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CHAP. XVIII.

Like hungry lions, waves for finners gape:
Leave then your fins behind, if you'll escape,
CHA P. XIX.

To fave the fhip, rich lading's caft away:
Thy foul is fhipwreck'd if thy lufts do stay.

CHA P. XX.

Christ, with a word, can furging waves appease:
His voice a troubled foul can quickly ease,

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Our food out of the sea God doth command;
Yet few therein take notice of his hand,

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Whilft thou by art the filly fish doft kill,
Perchance the devil's hook fticks in thy gill,

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сн A P. XXIII.

Doth trading fail, and voyages prove bad?
If you cannot difcern the cause, 'tis faid,

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CHAP. XXIV.

In feas the greater fifh the less devour :

So fome men crush all those within their pow'r,
C HA P. XXV.

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In ftorms to spread much fail endangers all :

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So carnal mirth, if God for mourning call,

C HAP XXVI.

A little leak neglected, dangerous proves :
One fin connived at, the foul undoes,

CHA P. XXVII.

Ships make much way when they a trade-wind get;
With fuch a wind the faints have ever met,

CHA P. XXVIII.

Storms make difcov'ry of the pilot's skill:
God's wisdom in affliction triumphs ftill,

CHA P. XXIX.

Things in the bottom are unfeen: no eye

Can trace God's paths, which in the deeps do lie,

CHAP. XXX.

Millions of men are funk into the main ;

But it fhall not thofe dead always retain,

CHA P. XXXI.

The feaman's greatest danger's near the coast;
When we are nearest heav'n the danger's most,

CHA P. XXXII.

How glad are feamen when they make the fhore?
And faints, no lefs, when all their danger's o'er.

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A Diffuafive from the SINS of Drunkennefs, Swearing, Uncleannefs, forgetfulness of Mercies, &c.

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The Epiftle Dedicatory,

Caution 1. Of the Sin of Drunkenness,

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Caution 4. Of Mercies and Promifes,

Caution 2. The Art of Preferving the Fruits of the Lips, 340 Caution 3. The Harlot's Face, in the Scripture-Glafs,

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Gaution 5. The Seaman's Catechism,

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The SEA MAN's COMPANION.

The Epiftle Dedicatory,

SERMON I.

The Seaman's Farewel.

Acts xxi. 5, 6. "And we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed; and when we had taken our leave one of another, we took fhip, and they returned home again,"

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Pfal. cvii. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. " They that go down to "the fea in hips, that do bufinefs in great waters: these "fee the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep,”

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The Seaman's Prefervative in foreign Countries. Pfalm cxxxix. 9, 10. “If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermoft part of the fea; even there "fhall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand fhall hold me,” 417 SERMON

The fuccefsful Seaman.

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Deut. viii. 17, 18. And thou fay in thine heart, My power, and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth; "but thou shalt remember the Lord thy God; for it is he "that giveth thee power to get wealth,”

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SERMON

The difappointed Seaman.

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5. "Master; we have toiled all the night, and have
taken nothing,"

SERMON VI.
The Seaman's Return.

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Confifting of many pleafant obfervations, pertinent applications, and ferious reflections; and each chapter concluded with a divine, and fuitable poem. Directing husbandmen to the most excellent improvements of their common employments. Whereunto are added, by way of Appendix, several choice occafional meditations, upon birds, beafts, trees, flowers, rivers, and feveral other objects; fitted for the help of fuch as defire to walk with God in all their folitudes, and receffes from the world.

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THE EPISTLE

DEDICATORY.

To the Worshipful ROBERT SAVERY, and WILLIAM SAVERY, of Slade Efquires.

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Honoured Friends,

Thath been long fince obférved, that the world, below, is a glafs to discover the world above; Seculum eft fpeculum: and although I am not of their opinion, that fay, the Heathens may spell Chrift out of the fun, moon, and stars; yet this I know, that the irrational and inanimate, as well as rational creatures, have a language; and tho' not by articulate fpeech, yet, in a metaphorical fenfe, they preach unto man the wisdom, power, and goodnefs of God, Rom. i. 20. "There is (faith "the Pfalmift, Pfalm xix. 3.) no speech, nor language, where "their voice is not heard." Or (as Junius renders it) there is no fpeech, nor words, yet without thefe, their voice is underftood, and their line (i. e. faith Diodate) their writing in grofs, and plain draughts, is gone out through all the earth.

As man is compounded of a fleshly and fpiritual fubftance, fo God hath endowed the creatures with a spiritual, as well as flefhly ufefulness; they have not only a natural use in alimen VOL. VI.

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tal, and physical respects, but also a spiritual use, as they bear the figures and fimilitudes of many fublime and heavenly myfteries. Believe me (faith contemplative Bernard) thou shalt find more in the woods, than in a corner; ftones and trees will teach thee what thou shalt not hear from learned doctors. By a skilful and induftrious improvement of the creatures (faith Mr. Baxter excellently) we might have a fuller tafte of Chrift and heaven, in every bit of bread that we eat, and in every draught of bear that we drink, than moft men have in the ufe of the facrament.

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And as the creatures teach divine and excellent things, fo they teach them in a perfpicuous and taking manner: Duo illa nos maxime movent, fimilitudo et exemplum, faith the orator * These two things, fimilitude and example, do efpecially move us. Notions are more eafily conveyed to the understanding, by being firft cloathed in fome apt fimilitude, and fo reprefented to the fenfe. And therefore Jefus Chrift, the great Prophet, delighted much in teaching by parables; and the prophets were much in this way alfo, Hof. xii. 10. "I have ufed fimilitudes by the miniftry of the prophets." Those that can retain little of a fermon, yet ordinarily retain an apt fimilitude.

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I confefs it is an humbling confideration, That man, who at first was led by the knowledge of God, to the knowledge of the creature, muft now by the creatures learn to know God. That the creatures, (as one faith) like Balaam's afs, fhould teach their mafter. But though this be the unhappiness of poor man in his collapfed ftate, yet it is now his wisdom to improve fuch helps; and whilft others, by the abuse of the creatures, are furthering their perdition, to be, by the fpiritual improvement of them, promoting our own falvation.

It is an excellent art to discourse with birds, beafts, and fifhes, about fublime and spiritual subjects, and make them anfwer to your questions; and this may be done, Job xii. 7, 8. "Ask "now the beafts, and they fhall teach thee, and the fowls of the "air, and they fhall tell thee; or speak to the earth, and it shall "teach thee, and the fishes of the fea fhall declare unto thee." That is (faith neat and accurate + Caryl) the creatures teach us when we think of them: They teach us, though not formally, yet virtually; they answer and refolve the question put to them, though not explicitely to the ear, yet convin-, cingly to the confcience. So then, we ask the creatures, when we diligently confider them, when we fearch out the perfections and virtues that God hath put into, or stampe † Caryl in loc.

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