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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

him but as he hath revealed himself in his Word And though you are not able at present to evidence him such a God to you as he hath manifested himself in his Word yet by faith conclude him so when you cannot cleer him so Thus Job did so Job 13. These things hast thou hid in thy heart Job 10.13 yet J know that this is with thee though I cannot see it yet I doe beleeve it though I cannot cleer it yet I doe conclude it And thus the Church 36. Esay 16. Doubtlesse thou art our Father Isa 63.16 She will not be reasoned out of her faith she will hold the conclusion of faith against all the evidence that sense and reason can bring to the contrary This is with Ulysses to bind our selves fast to the mast and not suffer our selves to be charmed away to the destruction and undoing of our own souls And these are the three times that Christ seems to appear as a Ghost to his own people Now there are foure times Christ appears as a Ghost to wicked men 1. When he comes with his Fan in his hand to purge and reform his Church men look upon Reformation as their destruction And think Christ comes to destroy them when he comes to reforme them men may sometimes look upon that as the greatest evill which yet is intended for their greatest good It is the Speech of Augustine upon this place That there shall be such troubles shall arise about the fourth watch a little beiore the end of all things that men shall look upon Religion shall I say because of the troubles that it raises when it comes to be setled in its Power and Glory s Res Christiana phantasma videtur they shall look upon Religion as a Ghost Not because Religion will hurt them but hurt their sins How justly may that be applyed to us now which was spoken of Israel When I would have healed Israel then the iniquity of Israel did appeare So it is with us when the Lord would heale us and reforme us then doth the iniquity of men the malice the pride the hatred of the purity of Ordinances then doe all these ●ppeare What is the ground of all this trouble among us now why are so many up in Arms * Vitia nostra quia amamus defendimus but to keep out Christ in the Power and purity of his Ordinances Reformation is now the Ghost that hath frighted them into Arms men that are afraid they run unto their weapons so they frighted with the Ghost of Reformation get up weapons put themselves in armes to oppose it So long as Reformation is looked upon as an enemy it shall finde enemies enow though indeed it is an enemy to nothing but their sinnes A second time when he appeares as a Ghost to them t Haec in est nobis perversitas ut quae vere mala sunt non timeamus ea quae nocere ne possunt formidemus Musc in loc when he comes to reform their Persons then they cannot away withall they fear holinesse love sin that which should be object of hatred is object of love and that which should be object of love is object of feare they cannot brook holy wayes they will not subject to the Lawes of God they cannot part with their sins take away their sins take away their best friends they have been wicked and will be wicked They thank God they are no Changlings Indeed not to change in a good way is commendable but to be unchangeable in a bad way is damnable To be unchangably evill is to be as Divells are for ever sinfull and for ever miserable First cleer your way to be good and then glory in our unchangeablenesse A third time when Christ appears as a ghost to them and that is when they lie upon the bed of sicknesse the bed of death Oh then Christ is terrible when a man shall lye upon his death bed u Vadeo nescio quo ens entium miserere mei Animula vagula biandula quae nunc Abibis in loca de Adriau dicitur and connot tell what shall become of his soul to all eternity when a man shall say as once a great person did in the same condition I cannot live I dare not dye he knows not what shall become of him to all eternity when he shall behold his friends weeping over him but cannot helpe him his relations and comforts leaving him his riches not able to relieve him his sinnes presented and set in order before him and a displeased and wrathfull God ready to destroy him Oh here God appeares as a Ghost indeed You made bug-beares w There shal come in the last dayes scoffers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Such as shall make childrens play of all the terrors of the Lord 2 Pet. 3 3. childrens play and scoffed at all the terrors of the Lord before but now they appeare reallities to you The precepts of the Law were a ghost to you in your life and the terrors of the Law are now a ghost to you at death the comforts of the Lord were a ghost to you before and just it is the terrors of the Lord should be a ghost to you now 4 A fourth time and that is at the day of judgement when Heaven and Earth and all the world is on fire then shall Christ appeare as a Ghost indeed full of terror to every wicked and ungodly person We reade that the wicked at that day 6 Rev. 16.17 shall call upon the mountaines to fall upon them to hide them from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lambe for the day of wrath is come and who shall be able to beare it In their thoughts they were better able to beare the weight of Rocks of Mountains on them then the sight of Christ so terrible will Christ appeare to ungodly men at that great day Vse Oh then knowing the terror of the Lord we perswade you Christians as you would not have Christ to appeare as a Ghost to you terrible at the day of death terrible at the day of judgement let him not appeare as a Ghost to you now * Optima securitas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let him not appeare terrible to you in his word in his worship in his lawes in his truth If Christ be a terror to you now in these wayes assure your selves he will be a terror to you hereafter Be willing then to receive Christ in his truth in his worship wayes c. Bid him welcome in your houses your hearts if Christ be not a terror to you now if you can brook with strict and exact walking if you can brook the power and purity of his ordinances he will never be a terror to you hereafter This is all I shall say of the second the Disciples thoughts and apprehensions of Christ We come to the third and that is the effects of these