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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.
That which enabled the Apostles to go through all those difficulties as true soldiers of Christ, which you may read at large in the 2 Cor. 4, 8, 9. &c. 1It was this, they looked not at the things that were seen, but to those things which are *not seen, verse 18. Christians, these times will uncase you; they will discover the bottom of your hearts: they will not make them that are good bad, but only discover mens badness. It is true what one saith, A hypocrite is but an Apostate veiled; and an Apostate is but an hypocrite revealed. Had we not had these times of trial, we had not had so many hearts discovered; As the Apostle saith, 3Some mens sins go before them to judgement, some follow after: So here, though many had been discovered, yet some men had passed this life for Saints; whereas, now their sins go before them, to judgement; their hearts are laid open, before those books are opened. How many that in former times would have said, Come see my zeal for the Lord of Hosts, with Jehu, who would have sided against the corruptions of the times, who now with Jehu, do march furiously against the Reformation of them? And as it was ⟨p. 190⟩said of the Spaniards of Aldens Company in Germany: they fired the Castle of Lippa, which before they pretended to defend. So now they set themselves against that, which before they pretended to advance. *And therefore to discover the bottom of mens hearts, and spirits, as it was said of Christ, Luke 2.34, 35. That he was set up for the fall and rising of many in Israel, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. So it may be said of our present troubles.— And we have seen enough, Treacheries and Apostasies enough, falenes enough. Oh! that God would now stablish the hearts of those, whose hands have undertaken the work! that he would sift us no longer, but now make us up in one Loaf: At least thus far, To be of one undivided spirit for the public good! And this is the first reason.