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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.
We are more deer to Christ, then he was to himself; & therefore he doth here, as we do when things are in danger, seek to preserve that which we esteem most, which is most precious to us; to save us was more desirable to Christ, then to preserve himself. He sees himself in us, oh that we could see our selves in God, and that the preservation of the glory of Christ might be more in our eyes, then the saving of our selves. As Christ was more tender of us then he was of himself; so let us be more tender of his glory, then of our own safety: if we can but hold up his glory, though we suffer in his glory, yet we shall be glorified.
We are more deere to Christ, then he was to himself; & therefore he doth here, as we do whē things are in danger, seek to preserve that which we esteeme most, which is most precious to us; to save us was more desirable to Christ, then to preserve himselfe. He sees himselfe in us, oh that we could see our selves in God, and that the preservation of the glory of Christ might be more in our eyes, then the saving of our selves. As Christ was more tender of us then he was of himselfe; so let us be more tender of his glory, then of our own safety: if we can but hold up his glory, though we suffer in his glory, yet we shall be glorified.
He that seeks himself in opposition ⟨p. 14⟩to God, doth lose himself and God: but he that seeks himself in subordination to him, finds both; even himself in God.
He that seeks himselfe in opposition ⟨p. 14⟩to God, doth lose himselfe and God: but he that seeks himselfe in subordination to him, findes both; even himselfe in God.