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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

in Israel that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed So it may be said of our present troubles And we have seene enough Treacheries and Apostasies enough falenes enough Oh! that God would now stablish the hearts of those whose hands have undertaken the worke that he would sift us no longer but now make us up in one Loafe At least thus far To be of one undivided spirit for the publike good And this is the first reason God doth often increase our troubles when hee comes to remove our troubles to discouver our hearts that the thoughts of many hearts might bee revealed that as the Apostle sayes of Heresies 1 Cor. 11.18 19. 1 Cor. 11.18 19. I heare there are devisions among you Schismes Sects and I partly believe it For saith he There must be Heresies among you that they that are approved might be made manifest among you That is that those who are sound whose hearts are upright might be discovered What the Apostle says of Heresies I may say of these troubles There must be troubles among you and necessary that these troubles should be increased that they who are approved might bee made manifest That the drosse might bee knowne from the gold the counterfeit from the true the corrupt from the sincere the Chast from the Corne the precious from the vile the Tares from the Wheat Which though it be not yet fully manifested yet I feare God will heighten our troubles and increase our difficulties till hee hath made further discoveries Our desire is rather that God would use naturall Spirits for Spirituall purposes stablish them we have than to lessen the number of them However it shall bee my admonition to you all which Christ gave the Churches in that day when they are to fight the great battell against Antichrist which some think hath beene begun these many yeares in Germany and now in Ireland whatever it is in England You shall find it in Rev. 16.15 Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments clean lest he walke naked and they they see his shame You have many of you had a good esteeme in your places you have run well as the Apostle saith Gal. 5.7 you have been such as have sometimes appeared for God you have had a gatment of Profession frequented Sermons holy exercises given in some testimony against the corruptions of the times formerly Why this is my admonition Keep fast your garments lose not the things you have wrought 2 Ep. Joh. 8. lose not that esteem you have had keep fast your garments lest you walk naked and your shame be discovered That is lest all your former professions be discovered nothing else but hypocrisie lest all your former esteeme be lost your nakednesse and your shame the unsoundnesse and rottennesse of your hearts be discovered And so much for the first reason I have been too large 2. Reason God doth increase our troubles when he comes to remove our troubles to make the increase of our troubles the lessening of our sinnes God doth bring Troubles on us and by them doth lessen our estates our treasure our comforts it may be our relations And all this that he might lessen our sinnes He troubles us for sinne because wee troubled him by sinne He makes us bear a little for sinne because we make him to bear much He complaines under them that he is pressed as a Cart is pressed with sheaves 2 Amos 13. Christ hath shed his bloud for sinne and he desires not our bloud for satisfaction hee would rather have our teares than our bloud But because we will not give him teares therefore hee requires bloud Because we will not be humbled and reformed therefore he threatens to humble us to destroy us Doth God afflict us it is because we have sinned Doth God increase our troubles it is because we have increased our sinnes And if you would have God to remove them you must lessen your sinnes Are your troubles grievous let your sins bee grievous Would you have God to ease you doe you ease him There is no reason you should expect God shall ease you when you burthen him every day Would you not have God to put more Cords into your whip more Twigs into your Rod would you not have God to increase your troubles doe you lessen your sins lessen your pride let some plume fall off or God will humble you lessen your covetousnesse or God will lessen your store Lessen your drunkennesse or God will pull the cup from your nose and make you thirst for a drop Lessen your abuse of creatures or God will destroy the creatures 2 Hos 8. Hee will call for the corn wine and oyle in the day thereof Hos 2.8 Lessen your Blasphemies prophanation of the Sabbath Let it never be said of us as of that wicked Ahaz that in the time of his affliction he yet trespassed more against the Lord 2 Chron. 