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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.
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. Isay. 5. 1Saying let God be glorified, by these additaments of ours, these incentives of devotion, adornments of outward service: yet we hope God will appear to our joy, and they at last shall be ashamed.
The Spirit of God will only blow with his own bellowes, worke with his owne tooles, & not by instruments, and ways of our devising. And though our adversaries have cast us out with scorne, as those in 66. Isay. 5. 1Saying let God bee glorified, by these additaments of ours, these incentives of devotion, adornments of outward service: yet wee hope God will appeare to our joy, and they at last shall be ashamed.
- 1Isay 5.66.
There is yet something more offers it self in these words: