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…

First, Search out the cause. Secondly, be humbled for it. Thirdly, Reform of it. 4. Supplicate Fifth, Covenant. 58. to 61 D. God spares to exercise young beginners with difficulties. 62 V. To comfort the Saints, your exercises shall not be above strength. 63 d. That when Christ intends to exercise the graces of his people, he brings them into the deep. 65 Reas. 1. To declare his wonders. 2 To try your graces. 3 To exercise them. V. Think it not much to go down into the deep. 76, 77 The Disciples sad condition at Sea, employed in that word Tossed. 79 d. There is not so much evil in the greatest trouble, as there is good in the least exercise of grace. 79, 80 d. God puts his people to a lesser trouble for their greater good. 80 V. It speaks patience under afflictions. 82, 83 d. The Church may be tossed, not swallowed up of waves. 84 V. Let wicked men cease to attempt against the Church, &c. 85. 86 d. Contrary spirits, cause tempests. 87, 88, 89 d. God may be working our preservation, when we think he is working our destruction. 92, 93 d. Storms are to be expected, where Christ is not in the ship. 94 V. As ever you desire Peace, get Christ into the ship. 95 V. Christ absence in trouble, makes sufferings insufferable. 96 V. Get Christs presence in all your sad conditions. 96, 97 d. Christ is present to faith, when absent to sense. 97 V: Learn to see him by Faith, when you cannot by sense: 98, 99 d. Gods heighten the troubles of his people, before he doth deliver them. Five Reasons of it. 99, 100 Reas. 1. To heighten our graces. 2 Or Duties. 3 Or Deliverance. 4 His Glory. 5 Or Praises. 101. to the 109 ⟨image 10⟩Use. Not to be cast down, though God heighten our troubles. 110 d. Christ takes notice of us in our greatest afflictions. 111 V To comfort: and 2. to counsel us how to behave our selves. 112 d. When Christ sees our trouble on the shore, he will come to us on the sea. 112 V. Be speak God to look down and see our trouble. 113 d. Means cannot be wanting, if God purpose help. 114 V. It speaks encouragement in our lowest condition. 114 d. Nothing shall part Christ and us in trouble, &c. 115, to 117 d. What ever Christ purposeth to do for his people, is as good as done. 119 V. It speaks comfort in respect of promises to the Saints. 120 And terror in respect of threatenings toward the wicked.

First, Search out the cause. Secondly, be humbled for it. Thirdly, Reform of it. 4. Supplicate Fift, Covenant. 58. to 61 D. God spares to exercise young beginners with difficulties. 62 V. To comfort the Saints, your exercises shall not be above strength. 63 d. That when Christ intends to exercise the graces of his people, he brings them into the deep. 65 Reas. 1. To declare his wonders. 2 To try your graces. 3 To exercise them. V. Think it not much to goe down into the deep. 76, 77 The Disciples sad condition at Sea, imployed in that word Tossed. 79 d. There is not so much evill in the greatest trouble, as there is good in the least exercise of grace. 79, 80 d. God puts his people to a lesser trouble for their greater good. 80 V. It speaks patience under afflictions. 82, 83 d. The Church may be tossed, not swallowed up of waves. 84 V. Let wicked men cease to attempt against the Church, &c. 85. 86 d. Contrary spirits, cause tempests. 87, 88, 89 d. God may be working our preservation, when we think he is working our destruction. 92, 93 d. Stormes are to be expected, where Christ is not in the ship. 94 V. As ever you desire Peace, get Christ into the ship. 95 V. Christ absence in trouble, makes sufferings insufferable. 96 V. Get Christs presence in all your sad conditions. 96, 97 d. Christ is present to faith, when absent to sence. 97 V: Learn to see him by Faith, when you cannot by sence: 98, 99 d. Gods heighten the troubles of his people, before he doth deliver them. Five Reasons of it. 99, 100 Reas. 1. To heighten our graces. 2 Or Duties. 3 Or Deliverance. 4 His Glory. 5 Or Praises. 101. to the 109