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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.
Use This doth admonish us to beware of vain and fleshy confidence, because of promising beginnings; nThe fairest morning may be over-cast, the clearest day may be over-clouded, the most promising beginnings, may meet with sad and sorrow full proceedings.
Vse This doth admonish us to beware of vaine and fleshy confidence, because of promising beginnings; nThe fairest morning may be over-cast, the clearest day may bee over-clouded, the most promising beginnings, may meet with sad and sorrow full proceedings.
- nNescis qusd serus vesper vehit.
It was the best speech that ever Ahab had, 1 King. 20.11. Let not him that girds on his Armour, boast himself as he that puts it off.
It was the best speech that ever Ahab had, 1 King. 20.11. Let not him that girds on his Armour, boast himselfe as he that puts it off.
It is a great argument of lightness and vanity of spirit, yea and of carnal fleshy confidence, to be puffed up upon ⟨p. 54⟩promising beginnings; a thing the world is apt to: but when God sees his own people in the same way, they must then expect that God should hedge up their way with thorns, and lay unpassible mountains of difficulty in their way.