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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.
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.
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 happinesse not to be expected, though prayed for, till the fourth watch when Christ shall enter the ship; but yet allowance for differences, may prevent stormes. A faire Latitude for differences may procure love, prevent troubles, where the contrary indangers tē pests, &c. But why should this cause stormes? me thinks if wicked men will not goe to heaven themselves, yet they should let them alone that would go. Indeed they say they would goe to heaven too, but they would not goe your pace: they will not overgoe the world, their pleasures, profits, this is too fast: what needs such haste: and therefore rather than mend their owne pace, they would take them away that goe before them.
When they see others to walk in a more spiritual and holy way than themselves, they are cast and condemned in their own thoughts, that their way is not good, and having no desire to come up to them, and to the rule, thereupon they hate and persecute those that go before them.
When they see others to walk in a more spirituall and holy way than themselves, they are cast and condemned in their own thoughts, that their way is not good, and having no desire to come up to them, and to the rule, thereupon they hate and persecute those that goe before them.