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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.
And so you see fear is a heart enfeebling sin, it betrays the succours which God tenders; God, and all God is too little to secure an unbelieving man.
And so you see feare is a heart infeebling sin, it betrayes the succours which God tenders; God, and all God is too little to secure an unbelieving man.
6. It doth gratify the enemy, our fears are our weaknings, the enemies ⟨p. 272⟩strengthnings, 1. Our weaknings I say, fear is an army in battalia against it self; the heart doth arm the head, and the head useth all its enginery to batter the heart, the heart makes use of the head to heighten a danger, and that again lays battery against the heart to lessen that.
6. It doth gratifie the enemy, our feares are our weaknings, the enemies ⟨p. 272⟩strengthnings, 1. Our weaknings I say, feare is an army in battalia against it selfe; the heart doth arme the head, and the head useth all its enginery to batter the heart, the heart makes use of the head to heighten a danger, and that againe layes battery against the heart to lessen that.
He needs no enemies without, who hath a fearful heart within; how can he stand out against enemies from without, that is not able to stand against it self. This is the nature of fear, (where courage lessens difficulties, and makes great things conquerable; such a spirit looks through a lessening glass, and sees great dangers to be small; the heart still riseth above the difficulty.) This is the nature of fear it looks through a multiplying glass, and makes small dangers great, and unresistable. Assure your selves, fear will make a man weak amidst all the provisions of strength, your forts are nothing, if you retain your fears, you will be naked in the midst of arms, weak in the midst of strength; fear is an armoury of weapons against it self. It is our weaknings: 2. And it is the enemies strengthening; your fears