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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.
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⟩will never be absent from you in his comforts in the time of need. Who is able to comfort us in the midst of all discomforts; rChrist is more able to give comforts without creatures, nay, in the opposition of all created comforts, then the Sun to give light without Stars. Can the Sun give light without Stars? and cannot Christ give us comfort without creatures, nay in opposition of all created comforts.
Vse. 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⟩wil never be absent from you in his comforts in the time of need. Who is able to comfort us in the midst of all discomforts; rChrist is more able to give comforts without creatures, nay, in the opposition of all created comforts, then the Sun to give light without Stars. Can the Sun give light without Stars? and cannot Christ give us comfort without creatures, nay in opposition of all created comforts.
- rQuid si sine domo, & non sine domino, sinc veste, si non sine fide, sine cibo, & non sine Christo. Fulgent.
Again, Christ was absent; yea, but Christ was with them in Spirit, though he was absent from them according to the flesh: had they had faith enough, they had seen Christ present, even in his absence.
Againe, Christ was absent; yea, but Christ was with them in Spirit, though he was absent from them according to the flesh: had they had faith enough, they had seen Christ present, even in his absence.