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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.
And from him we might go down, and see the Church still upon a troublesome stormy sea, but tossed, not drowned. It was but like Noah's Ark on the waters; or Moses Bush on fire, not consumed; like the Sun under a cloud, all its glory veiled and hid under troubles and persecutions. But our hope is, that God is making his Churches glorious in the earth, that he will give enlargements for our straits, comforts for our troubles, & that he will make the enlargements of his people, as visible as their straits have been.
And from him wee might goe downe, and see the Church still upon a troublesome stormy sea, but tossed, not drowned. It was but like Noah's Ark on the waters; or Moses Bush on fire, not consumed; like the Sun under a cloud, all its glory vayled and hid under troubles and persecutions. But our hope is, that God is making his Churches glorious in the earth, that he will give inlargements for our straits, comforts for our troubles, & that he will make the inlargements of his people, as visible as their straits have been.
Use. If so? Let wicked men cease to attempt any thing against the Church and People of God: gIt is but labour in vain, they shall never attain what ⟨p. 86⟩what they seem to aim at, the ruin of the Church of God. He hath said 12 Zach. 3. That he will make his Church a a burdensome stone, they that lift at it shall be crushed by it, though all the Nations of the world should be gathered together against it. St. Jerome on this place saith, that in Jerusalem they had at the gates of the City a great stone, which men, to try their strengths, did lift at; and if they attempted it, & were not able to lift it, they hurt themselves thereby. Such a stone will God make his Church. We know the Piece overcharged, strikes not down that a man aims at, but rather he himself is strucken down with its own recoil: He that shoots against the Church, shoots in a Piece o'er-charged, and shall be sure to be struck down with its own recoil.