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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 proceed: for as yet we are but about the shore: Let us lance forth into the deep, and now hasten to the Disciples who were alone indeed.
1. Alone in respect of comfort, for they were at their wits end for fear. 2. Alone in respect of assistance, for ought they saw, either from God or man. 3. Alone in respect of company, for all were in the same condition with them, they may be said to be alone in ⟨p. 43⟩the midst of company, when there is none that is able to reach forth a hand to keep them, when those that are with them, are involved in the same misery, and instead of being a comfort, are a trouble and burden to them.
1. Alone in respect of comfort, for they were at their wits end for feare. 2. Alone in respect of assistance, for ought they saw, either from God or man. 3. Alone in respect of company, for all were in the same condition with them, they may bee said to bee alone in ⟨p. 43⟩the midst of company, when there is none that is able to reach forth a hand to keep them, when those that are with them, are involved in the same misery, and insteed of being a comfort, are a trouble and burthen to them.
Let us therefore hasten to the Disciples; poor men! they were alone indeed, the next verse tells us so.
Let us therefore hasten to the Disciples; poore men! they were alone indeed, the next verse tells us so.