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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.
One Sermon wrought down to the Spirit, is worth many heard: too many who are great feeders, abut little nourishers, they want digestion. This is not to feed upon Sermons, but to devour Sermons, when they are not digested into nourishment: our nourishment doth not so much lye in feeding, as in digesting. You may by that increase the bigness of your heads, your knowledge; but not nourish the leanness of your hearts, your affections. It is monstrous in nature, to have the head bigger then the body; so in grace, to increase knowledge only, and not practise. If all time were spent in feeding, where were the time for working? you feed, to work.
One Sermon wrought downe to the Spirit, is worth many heard: too many who are great feeders, abut little nourishers, they want digestion. This is not to feed upon Sermons, but to devoure Sermons, when they are not digested into nourishment: our nourishment doth not so much lye in feeding, as in digesting. You may by that increase the bignesse of your heads, your knowledge; but not nourish the leannesse of your hearts, your affections. It is monstrous in nature, to have the head bigger then the body; so in grace, to increase knowledge only, and not practise. If all time were spent in feeding, where were the time for working? you feed, to work.
- a[Greek or Hebrew] dicuntur qui exalimento quod assumunt, non augescunt, nec nutriuntur.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 dicuntur qui exalimento quod assumunt, non augescunt, nec nutriuntur.
Your present affections that are exercised & raised in hearing, will vanish & fall again, if you do not work all down in meditation, and digest them into your ⟨p. 24⟩