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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.
It's our sin, and our folly too, to forsake ⟨p. 248⟩the Fountain, and run to the stream: to forsake God, and go to the creature. A sin which God never failed to punish: And the punishment hath been suitable to the sin. In stead of succour, they have gotten shame; in stead of comfort, nothing but confusion. You may read it. Jer. 2. ult. Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way, thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria, yea thou shalt go forth from him, with thine hands upon thy head, for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
It's our sin, and our folly too, to forsake ⟨p. 248⟩the Fountain, and run to the stream: to forsake God, and goe to the creature. A sinne which God never fail'd to punish: And the punishment hath been sutable to the sin. In stead of succour, they have gotten shame; in stead of comfort, nothing but confusion. You may read it. Ier. 2. ult. Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way, thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria, yea thou shalt goe forth from him, with thine hands upon thy head, for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
God loves to Blast men, in their Carnal Confidences, we have had the sad experience of it. Disappointment and shame, are the Deserved ends of creature trusts: It should now be our wisdom (out of conviction of the emptiness of all Creature-Reliefs, and experience of the vanity of them) to go alone to him, who can alone relieve us: And to say with them, Hos. 14.3. who never found succour till then — Ashur shall not save us: we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands: Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. Or with the Psalmist,