thou so lightly by Salvation â—ook out dear Souls and hear the Watch-man's voyce â—ehold the Glorious Country and rejoyce â—hat you can see the Country tho not nigh â—bserve your Compass well and stear thereby â—ill thou arrives at Canan's sacred Shore â—here Pleasures will attend thee ever more 4. But in the Fourth place Thou mayst there observe â—hat Care the Seaman taketh to preserve â—ch Rope and Cable that it may hold fast â—e Anchor that the Ship may not be cast â— Rocks or Sands or forc't in any sort â— Storms or Tempests from their wished Port. Hope is the Anchor of the Soul No Storm â—here Faith to Hope 's united can do harm â—ith is the Cable and if so be thou find â—ith not sufficient to resist the Wind â— strong Temptations mark what Scripture saith â—y Hope is strengthened when thou adds to Faith â—mptations like a Tempest raises strife â—d but the Vertues of a Holy Life â—to thy Faith thy Hope will never fail â— then thy Anchor 's cast within the Vail â—ere will thy Anchor hold both firm and sure â—d this thy Anchor keeps thy Soul secure 5. How doth the Seamen when the Wind 's contrary Wait with Desire and with patience tarry Till the unconstant Wind do change no less Doth want of Winds bring Seamen to distress Calms cross Winds do both alike presage The ill success of an unprosperous V'age A Spiritual Seaman's thus becalm'd when â—eacâ— Has this Effects to make his Lusts increase Ephraim had Peace allow'd him as a faâ—or But its Effects was that an evil savor Made Ephraim to stink Wherefore the Lord His own Inheritance hath oft abhorr'd Good David in a Calm did suffer more Than he had done in all his Life before When God gave David Peace instead of Strife Then Lusted he after Vriah's VVife When Israel was at Peace on every side This was the time that they did most backslide Thus Calms we see have done us many harms As ever did cross Winds or hasty Storms Then pray with Seamen that you may be neitheâ— Harmed by Calms cross VVinds or stormâ— VVeather When thou art over-mastred by Corruptions They are like cross Winds making Interruptions Observe these cross VVinds and use Diligence Seamen sometimes can with cross Winds dispence They 'll work against the Wind so must thou But yet observe when the VVinds do blow VVith a fair Course observe these gentle Gales And then be sure thou spread out all thy Sails By fair VVinds here I would be understood To mean the Holy Ghost that promis't Good VVhich breaths into thy Soul gently moves To every Good and every Sin reproves VVhen ever thou perceives that sacred VVind To breath into thy Soul be sure thou mind â—ts holy Breathing If it do invite thee To Holyness let Holyness delight thee â—f it reproves at any time for Sin Be sure thou takest no Delight therein VVhen Spirit 's Breathing calls for thy Affections â—nto the Scriptures follow its Directions Thus if each sacred Gale of VVind thou eye And close with every Opportunity And let no fair VVind slip in any sort T will hasten thee to thy desired Port. 6 VVhat Pains a Seaman taketh in a Storm To keep his Vessel and himself from harm Some tend the Sails while other some do stand By this and th' other Rope There 's not a Hand At such an hour find a time to cease But as the storm their labours do increase â—ome ply the Pump while others stand to sound And all to keep themselves from being drown'd Why then poor soul do'st thou securely sleep Till thou with Jonah perish in the deep How many a Storm poor soul hast thou been iâ— Yet not so much as wakened with thy Sin How do the Waves like mighty Armies comâ— Threatning to send thee to thy longest home How oft hath that pale Messenger of Death Been threatning to take away thy breath And sleeps thou yet poor soul O hear the noiâ— Of God in Judgment whose tempestuous Voyâ— Once shook the Earth If thou 'lt not now awakâ— E're long he will both Earth and Heaven shake Then will it be Tempestuous round about him Then woe to them that now do live without hiâ— This Tempest now is sounding in thine Ears And canst thou sleep with Jonah free from fears Awake poor drowsie Soul at last bethink theâ— Or else thine own Iniquity will sink thee Rouse up rouse up ply thy Pump my Souâ— My Vessel leaks waters has fill'd it Hould Empty thy self my soul of all vain pleasure If ever thou intend to save that treasure Thy precious soul I mean that is more worth Than all the fading Treasures of the Earth Sea-men in Storms they must be sure to mind Their Sails or else some cross contrary wind May sink and over-set they may be driven On Rocks or Sands so you that sail for Heaveâ— filâ— Mind your Affections labor to be skill'd In these your Sails and know with what they â— with vain Pleasures thy affections be â—ill'd full they 'l sink thee to Eternity â—ut if with holy breathings then no Storm â—an be so strong to do thee any harm â—torms drive