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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
Sermon 1: A Word in Season, to a sinking Kingdom.Sermon 1: A Word in Season, to a sinking Kingdome.
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.
It suits well with Christs love to his Church, and his end of coming into the world, to take more care to preserve them, then to save himself, to look to their safety more then his own. You know what he said, John 18.8. If you seek me let these go free.
It suits well with Christs love to his Church, and his end of comming into the world, to take more care to preserve them, then to save himselfe, to looke to their safety more then his owne. You know what he said, John 18.8. If you seek me let these go free.
He came to interpose himself between ⟨p. 13⟩God and us, he came to bear our scourges to undergo our stripes. As Rebecca to said Jacob: on thee my son be the blessing, on me be the curse. So Christ to us, like Jonah, he was content to be cast into the sea, even the sea of wrath, that there might be a calm, a peace between God and man: he came not to save himself, but to be our Saviour, and therefore was content to lose himself that he might save us; to undergo all, that we might be free.
Hee came to interpose himselfe betweene ⟨p. 13⟩God and us, he came to beare our scourges to undergoe our stripes. As Rebecca to said Iacob: on thee my son be the blessing, on me be the curse. So Christ to us, like Ionah, he was content to be cast into the sea, even the sea of wrath, that there might be a calme, a peace between God and man: he came not to save himselfe, but to be our Saviour, and therefore was content to lose himself that he might save us; to undergoe all, that we might be free.