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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. They will make a man shy to acknowledge the Cause of God; You see Nicodemus, and many of the Jews, of whom it is said, They believed, but durst not confess him, for fear of the Scribes and Pharisees.
1. They will make a man shie to acknowledge the Cause of God; You see Nicodemus, and many of the Iewes, of whom it is said, They believed, but durst not confesse him, for feare of the Scribes and Pharisees.
2. Fear will make a man-decline and balk the Cause of God; the Rulers were afraid to acknowledge Christ, because of the Romans, if they had done so, the Romans would have come and taken away their place and nation.
2. Fear will make a man-decline and bawk the Cause of God; the Rulers were afaid to acknowledge Christ, because of the Romans, if they had done so, the Romans would have come and taken away their place and nation.
3. Fear will blind the understanding, & hinder us from discerning good from evil, and evil from good: It is a Maxim, Sin in the affection will breed Error in the understanding, a corrupt heart will cause a corrupt head; fear in the heart will cause darkness in the mind; It is a hard thing for a man under the power of any sinful passion, either by-assed with corrupt affections, or blinded with corrupt passions, to judge of the truth and justness of any cause, though it be never so evident; Men in fear are apt to judge those things good, which yet are evil, and they themselves would so acknowledge, if they stood upon even ground, if the fears and dangers had not got the hill of them.—
3. Fear will blind the understaning, & hinder us from decerning good from evil, and evil from good: It is a Maxime, Sin in the affection will breed Error in the understanding, a corrupt heart will cause a corrupt head; feare in the heart will cause darknesse in the minde; It is a hard thing for a man under the power of any sinfull passion, either by-assed with corrupt affections, or blinded with corrupt passions, to judge of the truth and justnesse of any cause, though it be never so evident; Men in feare are apt to judge those things good, which yet are evil, and they themselves would so acknowledge, if they stood upon even ground, if the feares and dangers had not got the hill of them.—