28.22 2 Chr. 22.22 He is marked in that Chapter and with this brand This is that wicked Ahaz Plectimur a Deo nec flectimur tamen corripimur fed non corrigimur Salvian as if God would note him our for the vilest wretch in the world who would grow worse by corrections who would sinne under all Gods lashings It is good when God humbles us to humble our selves Erudiri cupio flagellis non erui Bern. in Cant. 33. when God lessens our Comforts that wee should lessen our pride I will say thus much to you God will make the increase of your trouble to be serviceable to the increase of your Deliverances if you make the increase of your troubles to serve for the lessening of your sins 3. Reason God doth increase our troubles when he comes to remove them that we might increase our duties The louder God speakes to us the louder should we speake to God Ordinary duties will not serve for extraordinary times When God doubles his strokes we should double our strength to wrestle with God when he multiplies troubles wee should multiply prayers The greater out straites the greater should be our inlargements The greater our Difficulties the more earnest and fervent our Prayers Christians ordinary Prayers will not serve for extraordinary pressures Our present troubles are Gods Spurs and Goads in our sides to quicken our pace in our way to Heaven God drives us from our homes to drive us from our sinnes God fires us out of our houses that hee might fire us out of our Formalities Hee threatens to lay our outward condition low that hee might raise our Spirits high Difficulties should much quicken us to duties God saith so Hos 5. ult In the time of their affliction they will seek me early i.e. Diligently 5 Hos ult Then will they wrestle with God in prayer You reade when Iacobs troubles were increased Gen. 32.24 he went to Prayer he first wrestled with God before he went to encounter with his Brother not doubting but if he

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

hee grew as hot as the Sun which shone upon him It was the Devills argument concerning Job Job 1. and it was true in the maine God said that Job was a holy man a patient man Why but saith Sathan What thanks to him for that he must needs be patient who hath nothing to disturbe his patience As he is the patientest so he is the happiest man of all the children of the East hast not thou laden him with blessings given him what his heart can wish or desire Children riches possessions c. Nay and hast not thou made a hedge about him too and fenced in all happinesse by thy providence so that nothing can break in to annoy and disturbe him in his happinesse Alas what tryall of patience is here where there is nothing to disturbe or annoy him Do but let me deale with him a little and I will quickly sound him give mee but commission to take away his Children his goods and to smite his body and then wee shall quickly see his patience This man who now seems so patient will curse thee to thy face The mayne of his argument was this and it was true in the mayne That while all things which are fuell to patience are injoyned while a man is in ptosperitie and hath what his heart can wish here is no tryall of patience But when a man is brought into the deep plucked from the shore of his injoyments When a man is brought into straits and difficulties here will bee the tryall And therefore doth God often carry his people into the deep as he did him and raise storms troubles there that he might discover his peoples patience And when a man can now lye downe in the dust kisse the rod justifie God cleare him in all his dealings and sweetly accept of the punishment of his iniquity when a man can by the power of Faith lay all the insurrections in his soul silence all murmurings 26. Lev. 41.3 Lum 32. and give God the glory of his owne proceedings with him Here is patience indeed patience in strength That is the second 3. Reas God doth bring us into the the deep as to discover so to exercise our graces The deep is the fittest place for exercise the exercise of our faith love hope patience the grace of prayer c. Men will never cast themselves upon God so long as they have any bottome to stand upon here below Therefore he brings us into the deep that when we have no other bottome he might be our onely bottome The exercise of faith is called a standding still 14 Exod. 13.2 Jer. l. 30 Ifai 1. to beheld the salvation of the Lord. But a man will never stand still so long as he hath any friend to gadde unto You see that in the Jews 2 Jer. ult Isai 30.1 c. And therefore God doth bring us into the deep into such difficulties wherein we can neither goe to others for succour nor others come to us that now in this time our souls might find the way to heaven alone So the exercise of faith is called a resting upon God but we will not rest fully on him so long as we have any thing else to rest upon here below And therefore God doth break in pieces the Reeds on which we rest or makes them helplesse and comfortlesse to us that we might depend alone on him Againe the exercise of faith