The seaman's spiritual companion, or, Navigation spirituallized being a new compass for seamen consisting of thirty-two points : directing every Christian how to stear the course of his life through all storms and tempests : fit to be read and seriously perused by all such as desire their eternal welfare / published for a general good, but more especially for those that are exposed to the danger of the seas by William Balmford, a well-wisher to seamen's eternal welfare and recommended to the Christian reader by J.F. ; to which is prefixt a preface by Benj. Keach, the author of War with the Devil.

Title

The seaman's spiritual companion, or, Navigation spirituallized being a new compass for seamen consisting of thirty-two points : directing every Christian how to stear the course of his life through all storms and tempests : fit to be read and seriously perused by all such as desire their eternal welfare / published for a general good, but more especially for those that are exposed to the danger of the seas by William Balmford, a well-wisher to seamen's eternal welfare and recommended to the Christian reader by J.F. ; to which is prefixt a preface by Benj. Keach, the author of War with the Devil.

Author

Balmford, William.

Publication

London :: Printed for Benj. Harris,

1678.

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Subject terms

Sailors -- Religious life.

Christian life.

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"The seaman's spiritual companion, or, Navigation spirituallized being a new compass for seamen consisting of thirty-two points : directing every Christian how to stear the course of his life through all storms and tempests : fit to be read and seriously perused by all such as desire their eternal welfare / published for a general good, but more especially for those that are exposed to the danger of the seas by William Balmford, a well-wisher to seamen's eternal welfare and recommended to the Christian reader by J.F. ; to which is prefixt a preface by Benj. Keach, the author of War with the Devil." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A30588.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• license
• TO THE Ingenious SOCIETY OF SEAMEN, The Author wishes all Happiness in this World, and Eternal Felicity in the World to-Come, through Jesus Christ, our LORD, &c.
• In Commendation of this en∣suing Poem.
• TO THE READER By a Gentlewoman, who was an intimate Friend of the Au¦thors, in Commendation of this Poem
• poem
• to the reader
• The TABLE.
• ERRATA.
• THE eaman's Spiritual Companion: OR, Navigation Spiritualized.
  • CHAP. II. Wherein is laid down the Three Principa Parts of Spiritual Navigation.
    • conclusion
    • conclusion
  • CHAP. IX.
  • CHAP. X.
• A Catalogue of some Books Printed for, and Sold by Benjamin Harris, at the Stationers-rms in Sweetings-Rents, in Cornhil, near the Royal-Exchange.