A28624:1034
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.
3. 1Worldly minded men: The love of Money will cause men to err ⟨p. 277⟩from the Faith; as the Apostle saith, When men are lovers of themselves more then lovers of God, when they are lovers of honour more then lovers of God, mlovers of pleasure, of profit, more then nlovers of God, there need no great baits, it will be a matter of no great difficulty to draw them from God. Such men will, if occasion serve, raise themselves upon the ruins of others, make themselves great, by making others little; such men, they are for any service that may advance their corrupt desires. It is said of Demas, that he forsook Christ, and embraced this present world; he forsook the faith of Christ, and for gain he became an Idol Priest, at Thessalonica, as Dorotheus reports of him: So easy it is to take them from God, whose hearts are once taken with the world. There is no cause can be sure of those, whom honour or money can buy out. Such men are only this way till they can mend their wages, and then they are gone, it's easy to entice him, who is led away by his own lusts.—
3. 1Wordly minded men: The love of Money will cause men to erre ⟨p. 277⟩from the Faith; as the Apostle saith, When men are lovers of themselves more then lovers of God, when they are lovers of honour more then lovers of God, mlovers of pleasure, of profit, more then nlovers of God, there need no great baits, it will be a matter of no great difficulty to draw them from God. Such men will, if occasion serve, raise themselves upon the ruines of others, make themselves great, by making others little; such men, they are for any service that may advance their corrupt desires. It is said of Demas, that he forsook Christ, and imbraced this present world; he forsook the faith of Christ, and for gaine he became an Idoll Priest, at Thessalonica, as Dorotheus reports of him: So easie it is to take them from God, whose hearts are once taken with the world. There is no cause can be sure of those, whom honour or money can buy out. Such men are onely this way till they can mend their wages, and then they are gone, it's easie to intice him, who is led away by his own lusts.—