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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.
You know it is a Parable, the Vineyard is the Church, the ordinances and the fruit which God expected, was holiness, and suitable obedient walking: The messengers that God sent to call to them for it; were the Prophets, who called them to obedience and holiness. But because they disturbed them in their way, and would not suffer them to live as they list, therefore they misused them, persecuted, killed them: Last of all, God sends his Son, and then they say, This is the heir, let us kill him, and the Inheritance is ours: Then the day was theirs, they might sin without check, ⟨p. 91⟩control, they should be disturbed no more, they should do their will and none should check them, here was the reasoning of their heart.
You know it is a Parable, the Vineyard is the Church, the ordinances and the fruit which God expected, was holinesse, and sutable obedient walking: The messengers that God sent to call to them for it; were the Prophets, who called them to obedience and holinesse. But because they desturbed them in their way, and would not suffer them to live as they list, therefore they misused them, persecuted, killed them: Last of all, God sends his sonne, and then they say, This is the heire, let us kill him, and the Inheritance is ours: Then the day was theirs, they might sinne without check, ⟨p. 91⟩controule, they should bee disturbed no more, they should doe their will and none should check them, here was the reasoning of their heart.
To these heights in sinning doth a sinful heart carry men at last.
To these heights in sinning doth a sinfull heart carry men at last.