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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.
Doct. That comfortable and promising beginnings, may yet afterward find sad and sorrow full proceedings.
Doct. That comfortable and promising beginnings, may yet afterward finde sad and sorrow full proceedings.
It was so here, the Disciples had a prosperous and promising setting forth, but afterwards they met with storms.
It was so here, the Disciples had a prosperous and promising setting forth, but afterwards they met with stormes.
The stories of Moses in the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt, and of the Jews second building of the Temple, tell us this plainly, they had promising beginnings; insomuch, that they thought the work would have been done out of hand: ⟨p. 53⟩but the stories tell you what obstructions, what interruptions they met withal, before the work was finished, &c. Though the clauses and conclusions of Gods people are good, as the Psalmist saith, Mark the upright man, observe the just, for the end of that man is peace; yet the beginnings and the proceedings may be sad and troublesome. Though God will bring the ship of his Church to safe harbour at the last, yet they may meet with storms and tempests on the sea. aSo long as there be contrary winds, men of contrary spirits look for tempests, expect storms.
The stories of Moses in the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt, and of the Jewes second building of the Temple, tell us this plainly, they had promising beginnings; insomuch, that they thought the work would have been done out of hand: