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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.
Doct. God may be working our preservation, when we think he is working our destruction: or that which we sometimes think to be in judgement, may yet be in greatest mercy. It was so here —
The Whale that swallowed up Jonah, was a means to bring him to shore; and that trouble which we think oftentimes will swallow us up, may be a means to bring us to our harbour.
The Whale that swallowed up Jonah, was a meanes to bring him to shore; and that trouble which we think oftentimes will swallow us up, may be a meanes to bring us to our harbour.
There is no judging of Gods heart and purposes, by his outward proceeding of providences in the world. By thus judging, wicked men undo themselves, and Gods people afflict themselves.
There is no judging of Gods heart and purposes, by his outward proceeding of providences in the world. By thus judging, wicked men undoe themselves, and Gods people afflict themselves.
Gods outward proceedings may be good, when the purposes of his heart are evil to a man; again, they may be sad, when his purpose is good,