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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.
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. Hab. 2.
Use. Let not this weaken our faith, or slacken our endeavours in any work, because we meet with difficulties in it: clear the work to be Gods, and then if ⟨p. 50⟩his, assure your selves he will carry it on, though there be never so many appearing difficulties in the way.
Vse. Let not this weaken our faith, or slacken our indeavours in any work, because wee meet with difficulties in it: cleare the work to be Gods, and then if ⟨p. 50⟩his, assure your selves he will carry it on, though there be never so many appearing difficulties in the way.
It was said to Luther, when he attempted that great work against the Man of Sin, which was the greatest that ever man had to do since the Apostles days: