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…

1 When we know not what to do; when we are brought to the utmost of our thoughts and know not what to do: Such a strait was Israel in at the red Sea; they knew not what to do; the sea before them, the Egyptians behind them. But this was the time of Gods help. Deut. 32.35. It is there said concerning the enemies of Gods people, Their feet shall slide in due time: but when is that? he shows in the 36 Verse, when he seeth that his peoples power is gone, &c. when they know not what to do. Such a strait was ⟨p. 153⟩Jehoshaphat in 2 Chronicl. 20.12. We have no might against this great multitude that comes against us, neither know we what to do, but our eyes are upon thee. This was Gods time of help.

1 When we know not what to doe; when we are brought to the utmost of our thoughts and know not what to doe: Such a strait was Israel in at the red Sea; they knew not what to do; the sea before them, the Egyptians behinde them. But this was the time of Gods help. Deut. 32.35. It is there said concerning the enemies of Gods people, Their feet shall slide in due time: but when is that? he shewes in the 36 Verse, when he seeth that his peoples power is gone, &c. when they know not what to do. Such a strait was ⟨p. 153⟩Iehosaphat in 2 Chronicl. 20.12. Wee have no might against this great multitude that comes against us, neither know we what to doe, but our eyes are upon thee. This was Gods time of help.

Gods time of help is usually when mans time of help is gone. 31. Jerem. 36, 37. There is hope in thy end, when there was in a manner an end of all hope, when they had spent up all their stock of hopes, then doth God say, there is hope in thine end. You read in the 33.