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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.
We will begin with the first. They were in the midst of the sea.
[But the ship was now in the amidst of the sea.]
- aNavis in medio mari jam erat hoc enim, in altum jam conscenderat pro fundissimum, fluctibus & ventis gravioribus obnoxium. Pareus.
There were two great ends for which Christ sent his Disciples to sea.
1 To exercise their graces. 2 To declare his power. And the middest of the sea was the fittest place for these: Christ chose the middest of the sea, as the fittest place to exercise their graces and to declare his own power.
1 To exetcise their graces. 2 To declare his power. And the middest of the sea was the fittest place for these: Christ chose the middest of the sea, as the fittest place to exercise their graces and to declare his own power.