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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.
He that was with Joseph in prison, with David in the wilderness, with Paul and Silas in the stocks, with Daniel in the ⟨p. 290⟩den, with the Three Children in the fire, Jonah in the sea; he will be with us, by his grace, by his comforts, by his supports, by his Spirit; He will be with thee to bear thee up, and deliver thee out of thy saddest conditions. Oh! Let us then beg the presence of God. Oh beg! Never more cause to beg. Say with Jeremiah,—Why art thou like to a way faring man that turns aside to tarry for a night. Say with the two Disciples going to Emmaus, Abide with us, abide with us, the day is gone, and the night is approaching, the night of trouble, the night of afflictions.
He that was with Joseph in prison, with David in the wildernesse, with Paul and Silas in the stockes, with Daniel in the ⟨p. 290⟩den, with the Three Children in the fire, Ionah in the sea; he will be with us, by his grace, by his comforts, by his supports, by his Spirit; Hee will be with thee to beare thee up, and deliver thee out of thy saddest conditions. Oh! Let us then beg the presence of God. Oh beg! Never more cause to beg. Say with Ieremy,—Why art thou like to a way fairing man that turnes aside to tarry for a night. Say with the two Disciples going to Emmaus, Abide with us, abide with us, the day is gone, and the night is approaching, the night of trouble, the night of afflictions.
Our conditions are very sad. We may cry with the Psalmist, Psal. 79. Oh God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance, thy holy Temple have they defiled, they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. And Psal. 74.9. Which speaks our times to the full. And therefore now beg the presence of Christ in our Counsels, in our Armies, in our Preparations, in our goings out. We have a promise