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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.
Reas. 3. God doth heighten our difficulties, that he might heighten our deliverances. So much as comes into a trouble to heighten that, so much shall again come into a deliverance to increase that. bThe water ariseth as high as it doth fall low: we say, The lower the ebb, the higher is the tide. God will make the rises of his people proportionable to their castings down. The lower the foundation, the more high and eminent will be the structure; a shallow foundation will serve the turn for an ordinary structure; but he that goes about to raise an eminent structure, lays his foundation low. The same proportion God observes in difficulties before, the same will he observe in deliverances afterward. The darker the morning, the clearer will be the day; the sadder the Week, the more ⟨p. 106⟩joyful the Sabbath. When the Children of Israel came out of Egypt, you see how their difficulties were enlarged; but if you read the story, you shall find, what ever came in for an addition to their trouble, came in also as an addition to their deliverance. The power, greatness, rage and malice of the Adversary in pursuing them unto the Red Sea, was a great heightening of their difficulty, and you see it was a great enlargement of their deliverance, by this means they were rid of all their enemies at once. If their straits had not bin so great, their enlargements had not been so glorious. God delights to make the enlargements of his people as visible as their straits have bin. The like you have in the story of the five Kings, 2whose hearts God hardened, says the Text, to come out against Joshua: it must needs be a great heightening of their difficulty, when five potent Kings of Canaan united all their power and forces together against them; but you know, it was as great a heightening of their deliverance, for by that means they had all their enemies slain at once, struck off at one blow.3
Reas. 3. God doth heighten our difficulties, that he might heighten our deliverances. So much as comes into a trouble to heighten that, so much shall again come into a deliverance to increase that. b