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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

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