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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.
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.
Againe, 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 owne: The tower is the last refuge: and therefore God doth beat us out of our own Bulwarks, out of our owne meanes of provision, that wee might alone flye to him for security: So the excercise of faith is called an Anchoring of our selves on God: But so long as we finde a bortome here below, wee will never cast Anchor upwards.
And therefore God doth bring us into the deep, the midst of the Sea, where the soul can find no bottom to anchor on, that so the soul might cast anchor upwards, and rest alone on God, who never failed them that trust in him. Psalm 9.10.
And therefore God doth bring us into the deep, the mid'st of the Sea, where the soule can find no bottome to anchor on, that so the soule might cast anchor upwards, and rest alone on God, who never fayled them that trust in him. Psalme 9.10.