is called a retiring our selves to him a sheltering of our selves in God flying under his shadow running to him as our Tower But this we shall never do so long as we have any Bulwarks of our owne The tower is the last refuge and therefore God doth beat us out of our own Bulwarks out of our owne meanes of provision that wee might alone flye to him for security So the excercise of faith is called an Anchoring of our selves on God But so long as we finde a bortome here below wee will never cast Anchor upwards And therefore God doth bring us into the deep the mid'st of the Sea where the soule can find no bottome to anchor on that so the soule might cast anchor upwards and rest alone on God who never fayled them that trust in him Psalme 9.10 Thus you see Jehosaphat 2 Chro. 20.12 We know not what to doe here was no bottome for him to anchor on below a great enemy and small strength to withstand and therefore hee anchors upwards But our eyes are upon thee To conclude the middest of the Sea it is the fittest place for God to trye and exercise his people and for God to succour and help his people wee shall bee most thankful God wil get himself most glory and the deliverance of his people will be most conspicuous If God should help us on the shore while we are among our other succours and helps these perhaps would either obscure or take away the glory which belongs to God in a deliverance But when God doth pluck us from the shore bring us into the deep above the reach of creatures to relieve us then if God help us he doth inherite his owne glory we will then say the finger of the Lord is here None but a God could have disappoynted such plots none but a God could have layd such stormes none but hee could have wrought such deliverance for us 1. Use Thinke it not much to goe downe into the deep It is a place God chuseth for the demonstration of thy graces and declaration of his own mercy Wee had never knowne Abrahams faith and love Davids piety Jobs patience Pauls courage and constancy if they had been ever upon the shore if God had not sometime brought them into the the deep Nor should we know either our sinnes or our graces if God did not sometimes bring us upon exercises Hast thou been in the midst of the Sea hast thou been in the deep 1. The depth of temptarions 2. Of desertions 3. Of outward trouble And hast thou cleaved noto God hast thou justified him hast thou loved him hast thou had experience of thy graces have they abidden tryall Here is something to evidence the truth of thy graces to thee Difficulties are exercises and abiding difficulties are experiences to us of the truth of our graces That 's surely ours which hath abiden temptation There is no judging while you are on the shore the tryal is when you come into the deep one experience fetched out of the deep will tend more to thy establishment than many promising evidences never put to the tryall The deep demonstrates the truth of thy graces And it declares the riches of Gods mercy God takes delight to put forth himselfe in desperate cases In such cases his mercy will be most visible his people most thankfull and deliverance most welcome We should never have the experince what God can doe if we did not see what man cannot doe you should never know the mercy of God if you had not experience of

of thy children Isay 62.1 2. c. For Sions sake I will not hold my peace and for Jerusalems sake I will not rest untill the righteousnesse thereof goe forth as brightnesse and the salvation thereof as a Lampe that burneth and the Gentiles shall see thy righteousnesse and all Kings thy glory And thou shalt be called by a new name Thou shalt also be a crowne of glory in the hand of the Lord Of which places I may say as the Eunuch to Philip Speaketh the Prophet this of himselfe or of some other So speaketh the Prophet these glorious things of the Church past or the Church to come Of the Church past it cannot be for hitherto it hath been like Noahs Ark on the waters like the ship on a stormy sea conflicting with insupportable troubles and difficulties Though she hath had her respites and breathings yet she hath still beene held down and humbled tossed and afflicted under bondage and persecution And therefore it cannot bee meant of the Church past and if not must be meant of the Church to come And is it to come that God will make his Church thus glorious That her enemies shall fall before her Will God do this yet before the end And is the end of all things at hand Are we now fallen into the last sands why this is something to speak incouragement to us And this is from a word And thus you see Christ speaks incouragement to us as well as he did to his Disciples here He speakes incouragement by his word by his workes by his promises his proceedings Every way he speaks incouragement and if you die die with this confidence That God hath laid the foundation of the Churches deliverance though the oppositions