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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.
[The wind was contrary.]
[The winde was contrary.]
Had hthe wind been contrary before, either they would not have set out to sea, or if they had, yet they might have returned back: but it is not contrary till they come into the midst of the Sea. And indeed there seems to be a mercy in it.
HAd hthe winde been contrary before, either they would not have set out to sea, or if they had, yet they might have returned back: but it is not contrary till they come into the midst of the Sea. And indeed there seemes to be a mercy in it.
- hSi maturius ventus contrarius exortus fuisset mox se ad portum recipere pomissent, &c. Chem.
iThese seas were narrow and strait, being but a few miles over, and the night was dark, and had they had a wind for them, it might have hazarded them, and dashed them against the rocks: and therefore it was less for their danger, that the winds were contrary, though it was more for their exercise.