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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

me and make it effectual to me before I go hence and be seen no more THE POEM A fresh and whisking Gale presents to day But now the Ship 's not ready Winds must stay And wait the Sea-mens leisure Well to morrow They will put out but then unto their sorrow That Wind is spent and by that means they gain Perchance a Month's Repentance if not twain At last another offers now they 're gone But e're they gain their Port the Market's done For every work and purpose under Heaven A proper time and season God hath given The Fowls of Heaven Swallow Turtle Crane Do apprehend it and put us to shame Man hath his season too but that mis-spent There 's time enough his folly to repent Eternity's before him but therein No more such golden hours as these have been When these are past away then you shall find That Proverb true Occasion 's bald behind Delays are dangerous see that you discern Your proper seasons O that you would learn This Wisdom from those Fools that comes too late With fruitless cries when Christ has shut the gate CHAP. X. By Navigation one place stores another And by Communion we must help each other OBSERVATION THE most wise God hath so dispenced his Bounty to the several Nations of the World that one standing in need of anothers Commodities there might be a sociable Commerce and Traffick maintaintain'd amongst them all and all combining in a common League may by the help of Navigation exhibit mutual succours to each other The Staple-Commodities proper to each Country I find thus expressed by the Poet Bart. Coll. Hence come our Sugars from Canary Isles From Candy Currans Muskadels and Oyls From the Moluccoes Spices Balsamum From Aegypt Odours from Arabia come From India Gums rich Drugs and Ivory From Syria Mummy Black Red Ebony From burning Chus from Peru Pearl and Gold From Russia Furs to keep the Rich from Cold. From Florence Silks from Spain Fruit Saffron Sacks From Denmark Amber Cordage Firs and Flax From Holland Hops ●orse from the Banks of Rhine From England VVool all Lands as God distributes To the VVorld's Treasure pay their sundry Tributes APPLICATION Thus hath God distributed the more rich and precious Gifts and Graces of his Spirit among his People Some excelling in one Grace some in another though every Grace in some degree be in them all even as in Nature though there be all the Faculties in all yet some Faculties are in some more lively and vigorous than in others some have a more vigorous eye others a more ready ear others a more voluable tongue so it 's in Spirituals Abraham excell'd in Faith ●ob in Patience Iohn in Love These were their peculiar excellencies All the elect Vessels are not of one quantity yet even those that excel others in some particular Grace come short in other respects of those they so excelled in the former and may be much improv'd by converse with such as in some respects are much below them The solid wise and judicious Christian may want that liveliness of affections and tenderness of heart that appears in the weak and one that excels in gifts and utterance may learn Humility from the very Babes in Christ. And one principal Reason of this different distribution is to maintain fellowship among them all 1 Cor. 12. 21. The Head cannot say to the Feet I have no need of you As in a Family where there is much business to be done even the little Children bear a part according to their strength Jer. 7. 18. The children gather wood the fathers kindle the fire the women knead the dough So in the Family of Christ the weakest Christian is serviceable to the strong There be precious Treasures in these Earthen Vessels for which we should trade by mutual communion The preciousness of the Treasure should draw out our desires and endeavours after it and the consideration of the brittleness of those Vessels in which they are kept should cause us to be the more expeditious in our trading with them and make the quicker Returns For when those Vessels I mean the Bodies of the Saints are broken by Death there is no more to be gotten out of them That Treasure of Grace which made them such profitable pleasant and desirable companions on Earth then Ascends with them into Heaven where every Grace receives its adolescence and perfection And then though they be Ten thousand times more excellent and delightful than ever they were on Earth yet we can have no more communion with them till we come to Glory our selves Now therefore it behoves us to be enriching our selves by communication of what God hath dropt into us and improvement of them as one well Notes We should do by Saints as we use to do by some choice Book lent us for a few days we should fix in our Memories or transcribe all the choice Notions we meet with in it that they may be our own when the Book is called for and we can have it no longer by us REFLECTION Lord How short do I come of my Duty in communicating to or receiving good by others My Soul is either empty and barren or if there be any Treasure in it yet it is but as a Treasure locked up in some Chest whose Key is lost when it should be open'd for the use of others Ah Lord I have sinned greatly not only by vain words but sinful silence I have been of little use in the World How little also have I gotten by communion with others Some it may be that are of my own size or judgment or that I am otherwise obliged to I can delight to converse with But O where is that largeness of heart and general delight I should have to and in all thy People How many of my old dear Acquaintance are now in Heaven whose Tongues were as Choice silver while they were here Prov. 10. 20. And blessed Souls how communicative were they of what thou gavest them O what an improvement had I made of my Talent this way had I been diligent Lord pardon my neglect of those sweet and blessed advantages O let all my delight be in thy Saints who are the excellent of the earth Let me never go out of their company without an heart more warmed quickned and enlarged than when I came amongst them THE POEM To several Nations God doth so distribute His bounty that each one must pay a tribute Vnto each other Europe cannot vaunt And say Of Africa I have no want America and Asia need not strive Which of it self can best subsist and live Each Countries want in something doth maintain Commerce betwixt them all Such is the aim And end of God who doth dispense and give More Grace to some their Brethren to relieve This makes the Sun Ten thousand times more bright Because it is diffusive of its Light Its Beams are gilded gloriously but then This property doth gild them o're agen Should Sun Moon

