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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.
Indeed when God commands, it is the reason of reasons to obey, because God commands. The commands of God, though they may be above reason, yet they are not contrary to right reason. The obedience of faith, is far above reason, but it is not against reason, because it is all reason to believe what God saith, and to obey what God commands.
Indeed when God commands, it is the reason of reasons to obey, because God commands. The commands of God, though they may bee above reason, yet they are not contrary to right reason. The obedience of faith, is farre above reason, but it is not against reason, because it is all reason to believe what God saith, and to obey what God commands.
In obedience to man, we are to look for a reason of obedience, or a rule of obedience, which is according to right reason.
It is to put off man, and to divest our selves of reason, to obey against reason. As the Pope who commanded the Monk to go and water a dry stake for three years together morning and evening. *Caeca obedientia, is proper to God alone, not that our obedience is a blind obedience: but sometimes we are to follow ⟨p. 17⟩him blind-fold: It is said of Abraham, Gen. 12.1. that he went & knew not whither; God calls, he comes, and shuts his eyes, and goes by Gods light, he follows God as the blind man doth his guide: mens commands are subject to be scanned, whether they be according to the supreme rule, the Law of God, or in Common-wealths governed by Laws, whether they be according to Laws.