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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 sin, we are too high in successes, and too low in losses; we are too big when things go well, and too little when things go ill; and it must needs be so; men that are proud in successes, will be as base in losses.
It is our sin, we are too high in successes, and too low in losses; we are too big when things go well, and too little when things goe ill; and it must needs be so; men that are proud in successes, will be as base in losses.
This is the nature of faith; it makes us nothing in our selves when things go well, and it makes us all in God when things go ill. Nothing should pose our faith, but what poseth God; if there be any thing too great for God to do, then ⟨p. 102⟩there might be something too big for us to believe: but so long as there is nothing above his power and love to do for his people, why should there be any thing above our faith, to believe God will do for them? It is better to dye over-hoping, then over-fearing; though we had no encouragements from below, yet we have enough from above.
This is the nature of faith; it makes us nothing in our selves when things go well, and it makes us all in God when things go ill. Nothing should pose our faith, but what poseth God; if there be any thing too great for God to doe, then ⟨p. 102⟩there might be something too big for us to beleeve: but so long as there is nothing above his power and love to doe for his people, why should there be any thing above our faith, to beleeve God will doe for them? It is better to dye over-hoping, then over-fearing; though we had no incouragements from below, yet we have enough from above.