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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.
Thus you see Jehoshaphat, 1We know not what to do; here was no bottom for him to anchor on below, a great enemy, and small strength to withstand, and therefore he anchors upwards: But our eyes are upon thee—.
Thus you see Jehosaphat, 1We know not what to doe; here was no bottome for him to anchor on below, a great enemy, and small strength to withstand, and therefore hee anchors upwards: But our eyes are upon thee—.
To conclude, the middest of the Sea, it is the fittest place for God to try and exercise his people, and for God to succour and help his people, we shall be most thankful, God will get himself most glory, and the deliverance of his people will be most conspicuous. If God should ⟨p. 76⟩help us on the shore, while we are among our other succours and helps, these perhaps would either obscure, or take away the glory which belongs to God in a deliverance.
To conclude, the middest of the Sea, it is the fittest place for God to trye and exercise his people, and for God to succour and help his people, wee shall bee most thankful, God wil get himself most glory, and the deliverance of his people will be most conspicuous. If God should ⟨p. 76⟩help us on the shore, while we are among our other succours and helps, these perhaps would either obscure, or take away the glory which belongs to God in a deliverance.