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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.
Doct. Contrariety is the ground of all storms. Contrary spirits will ever cause tempest.
That which raiseth storms between God and man, between man and himself, between one creature and another, it is contrariety. Take away contrariety and take away storms. The way to have a calm sea is to cease the winds: so the way to have calmness in the Church, in the state, is to take away contrariety. The Decisions of the hand, are but the fruits of the differences in the heart. The differences ⟨p. 88⟩of mens judgements, do ever raise differences and troubles without.
That which raiseth stormes betweene God and man, between man and himselfe, between one creature and another, it is contrariety. Take away contrariety and take away stormes. The way to have a calme sea is to cease the winds: so the way to have calmnesse in the Church, in the state, is to take away contrariety. The Decisions of the hand, are but the fruits of the differences in the heart. The differences ⟨p. 88⟩of mens judgements, doe ever raise differences and troubles without.
If men were all of one mind, they might be all of one heart, and all would row the same way: but this is a happiness not to be expected, though prayed for, till the fourth watch when Christ shall enter the ship; but yet allowance for differences, may prevent storms. A fair Latitude for differences may procure love, prevent troubles, where the contrary endangers ten pests, &c. But why should this cause storms? me thinks if wicked men will not go to heaven themselves, yet they should let them alone that would go. Indeed they say they would go to heaven too, but they would not go your pace: they will not overgo the world, their pleasures, profits, this is too fast: what needs such haste: and therefore rather than mend their own pace, they would take them away that go before them.