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england_n	earl_n	lord_n	robert_n	8,204	5	9.3818	5	true

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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

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 HVMILIATION Out of that Propheticall History Maith 14.22 to 28. By SAMUEL BOLTON preacher to the Congregation of Saviours Southwark Chrysost Hom. in Act. 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ioel. 2.21 Feare not O Land be glad and rejoyce for the Lord will doe great things for thee Psal 65.5 By terrible things wilt thou answer us O God of our salvation who art the confidence of all the ends of the Earth Vtinam qui nos modo exercent convertantur nobiscum exerceantur Aug. LONDON Printed by L. N. for Philemon Stephens and are to be sold at the golden Lion in Pauls Church-yard 1644. To the Right Honourable ROBERT Earle of Warwick Baron of Leez ' Le Rich Lord High Admirall of England c. Right Honourable A Publick spirit is a rare and excellent spirit honour'd of GOD esteem'd of Man it s a piece of GOD in Man or Man seeking himselfe in GOD. It s a spirit above the world because above it selfe We reade of many of the Heathens who were renowned for their publicknesse of spirit And certainely it was an excellent spirit which was in them but it was short of the true spirit it held forth a god though it fell below the true God Publicknesse of spirit speaks a god when privatenesse of spirit makes it selfe a god It s proper alone to God to work from himselfe and to himself to be the spring whence and the sea whither all his actions tend but it is not for man He that makes himselfe the principle of working and the end of working that like a circular line begins from himself and ends in himselfe doth pull downe God and setteth himselfe in Gods stead Like the spark in the fire or the drop in the sea so our good doth more consist in God then in our selves He that seeks to be something out of God begins to be nothing but he that can be nothing for God findes himselfe all in God and God all to him Right honourable among those who have excelled in this publicknesse of spirit in our dayes And have sought God and the good of these bleeding kingdomes in separation nay in opposition to themselves we finde your Honour in the front uncorruptedly upright And it is but a manifest of your ancient spirit in former times when not many durst and few would appeare to own religon under contempt we have had bad dayes before then dayes of sin now dayes of trouble and these dayes of trouble they are but the births of those dayes of sin Then you were a patron to the good now a patriot to the whole In the former you were a shelter in these a Saviour before a succour to religion now an assertor of it In which worke your honour hath had a part burthensome enough but suitable to the greatnesse of your spirit fitted to incounter with difficulties you have laine at the breaches seen the wonders of God in the deepe beene the terror of the sea the comfort of the land and we have therefore been so secure at land because our hearts have securely reposed in you at sea Your worke is great but your rewards are glorious the hardest services shall have the best rewards nay is there not something of a reward in this that God will own us that God will honour us to worke for him My Lord I know your head and hands are full yet give me leave in this presse of imployments to present to your honour the state of our Church under the notion of A tossed ship upon a stormy sea making to safe harbor under that notion these poor thoughts may finde accesse to you and come under your honours protection The Ship is the Church of God the Sea the world the the contrary windes men of contrary spirits the storme our present troubles the lading precious religion property liberty and what ever is deare the passengers our selves the harbour which we make towards is nothing but peace with reformation The windes have been and do continue high the sea stormy our dangers great and we have been forced to cast much of our lading over-board to preserve the rest and save the ship In these our straits many distrusting the safety of the ship have let down a Cock-boat and sought to shift for themselves Some sinfully all shamefully others who see their good folded up in the whole desire not to out-live their precious lading do still abide in the ship some labouring at the sterne others at the oare every one their hands full But though our work is hard our dangers great yet is it not with us as with the Apostle past all hopes of saving Acts 27.20 There is yet hope if we looke downward we are not yet so low as to hope against hope Rom. 4.18 If we were yet there is hope in the God of hope And indeed there is our stay we have anchord too much downward we have rested upon that which by very resting upon hath proved uncomfortable and unprofitable to us disappointment and shame are the deserved ends of creature trusts oh that wee could now anchor upwards upon that GOD who is the Rocke of Ages an everlasting rock a rock so deep that no floods can undermine so high that no waves can reach This is our comfort in our straits and troubles here below that there is yet sea-roome enough in the infinite goodnesse of God for faith to be carried full saile upon Nothing should pose our faith but what poseth God Nothing is too big for God to do and why shold any thing be too big for us to believe Things marvellous to us are yet easie with God things wonderfull to us are yet familiar with him as he tels us Zach. 8.6 It is our hope that God is risen nay gone forth and is now travelling in the greatnesse of his strength to bring redemption to his Churches to work deliverances for his people Let us stand and admire him in his going forth Loe this is our God! we have waited for him and he will save us this is the Lord Isay 25 9. we have waited for him and we will be glad in his salvation Let us put our selves into a posture fit to receive mercy and then stand still and see the salvation of our God stand still in believing yet indeavour in working we are to fix our eyes but use our hands Through God we shall doe valiantly for he shall tread downe all our enemies for us We but wee through God It is the speech of one Use means as if there were not a God to helpe look up to God as if not a man to help Certainly not to use meanes is to tempt God and to trust in meanes is to provoke God It is a lesson