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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.
qThe disciples here fell to rowing, they forsook their Cabins, but not the ship; they forgot their particulars, & every man to the general work. They did not look every man to secure himself, but every man to secure the whole, every man to secure the ship, in which their safety lay. They saw their personal security to lye, in the securing of the whole, their Cabins could not be safe, if their ship were in danger.
qThe disciples here fel to rowing, they forsook their Cabins, but not the ship; they forgot their particulars, & every man to the general work. They did not look every man to secure himselfe, but every man to secure the whole, every man to secure the ship, in which their safety lay. They saw their personall security to lye, in the securing of the whole, their Cabins could not bee safe, if their ship were in danger.
- qNon navem deserunt sed remigando laborant.
rTully laughs at the folly of those men which in his time had such thoughts, that their fish-ponds should be safe, though the Common-wealth were lost. Such windy conceits have too many with us, and therefore seek not their preservation ⟨p. 57⟩in, but from the whole; with, but in separation; nay in opposition to the whole.
rTully laughs at the solly of those men which in his time had such thoughts, that their fish-ponds should bee safe, though the Common-wealth were lost. Such windy conceits have too many with us, and therefore seek not their preservation ⟨p. 57⟩