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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.
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, fnot out of mercy, but out of envy; because he saw the more they were afflicted, the more they grew.
It was tossed in the times of the ten bloudy Persecutions, began under Nero, when Peter and Paul were beheaded; ⟨p. 85⟩and continued under Dometian, when John was banished into Patmos, and so carryed on for divers Emperours more. *When the whole world did swim with the bloud 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, fnot out of mercy, but out of envy; because he saw the more they were afflicted, the more they grew.
- *Quo tempore universus orbis sacro martyrum eruore infectus.
- eSanguis Marty rum semen Ecclesiae.
- fNon ex miscricordia sed ex invidia.