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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 wonder sometime that God should bring his people, such as he loves, into straits and difficulties: But you see God may do it for the exercise of your graces, the least exercise of which will weigh down all your trouble, 1 Pet. 1.7.
We wonder sometime that God should bring his people, such as hee loves, into straits and difficulties: But you see God may do it for the exercise of your graces, the least exercise of which will weigh downe all your trouble, 1 Pet. 1.7.
If God did not exercise our graces, we should suffer them to rust; and grace is then most lovely, when it is most in motion and exercise; God suffers us often to be tossed, because we do not toss our selves; he suffers others to ransack and rifle us, because we do not rifle our own hearts; he suffers Satan to winnow us, because we neglect to sift our selves.
If God did not exercise our graces, we should suffer them to rust; and grace is then most lovely, when it is most in motion and exercise; God suffers us often to be tossed, because wee doe not tosse our selves; he suffers others to ransack and rifle us, because wee doe not rifle our own hearts; he suffers Sathan to winnow us, because we neglect to sift our selves.
Therefore doth God exercise us with variety of difficulties, that we might exercise our selves. Again it says thus much to us:
Therefore doth God exercise us with variety of difficulties, that we might exercise our selves. Againe it sayes thus much to us: