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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28624	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 ...	Bolton, Samuel, 1606-1654.	1644 (1644)	Wing B3527; ESTC R4171	146,323	320

worth learning not to swell in the injoyment nor to sink in the want of creature reliefes to be nothing in our selves in the presence of meanes and to be all in God in the absence of them But let me not be a burthen to your honour in the entrance My Lord I have only this to say you have done much for God and God hath now put advantages into your hands of doing more it will be your honour here ●●ies brevis opus multum merces magna pater familias urget operarii ne sint pigri and your happinesse for ever if God do please to make you instrumentall for the spreading of the light of the glorious Gospell of Jesus Christ into those dark Westerne parts of the world pitty it is that the Garden of the World should want the Sunne of the World that those places which abound in al things should want that which should bee the crowne and comfort of their abundance It is my earnest prayers that God of his mercy would give you a single heart and an industrious hand to work for him and himselfe eye your labouts write a booke of remembrance of them be your counfell in straits your protection in dangers your comfort in life your Saviour in death and after death the God of your posterity also that mercy may be intailed to your house for ever And this is the earnest and hearty prayers of him who is Your Honours in all humble and due observances S. BOLTON READER ARt thou a friend or an enemy Art thou active or passive in the injuries of Sion If active know thou wilt be found to strive against God a Injuria quae piis offertur fit ipsi deo 1 Nahum 9.11 and he will be too hard for thee what can the potsheard doe against the rock whether thou b Sive percutiat sive percutiatur frangi necesse est Smite or be Smitten thou must needs be Broken in pieces who ever thou art yet Read thou may finde something here if not to make thee yet to mend thee if not to convert thee yet to convince thee and at least restraine thee in thy former way c Ideo scribuntur omnes libri ut emendetur unus All Books are written to mend one the Book of the heart and who knowes but this may doe it Art thou Passive art thou a fellow sufferer Come then let us sit downe and mourne together d Cum deflentibus defleo cum jacentibus jaceo jaculis grassantis inimici membra meae percussa sunt cum prostratis fratribus me prostravit affectus meus Cypr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. Iliad let us help to weep the teares and sigh the sighes of a bleeding State Hast thou considered Ireland hast thou been there in thy sad thoughts hast thou observed the murthers cruelties ruines and devastations of that place hast thou heard the sighings of the Prisoners the scrichings of the Slaine the groanings of the dying hast thou taken notice of those thousands of the Saints e whose dead bodies they have given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven and whose flesh they have given to the beasts of the earth and whose blood they have shed like water upon the ground and there was none to bury them Tell me hast thou been at Irelands Funeralls Is it not yet dead we feare it is yet we hope it 's capable of a resurrection though with Lazarus it lie some dayes in the Grave before Christ come and raise it Hast thou seen all this and canst thou not weep come let us mourn together God hath made the same Organ both for Seeing and for weeping he that sees must needs Weep Hast thou observed the miseries of England That lies a bleeding though not a Dying Ezra 10.2 There is yet hope in Israel concerning this Though we have too many Symptomes of a dying State yet there may be a recovery possible this Issue of Blood may be stopped Indeed we have spent all upon Physitians and they have done what they can they have used the uttermost of their indeavours and skill but our Cure is not wrought England hath sinn'd now england suffers our present sufferings are but the fruits of our former sinnings Rods of Correction come in where words of instruction take no place Men that will not learn by Faith must be taught by sence f Prov. 26.3 A Rod is for the back of the Fool. Long it was before God would be drawn to Strike what deferres what delayes what waytings nay what conflicts within him who hath not heard the soundings of his Bowels g Hosea 11.8 how shall I give thee up oh England how shall I make thee as Ireland how shall I set thee as Germany Mine heart is turned within me my repentings are kindled together All this while Englands teares might have kept back a deluge of wrath But no man repented h Deus noluit punire ipsi extorquent ut pereant Salv. de provid l. 1. no man smote upon his thigh saying what have I done And when there was * 2 Chron. 36.16 no Remedy but God must begin to ride his Circuit of judgement yet oh yet what mercies hath he expressed in the mid'st of Judgement what Compassions in the actings of Displeasures as if he himself as it was said of Augustus did suffer in all our scourges i Paenas dat dum paenam Exigit Sen. de Clem. cap. 10. and himself feel all our stripes To passe over others viz. Oppression Injustice Sabbath-breaking c. There have been three speciall sins which have had a great Influence into our present Troubles 1. The Contempt of the Gospel 2. Corrupting of Worship 3. Profanation of Sacraments 1. The contempt of the Gospel we have had the precious Gospel of Christ the streames whereof hath brought so many Ships laden with blessings to our shore But how have we despised it what tenders of Mercy have we refused What bleeding offers of Christ have we rejected what bowels of Compassion have we spurn'd against There is the sin will you see the punishment Read them both together * Matth. 22.4 5 6 7. God sent his servants to invite men to the marriage Behold my Oxen and my Fatlings are killed all is ready But they made light of it c. therefore the King was wroth And he sent forth his Armies and destroyed those murtherers and burnt up their Cities 2. The corrupting of worship how the Worship of God hath been corrupted and abused by wicked men you all know And look but into the Scriptures you shall finde that most of the Calamities that did befall the Jewish Nation they took their rise from hence the corrupting of the Worship of God k Judg. 2.12 13 14. 2 Kings 17.6 7. 2 Chron. 36.14 15. Deut. 29.14.15 16 17. they chose new gods then was warre in the gate they served Baal and Ashtaroth they corrupted the Worship of God

