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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 a happy thing when Christ doth not only help us, but come to us, Christ ⟨p. 122⟩helps many whom yet he comes not to: God out of his royal bounty doth many things for those, whom yet he will not own.
It is a happy thing when Christ doth not only helpe us, but come to us, Christ ⟨p. 122⟩helps many whom yet he comes not to: God out of his royall bounty doth many things for those, whom yet he will not owne.
Christ gives bread to many, and maintains many a family, that yet he will not live in: many that partake of his mercy, that do not partake of himself: many that he gives other things to, but he doth not give himself. lBut happy and blessed are the people who enjoy mercy, and the God of mercy with it, that partake of deliverance, and the comfort of it too, who have not only the help of Christ, but the presence of Christ; Christ comes to them as well as delivers them. Better to be in trouble than to be delivered, and Christ not come to thee: better to have the presence of Christ in trouble, than deliverance, and want Christ. That man hath small comfort in a deliverance, who enjoys not Christ with it. It is but a reprieval, not a discharge. It is a deliverance in judgement, rather than mercy.
Christ gives bread to many, and maintaines many a family, that yet he will not live in: many that partake of his mercy, that doe not partake of himselfe: many that he gives other things to, but he doth not give himselfe. lBut happy and blessed are the people who enjoy mercy, and the God of mercy with it, that partake of deliverrnce, and the comfort of it too, who have not only the help of Christ, but the presence of Christ; Christ comes to them as well as delivers them. Better to be in trouble than to bee delivered, and Christ not come to thee: better to have the presence of Christ in trouble, than deliverance, and want Christ. That man hath small comfort in a deliverance, who enjoyes not Christ with it. It is but a reprievall, not a dischrrge. It is a deliverance in judgement, rather than mercy.