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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
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.
It is our common fault, to judge of things according to the present successes of providence.
1 If things go on well, and successes be according to our hearts, we then judge the cause is just: here may be an undoing mistake. A man may do wickedly & yet prosper, as it was said of Nebuchadnezzar, Dan. 8. Read Jer. 12.1. Job 21.7, 8.
1 If things go on well, and successes be according to our hearts, we then judge the cause is just: here may be an undoing mistake. A man may do wickedly & yet prosper, as it was said of Nebucadnezzar, Dan. 8. Reade Ier. 12.1. Iob 21.7, 8.
I have read of one, that having a fair gale of wind after he returned from robbing of a Temple, he concludes, surely God loved sacrilege. cYou have an excellent Story suitable to this in the Greek Anthology, by Titullus: One having committed murder, and being preserved from a present death, in which he was in danger, went the next morning to sacrifice, thinking God favoured his murder, when alas he was preserved from that death, to be taken away by a worse, &c.