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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.
Religion is our great defence, it makes the great God the defence of any people, as you see, Deut. 33.29. Happy art thou O Israel, who is like unto thee, O people! saved by the Lord. the Shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy Excellency, — That man runs into the greatest hazard, that for any hazard, shall desert the Cause of God; It is a fearful thing to procure God a just enemy, by making man an unjust friend, He that maintains ⟨p. 265⟩the best Cause, shall be maintained by best God, Though thou suffer with it, yet thou conquerest by it, eChrist conquered, when he seemed to be overcome; so a Christian. It was that which Cyprian said unto Cornelius, fthou may die, but thou shalt never be overcome, gIt is the same Christ saith to his Disciples. Luk. 21.18. Though they kill you; you see, Vers. 16. yet a hair of your head shall not perish.—
Religion is our great defence, it makes the great God the defence of any people, as you see, Deut. 33.29. Happy art thou O Israel, who is like unto thee, O people! saved by the Lord. the Shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy Excellency, — That man runs into the greatest hazzard, that for any hazzard, shall desert the Cause of God; It is a fearfull thing to procure God a just enemy, by making man an unjust friend, He that maintains ⟨p. 265⟩the best Cause, shall bee maintained by best God, Though thou suffer with it, yet thou conquerest by it, eChrist conquered, when he seemed to be overcome; so a Christian. It was that which Cyprian said unto Cornelius,