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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.
Here is a multitude here this day, if your hearts be right, know this, Christ will not send you away without some refreshment.
Had he respect to the bodies of men, when a multitude were come together, that he would not send them away after their long continuance with him in his Ordinances, without some refreshment, lest they fainted in the way; certainly he will have more regard to the souls of men: What are the faintings of the body, to the faintings of the soul?
Had he respect to the bodies of men, when a multitude were come together, that he would not send them away after their long continuance with him in his Ordinances, without some refreshment, lest they fainted in the way; certainely he will have more regard to the soules of men: What are the faintings of the body, to the faintings of the soule?
But further—[While he sent the multitude away.]
It may be here demanded, why Christ should send them away? had it not been better for them to have continued with Christ, to have followed him in his temptations, to have attended upon him in the work of his Ministry; why doth he send them away?