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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

act our faith There is yet something more from this second effect of their feare They cryed out for feare Passion you see will have a vent Terror argumentum diffidentiae clamor despera●ionis Aret. They cryed out It had been well if they had cryed up but they cryed out Feare doth the one but it must be faith which must doe the other But what a shame was this It was a sin they should be afraid but what a shame they should cry out for feare They who were the Disciples of Christ were in Gods way went out upon Christs warrant doe they feare nay doe they cry out for feare what may the Mariners say Shall such a man as I fly Mchem 6.11 saith Nehemiah what one under such protections one under so many promises one who had such a cause such incouragements from above shall I flye This he thought both Gods dishonour his shame religions scandall So shall such men as these fear nay cry out too Such as were the friends and Disciples of Christ such as were sent on Christs Errand such who were under such protections doe they feare What I say might the poore Mariners say y Ecce quales sunt qui Christum coluut Sibona discerent boni essent Salv. What a dishonour was this to Christ what a scandall to Religion what a shame to themselves You have an excellent expression in the 8. Ezra 22. Read it See how tender Gods people are of Gods honour they will rather venture themselves then hazzard Gods glory he would rather goe in danger than give occasion to wicked men to think dishonourably of God Doct. Certainly Christians should be careful they should take heed of bringing an ill report upon the wayes of God they should take heed of bringing a scandall upon religion It is a great sinne with the bad spyes to bring an ill report on the good land to cause the wayes of God to bee evill spoken of Beware of fearing Wherefore should I feare in the dayes of evill saith David the righteous should be as bold as a Lion A good cause and a good courage should goe together But though you should fe●re yet fight against your fears pray against thē Beware of crying out He that crys up wil never cry out he whose heart hath found a vent to God hee will never complaine to man hee who is once open to God is shut up to man the more God hears of thee lesse man shall hear men cry downwards so much because they cry no more upwards if your hearts could once find a passage to God in your troubles you would finde so much comfort in it as you would never complaine to man Christians you are all publike persons there is an universality in every one of you one of you stands for many a few for all and that not onely for all Professors but profession too You had need therefore to be wary to walk exactly suffer not the Crosse of Christ the ways of God to be ill spoken of for your sake 3. Phil. 18. z Christum legunt impii sunt Christum audiunt inebriantur Christum sequuntur rapiunt Salv. de Gub. i. 4 5. 1 Sam. 12.24 Matth. 18.7 Give not you occasion to wicked men to blaspheme Religion to cast dirt in the pure face of Profession It was Davids sinne let it not be yours It lyes upon us to justifie the wayes of God by our unblameable walking Woe bee to them by whom offences come woe be to them who give just occasion of Scandall to wicked men that put a stumbling block in the wayes of others to hinder them from entring the way of life But yet you that are without suffer not the infirmities and sins of those that walke in the way of profession to bee a rock of offence a stone of stumbling to you to keep you from entring the way of life The wayes are good though all that walk in the wayes should be nought you are to walke by precepts not by the practises of others by rule not example their failings are not to be stars to sayle by but rocks to shun That which they should doe is thy Law that which they doe if they faile is not thy patterne It grieves me to see the unanswerable walking of professiors to profession and it is an addition to our sorrow to see how Satan makes use of our failings and sins to be as stumbling blocks to hinder others from entring the way of life But men whose hearts are set against the ways of God shall bee furnished with matter enough to bring them into further dislike If you be willing to be offended you shal have offences enough to your further blinding and hardning if the Word do not teach you works shall blind you if the word doe not soften you works will harden you if you stumble at the Word and at profession you are sure to fall at workes Men first take offence at the duties the Word commands and then they strengthen that offence by the failings of those who walke in those wayes This the Apostle shewes in the 1 Pet. 2.8 Christ was a stone of stumbling but you see to whom even to those who stumbled at the Word first first the stumble at the word then at Christ Beware lest this be your condition if it be all the faylings of Professors shall serve for no other end to you then for your further hardning and strengthenning your dislike against Profession it self to your utter undoing But we shall shut up this And will now come to the next Verse The end of the fifth Sermon Matth. 14.27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them saying be of good cheere It is I be not afraid HItherto you have had a black a stormy and tempestuous night and now the morning begins to appeare Hitherto you have had nothing but troubles fears outcries but now comfort begins to dawne The beginnings of Gods people may be very sad and troublesome but the end is ever comfortable and joyfull Hence David Mark the upright man observe the just for the end of that man is peace Psal 37. The end he saith not the beginnings The beginnings may be stormy but the end is calmy Noahs Ark was a long time tossed with waves but at last it came to Mount Ararat a place of rest So the Church of God may be Tost upon the stormy sea of this world for a time but at last God wil allay all stormes quiet all troubles and bring his poore tossed ship of the Church unto safe harbour There is a rest for the people of God Heb. 4.9 2 Thess 1.7 You have an Embleme of all this in this story of the ship on the sea which Augustine makes to resemble the state of the Church from Christs Ascension till his comming againe As I have shewed you before You have seen their Commission and setting forth to sea you have seene their danger and the feares they were in You

