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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.
That you might not love the world, he suffers the world to hate you: that you might be crucified to the world, he suffers you to be crucified in the world: therefore do you meet with many afflictions in the world that you might not be condemned with the world. As there is a curse hid in the best things to wicked men, a curse in their health, their gold, silver, &c. so there is a blessing hid in the worst things to Gods people; a blessing in poverty, sickness, death it self. 1He hath said, All his ways are ways of mercy; and he will never depart from us from doing us good.
That you might not love the world, he suffers the world to hate you: that you might be crucified to the world, he suffers you to bee crucified in the world: therefore doe you meet with many afflictions in the world that you might not be condemned with the world. As there is a curse hid in the best things to wicked men, a curse in their health, their gold, silver, &c. so there is a blessing hid in the worst things to Gods people; a blessing in poverty, sicknesse, death it selfe. 1Hee hath said, All his wayes are wayes of mercy; and hee will never depart from us from doing us good.
As God makes one evil the punishment of another to wicked men, so he makes one evil the cure of another to his own people. The Physician orders poisons to useful purposes: So God those things which are evil in themselves, ⟨p. 82⟩to the good of his own people.