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Navigation Spiritualized

by John Flavel

A devotional classic using the imagery of seafaring and maritime life to illuminate the Christian journey. Across 32 chapters, each nautical observation — from launching a ship to reading the compass — becomes a window onto grace, eternity, temptation, and the soul's voyage toward heaven. Written originally for seafarers, its vivid analogies speak to every reader navigating the storms of life. Each chapter concludes with a poem for meditation. Appended is a direct moral address to sailors on the dangers of drunkenness and sin.
Chapters
41
Word count
61,788
Type
Book
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Table of contents

  1. 01 Chapter 1: The Launching of a Ship — Our Double State by First and Second Birth 1,625 words
  2. 02 Chapter 2: The Vast Ocean — God's Boundless Mercy and Eternity 1,619 words
  3. 03 Chapter 3: Strange Creatures in the Sea — The Corruption of the Human Heart 1,405 words
  4. 04 Chapter 4: The Sea Purges Its Filth — Graceless Souls Retain Their Sin 840 words
  5. 05 Chapter 5: Sailors Foresee Danger — Few Prepare for Greater Spiritual Dangers 752 words
  6. 06 Chapter 6: A Small Matter Turns a Ship — Yet We Stand Against Our Conscience 1,287 words
  7. 07 Chapter 7: Dangers and Fears at Sea — All Forgotten When Sailors Return Home 1,630 words
  8. 08 Chapter 8: The Navigator Shifts His Sails — But Shifts Not for His Soul 792 words
  9. 09 Chapter 9: Losing a Fair Wind — The Soul Becalmed in Sin 949 words
  10. 10 Chapter 10: Navigation Stores One Place from Another — Communion Helps Each Other 1,129 words
  11. 11 Chapter 11: Rocks Stand Though Seas Rage — The Church Stands Against All Opposition 1,145 words
  12. 12 Chapter 12: Sailors Risk All for Little Gain — Who Would Take No Pains for Their Soul 844 words
  13. 13 Chapter 13: Millions Fed in the Seas — Why Saints Should Not Doubt God's Daily Provision 1,285 words
  14. 14 Chapter 14: Seawater Sweetened Through the Earth — God's Grace in Afflictions 1,256 words
  15. 15 Chapter 15: The Lord Contains the Seas — He Also Holds Men and Devils in Check 1,071 words
  16. 16 Chapter 16: None Dare Go to Sea Without a Compass — The Word of God Guides Our Course 1,177 words
  17. 17 Chapter 17: The Sea Ebbs and Flows — So Do the Estates of Those Who Sail 1,445 words
  18. 18 Chapter 18: Hungry Waves Gape for Sinners — Leave Your Sins to Escape 900 words
  19. 19 Chapter 19: Cast Away Rich Cargo to Save the Ship — The Soul Shipwrecked by Lusts 830 words
  20. 20 Chapter 20: Christ Calms Surging Waves — His Voice Quiets the Troubled Soul 996 words
  21. 21 Chapter 21: God Commands Food from the Sea — Few Notice His Hand in It 880 words
  22. 22 Chapter 22: While You Kill the Fish with Art — Perhaps the Devil's Hook Sticks in Your Gill 1,010 words
  23. 23 Chapter 23: When Trading Fails and Voyages Go Bad — The Cause Is Sin Undetected 1,085 words
  24. 24 Chapter 24: Greater Fish Devour the Less — So Some Men Crush Those Within Their Power 995 words
  25. 25 Chapter 25: Spreading Much Sail in Storms Endangers All — Carnal Mirth When God Calls to Mourning 876 words
  26. 26 Chapter 26: A Little Leak Neglected Proves Dangerous — One Sin Connived at Undoes the Soul 930 words
  27. 27 Chapter 27: Ships Make Much Way with a Trade Wind — So the Saints with the Spirit's Aid 1,062 words
  28. 28 Chapter 28: Storms Reveal the Pilot's Skill — God's Wisdom Triumphs in Affliction 966 words
  29. 29 Chapter 29: Things in the Deep Are Unseen — No Eye Can Trace God's Hidden Paths 907 words
  30. 30 Chapter 30: Millions Sunk into the Sea — The Dead Shall Not Remain There Always 947 words
  31. 31 Chapter 31: The Sailor's Greatest Danger Is Near the Coast — The Nearer to Heaven, the Greater the Danger 997 words
  32. 32 Chapter 32: How Glad Are Sailors When They Make Shore — And Saints No Less When All Their Trials Are Done 1,121 words
  33. 33 A Concluding Speech 432 words
  34. 34 A Dissuasive from Drunkenness, Swearing, and Uncleanness 138 words
  35. 35 Dedication to Sir John Frederick 767 words
  36. 36 A Sober Consideration of the Sin of Drunkenness 1,052 words
  37. 37 Caution 1: Against Drunkenness 4,261 words
  38. 38 Caution 2: Against the Evil of the Tongue 5,190 words
  39. 39 Caution 3: Against Uncleanness 5,335 words
  40. 40 Caution 4: Against Neglect of Conscience 4,790 words
  41. 41 Caution 5: Against the Contempt of Death 5,070 words

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