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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.
Christ may suffer the ship of his Church to be tossed upon a troublesome and tempestuous sea, yet hath he care of its safety, it shall never be swallowed up of the waves: Tossed it is often, never drowned; It was in danger, tossed if you will in Ahab's days, when they digged down the Altars, slew the Prophets, set up the worship of the Sidonians; insomuch, that Elisha though he had been alone. But yet though tossed, it was not drowned, God had then seven hundred in Israel that had never bowed the knee to Baal. I might instance in the times of Antiochus, who entered the Temple at Jerusalem, burned up the Books of moses and the Prophets, proclaimed feasting and riot in the Temple of God, and put to death all that would not renounce their Religion.
Christ may suffer the ship of his Church to be tossed upon a troublesome and tempestuous sea, yet hath hee care of its safety, it shall never be swallowed up of the waves: Tossed it is often, never drowned; It was in danger, tossed if you will in Ahabs dayes, when they digged downe the Altars, slew the Prophets, set up the worship of the Sidonians; insomuch, that Elisha though he had been alone. But yet though tossed, it was not drowned, God had then seven hundred in Israel that had never bowed the knee to Baal. I might instance in the times of Antiochus, who entred the Temple at Jerusalem, burned up the Books of moses and the Prophets, proclaimed feasting aad ryot in the Temple of God, and put to death all that would not renounce their Religion.
It was tossed in the times of the ten bloody Persecutions, began under Nero, when Peter and Paul were beheaded; ⟨p. 85⟩and continued under Domitian, when John was banished into Patmos, and so carried on for divers Emperors more. *When the whole world did swim with the blood of innocent Martyrs: yet at that time God did not only preserve, but eincrease his Church; insomuch, that Julian lest off to persecute Christians as his predecessors had done,