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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.
[Be not afraid.]
Doct. God would not have the hearts of his people sink under any affliction or trouble.
They were in a great trouble: yet he encourages them; Be not afraid. Hence we hear it ordinarily, Fear not thou worm Jacob, 1Isay 41.14. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer, Rev. 2.10. Fear not little flock, Luke 12.32. Thus GOD would steel the hearts of his people against base fears, though their troubles be great, yet he would not have their hearts to sink under them. And that first, Because this is offensive to God. It's a great wrong we do to God, to suffer our hearts to be cast down in times of trouble. You have a God who is able to relieve you, be you never so low; Nay, a God that is willing to help you: for he is a God of mercy; and all this mercy is for you; all this power is for you; you have a God who hath purposed to help you, he had purposes of good from all eternity to you. You have a God who ⟨p. 261⟩hath promised to help you: how many promises hath God made to you.—
They were in a great trouble: yet he incourages them; Be not afraid. Hence wee heare it ordinarily, Feare not thou worme Jacob, 1Isay 41.14. Feare none of those things which thou shalt suffer,