The marriners card and compass. Or The best way to attain heaven amidst a sinfull and crooked generation. By William Harvey, minister of the Word.
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- The marriners card and compass. Or The best way to attain heaven amidst a sinfull and crooked generation. By William Harvey, minister of the Word.
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- Harvey, William, fl. 1657-1705.
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- London :: [s.n.],
- printed in the year 1659.
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- Christian life -- Early works to 1900.
- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1900.
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To the right Honourable ANN Countess Dowager of SCARSDEL, And To the rest of that Noble Family, Grace, Mercy, and Peace, &c.
Madam,
THe world (for the most part) is like the Cy∣press-Tree, long and fruitless; and like Tul∣lies strange Soyl, for all the sweet showres that fall upon, it it's still
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dry as dust. The cause of it is either ignorance or negligence, want of Knowledge in the will of God, or Non-Improvement. I have endeavoured to remove these Obstructions, and to take the rubs out of the way. There are but two extreams, Presumpti∣on and Desperation, which like Scylla and Charybdis, make ship∣wrack of all the vesseds they met with. Where these waters break out, they beat down all before them. They are alike dangerous (faith Chrysost.) For Presum∣ption falls him that standeth, and Desperation after a fall admits no rising. This small Tract (Ma∣dam)
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by Gods assistance will in∣form the one, and reform the other. It will be an eye to the ignorant, and a spur to the negligent; for it treats only of Christ, and as the Star the Wise men, will con∣duct them to him. But I am loth to take too large a survey in so small a piece of ground. They that write must not forget that Rule of the Orator, ut titulum legant, to read the Title of their Books, least like the gates of Min∣dus, it proves bigger then the City it self. I was ambitions to dedi∣cate it to your Honour, that it might kiss your hand, which hath been so often open to men of my
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calling and condition, and in particular to my self, the meanest of them who serve at the Altar. Now the God of Heaven be your continual guard and guide; his Blessings in a plurality light upon your Honour, and your whole Fa∣mily, as the dew on Gideons Fleece. This shall alwayes be the unfeigned Prayers of.
Your Honours most humble, and grateful Servant, William Harvey.