swell never so high God takes it well at our hands when we do entertaine and maintaine good thoughts of him towards his people He delights in them that hope in his mercy Though you have never a promise yet to hope upon Gods nature his love to his Church And there is ground enough of hope from that even his love to his Church If you looke but upon what hee hath done to compasse a Church nay what hath suffered how he hath shed his blood for her All this would afford us something for our hope Will he do so much to purchase her and will he now lose her It is most sutable to the Gospell and most sutable to our relations to God yea and expectations from God nay and most sutable to a Christian spirit rather to dye over-hoping then over-fearing We can never over-hope Gods thoughts of love and mercy to his Church people nor his purposes and promises to them And therefore let it be said of us as t was of them Heb. 11.13 All these died in faith not having received the promises but having seen them afarre off were perswaded of them and imbraced them Let us doe our worke in our generation and leave our hopes and the remainder of the work if any remaine them that follow And thus much for the first thing viz. The way that Christ took to comfort and Incourage his Disciples against fears and dangers He spake to them A word from Christ is able to raise up up the drooping spirits of his people in trouble The end of the sixth Sermon WEE now come to the Second Scil. The incouragement it it self which is double 1. Be of good cheere 2. Be not afraid The Incouragement you see is doubled because their feares were doubled 1. They were in danger of drowning 2. They were in feare of a ghost Against this double Fear Christ gives a double incouragement Against the first Their danger in respect of the Tempest he bids them Bee of good cheare be of good courage believe Against the second their feare of the Ghost he bids them Be not afraid it is I one that comes not to destroy you but to save you It is I be not afraid In the generall from the double Incouragement observe That D. Christs help and reliefs are not onely sutable but they are proportionable to the necessities of his people Their feares and troubles were doubled and so were his incouragements also Single incouragement is too little for double feare as the one is doubled so is the other In the 68. Psalme verse 20. he is said to be n 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deus salvationum non frustra pluraliter loquitur non uno tantum modo Deus Saluiis est Deus sed inu meris modis Musc Mille mali species mille salutis erunt Read the 80. Psal 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The God of salvations many troubles and many salvations as our troubles cannot over-swell his power be too great for him to help neither can they be too many in number for him to help As the evills of his people are many so the Salvations of his people are many if wee have a thousand troubles hee hath a thousand salvations As hee hath more blessings than one so hath he more salvations than one He saves our soules from sinne and there is mercy more than enough for the greatest of sinnes 1 Tim. 1.14 and sinners Hee saves our bodies from Troubles and there can bee no Troubles above the safeties of God He is not a Saviour onely but an All-sufficient an Almighty Saviour Not onely a Redeemer but a perfect Redeemer yea a plenteous Redeemer With him is plenteous Redemption Psalm 130.7 Full troubles full redemption Overflowing evills over flowing redemption The necessities of the Creatures can never be above the salvations of God Nor men nor devills can make us more miserable than God is mercifull nor lay us so low but everlasting armes can raise us up Are men full of malice God is fuller of mercy Are they mighty to destroy God is more mighty to save Do they multiply our troubles God can multiply our supports our comforts our deliverances You can never bee in such a distresse but God is able to proportion your deliverance to your distresse With him is power Psal 62. Gods reliefes are not onely sutable but they are proportionable to the necessities of his people And the grounds hereof are R. 1. First Because they are the Reliefes of God the Helps of God That which God doth he doth throughly hee doth to purpose Men may doe things overtly slightly but so doth not God what he doth he doth throughly Gods Helps are through-helps full-helps Men may be too weak to relieve us their helps may be too short But so are not the helps of God 2. The helps of Gods people doe arise from Gods Mercy Bowells of Mercy Now you know what a man doth out of Love he doth Throughly he doth Fully All that God doth to his people is out of Love Power and Love can doe all Those two Attributes which God doth chiefly exercise in the relieving of his people doe speak the Reliefs of God Proportionable to their Necessities What cannot Infinite Power