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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.
3. But alone in respect of company, so Christ might be, and so Christ was here: And so he said he was in that 16. John 32. When yet in another respect he said he was not alone.
3. But alone in respect of company, so Christ might be, and so Christ was here: And so hee said hee was in that 16. Iohn 32. When yet in another respect he said he was not alone.
So Christ was here alone. He that is all was now alone. The Disciples were gone to sea, the multitude were dismissed to their homes, and Christ was here alone. It tells us this,
So Christ was here alone. Hee that is all was now alone. The Disciples were gone to sea, the multitude were dismissed to their homes, and Christ was here alone. It tells us this,
Doctr. That Christians are to seek and take occasions to be alone: if you would not be alone in respect of comfort, you must seek to be alone in respect of company. The way not to be alone, 1is to be alone. aChristians are never less alone, than when they are alone. It a sad thing to be alone in respect of comfort, and so Gods people have bin by neglecting to be alone, in respect of company; Gods withdrawing from us, are oftentimes the chastisements of our withdrawing ⟨p. 42⟩from God. Gods people have been alone in respect of comfort, but never alone in respect of assistance. His grace shall be sufficient for you. Wicked men they are alone indeed, alone in the abundance of all things, they are without God in the world, without Christ, without the Spirit; and woe be to them who are so alone; though these things may do something to bear up their Spirits, and hold them up by the Chin here for a time, yet they will leave them, or they shall them, and then they shall know what it is to be alone. But we must leave them, either to seek God to be their God, their company here, or to know the misery of the want of him hereafter.