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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.
A story which runs parallel with our Times, and (which is worse) our Spirits too: Which of us, with them, do not look upon the Beginnings of our Deliverance (because of the pains and costs of it) to be as bad as the Bottom of our sufferings? And do not many of us, wish, There never had been a Parliament? do we not wish; That they had never sought to Deliver us? Are we not weary of our Deliverers? Nay, are we not weary of our Deliverance? Rather content to be As we were, nay worse; then to endure the Pains, to be at the Costs, to run the hazard of a Deliverance? Thus God increaseth our Troubles, 1when yet he comes to Remove our Troubles.
A story which runs parallell with our Times, and (which is worse) our Spirits too: Which of us, with them, doe not look upon the Beginnings of our Deliverance (because of the paines and costs of it) to be as bad as the Bottome of our sufferings? And doe not many of us, wish, There never had been a Parliament? doe we not wish; That they had never sought to Deliver us? Are we not weary of our Deliverers? Nay, are wee not weary of our Deliverance? Rather content to be As we were, nay worse; then to endure the Paines, to be at the Costs, to run the hazard of a Deliverance? Thus God increaseth our Troubles, 1when yet he comes to Remove our Troubles.
- 1Signum est in propinquo adesle consolationem a Domino, si quando tentatio ad supremum usque crevice deprehenditur. Muse.Signum est in propinquo adesle consolationem a Domino, si quando tentatio ad supremum usque crevisse deprehenditur. Muse.
Thus you see in Jacob; God intended to Deliver him; and yet you see, before God did deliver him, he Increased both in his Fears and his Dangers; as you may see in the Story both of Laban and Esau. *