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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.
The reliefs of creatures do often hinder us in our reliance upon God: and therefore God is forced to weaken the arm of flesh, that he might strengthen the arm of faith. 1You know what the Apostle saith, 2 Cor. 1.9. We had the sentence of death in our selves, that we might learn not to trust in our selves, but in God that raiseth the dead. 1 Tim. 5.5. The widow that is left alone trusteth in God.
The reliefes of creatures do often hinder us in our relyance upon God: and therefore God is forced to weaken the arme of flesh, that he might strengthen the arme of faith. 1You know what the Apostle saith, 2 Cor. 1.9. We had the sentence of death in our selves, that we might learne not to trust in our selves, but in God that raiseth the dead. 1 Tim. 5.5. The widow that is left alone trusteth in God.
It was that which God said, Zeph. 3.12. I will leave in the midst of thee a poor distressed people, and they shall trust.— Therefore doth God break in pieces the reeds whereon we lean, that we might rest our selves upon the rock, himself, who is the rock of ages: a rock so deep, that no floods can undermine, and so high that no waves can reach.