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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.
Assure your selves, will-worship, in ⟨p. 29⟩regard of prescription, will never enable you to render the worship of the will in respect of performance. If the will be an instrument of devising worship, it will never be an instrument of performing worship: The Prophet tells us so, 29 Isay. 13. This people draw near with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And why so? he gives the reason; their fear towards me is taught by the precepts of men.
Assure your selves, will-worship, in ⟨p. 29⟩regard of prescription, will never inable you to render the worship of the will in respect of performance. If the will be an instrument of devising worship, it wil never be an instrument of performing worship: The Propet tells us so, 29 Isay. 13. This people draw neare with their lips, but their hearts are farre from me. And why so? he gives the reason; their feare towards mee is taught by the precepts of men.
We say the greater the body, the less is the spirit of a man: So the greater the body and bulk of humane ceremonies, the less is the life and spirit of true devotion.
We say the greater the body, the lesse is the spirit of a man: So the greater the body and bulke of humane ceremonies, the lesse is the life and spirit of true devotion.
The Spirit of God will only blow with his own bellows, work with his own tools, & not by instruments, and ways of our devising. And though our adversaries have cast us out with scorn, as those in 66.