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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.
2. Reason. God doth increase our troubles, when he comes to remove our troubles; to make the increase of our troubles, the lessening of our sins. God doth bring Troubles on us, and by them doth lessen our estates, our treasure, our comforts, it may be our relations: And all this, that he might lessen our sins. ⟨p. 193⟩He troubles us for sin, because we troubled him by sin. He makes us bear a little for sin, because we make him to bear much: He complains under them, that he is pressed as a Cart is pressed with sheaves.1
2. Reason. God doth increase our troubles, when he comes to remove our troubles; to make the increase of our troubles, the lessening of our sinnes. God doth bring Troubles on us, and by them doth lessen our estates, our treasure, our comforts, it may be our relations: And all this, that he might lessen our sinnes. ⟨p. 193⟩He troubles us for sinne, because wee troubled him by sinne. He makes us bear a little for sinne, because we make him to bear much: He complaines under them, that he is pressed as a Cart is pressed with sheaves.1
- 12 Amos 13.
Christ hath shed his blood for sin, and he desires not our blood for satisfaction, he would rather have our tears than our blood. But because we will not give him tears, therefore he requires blood. Because we will not be humbled and reformed, therefore he threatens to humble us, to destroy us. Doth God afflict us, it is because we have sinned: Doth God increase our troubles? it is because we have increased our sins: And if you would have God to remove them, you must lessen your sins. Are your troubles grievous? let your sins be grievous. Would you have God to ease you? do you ease him. There is no reason you should expect, God shall ease you, when you burden him every day. Would you not have God to put more Cords into your whip, more Twigs into your Rod? would you not have God to increase your troubles? do you lessen your sins, lessen your pride; let some plume fall off, or