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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 was so here with the Disciples. It was so with David.—I shall one day perish by the hand of Saul.—
And this ariseth, not so much from the greatness of our straits, as from the lowness of our spirits under them. We are too big in our successes, and too little in our losses: we are too high when things go well, and too low when things go ill. Men that are proud in successes, are sure to be as base in losses. We are apt to extremes. Hard it is to be nothing in our selves when things go well; and all in God, when things go ill: but this lessen we must learn; otherwise we shall be as unstable as the times themselves; & live and dye according to successes of things. Labour for steadiness of spirit, get to be settled in unsettled times; get to be fixed on God, be as a Rock in the Sea; Though the waves move, the sea rises and falls, yet the rock abides, that stands firm where it was. So let us—
And this ariseth, not so much from the greatnesse of our straits, as from the lownesse of our spirits under them. We are too big in our successes, and too little in our losses: we are too high when things go well, and too low when things go ill. Men that are proud in successes, are sure to be as base in losses. We are apt to extreames. Hard it is to be nothing in our selves when things goe well; and all in God, when things go ill: but this lessen we must learne; otherwise we shall be as unstable as the times themselves; & live and dye according to successes of things. Labour for steadinesse of spirit, get to be setled in unsetled times; get to be fixed on God, be as a Rock in the Sea; Though the waves move, the sea rises and fals, yet the rock abides, that stands firme where it was. So let us—