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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.
And therefore God doth bring us into the deep, into such difficulties, wherein we can neither go to others for succour, nor others come to us, that now in this time our souls might find the way to heaven alone. So the exercise of faith is called a resting upon God: but we will not rest fully on him, so long as we have any thing else to rest upon here below.
And therefore God doth bring us into the deep, into such difficulties, wherein we can neither goe to others for succour, nor others come to us, that now in this time our souls might find the way to heaven alone. So the exercise of faith is called a resting upon God: but we will not rest fully on him, so long as we have any thing else to rest upon here below.
And therefore God doth break in pieces the Reeds on which we rest, or makes them helpless, and comfortless to us, that we might depend alone on him.
And therefore God doth break in pieces the Reeds on which we rest, or makes them helplesse, and comfortlesse to us, that we might depend alone on him.
Again, the exercise of faith is called a retiring our selves to him, a sheltering of our selves in God, flying under his shadow, running to him as our Tower. But this we shall never do, so long as we have ⟨p. 75⟩any Bulwarks of our own: The tower is the last refuge: and therefore God doth beat us out of our own Bulwarks, out of our own means of provision, that we might alone fly to him for security: So the exercise of faith is called an Anchoring of our selves on God: But so long as we find a bottom here below, we will never cast Anchor upwards.