thee faster to thy wished Shore â—here thou shalt never meet with Tempest more 7. How doth each Marriner while he takes care â—or the preserving of his own affair â—mprove his pains alike for all the Crew â—he safety of the whole is in his view â—f that provision any person makes â—o save his private Cabbin all partakes â—ach one's concern is so with others mixt â—hat it doth make a harmony betwixt â—hat little Common-wealth O then what cause â—ast thou my Soul to slight the Sacred Laws â—hich God hath in his Holy word made known â—hat is to make anothers case thine own When thou art seeking for thy own Salvation â—emember O my Soul the whole Creation â—od hath to man an Universal Love â—nd would have none to Perish Let this move â—y heart to pitty every one that I â—e walking in their own Iniquity â—et me in using of my best indeavour â—o save my soul from perishing for ever â—hink with thy self my soul 't will not suffice â—hat thou art sav'd alone thou must likewise By Life and Doctrin or what-ever may Seek to put others also in the way To save themselves My Soul thou canst not bâ— Rightly indeavouring thy self to free From Death's eternal Soul-amazing snare But others of thy labours will have share When wicked men behold thy good behaviour It makes
Titus the Roman when he did behold The Sanctum Sanctorum beautified with Gold â—e stood amaz'd lifts up his hands to Heaven Desires of the Lord to be forgiven His great offence to God protesting still That glorious Temple fell against his will Wherefore he crys aloud calls out amain â—o spare that Holy Temple crys again â— spare saith he that glorious place 't is pity â— should be ruin'd with this wicked City â—et was this Temples glory not so great â—o answer to the height of mans conceit â—or may the height of mans conceit compare â—ith what this Vision did to John declare â—welve thousand furlongs was its measured height â—he glory of the Lamb did give it light â—he Suns resplendent rays when shining clear â—ould give no light it had no luster there â—o night was there no cloud nor sables shade â—his is the glorious day the Lord hath made â—hat tongue or pen can give a true relation â—f new Jerusalem the habitation â—f glorified Saints whose full perfection â—all be compleated at the resurrection But last to the West â—â—ve this to say â—ere is eternal night as well as day Thugh God in Christ do bless the Sts. with light God out of Christ prepares perpetual night For wicked men and Devils no exemption In life there is in death there 's no redemption All men must die we know it to be true Daily experience doth this matter shew There 's none exempt from death the very best Choicest of Christians pass from South to West The good man dies the wicked dies also Both good and bad from West to North must go The good man shall be rais'd so will the evil The Angel must be judg'd so will the Devil The difference lies here the Saints perfection Is at the highest after resurection 'T is then their everlasting day begins 'T is then they turn their backs of all their sins But with the wicked it is nothing so From their North Point to West again they go Depart they must from Gods eternal light VVith go you cursed to perpetual night But Oh! what heart can think or tongue express Their endless wo their grief remediless Consider Christians joy you need not borrow A better Pensil to paint forth their sorrow Consider but the comfort of the light From thence behold the terror of the night If naught but darkness should their souls oppress It would be sorrowful and comfortless 'T is utter darkness not the smallest beam Of light which makes their sorrows so extream Those very eyes while on the earth was blest VVith natural light shall now be dispossest Of all the incomfort what they undergo Being in darkness aggravates their woe The lustful eyes which in the earth delighted In naught but filthiness is now be nighted Shall never see a pleasant object more But weep and wail and never shall give o'r Be warn'd you swearers for these tongues of yours That in blaspâ—eming spends your precious hourâ— Uncessently shall then blaspheme Gods name For very anguish in tormenting flame And yet in darkness you that can hear God cry Repent you sinners wherefore will you die That scorns his bounty and refuse his grace While God with patience waiting gives you space You that can hear the God of Heaven complain At your destruction yet rebel again You that have grievâ—d the Lord you now must bear Your endless grief your cryes he will not hear Your ears which while on earth could give consent To hear Gods name blasphemed and be content Shall now hear sighs and lamentable cryes While you are sharers in these miseries Your hearts with which you hated every word Spoke to you by the Servants of the Lord With horror and amazement shall be smitten While all your former