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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.
Nor should we know either our sins or our graces, if God did not sometimes bring us upon exercises.
Nor should we know either our sinnes or our graces, if God did not sometimes bring us upon exercises.
Hast thou been in the midst of the Sea? hast thou been in the deep. 1. The depth of temptations. 2. Of desertions. 3. Of outward trouble? And hast thou cleaved noto God? hast thou justified him? hast thou loved him? hast thou had experience of thy graces? have they abidden trial? Here is something to evidence the truth of thy graces to thee. Difficulties are exercises, and abiding difficulties are experiences to us of the truth of our graces. That's surely ours which hath abidden temptation. There is no judging while you are on the shore, the trial is when you come into the deep, one experience fetched out of the deep, will tend more to thy establishment, than many promising evidences never put to the trial: The deep demonstrates, the truth of thy graces.
Hast thou been in the midst of the Sea? hast thou been in the deep. 1. The depth of temptarions. 2. Of desertions. 3. Of outward trouble? And hast thou cleaved noto God? hast thou justified him? hast thou loved him? hast thou had experience of thy graces? have they abidden tryall? Here is something to evidence the truth of thy graces to thee. Difficulties are exercises, and abiding difficulties are experiences to us of the truth of our graces. Thats surely ours which hath abiden temptation. There is no judging while you are on the shore, the tryal is when you come into the deep, one experience fetched out of the deep, will tend more to thy establishment, than many promising evidences never put to the tryall: The deep demonstrates, the truth of thy graces.
And it declares the riches of Gods mercy. God takes delight to put forth himself in desperate cases. In such cases his mercy will be most visible, his people most thankful, and deliverance most welcome.