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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.
As the presence of Christ in his grace, in his comforts, doth enable the soul to undergo the greatest calamities, peven to smile upon the face of dangers, and check the terrors of death: qIt gives enlargement to the soul in straits, comfort in trouble, liberty in prison, ease in bonds, life in death. You see in Daniel, the three Children. Paul and Silas, Stephen. So the absence of Christ will be intolerable in any sad-condition. Oh what a misery is it for a poor soul to be in sickness, danger, death, and for Christ to be absent from the soul!
As the presence of Christ in his grace, in his comforts, doth inable the soule to undergoe the greatest calamities, peven to smile upon the face of dangers, and check the terrors of death: qIt gives inlargement to the soule in straits, comfort in trouble, liberty in prison, ease in bonds, life in death. You see in Daniel, the three Children. Paul and Silas, Stephen. So the absence of Christ will be intolerable in any sad-condition. Oh what a misery is it for a poore soule to be in sicknesse, danger, death, and for Christ to be absent from the soule!
- pMalim presente Christe esse in inferno, quam absente Christo in caelo. Luther. in Gen. cap. 30.
- qBeati foli sunt cum illo, qui beati esse non possunt nisi in illo. Sern.
Use. Let us then in all our sad conditions get Christ present with us; get him but present with you in his grace, and he ⟨p. 97⟩