wickedness â—s written â—n your tormented conscience which will smite you â—nd with its aggravation shall affright you And in a dreadful manner shall present Before your face that hellish regiment Of all your former sins you have committed From which you might have been acquitted You then have time too much to see your folly But none at all to labour to be holy Your day is past your dreadful night is come Your Sun is set and darkness is your doom This is the last considerable thing Relating to the West that I shall bring But yet before we pass to th' Second part Of this soul-saving Navigable Art These four things that we have lastly read Shall once again before your eyes be spread But very brief and for no other end But that I may more seriously commend Them to your thoughts as highly your concern Rightly to weigh to understand and learn North stands for God and that you first must know From God to Christ your Eastern Star you go God out of Christ is cloathed all in ire Behold God so he 's a consuming fire To God by Christ your souls must have access And Christ conducts thee unto holiness Thy Southern Point from whence cast but thine eye Unto thy Western Point and learn to die Four things is in thy Western Point laid down All very necessary to be known First thou must die thy rising sun must set I' th' West 't is certain do not that forget From West to North from death to God you go By God through Christ th' art rais'd again also After which time thy sun will set no more Nor yet decline as it has done before But if thou do'st not die a holy man Thou wilt be far more miserable than Thou wast before thou must go back again From North to West for ever to remain In that black night which never sees a morrow Where thou wilt find no period of thy sorrow One word of use and then I shall have done Walk not in darkness while you have the Sun To be your guid He that walks in light May see to take and chuse his steps aright But he that walks in paths of darkness neither Knows how to guid his steps aright nor whether He is a going God hath provided well Why should your precious souls go down to hell What pity 't is that man that noble creature Whose well composed form and comely feature The Son of God did not disdain I say What pity 't is he should be cast away And that you may not want a full direction To bring you unto Heaven Saints perfection The next unto this Art of Speculation Must be the practick of Souls Navigation In which discourse I shall my self confine To th' Seamans Compass only more divine And shall accordingly present to view Our Practick Points in number thirty two Thus having given you a full relation Of the First Part of Sacred Navigation Which is speculation I now proceed Unto the Second Part which is indeed The Practice of a Christian after he Hath been instructed to a good degree In the true Knowledge of the Deity One God in Essence three in Divinity Distinguish't thus the Father and the Son And Holy Ghost three yet intirely one Having his understanding lightned â—o know therefore the Son of God must shed â—is precious blood be made a Sacrifice And that it is the Spirit that
fancies casts an eie Into Gods Secret Counsel thinks to spie Themselves inrol'd there without respect Unto the terms on which God doth elect Not once remembring that the Lord doth chuse The Godly for himself and doth refuse Ungodly men presumes they are elected And therefore sav'd while others are rejected By a divine unchangable decree And therefore must not cannot saved be Here eye all passages and you shall find Where airy notions do possess the mind Instead of Grace a Tempest doth begin Quickly to rise the flesh doth lust to sin While conscience tells the flesh it cannot be Allow me this saith flesh it pleaseth me Not so â—aith conscience thou wilt be defil'd O no saith flesh I 'm an elected Child Can sin can any thing that is in me Dissolve make void or alter Gods Decree No no saith flesh my name is writ in heaven My sins and weakness is all forgiven In this confused hurry is the mind That 's fill'd with notions tossed with the wind Of vain conceits He sins at such a rate Till he concludes himself a Reprobate And now he sinks and in a dreadful case Despairs but had this heart been fill'd with grace Instead of these his airy notions he Had been from stroms and winds and tempests free Where grace doth fill the heart it thus begins With every sinner O forsake your sins And there is mercy but grace tells him plain That being clear'd he must not sin again For sins against thy will Christ entercedes And at the throne of grace for mercy pleads Be thou but faithful do thou but act thy part In hating sin hate it with all thy heart And God is gracious if thou do persever God freely will accept of thy endeavour Faithful indeavours though they be but poor God will accept in Christ who keeps