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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

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

brought into straights but he doth heighten their straights and raise up their difficulties higher and higher before he do deliver them It is plaine here and also in the stories of Israels troubles in Egypt their troubles were great before u Quo proprior est salui eo magis pericula crescere sinaet Chem. but they were heightned before God delivered them Insomuch as they looked upon the beginnings of their deliverance as bad as the worst of their sufferings and were rather content to be in their former slavery then to indure the paines of a deliverance But yet though they were higher they were not at the height till they came to the Red Sea when a sea before them not to be passed an inraged enemy behinde them not to be resisted mountaines on each side them that they could not tell what to doe whither to betake themselves which was the rise of their deliverance a Quando ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 perventum est tum Christus salvator adest Chem. God useth to take a rise of deliverance from the lowest step of his peoples sufferings Read but the stories of David of the Jewes in re-building the Temple and you shall see the truth of this that God doth heighten the troubles of his people before he do deliver them And this God doth Reas 1. To heighten our graces your faith not your feare your hope not your discouragements b In veris Christianis crescit amor fidei quantum ipsa pericula crescunt Chem. As difficulties do arise so should the faith of Gods people rise too As it was with Noahs ark the waters rose higher and higher and still as the waters arose the Ark arose the waters never arose above the Arke y Non cogitan lum quantum sit periculum in quo agimque aut quid virēs nostrae possint sed quid is cui fidemus potest Cartw. So should it be with a Christians faith as troubles arise so our trust should arise no difficulties should arise above our faith if God have weakned the arme of flesh we should strengthen the arme of faith if he have shortned us in the reliefe of creatures we should strengthen our selves in our relyance and rest upon God It is our sin we are too high in successes and too low in losses we are too big when things go well and too little when things goe ill and it must needs be so men that are proud in successes will be as base in losses This is the nature of faith it makes us nothing in our selves when things go well and it makes us all in God when things go ill Nothing should pose our faith but what poseth God if there be any thing too great for God to doe then there might be something too big for us to beleeve but so long as there is nothing above his power and love to doe for his people why should there be any thing above our faith to beleeve God will doe for them It is better to dye over-hoping then over-fearing though we had no incouragements from below yet we have enough from above We have incouragements 1 From Gods name a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nomen magnum gloriosum appropriatum existentiam o●nibus promissis suis adhibens 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fortis pronom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qui 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sufficiens hinc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deus omnipotens sufficiens ad omnia praestanda in se a se sufficientiam abundantiam omni modum habens Sufficiens absque alicujus ope Ad opem conferendum ad suos protegendum ad promissa servanda explendos defectus omuium every name of GOD speaks incouragement 2 We have incouragements from Gods Attributes his Power Wisdome Mercy Justice c. Every thing in God speakes incouragement to faith because every thing in God is for the good of his people 3 We have incouragements from his covenant his promises to us where can you look and not finde something to speak incouragement to you 4 You have incouragement from the experience of Gods dealings with others of his people nay from the experience of his dealing towards our selves Enough enough to hold up our hearts Though there be weaknesse below yet there is strength above though a famine on Earth yet there is no dearth in Heaven as the Nobleman thought Infinite power and infinite love cannot be posed It is a kinde of limiting Gods power and taking away the Almighty not to rest upon God in the greatest of difficulties He is not only the God of the Vallies but of the Hils also He is not only able to helpe in the lesser but in the greatest difficulties You can never swell a difficulty above the power of God you can never be so low * Deut. 33 2● but everlasting armes are able to relieve you You read in Zach. 8.6 God had promised them deliverance but it was almost above their faith to beleeve it they thought it almost impossible that ever those dead bones should live But saith God Because this is marvellous in your eyes is it marvellous to me oh house of Israel things wonderfull to you are familiar to me things marvellous to you are yet easie to me My thoughts are not as your thoughts God would not that any difficulty should rise above our faith this were to raise a difficulty above God himselfe he would have our faith rise as the trouble riseth And therefore he doth heighten our troubles that he might highten our faith which indeed if it once worke and bottome on God there is no difficulty can rise above it c. Reas 2. God doth heighten our difficulties before hee doth deliver us to heighten our duties hee heightens our troubles to heighten our prayers a Quo profundiores angustiae eo profundiora suspiria Mol. in 130. Psal The greater our straights the greater should be our inlargements the greater our difficulties the more earnest and fervent should be our prayers Difficulties doe mightily quicken the soule to duties God saith so Hosea 5.1 In the time of their affliction then they will seek me early me diligently Then will the soule wrestle with God by the strength of faith of Christ of promises c. Jacobs prayer in his great straight is called a wrestling with God See the stories of David of Hezekiah of the Church in Hesters time Jehosophat c. they were in great straits and their prayers were wrestling prayers Difficulties are to grace as the bellowes to the fire to intend it and make it burn more vehemently then will the foule pray more fervently with more extension and intention of spirit and will joyn teares with prayers humiliation with supplication as you see in Hesters time Nehemiah Ezra And now doth the soule gather up arguments from God from his pr●nises attributes from the miseries of the Church c. and

