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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.
It was the Devils argument concerning Job, 1and it was true in the main. God said that Job was a holy man, a patient man: Why but saith Satan, What thanks to him for that? he must needs be patient, who hath nothing to disturb his patience.
It was the Devills argument concerning Job, 1and it was true in the maine. God said that Job was a holy man, a patient man: Why but saith Sathan, What thanks to him for that? he must needs be patient, who hath nothing to disturbe his patience.
- 1Job 1.
As he is the patientest, so he is the happiest man of all the children of the East; hast not thou laden him with blessings, given him what his heart can wish or desire, Children, riches, possessions, &c. Nay, and hast not thou made a hedge about him too, and fenced in all happiness by thy providence, so that nothing can break in, to annoy and disturb him in his happiness.
As he is the patientest, so he is the happiest man of all the children of the East; hast not thou laden him with blessings, given him what his heart can wish or desire, Children, riches, possessions, &c. Nay, and hast not thou made a hedge about him too, and fenced in all happinesse by thy providence, so that nothing can break in, to annoy and disturbe him in his happinesse.
Alas what trial of patience is here, where there is nothing to disturb, or annoy him?