the score If thou presume to sin thy former debt Shall on thy score the second time be set Here doth the Riches of Gods Grace appear In setting Saints and sinners free from fear Sinners that leave their sins are not rejected Such as presume to sin are not elected The Grace of God that hath appear'd to all To Saints and sinners both doth daily call First unto sinners that they would repent And then to Saints that they be innocent And persevere in holiness and then In being holy they 'll be happy men O be establisht here as 't doth behove thee And neither wind nor weather will remove thee East and by South East and by South is next and thus begins Thou being taught before to leave thy sins By true repentance and by heart contrition Christ now requires of thee heart submission To all his holy Ordinances and To every Gospel Precept and Command But first of all thou must believe that he Is very Christ that shed his blood for thee Believe that God in Christ is reconcil'd And freely doth accept thee as his Child And willingly he sendeth none to hell But willful sinners such as do rebel Give up thy name to Christ that thou may be One of that Noble sacred family Come laden with thy sins and throw them down And Christ will give thee rest he 'll not disown The true repentance of a heart that 's broken Believe and be baptis'd it is token That Christ hath washt thee and hath clear remitted Thy former sins and now thou stands aquitted And by this means thou 'lt be insinuated Into the Church of Christ and stand related To him as one of his he will behold Thee now as one belonging to the Fold He is thy Shepherd and thou art his Sheep Thou' rt under his protection he will keep Thy soul from danger if thy heart be staid And stablished with Grace the Lord hath said Such shall be kept in perfect peace indeed Whose minds are staid on him Now let 's proceed Unto our next Point East South East let 's see What is required next to Baptisme East South East Sinner thou art conducted now by grace Into Christs Church that thou may keep thy place And be preservâ—d unto the Judgment day Observe therefore what the Lord did say To his Disciples while he did remain Upon the earth tells them he 'll come again But until then saith he I recommend You to the Comforter which I will send The Holy Ghost in all things shall instruct you And unto everlasting truth conduct you The Spirit shall to your remembrance bring Each sacred truth and teach you every thing But this remember Christ doth tell thee plain Which way thou mayst the Comforter obtain The way which Christ prescrib'd is fervent praier With faith unfeigned these such companions are They will not miss but will obtain the prize For which they seek for God will not dispise The earnest suit of humble contrite ones Whose prayers are usher'd in with sighs and grones Prayer is I say Gods own appointed way By which our Lord hath promis'd to convay The holy Spirit ask and it shall be given Saith Christ our Lord your Father hears in heaven â—f earthly Parents give out of there store Good things unto their Children how much more Will God out of his rich and boundless treasure Give those that ask his Spirit such a measure As he doth see sufficient to supply The Spirits Office is to sanctifie â—t's a true earnest that we shall inherit Eternal life He that enjoys the spirit â—lthough the smallest measure shall possess The matchless treasure of true happiness â—t fits the soul for future glory and He sails directly to the Holy Land That will observe this Point and furthermore Such shall discover fair Emanuels Shore By the white cliffs of holiness that lye Along the Coasts let not thy watchful eye Behold another object Would'st possess The Holy land mind naught but Holiness While others do a saving Voyage make Thou do'st a sacred Voyage undertake â—t is affirm'd by holy men of old Unholy persons never can behold The face of God but with great discontent With dread with horror and astonishment Unholy persons shall be sore affrighted With that with which the Saints shall be delighted While Saints sing praises unto God on high Delighting to be hold his Majesty Unholy persons shall both cry and call Unto the Rocks say to the Mountains fall Yea fall upon us hide us from the face Of him whose counsel we would not imbrace Though oft he did intreat this Lamb of Sion Is now become a soul devouring Lyon His presence is a terror doth affright Oh that we might be hidden from his sight When the Dark cliffs of sin thou dost espy Say to the soul 't is not the country That thou art sailing too learn this Point well Dark waies of sin is the true paths of hell South East and by East This is a Point thou also must indeavour Rightly to be instructed in if ever Thou do'st intend the Port of happiness Shall crown thy Voyage with a fair success Then fly from sin as from a Serpent and