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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.
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⟩nature, or your nature into them, the good word; whereby the stock changed into the nature of it. Too many that neglect the hearing of the word at all, and some that think that this is all that is required, when this is but a preparatory service, a service subservient to another; hearing to obeying, preaching to practise. I will not cast water upon your affections, quench any spark of Gods kindling: byou do well to hear, you do well to hear often: oh, but add meditation to hearing, practise to preaching: when you have heard a Sermon, then go live a Sermon.
Your present affections that are exercised & raised in hearing, wil vanish & fall againe, if you do not work all downe in meditation, and digest them into your ⟨p. 24⟩nature, or your nature into them, the good word; whereby the stocke changed into the nature of it. Too many that neglect the hearing of the word at all, and some that think that this is all that is required, when this is but a preparatory service, a service subservient to another; hearing to obeying, preaching to practise. I will not cast water upon your affections, quench any spark of Gods kindling: byou do well to heare, you do well to heare often: oh, but adde meditation to hearing, practise to preaching: when you have heard a Sermon, then go live a Sermon.
- bFolia haec sunt non fructus. Aug.
4. There may be another reason yet, why Christ sent them away; that they should now go about their lawful occasions, take care of their families, and benefit their relations, make their households better for that they had received. Two things hence observable.