pray Hee bestowes mercy on wicked men without asking hee feedes and cloathes them causeth the Sunne to shine on the bad as well as good but these are the mercies of a generall providence not distinguishing mercies of generall bounty not of speciall love But the mercies he bestowes on his owne God is willing they should come in as fruits of prayer and as performance of promises And then are they mercies indeed The way of comming in is a greater mercy then the mercy it selfe My brethren we are in a sad condition We expect mercy we looke for deliverance But doe you pray Doe you beleeve Doe you wait Remember this God will put his people in a posture fit to receive before he will bestow mercy in a frame fit for deliverance before he will deliver them Mercy is never fit for you till you be fit for mercy Let the work of God goe better on within in your spirits Gods work will go better on without abroad in the land Interruptions obstructions delayes abroad are from hence because that there are all these within Let us not only expect but prepare 2 Pet. 3.12 Looking for and hastning the comming of the day of the Lord. Many will look for a thing which they will not hasten Why what is hastning The day is determined How can we hasten it The meaning is not That we should hasten the day but that we should hasten or prepare our selves for the day Therefore let us not only wait for mercy but hasten to it prepare for it Now that we may thus hasten the day foure things are requisite 1. That we humble 2. That we beleeve 3. That we be mighty in prayer 4. That we be sincere in our reformings And so much for the first part of the incouragement we now come to the second 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 incourages them Be not afraid Hence wee heare it ordinarily Feare not thou worme Jacob Isay 41.14 Isay 7.4.8.12 Isay 43.1.5 Rev. 2.10 Luke 2.32 Isay 41.14 Feare none of those things which thou shalt suffer Rev. 2.10 Feare not little flock Luke 12.32 Thus GOD would steele the hearts of his people against base feares 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 doe to God to suffer our hearts to be cast downe 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 helpe 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 helpe you he had purposes of good from all eternity to you You have a God who hath promised to helpe you how many promises hath God made to you Nay And you have had Experience of his Goodnesse both towards others and towards your selves It hath been a Tryed Goodnesse an Experienced goodnesse And therefore how doe wee wrong God when we suffer our hearts to sinke in the dayes of Evill Christians should be tender of Gods glory you have need to take heed of bringing an ill Report upon God as if he should not have regard to to help his own People This gives occasion of hard thoughts to the men of the World You have a tender expression in Ezra 8.22 I was ashamed to require of the King a band of Souldiers and horsemen to helpe me against the enmy Because wee had spoken to the King saying The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him But his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him Mark you here Hee was in a Great strait There was great danger He feared the enemy yet he was asham'd to ask any helpe Why Because hee had said to the King Certainly God will preserve his owne And the King thought so And therefore lest hee should any way Dishonour God and give the King occasion to suspect that God would not Preserve them he would rather venture all upon God in danger then give the King such occasion of suspition Christians should bee tender of Gods honour 2. It 's unsutable to Christians Christians should be couragious 1. It is unsutable to your calling you are Christians who should be more valiant then they that are most holy a Quis tam fortis quam qui Sanctus Ber. ad mil. Temp. c. ● The righteous should be as bold as a Lyon greatnesse of Spirit befits those who are Christians your Cause is good your incouragements good your succours good your comforts good your rewards are good and why should not your courage your hearts come up to all these You read in the 51 Isay 12 13. God said to his people Who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of man fear not Worme Iacob Indeed one would think he should have said who art thou that thou shouldest not be afraid of a man what is a worme under mens feet thou art but a worme Yet God saith Who art thou as if he had said Consider but thy self and what relations thou stands in to the great God under what mighty protections thou art under what Promises And thou wilt think it a thing very unworthy very unbeseeming thy self to feare Wherefore should I fear saith David in the dayes of evill Wherefore should I I that stand in such relations I that have such dependances such encouragements such succours such promises such expectations wherefore should I feare this were unworthy me As Themistocles said to a Souldier when he passed by the spoile of his enemies Thou mayst gather up the spoyle for thou 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plut. art not Themistocles Esteeming it unworthy for him to doe those things which others did Christians God hath stamped a great deal of honour upon you in making you Christians the Souldiers of Christ and you are to be as farre above others of the world in courage as they are below you in condition See David Psal 27.1 2 3. Feares are their portion not yours Isay 8.12 Fear not their fears 2. They are unsutable to your Cause They are unsutable to a Christian who is the Souldier of Christ and to Religion which is the Cause of Christ Pitty a good Cause should have low spirits the Cause is sufficient bottome to beare up the Spirit and put courage into the heart of a coward None can defend it but it will defend them As your danger lies in deserting of it so your security lies in defending of it The Grecian women commanded their sons Either to bring back their Shields or dye upon them Epaminondas was so devoted to his Buckler that he took up a resolution either to defend it or to dye for it and being wounded to death hee cryes out

