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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.
And if not, thou needs not to want a mountain, thou needst not to want a place, if thou dost not want a heart. A good heart cannot want a place to converse with God.
And if not, thou needs not to want a mountaine, thou needst not to want a place, if thou dost not want a heart. A good heart cannot want a place to converse with God.
There is yet something more observable. Look upon the place in an Allegorical sense: and see thus much.
There is yet something more observeable. Look upon the place in an Allegoricall sence: and see thus much.
Doct. It is good when you converse with God in duty, to get upon a mountain.
Doct. It is good when you converse with God in duty, to get upon a mountaine.
I speak not of a natural mountain (if any have such vain thoughts, that the higher they get, the nearer to God; I must tell them the way for them to draw near to God, is to get into the valley, be humbled for your folly, seek to get low in heart, rather than high in place) I speak not of a natural mountain, but of a mountain in an allegory. When you go to converse with God in duty, get upon the mountain.