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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

expected end an end answerable to thy expectation What a strange thing was this His wayes were warre yet his thoughts were peace his proceedings were evill yet his purposes were good I have shewed you at large that Gods outward proceedings of providence towards his people are oftentimes contrary to the Inward purposes of his Heart to them Let us not then reason much lesse conclude according to Gods outward appearance to his people Suffer not your selves to be reason'd out of your Faith and confidence by any outward proceding toward you When you see Evill in works see good in the Word when Death in the outward proceeding of God toward you see Life in the Inward purposes of his heart to you If you put a straight stick into the water sense renders it crooked but reason tells you is is straight As Reason prevailes against Sense So let Faith prevail against Sense and Reason and let Faith conclude God for you when yet Sense and Reason tells you hee is against you This is the life of Faith Vse 2. Doth God Increase our Troubles when yet he intends to Remove our Troubles Then this should incourage us to Lift up our heads under the greatest pressures Si graves breves When they are the Sharpest then they are the shortest In all the Stories of the Church when Deliverance was neerest then was Persecution the hottest The Devill is said to come down with great wrath because his time is but short The shorter his Time The greater his wrath Here then take a rise for Faith from the lowest Condition you are in When the Morning is darkest Then comes the Day when Trouble is Greatest Then is Deliverance the Neerest You know who hath turned the saddest and sorest Perplexities that ever the world shall see into a Doctrine of Comfort and Consolation to his Church and People And upon this ground Because Then is their Redemption neerest when their troubles are highest Luke 21.25 26 c. Luke 21.25 There shall be signes in the Sun the Moon and upon earth distresse of Nations with perplexity the Sea and waters roaring mens hearts failing them for feare the Powers of heaven shall be shaken And when these things begin to come to passe Then lift up your heads For your Redemption Draweth Nigh See how neer the day of Redemption is to the day of destruction Christ takes heere a Rise of Comfort from the lowest Condition that can be My Brethren You see it is Gods way to increase our troubles when he comes to remove them Let us not be Too much troubled at our Troubles I must confesse wee have sad and gloomy Dayes and yet we fear they are not at the Darkest The floods of ungodlinesse are risen high and we feare they are not yet at the highest But remember this still God doth Increase our Troubles when he comes to Remove our Troubles The greatest Darknesse is before the Morning watch It is the speech of one upon my Text k Quod autem Dominus suos magis terruit priusquam liberaret monemur Cum adversitas summa fuerit tum proximam adesse solutem That the Lord did more terrifie his Disciples before he would deliver them wee are admonished That when Adversity is greatest then deliverance is neerest l Sic consuevit dominus vehementiores labores mittere veluti indices vicinae liberationis Beza Another God is used to send greater Troubles as the Harbengers of approaching deliverance m Tunc magis acuit dolores quando salus jam stat in foribus graviora certamina pericula sunt certissima nuntia liberationis quo citius sinienda sunt mala eo magis ingravescunt c. Another Great troubles doe ever usher in great Deliverances It is our hope that as God hath increased our Troubles so he will make all our Troubles subservient to our Deliverances Deliverance is the Birth of Mercy As never was there birth without Pangs So Deliverance without Opposition and Trouble Satan opposeth wicked men oppose But as Throws and Pangs are subservient to the Birth so will God make our Present Troubles to Deliverance The sharpest pangs and throws of the Church have ever been the immediate fore-runners of some Childe of Promise As it was in the Waters of Bethesda The waters were troubled before they healed The trouble of the water was subservient to the Cure in them so that Opposition and trouble which doth arise in the time and expectations of our healing will God turne to our further healing what the Apostle saith of his Bonds I may say of all the troubles that arise the things that have happened to me Phil. 1.12 have fallen out to the furtherance of the Gospel his Prison was the Gospels liberty his bonds the Gospels inlargement his abasements the Gospels advancement So here all our troubles are subservient to the fuller deliverance were you either well read in the Book of Providence or in the book of Scriptures either in the word or works of God you would finde that the increase of your troubles would be a rise of hope in stead of a ground of feare of comfort in stead of discouragement It is Gods usuall way in the deliverance of his Church and People n Auget certamina quando liberabit Chrys Faestinente laetitia acuitur dolor Baez to heighten their difficulties and troubles before he doth deliver them It hath been so as I have shewed you in many examples And when indeed did God doe any notable things for his Church in the world But there hath been great tumults and commotions Look upon the Stories of Scripture And doe you think it will not be so Is not the Devill as bad wicked men as malicious as ever they were and certainly what power and policy can doe to interrupt God in his wayes of mercy to his Church shall be done o Gaudeo quod Cristus Dominus est alioqui desperassem Micon in jepist ad Calvin insomuch that we may say with him If Christ did not reigne we should quickly come to ruine There are some great Promises which God hath made and will performe now at the end of all things But none of these shall be accomplished without great difficulties He hath said that Antichrist shall downe * Rev. 11.13 But wee must look for earthquakes before Such noting he hath in the Kingdoms of the earth in States and Nations as nothing but an earthquake will loosen him and throw him down Revel 16.17 18. Esay 11. Esay 62. See the commotions foretold Revel 17.18 He hath promised to make his Church glorious in the world And these Promises He that is faithfull and true will performe But when God doth this you must look for Commotions Joel 3.16 looke for shakings You read Dan. 12.1 Dan. 12.1 And at that time shall Michael stand up the great Prince that standeth for the children of thy people and there shall be a time of