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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.
How far are such from a noble spirit? tI have read of one Publius Decius, that when the Roman Army was reduced to great straits, he courageously (forgetting himself for the public good) ran into the midst of his enemies, demanding safety for his country, death for himself, & by that means occasioned an unexpected victory: the publicness of his spirit did carry him above the thoughts of private safety. Every man should be nearer to Religion, nearer to common interests than to himself. uSo Alvanius was.
How farre are such from a noble spirit? tI have read of one Publius Decius, that when the Roman Army was reduced to great straits, hee couragiously (forgetting himselfe for the publike good) ran into the midst of his enemies, demanding safety for his country, death for himself, & by that means occasioned an unexpected victory: the publikenesse of his spirit did carry him above the thoughts of private safety. Every man should bee nearer to Religion, nearer to common interests than to himself. uSo Alvanius was.
- tValet maximus l. 5. c. 553
- uDicitur de Alvanio ille propior publicae religioni, quam privatae charitati. Valer. Maxim. li. 1. c. 11.
It is a shame that Heathens should do that which Christians can not do. wAs Hierome in another case complains, oh that infidelity should be able to do that which faith cannot do. It was used to be said by Christians to Heathens,