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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.
Reas. 4. God doth increase our troubles, when he comes to remove them, that he might increase our deliverances. So much as comes into a trouble to increase that, so much shall come into a deliverance to heighten that. The same proportion God observeth in difficulties, the same he also observes in deliverances. God will make the rises of his people proportionable to their castings down: where he lays the foundation low, there he intends a proportionable structure of mercy, to raise the building high. They who sow in tears, shall reap in joy; & their harvest shall be as glorious as their seed time hath been uncomfortable.
Reas. 4. God doth increase our troubles, when hee comes to remove them, that he might increase our deliverances. So much as comes into a trouble to increase that, so much shall come into a deliverance to heighten that. The same proportion God observeth in difficulties, the same he also observes in deliverances. God will make the rises of his people proportionable to their castings down: where he layes the foundation low, there he intends a proportionable structure of mercy, to raise the building high. They who sow in teares, shall reape in joy; & their harvest shall be as glorious as their seed time hath been uncomfortable.
You see the difficulties of the Children of Israel, (which were so much enlarged in Egypt, and at the Red-sea) did all come into the enlargement of their deliverance. If the strait had not been so great, the enlargement had not been so glorious: if the trouble had not been so sad, the deliverance had not been so joyful. Read the story, and you shall find that those things which were additions to their troubles, were also made additions to their deliverance. By this means they had a fuller and completer deliverance, as I have showed before. —
You see the difficulties of the Children of Israel, (which were so much inlarged in Egypt, and at the Red-sea) did all come into the inlargement of their deliverance. If the strait had not been so great, the inlargement had not beene so glorious: if the trouble had not been so sad, the deliverance had not been so joyfull. Reade the story, and you shall finde that those things which were additions to their troubles, were also made additions to their deliverance. By this meanes they had a fuller and compleater deliverance, as I have shewed before. —