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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 are to consider Christ, 1. In respect of his divine nature. 2. In respect of his humane nature.
1. In respect of his divine nature, and so he could not be alone any way, he was in heaven with the Father, with the Disciples ⟨p. 40⟩on the sea; his presence fills heaven and earth. 2. In respect of his humane nature, Christ in some respects might be said to be alone. 1. There is an alone in respect of comfort. 2. There is an alone in respect of assistance. 3. There is an alone in respect of company.
In the two former respects, Christ could not be said to be alone, he was never so alone in the saddest hour, he never wanted comfort, never assistance. As he himself saith, 16. Joh. 22. The hour will come, and now is, when you shall be scattered, every one to his own house, and shall leave me alone, and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. He was with him to comfort him, to support him in the darkest hour. Indeed he trod the Wine-press of his Fathers wrath alone, 63. Isaiah 3. Alone if you look downward, he had no comfort, no assistance from man, no not their company, all left him. But not alone, if you look upward; He had the supports of the Father, and was heard in that thing he ⟨p. 41⟩feared. And what ever he had in that dismal black hour, that hour of darkness, as he himself calls it, when he was to conflict with the wrath of God, to wrestle with the terrors of Death, the the powers of Darkness, yet afterward heaven ministered to him.
In the two former respects, Christ could not be sayd to be alone, he was never so alone in the saddest houre, he never wanted comfort, never assistance. As he himselfe saith, 16. Joh. 22. The houre will come, and now is, when you shall be scattered, every one to his owne house, and shall leave me alone, and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. Hee was with him to comfort him, to support him in the darkest houre. Indeed he trod the Wine-presse of his Fathers wrath alone, 63.