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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.
3. When we are brought to the lowest. 1. In Passive, Humiliation. 2. Active, Humiliation. when mens eyes are big with tears, their hearts with sorrow, then is Gods mercy big with deliverance; God doth use to bring in a full tide of Comfort, when we are at the lowest ebb of trouble, when the stream is dry, when the channel of second Causes doth not run, then will God arise, and have mercy on Zion, there is hope in thine end. Jere. 31.16, 17. when we would have thought there was an end of hope, when the stock of hopes was spent, &c. yet then a time of hope, Isaiah. 33.7, 8, 9. In the mean time, it is rather our work to do our present duties, then to busy our selves, and indeed ⟨p. 209⟩increase our present troubles, by seeking to take the elevation of them, our troubles are high, but how high God will raise them before he doth deliver us, it is not in man to tell; It is our comfort, he will either lessen the burden, or strengthen the back, either lessen our troubles, or increase our strength to bear, he will not suffer us to be rempted above measure, and he knows our measure, what we are able to bear. For the present, let it be our work to lessen our sins, as God increaseth our troubles, to heighten our duties, as God doth heighten our difficulties, to be healed by our troubles, healed of our pride, unthankfulness, &c. And you shall then quickly see, that God will turn all your troubles into healing. So much for that doctrine.
3. VVhen we are brought to the lowest. 1. In Passive, Humiliation. 2. Active, Humiliation. when mens eyes are bigge with teares, their hearts with sorrow, then is Gods mercy big with deliverance; God doth use to bring in a full tide of Comfort, when we are at the lowest ebbe of trouble, when the streame is dry, when the channell of second Causes doth not run, then will God arise, and have mercy on Sion, there is hope in thine end. Jere. 31.16, 17. when wee would have thought there was an end of hope, when the stock of hopes was spent, &c. yet then a time of hope, Esay. 33.7, 8, 9. In the mean time, it is rather our worke to doe our present duties, then to busy our selves, and indeed