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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.
Joseph exercised his Brethren for a time: but he could not hold out long. His Bowels yearned. I am Joseph. cSo here Christ,—Though he had exercised, them yet now he can hold no longer, It is I. I that am your Saviour.
Joseph exercised his Brethren for a time: but he could not hold out long. His Bowells yearned. I am Ioseph. cSo heere Christ,—Though he had exercised, them yet now he can hold no longer, It is I. I that am your Saviour.
- cNon diu Sinet suos Christus per errorem in animetu vexari sed statim voce & verbo suo sese illis revelat, & anxios consulatur. Musc.
The Mother may hide her self for a time from the child: But when the child cries, she can stay no longer. God hath more Bowels to his People, then a Mother to the Child. Can a Mother forget her child,—Though she should, yet I will not forget thee. Indeed he sometimes appears long to them in trouble. — How ⟨p. 292⟩long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever! How long wilt thou hide thy face from me! saith David, so the souls under the Altar, How long Lord, holy, and true? But yet though it seem long to us, it is not long. It is called but a day of trouble, an hour of Temptation, nay a moment, yea and a small moment, *dFor a small moment have I forsaken thee. It seems long, because we are in trouble; Sad hours are long hours, or it seems long to us, because we mistake the day, God hath promised, but we Antedate the Promises, as we post-date duties. We do as the man in the Gospel, when the promise is to be performed a 100 days hence, we take our pen & write down fifty, this Spirit it seems Israel had, they thought God deferred, when he did not defer; it was they which did hasten. And therefore saith Habakkuk, Though it tarry, wait for it; that is, though it tarry to us; for it follows, in respect of the certainty of Gods decree, it shall come, and not tarry.