enjoy it The business you have to do in it is of unspeakable weight and concernment this great work this Soul-work and Eternity-work lies upon your hands you are cast into streights of time about it And if so Oh what an evil is it in you to waste it away thus to no purpose Arg. 3. It 's a sin that few are sensible of as they are of other sins and therefore the more dangerous It 's commonly committed and that without checks of Conscience Other sins as Murther and Adultery though they be horrid sins yet are but seldom committed and when they are Conscience is startled at the horridness of them Few except they be prodigious wretches indeed dare make light of them But now for idle and vain words there are inumerable swarms of these every day and few regard them The intercourse betwixt the heart and tongue is quick they are quickly committed and as easily forgotten Arg. 4. And then 4thly They have mischievous effects upon others How long doth an idle word or foolish jest stick in mens minds and become an occasion of much sin to them The froath and vanity of thy Spirit which thy tongue so freely vents among thy vain Companions may be working in their minds when thou art in the dust and so be transmitted from one to another for unto that no more is requisite than an objective existence of those vain words in their memories And thus mayst thou be sinning in the persons of thy Companions when thou art turned into dust And this is one reason that Suarez gives for a general Judgment after men have past their particular judgment immediately after their death Because saith he after this multitudes of sins by their means will be committed in the world for which they must yet be judged to a fuller measure of wrath So that look as many of the precious Servants of God now in glory have left many weighty and holy Sayings behind them by which many thousands of souls have been benefitted and God glorified on Earth after they had left it So thou leavest that vanity upon the mind of others behind thee by which he may be dishonoured to many generations And then 2. For PROPHANE OATHES th● corrupt fruit of a graceless heart Oh how common are these among you yea the habit of swearing 〈◊〉 so strengthened in some that they have lost all Sens●●● and Conscience of the sin Now Oh that I migh● prevail with you to repent of this wickedness an● break the force of this customary evil among you Will you but give me the reading of a few page● more and weigh with the reason of men what yo● read If you will not hearken to counsel it is a fat● sign 2 Cor. 2. 15 16. and you shall mourn for th● obstinacy hereafter Prov. 5. 12 13. Desperate that evil that scorns the remedy And if you ha●● patience to read it the Lord give you an heart 〈◊〉 consider what you read and obey the Counsels of God or else it were better thine eyes had never ●een these lines Well then I beseech you consider Arg. 1. That prophane Oathes are an high abuse of the dreadful and sacred Name of God which should neither be spoken or thought of without the ●●eepest awe and reverence It is the taking of that ●acred Name in vain Exod. 20. 7. Now God is ●xceeding tender and jealous over his Name it is ●ear to him his Name is dreadful and glorious Malac. 1. 14. I am a great King and my Name is ●readful among the Heathens The Heathen would ●ot ordinarily mention the names of such as they ●everenced Suetonius saith that Augustus pro●ibited the common use of his name he thought it 〈◊〉 indignity to have his name tost up and down in ●very one's mouth Yea saies Dr. Willet on Exod. 〈◊〉 it was a use among them to keep secret such ●ames as they would have in reverence They durst ●ot mention the name of Demogorgon whom they ●eld to be the first God They thought when he ●as named the earth would tremble Also the ●●me of Murcurius Trismegistus was very sparingly ●ed because of that reverence the people had for 〈◊〉 Now consider shall poor worms be so tender 〈◊〉 preserving the reverence of their names Shall 〈◊〉 Heathens dare to use the names of their Idols 〈◊〉 shall the sacred and dreadful name of the true 〈◊〉 be thus bandied up and down by tongues of his 〈◊〉 Creatures Will not God be avenged for these ●ses of his Name Be confident it shall one day 〈◊〉 sanctified upon you in judgment because ye did 〈◊〉 sanctifie it according to your duty Arg. 2. Swearing is a part of the Worship of 〈◊〉 and therefore prophane swearing can be no less than the profanation of his worship and robbing●● him of all the glory he has thereby Deut. 6. 13. ● Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God and serve him and shalt swear by his Name So Jer. 4. 2. Thou shal● swear the Lord liveth in Truth in Iudgment and 〈◊〉 Righteousness If a man swear by God after thi● manner God is exceedingly glorified thereby Now that you may see what revenue of Glory Go●●● hath from this part of his worship and how it be●omes a part of Divine Worship you must know That an Oath is nothing else but The asking o● desiring a Divine Testimony for the confirmation of th● truth of our testimony Heb. 6. 16. For men veril● swear by the greater and an Oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife The corruption o● humane nature by the fall has made man such a fals● and ●ickle creature that his single testimony canno● be sufficient Security for another especially i● weighty Cases to rest upon and therefore i● swearing he calleth ●od for a witness of the trut● of that he affirms or promiseth I say calleth Go● to be a witness of the truth of what he saith becau●● he is Truth it self and cannot lie Heb. 6. 18. No● this calling for or asking of a Testimony from Go● makes an Oath become a part of Gods Worshi● and gives him a great deal of Glory and Honour For hereby he that sweareth acknowledgeth 〈◊〉 Omnisciency and Infallible Truth and Righteousne●●● His Omnisciency is acknowledged for by this appe●● to Him we imply and acknowledge him to be 〈◊〉 Searcher of the hearts and reins that he knows 〈◊〉 secret intents and meaning of our spirits His 〈◊〉 preme and Infallible Truth is also acknowledged 〈◊〉 this is manifestly carried in an Oath That thoug● am a false and deceitful Creature and my affirmati●● cannot obtain universal and full credence yet that is greater than I by whose Name I swear cannot deceive And lastly his Righteousness is acknowledged in an Oath for he that sweareth doth either expresly or implicitly put himself under the curse and wrath of God if he swear falsely Every Oath hath ●n execration or imprecation in it Neh. 10. 29. They entered into a curse and an