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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.
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.
Doct. That when Christ doth intend to exercise the graces of his people, he plucks them from the shore, he brings them into the deep. You see here, 1Christ suffered them to be pulled from the land on one side, and a contrary wind to blow on the other side: bso that they were now in the midst of the sea: and here he exerciseth them, when faith hath nothing to do but look upwards, when none but God to rely upon, then it looks fully and rests firmly upon him. Faith cannot act till it act alone.
Doct. That when Christ doth intend to exercise the graces of his people, hee plucks them from the shore, he brings them into the deep. You see here, 1Christ suffered them to be pulled from the land on one side, and a contrary wind to blow on the other side: b