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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.
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?
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 havn attended upon him in the work of his Ministery; why doth he send them away?
There is good reason:
1. He would not over-drive them, he would not continue their exercises above their strength, he would lay no more wood on than there was fire able to kindle, hold them no longer in duties than there was ⟨p. 22⟩strength to carry them on. Jacob slacked his pace, because of the weakness of his little ones, Christ proportions the exercises of duty, to the strength of the people.