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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.
Mercy is never fit for you, till you be fit for mercy. Let the work of God go better on within, in your spirits, & Gods work will go better on without, abroad in the land. Interruptions, obstructions, delays abroad, are from hence, because that there are all these within. Let us not only expect, but prepare, 2 Pet. 3.12. —Looking for, and hastening the coming of the day of the Lord. Many will look for a thing which they will not hasten. Why, what is hastening? The day is determined; How can we hasten it? The meaning is not, That we should hasten the day, but that we should hasten or prepare our selves for the day. Therefore let us not only wait for mercy, but hasten to it, prepare for it. Now that we may thus hasten the day, four things are requisite. 1. That we humble. 2. That we believe. 3. That we be mighty in prayer. 4. That ⟨p. 260⟩we be sincere in our reformings.
Mercy is never fit for you, till you be fit for mercy. Let the work of God goe better on within, in your spirits, & Gods work will go better on without, abroad in the land. Interruptions, obstructions, delayes abroad, are from hence, because that there are all these within. Let us not only expect, but prepare, 2 Pet. 3.12. —Looking for, and hastning the comming of the day of the Lord. Many will look for a thing which they will not hasten. Why, what is hastning? The day is determined; How can we hasten it? The meaning is not, That we should hasten the day, but that we should hasten or prepare our selves for the day. Therefore let us not only wait for mercy, but hasten to it, prepare for it. Now that we may thus hasten the day, foure things are requisite. 1. That we humble. 2. That we beleeve. 3. That we be mighty in prayer. 4. That ⟨p. 260⟩we be sincere in our reformings.
And so much for the first part of the encouragement: we now come to the second.