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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 is our wisdom to shut our eyes to works, and look to the word, to look upon promises and not upon providences, this is to live by faith, and not by sense. But of this more afterwards—
It is our wisdome to shut our eyes to works, and look to the word, to look upon promises and not upon providences, this is to live by faith, and not by sense. But of this more afterwards—
We are now come to the fourth particular, wherein their danger is expressed, and their trouble heightened.
We are now come to the fourth particular, wherein their danger is expressed, and their trouble heightned.
Christ was absent.
We read in Matth. 8.24. 1that the Disciples were on the sea, a tempest arose, and they were in great danger; but then Christ was in the ship, who presently rebuked the storm: but here Christ was absent: well might they think had Christ been here, he would not have suffered this storm to have risen; if he had suffered it, yet he would quickly have laid it. But what shall we do now Christ is absent? Give me leave to commend two or three instructions from this. One is Zuinglius.