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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.
2 Another mistake there is, if things go cross to their thoughts, if successes be not answerable to their expectations, then they judge that all is naught.
2 Another mistake there is, if things go crosse to their thoughts, if successes be not answerable to their expectations, then they judge that all is naught.
This may be false reasoning; the Disciples met with difficulties, yet were they in Gods work: so Judah, &c. Judg. 20.18.
This may be false reasoning; the Disciples met with difficulties, yet were they in Gods work: so Iudah, &c. Iudg. 20.18.
The best ways, may for a season be strewed with the greatest difficulties. God would have his people judge of the lawfulness of their undertakings, not by works, but by word, not by providences, but by precepts: and this, that we might learn to live by faith and not by sense. Thus Habakkuk, when things went ill, he gets into the watch-tower, &c. Hab. 2.
The best wayes, may for a season be strewed with the greatest difficulties. God would have his people judge of the lawfulnesse of their undertakings, not by works, but by word, not by providences, but by precepts: and this, that we might learne to live by faith and not by sence. Thus Habakkuck, when things went ill, he gets into the watch-towre, &c.