The Seamen's and Boatmen's Manual

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Excerpt from The Seamen's and Boatmen's Manual: Original and SelectedSuppose I should try to persuade you, and should succeed in persuading you, that it is your duty and privilege to live a merry life - to do just as your wicked hearts incline you to do to take no serious thought about what will be your condition after death, to take no care about pleasing God, to please yourselves, to drink to excess if you think best, or to take God's holy name in vain, in one word, to follow the tide of your passions, and give your carnal desires their full measure of gratification. Suppose I should do all this? Would I be acting the part of a friend, when I knew from the Bible that although it might give you a momentary peace, it would be certain destruction in the end. Would you not lament your folly, and pour imprecations on me, for lulling you into a fatal security which would only make death the more dreadful when it came, and eternity the more insupportable?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.