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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.
Doct. What Christ doth purpose to do, it is as good as done already; though not in effectu operis, in regard of execution it be yet to do, yet respectu decreti, in respect of his purpose it is as good as done already.
Doct. What Christ doth purpose to doe, it is as good as done already; though not in effectu operis, in regard of execution it be yet to doe, yet respectu decreti, in respect of his purpose it is as good as done already.
Hence you read in the 8. Rom. 30. Whom he hath justified he hath glorified. Though glorification be to come in respect of the full possession of it; yet it is as sure as come already in respect of the stability of the decree.
So those places: Blessed are you when ⟨p. 120⟩men persecute you, for great is your reward in the Kingdom of heaven: He doth not say, great shall be your reward: but great is: Here Christ takes a future medium to prove a present blessedness, 6. Luke 22.32. [Greek or Hebrew] ye are blessed, for great is your reward in the Kingdom of heaven: which inference could not be sound; if that future medium were not certain, in respect of the firmness of the decree, to faith, which gives to the promises of God a kind of presubsisting, and present being, though future in accomplishment.
So those places: Blessed are you when ⟨p. 120⟩men persecute you, for great is your reward in the Kingdome of heaven: He doth not say, great shall be your reward: but great is: Here Christ takes a future medium to prove a present blessednesse, 6.