your selves he will carry it on though there be never so many appearing difficulties in the way It was said to Luther when he attempted that great work against the Man of Sin which was the greatest that ever man had to do since the Apostles dayes f Abi in cellam dic misererë mei Deus Go into thy Cell poor man and say Lord have mercy upon me But yet though were never so many difficulties in the carrying of it on and though never so many attempts against him yet he effected the one and which is the wonder of the World having a world of enemies dyes in his bed g Majestas non fracta And therefore be not discouraged if difficulties rise let your spirits rise with them you are above all things whilest you are above your selves h Audere ad nomen Christi periculum vitae fortunarum adire spiritus principalis est Luther It is a magnanimous spirit to dare to meet all dangers to undergoe all difficulties in the cause work of Christ You know what Luther said when he went to Wormes Bucer endeavoured to disswade him he replyes * Verbum dei in juriam patitur ego qui literis eo vocatus sum me conferam Haec est dies quem fecit dominus vocatus ego venio vocatus ingredior in nomine domini nostri lesu Christi etiamsi scirem tot esse diabolos Wormaliae quot sunt tegulae in aedium tectis The word of God doth suffer and I being called thither by Letters will go being called I come being called I will thither in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ although I should know there were as many Devils at Wormes as there are Tyles upon the houses Here was a Prinee-like spirit that was above the world and therefore could not be daunted with all the evils of it c. He who saith there is a Lion in the way that feares to go in a good way because of difficulties he is not fit to be a souldiour of Christ Fear is both unworthy religion which is the cause of Christ i Malus miles qui imperatorem gemens sequitur Scnec and a Christian who is the souldier of Christ Vse If those who walk in just wayes that have Gods warrant for their undertakings may yet meet with stormes then tell me what may they expect who go on in the wayes of sin if the wayes of Saints be strew'd with crosses with difficulties what shall be the end of swearers of wicked and prophane men if thus it fare with the green tree what shall become of the dry tree if thus with the wheat what with the chaffe if judgement begin at the house of God vvhere shall the sinners and vvicked appeare it is a question beyond your ansvver And so much for the first The unexpectednesse of their danger 2 We novv come to the second and that is the time of their danger vvhich is expressed in this vvord Novv The ship was now c. This points at the time of their danger now that is in the evening vvhen Christ vvas on the Mountaine * Initio satis feliciter procedit navigatio ita ut trium vel quatuor horarum spatio medium maris attigerint Chem. So that it seems hitherto they had had a prosperous voyage vvho in three or four houres vvere gotten into the midst of the Sea at the first evening they vvent to sea that vvas about three of the clock in the second evening they vvere in the midst of the sea and that vvas something after six of the clocke so that in three or foure houres space they vvere gotten into the middest of the sea but novv ariseth a storme Whence this Doct. That comfortable and promising beginnings may yet afterward finde sad and sorrow full proceedings It was so here the Disciples had a prosperous and promising setting forth but afterwards they met with stormes The stories of Moses in the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt and of the Jewes second building of the Temple tell us this plainly they had promising beginnings insomuch that they thought the work would have been done out of hand but the stories tell you what obstructions whar interruptions they met withall before the worke was finished c. Though the clauses and conclusions of Gods people are good as the Psalmist saith Mark the upright man observe the just for the end of that man is peace yet the beginnings and the proceedings may be sad and troublesome Though God will bring the ship of his Church to safe harbour at the last yet they may meet with stormes and tempests on the sea a Vt maresic mundus semper forvet nunquam quiescit So long as there be contrary windes men of contrary spirits looke for tempests expect stormes Vse This doth admonish us to beware of vaine and fleshy confidence because of promising beginnings n Nescis qusd serus vesper vehit The fairest morning may be over-cast the clearest day may bee over-clouded the most promising beginnings may meet with sad and sorrow full proceedings It was the best speech that ever Ahab had 1 King 20.11 Let not him that girds on his Armour boast himselfe as he that puts it off It is a great argument of lightnesse and vanity of spirit yea and of carnall fleshy confidence to bee puffed up upon promising beginnings a thing the world is apt to but when God sees his owne people in the same way they must then expect that God should hedge up their way with thornes and lay unpassible mountaines of difficulty in their way The case seems to bee ours it lookes like it Had not our ship in which was imbarked so much of our good and happinesse a prosperous gale at their first setting forth had they not a prosperous beginning did they not a long time goe without any contrary wind without any opposition had they not the Prayers the desires the countenance and well-wishes of all to carry them on were not the beginnings very comfortable and very promising you all know But how have they met with contrary winds sad proceedings what difficulties what mountaines of difficulties have they met withall in the carrying on of this work you all know The case is ours what must be the cure what is our work now in rhis case 1. There is something that wee must not doe 2. There is something that must bee done 1. We must not be discouraged God is able to make these troubles that are arisen in the way to help forward his own end Doe the billowes rise let the Ark let the ship rise with them do the winds blow let them but kindle and inflame your zeale and courage Assure your selves God will both bee your Pilot in the ship and your defence on the Sea That which you carry shall never miscarry nay it shal be your safety too o Perga contra tempestatem forti animo Caesarem