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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.
We should never have the experience what God can do, if we did not see what man cannot do: you should never know ⟨p. 78⟩the mercy of God, if you had not experience of necessities above man.
We should never have the experince what God can doe, if we did not see what man cannot doe: you should never know ⟨p. 78⟩the mercy of God, if you had not experience of necessities above man.
kAnd as Bernard saith of sin, I may better say of our necessities, happy necessities that occasions the relief of such a God, who takes occasion, not only by trouble to help us, but by the enlarging of our trouble, to enlarge our deliverance. If greatness of sin might be used as an argument for mercy, 25 Psalm 11. Pardon my iniquities, for they are great, much more greatness of trouble.
kAnd as Bernard saith of sinne, I may better say of our necessities, happy necessities that occasions the reliefe of such a God, who takes occasion, not only by trouble to helpe us, but by the inlarging of our trouble, to inlarge our deliverance. If greatnesse of sinne might be used as an argument for mercy, 25 Psalme 11. Pardon my iniquities, for they are great, much more greatnesse of trouble.
- kFaelix culpa quae talem meruit redemptorem. Bern.