y ipsum esse reputant quem locutum fuisse ad moysen noverant that Divided the Red Sea I that made the World I that took your nature I that came down from heaven for you I that am your Saviour It is the Voice one who is 1. Your Saviour Able to save in the greatest troubles and pressures no trouble can be above my power or my skill 2. Who not onely can But Rejoyceth to bring Salvation to his people It is my proper work and my heart is in it nay 3. Who came on purpose to save and deliver you And therefore this must needs be Incouragemet to them They knew his Power they knew his Love they knew his Nature they knew him to be z Tolle meum Tolle Deum their Saviour and that was Comfort And that they went out upon his errand by his Commission and therefore there was comfort enough Though he said no more It is I CHRIST opposeth this against their fear of the Tempest and against the thoughts they had of a Ghost It is I you think me a Ghost i. e. One who comes to destroy you But It is I That is enough to settle you There are Three Doctrines this holds out to us Doct. 1. a Vnum idem que verbum Christi credentibus est salutiferum incredulis vergit ad damnationem aliis odor vitae aliis mortis Chem. The same word of God may be a Terror to some and a Comfort to Others A Saviour of Life to some and of Death to another 2. Cor. 2.16 To the one we are a Savour of life to life to the other the Savour of death unto death Doct. 2. The appearance of Christ to the Soul in any sad Condition is a Resurrection from the dead Doct. 3. The presence of CHRIST in any trouble calamity or distresse is Comfort and incouragement to the Soul We cannot insist upon all these which we have named we will therfore contract our selves and give you these two in one Doct. The presence and appearance of CHRIST to the Soul in any sad condition is to the Soul as a Resurrection from the dead We will shew the truth of this in four sad conditions the Saints are exercised with And then give you some short application 1. In times of Humiliation for sin When the Soul hath lien Bedrid in sorrow been overwhelmed in the depths of Humilation for sin and hath been even broken and shattered in peeces with fear and consternation of Spirit for sin An appearance of Christ to the Soul now is full of comfort When CHRIST shall come Riding upon the wings of a Promise into the Soul When he shall come displaying all his Glory the Riches of his Grace And shall say to the Soul as he did to Moses Exod. 34.6 The LORD The LORD GOD Mercifull and Gracious pardoning iniquity transgessions and sins c. Exod. 34.6 Oh! It is beyond my power to expresse or of us All to conceive How much the Soul is now Enamored on him How much the Soul is now Revived As before in this condition he appeared as a Ghost to terrifie so now he appears as a Saviour to comfort them And Luther makes this appearance of Christ to answer to their former apprehension of him The truth of this that I have said you may read in Job 33.10 To the 27. ver Where the Soul is in a sad condition for sin in the 19.20.21.22 And upon the discovery of Christ how is the Soul raised 24.25 2. In Times of Temptation When a poor soul hath been long buffetted with Satan and Held down with his bloody Carnall reasonings When the Soul hath been long on the stormy troublesome sea of temptations And CHRIST shall at last apear Conquering the strong-man Rebuking the storme overcoming Satan Oh! who can expresse how welcome such a sight of CHRIST Such an Appearance of CHRIST is to the Soul This is a Resurrection from the dead you have it typyfied in Abraham who after the battell with the four Kings Melchizedeck comes to meet him with Bread and wine strength and comfort which shewes us that our Melchizedeck after all our spirituall battels are over will meet us with the choycest of his comforts This is that he promiseth Rev. 2.17 To him that overcometh I will give the hidden Manna and the white Stone and a name in it which no man knoweth but he that hath it As after Christs temptations were over the Angels came to minister to him so will Christ after all our conflicts meet us with refreshments and proportion our Comforts to our Conflicts In times of desertion when a man hath been upon the black seas of desertion and hath long laboured under the sad sense of Gods withdrawments and at last Christ comes in walking upon the sea breaking the dark and thick cloud and shining into the soule who can now expresse the heats warmths revivings that this appearance yeilds to the soule Oh the claspings the imbracings the loves that passe betwixt the soule and Christ Will you see this set downe Cant. 3.4 Christ had withdrawne himselfe for a season And ah then what sadnesse All the world was like a feast without an appetite a Paradise without a Tree of Life She makes inquisition Heare 's not of him Runs to Ordinances and would be glad to have the least starre of direction to carry her to him in this sad condition while she is in the pursuit of Christ At last Christ appeares to her soule And read there how her heart was revived I have found him whom my soule loveth I held him and would not let him go untill I had brought him into my mothers house The like you have of Iob he had been a long time in a dark and deserted condition you may read his complaints every Chapter Verse c. is but the sad pauses and pathyes the afflicted breathings of his soule At last God appeares and who can tell his joy who is able to expresse the ravishments of his heart I have heard of thee by the hearing of the eare but now mine eyes see thee And certainely his heart was filled with as much soule-advancements as self-abhorrence Iob 45.5 4. In the time of outward trouble when we are in some sad heavie close affliction when we are upon beds of sicknesse when in prison when in dangers Oh! then a visit of Christ in prison a discovery of Christ in danger a manifestation of Christ upon the bed of sicknesse it is worth a world to the soule So it was to the Three Children in the fiery furnace Dan. 3.24 25. When the fourth appeared the presence of whom was like the Son of God So it was here to the Disciples when they were in this danger on the sea and Christ appeared to them none can expresse how their hearts leaped for joy what heights of rejoycings after those depths of trouble Thus you see the appearance of Christ in any sad condition is such