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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
Dedication: To the Right Honourable ROBERT Earle of Warwick, Baron of Leez 'Le Rich, Lord High Admi…
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Right Honourable,
A Public spirit is a rare and excellent spirit, honoured of GOD, esteemed of Man; its a piece of GOD in Man, or Man seeking himself in GOD. Its a spirit above the world, because above it self. We read of many of the Heathens, who were renowned for their publicness of spirit. And certainly it was an excellent spirit which was in them, but it was short of the true spirit: it held forth a god, though it fell below the true God; Publicness of spirit speaks a god, when privateness of spirit makes it self a god. Its proper alone to God to work from himself, and to himself, to be the spring whence, and the sea whither all his actions tend; but it is not for man. He that makes himself the principle of working, ⟨image 3⟩and the end of working; that (like a circular line) begins from himself, and ends in himself, doth pull down God, and setteth himself in Gods stead. Like the spark in the fire, or the drop in the sea; so our good doth more consist in God then in our selves. He that seeks to be something out of God, begins to be nothing; but he that can be nothing for God, finds himself all in God, and God all to him.
A Publick spirit is a rare and excellent spirit, honour'd of GOD, esteem'd of Man; its a piece of GOD in Man, or Man seeking himselfe in GOD. Its a spirit above the world, because above it selfe. We reade of many of the Heathens, who were renowned for their publicknesse of spirit. And certainely it was an excellent spirit which was in them, but it was short of the true spirit: it held forth a god, though it fell below the true God; Publicknesse of spirit speaks a god, when privatenesse of spirit makes it selfe a god. Its proper alone to God to work from himselfe, and to himself, to be the spring whence, and the sea whither all his actions tend; but it is not for man. He that makes himselfe the principle of working, ⟨image 3⟩and the end of working; that (like a circular line) begins from himself, and ends in himselfe, doth pull downe God, and setteth himselfe in Gods stead. Like the spark in the fire, or the drop in the sea; so our good doth more consist in God then in our selves. He that seeks to be something out of God, begins to be nothing; but he that can be nothing for God, findes himselfe all in God, and God all to him.