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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.
aBut Gods commands must not be scanned, here we must obey because God commands, 2. Joh. 7. What ever he bids you to do, do. If Abraham had examined that act of obedience, viz. The sacrificing of his son, either by rule, the Law, or by reason, or by the principles of nature, they would all have cried down that act of Abraham's. It is true, the case was extraordinary, and it was alone for trial too: God doth not command such things as are contrary to his Law, his revealed will, or right reason; yet he commands such things as are contrary to corrupt reason, and above right reason, and therefore his commands are not to be scanned: it is our reason, and the reason of reasons to obey cbecause God hath commanded.
aBut Gods commands must not be scanned, here we must obey because God commands, 2. Ioh. 7. What ever he bids you to doe, doe. If Abraham had examined that act of obedience, viz. The sacrificing of his sonne, either by rule, the Law, or by reason, or by the principles of nature, they would all have cryed downe that act of Abrahams. It is true, the case was extrordinary, and it was alone for tryall too: God doth not command such things as are contrary to his Law, his revealed will, or right reason; yet he commands such things as are contrary to corrupt reason, and above right reason, and therefore his commands are not to be scanned: it is our reason, and the reason of reasons to obey cbecause God hath commanded.
- aMandata Dei non adrationis nostrae examen revecanda. Chem. Discamus nos simplie; obedientia Dei mandatis parere: absque nostrae rationis examine.
- cPareamus itaque mandatis Dei, licet illorum ratio nobis non constet, sufficit enim ea ipsi c•nstare; nos commendat obedientia, quae in oculis Dei, melior quamvictimae.