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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.
Moses troubles were heightened at the Red Sea, that Gods praises might be also raised, when he came to the shore. And so they were. Nothing doth more swell a mercy and deliverance, then our necessity of it. The greater the necessity the greater the mercy. And proportionably as our thoughts are raised with the esteem of the mercy; so are our hearts raised in the returns of praises. Men sensible of their wants to pray for mercy, will be sensible of their enjoyments, in praises to God for them.
Moses troubles were heightned at the Red Sea, that Gods praises might be also raised, when he came to the shoare. And so they were. Nothing doth more swell a mercy and deliverance, then our necessity of it. The greater the necessity the greater the mercy. And proportionably as our thoughts are raised with the esteeme of the mercy; so are our hearts raised in the returnes of praises. Men sensible of their wants to pray for mercy, wil be sensible of their injoyments, in praises to God for them.
It is a sad thing, when God must be forced to make us miserable, that he might make us thankful. If we could be more thankful under deliverances, God would not make us so miserable under pressures. If our hearts could be but ⟨p. 200⟩more weighty in praises, Gods hand would not be so heavy in pressures. This is a sad thing, when God is enforced to increase our stripes, double our blows, add to our troubles when we are under them; that he might add to our praises when we are got out of them.
It is a sad thing, when God must bee forced to make us miserable, that hee might make us thankfull. If we could be more thankefull under deliverances, God would not make us so miserable under pressures. If our hearts could be but ⟨p. 200⟩more weighty in praises, Gods hand would not be so heavie in pressures. This is a sad thing, when God is inforced to increase our stripes, double our blowes, adde to our troubles when we are under them; that he might adde to our praises when wee are got out of them.