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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.
1 Get above the world, above men, above employments.
1 Get above the world, above men, above imployments.
2 Get into Christ. Christ is the Mountain whereon you must stand when you go to pray. Set me on the Rock which is higher then I. Get into Christ. The Temple it was the place of prayer, it is called the house of prayer; from thence would God hear them. The Temple was a type of Christ, and speaks thus much, that if ever you would have your prayers acceptable, if ever you would have God hear your prayers, get into Christ. We come to the third, the end: He went into the Mountain to pray.
2 Get into Christ. Christ is the Mountaine whereon you must stand when you go to pray. Set me on the Rock which is higher then I. Get into Christ. The Temple it was the place of prayer, it is called the house of prayer; from thence would God heare them. The Temple was a type of Christ, and speakes thus much, that if ever you would have your prayers acceptable, if ever you would have God heare your prayers, get into Christ. We come to the third, the end: He went into the Mountaine to pray.
[To pray.]