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A tossed ship making to safe harbour, or, A word in season to a…A tossed ship making to safe harbor, or, A word in season to a…
A tossed ship making to safe harbour, or, A word in season to a sinking kingdom wherein Englands case and cure, her burdens and comforts, her pressures and duties are opened and applied : in diverse sermons preached upon the public days of humiliation, out of that prophetical history, Matth. 14, 22 to 28 / by Samuel Bolton ...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 ...
London: printed by L.N. for Philemon Stephens, 1644
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. It is unsuitable to your calling, you are Christians; who should be more valiant then they that are most holy, aThe righteous should be as bold as a Lyon; greatness of Spirit, befits those who are Christians: your Cause is good, your encouragements 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 Worm Jacob.
1. It is unsutable to your calling, you are Christians; who should be more valiant then they that are most holy, aThe 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.
- aQuis tam fortis quam qui Sanctus. Ber. ad, mil. Temp. c. •.
Indeed one would think he should have said, who art thou, that thou shouldest not be afraid of a man? what is a worm under mens feet? thou art but a worm, Yet God saith, Who art thou? — as if ⟨p. 263⟩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 fear.