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A tossed ship making to safe harbour, or, A word in season to a…A tossed ship making to safe harbor, or, A word in season to a…
A tossed ship making to safe harbour, or, A word in season to a sinking kingdom wherein Englands case and cure, her burdens and comforts, her pressures and duties are opened and applied : in diverse sermons preached upon the public days of humiliation, out of that prophetical history, Matth. 14, 22 to 28 / by Samuel Bolton ...A tossed ship making to safe harbor, or, A word in season to a sinking kingdome wherein Englands case and cure, her burthens and comforts, her pressures and duties are opened and applyed : in diverse sermons preached upon the publick dayes of humiliation, out of that propheticall history, Matth. 14, 22 to 28 / by Samuel Bolton ...
London: printed by L.N. for Philemon Stephens, 1644
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
He needs no enemies without, who hath a fearful heart within; how can he stand out against enemies from without, that is not able to stand against it self. This is the nature of fear, (where courage lessens difficulties, and makes great things conquerable; such a spirit looks through a lessening glass, and sees great dangers to be small; the heart still riseth above the difficulty.) This is the nature of fear it looks through a multiplying glass, and makes small dangers great, and unresistable. Assure your selves, fear will make a man weak amidst all the provisions of strength, your forts are nothing, if you retain your fears, you will be naked in the midst of arms, weak in the midst of strength; fear is an armoury of weapons against it self. It is our weaknings: 2. And it is the enemies strengthening; your fears ⟨p. 273⟩are their courage, and your courage their fears: It is said in Judges 2. That Israels sin was Eglon's strength: so our sin of fear, is the courage and strength of our adversaries; you weaken your selves and strengthen them, you disarm your selves, and arm them, you unweapon your selves, and put weapons into their hands to destroy you: It is a dangerous sin, and therefore God would not suffer such to go to war, they were unfit for wars; 1there were two qualities that were to be cashiered, malitia, molities, wickedness of life, and fearfulness of heart, the one makes our enemies weapons successful, and the other makes our own useless.—
Hee needs no enemies without, who hath a fearefull heart within; how can he stand out against enemies from without, that is not able to stand against it selfe. This is the nature of fear, (where courage lessens difficulties, and makes great things conquerable; such a spirit looks through a lessening glass, and sees great dangers to be small; the heart still riseth above the difficulty.) This is the nature of feare it looks through a multiplying glasse, and makes small dangers great, and unresistable. Assure your selves, feare will make a man weake amidst all the provisions of strength, your forts are nothing, if you retaine your feares, you will be naked in the midst of armes, weak in the midst of strength; fear is an armory of weapons against it selfe. It is our weaknings: 2. And it is the enemies strengthening; your feares