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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.
This is one ground, why we go no more into the Mountain, why we are no more in prayer; because our Mountain is so strong, because we rest upon the means afforded to us. Davids Mountain might have strengthened his faith, but his mountain becomes his faith and confidence.
This is one ground, why we go no more into the Mountaine, why we are no more in prayer; because our Mountaine is so strong, because we rest upon the means afforded to us. Davids Mountain might have strengthned his faith, but his mountaine becomes his faith and confidence.
It is a sad thing, when that means which should quicken our hearts to seek, doth dead our hearts in seeking: and that which should encourage us to trust in him, doth take off our hearts from dependence on him. This is the cause, why God doth often lessen our mountain, that he might increase our faith, and deprive us of other comforts, that he might be all our confidence: weaken the ar•e of flesh that he might strengthen the arm of faith.
It is a sad thing, when that meanes which should quicken our hearts to seek, doth dead our hearts in seeking: and that which should incourage us to trust in him, doth take off our hearts from dependance on him. This is the cause, why God doth often lessen our mountain, that he might increase our faith, and deprive us of other comforts, that he might be all our confidence: weaken the ar•e of flesh that hee might strengthen the arme of faith.
God often makes us fatherless in respect of creature reliefs, that we might be fatherless in respect of creature reliance. God blasts that means whereon we do rely, that he might be the alone reliance of his people; he makes us nothing, that we might be all in him, and strengthen our selves in God.