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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.
Rods of Correction come in, where words of instruction take no place, Men that will not learn by Faith, must be taught by sense, fA Rod is for the back of the Fool.— Long it was before God would be drawn to Strike, what defers? what delays? what waitings? nay what conflicts within him? who hath not heard the soundings of his Bowels? ghow shall I give thee up oh England? how shall I make thee as Ireland? how shall I set thee as Germany? Mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together, — All this while Englands tears, ⟨image 6⟩might have kept back a deluge of wrath; But no man repented, hno man smote upon his thigh, saying, what have I done? And when there was *no Remedy, but God must begin to ride his Circuit of judgement; yet, oh yet! what mercies hath he expressed in the midst of Judgement? what Compassions in the actings of Displeasures, as if he himself, as it was said of Augustus, did suffer in all our scourges, iand himself feel all our stripes. To pass over others. viz. Oppression, Injustice, Sabbath-breaking, — &c. There have been three special sins, which have had a great Influence into our present Troubles. 1. The Contempt of the Gospel. 2. Corrupting of Worship. 3. Profanation of Sacraments. 1. The contempt of the Gospel, we have had the precious Gospel of Christ, the streams whereof hath brought so many Ships laden with blessings, to our shore; But how have we despised it? what tenders of Mercy have we refused? What bleeding offers of Christ have we rejected? what bowels of Compassion have we spurned against? There is the sin, will you see the punishment? Read them both together. * Matth. 22.4, 5, 6, 7. God sent his servants to invite men to the marriage; Behold my Oxen and my Fatlings are killed, all is ready, — But they made light of it, — &c. therefore the King was wroth, And he sent forth his Armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burnt up their Cities. 2. The corrupting of worship, how the Worship of God hath been corrupted and abused by wicked men, you all know?— And look but into the Scriptures, you shall find, that most of the Calamities that did