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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.
Reas. 4. God doth heighten the difficulty of his psople, to heighten his own glory, the glory of his wisdom, power, mercy, faithfulness.
Reas. 4. God doth heighten the difficulty of his psople, to heighten his owne glory, the glory of his wisdome, power, mercy, faithfulnesse.
As Christ answered concerning the blind man in John 9.9. When they asked, whether it was for his sins or his parents, that he was borne blind, Christ answers, For neither, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him, that is, that the power, mercy, & glory of God might be made conspicuous in the healing of him. And for the same reason doth he raise the difficulties of his Church.
As Christ answered concerning the blinde man in Iohn 9.9. When they asked, whether it was for his sins or his parents, that he was borne blinde, Christ answers, For neither, but that the workes of God might bee made manifest in him, that is, that the power, mercy, & glory of God might be made conspicuous in the healing of him. And for the same reason doth he raise the difficulties of his Church.
You read an excellent passage to this purpose in the John 11.4, &c. Lazarus sisters sent to Christ, to tell him, that their brother was sick, and entreat him to come down and heal him: Christ answers, This sickness is not unto death, but that the glory of God might be revealed, and manifested. And mark now the way that Christ takes to advance his glory, Verse 6. When he had heard, saith the Text, that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. One would think this a strange passage; he should rather have gone presently, and have recovered him. But this was now the way Christ took to advance his glory; he doth not only suffer him to be sick, but to dye of his sickness, nay, to be buried, and to lye in the grave four days: and thus lets the difficulty go beyond the power of man, that the power and glory of God might be more visible and manifest: as he tells us in the 15. and 40. Verses.