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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.
The Physician doth often cast his Patient into a Fever to cure a Lethargy: He makes him a Little Sick, for his Greater Health. We often make the Patient more sick for the present, to Cure him of his sickness. The Chirurgeon doth Cut and Lance, which is increasing of the pain for the present: But yet it is for the removing of the Paine for the future: dSo God doth usually Increase the troubles of his People, When he comes to Remove the troubles of his People.
The Phifitian doth often cast his Patient into a Fever to cure a Lethargy: He makes him a Little Sick, for his Greater Health. Wee often make the Patient more sick for the present, to Cure him of his sicknesse. The Chirurgion doth Cut and Lance, which is increasing of the pain for the present: But yet it is for the removing of the Paine for the future: dSo God doth usually Increase the troubles of his People, When he comes to Remove the troubles of his People.
- dPlagam sanaturus, aliam graviorem priori infliget. Cartwr.
You see this in the Israelites: GOD had taken notice of the afflictions of his People in Egypt; and he came down to remove them; and for this end, he sent Moses and Aaron to deliver them. But if you observe the story, you shall find, That their troubles were far more increased, before God did Deliver them. Their Bondage was made more heavy: The Task of Brick was Doubled: Insomuch that they were rather content to be in their former slavery, then to endure the pains of a Deliverance. And therefore the quarrel with Moses and Aaron: *they grow weary of their Deliverers: any of ⟨p. 181⟩their deliverance too; and desired rather to be as they were, even in their former bondage, then to be at the pains and costs of a Deliverance.