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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 the reason why we get no more into the Mountain, it is because we have, and make Mountain of our own: we rest in the arm of flesh. We have been ready to say with David, Psal. 30.6, 7. I shall never be moved, thou hast made my mountain so strong. Mark you there; David had a Mountain, and it was strong; and though he acknowledged it was all from God, for he saith, Thou hast made my Mountain so strong; yet he trusted in it, as appears after by Gods punishing of him; thou hidst thy face, and I was troubled: and now his Mountain was nothing. We have had means, and those means of Gods gracious bestowing. We acknowledge that God hath made our mountain strong, it is all from God, that strength and concurrence we have: but yet for all this we rest upon our mountain, and not upon God.
And the reason why we get no more into the Mountaine, it is because we have, and make Mountaine of our own: we rest in the arme of flesh. We have been ready to say with David, Psal. 30.6, 7. I shall never be moved, thou hast made my mountaine so strong. Marke you there; David had a Mountaine, and it was strong; and though he acknowledged it was all from God, for he saith, Thou hast made my Mountaine so strong; yet he trusted in it, as appeares after by Gods punishing of him; thou hidst thy face, and I was troubled: and now his Mountain was nothing. We have had means, and those meanes of Gods gracious bestowing. We acknowledge that God hath made our mountaine strong, it is all from God, that strength and concurrence we have: but yet for all this we rest upon our mountaine, and not upon God.
And this is our way to turn our Mountain into a Mole-hill, this is the way to turn our strength into weakness, and to make those things wch otherwise would be useful to us, to be unuseful and unprofitable.
And this is our way to turn our Mountain into a Mole-hill, this is the way to turne our strength into weaknesse, and to make those things wch otherwise would be usefull to us, to be unusefull and unprofitable.