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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.
How justly may that be applied to us now, which was spoken of Israel, When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Israel did appear. So it is with us, when the Lord would heal us, and reform us, then doth the iniquity of men, the malice, the pride, the hatred of the purity of Ordinances, then do all these •ppeare. What is the ground of all this trouble among us now? why are so many up in Arms, *but to keep out Christ, in the Power and purity of his Ordinances. Reformation is now the Ghost, that hath frighted them into Arms, men that are afraid, they run unto their weapons; so they, frighted with the Ghost of Reformation, get up weapons, put themselves in arms to oppose it. So long as Reformation is looked upon as an enemy, it shall find enemies enow, though indeed it is an enemy to nothing but their sins.
How justly may that be applyed to us now, which was spoken of Israel, When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Israel did appeare. So it is with us, when the Lord would heale us, and reforme us, then doth the iniquity of men, the malice, the pride, the hatred of the purity of Ordinances, then doe all these •ppeare. What is the ground of all this trouble among us now? why are so many up in Arms, *but to keep out Christ, in the Power and purity of his Ordinances. Reformation is now the Ghost, that hath frighted them into Arms, men that are afraid, they run unto their weapons; so they, frighted with the Ghost of Reformation, get up weapons, put themselves in armes to oppose it. So long as Reformation is looked upon as an enemy, it shall finde enemies enow, though indeed it is an enemy to nothing but their sinnes.
- *Vitia nostra quia amamus, defendimus.
A second time when he appears as a Ghost to them