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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.
Use. And this should teach us a lesson of patience under all Gods exercises, it is but the putting of thee to a little pain for thy greater ease; a little trouble for thy greater comfort; a little sorrow for thy greater joy. All Gods sad passages of providence to you xthey are for medicine, not for ruin; they are for health, not for death. Happy that sickness which occasions health, that sorrow which bringeth joy, those crosses that end in comforts, &c. for our light afflictions which are but for a moment, we have an eternal weight of glory.
Use. And this should teach us a lesson of patience under all Gods exercises, it is but the putting of thee to a little paine for thy greater ease; a little trouble for thy greater comfort; a little sorrow for thy greater joy. All Gods sad passages of providence to you xthey are for medicine, not for ruine; they are for health, not for death. Happy that sicknesse which occasions health, that sorrow which bringeth joy, those crosses that end in comforts, &c. for our light afflictions which are but for a moment, we have an eternall weight of glory.
- xIn medelam non in ruinam, in salutem non in mortem. Aug. Unde plangis castigatio non damnatio, &c. Nihil in faelicius faelicitate peccantum qua paenalis nutritur impunitas. Aug.
Thus is there an expedite in all Gods sad passages of providence to his own people: as he said to his Disciples, It is expedient for yet that I go away. It was ⟨p. 83⟩strange that the best of Creatures should stand between man, and the best of comforts: So it did there, the humanity of Christ was the best Creature that ever God made; yet this was the veil, the Cloud, that hindered the better comforts: If I go not, the comforter will not come.