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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.
But yet you that are without, suffer not the infirmities and sins of those that walk in the way of profession to be a rock of offence, a stone of stumbling to you, to keep you from entering the way of life. The ways are good, though all that walk in the ways should be nought, you are to walk by precepts, not by the practises of others, by rule not example: their failings are not to be stars to sail by; but rocks to shun: That which they should do is thy Law, that which they ⟨p. 216⟩do (if they fail) is not thy pattern. It grieves me to see the unanswerable walking of professors to profession; and it is an addition to our sorrow, to see how Satan makes use of our failings, and sins to be as stumbling blocks to hinder others from entering the way of life. But men whose hearts are set against the ways of God, shall be furnished with matter enough to bring them into further dislike.
But yet you that are without, suffer not the infirmities and sins of those that walke in the way of profession to bee a rock of offence, a stone of stumbling to you, to keep you from entring the way of life. The wayes are good, though all that walk in the wayes should be nought, you are to walke by precepts, not by the practises of others, by rule not example: their failings are not to be stars to sayle by; but rocks to shun: That which they should doe is thy Law, that which they ⟨p. 216⟩doe (if they faile) is not thy patterne. It grieves me to see the unanswerable walking of professiors to profession; and it is an addition to our sorrow, to see how Satan makes use of our failings, and sins to be as stumbling blocks to hinder others from entring the way of life. But men whose hearts are set against the ways of God, shall bee furnished with matter enough to bring them into further dislike.
If you be willing to be offended, you shall have offences enough to your further blinding and hardening: if the Word do not teach you, works shall blind you, if the word do not soften you, works will harden you: if you stumble at the Word, and at profession, you are sure to fall at works.