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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.
As God makes one evil the punishment of another to wicked men, so he makes one evil the cure of another to his own people. The Physician orders poisons to useful purposes: So God those things which are evil in themselves, ⟨p. 82⟩to the good of his own people.
As God makes one evill the punishment of another to wicked men, so hee makes one evill the cure of another to his owne people. The Physitian orders poysons to usefull purposes: So God those things which are evil in themselves, ⟨p. 82⟩to the good of his owne people.
The Leprosy on Naamans body, was was an occasion of the cure of his Leprous soul: if his body had not been Leprous, his soul had not been washed. How many that can say, I had not been so rich in grace, if I had not been so poor in gold? I had not been so sound in soul, if I had not been so infirm in body? If I had not lost so much of the Creature, I had not got so much of Christ.
The Leprosie on Naamans body, was was an occasion of the cure of his Leprous soule: if his body had not beene Leprous, his soule had not been washed. How many that can say, I had not been so rich in grace, if I had not been so poor in gold? I had not been so sound in soul, if I had not been so infirme in body? If I had not lost so much of the Creature, I had not got so much of Christ.
Use. And this should teach us a lesson of patience under all Gods exercises, it is but the putting of thee to a little pain for thy greater ease; a little trouble for thy greater comfort; a little sorrow for thy greater joy. All Gods sad passages of providence to you