Christ was the best Creature that ever God made yet this was the vayle the Cloud that hindred the better comforts If I goe not the comforter will not come y Miserecordia puniens justitia parcens There is a chastising mercy and a sparing Iustice God doth exercise one to wicked men when they goe on in sinne and he doth z Deus irrascitur cum peccantem non punit not punish them for it as you see in the 4. Hos 14. a Vae iilis quorum ultio reponitur infuturum ubi non est virga ibivenit maleus And by this they are hardned they are blinded they grow desperate in sin Because sentence against an evill worke is not executed presently therefore the hearts of the sons of men are fully set to doe evill 8 Eccles 11. b Unus filius sine peecato nullus sine flagello But the other viz. his chastising mercy he doth exercise towards his owne People They are chastized of the Lord that they may not bee condemned with the world c quamvis non bonum tamen in bonum in majus benum This is our comfort when God puts us to a lesser trouble it is for our greater good There is yet something more doth offer it selfe to us Tossed with waves He doth not say the ship was drowned with waves but it was rossed with waves It was tossed but it was not drowned whence in an Allegory Doct. Ecclesia quam vis potest turbari tamen non potest mergi premi non supremi c. Though the Church of God may be tossed with waves yet it shall never be swallowed up of the waves Christ may suffer the ship of his Church to be tossed upon a troublesome and tempestuous sea yet hath hee care of its safety it shall never be swallowed up of the waves Tossed it is often never drowned It was in danger tossed if you will in Ahabs dayes when they digged downe the Altars slew the Prophets set up the worship of the Sidonians insomuch that Elisha though he had been alone But yet though tossed it was not drowned God had then seven hundred in Israel that had never bowed the knee to Baal I might instance in the times of Antiochus who entred the Temple at Jerusalem burned up the Books of moses and the Prophets proclaimed feasting aad ryot in the Temple of God and put to death all that would not renounce their Religion It was tossed in the times of the ten bloudy Persecutions began under Nero when Peter and Paul were beheaded and continued under Dometian when John was banished into Patmos and so carryed on for divers Emperours more * Quo tempore universus orbis sacro martyrum eruore infectus When the whole world did swim with the bloud of innocent Martyrs yet at that time God did not only preserve but e Sanguis Marty rum semen Ecclesiae increase his Church insomuch that Julian lest off to persecute Christians as his predecessors had done f Non ex miscricordia sed ex invidia not out of mercy but out of envy because he saw the more they were afflicted the more they grew And from him wee might goe downe and see the Church still upon a troublesome stormy sea but tossed not drowned It was but like Noah's Ark on the waters or Moses Bush on fire not consumed like the Sun under a cloud all its glory vayled and hid under troubles and persecutions But our hope is that God is making his Churches glorious in the earth that he will give inlargements for our straits comforts for our troubles that he will make the inlargements of his people as visible as their straits have been Vse If so Let wicked men cease to attempt any thing against the Church and People of God g Impellere possunt sed in totnm prosternere non possunt crudeliter me tractare possunt sed non extirpare dentes nudare sed non devorare occidere me possunt sed in totum me perdere non possuut Luther It is but labour in vain they shall never attain what what they seem to ayme at the ruine of the Church of God Hee hath said 12 Zach. 3. That hee will make his Church a a burthensome stone they that lift at it shall be crushed by it though all the Nations of the world should bee gathered together against it St. Jerome on this place saith that in Jerusalem they had at the gates of the City a great stone which men to trye their strengths did lift at and if they attempted it were not able to lift it they hurt themselves thereby Such a stone wil God make his Church We know the Peece overcharged strikes not downe that a man ayms at but rather he himself is strucken down with its own recoyle Hee that shoots against the Church shoots in a Peece o're-charged and shall be sure to be struck downe with its own recoyle Pharaoh followed the children of Israel so long till at last hee was over-whelmed in the waters Jnlian lifted so long at this stone till at last it fell upon him and crushed him to powder Assure your selves you shall but make rods for your owne back you shall but pave a way to your own destruction you shal but dig pits to bury your selves in twist cords to bind your selves wituall No weapon formed against thee shall prosper and whoever riseth up against thee shall fall for thy sake Again they shall bee covered with shame that warre agasnst Sion c. Read 4. Mic. 11 12 13. 4 Mic. 11 12 13. 43 Is 3 4. c. And 43. Isa 3 4. I will give men for thee and people for thy life And therefore as Pilates wife said to her husband Have nothing to do with that just man so I to thee have nothing to do by way of injury with the Church of God c. But we will now come to the third particular of this danger The wind was contrary Here is the next cause of their troubles The wind was contrary Doct. Contrariety is the ground of all storms Contrary spirits will ever cause tempest That which raiseth stormes betweene God and man between man and himselfe between one creature and another it is contrariety Take away contrariety and take away stormes The way to have a calme sea is to cease the winds so the way to have calmnesse in the Church in the state is to take away contrariety The Decisions of the hand are but the fruits of the differences in the heart The differences of mens judgements doe ever raise differences and troubles without If men were all of one mind they might be all of one heart and all would row the same way but this is a happinesse not to be expected though prayed for till the fourth watch when Christ shall enter the ship but yet allowance for differences may prevent stormes A faire Latitude for differences may procure love prevent