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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.
When a man is clean plucked from the shore, and hath nothing to lean upon but God, but a promise, nay, and God seems to frown too; if he look above him, there is a stormy sky, within him, there is a stormy conscience, without him there a stormy world.
When a man is cleane plucked from the shoare, and hath nothing to leane upon but God, but a promise, nay, and God seems to frown too; if he look above him, there is a stormy sky, within him, there is a stormy conscience, without him there a stormy world.
And yet in all this, faith can venture it self upon God, run into his bosom, when he seems to be armed against him, hang the weight of its soul upon God, upon a promise, when nothing to sense appears, here is faith indeed; faith in its glory under a cloud; faith in its strength, under this appearing weakness: here is faith tried to the back.
And yet in all this, faith can venture it selfe upon God, runne into his bosome, when he seemes to be arm'd against him, hange the weight of its soule upon God, upon a promise, when nothing to sense appeares, here is faith indeed; faith in its glory under a cloud; faith in its strength, under this appearing weaknesse: here is faith tryed to the back.